Multiplex communications inventions 08/09

20090213722 - Program for adjusting channel interference between devices in a wireless network: The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically choose a channel such that channel usage is optimized. Furthermore, APs can... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20090213723 - Method for uplink transmission in ofdm(a) system: A method for uplink transmission in an OFDMA system is provided. The subcarrier transmission method includes arranging 4 pilot REs at different positions of a frequency axis in a basic unit when the basic unit includes 4 subcarriers on the frequency axis and 6 OFDM(A) symbols in a time axis,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090213724 - Method and system for i/q branch equalization in ofdm systems: Aspects of a method and system for I/Q branch equalization in OFDM systems may include determining a transfer function mismatch between an in-phase processing branch, and/or a quadrature processing branch in an OFDM receiver. The determined transfer function mismatch may be compensated for, by applying equalization after a fast Fourier... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090213728 - Apparatus and method for packet redundancy and recovery: Apparatus and method for packet redundancy and recovery are disclosed. In a transmitter, parity packets are generated by executing exclusive OR between the corresponding data packets, and are transmitted along with the data packets to a receiver. In the receiver, lost data packets are found out and are recovered by... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090213726 - Loss-free packet networks: In one embodiment, a method can include: receiving a packet in a device; classifying the received packet as a first packet type or a second packet type; when the packet is the first packet type, forwarding the packet to a next hop; and when the packet is the second packet... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20090213729 - Method and apparatus for link control in a wireless communication system: Techniques for controlling transmission of packets on multiple links are described. In one design, a transmitter may generate packets of data for a receiver, assign the packets with sequence numbers from a single sequence number space, demultiplex the packets into multiple streams for multiple links, and send each stream of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213725 - Network fault correlation in multi-route configuration scenarios: A method and network device are shown that include identifying at least one fault identifier to be a member of a first fault set, and identifying at least one fault identifier to be a member of a second fault set, the first fault set associated with a first path from... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20090213727 - Voice packet communications system with communications quality evaluation function: A voice packet communications system which objectively evaluates the voice quality in real time. Voice packets received from a network are input into an adjustment circuit. The adjustment circuit evens out the periods of the voice packets, detects the drop-out of voice packets, and inserts substitute packets in the voice... Agent: Venable LLP

20090213730 - Backhaul failover method and system for a wireless network: A method and corresponding system for providing for recovering from a failure of a wired link used for communication between the first access point and a wired network. The first access point has at least two radios including a first radio and a second radio each for providing a wireless... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090213732 - Preserving packet order when migrating network flows between cores: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a first packet associated with a first network flow in a first descriptor queue associated with a first hardware thread, receiving a marker in the first descriptor queue to indicate migration of the first network flow from the first... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.c.

20090213731 - Use of neuropeptide y (npy) and agonists and antagonists thereof for tissue regeneration: A media access controller (MAC) for wireless mesh networks comprises a quality-of-service (QoS) manager to monitor consumed bandwidth of a current application flow and to compare the consumed bandwidth with a contracted bandwidth for the current application flow. The MAC also comprises a contention manager to coordinate access to a... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20090213734 - Packet transmission device: A packet transmission device including plural queues for storing packets to be transmitted is provided. The device includes a token storage section for storing queue information for identifying a queue and an accumulated token value in which token values assigned to the queue are accumulated so as to obtain correspondence... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090213733 - Role determination for network devices: Techniques for selecting authentication roles when establishing a link between devices in a secure network are provided. By assigning role levels to devices, devices may be more likely to assume a preferred role when establishing a link. For example, during a negotiation process, each device may establish a timer value... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090213736 - Method of processing external service request in storage area network: A method of processing an external service request in a storage area network (SAN) is used for responding a service request in the SAN with multiple controllers, and the method includes the following steps. A first controller of the SAN receives a request packet of an external network. When the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20090213735 - System to improve data packet routing in a data processing device and associated methods: A system to improve data packet routing in a data processing device may include a plurality of functional modules, and communication buses connecting the functional modules. The system may also include a flow control mechanism in which command packets that traverse the communication buses are each assigned their own channel... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090213737 - Test system with return sweep level setting: A test system comprising: providing a conditioning circuit; cabling a cable modem termination system to the conditioning circuit; signaling an initial ranging request to the cable modem termination system; and determining a transmission power limiter by the conditioning circuit monitoring a network for detecting a cable modem termination system response... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090213738 - Test system with user selectable channel: A test system comprising: acquiring an upstream channel descriptor list; entering a pause network state when the upstream channel descriptor list is completed; and selecting a particular channel from the upstream channel descriptor list before exiting the pause network state.... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090213739 - Methods for optimizing and evaluating network access techniques: Methods of evaluating access to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) from alternate access connections and for improving access to VPNs from alternate access connections such as ISPs. The methods include downloading a set of tests through a network backbone to simulate access to the VPN from the alternate access connection and... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Lazaroff

20090213746 - Communication quality measurement system, device, management server and method thereof: A management server that includes a signal control unit for controlling a signal for a packet for measuring communication quality, and a signal communication quality measurement unit that measures communication quality of a signal based on a result of signal control by the signal control unit; and a communication quality... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090213745 - Frame monitoring device and frame monitoring method: One aspect of the embodiments utilizes a frame monitoring device includes a monitoring period judging unit for judging whether the period of a received frame is a monitoring period satisfying a condition for detecting the alarm and a received frame input control unit for inputting a new frame received by... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090213740 - Measurement based link capacity for multiple interferers in an 802.11-based wireless network: A method according to the invention includes determining a PHY layer model for a single interferer in an 802.11 wireless network responsive to an input of measured pair wise of at least one of a delivery ratio and received signal strength RSSI values in the 802.11 wireless network; ascertaining a... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090213748 - Method and apparatus for estimating a signal-to-interference ratio: A method and apparatus for estimating a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) are disclosed. A received signal includes signal energy on multiple basis functions. Desired signal energy in the received signal is transformed onto a first basis function with constant polarity. The desired signal energy is estimated by coherently averaging signal energy... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20090213749 - Method for detecting the quality of a service parameter and network side communication device: A method for detecting a quality of service (QoS) parameter includes: a network side communication device compares a QoS parameter obtained by network negotiation with a minimum acceptable QoS (MINQoS) parameter required by terminal equipment (TE) after acquiring the QoS parameter obtained by network negotiation during a PDP context activation... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090213747 - Method, apparatus and communication system for estimating on-off traffic characteristic and recording medium recording program for estimating on-off traffic characteristic: An ON-OFF traffic characteristic can be analyzed in real time from a measurement value without requiring detailed data analysis which is performed using measurement values accumulated for a predetermined time period through a high-performance measurement apparatus. A packet length and a packet transfer time interval of a communication traffic are... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090213741 - Multi-user mimo systems with imperfect csit and arq: A robust closed-loop cross-layer design provides for the downlink multi-user multi-antenna systems with imperfect Channel State Information at the transmitter (CSIT) for slow fading channels. Using ACK/NAK feedbacks from mobiles, a closed-loop cross-layer scheduler does not require any knowledge of the CSIT error statistics. To take into account of the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090213743 - Noise power estimation apparatus and method: A pilot signal is estimated by using the sampling theorem to estimate noise power in a stable manner without depending on the signal to noise ratio. A pilot signal estimation section obtains an estimated pilot signal by using the sampling theorem according to a plurality of received pilot signals sampled... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.c.

20090213744 - Self-testing communications device: The invention relates to a communications device with a transmitter (101) for transmitting a predetermined message via a communications network, a receiver (103) for receiving a reply to the predetermined message via the communications network, and a processor (105) designed to detect a time interval between the transmission of the... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20090213742 - Telephone communication monitoring device and method: A telecommunication system management device, the device comprising: a means to connect the device to a source of power; a means to connect the device to a multiplexed telephone signal; a means to provide the device with a destination network address; a decoder, to receive the multiplexed telephone signal and... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20090213750 - Varied transmission time intervals for wireless communication system: Embodiments describe a varied transmission time interval in wireless communication system. According to some embodiments is a method for assigning a transmission time interval. The method can include measuring a channel condition and/or a data rate of packet communicated by at least one wireless device. Based in part on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213758 - Automated configuration of network mode: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to a mechanism for seamlessly changing a network mode of a network device that is connected to multiple nodes. In aspects, agents reside on the nodes. A master agent communicates with the other agents and receives the capabilities of the nodes on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090213752 - Detecting double attachment between a wired network and at least one wireless network: The invention concerns the detecting of a double attachment of an equipment communicating both with a wireless network and with a wired network, in particular when the connections with said networks are established by sending a connection configuration request comprising an identifier of the equipment, such as DHCP Host Name.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090213754 - Device, system, and method of group communication: Device, system and method of group communication. For example, a computing apparatus capable of performing group communication may include a group communication service to communicate as a member of a group-communication-system including a plurality of members linked according to a distributed-hash-table overlay network topology, wherein the group communication service is... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090213761 - Method and device for acquiring routing information and method and system for locating a user terminal: The present invention discloses a method and device for locating a user terminal, which include recording information on routing from a calling user terminal activating a recall service to a server; and sending a recall instruction message to the calling user terminal activating the recall service according to the recorded... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090213755 - Method for establishing a routing map in a computer system including multiple processing nodes: A method for establishing a routing map of a computer system including a plurality of nodes interconnected by a plurality of physical links includes beginning with a first node, iteratively determining link information corresponding to each physical link of each node. In response to determining the link information for each... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20090213759 - Method of producing a network topology: Upon producing a topology of a network including a plurality of nodes (L2SW-1 to L2SW-7) connected via the Ethernet, an NSM (101) collects, from each of the nodes, reception result information obtained by continuity check performed by each node, VLAN setting information, and MAC information of a port or ports,... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090213762 - Mobile communication method, mobile communication system and access entity: The present invention relates to communication field, and discloses a mobile communication method. As can be seen from various embodiments, in the process of the access entity performing a location update for the UE or performing a UE access procedure, when the UE needs to be paged, the UE is... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090213757 - Neighborhood maintenance in the federation: Systems and methods that provide for joining a node to a federation. A link component facilitates joining such node thru three phases of join, introduce and advise. A plurality of messages and replies are exchanged between nodes in form of introduce, advise, and response messages. Such messages contain the sending... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090213751 - Optimum selection of a communication network in the location area of a terminal: In a method of selecting a communication network and connecting a mobile station into a communication network in a coverage area of which it is located, a mobile station is temporarily connected to a network unit of a first communication network, and sends a request relating to at least one... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20090213753 - Subnet management in virtual host channel adapter topologies: A computer program product for subnet management in virtual host channel adapter topologies includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes receiving a request to add a new logical host channel adapter... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090213756 - System and method for location-based configuration of an information handling system: A system and method for location-based configuration of an information handling system are disclosed. A method may include detecting an available network for communication with the information handling system. Based on at least the detected available network, a current location of the information handling system may be determined. Based on... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090213760 - Wireless communication system for interconnecting ad-hoc network and infrastructure network, and wireless terminal and communication method therefor: A wireless communication system for interconnecting an ad-hoc network and an IS network, and a wireless terminal and communication method therefor are disclosed. The communication method includes transmitting a discovery signal including terminal information of the wireless terminal to a radio network, receiving a response signal including information for network... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20090213763 - Method and system for dynamic assignment of network addresses in a communications network: According to a particular embodiment, a method for automatically assigning dynamic IP addresses without user interaction includes maintaining at least one pool of unused IP addresses. An advertisement message is transmitted from a first network element to at least one additional network element in a transport ring. The advertisement message... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20090213764 - Full division duplex system and a leakage cancellation method: An exemplary embodiment of a full division duplex system comprises a receiver, a transmitter and an auxiliary circuit. The receiver receives an inbound RF signal of a first band to generate an inbound baseband signal, and the transmitter up converts an outbound baseband signal by an oscillation signal to generate... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090213767 - Apparatus and method of block acknowledgements with reduced recipient state information: An apparatus and method for block acknowledgements with reduced recipient state information are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises the storing of a receive state for a block of frames received during a transmission opportunity (TXOP) with an on-chip state memory. Once stored, an immediate block acknowledgement, including the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090213766 - Frame structures with flexible partition boundary for wireless networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a wireless interface, and a controller, the apparatus being configured to: transmit a downlink subframe of a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame to one or more mobile stations in a wireless network, each wireless station... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090213765 - Terminal having a variable duplex capability: A cellular telecommunications terminal having a full-duplex mode of operation and a half-duplex mode of operation, including a first cellular transmitter and a first cellular receiver operable, when the terminal is in the full-duplex mode, to transmit and receive at the same time and operable, when the terminal is in... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20090213769 - Transmission of bundled feedback in wireless networks: A transmission of information between a secondary to a primary node in a wireless network occurs in a plurality of N logical time durations. Bundled feedback information for multiple DL transmissions is provided in one UL transmission. Each DL transmission is indicated by a DL grant comprising an M-bit downlink... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090213768 - Wireless communication system for time division duplex: Disclosed is a wireless communication system applicable to a time-division duplex transceiver system. The time-division duplex mobile communication system can achieve miniaturization, low power consumption and low costs by using a frequency conversion circuit including a mixer and an intermediate frequency (IF) circuit for both transmitter and receiver, and also... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090213770 - Active cancellation of transmitter leakage in a wireless transceiver: Active transmitter leakage cancellation techniques are disclosed, for reducing transmitter leakage in a frequency-duplexing radio transceiver. Reducing transmitter leakage to the receiver path of a duplex transceiver eases the linearity requirements for low-noise amplifier and mixer circuits, potentially reducing transceiver cost as well as complexity. In an exemplary method, a... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20090213771 - Forwarding in distributed wireless networks: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for providing a forwarding feature in the WiMedia MAC communication protocol or in other suitable communication protocols. The method enables a forwarder device to indicate its capability to operate as a forwarder device in its beacon transmissions and to enable an... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn: Ip Docketing

20090213772 - Method for receiving data and communication device: A method for receiving data is provided. Multiple packages are received according to a sliding window W(N). If a starting package of the packages is received successfully, the W(N) is slid to a W(N+1). If a non-starting package of the packages is received successfully, the corresponding counter is activated for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090213773 - Method for supporting coexistence considering while subchannel allocation in a broadband wireless access system: A method for supporting coexistence in a mobile station for supporting a coexistence mode of WiMAX and secondary wireless communication system while considering subchannel allocation, the method comprises, requesting a band adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) for adjacent subcarrier permutation to a base station by transmitting first coexistence information, after... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090213776 - Broadcast/multicast collision free frame transmission: A protocol for collision avoidance in inter and intra basic service set broadcast/multicast communication in a wireless network is disclosed. An access point reserves a broadcast transmission time and conveys that reservation to each of its associated stations. Using a beacon or an action frame, the transmission reservation time is... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20090213775 - Deterministic feedback control for multicast or broadcast services: The invention relates to a method for controlling the transmission of feedback of mobile terminals receiving via an air interface of a mobile communication system a multicast or broadcast service transmitted or forwarded by a feedback control entity and to a mobile terminal, the feedback control entity using this method.... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090213777 - Distribution apparatus and receiving apparatus for reproducing predetermined contents: A content receiver receives content data distributed repeatedly from a distribution station. The content data are stored in a content storage. A reproduction processing unit sequentially reproduces parts of the content data stored in the storage corresponding to content data received by the content receiver. A content management unit monitors... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090213774 - Method of determining neighbor cell selection: A mobile terminal selects neighbor cell(s) to use in receiving a broadcast or multicast by deriving an estimate of cell quality for each neighbor cell; comparing the estimated quality with a minimum acceptable quality; and choosing those neighbor cells having the highest quality from the acceptable neighbor cells. The estimate... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090213778 - Fragmentation and packing for wireless multi-user multi-hop relay networks: A hop-by-hop and multi-hop approach for fragmentation and packing are provided for a wireless multi-hop relay network. The fragmentation and packing operate at ingress, intermediate, and egress stations of a tunnel connecting a base station (BS) with an access relay station (RS). A format of the associated relay fragmentation and... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090213779 - Multi-hop wireless relay communication system and downlink data transmitting method and device: A downlink data transmitting method is applied to a multi-hop wireless relay communication system. The method includes the following steps. A network unit obtains an identifier of a next hop network unit corresponding to a connection identifier (CID) in a downlink medium access control protocol data unit (MPDU) header according... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090213781 - High altitude platform deployment system: A communication system for supporting communications with a target market area. The system includes one or more solar-powered aircraft maintained in, or successively passing through, flight stations or flight patterns around the market area. Each of the aircraft targets limited beamwidth communication antennas on a substantial portion of the target... Agent: The Law Office Of John A. Griecci

20090213780 - Satellite hub based adaptive allocation of frequency bands: A method and system for adaptive allocation of transmission bandwidth in a broadband satellite communication system having user terminals within a coverage area and outside a coverage area, such as an LDMS area. In a specific embodiment, the bandwidth is allocated at a central terminal (hub) to be used by... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090213782 - Random access slot selection in a communications system: A communications system (20) includes a resource controller (22) and a terminal (24) in communication with the resource controller (22). Periodically, the resource controller (22) sends a service announcement (46) that identifies a set (50) of timeslots (52) within a communication resource (40) configured for random access within a future... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20090213792 - Apparatus and method for setting a default gateway address in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for setting a default gateway address of a mobile terminal (MT). In the method, address configuration information is received from a network device. An address different from a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) included in the address configuration information is configured as a network address of the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090213795 - Communication of access information in wireless communication system: System and method for providing wireless communications is provided. Communications are established between a mobile station and a base station, and the mobile station is provided a list of network providers that can be accessed via the base station. The list of network providers may include identifiers of the available... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20090213790 - Method and apparatus for processing a multi-code word assignment in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for processing a Multi-code word assignment is provided, comprising receiving a MCW-FLAB1, determining value of supplemental field in the MCW-FLAB1 received with a MACID of an access terminal from the SS MAC protocol with a supplemental field, determining whether a MCW-FLAB2 is received with MACID in... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090213791 - Method and apparatus for processing in an idle state by an access terminal in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for processing an Idle state by an access terminal in a wireless communication system is described. An IdleState.Activate command, ActiveSetManagement.Activate command is issued. It is determined if a queued OpenConnection command is present.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090213789 - Method and apparatus for processing in read systeminfo state in a wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for processing in Read SystemInfo state in a wireless communication network, the method comprising issuing a ControlChannelMAC.Activate command, issuing a OverheadMessages.Activate command and determining if a SystemInfoBlock is received within TISPSyncAcq seconds.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090213788 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a systeminfo block in an active state in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting a SystemInfo block in an Active state in a wireless communication system is described. The SystemInfo block is transmitted every NpBCH0—Period superframe. The SystemInfo block is carried over a primary broadcast channel (pBCH0) physical channel by a control channel medium access control (MAC) protocol.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090213796 - Method and system for facilitating communication: A system for enabling at least a first mobile communication device and a second mobile communication device to establish communication, the system including a server adapted to receive from the first device an ID string associated with the second device, the ID string being obtained from the second device over... Agent: Professional Patent Solutions

20090213797 - Method for binding update in mobile ipv6 and mobile ipv6 communication system: A method for binding update in the mobile IPv6 is provided. After a binding management key is obtained in a return routability procedure, a home address (HoA) in a binding update (BU) packet is sent in a form of an encrypted option. In the BU process, an HoA index may... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090213799 - Method for setting user equipment identifier in radio communication system: The present invention is directed to a method for setting a user equipment identifier as user equipment identification information used when data received through a dedicated logical channel is transmitted through a common transport channel. The method includes transmitting data and a message type indicator as user equipment identification information... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090213798 - Method, system, mobile node, communication node and home agent for communication in mobile ipv6 networks: A method for communication in IPv6 networks is provided. In this method, first, a destination node in communication is notified about an association relation between a home address (HoA) index and an HoA. Then, in a packet, an HoA option and a Type-2 routing header are substituted by an HoA... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090213786 - Mobile station, a base station, a mobile communication system and a communication control method: There is disclosed a mobile station performing packet communications with a base station, including: a reservation control signal generating unit configured to generate a reservation control signal, based on control information transmitted in advance of a data packet; and a reservation control signal transmission control unit configured to transmit the... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090213794 - Multiplexing media components of different sessions reference to related applications: An apparatus and a method are provided for multiplexing different sessions using the same authorized contexts for media. The method includes distinguishing different control plane sessions by a user equipment, and identifying media flows of a same application among the different control plane sessions by the user equipment by setting... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20090213793 - Radio base station apparatus: A media access control unit of a radio base station apparatus includes: a resource table for storing resource block numbers in order to reserve resource blocks for the packet data; a system information memory unit for storing a parameter used to determine whether to update information stored in the resource... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20090213783 - Roaming network stations using a mac address identifier to select new access point: There is disclosed a method of helping mobile stations such as voice over IP devices to roam between wireless access points, by each access point transmitting the MAC address of a spanning tree algorithm root switch of the local network domain. This MAC address is used by mobile stations to... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20090213785 - System and method for the monitoring of grouped objects: A system and a method for monitoring grouped objects with a gateway and a plurality of radio nodes attachable to the objects. Each radio node has a computing unit, a short-range communications unit and an energy supply unit. One of the radio nodes or the gateway has a localization unit.... Agent: Venable LLP

20090213784 - System, node, and method optimizing data connections for packet services: A method, a wireless node, and a telecommunication system optimizing data connections. The system has a servicing node (202), a gateway node (204) connecting the servicing node (202) to a data network (210) and a control component (203) virtualizing the connections to the data network, when the connections are inactive... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090213787 - Wireless communication device: A wireless communication device (10) comprising a first communication portion (36a) that connects to a wide-area wireless communication network; a second communication portion (36b) that connects to a narrow-area wireless communication network; and processing portions (32, 34) that, during communication with a wide-area wireless communication network via the first communication... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090213803 - Apparatus and method for estimating size of map message in broadband wireless communication: A resource allocation method of a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes estimating a size of a MAP message, and evaluating a size of an available burst allocation region according to the estimated size of the MAP message and allocating bursts in the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090213802 - Base station, communication terminal, transmission method, and reception method: A disclosed base station employs a multicarrier scheme and performs frequency scheduling in a frequency band including multiple resource blocks each including one or more subcarriers. The base station includes a frequency scheduler for receiving channel condition information from communication terminals and generating scheduling information to allocate resource blocks to... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090213800 - Device and method for controlling state in cellular system: A terminal state controlling method and apparatus are provided. The terminal state includes a connected state and an idle state, and the connected state includes an active state and a dormant state. The active state includes a scheduling-ON state and a scheduling-OFF state. In the state controlling apparatus, a radio... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090213801 - Frequency planning method for wireless lans: A method may include allocating channels of a wireless local area network (WLAN) including a plurality of access points to the plurality of access points based on a load of each access point. The load of each access point may include a user load and/or an interference load. The user... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090213805 - Method and apparatus for supporting data transmission in a multi-carrier communication system: Techniques for supporting data transmission on multiple carriers in a wireless communication system are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine available transmit power for data transmission on multiple carriers. The UE may distribute the available transmit power to multiple carriers (e.g., using uniform power distribution, greedy filling, water filling,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213804 - Method for supporting coexistence in a mobile station: A method for supporting coexistence in a mobile station is provided. The method for supporting coexistence in the mobile station includes, at the mobile station, turning on Bluetooth at a start point of a WiMAX downlink subframe, stopping the operation of the Bluetooth if WiMAX channel quality of the mobile... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090213806 - Wireless communication system and wireless terminal device: Terminal capability information relating to the capability of a wireless terminal device in which at least one of a first frequency bandwidth for use in an up link and a second frequency bandwidth for use in a down link is variable is associated with a terminal category in advance. When... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20090213807 - Apparatus and method for allocating downlink burst in broadband wireless communication system: A method of allocating bursts in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. The method includes dividing a downlink period into a plurality of regions according to a burst property, calculating a residual symbol axis size and a residual subchannel axis size of a first region conforming to two-dimensional allocation... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090213808 - Maintenance of data connections during the changeover of a communication access network: A method for maintaining at least one data connection to a terminal during a changeover from a first communication access network to at least one second communication access network, comprising at least two private user identities and at least two IP addresses are allocated to the terminal in order to... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090213809 - Method of performing handover for a dual transfer mode in a wireless mobile communication system: A method of performing Dual Transfer Mode (DTM) handover by a mobile station (MS) in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the MS receives information of neighbor cells, wherein the information is a list of neighbor cells whose signal strengths the MS should measure and transmits a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090213812 - Method of scanning cells based on lbs information and selecting heterogeneous cells: A method of scanning cells based on location based service (LBS) information and selecting heterogeneous cells is provided. The method includes, at a mobile station, setting a supplementary field of a registration request message and notifying a base station whether or not handover based on location information is supported, while... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090213811 - Roaming encoded information reading terminal: A portable encoded information reading (EIR) terminal for incorporation in a data collection system having a host computer, a plurality of peer EIR terminals, and a plurality of interconnected networks including one or more wireless networks, can comprise a central processing unit (CPU), a memory, an encoded information reading (EIR)... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090213810 - Transfer of communication sessions between base stations in wireless networks: A method and devices are provided to enable continuing a communication session currently carried by a mobile subscriber station (MSS) while switching from a first base station to a second base station. During the communication session that is being held with the MSS, a first IP datagram is determined from... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090213814 - Method and apparatus for providing uplink packet data service in asynchronous wcdma system: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for providing uplink packet data services through an E-DCH in an asynchronous WCDMA system. A transport block size (TBS) for transmitting uplink transport channel data is determined. A combination of a spreading factor and a modulation scheme for uplink channel data transmission, corresponding to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090213813 - Radio communication system, mobile station apparatus, and rach transmission method: Provided is a mobile station device capable of performing RACH transmission with a small amount of resources. In this device, a RACH generating unit (111) is formed by a signature selection unit (112) and a modulation unit (113). A RACH signal is generated as follows. That is, according to inputted... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090213815 - Contention protocols for wireless medium access in communication networks: Wireless medium access in a communication network having a number of terminals is controlled by defining protocol message units for transmission by a given terminal which units correspond to operational states of at least one of the terminal and the medium. A number of time slots are allocated for transmission... Agent: Bae Systems

20090213818 - Method of performing random access procedure in wireless communication system: A method and device for performing contention resolution between a mobile communication terminal and a base station. The method according to an embodiment includes initiating a random access procedure by a medium access control (MAC) layer of the mobile communication terminal, including starting a contention resolution timer; and stopping the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090213817 - Resource allocation method and apparatus for reducing uplink feedback overhead in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for reducing an uplink feedback overhead in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes scheduling DownLink traffic and determining a transmission period, and allocating UpLink feedback resources considering the DL traffic transmission period.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090213816 - Timeslot sharing protocol for wireless communication networks: A method for transmitting information in a communication network of multiple nodes, in which information transmission is partitioned into successive superframes, and in which each superframe is partitioned into a beacon period followed by a data period, which may consist of a contention free period (CFP), and each beacon period... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090213819 - Apparatus, system and method for initiating wlan service using beacon signals: An access point transmits a beacon signal when a multimode communication device is within a maximum proximity of the access point. A wireless wide area network (WWAN) receiver in the access point monitors a WWAN uplink channel used by the multimode wireless communication device to communicate with a WWAN base... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20090213820 - Appending a ranging waveform to a frame to maintain communication protocol interoperability: A technique is provided to enable a ranging-enhanced communication device that operates according to a legacy communication protocol to transmit a ranging waveform that is not defined in, or part of, the rules of the legacy communication protocol. In one embodiment, a ranging-enhanced communication device that is to transmit the... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20090213827 - Dual-function wireless data terminal: Apparatus for communication includes at least one RF receiver circuit, which is coupled to receive and downconvert first and second RF signals that are transmitted respectively over different, first and second wireless networks in accordance with different, first and second network protocols, so as to output first and second downconverted... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20090213821 - Method for controlling a wake up rate of nodes operating within a multi-hop communication system: A method is provided which enables the connection of nodes out of communication range while minimizing the energy consumption in standby nodes. Specifically, the present invention provides a method to control the wake up rate of standby nodes in a multi-hop communication system. An access point collects, processes, and refines... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090213822 - Method for data collection and supervision in wireless node networks: A wireless networking method includes providing a plurality of different sets of wireless links and a plurality of wireless nodes. The nodes are in mutual bidirectional wireless communication via the wireless links. Each of the links enables the communication between a respective pair of the nodes. Information is transmitted to... Agent: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20090213826 - Method, system and apparatus for transferring short messages in an ims: The present invention discloses a method for delivering short messages in an IMS. The method includes: The sender encapsulates multiple concatenated short message segments into an IMS message, and sends the IMS message to the receiver. The present invention also discloses a system and apparatus for delivering short messages in... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090213825 - Methods and apparatus for controlling transmission of a base station: Methods and apparatus for controlling transmission of a base station, such as a Femto cell, based on the determined quality of a backhaul connection to a network are disclosed. In particular, a quality of a backhaul connection of a base station to a node in a communication network is determined.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213823 - Network gateway and method for relocating the same: A method for relocating network gateways comprises the steps of obtaining a moving average of drop ratios and setting the duration of the next detection interval based on the moving average of drop ratios, and requesting at least one mobile station to perform a CSN mobility management procedure when the... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090213824 - Wireless local area network packet transmitting and receiving system: A wireless local area network transmitting and receiving system includes a network driver interface, a random network layer, an infrastructure layer, a packet format conversion module and a distributed module. The packet format conversion module provides the wireless local area network with bridges to receive and convert wireless local area... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090213828 - Wireless local area network-based position locating systems and methods: The location of one or more mobile nodes in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is determined. Nodes in the WLAN include respective ping drivers to generate ping event values related to transmit count stamps and receive count stamps for wireless messages exchanged between the nodes. Each wireless message is... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20090213829 - Expanded signaling capability for network element, user equipment and system: Several mobile station identifiers are allocated to one mobile station, one for each of a plurality of possible signalling channel structures, parameters, or both. When receiving the signalling channels, the mobile station searches for all identifiers allocated for it in the received signalling channels. When it finds one that matches,... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090213830 - Communication system: A communication system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the communication system includes a communication device set up to execute a process, configured to put itself into an activated state or into a deactivated state at alternate times, receive time information in a first operating state of the activated state, take... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090213831 - Fast audio/visual reception in dvb-h systems: An apparatus and method of reducing a channel switching delay in TDM mobile television systems, and comprises receiving a data burst associated with channels for reception on a RF channel bandwidth received on a mobile television receiver, wherein the data burst comprises a plurality of RTP packets and a RTCP... Agent: Rahman Llc

20090213832 - Transmission reception apparatus of data using polarization transmission in los radio communication system: Provided is a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data using a polarization transmission in a line-of-sight (LOS) radio communication system. An for transmitting data using a polarization transmission in a LOS radio communication system may include: an antenna unit including at least two antennas to transmit or receive... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090213833 - Systems, apparatus and techniques for fast cell search and accurate synchronization in wireless communications: Techniques for fast cell search, selection and reselection for wireless communication systems such as OFDM or OFDMA communication systems. In various implementations of the described techniques, downlink subframes from base stations to mobile stations are designed to include information in form of preambles or post-ambles in one or more downlink... Agent: Fish & Richardson, Pc

20090213842 - Communication link establishing method: When a communication device receives a request of connection, the communication device selects a destination address from multiple destination addresses according to data provided by a server. After a destination address is selected from the multiple destination addresses, the communication device connects a source address and the selected destination address.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090213840 - Integrated information communication system: To provide an integrated information communication system without using dedicated lines or the Internet, ensuring communication speed, communication quality, communication trouble countermeasures in a unified manner, wherein security and reliability in communication is ensured. The system is comprised of an access control apparatus for connecting a plurality of computer communication... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20090213838 - Message handling in an ip multimedia subsystem: A Session Initiation Protocol Application Server of an IP Multimedia Subsystem having processing means for handling a message received from a Serving Call/State Control Function, the means being arranged to handle the message based upon a header of the message containing the URI of the served user, this header having... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090213843 - Method and apparatus for enabling voice communication: An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method, wherein it is received, at an origin device, input from a first telephonic device via an origin telephonic landline. An initiation request is then output based on the input to a destination device, wherein the destination device is configured to... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090213835 - Method and apparatus for measuring one way transmission delay: A method and apparatus enabling the measurement of one way delay in each of the two directions of transmission from a single location are disclosed. The method measures a first roundtrip delay at a first location between a first endpoint and a second endpoint over a first communication network, and... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090213839 - System and method for distributed call monitoring/recording using the session initiation protocol (sip): The monitor/recorder receives one or more SIP INVITE messages to set up a first media stream from the first SIP device and a second media stream from the second SIP device to the monitor/recorder. The monitor/recorder receives the first and/or second media stream. The monitor/recorder then records the first and/or... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20090213846 - System and method for voice over internet protocol (voip) and facsimile over internet protocol (foip) calling over the internet: A system and method for sending Long distance telephone calls over the Internet utilizes cost and quality of service data to optimize system performance and to minimize the cost of completing the calls. The system utilizes a network of gateways connected to the Internet. The gateways receive calls from various... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090213837 - Systems and methods to select peered border elements for an ip multimedia session based on quality-of-service: Systems and methods to select peered border elements for a communication session based on Quality-of-Service are disclosed. In particular, an example method for peered border element assignment is disclosed, comprising determining a composite Quality-of-Service result based on a plurality of Quality-of-Service parameters associated with a communication session, querying a telephone... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090213834 - Technique for coordinating cs and ps registrations in a multi-operator core network: A technique for coordinating the registration of a terminal (UE) in circuit-switched (CS) and packet-switched (PS) domains of a multi-operator core network (MOCN) with multiple core networks (CN) is described. According to a method approach, a notification message indicating the necessity of coordinated CS and PS registrations for a terminal... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090213844 - Telephony: In one embodiment of an improvement to telephony, a solution to the problem of communicating to “the many” is made by enabling telecommunications service providers to: accept digital dialog as well as conventional dialog, enable augmented phone service to be added to conventional phone services, handle non-calls in addition to... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20090213841 - Terminal and method for storing and retrieving messages in a converged ip messaging service: A terminal, server and method for storing and selectively retrieving SIP-based messages, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for controlling a SIP-based message by a control server, which includes receiving a SIP-based message; determining a manner in which the SIP-based message is to be... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090213845 - Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with timing recovery: A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voice signals between a switched circuit network and a packet based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090213836 - Web page telephone system: A web page telephone system uses a web page information processor to connect to telecommunication exchanges of a VoIP network and is built in with the registration data and link files for web page owners. Each of the link files corresponds to a contact label on a web page belong... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090213847 - Communications system using a hospital telephony infrastructure to allow establishment of healthcare information sessions at hospital-wide points of care: A communications system, in which a plurality of remote modems communicate over a twisted-pair telephony infrastructure, each remote modem being communicatively coupled to a corresponding subset of user devices. The system also comprises a healthcare information system (HIS) server capable of supporting healthcare information sessions established with individual user devices... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.c.

20090213853 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a frame including control information in a broadcasting system: Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a frame including control information in a broadcasting system. A frame for a broadcast service is generated using an in-band signaling scheme, and includes location information of control information in a next frame and indication information indicating a change/no-change in the control information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090213849 - Communication node and a method for routing traffic in a communication network by calculating at least one metric for at least one link and a sensitivity parameter for said metric: The invention relates to a method of routing traffic from a sender to a receiver in a communication network said method comprising for at least two possible routes between the sender and the receiver the step of calculating at least one metric for at least one link in each route,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090213852 - Method and apparatus for asynchronous mediated communicaton: A system and method for mediating the routing of asynchronous messages includes routing the asynchronous message to a first recipient, determining whether the first recipient opened the asynchronous message, and re-routing the asynchronous message to a second recipient who is qualified to receive and respond to the message if the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213850 - Method for transmitting a data stream with anticipation of acknowledgments, correspondence input device and computer-readable storage medium: A method is proposed for transmitting data of a stream to be stimulated, coming from a sender device to a receiver device through a network segment and according to a protocol for packet transportation with acknowledgement. An input device of the network segment performs the following steps for the stream... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090213851 - Multiport device: A multiport device capable of supporting a plurality of IP (Internet Protocol) devices with a single IP address includes a plurality of internal terminals coupled to the plurality of the IP devices, each configured to transmit a packet with a same IP address and a multiport unit configured to translate... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, Pllc

20090213848 - Packet structure and packet transmission method of network control protocol: A packet structure and packet transmission method of a network control protocol. A user in the inside or outside of the house can effectively control various home appliances such as refrigerator or laundry machine or monitor operation state of the devices, over the network such as RS-485 network, low-power RF... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090213854 - Efficient, fault-tolerant multicast networks via network coding: Fault-tolerant multicast networks via network coding comprises a digital signal operator that combines data signals multicast from multiple sources and transmits the combined data signal via a link to the next or destination node. In one aspect, the digital signal operator includes an exclusive-OR operator that performs a Boolean exclusive-OR... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090213855 - Method and switch for implementing internet group management protocol snooping: A method and switch for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping are disclosed. The method includes: configuring, by a switch, a router interface listed in an IGMP snooping table; configuring, by the switch, a multicast forwarding table entry and a corresponding outgoing interface list; and configuring, by the switch, interfaces... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090213856 - System and method for providing transformation of multi-protocol packets in a data stream: A system and method for facilitating packet transformation of multi-protocol, multi-flow, streaming data. Packet portions subject to change are temporarily stored, and acted upon through processing of protocol-dependent instructions, resulting in a protocol-dependent modification of the temporarily stored packet information. Validity tags are associated with different segments of the temporarily-stored... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20090213857 - Method, system, computer program product, and hardware product for ethernet virtualization using an elastic fifo memory to facilitate flow of broadcast traffic to virtual hosts: A packet that represents unknown traffic for a virtual host is received. A test is performed to ascertain whether or not a destination connection can be determined for the received packet wherein it is discovered the packet is a broadcast (or multicast) packet. Since such packets have multiple destinations in... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090213858 - Application-aware mpls tunnel selection: Various exemplary embodiments are a method and related system and computer-readable medium including one or more the following: receiving a data packet; analyzing the data packet using deep packet inspection (DPI) to determine an application associated with the data packet; determining an MPLS tunnel corresponding to the application associated with... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.c.

20090213860 - Method and device for service binding: A method for service binding includes: identifying a service provider identifier of a terminal and binding the terminal into a corresponding tunnel dependent upon the identified service provider identifier. The present invention implements dynamic binding of a terminal with a service through identifying a service provider identifier of the terminal,... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090213859 - Shared l2 bridging domains for l3 virtual networks: Systems and/or methods that facilitate the segmentation of layer 3 (L3) data to more than one virtual private network (VPN) or virtual network (vNET) are presented. An application classifier component can be used to facilitate the classification of L2 to and from hosts and/or other networking components that are attached... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090213861 - Reliable link layer packet retry: Communication over a computer network with a node having a first port with a point-to-point link connection to a second node having a second port. The first port transmits to the second port a reliable link layer (RLL) packet over the link. The RLL packet comprises a first RLL header... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090213862 - Method and system for migrating a peer in a distributed bgp system: A method for peer migration in a distributed Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) system includes: disconnecting a peer relationship between a source BGP process and a network device, wherein first routing information received from the network device is recorded in a forwarding instruction process; establishing a peer relationship between a target... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090213864 - Inbound blocking of data received from a lan in a multi-processor virtualization environment: An incoming LAN traffic management system comprising: an I/O adapter configured to receive incoming packets from an Ethernet; a plurality of hosts coupled to the I/O adapter and each having a host buffer; a data router configured to block information received by the I/O adapter into memory locations from an... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090213863 - Router, network comprising a router, method for routing data in a network: A router for a network is arranged for guiding data traffic from one of a first plurality Ni of inputs (I) to one or more of a second plurality No of outputs (O). The inputs each have a third plurality m of input queues for buffering data. The third plurality... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090213865 - Techniques for channel access and transmit queue selection: Various embodiments are disclosed for techniques to perform channel access decisions and to select a transmit queue. These decisions may be performed, for example, based upon the age and number of packets in a queue. These techniques may allow a node to improve the length of data bursts transmitted by... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090213867 - Blade router with nat support: A blade router for increased interface scalability is provided. The blade router may address interface scalability by having each of the linecards manage its interfaces locally and may use the concept of virtual and local interfaces for intelligent forwarding. The blade router may appear as a single router from the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090213866 - Data communication system and method: A data communication system having a plurality of input/output ports, a first group and a second group of switching units. Each switching unit has a plurality of input/output interfaces, whereby at least one of the plurality of input/output interfaces of each switching unit of the first group forms an input/output... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090213868 - Separation of fabric and packet processing source in a system: An apparatus may include a port interface that is arranged and configured to receive a packet from an ingress port, a traffic management module being operatively coupled to the port interface and that is arranged and configured to manage routing of the packet to a destination, and a packet processing... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090213869 - Blade switch: A blade switch for increased interface scalability is provided. The blade switch may address interface scalability by having each of the switch linecards manage its interfaces locally and may use the concept of virtual and local interfaces for intelligent forwarding. The blade switch may appear as a single network switch... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090213870 - Transmitting/receiving system, node and communication method: A transmitting/receiving system includes a control field controlling a transmitting priority of a dynamic slot is included in each communication cycle, and a node of the transmitting/receiving system sets control information including a preferential usage request for a dynamic slot that the node transmits in the control field and notifies... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090213871 - Apparatus and methods for incorporating bandwidth forecasting and dynamic bandwidth allocation into a broadband communication system: A method for providing network access to a shared access communications medium for a plurality of users includes the steps of conducting predictive admission control by arbitrating user requests for access to the shared medium based on predicted aggregate demands, conducting lookahead scheduling for use in making user channel assignments... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20090213872 - Integrated universal input-output interface circuit: A circuit for enabling communication between a micro-controller device and a number of data networks using different network protocols comprises a switch circuit and a number of interface circuits. The switch circuit is configured to connect input-output terminals of the data network to corresponding terminals of the interface circuits. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090213873 - Method and system for synchronous high speed ethernet gfp mapping over an optical transport network: An interworking device, method and system distribute reference timing between at least two communication networks. The interworking device includes a first communication interface operable to communicate with a first communication network operating using a first communication protocol and a second communication interface operable to communicate with a second communication network... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.a.

20090213875 - method for equitable bandwidth allocation for content distribution networks: A method is presented for determining bandwidth allocations in a content distribution network that comprises multiple trees, where the root of each tree has a server that broadcasts multiple programs throughout the tree. Each network link has limited capacity and may be used by one or more of these trees.... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090213874 - Dynamic bandwidth allocation based on partial cycles: A method for dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) in a passive optical network (PON) comprises the steps of: in a configuration stage, dividing a predetermined grant cycle into N parts, dividing by an optical line terminal (OLT) a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) into N ONU groups and in each... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090213876 - Method and apparatus for sending control signaling: A method for sending control signaling, including: a transmitter using different states of one field in the control signaling to indicate the payload size or RV; and sends the control signaling indicative of the payload size or RV in the field. It is appropriate that some states of one field... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207725 - Method and system for joint encoding multiple independent information messages: A method and system for joint encoding multiple independent information messages are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an encoder configured to encode each of the independent information messages to produce respective encoded bits, and a first multiplexer configured to multiplex each of the independent information messages. A joint... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090207727 - Method for numbering working services on channel protection ring: A method for numbering working services on a channel protection ring. The process of numbering working services includes: after detecting that the node has an added or dropped working service in the downstream segment in the specified direction, the node on the ring sends a notification message which includes the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207726 - System and method for network recovery from multiple link failures: Methods and systems for fast and reliable network recovery from multiple link failures. In accordance with one example of the method, a master node receives a request from a transit node having a blocked port to open the blocked port for data forwarding, wherein the blocked port is associated with... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090207728 - Constructing repair paths around multiple non-available links in a data communications network: A data processing apparatus is configured for initiating a not-via approach for creating repair path information for a first link between the first network node and a second network node; creating a list of other network nodes that the not-via repair path traverses; creating and storing entries in the FIB... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP

20090207729 - Policer device and bandwidth control: A frame input/output unit allows a frame to pass according to directions output by a flag judging unit while consuming resources. A resource managing unit manages amounts of resources supplied and consumed. A management information storage unit stores passing information indicating policers that have passed frames during each period and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090207730 - Scheduling policy-based traffic management: Various traffic management techniques may be employed in a multi-hop wireless communication system. For example, a decision to transmit data to another node may be based on whether that node is able to effectively transmit its data. A decision to transmit an interference management message may be based on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090207731 - Apparatus and methods for incorporating bandwidth forecasting and dynamic bandwidth allocation into a broadband communication system: A method for providing network access to a shared access communications medium for a plurality of users includes the steps of conducting predictive admission control by arbitrating user requests for access to the shared medium based on predicted aggregate demands, conducting lookahead scheduling for use in making user channel assignments... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090207732 - Empirical scheduling of network packets: A method of transmitting packets over a network includes steps of partitioning a packet delivery schedule into discrete time slots; transmitting a plurality of test packets from a first endpoint on the network to an intended recipient in the network using different time slots; evaluating the reliability of the network... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090207733 - Transferring data over a network: A method is provided for transferring a set of data over a network by monitoring the level of actual network bandwidth utilization. The method identifies a maximum monitored level of actual utilization and calculates a size for data blocks to be transferred as a function of the maximum monitored level... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090207734 - Adaptive bandwidth utilization for telemetered data: A method (400) for optimizing bandwidth utilization in a communications network (100). The communications network can include a data source (105) and a data client (110). Responsive to a measurement of at least one communication parameter (120) of a commutated bitstream (115) which is transmitted to the client, the data... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090207735 - Robust cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radios: The disclosed subject matter relates to communicatively coupled cognitive radio systems, devices, methodologies, or combinations thereof, facilitating improved utilization of unused portions of spectral bands by secondary users generally allocated to other primary users. This improved utilization can be achieved by cooperative spectrum sensing employing ST coding and/or SF coding... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090207736 - Constrained dynamic path selection among multiple communication interfaces: Method and apparatus are disclosed for constrained dynamic path selection among multiple available communication interfaces. In some embodiments selection logic is operatively coupled with a number of link-layer interfaces to select a set of link-layer interfaces that satisfy a set of congestion constraint conditions. Metric logic is operatively coupled with... Agent: Larry Mennemeier Intel Corporation

20090207737 - Reducing packet drops in networks guaranteeing in-order delivery: In one embodiment, the convergence node switches of a destination node switch in a network having multiple equal paths between a source switch and destination switch are identified. When a new equal cost path is added to the network, packets are flushed up to the convergence node switch closest to... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20090207738 - Timer handling: Methods, apparatuses, computer program products and a system for enabling timer value handling are provided. Handling of timer values is enabled by creating a connection initiation message, placing into the connection initiation message a state keeping timer value, and sending the connection initiation message. Timer value handling is further enabled... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090207740 - Method for determining if an encrypted flow of packets belongs to a predefined class of flows: A method to determine if an encrypted flow of packets (F) belongs to a predefined class of flows (ωt), comprises the steps of giving probability density functions (p(xi|ωt)) of the values of two measurable variables in a plurality of encrypted flows of packets (Fj) belonging to the predefined class of... Agent: King & Spalding

20090207739 - Mobile communication system and method for transmitting pdcp status report thereof: A mobile communication system, and method for transmitting a PDCP status report thereof capable of preventing the occurrence of data loss when re-establishing an RLC. When an RLC re-establishment occurs due to an RLC internal error, a receiving PDCP entity triggers a status report to transmit it to a transmitting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090207741 - Network subscriber baseline analyzer and generator: The current application comprises four major processors for determining network abnormalities. The major difference between the current invention and all other existing systems that are being used by the network operators is that the current invention detects abnormalities by comparing with a baseline statistical model. This baseline model represents typical... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090207742 - Frame transmission device and loop judging method: A frame transmission device having a port for transmitting and receiving a frame and a learning table for storing a transmission source address included in the frame received at the port and the receiving port in association with each other includes: a port detector for detecting whether learning data coincident... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090207743 - Facilitating transfer of push and pull messages for remotely testing mobile devices: Providing for remote field testing of mobile communication devices is described herein. By way of example, network initiated data received at a mobile device or like device activated on a mobile network can be monitored. Further, an over the air (OTA) message sent by the mobile network to the monitored... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090207748 - Communication method and apparatus using received signal strength indicator in wireless sensor network: A communication method and apparatus is disclosed that uses a received signal strength indicator (RSSI). In a sensor network including a plurality of nodes, a first node of the plurality of nodes receives a signal transmitted from a second node of the plurality of nodes, at least once. The first... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090207746 - Fft-based estimation of thermal noise and rise over thermal in a wireless communication system: Techniques for estimating thermal noise and rise-over-thermal (RoT) in a communication system are described. Thermal noise in a sideband may be measured and used as an estimate of thermal noise in a signal band. In one design, samples containing a desired signal centered at DC or a frequency higher than... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090207744 - Method and apparatus for determining tuneaway time in open state in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for determining TuneAway time in a wireless communication system is described. A current TuneAway attribute is and a TuneAwayRequest message having a MessageSequence matching the last received TuneAwayResponse is used. A tuneaway period number n for a sector with given sectorOffset is began at TuneAwayTimeNn, wherein... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090207747 - Network device and data transmission method thereof in wireless sensor network: A wireless sensor network and data transmission method thereof provides for improving channel access efficiency and energy saving effect by using inventive carrier sensing mechanism. The data transmission method includes assessing a channel after initializing, when a packet to be transmitted is generated, a number of carrier sensing attempts (Ns)... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090207750 - Network monitoring based on pointer information: A computer system and method for identifying and extracting content from data traffic, the system including: a capture driver arranged to monitor data traffic and to copy data packets from the traffic to a buffer without disrupting the traffic flow, and to generate pointer information to identify specific parts of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090207745 - Providing remote field testing for mobile devices: Remote field testing of mobile communication devices is provided herein. By way of example, an IP gateway of a target mobile network can be monitored. A mobile originated data packet associated with a test device can be updated or translated to include information of a device that is activated on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090207751 - Service based lawful interception: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a telecommunication system to monitor information related to specified services in a service unaware node. The node handles Content of Communication associated with services. The system comprises a Delivery Function to which Content of Communication related to a target is received... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090207752 - System and method for authorizing threshold testing within a network: A system and method for authorizing test traffic over a network. A request is received to perform a throughput test. A state of the network is determined. The throughput test is authorized in response to the determined state of the network being acceptable for performing the throughput test. The throughput... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090207749 - User-initiated reporting of mobile communication system errors: Systems and methods that automatically collect data associated with system-identified errors as well as data associated with events associated with user-initiated actions. A data collection profile defines data to be collected and a user-initiated trigger. When the user-initiated trigger is sensed, data is collected according to the data collection profile.... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090207758 - Fast active scanning wireless network apparatus and method: In a fast active scanning wireless network apparatus and method for quick determination of available access points, information about a candidate set of available access points is obtained, and a candidate access point is identified from the candidate set. A mobile station then queries the candidate access point with a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090207754 - Method for compressing and setting up wireless access bearer and method for transferring iu rab setting: The present invention provides for a method of compressing Iu RAB configurations. The method comprises dividing each configuration into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising a fixed portion common to a plurality of configurations, and the second portion comprising a variable portion, the method including... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090207755 - Method of configuring networks, in particular ethernet switches: Network devices are configured by displaying an input mask for entering configuration data appears on a display of the network device or a configuration device to be connected to the network device and representing the input mask in at least two different formats. The configuration data is entered in the... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090207756 - Network configuration management method: A network management apparatus including an acquisition unit that remotely accesses a registered network device and acquires setting information of the network device and logging information of the network device, a detection unit that detects a connection status between network devices based on the setting information and logging information acquired... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090207757 - System and method for providing location and access network information support in a network environment: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes communicating location and access network information for an end user to a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) element that is coupled to a network element. The network element receives packets for a communications flow from the end user if... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20090207753 - Systems and methods for power consumption data networks: Systems and methods for producing power consumption data enabling up-to-the-minute automatic collection and transmission of real-time energy flow information are described. Energy consumption from a source of electricity by an electrical device may be measured. This measured data may then be stored for later transmission on a data network. Energy... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090207759 - System and method for providing a converged wireline and wireless network environment: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving packets for a communications flow from an end user that can conduct the flow through a wireless network and through a wireline network. The method also includes providing policy control for the end user at a network element that... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20090207760 - Methods and devices for determining if a base station can not handle a terminal: m

20090207762 - Assigning mobile users in a half-frequency division duplex (hfdd) system to uplink (ul) sub-frames and to downlink (dl) sub-frames: Methods assigning mobile users in a half-frequency division duplex (HFDD) system to a first UL group and second UL group of an uplink (UL) sub-frame, and to a first DL group and a second DL group of a downlink (DL) sub-frame, wherein the UL sub-frame is assigned a first carrier... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090207761 - Fdd inband backhauling and method thereof: The present invention relates to an FDD Inband backhauling method for establishing a wireless transmission from at least one access base station to a master base station in a digital cellular communication system, the access base station coupled to at least a mobile station, the access base station coupled to... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090207763 - Voice switching for voice communication on computers: A voice communication end device performs quality checks to determine whether acoustic echo cancellation would be ineffective, such as due to noise or clock drift or discontinuities between incoming and outgoing voice channels. In the case where echo cancellation would prove ineffective, the device falls back on a tri-state voice... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090207764 - High-frequency circuit, high-frequency device and communications apparatus: A high-frequency circuit for wireless communications selectively using a first frequency band and a second frequency band lower than the first frequency band, comprising an antenna terminal; first and second transmission terminals to which transmitting signals in the first and second frequency bands are input; first and second receiving terminals... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090207765 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, and wireless communication method: A wireless communication system is disclosed. The wireless communication system performs data transmission using spatially multiplexed streams from a first terminal including N antennas to a second terminal including M antennas (N and M are integers larger than or equal to 2 and N>H).... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207766 - Wireless network connection management system and method thereof: Provided are a wireless network management system and a method thereof based on a positioning system. By the positioning system, whether there are available wireless access points (WAPs, or APs) at the vicinity of a communication device is identified, so the communication device needn't hold the search for the APs... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090207770 - Apparatus and method for power management of wirelessly networked devices: A wireless sensor and actuator network includes a number of wireless nodes, each of which may be connected to any one or combination of analog sensors, digital sensors, and actuators, and is powered by an autonomous power supply such as a battery or solar panel. Since autonomous power sources may... Agent: Cyr & Associates, P.A.

20090207767 - Cycled receiver for mobile wireless devices: A wireless device (110) is provided for supporting extended battery life. A transceiver (132) is configured to receive and transmit data over a wireless link. A frame detection sensor (140) is coupled to the transceiver and configured to sense an incoming frame and generate an incoming frame sensor signal. A... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090207769 - Method and apparatus for scheduling timing for communication between sensor nodes in wireless sensor network: Provided is a method of scheduling timing for communication between sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network, the method including categorizing a plurality of sensor nodes in a cluster into several groups, respectively assigning time slots to the groups, and establishing data communication according to the assigned time slots.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090207768 - Optimal cross-layer scheduling for multi-user communication systems with imperfect channel state information and unknown interference: The disclosed subject matter provides scheduling algorithms, methods, and systems that facilitate cross layer scheduling for systems with imperfect channel state information and unknown interference. By exploiting ACK/NAK feedback from users of downlink traffic and recursively optimizing scheduling policy components over a state space, the disclosed subject matter provide robust... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090207771 - Broadcast amd multicast on high speed downlink channels: A high speed downlink packet access base station (HSPDA Node B) and a method therefore working in acknowledged mode (AM), the base station being adapted for unicast transmission on a physical downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH), by preceding announcement on a shared control channel (HS-SCCH) which shared control channel may be... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090207772 - Communication method and intermediate network device with branch selection functions: A communication method for use in a radio communications system in which a mobile station sends identical data to a plurality of radio base stations in a parallel fashion. The method determines which radio base stations should stop forwarding data to an intermediate network device managing them. The intermediate network... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090207774 - Communication of point to multipoint service information in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving information for configuring a point-to-multipoint control channel in a wireless communication system. A network generates configuration information for configuring a point-to-multipoint control channel (MCCH) and transmits the configuration information to a mobile terminal. The configuration information comprises at least... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090207773 - Mbs system, mbs zone partitioning method, and method for implementing mbs in a wireless network: An MBS system, an MBS zone partitioning method, and a method for implementing MBS in a wireless network are disclosed. In the present invention, each MBS zone is managed by an MBS proxy function entity as a signaling plane entity, and the MBS proxy function entity allocates, manages and maintains... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090207775 - Signal processing apparatus: The signal processing apparatus inserts the header information in a frame to probably be the reproduction start point by including: the first (100) and the second (101) coding units that code an input signal per frame; the first header inserting unit (103) that inserts the SBR header indicating management information... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090207776 - Adaptive forward error corrector and method thereof, and tdd radio repeating apparatus using the same: An adaptive feedback estimation and cancellation (AFEC) apparatus includes: a controller for generating and outputting control information by using a synchronization signal from an external synchronization acquisition unit and base station information, in order to remove a feedback signal that exists in a forward/reverse repeater signal to be repeated and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090207779 - Communication signal processing apparatus for repeater: A communication signal processing apparatus for a repeater includes an interface for receiving the communication signals of at least two different communication services, and a communication signal processor for combining a pair of different communication signals into a single digital signal, converting the single digital signal into a frame and... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20090207778 - Symmetrical cooperative diversity in the relay-enabled wireless systems: A communications system includes a source, a destination, and multiple relays. In a first time period, the source emits a first transmission and a first relay retransmits a prior source transmission. Then, in a second, subsequent time period, the source node emits a second transmission and a second relay transmits... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090207777 - Traffic management for multi-hop wireless communication: Various traffic management techniques may be employed in a multi-hop wireless communication system. For example, a decision to transmit data to another node may be based on whether that node is able to effectively transmit its data. A decision to transmit an interference management message may be based on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090207782 - Aggregation management system, aggregate node, and deaggregate node: A technology for providing an aggregation management system and the like which can quickly and efficiently manage aggregation in a mobile-environment is disclosed. According to the technology, an aggregate node adds mobile status information to signaling messages of end-to-end signaling sessions received from mobile terminals 101 to 105, and sends... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090207783 - Communication method and apparatus using virtual sink node in wireless sensor network: A communication method and apparatus using a virtual sink node in a wireless sensor network, in which location information about a destination node is acquired by a source node. If the location of the destination node is out of a transmission range of the source node, data including the location... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090207780 - Communication system, base station control device, and base station device: There are provided a communication system, a base station control device, and a base station device capable of improving communication quality. In the communication system (100), the base station control device (120) totalizes information on the number of base stations as the number of base station devices (130) which can... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090207781 - Exploiting known rate matching information in blind decoding of downlink wireless data transmissions: In the processing of a data transmission received on wireless data channel HS-DSCH during HS-SCCH-less (HSL) operation according to 3GPP TS 25.214 V7.7.0, a situation is identified wherein redundancy version information corresponding to the received data transmission cannot be obtained from wireless control channel HS-SCCH. The redundancy version information is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090207785 - Method and apparatus for assigning persistent resources dynamically in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for dynamically assigning persistent resources in a wireless communications system is provided. A method comprises transmitting a first boundary indication to a mobile station, and transmitting a position indication to the mobile station, wherein the position indication corresponds to a network resource assigned based on a... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090207786 - Method for transmitting data from rlc layer in radio communication system: Disclosed is a method for transmitting data from an RLC layer in a radio communication system. The method includes the steps of storing RLC SDUs transferred from an upper layer in a transmission buffer, transmitting RLC PDUs on which the RLC SDUs stored in the transmission buffer are loaded to... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090207784 - Rank feedback method for multiple-input multiple-output transmission: A method for transmitting a plurality of control information through a PUCCH or a PUSCH is disclosed. The method includes transmitting first control information, and transmitting second control information. The transmission of the first control information and the transmission of the second control information are performed in units of one... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090207793 - Acknak repetition schemes in wireless networks: ACK/NAK repetition may be necessary to provide sufficient coverage for cell edge UEs. For a coverage limited UE, a NodeB may inform the UE that ACK/NAK repetition is needed. Such information can be explicitly signaled to the UE via DL control channels or conveyed through higher layer signaling. Further, a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090207798 - Apparatus and method for allocating bursts in a broadband wireless communication system: A wireless communication system using multiple channels is provided. An apparatus includes an allocator for, when bursts are allocated to an Accessing Terminal (AT) which utilizes a plurality of channels at the same time, allocating the same amount of the bursts to each channel in use; a generator for, when... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090207788 - Base station, mobile station, mobile communication system, and method of controlling control signal transmission: A disclosed base station includes a transmission-rate determining unit for determining a transmission rate of a control channel for transmitting an upper-layer control signal, and a transmitter for allocating a predetermined bandwidth to the control channel for transmitting the upper-layer control signal according to the determined transmission rate, and transmitting... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090207797 - Mapping between logical and physical uplink control resource blocks in wireless networks: A transmission of information from a secondary to a primary node occurs in a plurality of N logical time durations on an uplink channel in a wireless network. A scheme for mapping between logical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource blocks (RBs) and physical RBs (PRBs) used by PUCCH is described.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090207796 - Method and apparatus for allocating resources in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus i.e. Base Station for allocating resources in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of first groups of allocation units based on one or more of a plurality of Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCSs) and traffic characteristics in the wireless communication... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090207800 - Method and apparatus for channel management in cognitive radio system supporting multiple channels: A method and apparatus for channel management in a Cognitive Radio (CR) system supporting multiple channels are provided. The method includes generating a candidate channel set from an available channel list, configuring a backup channel set by combining at least one candidate channel, and updating the backup channel set when... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090207801 - Method and apparatus for sector channelization and polarization for reduced interference in wireless networks: The present invention provides in one embodiment channel allocation and polarization techniques for reducing cross sector communications interference in a multiple access wireless communications environment. In one embodiment, channel allocation and/or polarization techniques may be applied in multiple-access wireless communications architectures to provide selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices using... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090207790 - Method and apparatus for settingtuneawaystatus in an open state in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for setting TuneAwayStatus in an Open state is provided, the method comprising determining if a tune away schedule is in TuneAway state, setting a TunedAwayStatus to ‘1’, determining a QuickChannelInfo block that is missed during the time spent with TunedAwayStatus being ‘1’ and setting a QuickChannelInfoMissed... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090207795 - Method and system for adaptively obtaining bandwidth allocation requests: A method and apparatus for adaptively obtaining bandwidth requests in a broadband wireless communication system. The method and apparatus includes dynamically varying technique combinations enabling a plurality of users to efficiently request bandwidth from a shared base station. A user may “piggyback” a new bandwidth request upon, or set a... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090207802 - Method of processing control information in a mobile communication system: A method of processing control information in a mobile communication system is disclosed, by which an RRC connection setup can be quickly completed and by which control information can be processed without an unnecessary standby of a mobile terminal. The present invention includes the steps of receiving a plurality of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090207787 - Radio base station, control apparatus, and wireless communication method: A radio base station capable of performing an optimum scheduling suitable for an outside situation. The radio base station, which has a scheduling table (125) in which it is designated what scheduling should be performed, temporally and dynamically changes scheduling methods to be used by a scheduling pattern selecting part... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090207794 - Resource release and discontinuous reception mode notification: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing indications related to discontinuous reception (DRX) and release of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) resources from a base station to an access terminal. A DRX indicator that provides a command to an access terminal to transition to DRX mode and a resource release indicator... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090207799 - Sdma communication system for feeding back channel state information and method supporting the same: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for feeding back Channel State Information (CSI) by a Base Station (BS) in a communication system using Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA). The CSI feedback method includes grouping Mobile Stations (MSs) into at least two groups; allocating... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090207789 - Shared ip multimedia resource reservation: The invention is based on the idea of managing multimedia resource reservation by a solution in which, for a first user terminal, a first media terminal is searched and reserved (5-1), and a multimedia session is started (5-2). A multimedia session request is transmitted (5-4, 5-5) from the first user... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090207791 - Wireless communication control method and radio terminal: A radio terminal, in a transmission opportunity of each of plural kinds of allocation request schemes for a first uplink radio resource, the transmission opportunity being periodically allocated from the base station, estimates timings that the first uplink radio resource is allocated from the base station when an allocation request... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090207792 - Wireless communication terminal, wireless communication system, communication management method and computer program: A wireless communication terminal, which forms a wireless network with a plurality of other wireless communication terminals, includes a detection portion to detect a first communication management signal periodically transmitted via broadcast from another wireless communication terminal prior to communication of a data signal, a communication control portion to determine... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207803 - Base station and method in mobile communications system: A disclosed base station in a mobile communications system which uses a single-carrier technique for uplink includes a classifying unit which classifies, for each of multiple user apparatuses according to a path loss between the respective user apparatus and the base station, the multiple user apparatuses into two or more... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090207809 - Apparatus and method for reducing handover delay in broadband wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus for reducing a handover delay in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In a method for operating a terminal to reduce a handover delay in a broadband wireless communication system, a handover procedure is performed with a serving Base Station (BS) to obtain a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090207804 - Handover method for communication networks: A method of performing a handover process in a wireless multi-hop communication network, the method comprising requesting neighborhood communication information regarding channel condition among access stations in the neighborhood of a mobile station, the neighborhood communication information including communication information related to a link between a first station and a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090207807 - Inter-subsystem transfers: In general, the present invention provides for a direct inter-subsystem transfer of an active communication session, such as a call, between a packet subsystem (PS) and a circuit-switched subsystem (CS) in an efficient and effective manner while maintaining service control and continuity. Further, the inter-subsystem transfer may take place between... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20090207806 - Ip mobility multihoming: The present application relates to a method for arranging IP mobility multihoming. A plurality of IP mobility configuration parameter sets is accessed, each of the sets being associated with a destination network. One of the IP mobility configuration parameter sets is selected for an IP data connection, the selected IP... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090207808 - Method and apparatus for inter-technology handoff of a multi-mode mobile station: A communication system reduces set up time for an inter-technology handoff of a multi-mode mobile station (MS) from a source network associated with a first radio frequency (RF) technology to a target network associated with a second RF technology by pre-establishing, prior to a determination to handoff the MS, a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090207810 - Method and base station for forwarding retransmission protocol related data: The present invention relates to a method for controlling a radio cell change of a communication terminal from a first radio cell to a second radio cell, wherein the first and the second radio cell is controlled by at least one base station of a mobile communication system. The present... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090207805 - Pre-registration, storing of pre-registration session information and session transfer in a wireless communication system: Example embodiments are directed to a system and methods of pre-registration, storing of pre-registered session information and session transfer, which may occur when an access terminal is in close proximity to a border area between a first radio access technology (RAT) area and a second RAT area. A method includes... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090207812 - Dual radio handovers beween wimax and 3gpp: A method of switching a device from a source network to a target network, the source network being one of a WiMAX network and a 3GPP network and the target network being another of the WiMAX network and the 3GPP network, may include receiving information from the device about the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090207811 - Frequency quality criteria for inter-frequency handover in a td-cdma communication system: A method for determining whether to perform handover of a UE apparatus to a candidate cell and carrier frequency of a TD-CDMA telecommunications network (such as a TD-SCDMA network) based separately on coverage and capacity, using one decision metric for coverage (e.g. based on received signal code power for the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090207813 - Methods and devices for determining if a handover has to be executed for a terminal: m

20090207814 - Radio communications system, radio network controller and base station: The present invention relates to a radio communications system which transmits same downlink information to a plurality of cells by using downlink common channels. The radio communications system includes a radio network controller and a base station. The radio communications system is configured to measure delays between the time when... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090207815 - Resource allocation for co-existing networks: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for improving the capabilities of an evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network, in particular for cases when more than one radio access network applying a time-division duplex transmission mode need to co-exist on a same carrier. The invention addresses further problems concerning... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20090207827 - High data throughput wireless local area network receiver: A method for receiving a frame in a high data throughput wireless local area network begins by receiving a preamble of the frame via a channel in accordance with a default receiver filter mask. The processing continues by validating the preamble. The processing continues by, when the preamble is validated,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090207821 - Maintaining prefix consistency in dynamic moving networks: The present invention relates to arrangements providing a solution for maintaining prefix consistency in dynamic (splitting and merging) moving networks and reducing the negative consequences of splits and mergers.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090207825 - Media access control apparatus and method for guaranteeing quality of service in wireless lan: A media access control (MAC) apparatus and corresponding methods for guaranteeing quality-of-service in a wireless local area network (LAN) are presented. The MAC method includes the steps of extracting, performing, determining, a first transmitting step, and a second transmitting step. The extracting step includes extracting a user priority from a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090207816 - Method for ensuring the service platform the acquisition of the user terminal information under multiple application protocols: The present invention discloses a method for ensuring the service platform the acquisition of the user terminal information under multiple application protocols, wherein client terminal service connection software is set in the user terminal or the user card, and said client terminal service connection software has service connection user interface... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20090207822 - Method for transmitting and receiving signals using collaborative mimo scheme: A method for reducing inter-cell interference and a method for transmitting a signal by a collaborative MIMO scheme, in a communication system having a multi-cell environment are disclosed. An example of a method for transmitting, by a mobile station, precoding information in a collaborative MIMO communication system includes determining a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090207819 - Mobile station as a gateway for mobile terminals to an access network, and method for registering the mobile station and the mobile terminals in a network: A mobile station is designed, as a gateway for one or several mobile terminals, to establish a connection between the mobile terminal(s) and an access network. The mobile station supports a network-based mobility management such that the mobile station acts as a client instead of the mobile terminals during communication... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090207818 - Packet decoding for h-arq transmission: Techniques for efficiently decoding packets sent with H-ARQ are described. Packet decoding for H-ARQ may be performed based on local search around a start of packet (SOP) decision for a packet. The SOP decision for the packet may be made based on traffic detection results for received transmissions. At least... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090207817 - Policy-based data routing for a multi-mode device: Communication devices capable of at least two communication modes (e.g. WLAN, WMAN and WWAN and/or wired modes) can be configured to optimize communications using a policy-based mechanism to configure connections and routes. A rules engine evaluates its policies on a state change (e.g. network availability, time of day, etc.) to... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090207826 - Simultaneous operation of wireless lan and long-range wireless connections: A method for communication includes establishing a first connection between a wireless terminal and a base station of a long-range wireless data network, which operates in accordance with a first protocol that defines a sequence of time frames for transmission of data between the wireless terminal and the base station.... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20090207823 - System and method for providing selective mobility invocation in a network environment: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes invoking a mobile access gateway function based on an end user requesting an Internet Protocol (IP) address in a wireless or a wireline network. The invocation is selective such that the mobile access gateway function is invoked if the end... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20090207820 - Transmission of data packets in a wireless communication network: The invention relates to a method for retransmitting data packets in a network. Further, the invention relates to an adapted system for performing the method. To improve the robustness in the transmission of an acknowledgment message by a mobile terminal to the network, while minimizing a signaling overhead, the invention... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090207828 - Transparent session initiated protocol: Method and apparatus employing a transparent session initiation protocol (SIP) technique for communication especially between a user device in one domain and an application/service provided in an external domain. The transparent SIP technique is usable in wired or wireless systems such as 3G systems and wireless local area networks (WLANs).... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090207824 - Wireless access point device: A wireless (such as Wi-Fi or similar) access point is included in or attached to a device, such as a cellular phone, WiMAX device, other mobile device, etc. One or more wireless units wirelessly access a communication network (and in some cases the Internet) through the wireless access point device.... Agent: The Mueller Law Office, P.C.

20090207829 - Communications systems: In a multi user communication system, subcarriers are allocated to subchannels using a quality measurement for each subchannel. An initial sub carrier is allocated to each subchannel, and a quality metric measured. Subsequent subcarriers are allocated in dependence upon the quality measurement for each subchannel. The subchannel with the lowest... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090207830 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving slottedmode attribute in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for transmitting a SlottedMode attribute in a wireless communication system is described. A SlottedMode attribute message comprising an 8 bit Length field wherein the Length field indicates length of the complex attributes in octets, an 8 bit AttributeID field, an 8 bit SlotCycleBase field wherein the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090207831 - Method of transmitting feedback information using an extended subheader: A method of transmitting feedback information is disclosed. More specifically, a mobile station (MS) receives a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) which includes a Medium Access Channel (MAC) header from a base station (BS). Thereafter, the MS determines from the received MAC header whether an extended subheader group appears after the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090207832 - Synchronizing data transmission over wireless networks: Techniques for providing an uninterrupted data stream to a mobile node are disclosed. In a first technique, a time stamp is inserted at some point in the wireless network and the time stamp is used along with a tolerance value to determine when to transmit a packet in a data... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20090207833 - Efficient key squencer: A method includes for determining a plurality of fields of a packet associated with a routing of the packet, wherein each field of the plurality of fields includes one or more bits. Arranging the bits of the plurality of fields into a plurality of ordered partitions of a search sequence,... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090207835 - Enterprise collection bus: Systems and methods are presented to collect raw data from a plurality of servers and nodes on a network. A Distributed Enterprise Collection Bus (DECB) architecture is employed at various points on a network. The DECB comprises a collector unit that is protocol agnostic, an orchestration unit, a rule database,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Moazzam Attn: Patent Docketing

20090207836 - Transmission method and apparatus: A voice packet transmission method and apparatus for transmitting a voice packet with a header, wherein a voice packet with a compressed header is transmitted, monitoring is performed to detect whether a necessity to send a voice packet with an uncompressed header is generated during the transmission, the voice packet... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090207834 - Transmitting a packet from a distributed trunk switch: A method of transmitting an upstream communication packet from a distributed trunk (DT) switch is described. The method comprises receiving a packet from a device connected to a DT port of the DT switch; and transmitting the received packet via a non-DT port of the DT switch if the DT... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090207837 - Apparatus and method for allocating media resources: A Media Resource Routing module for a VoIP network having a Host Media Processing and a Media Resource Board. The Media Resource Routing module includes a status list module indicating available resources of the Host Media Processing and available channels on the Media Resource Board and switches for routing communications... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090207838 - Ternary content addressable memory embedded in a central processing unit: An arithmetic logic unit (140) improves the processing of information. The arithmetic logic unit (140) includes a register unit (250), a ternary content addressable memory (260), and an operations unit (270).... Agent: Chris Edgeworth Stragent

20090207841 - Method, apparatus and system for controlling multicast bearer resources: A method, apparatus, and system for controlling multicast bearer resources are disclosed, which employ a resource and admission control subsystem (RACS) to control the multicast bearer resources. The method includes: a network entity in a RACS receives a request for controlling multicast bearer resources from a bearer-layer network entity and... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090207839 - Multicast delivery: A method and nodes in a communication network for controlling multi-cast delivery of files, wherein the multi-cast delivery is adapted to reduce the amount of required uni-cast file deliveries in the communication network. A browser of an IPTV Terminating Function requiring a file interrogates a cache of the IFT for... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090207840 - Performing multicast communication in computer networks by using overlay routing: An overlay protocol and system for allowing multicast routing in the Internet to be performed at the application level. The overlay protocol uses “native” Internet multicast and multicast routing protocols to route information, according to overlay routing tables. Overlay groups are mapped to native multicast groups to exploit native multicasting... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090207842 - Frame relay apparatus and route learning method: A frame relay apparatus includes an acquisition unit for acquiring a frame from an input port connected to a first subnet, a setting unit for setting an output port corresponding to a destination of the frame acquired by the acquisition unit, an assignment unit for assigning, to the frame, a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090207845 - Method and device for avoiding label collision in pbt controlled by gmpls: A method for avoiding label collision in PBT controlled by GMPLS is provided. The method is as follows. A label to be assigned is selected for a label switched path (LSP) to be established. It is judged whether the label selected from labels to be assigned is repeated by previously... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090207844 - Minimal decoding method for spatially multiplexing digital video pictures: Multiple video picture frames are combined into a spatial multiplex video picture frame that may be fully decoded and displayed. The video display of the spatial multiplex video picture frame is a composite combination of all of the video picture frames that have been combined, and may have an appearance... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Mmm

20090207843 - System and method for providing network address translation control in a network environment: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving packets at a network element for a communications flow from an end user, the network element receiving the packets if the flow is initiated through a wireless network and through a wireline network. A network address translation (NAT) binding... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20090207847 - Relay device and relay method: A relay device includes response frame transmitting technique for transmitting a response frame with the result of the inquiry to the effect that the source address coincident with the destination address to be inquired has been registered in the learning table to the relay device from which the inquiry frame... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090207846 - Propagation of minimum guaranteed scheduling rates among scheduling layers in a hierarchical schedule: A hierarchy of schedules propagate minimum guaranteed scheduling rates among scheduling layers in a hierarchical schedule. The minimum guaranteed scheduling rate for a parent schedule entry is typically based on the summation of the minimum guaranteed scheduling rates of its immediate child schedule entries. This propagation of minimum rate scheduling... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20090207848 - Flexible buffer allocation entities for traffic aggregate containment: An apparatus comprising a plurality of physical ingress ports configured to receive data, each data having a data type; a plurality of physical egress ports configured to transmit data; a memory configured to buffer data that has been received; a plurality of virtual routing devices, wherein each of the virtual... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090207849 - Communication system: The invention provides a communications system with few transmission collisions. The communications system is provided with a rhythm node, which rhythm nodes transmit synchronized upstream transmission instigation messages, upon receipt of which dominant nodes perform upstream transmissions sequentially and after their predetermined standby times. The rhythm node transmits synchronized downstream... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090207850 - System and method for data packet transmission and reception: A system transmits a data packet from a transmitting apparatus to a receiving apparatus. The receiving apparatus includes a receive buffer, and a size specifying information transmitting unit that transmits size specifying information to the transmitting apparatus. The transmitting apparatus includes a transmit buffer, a credit storage unit that stores,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090207851 - Resource block scheduling in communication networks: The present invention provides for a method of resource-block allocation including processing OFDM symbol samples to produce complex taps of DFT, selecting those of the said taps forming part of a current resource block allocation and processing the said selected taps to provide MAC data, the method further including the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090207852 - Device for establishing communications interoperability at an incident site including means for recording crisis incidents: What is provided is recording capability for each of the modules utilized by the first responders and other personnel within the area of the incident, with the stored information at each of the first responders' modules being read out through the ad hoc network, where it can be uploaded to... Agent: Bae Systems

20090207853 - Technique for determining a sub-frame configuration: A technique is provided for determining the configuration of a sub-frame having data symbols including cyclic-prefixes. In some communication standards such as the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, a plurality of possible configurations exist for a sub-frame, with each configuration being identifiable by a certain cyclic-prefix length. In an exemplary... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090207855 - Communications system, communications processing method, and nodes: To the logical links established between the first node and the second node by use of the first protocol belonging to the first layer, a signal, which is a signal of the second protocol belonging to the second layer higher than the first layer and to which signal the information... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090207854 - Systems and methods for providing efficient bandwidth utilization in packet switched networks: Systems and methods are described for efficiently transmitting packetized data from a sender to a receiver over a communications link. A compression context is established between the sender and the receiver based upon commonalities in each of the data packets prior to transmitting the data over the communications link. The... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gd)

20090207856 - Delivery of ip prefixes: In order to reduce the size of a signaling message advertising prefixes, a super block prefix is determined amongst two or more prefixes having a common pattern. Information on the super block prefix and delta information on each non-super-block prefix is used in the messages instead of the prefixes as... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090207859 - Flow-rate-regulated burst switches: Burst-switching nodes using a common-memory or a time shared space switch and employing flow-rate control are disclosed. Within a switching node, data bursts are segmented into data segments of a fixed size with some segments containing information bits as well as null bits. A switching node handles data streams allocated... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20090207860 - Method, apparatus and system for transferring data: A method for transferring data includes: at the transmit end of data frames, assembling the data frames with a same forward-path into a multiframe as sub-frames; identifying the relevant information of the sub-frames in the header of the multiframe; and encapsulating the multiframe as the payload in the format of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207858 - Transmission method and reception method: The invention relates to a transmission method in which at least two Ethernet data frames are combined to form one Ethernet telegram and the Ethernet telegram is transmitted via a communications network.... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090207857 - User-specified key creation from attributes independent of encapsulation type: An integrated circuit has a hardware decoder that parses a frame to identify a type of encapsulation, such as Ethernet v2 encapsulation or 802.3 with or without one or more VLAN tags. The integrated circuit also has a number of hardware parsers, each parser being coupled to the decoder by... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20090207861 - Method and apparatus for formatting data signals in a digital audio broadcasting system: A data unit for transmitting data in a digital broadcasting system includes a first payload field, and a first byte code field having a value indicating an offset of data in the first payload field with respect to an absent value. A method for formatting the data unit includes: providing... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP

20090207862 - Controlling the operation of modules: In a method for controlling the operations of modules that are interconnected through interconnections in which high-speed signals operate at high-bit rates, a low-frequency signal is placed on at least one of the interconnections. From the low-frequency signal operational information on the modules is retrieved.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090207863 - Method and apparatus of clock transmission between networks: A method of clock transmission between networks and an apparatus of clock transmission are disclosed, in which a second group of information corresponding to a clock transferred by a first network equipment based on a first protocol, and the second group of information corresponding to a clock transferred by a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090207864 - Circuitry and method for detection of network node aging in communication networks: The network node includes a local crystal oscillator for providing a time reference derived from the clock signal produced by the local crystal oscillator, a reset stage for resetting the network node in response to a bus reset pulse received through the network and a control means for issuing a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090207865 - Time synchronization in a network: A method and corresponding system for communicating between stations in a network is presented. The method includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from a coordinator station for coordinating transmissions among the stations; transmitting a signal from a first station and receiving the signal at a second station; and performing one or... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090207866 - Apparatus and methods for utilizing statistical multiplexing to ensure quality of service in a network: Methods and apparatus for utilizing bitrate or other data associated with statistically multiplexed video (e.g., programs) or other content within a network to ensure quality of service (QoS) at a subscriber premises or local network. In one embodiment, the present invention provides improved multiplexing apparatus and methods that allow a... Agent: Robert F. Gazdzinski, Esq. Gazdzinski & Associates

20090201794 - Multiplexing devices over shared resources: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate transmitting and receiving signals over I and Q branches of a communication channel to mitigate potential I/Q imbalance. In particular, a device can transmit a signal over the I and Q branches to distribute transmission power substantially evenly for a given channel. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201795 - Signaling method in an ofdm multiple access system: A method for reducing the peak-to-average ratio in an OFDM communication signal is provided. The method includes defining a constellation having a plurality of symbols, defining a symbol duration for the OFDM communication signal, and defining a plurality of time instants in the symbol duration. A plurality of tones are... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201796 - Low conversion rate digital dispersion compensation: A method of suppressing effects of aliasing in a system for digitally processing a high speed signal having a symbol rate of 1/T. The high speed signal is sampled at a fractional multiple (N) of the symbol rate, wherein 1<N<2, to generate a corresponding sample stream, and filtered using a... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP

20090201797 - Radio communication system, receiver, receiving method, transmitter, transmitting method, and device for and method of calculating delay times for multi-carrier transmission: Multi-carrier transmission is performed without inserting a repetitive signal into guard interval periods. A transmitter provides guard interval periods by using a null signal to save transmission power and prevent the deterioration of the SN ratio. Delayed waves at the head of each received symbol cause high-frequency waves to occur... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201798 - Method for signaling back-off information in random access: A method for performing random access in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a preamble for random access in uplink, receiving a random access response message including back-off information as a response to the preamble, and performing back-off using the back-off information when the random access... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201800 - Disaster recovery for active-standby data center using route health and bgp: The present invention provides an active/standby data center that avoids the delay associated with a cached DNS entry to switch from the active data center to the standby data center. When the active data center becomes unavailable, the standby data center advertises the same address as the primary data center... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090201799 - High-availability network systems: One aspect of the invention comprises a method of operating a network for providing services to subscribers, the network including a configuration system comprising: a core system comprising primary and secondary cores, each core being separately capable of controlling operation of the system; at least one cell connected to the... Agent: Venable LLP

20090201802 - Method for redirecting network communication ports and network communication system thereof: A method for redirecting network communication port and a network communication system thereof are disclosed. When a receiving end determines that a communication port needs to be redirected, the receiving end sends a redirected address to a transmitting end via a communication port. The redirected address includes redirected address information... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201801 - Mobile communication system: To provide a method and an apparatus for achieving a cell redundancy. Base stations, to which different frequency bands are assigned, have active base-station transmitter-receivers with a predetermined number of wireless zones repeated. Some base stations also have standby base-station transmitter-receivers at the rate of one in every predetermined number... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090201803 - Multicast fast reroute for network topologies: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a multicast join message at a node having a plurality of interfaces, identifying the interface at which the join message was received, and selecting one or more of the interfaces to transmit the join message based on whether the join message was received... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20090201805 - Forward error correction based data recovery with path diversity: A media source sends media packets over a first media path. Repair packets are encoded from the media source packets and sent over a second different media path. Sending the source packets and repair packet over different media paths is referred to as Forward Error Correction (FEC) spatial diversity and... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090201804 - Restoring aggregated circuits with circuit integrity checks in a hierarchical network: A system and method is disclosed that assures component circuits transported in aggregated circuits restore correctly after an aggregated circuit fault. The system and method implements component circuit tail segment integrity checks whenever an aggregated circuit is restored in a higher level of a network hierarchy. Switches at both ends... Agent: At& T Legal Department - Monka Attn: Patent Docketing

20090201806 - Routing failover with accurate multicast delivery: A node comprising: an ingress port configured to receive data; a plurality of egress ports configured to transmit data; a routing table configured to provide, at least part of, both a preferred routing path and a recovery routing path; a data tag engine configured to read a tag, associated with... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090201808 - Rate controlling of packets destined for the route processor: Packets destined for the route processor of a packet switching device are rate controlled. Typically, line cards are configured to rate limit packets of offending packet flows destined for the route processor, such, but not limited to in response to a quantity of packets in the route processor. Filtering of... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20090201807 - System and method for marking live test packets: A system and method for preventing a packet of a test pattern from being communicated over a network. A congestion state of the network is determined. The packet is marked as being associated with a test pattern. The packet is determined to be associated with the test pattern in response... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090201809 - Method and system for controlling link saturation of synchronous data across packet networks: A method for controlling admissions of data packets across a packet network comprising the steps of establishing a communication route along a plurality of interconnected secondary nodes, determining an amount of available network and determining whether to admit the data packets to the communication route based on the determined amount... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090201810 - Method for generating a congestion flag based on measured system load: A radio base station generates a congestion status flag, based on measured resource usage in its cell, and based on performance of sessions in the cell. The flag may be a one bit, or a small number of bits, indicating whether the base station is congested. The flag can be... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090201814 - Communication control apparatus, communication control method, recording medium storing communication control program: The apparatus has a storage unit for canceling the set receiving filter when receiving the broadcast frame less than the threshold at N+1st time slot after the continuous reception at the N times, and storing the cancellation of the receiving filter. The apparatus has a control unit for not discarding... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090201816 - Communication device, and flow control method and program product for use in the same: A communication device includes a full-duplex communication portion that communicates bidirectionally with an opposing device, a receive buffer that retains data received from the opposing device at the full-duplex communication portion, and a pause portion that carries out flow control in full-duplex communication. The pause portion carries out the flow... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090201815 - Flow control method: Methods and apparatus for providing a flow control mechanism in a wireless network are described. In order to force a transmitting station to implement a rate adaptation mechanism, in which speed is traded off for reliability, a receiver within a receiving station behaves as if the radio conditions were degraded.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090201811 - Load balancing manipulation of packet flows within a transport conduit: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for load balancing manipulation of packet flows within a transport conduit (e.g., a tunnel, pseudo wire, etc.), typically using a load balancing value which is independent of standard routing-based parameters (e.g., source address, destination address, source port, destination port,... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20090201813 - Method and arrangement for tcp flow control: A communication entity is located at one end of a high latency communication link to support Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) communications between a first transceiver entity and a second transceiver entity. The communication entity comprises proxy logic arranged to inspect a received segment and, in response to identifying that the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090201812 - Method and system for rules based workflow of media services: A method for executing services over an enterprise service bus includes analyzing a message of a first service to a second service to determine a nature of a digital media object sent from the first service to the second service, analyzing one or more media rules to determine whether one... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090201817 - Method of optimizing a flow of value in a network: A method of modeling flow between first and second economic entities (EEs), where the first and second EEs interact either directly or indirectly with other, including defining a network to which the first and second EEs belong, expressing economic interactions of each of the EEs in the network and for... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090201818 - Variable abort timer: Depending on channel conditions, a variable abort timer can be set in relation to wireless communication of data packets. Additionally, available buffer size can be evaluated and used to set a length of the variable abort timer. When a packet sequence is sent, packets can become lost in communication. When... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201819 - Network system and data transfer device: To prevent, in using a multicast DA in an OAM frame, an increase in the network bandwidth usage and in the load of node processing and a degradation of the network reliability caused by a frame being transmitted to all routes in a broadcast domain. A MAC address and other... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090201820 - Method for predicting a fault in a security system: A method for predicting a fault in a wireless communication path between at least one transmitter and a receiver. The method comprises detecting an initial value of a characteristic of a reception signal or an initial value of a characteristic of a wireless communication path, calculating a running average of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090201821 - System and method for detecting early link failure in an ethernet network: A system and method for providing an early indication of link failure in an Ethernet network. In some embodiments an Ethernet PHY determines a link failure if the PHY loses descrambler synchronization, if remote receiver status is determined to indicate a remote receiver failure, or if link status indicates a... Agent: Daniel M. Cavanagh Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090201822 - Switch matrix: A switch matrix for selectively connecting at least one of N signal inputs to at least one of M signal outputs, N and M being integers greater than two, includes a cluster of N input switches arranged about each of the M signal outputs resulting in at least M clusters... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090201827 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data and apparatus and method for receiving data: Provided are a apparatus and method for transmitting data and a apparatus and method for receiving data, in which a transmitting station sets priorities among a plurality of data to be transmitted and a receiving station processes the plurality of data according to the priorities. The apparatus for transmitting data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201824 - Estimating endpoint performance in unified communication systems: Performance of endpoints, client devices and servers within a communication system, is determined by collecting call quality data from each endpoint by a quality monitoring server/application. Call quality data includes predefined metrics based on network and end device characteristics during each call. Calls include voice, video, and data exchanges. Collected... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090201823 - Method for dimensioning a data packets handler apparatus in a packet-switched mobile communications network: A method of dimensioning a data packets handler apparatus in a mobile communications network includes a plurality of cells, each one providing mobile communications coverage in a respective geographic area, the mobile communications network supporting packet-switched traffic and circuit-switched traffic, wherein the data packets handler apparatus to be dimensioned is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090201828 - Method of determining path maximum transmission unit: m

20090201825 - Partial cqi feedback in wireless networks: Within a wireless network, feedback information from user equipment (UE) to a control node (eNodeB) is necessary to support various functions. A UE receives an allocation from the eNodeB comprising a plurality of periodic transmission instances for a channel quality indicator (CQI) and a schedule comprising a plurality of periodic... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090201826 - Segment sensitive scheduling: Systems and methods of scheduling sub-carriers in an OFDMA system in which a scheduler takes into account channel conditions experienced by the communication devices to optimize channel conditions. The scheduler can partition a set of sub-carriers spanning an operating bandwidth into a plurality of segments. The segments can include a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201829 - Traffic performance evaluation system in wireless network and method thereof: A traffic performance in a tree type multi-hop wireless network of a CSMA/CA method is evaluated easily and highly precisely. A traffic performance evaluation system in the multi-hop wireless network includes: a performance index estimation unit regarding the multi-hop wireless network as a combination of a plurality of single-hop wireless... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090201830 - Method & system for network entity configuration: A system for configuring a plurality of network entities by a central server, each of the network entities being associated with a unique identifier, and each of the network entities being associated with at least one service provider having configuration settings data therefor.... Agent: Groover & Associates

20090201833 - Method and apparatus for processing a network determination state in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for processing a network determination state in a wireless communication system is provided, comprising determining whether a Channel record was provided with an Activate command, selecting a system and a channel specified by the record, if provided with the Activate command and entering a Pilot Acquisition... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090201832 - Methods and systems for preventing the misconfiguration of osrp and osi/isis networks using a network management system: The present invention provides methods and systems for preventing the misconfiguration of OSRP and OS/ISIS networks using a NMS, including: configuring a GNE with an address and NE ID for the NMS; forwarding topology information through a management interface to a NMS server; at the NMS server, copying a topology... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20090201834 - Multi-address space mobile network architecture, method for registering host information, and method for sending data: A multi-address space mobile network architecture is disclosed, in which edge networks (ENs) are connected to a core network (CN) through core edge routers (CERs). A distributed hash table (DHT) set in the CN is adapted to not only store or update a mapping relation between a CER ID and... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090201831 - Vpls n-pe redundancy using pseudo wire fast failover: In one example embodiment, a system and method is provided that includes establishing a plurality of Pseudo Wire (PW) connections between a first network appliance region and a second network appliance region to transmit data from the first network appliance region to the second network appliance region along an active... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090201835 - Method for supporting a multi-party call in combinational session: There is provided a method of a first mobile communication device for supporting a combinational circuit switched and packet switched session with other communication devices. During a combination session (100) between first and second mobile communication devices (110, 120), the first mobile communication device may forward or duplicate data to... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090201836 - Ethernet communication device on coaxial cable: The inventive communication device for converting a baseband data signal to a baseband signal for a coaxial cable, comprises at least one first input terminal for receiving an incoming baseband data signal, at least a first output terminal for outputting an outgoing baseband data signal, a first input/output terminal for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090201837 - System and method for carrier deferral for full duplex energy efficient ethernet phys: A system and method for carrier deferral for full duplex energy efficient Ethernet (EEE) physical layer devices (PHYs). A carrier deferral signal can be asserted to a media access control layer to indicate to the media access control (MAC) layer that transmission of data is to be deferred due to... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090201838 - Dynamic adjustment of downlink/uplink allocation ratio in tdd wireless systems: Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for dynamically changing downlink and uplink allocations can include operating a base station under time division duplexing to communicate with one or more mobile devices using a frame structure, adjusting a downlink-uplink ratio to change an allocation between uplink and downlink data capacities in the frame... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090201842 - Method, device and system for paging terminal device across heterogeneous networks: A method for paging a terminal device across heterogeneous networks, where networks using different wireless standards send paging messages and location management information, and thus the load terminal devices can be alleviated and wireless resources occupied can be reduced. The method includes: selecting, by a current network, another network to... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201839 - Methods and apparatus for reducing interference in wireless communication systems: In accordance with a method for reducing interference in a wireless communication system, information about at least one disallowed beam corresponding to at least one served user may be determined. Scheduling decisions for served users may be made so as to avoid transmissions via the at least one disallowed beam.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201840 - Wireless networks using a rooted, directed topology: Systems and methods for establishing a rooted, directed network that acquires and passes sensor data. In one embodiment, the network includes a controller, a logging device, one or more routers, and one or more end nodes. Each network device includes at most one parent node and a unique network message... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090201841 - Wireless x-ray fluoroscopic imaging system, inter-unit synchronization method of the same, and computer program: A wireless X-ray fluoroscopic imaging system is provided. The system includes an X-ray generation unit configured to perform X-ray exposure for each frame of imaging; a sensor unit configured to output image data; and an image processing unit configured to designate the exposure, wherein the sensor unit includes a first... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090201843 - Using traffic patterns to improve sleep mode efficiency in a radio handset: Disclosed is a method of using observed traffic pattern data to improve sleep mode efficiency in a radio handset. The radio handset determines quality of service (QoS) requirements of an application currently executing on the radio handset and selects a pre-defined sleep mode mask from among a plurality of pre-defined... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090201844 - Method, apparatus and system for multicast communication in a wireless multi-hop network: A method for multicast communication in a network having plural nodes according to the ZigBee network specification includes creating a multicast group including a subset of the plural nodes and excluding at least one non-member node in the plural nodes. The multicast group has a multicast address. The method also... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090201845 - Point-to-multipoint mobile radio transmission: A method of operating a mobile communication system-supporting data transmission between a mobile station (MS) and a network in a number of different packet data protocols (PDPs) including a point-to-multipoint-multicast (PTM-M) protocol PDP data is formatted and unformatted by a sub-network dependent convergence protocol (SNDCP) according to the PDP of... Agent: Raymond L. Owens Patent Legal Staff

20090201846 - System and method for scheduling over multiple hops: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scheduling over multiple hops in a wireless communication network. Radio resources can be partitioned into sets of sub-frames that can be allocated statically and/or dynamically. Statically allocated radio resources can be reassigned over time based on the loading on each hop and/or throughput... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated Patent Department/central Administration

20090201847 - Real-time sessions quality-of-service over reservation-based access: A collection of methods, which when combined together provide suitable bandwidth resources for real-time content exchange over a satellite-based network, wherein the network employs a reservation-based access scheme, such as but not limited to DVB-RCS. Furthermore, the methods provide suitable bandwidth wherein transmission conditions deteriorate while real-time content is being... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090201859 - Communication device and method: A base station unit of a communication device generates control information identical with those generated by other communication devices. The control information includes information defining regions in a radio frame that are used by the communication device and the other communication devices to transmit data. A terminal unit receives data... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090201851 - Coordinated channel change in mesh networks: A coordinated channel change system. In particular implementations, a method includes receiving a prepare-to-change message, wherein the prepare-to-change message indicates instructions to prepare to change channels and includes a designated channel, and forwarding the prepare-to-change message to one or more child nodes. The method also includes receiving a ready-to-change message... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090201850 - Location tracking based on proximity-based ad hoc network: A system and method is described for constructing a proximity-based ad hoc network among a plurality of sensors and for using such a network to perform location tracking. The system and method uses time-coded data received from each of the sensors to determine a current proximity of each of the... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090201854 - Method for optimizing the reading by a user equipment of mcch (mbms point-to-multipoint control channel) information: According to the invention, the network transmits to the UE the number NumModifiedNCells of MBMS Neighbor Cell Point-to-Multipoint Radio Bearer Information messages NCs informing the UE about the Point-to-Multipoint Radio Bearer configuration used in neighbor cells where combining applies and which are located in the Modified MCCH Information (6) using... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group

20090201858 - Method, apparatus and computer program product providing slow associated control channel (sacch) repetition: Techniques are presented for repetition on both uplink and downlink Slow Associated Control Channel (SACCH) channels. For instance, an exemplary method is disclosed that is performed by a mobile node. The method includes receiving from a network node a first block of data over a downlink SACCH channel, and storing... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090201855 - Mobile ipv6 optimised reverse tunnelling for multi-homed terminals: The invention relates to a method for packet-switched data transmission between a multi-homed mobile node and a correspondent node in a mobile communication system comprising a plurality of mobile networks. The method comprises the steps of selecting by the mobile node one of its home addresses to be used for... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090201848 - Path control method and home agent: In a mobile network system composed of a mobile network with a mobile router and a terminal interconnected, and of a home agent, when the mobile router connects to an external network, the mobile router informs the home agent of path information to the mobile network including the mobile router.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090201856 - Radio communication system, radio communication method, and base station: A base station includes a first selecting unit that selects a reduction target terminal, a first calculating unit that calculates a reduction amount of assigned transmission rate assigned to the reduction target terminal, a second selecting unit that selects an increase target terminal, a second calculating unit that calculates an... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090201853 - Routing data packets in a communication network: Routing data packets includes receiving data packets from a network element at a routing gateway. The data packets are determined to be destined for a mobile node. A location of the mobile node is obtained. The data packets are forwarded to the mobile node according to the location on behalf... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090201852 - Telecommunications system and method: A telecommunications system is arranged to provide a mobile communications session to a mobile node using an internet protocol. The telecommunications system comprises a home packet data network which includes a home agent of the mobile node and a visited packet data network. One of the home packet data network... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090201849 - Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus and reception method: A transmission apparatus which attempts improvement of signal quality in an uplink and a downlink carries out radio transmission of different signals simultaneously from respective ones of a plurality of antennas. The apparatus has pilot multiplexing means for multiplexing a pilot channel to transmit from each antenna in one or... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090201857 - Uma/gan keep-alive mechanisim in wireless communication networks: A wireless communication terminal (100) includes a TCP connection keep-alive timer, and a controller configured to optimize keep-alive timer operation by reducing the frequency with which the terminal transmits keep-alive messages. In one implementation, the controller re-sets the keep-alive timer, before expiration thereof, upon sending or receiving a message at... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090201862 - Co-existence between communications units: The present invention relates to a method for arranging co-existence between wireless devices, comprising: checking the priority class for a data service flow transmitted or received by a first communications unit, generating a priority signal for a second communications unit to indicate prioritization for the first communications unit on the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090201875 - Device and method for radio communication: In a radio communication device that wirelessly communicates with mobile stations using shared radio resources, a communication decision unit determines whether information indicating a request for realtime communication is contained in a communication request received from a mobile station and/or communication setup data received from an upper-level device. A radio... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090201871 - Efficient utilization of channel resources in wireless communication: Providing for improved wireless communications for user equipment (UE) in a semi-active state is described herein. By way of example, a base station can employ particular wireless channel resources, monitored by a UE in a CELL_FACH state for instance, to trigger channel feedback information from the UE. The trigger can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201869 - Enhanced multiplexing system and technique for uplink control channels: A communication system incorporates a multiplexing scheme so that a base node that schedules user equipment (UE) can determine whether an ACK/NACK and/or a service request (SR) has been received when both uplink (UL) transmissions are simultaneously scheduled. Significant complexity reduction, better link efficiency, and higher multiplexing capability since the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201867 - Method for allocating resources in cell-edge bands of ofdma networks: A method allocates bandwidth from a radio frequency spectrum in a cellular network including a set of cells. Each cell includes a base station for serving a set of mobile stations in the cell. An area around each base station is partitioned into a center region and an edge region.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090201865 - Method for connecting mobile station to base station, mobile station, base station, multi-carrier mobile communication system, and random access channel mapping method: As a random access channel (RACH), two types of RACHs, a synchronous RACH and an asynchronous RACH are prepared, condition of a mobile station is classified depending on whether there is temporal synchronization in the mobile station and whether a resource is allocated, and depending on each case, any one... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201861 - Method for efficient cqi feedback: In a closed-loop wireless communication system (300), channel-side information—such as CQI information, rank adaptation information or MIMO codebook selection information—is fed back to the transmitter (310) in response to a start message (301) using a configurable or default time period or window by having the receiver (320) automatically terminate feedback... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP - Freescale

20090201868 - Method for transmitting scheduling request effectively in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system providing a wireless communication and a mobile terminal. During data communication between a base station and a terminal in a long term evolution (LTE) system, while the terminal performs a random access channel (RACH) procedure for requesting a radio resource allocation... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201866 - Method of communication, emitter and receiver stations and associated computer programs: e

20090201863 - Methods and apparatus to allocate acknowledgement channels: Methods and apparatus for allocating acknowledgement channels in a communication network. A linking scheme is established between indices of a plurality of physical hybrid automatic repeat-request indicator channels (PHICHs), and a combination of indices of control channel elements (CCEs) or indices of physical resource blocks (PRBs) and indices of demodulation... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090201870 - Mobile communication method, mobile communication system and radio base station: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: controlling, at the radio base station NodeB, the transmission power in the DPCCH by use of an inner loop transmission power control based on a target SIR; transmitting, at the mobile station UE, the uplink packet, at the transmission power... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090201864 - Modified connection setup for e-utra radio resource control: A communication method for reducing Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection setup time in an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) includes the step of using an inclusive Signalling Radio Bearer (iSRB) in place of a plurality of individual Signalling Radio Bearers (indSRBs) for transferring signals from Radio Resource Control... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090201873 - Rach preamble response with flexible ul allocation: A method for allocating resources between a mobile communication device and a network access node is described. The method includes sending a random access preamble message to the network access node. Receiving a random access response message which includes a response to the random access preamble message is also included... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090201874 - Radio base station, relay station , and band allocation method: A relay station for relaying communication between a radio base station which allocates to a terminal an uplink channel for notifying a requested band when any signal sequence out of a predetermined signal sequence group is received from the terminal, and allocates a transmission band according to the requested band... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090201872 - Segment sensitive scheduling: Systems and methods of scheduling sub-carriers in an OFDMA system in which a scheduler takes into account channel conditions experienced by the communication devices to optimize channel conditions. The scheduler can partition a set of sub-carriers spanning an operating bandwidth into a plurality of segments. The segments can include a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201860 - Supporting mobile ad-hoc network (manet ) and point to multi-point (pmp) communications among nodes in a wireless network: Member nodes of a wireless point-to-multipoint (PMP) network may participate in mobile ad hoc (MANET) or mesh communications with other nodes on the same channels used by the network for PMP communications. A PMP network base station node transmits a downlink signal defining a downlink map for scheduling first time... Agent: Bae Systems

20090201876 - Controller, mobile station, mobile communications system and control method: A disclosed control apparatus performs packet communications with a mobile station and divides a coverage area into plural sectors so as to control the communications. The control apparatus comprises a transmission allocation portion that selects at least two transmission sectors to perform transmission to the mobile station in accordance with... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090201877 - Ranging method using new ranging structure: A method for performing ranging in a broadband wireless access system including a user equipment and a base station and using multi-carrier is described. A method using a structure in which a length of a part occupied by a ranging sequence is extended in the time domain includes a method... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201879 - Integration of 802.21 media independent handover functionality to radio interface layer and telephony server: A radio interface layer media independent handover (RIL MIH) client functionality enables transparent inter-system handover of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) between different radio access technologies (RATs), without user intervention. The RIL MIH client interacts with RIL drivers and proxies, informs the RIL proxies of the handover status, then the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090201878 - Low latency handover between wireless communication networks using different radio access technologies: A communications system for providing a user's mobile station (MS) with an Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity, has an IP network gateway for allocating an IP address to the MS to enable it to access an IP network. First and second base stations are respectively configured to support communications of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090201880 - Method and apparatus for signaling in multiple user one-slot operation in wireless communication: Disclosed are multiple embodiments of method and apparatus to facilitate Multiple Users Reusing One Timeslot (MUROS) operation in wireless communications. A pair of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) may be multiplexed onto a timeslot using a same pulse format. A WTRU may communicate on a network using MUROS technology both on... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090201883 - Method and system for handover between different types of access systems: A method for handover between different types of access systems in some embodiments consistent with the present invention includes: when the UE hands over between different types of access systems, the UE accesses the IASA connected with the UE in the source access system through the destination access system. Furthermore,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090201882 - Method of executing scanning in broadband wireless access system: The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow a mobile station to perform scanning procedures. Media... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090201881 - Mobile communication system and method for processing handover procedure thereof: A method for processing a handover procedure in a mobile communication system is disclosed. After a type of handover is recognized based on information included in a handover command, a radio resource reconfiguration operation is selectively performed or a data transmission start point is adjusted, to thereby minimize an unnecessary... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201884 - Quality of service continuity: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate supporting Quality of Service (QoS) continuity during an inter-base station mobility procedure. Layer 2 (L2) protocol configuration information for QoS (e.g., uplink, downlink, . . . ) and/or uplink QoS configuration information set by a source base station can be transmitted via an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201887 - Method and apparatus for blind code detection: The present invention is a receiver which includes a blind code detection device for determining the identity of a plurality of channels over which information is to be transmitted when the identity of all channels is not known by the receiver. The blind code detection device generates a candidate channel... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090201886 - Method of and apparatus for adjusting qos in data transmission over sctp session: A method of adjusting quality of service (QoS) with respect to changes in a transmission environment of a mobile terminal receiving data based on a stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) session. When the transmission environment of the mobile terminal receiving data based on the SCTP session changes, the mobile terminal... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090201885 - Radio communication system, mobile station, base station, radio communication system control method used for the same, and program of the same: The mobile station 2-1 determines whether a current maximum transmission rate is sufficient or not in a predetermined cycle by using a maximum transmission rate R indicated by a pointer, a volume Q of data accumulated in the buffer 22-1 and a requested delay T determined according to service of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201889 - Integrated scheduling of unicast and multicast traffic in relay-enabled wireless networks: A wireless network with integrated scheduling of unicast and multicast users in a relay-enabled two-hop wireless network is disclosed. In this system, users with finite buffers are considered and scheduled over multiple channels in an OFDMA-based wireless network. The gain-specific and efficient scheduling system helps leverage diversity and spatial reuse... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090201890 - Method for transmitting response information in mobile communications system: A method for transmitting radio resources in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a random access channel (RACH) preamble from a plurality of UEs and transmitting response information associated with the received preambles over a common channel wherein the plurality UEs can access the common channel... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090201891 - Method for transmitting response information in mobile communications system: A method for transmitting radio resources in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a random access channel (RACH) preamble from a plurality of UEs and transmitting response information associated with the received preambles over a common channel wherein the plurality UEs can access the common channel... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090201888 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a dual-beacon mechanism for two device types: A system and method of wireless data communication over a network of devices and device types are disclosed. In one aspect, the beacons of a first device type are sent and received from devices of the first device type or a second device type, by a first device of the... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090201892 - Fast drx for dl speech transmission in wireless networks: A user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless network receives a sequence of speech frames on a speech channel. The UE demodulates at least a portion of a speech frame of the sequence of received speech frames to produce a metric value. The UE discontinues processing of the speech frame... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090201893 - Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, base station, and mobile station: An effective random access control can be performed with a high throughput. A base station (11) communicates with mobile stations (12) by use of slotted ALOHA system. An offset time of 1.5 frames is established between upstream and downstream communication frames. If any of the upstream communication frames is available,... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090201894 - Pipeline architecture for multi-slot wireless link processing: A wireless communication device processes N Radio Frequency (RF) bursts contained within N slots of a digital communications time divided frame, wherein N is a positive integer greater than one. The wireless communication device includes an RF front end, a baseband processor, and an equalizer module. The RF front end... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090201899 - Apparatus and method for routing data in wireless networks: A method includes identifying, at a first wireless node, routing costs associated with routing data to a destination through multiple paths in a wireless network. The method also includes identifying, at the first wireless node, information propagation values associated with the first wireless node and at least one second wireless... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20090201897 - Classification process involving mobile stations: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a method may comprise receiving data from a home agent, wherein the data is directed to a mobile station that is coupled with a foreign network and the data includes an outer header having a foreign network address associated with... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090201896 - Data sharing based on proximity-based ad hoc network: A system and method is described for constructing a proximity-based ad hoc network among a plurality of sensor-enabled devices and for using such a network to facilitate data sharing among users of those devices (referred to herein for simplicity as “sensors”). The system and method advantageously enables data to be... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090201898 - End-to-end packet aggregation in mesh networks: A packet aggregation system. In particular implementations, a method includes accessing one or more transmit queues, each corresponding to a wireless client associated with a given wireless mesh access point of a plurality of mesh access points. The method further includes selecting a mesh access point of the plurality of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090201900 - Radio base station, relay station, radio relay system, and radio relay method: A radio base station for performing communication with a radio terminal via a relay station, including a radio frame generation unit which generates a radio frame including a signal relay region allocated in the relay station to transmit received data with predetermined delay from the radio terminal or the radio... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090201895 - Telecommunications: In a MIPv6 network, a mobile home agent (MHA) in a foreign network (FN) acts as an intermediate node between a mobile node (MN) and a correspondent node (CN) and allocates itself a secondary care-of address (SCoA) different from the care-of address (CoA) of the mobile node (MN), with a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090201901 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program: Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201905 - Method and apparatus for estimating channelization codes in a wireless transmit/receive unit: A method and apparatus for estimating channelization codes in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) using blind code detection (BCD). A WTRU receives communication bursts and detects a midamble in the received burst. A candidate code list is generated in accordance with the detected midamble. The candidate code list includes channelization... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090201904 - Method for allocating physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel: A method for allocating a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH) is disclosed. The method includes allocating a CDM group according to a cyclic prefix type in consideration of a ratio of the numbers of necessary CDM groups according to spreading factors, and allocating a PHICH to the allocated CDM... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201903 - Systems and methods for distributed beamforming based on carrier-to-caused interference: In accordance with a method for distributed beamforming based on carrier to caused interference, a base station may receive channel state information from users. The base station may select a codeword from a codebook. The codeword may be selected so as to maximize a utility function that is based on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201902 - Uplink channel receiving and transmitting apparatuses and methods: A receiving apparatus receives control, pilot and data channels in an uplink. The apparatus includes a data-channel receiving unit for receiving the pilot channel in an antenna gain pattern of a multi-beam having multiple fixed directional beams with respectively different fixed directional directions or of a variable directional beam having... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090201907 - Multi-hop communications in a wireless network: Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to wireless communications. The systems and techniques involve wireless communications wherein a module or communications device is configured to select first and second terminal pairs, the first terminal pair having a first transmitting terminal and a first receiving terminal, and the second terminal pair... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201906 - Wireless transmitter device and method thereof for keeping the total transmission time limited: A wireless transmitter device has a predetermined upper limit of an accumulated data transmission time per predetermined duration corresponding to a predetermined maximum value. The wireless transmitter device includes a timer which starts keeping time when the wireless transmitter device sends a wireless signal and stops when it reaches a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090201908 - System and method for flexible data retrieval for mobile communication devices: A system and method for flexible data provision to mobile communication devices, which enables the user to selectively download data to the mobile communication device from a remote computer. The selective data download may optionally apply to one or more of a single item of data, to multiple items of... Agent: Dr. D. Graeser Ltd.

20090201909 - Method and tool for router interface l2 redundancy: A method of router interface level 2 redundancy, and router implementing the method, including one or more of the following: starting redundant ports that are members of a level 2 redundancy group (L2RG) in a DOWN state; determining that none of the redundant ports are in an ACTIVE state; switching... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090201910 - Apparatus and method to handle dynamic payloads in a heterogeneous network: Various embodiments provide an apparatus and method for handling dynamic payloads in a heterogeneous network. An example embodiment includes a first node interface to receive a first request for data communication from a first node, the first request being coded in a first protocol and including information identifying a first... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090201920 - Enhancing voice qos over unmanaged bandwidth limited packet network: An improved telephony adapter compresses voice data, creates IP packets, and prioritizes the voice IP packets over the data IP packets. Preferably, the compression and packetization interval is such that the bandwidth occupied by the voice IP packets is approximately half of the minimum average available bandwidth in the upstream... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20090201911 - Highly scalable internet protocol-based communications system: A highly scalable Internet Protocol (IP) based communications system which provides voice and other communication services to end-users. The instant system incorporates a unique architecture which simplifies scaling of services to hundreds of thousands and even millions of subscribers. The instant system architecture includes a means for directly connecting a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090201915 - Internet network communications system and a method of putting a communications unit into communication with an internet network: A method of putting a communications unit into communication with an Internet network in which the communications unit calls the services platform, the services platform identifies the calling line, and an operating system is automatically installed in the communications unit enabling a connection to be provided with an Internet network... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090201913 - Learning the expiry time of an address binding within an address translation device for an sip signaling server: A signaling server (SS) comprising means for transmitting SIP signaling messages with a client (T) through a NAT address translation device temporarily binding a public address to the client's private address, including means for receiving registration messages from the client and for sending the client a validity duration, at the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090201914 - Method and system for authorization checking when setting up a connection: Present-day on-line charging mechanisms make it possible, in a non-blocking application, for the setting up of a connection to be allowed initially even though it is not yet clear, or cannot be clarified at this time whether a prepaid subscriber (SIP client) still has sufficient money in his account. This... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090201912 - Method and system for updating the telecommunication network service access conditions of a telecommunication device: A system is provided for updating the conditions under which a telecommunication device accesses services provided by a telecommunication network. The system includes a network access point through which the device accesses the network, and a database, wherein the system authenticates the device via the access point on the basis... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090201922 - Method for changing session media, method for establishing a call, and equipment thereof: A method for changing ICS session media includes: receiving a media type change request including a new media type sent from a terminal equipment or a MSC, releasing a CS call leg based on an original media type between an ICCF and the terminal equipment, establishing a CS call leg... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090201918 - 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.

20090201916 - Method, system and apparatus for verifying validity of location information in a packet-switched network: According to embodiments of the present invention, there are provided a method, system and apparatus for determining validity of location information in a packet-switched network. A method for determining if location information associated with an endpoint in a packet-switched network is valid, the location information having been stored in a... Agent: Sean Murray

20090201917 - Pragmatic approaches to ims: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing services such as provided by Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) with an IP network that is not the IMS. According to one embodiment, a system for providing communication services can comprise a communication network, one or more subsystems communicatively... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090201919 - System for providing hosted telephone services to a subscriber via the internet: An Internet controlled telephony system employing a host services processor connected to a subscriber via the Internet and further connected to the public switched telephone system (PSTN). The subscriber employs a web interface to populate a database with preference data which is used by the host services processor to handle... Agent: Charles G. Call

20090201921 - Wide area communication networking: A communications network is disclosed and includes a broadband communication line having a first derived voice channel and a second derived voice channel, wherein the first and second derived voice channels are established as a function of an available bandwidth associated with the broadband communication line. The communication network further... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090201923 - Apparatus and method for a fault-tolerant scalable switch fabric with quality-of-service (qos) support: Embodiments of the present invention relate to portions of a switch fabric having a single logical stage and at least one physical stage. In addition, the data paths and the control paths of the switch fabric can be decoupled thereby allowing additional processing to be performed than would otherwise be... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (tellabs)

20090201925 - Apparatus and method for setting routing path between routers in chip: An apparatus and a method for setting a routing path in System-on-a-Chip (SoC) having an n×n net topology-based structure comprising a plurality of intellectual properties (IPs), each with a unique address, and a plurality of switches forming one-to-one correspondence to the IPs, to transmit and receive data between the IPs... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090201926 - Fibre channel processing by a host channel adapter: A method for data storage includes mapping a queue pair (QP) of a channel adapter to a specified Fibre Channel (FC) exchange for communication with a storage device. Upon receiving at the channel adapter from a host computer a storage command directed to the storage device, the storage command is... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20090201927 - System and method for communicating using a multiserver platform: Aspects of the invention include receiving a first packet from a first of a plurality of blade servers at a first data rate and determining a second blade server that may receive the first packet. Data responsive to the received first packet may be transferred to the second blade server... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090201924 - System and method for squelching a recovered clock in an ethernet network: A system and method for squelching a recovered clock in an Ethernet network. In one embodiment the invention provides a method for squelching a recovered clock in an Ethernet network comprising a local node coupled to a remote node by a link, the method including receiving a descrambler status signal,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090201928 - Methods for reliable multicasting in local peer group (lpg) based vehicle ad hoc networks: A method for routing a multicast message comprising the steps of receiving a multicast message including at least a message, a source identifier, a sequence number, a time-to-live value and a multicast group destination, determining if the multicast group destination is in a multicast forwarding table, determining if the message... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090201929 - System and method for switching from a unicast to a multicast data transmission session: A communications system and method provide a seamless switch from a first session to a plurality of multicast sessions. A server transmits data over both a first session and alternatingly between a plurality of synchronized multicast sessions. At predetermined time intervals, the server stops transmitting data over the currently active... Agent: Graybeal Jackson Haley C/o Realnetworks Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20090201931 - Method and apparatus for transferring ip transmission session: A method for transferring an IP transmission session is disclosed, including the following: a transmission session is created between the first node and second node based on a single IP protocol; the first node and second node obtain a transferable address pair by exchanging the session transfer management signaling; the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090201930 - System, method, and computer program product for improved distribution of data: A method for improved distribution of data in a computing environment includes receiving data for distribution in the computing environment, receiving configuration data of the computing environment, parsing the data for distribution using the configuration data, and outputting header information of a packet, the packet including the data for distribution.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090201933 - Method, device and system for signaling transfer: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a signaling transfer method and device for transferring signaling. The method includes: creating, by a signaling transfer device, address mapping table according to address information carried in a registration message upon receipt of the registration message; and determining a match with the address... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201934 - Spoof checking within a label switching computer network: A label switching router (LSR) is described that spoof checks Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) packets to prevent malicious or inadvertent injection of MPLS packets within a label switched path (LSP). The LSR ensures that MPLS packets received from an upstream label switching router (LSR) contain labels that were advertised to... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090201935 - System and method for parsing and allocating a plurality of packets to processor core threads: An apparatus and method are provided for allocating a plurality of packets to different processor threads. In operation, a plurality of packets are parsed to gather packet information. Additionally, a parse operation is performed utilizing the packet information to generate a key, and a hash algorithm is performed on this... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Rmi

20090201932 - Method and system for implementing mpls network diffserv traffic engineering: A method for implementing DS-TE in MPLS network is disclosed. The method includes carrying Quality of Service (QoS) parameters relating to resource allocation in a path message when establishing an LSP; reserving bandwidth resource for service traffic according to the QoS parameters; using the reserved bandwidth to forward service traffic... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201938 - Access point and method for operating the access point: An access point is connectable to a first network and a second network different from the first network. The access point includes: a communication control device configured to connect one or more first terminals on the first network to the second network; and a communication stop device configured to deactivate... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201939 - Data communication apparatus, method for its network configuration, and computer readable recording medium storing its program: A transmission apparatus for participating in a virtual network constructed on a physical IP network, said transmission apparatus including: a node link monitoring unit configured to search an in-subnetwork node, which is a virtual network node existing within a first IP subnetwork that the transmission apparatus belongs to; a gatenode... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201940 - Method, system and gateway for negotiating the capability of data signal detector: Methods and systems for negotiating the capability of a data signal detector include a sender gateway sending a first signaling containing data signal detector support capability message during voice band data transmission (301); a receiver gateway determining, according to the received first signaling, whether the sender gateway sends the data... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201941 - Method, system, and network entity for obtaining session description protocol capability information: A method, system, network entity for obtaining Session Description Protocol capability information are disclosed. The method, system and network entity are used to solve the problem that a communication party is unable to acquire the Session Description Protocol capability information of the other party with the existing technology. The technical... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201937 - Resilient provider link state bridging (plsb) virtual private lan service (vpls) interworking: A method of peer interfacing a Link-State controlled network domain with an Ethernet Bridging controlled network domain. A pair of peer attachment points are provided between the Link-State controlled network domain and the Ethernet Bridging domain. The peer attachment points are respective endpoints of a set of one or more... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP

20090201936 - Time synchronizing device and process and associated products: The present invention concerns a time synchronizing device and process, and a local gateway comprising that device. The time synchronizing device synchronizes a router arranged between two communication networks. It comprises intercepting means of a message coming from an apparatus of a source network for that message, having a specific... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090201942 - Method and apparatus for marking and scheduling packets for transmission: A method and system for profile-marking and scheduling of packets are disclosed. Using a dual-rate scheduler, the profile state of a packet being scheduled for transmission by a flow traffic descriptor is determined based on the traffic rate of the flow traffic descriptor, which is associated with the queue that... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090201943 - Method for transferring test messages and network element device: A method for transferring test messages includes a Network Element (NE) A and NE B negotiating and determining a logical channel type. The Link Management Protocol (LMP) entity of NE A constructs a test message packet which includes the local Ethernet data interface ID, and transfers the test message packet... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090201944 - Controlling external communication of embedded device using proxy server: An embedded device communicates with another device via an external proxy server acting for the embedded device to control communication. The embedded device includes a communication device capable of communicating with the proxy server, a storage unit storing a state of communication with the other device, an updating unit, a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090201945 - Method, system, and computer program product for data exchange: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for exchanging data among data processing systems. The method may comprise transmitting a first data structure from an originating system in the format native to such system to a management component; identifying a target system for receiving the first data structure;... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090201946 - Dynamic dsl line bandwidth management with the subscriber's consent: A system and method for allocating bandwidth to a plurality of subscriber devices operably connected to a DSL subscription network is described. An embodiment according to the invention comprises a bandwidth management system that operably connects a service network to a plurality of subscriber devices attached to a LAN. After... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20090201947 - Method and arrangement for reducing the amount of messages sent in a communication network: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for reducing the amount of messages sent in a communication network comprising a first communication network entity (200), a second communication network entity (100) connected to said first communication network entity (200) over a communication interface and one or more user... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090201949 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, and program, whereby unnecessary standby time can be reduced in depacketizing processing, and processing can be performed easily and at high speed. A common header creating unit 203 creates common headers which are headers added in common to each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201948 - Methods and apparatus for formatting headers in a communication frame: Methods and apparatus for formatting headers for data packets within a communication frame for use in a wireless communication system are presented. Formatting headers includes determining the size of a wireless communication frame, and formatting the payloads and associated headers within the communication frame according to the determined size. This... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201950 - Band limiting method and wireless communication system: A receiver estimates a channel quality. A transmitter amplifies a signal by a gain proportional to a difference between a required signal-to-noise power ratio and channel quality information, which is an estimation result of the channel quality, and transmits the signal so that the receiver can obtain the signal-to-noise power... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201951 - Method and adjusting transmission timing and transmitting continuous packets and mobile station thereof: A method of adjusting transmission timing, a method of continuously transmitting packets, and a mobile station are provided. The method of adjusting the transmission timing includes adjusting the transmission timing according to a transmission timing adjustment command when the transmission timing adjustment command is received from a receiving side; and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201794 - Multiplexing devices over shared resources: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate transmitting and receiving signals over I and Q branches of a communication channel to mitigate potential I/Q imbalance. In particular, a device can transmit a signal over the I and Q branches to distribute transmission power substantially evenly for a given channel. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201795 - Signaling method in an ofdm multiple access system: A method for reducing the peak-to-average ratio in an OFDM communication signal is provided. The method includes defining a constellation having a plurality of symbols, defining a symbol duration for the OFDM communication signal, and defining a plurality of time instants in the symbol duration. A plurality of tones are... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201796 - Low conversion rate digital dispersion compensation: A method of suppressing effects of aliasing in a system for digitally processing a high speed signal having a symbol rate of 1/T. The high speed signal is sampled at a fractional multiple (N) of the symbol rate, wherein 1<N<2, to generate a corresponding sample stream, and filtered using a... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP

20090201797 - Radio communication system, receiver, receiving method, transmitter, transmitting method, and device for and method of calculating delay times for multi-carrier transmission: Multi-carrier transmission is performed without inserting a repetitive signal into guard interval periods. A transmitter provides guard interval periods by using a null signal to save transmission power and prevent the deterioration of the SN ratio. Delayed waves at the head of each received symbol cause high-frequency waves to occur... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201798 - Method for signaling back-off information in random access: A method for performing random access in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a preamble for random access in uplink, receiving a random access response message including back-off information as a response to the preamble, and performing back-off using the back-off information when the random access... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201800 - Disaster recovery for active-standby data center using route health and bgp: The present invention provides an active/standby data center that avoids the delay associated with a cached DNS entry to switch from the active data center to the standby data center. When the active data center becomes unavailable, the standby data center advertises the same address as the primary data center... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090201799 - High-availability network systems: One aspect of the invention comprises a method of operating a network for providing services to subscribers, the network including a configuration system comprising: a core system comprising primary and secondary cores, each core being separately capable of controlling operation of the system; at least one cell connected to the... Agent: Venable LLP

20090201802 - Method for redirecting network communication ports and network communication system thereof: A method for redirecting network communication port and a network communication system thereof are disclosed. When a receiving end determines that a communication port needs to be redirected, the receiving end sends a redirected address to a transmitting end via a communication port. The redirected address includes redirected address information... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201801 - Mobile communication system: To provide a method and an apparatus for achieving a cell redundancy. Base stations, to which different frequency bands are assigned, have active base-station transmitter-receivers with a predetermined number of wireless zones repeated. Some base stations also have standby base-station transmitter-receivers at the rate of one in every predetermined number... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090201803 - Multicast fast reroute for network topologies: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a multicast join message at a node having a plurality of interfaces, identifying the interface at which the join message was received, and selecting one or more of the interfaces to transmit the join message based on whether the join message was received... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20090201805 - Forward error correction based data recovery with path diversity: A media source sends media packets over a first media path. Repair packets are encoded from the media source packets and sent over a second different media path. Sending the source packets and repair packet over different media paths is referred to as Forward Error Correction (FEC) spatial diversity and... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090201804 - Restoring aggregated circuits with circuit integrity checks in a hierarchical network: A system and method is disclosed that assures component circuits transported in aggregated circuits restore correctly after an aggregated circuit fault. The system and method implements component circuit tail segment integrity checks whenever an aggregated circuit is restored in a higher level of a network hierarchy. Switches at both ends... Agent: At& T Legal Department - Monka Attn: Patent Docketing

20090201806 - Routing failover with accurate multicast delivery: A node comprising: an ingress port configured to receive data; a plurality of egress ports configured to transmit data; a routing table configured to provide, at least part of, both a preferred routing path and a recovery routing path; a data tag engine configured to read a tag, associated with... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090201808 - Rate controlling of packets destined for the route processor: Packets destined for the route processor of a packet switching device are rate controlled. Typically, line cards are configured to rate limit packets of offending packet flows destined for the route processor, such, but not limited to in response to a quantity of packets in the route processor. Filtering of... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20090201807 - System and method for marking live test packets: A system and method for preventing a packet of a test pattern from being communicated over a network. A congestion state of the network is determined. The packet is marked as being associated with a test pattern. The packet is determined to be associated with the test pattern in response... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090201809 - Method and system for controlling link saturation of synchronous data across packet networks: A method for controlling admissions of data packets across a packet network comprising the steps of establishing a communication route along a plurality of interconnected secondary nodes, determining an amount of available network and determining whether to admit the data packets to the communication route based on the determined amount... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090201810 - Method for generating a congestion flag based on measured system load: A radio base station generates a congestion status flag, based on measured resource usage in its cell, and based on performance of sessions in the cell. The flag may be a one bit, or a small number of bits, indicating whether the base station is congested. The flag can be... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090201814 - Communication control apparatus, communication control method, recording medium storing communication control program: The apparatus has a storage unit for canceling the set receiving filter when receiving the broadcast frame less than the threshold at N+1st time slot after the continuous reception at the N times, and storing the cancellation of the receiving filter. The apparatus has a control unit for not discarding... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090201816 - Communication device, and flow control method and program product for use in the same: A communication device includes a full-duplex communication portion that communicates bidirectionally with an opposing device, a receive buffer that retains data received from the opposing device at the full-duplex communication portion, and a pause portion that carries out flow control in full-duplex communication. The pause portion carries out the flow... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090201815 - Flow control method: Methods and apparatus for providing a flow control mechanism in a wireless network are described. In order to force a transmitting station to implement a rate adaptation mechanism, in which speed is traded off for reliability, a receiver within a receiving station behaves as if the radio conditions were degraded.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090201811 - Load balancing manipulation of packet flows within a transport conduit: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for load balancing manipulation of packet flows within a transport conduit (e.g., a tunnel, pseudo wire, etc.), typically using a load balancing value which is independent of standard routing-based parameters (e.g., source address, destination address, source port, destination port,... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20090201813 - Method and arrangement for tcp flow control: A communication entity is located at one end of a high latency communication link to support Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) communications between a first transceiver entity and a second transceiver entity. The communication entity comprises proxy logic arranged to inspect a received segment and, in response to identifying that the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090201812 - Method and system for rules based workflow of media services: A method for executing services over an enterprise service bus includes analyzing a message of a first service to a second service to determine a nature of a digital media object sent from the first service to the second service, analyzing one or more media rules to determine whether one... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090201817 - Method of optimizing a flow of value in a network: A method of modeling flow between first and second economic entities (EEs), where the first and second EEs interact either directly or indirectly with other, including defining a network to which the first and second EEs belong, expressing economic interactions of each of the EEs in the network and for... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090201818 - Variable abort timer: Depending on channel conditions, a variable abort timer can be set in relation to wireless communication of data packets. Additionally, available buffer size can be evaluated and used to set a length of the variable abort timer. When a packet sequence is sent, packets can become lost in communication. When... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201819 - Network system and data transfer device: To prevent, in using a multicast DA in an OAM frame, an increase in the network bandwidth usage and in the load of node processing and a degradation of the network reliability caused by a frame being transmitted to all routes in a broadcast domain. A MAC address and other... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090201820 - Method for predicting a fault in a security system: A method for predicting a fault in a wireless communication path between at least one transmitter and a receiver. The method comprises detecting an initial value of a characteristic of a reception signal or an initial value of a characteristic of a wireless communication path, calculating a running average of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090201821 - System and method for detecting early link failure in an ethernet network: A system and method for providing an early indication of link failure in an Ethernet network. In some embodiments an Ethernet PHY determines a link failure if the PHY loses descrambler synchronization, if remote receiver status is determined to indicate a remote receiver failure, or if link status indicates a... Agent: Daniel M. Cavanagh Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090201822 - Switch matrix: A switch matrix for selectively connecting at least one of N signal inputs to at least one of M signal outputs, N and M being integers greater than two, includes a cluster of N input switches arranged about each of the M signal outputs resulting in at least M clusters... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090201827 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data and apparatus and method for receiving data: Provided are a apparatus and method for transmitting data and a apparatus and method for receiving data, in which a transmitting station sets priorities among a plurality of data to be transmitted and a receiving station processes the plurality of data according to the priorities. The apparatus for transmitting data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201824 - Estimating endpoint performance in unified communication systems: Performance of endpoints, client devices and servers within a communication system, is determined by collecting call quality data from each endpoint by a quality monitoring server/application. Call quality data includes predefined metrics based on network and end device characteristics during each call. Calls include voice, video, and data exchanges. Collected... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090201823 - Method for dimensioning a data packets handler apparatus in a packet-switched mobile communications network: A method of dimensioning a data packets handler apparatus in a mobile communications network includes a plurality of cells, each one providing mobile communications coverage in a respective geographic area, the mobile communications network supporting packet-switched traffic and circuit-switched traffic, wherein the data packets handler apparatus to be dimensioned is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090201828 - Method of determining path maximum transmission unit: m

20090201825 - Partial cqi feedback in wireless networks: Within a wireless network, feedback information from user equipment (UE) to a control node (eNodeB) is necessary to support various functions. A UE receives an allocation from the eNodeB comprising a plurality of periodic transmission instances for a channel quality indicator (CQI) and a schedule comprising a plurality of periodic... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090201826 - Segment sensitive scheduling: Systems and methods of scheduling sub-carriers in an OFDMA system in which a scheduler takes into account channel conditions experienced by the communication devices to optimize channel conditions. The scheduler can partition a set of sub-carriers spanning an operating bandwidth into a plurality of segments. The segments can include a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201829 - Traffic performance evaluation system in wireless network and method thereof: A traffic performance in a tree type multi-hop wireless network of a CSMA/CA method is evaluated easily and highly precisely. A traffic performance evaluation system in the multi-hop wireless network includes: a performance index estimation unit regarding the multi-hop wireless network as a combination of a plurality of single-hop wireless... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090201830 - Method & system for network entity configuration: A system for configuring a plurality of network entities by a central server, each of the network entities being associated with a unique identifier, and each of the network entities being associated with at least one service provider having configuration settings data therefor.... Agent: Groover & Associates

20090201833 - Method and apparatus for processing a network determination state in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for processing a network determination state in a wireless communication system is provided, comprising determining whether a Channel record was provided with an Activate command, selecting a system and a channel specified by the record, if provided with the Activate command and entering a Pilot Acquisition... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090201832 - Methods and systems for preventing the misconfiguration of osrp and osi/isis networks using a network management system: The present invention provides methods and systems for preventing the misconfiguration of OSRP and OS/ISIS networks using a NMS, including: configuring a GNE with an address and NE ID for the NMS; forwarding topology information through a management interface to a NMS server; at the NMS server, copying a topology... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20090201834 - Multi-address space mobile network architecture, method for registering host information, and method for sending data: A multi-address space mobile network architecture is disclosed, in which edge networks (ENs) are connected to a core network (CN) through core edge routers (CERs). A distributed hash table (DHT) set in the CN is adapted to not only store or update a mapping relation between a CER ID and... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090201831 - Vpls n-pe redundancy using pseudo wire fast failover: In one example embodiment, a system and method is provided that includes establishing a plurality of Pseudo Wire (PW) connections between a first network appliance region and a second network appliance region to transmit data from the first network appliance region to the second network appliance region along an active... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090201835 - Method for supporting a multi-party call in combinational session: There is provided a method of a first mobile communication device for supporting a combinational circuit switched and packet switched session with other communication devices. During a combination session (100) between first and second mobile communication devices (110, 120), the first mobile communication device may forward or duplicate data to... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090201836 - Ethernet communication device on coaxial cable: The inventive communication device for converting a baseband data signal to a baseband signal for a coaxial cable, comprises at least one first input terminal for receiving an incoming baseband data signal, at least a first output terminal for outputting an outgoing baseband data signal, a first input/output terminal for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090201837 - System and method for carrier deferral for full duplex energy efficient ethernet phys: A system and method for carrier deferral for full duplex energy efficient Ethernet (EEE) physical layer devices (PHYs). A carrier deferral signal can be asserted to a media access control layer to indicate to the media access control (MAC) layer that transmission of data is to be deferred due to... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090201838 - Dynamic adjustment of downlink/uplink allocation ratio in tdd wireless systems: Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for dynamically changing downlink and uplink allocations can include operating a base station under time division duplexing to communicate with one or more mobile devices using a frame structure, adjusting a downlink-uplink ratio to change an allocation between uplink and downlink data capacities in the frame... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090201842 - Method, device and system for paging terminal device across heterogeneous networks: A method for paging a terminal device across heterogeneous networks, where networks using different wireless standards send paging messages and location management information, and thus the load terminal devices can be alleviated and wireless resources occupied can be reduced. The method includes: selecting, by a current network, another network to... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201839 - Methods and apparatus for reducing interference in wireless communication systems: In accordance with a method for reducing interference in a wireless communication system, information about at least one disallowed beam corresponding to at least one served user may be determined. Scheduling decisions for served users may be made so as to avoid transmissions via the at least one disallowed beam.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201840 - Wireless networks using a rooted, directed topology: Systems and methods for establishing a rooted, directed network that acquires and passes sensor data. In one embodiment, the network includes a controller, a logging device, one or more routers, and one or more end nodes. Each network device includes at most one parent node and a unique network message... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090201841 - Wireless x-ray fluoroscopic imaging system, inter-unit synchronization method of the same, and computer program: A wireless X-ray fluoroscopic imaging system is provided. The system includes an X-ray generation unit configured to perform X-ray exposure for each frame of imaging; a sensor unit configured to output image data; and an image processing unit configured to designate the exposure, wherein the sensor unit includes a first... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090201843 - Using traffic patterns to improve sleep mode efficiency in a radio handset: Disclosed is a method of using observed traffic pattern data to improve sleep mode efficiency in a radio handset. The radio handset determines quality of service (QoS) requirements of an application currently executing on the radio handset and selects a pre-defined sleep mode mask from among a plurality of pre-defined... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090201844 - Method, apparatus and system for multicast communication in a wireless multi-hop network: A method for multicast communication in a network having plural nodes according to the ZigBee network specification includes creating a multicast group including a subset of the plural nodes and excluding at least one non-member node in the plural nodes. The multicast group has a multicast address. The method also... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090201845 - Point-to-multipoint mobile radio transmission: A method of operating a mobile communication system-supporting data transmission between a mobile station (MS) and a network in a number of different packet data protocols (PDPs) including a point-to-multipoint-multicast (PTM-M) protocol PDP data is formatted and unformatted by a sub-network dependent convergence protocol (SNDCP) according to the PDP of... Agent: Raymond L. Owens Patent Legal Staff

20090201846 - System and method for scheduling over multiple hops: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scheduling over multiple hops in a wireless communication network. Radio resources can be partitioned into sets of sub-frames that can be allocated statically and/or dynamically. Statically allocated radio resources can be reassigned over time based on the loading on each hop and/or throughput... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated Patent Department/central Administration

20090201847 - Real-time sessions quality-of-service over reservation-based access: A collection of methods, which when combined together provide suitable bandwidth resources for real-time content exchange over a satellite-based network, wherein the network employs a reservation-based access scheme, such as but not limited to DVB-RCS. Furthermore, the methods provide suitable bandwidth wherein transmission conditions deteriorate while real-time content is being... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090201859 - Communication device and method: A base station unit of a communication device generates control information identical with those generated by other communication devices. The control information includes information defining regions in a radio frame that are used by the communication device and the other communication devices to transmit data. A terminal unit receives data... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090201851 - Coordinated channel change in mesh networks: A coordinated channel change system. In particular implementations, a method includes receiving a prepare-to-change message, wherein the prepare-to-change message indicates instructions to prepare to change channels and includes a designated channel, and forwarding the prepare-to-change message to one or more child nodes. The method also includes receiving a ready-to-change message... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090201850 - Location tracking based on proximity-based ad hoc network: A system and method is described for constructing a proximity-based ad hoc network among a plurality of sensors and for using such a network to perform location tracking. The system and method uses time-coded data received from each of the sensors to determine a current proximity of each of the... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090201854 - Method for optimizing the reading by a user equipment of mcch (mbms point-to-multipoint control channel) information: According to the invention, the network transmits to the UE the number NumModifiedNCells of MBMS Neighbor Cell Point-to-Multipoint Radio Bearer Information messages NCs informing the UE about the Point-to-Multipoint Radio Bearer configuration used in neighbor cells where combining applies and which are located in the Modified MCCH Information (6) using... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group

20090201858 - Method, apparatus and computer program product providing slow associated control channel (sacch) repetition: Techniques are presented for repetition on both uplink and downlink Slow Associated Control Channel (SACCH) channels. For instance, an exemplary method is disclosed that is performed by a mobile node. The method includes receiving from a network node a first block of data over a downlink SACCH channel, and storing... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090201855 - Mobile ipv6 optimised reverse tunnelling for multi-homed terminals: The invention relates to a method for packet-switched data transmission between a multi-homed mobile node and a correspondent node in a mobile communication system comprising a plurality of mobile networks. The method comprises the steps of selecting by the mobile node one of its home addresses to be used for... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090201848 - Path control method and home agent: In a mobile network system composed of a mobile network with a mobile router and a terminal interconnected, and of a home agent, when the mobile router connects to an external network, the mobile router informs the home agent of path information to the mobile network including the mobile router.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090201856 - Radio communication system, radio communication method, and base station: A base station includes a first selecting unit that selects a reduction target terminal, a first calculating unit that calculates a reduction amount of assigned transmission rate assigned to the reduction target terminal, a second selecting unit that selects an increase target terminal, a second calculating unit that calculates an... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090201853 - Routing data packets in a communication network: Routing data packets includes receiving data packets from a network element at a routing gateway. The data packets are determined to be destined for a mobile node. A location of the mobile node is obtained. The data packets are forwarded to the mobile node according to the location on behalf... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090201852 - Telecommunications system and method: A telecommunications system is arranged to provide a mobile communications session to a mobile node using an internet protocol. The telecommunications system comprises a home packet data network which includes a home agent of the mobile node and a visited packet data network. One of the home packet data network... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090201849 - Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus and reception method: A transmission apparatus which attempts improvement of signal quality in an uplink and a downlink carries out radio transmission of different signals simultaneously from respective ones of a plurality of antennas. The apparatus has pilot multiplexing means for multiplexing a pilot channel to transmit from each antenna in one or... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090201857 - Uma/gan keep-alive mechanisim in wireless communication networks: A wireless communication terminal (100) includes a TCP connection keep-alive timer, and a controller configured to optimize keep-alive timer operation by reducing the frequency with which the terminal transmits keep-alive messages. In one implementation, the controller re-sets the keep-alive timer, before expiration thereof, upon sending or receiving a message at... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090201862 - Co-existence between communications units: The present invention relates to a method for arranging co-existence between wireless devices, comprising: checking the priority class for a data service flow transmitted or received by a first communications unit, generating a priority signal for a second communications unit to indicate prioritization for the first communications unit on the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090201875 - Device and method for radio communication: In a radio communication device that wirelessly communicates with mobile stations using shared radio resources, a communication decision unit determines whether information indicating a request for realtime communication is contained in a communication request received from a mobile station and/or communication setup data received from an upper-level device. A radio... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090201871 - Efficient utilization of channel resources in wireless communication: Providing for improved wireless communications for user equipment (UE) in a semi-active state is described herein. By way of example, a base station can employ particular wireless channel resources, monitored by a UE in a CELL_FACH state for instance, to trigger channel feedback information from the UE. The trigger can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201869 - Enhanced multiplexing system and technique for uplink control channels: A communication system incorporates a multiplexing scheme so that a base node that schedules user equipment (UE) can determine whether an ACK/NACK and/or a service request (SR) has been received when both uplink (UL) transmissions are simultaneously scheduled. Significant complexity reduction, better link efficiency, and higher multiplexing capability since the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201867 - Method for allocating resources in cell-edge bands of ofdma networks: A method allocates bandwidth from a radio frequency spectrum in a cellular network including a set of cells. Each cell includes a base station for serving a set of mobile stations in the cell. An area around each base station is partitioned into a center region and an edge region.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090201865 - Method for connecting mobile station to base station, mobile station, base station, multi-carrier mobile communication system, and random access channel mapping method: As a random access channel (RACH), two types of RACHs, a synchronous RACH and an asynchronous RACH are prepared, condition of a mobile station is classified depending on whether there is temporal synchronization in the mobile station and whether a resource is allocated, and depending on each case, any one... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201861 - Method for efficient cqi feedback: In a closed-loop wireless communication system (300), channel-side information—such as CQI information, rank adaptation information or MIMO codebook selection information—is fed back to the transmitter (310) in response to a start message (301) using a configurable or default time period or window by having the receiver (320) automatically terminate feedback... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP - Freescale

20090201868 - Method for transmitting scheduling request effectively in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system providing a wireless communication and a mobile terminal. During data communication between a base station and a terminal in a long term evolution (LTE) system, while the terminal performs a random access channel (RACH) procedure for requesting a radio resource allocation... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201866 - Method of communication, emitter and receiver stations and associated computer programs: e

20090201863 - Methods and apparatus to allocate acknowledgement channels: Methods and apparatus for allocating acknowledgement channels in a communication network. A linking scheme is established between indices of a plurality of physical hybrid automatic repeat-request indicator channels (PHICHs), and a combination of indices of control channel elements (CCEs) or indices of physical resource blocks (PRBs) and indices of demodulation... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090201870 - Mobile communication method, mobile communication system and radio base station: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: controlling, at the radio base station NodeB, the transmission power in the DPCCH by use of an inner loop transmission power control based on a target SIR; transmitting, at the mobile station UE, the uplink packet, at the transmission power... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090201864 - Modified connection setup for e-utra radio resource control: A communication method for reducing Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection setup time in an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) includes the step of using an inclusive Signalling Radio Bearer (iSRB) in place of a plurality of individual Signalling Radio Bearers (indSRBs) for transferring signals from Radio Resource Control... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090201873 - Rach preamble response with flexible ul allocation: A method for allocating resources between a mobile communication device and a network access node is described. The method includes sending a random access preamble message to the network access node. Receiving a random access response message which includes a response to the random access preamble message is also included... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090201874 - Radio base station, relay station , and band allocation method: A relay station for relaying communication between a radio base station which allocates to a terminal an uplink channel for notifying a requested band when any signal sequence out of a predetermined signal sequence group is received from the terminal, and allocates a transmission band according to the requested band... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090201872 - Segment sensitive scheduling: Systems and methods of scheduling sub-carriers in an OFDMA system in which a scheduler takes into account channel conditions experienced by the communication devices to optimize channel conditions. The scheduler can partition a set of sub-carriers spanning an operating bandwidth into a plurality of segments. The segments can include a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201860 - Supporting mobile ad-hoc network (manet ) and point to multi-point (pmp) communications among nodes in a wireless network: Member nodes of a wireless point-to-multipoint (PMP) network may participate in mobile ad hoc (MANET) or mesh communications with other nodes on the same channels used by the network for PMP communications. A PMP network base station node transmits a downlink signal defining a downlink map for scheduling first time... Agent: Bae Systems

20090201876 - Controller, mobile station, mobile communications system and control method: A disclosed control apparatus performs packet communications with a mobile station and divides a coverage area into plural sectors so as to control the communications. The control apparatus comprises a transmission allocation portion that selects at least two transmission sectors to perform transmission to the mobile station in accordance with... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090201877 - Ranging method using new ranging structure: A method for performing ranging in a broadband wireless access system including a user equipment and a base station and using multi-carrier is described. A method using a structure in which a length of a part occupied by a ranging sequence is extended in the time domain includes a method... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201879 - Integration of 802.21 media independent handover functionality to radio interface layer and telephony server: A radio interface layer media independent handover (RIL MIH) client functionality enables transparent inter-system handover of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) between different radio access technologies (RATs), without user intervention. The RIL MIH client interacts with RIL drivers and proxies, informs the RIL proxies of the handover status, then the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090201878 - Low latency handover between wireless communication networks using different radio access technologies: A communications system for providing a user's mobile station (MS) with an Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity, has an IP network gateway for allocating an IP address to the MS to enable it to access an IP network. First and second base stations are respectively configured to support communications of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090201880 - Method and apparatus for signaling in multiple user one-slot operation in wireless communication: Disclosed are multiple embodiments of method and apparatus to facilitate Multiple Users Reusing One Timeslot (MUROS) operation in wireless communications. A pair of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) may be multiplexed onto a timeslot using a same pulse format. A WTRU may communicate on a network using MUROS technology both on... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090201883 - Method and system for handover between different types of access systems: A method for handover between different types of access systems in some embodiments consistent with the present invention includes: when the UE hands over between different types of access systems, the UE accesses the IASA connected with the UE in the source access system through the destination access system. Furthermore,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090201882 - Method of executing scanning in broadband wireless access system: The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow a mobile station to perform scanning procedures. Media... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090201881 - Mobile communication system and method for processing handover procedure thereof: A method for processing a handover procedure in a mobile communication system is disclosed. After a type of handover is recognized based on information included in a handover command, a radio resource reconfiguration operation is selectively performed or a data transmission start point is adjusted, to thereby minimize an unnecessary... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201884 - Quality of service continuity: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate supporting Quality of Service (QoS) continuity during an inter-base station mobility procedure. Layer 2 (L2) protocol configuration information for QoS (e.g., uplink, downlink, . . . ) and/or uplink QoS configuration information set by a source base station can be transmitted via an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201887 - Method and apparatus for blind code detection: The present invention is a receiver which includes a blind code detection device for determining the identity of a plurality of channels over which information is to be transmitted when the identity of all channels is not known by the receiver. The blind code detection device generates a candidate channel... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090201886 - Method of and apparatus for adjusting qos in data transmission over sctp session: A method of adjusting quality of service (QoS) with respect to changes in a transmission environment of a mobile terminal receiving data based on a stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) session. When the transmission environment of the mobile terminal receiving data based on the SCTP session changes, the mobile terminal... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090201885 - Radio communication system, mobile station, base station, radio communication system control method used for the same, and program of the same: The mobile station 2-1 determines whether a current maximum transmission rate is sufficient or not in a predetermined cycle by using a maximum transmission rate R indicated by a pointer, a volume Q of data accumulated in the buffer 22-1 and a requested delay T determined according to service of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201889 - Integrated scheduling of unicast and multicast traffic in relay-enabled wireless networks: A wireless network with integrated scheduling of unicast and multicast users in a relay-enabled two-hop wireless network is disclosed. In this system, users with finite buffers are considered and scheduled over multiple channels in an OFDMA-based wireless network. The gain-specific and efficient scheduling system helps leverage diversity and spatial reuse... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090201890 - Method for transmitting response information in mobile communications system: A method for transmitting radio resources in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a random access channel (RACH) preamble from a plurality of UEs and transmitting response information associated with the received preambles over a common channel wherein the plurality UEs can access the common channel... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090201891 - Method for transmitting response information in mobile communications system: A method for transmitting radio resources in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a random access channel (RACH) preamble from a plurality of UEs and transmitting response information associated with the received preambles over a common channel wherein the plurality UEs can access the common channel... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090201888 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a dual-beacon mechanism for two device types: A system and method of wireless data communication over a network of devices and device types are disclosed. In one aspect, the beacons of a first device type are sent and received from devices of the first device type or a second device type, by a first device of the... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090201892 - Fast drx for dl speech transmission in wireless networks: A user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless network receives a sequence of speech frames on a speech channel. The UE demodulates at least a portion of a speech frame of the sequence of received speech frames to produce a metric value. The UE discontinues processing of the speech frame... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090201893 - Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, base station, and mobile station: An effective random access control can be performed with a high throughput. A base station (11) communicates with mobile stations (12) by use of slotted ALOHA system. An offset time of 1.5 frames is established between upstream and downstream communication frames. If any of the upstream communication frames is available,... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090201894 - Pipeline architecture for multi-slot wireless link processing: A wireless communication device processes N Radio Frequency (RF) bursts contained within N slots of a digital communications time divided frame, wherein N is a positive integer greater than one. The wireless communication device includes an RF front end, a baseband processor, and an equalizer module. The RF front end... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090201899 - Apparatus and method for routing data in wireless networks: A method includes identifying, at a first wireless node, routing costs associated with routing data to a destination through multiple paths in a wireless network. The method also includes identifying, at the first wireless node, information propagation values associated with the first wireless node and at least one second wireless... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20090201897 - Classification process involving mobile stations: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a method may comprise receiving data from a home agent, wherein the data is directed to a mobile station that is coupled with a foreign network and the data includes an outer header having a foreign network address associated with... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090201896 - Data sharing based on proximity-based ad hoc network: A system and method is described for constructing a proximity-based ad hoc network among a plurality of sensor-enabled devices and for using such a network to facilitate data sharing among users of those devices (referred to herein for simplicity as “sensors”). The system and method advantageously enables data to be... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090201898 - End-to-end packet aggregation in mesh networks: A packet aggregation system. In particular implementations, a method includes accessing one or more transmit queues, each corresponding to a wireless client associated with a given wireless mesh access point of a plurality of mesh access points. The method further includes selecting a mesh access point of the plurality of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090201900 - Radio base station, relay station, radio relay system, and radio relay method: A radio base station for performing communication with a radio terminal via a relay station, including a radio frame generation unit which generates a radio frame including a signal relay region allocated in the relay station to transmit received data with predetermined delay from the radio terminal or the radio... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090201895 - Telecommunications: In a MIPv6 network, a mobile home agent (MHA) in a foreign network (FN) acts as an intermediate node between a mobile node (MN) and a correspondent node (CN) and allocates itself a secondary care-of address (SCoA) different from the care-of address (CoA) of the mobile node (MN), with a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090201901 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program: Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201905 - Method and apparatus for estimating channelization codes in a wireless transmit/receive unit: A method and apparatus for estimating channelization codes in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) using blind code detection (BCD). A WTRU receives communication bursts and detects a midamble in the received burst. A candidate code list is generated in accordance with the detected midamble. The candidate code list includes channelization... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090201904 - Method for allocating physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel: A method for allocating a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH) is disclosed. The method includes allocating a CDM group according to a cyclic prefix type in consideration of a ratio of the numbers of necessary CDM groups according to spreading factors, and allocating a PHICH to the allocated CDM... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201903 - Systems and methods for distributed beamforming based on carrier-to-caused interference: In accordance with a method for distributed beamforming based on carrier to caused interference, a base station may receive channel state information from users. The base station may select a codeword from a codebook. The codeword may be selected so as to maximize a utility function that is based on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201902 - Uplink channel receiving and transmitting apparatuses and methods: A receiving apparatus receives control, pilot and data channels in an uplink. The apparatus includes a data-channel receiving unit for receiving the pilot channel in an antenna gain pattern of a multi-beam having multiple fixed directional beams with respectively different fixed directional directions or of a variable directional beam having... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090201907 - Multi-hop communications in a wireless network: Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to wireless communications. The systems and techniques involve wireless communications wherein a module or communications device is configured to select first and second terminal pairs, the first terminal pair having a first transmitting terminal and a first receiving terminal, and the second terminal pair... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201906 - Wireless transmitter device and method thereof for keeping the total transmission time limited: A wireless transmitter device has a predetermined upper limit of an accumulated data transmission time per predetermined duration corresponding to a predetermined maximum value. The wireless transmitter device includes a timer which starts keeping time when the wireless transmitter device sends a wireless signal and stops when it reaches a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090201908 - System and method for flexible data retrieval for mobile communication devices: A system and method for flexible data provision to mobile communication devices, which enables the user to selectively download data to the mobile communication device from a remote computer. The selective data download may optionally apply to one or more of a single item of data, to multiple items of... Agent: Dr. D. Graeser Ltd.

20090201909 - Method and tool for router interface l2 redundancy: A method of router interface level 2 redundancy, and router implementing the method, including one or more of the following: starting redundant ports that are members of a level 2 redundancy group (L2RG) in a DOWN state; determining that none of the redundant ports are in an ACTIVE state; switching... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090201910 - Apparatus and method to handle dynamic payloads in a heterogeneous network: Various embodiments provide an apparatus and method for handling dynamic payloads in a heterogeneous network. An example embodiment includes a first node interface to receive a first request for data communication from a first node, the first request being coded in a first protocol and including information identifying a first... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090201920 - Enhancing voice qos over unmanaged bandwidth limited packet network: An improved telephony adapter compresses voice data, creates IP packets, and prioritizes the voice IP packets over the data IP packets. Preferably, the compression and packetization interval is such that the bandwidth occupied by the voice IP packets is approximately half of the minimum average available bandwidth in the upstream... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20090201911 - Highly scalable internet protocol-based communications system: A highly scalable Internet Protocol (IP) based communications system which provides voice and other communication services to end-users. The instant system incorporates a unique architecture which simplifies scaling of services to hundreds of thousands and even millions of subscribers. The instant system architecture includes a means for directly connecting a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090201915 - Internet network communications system and a method of putting a communications unit into communication with an internet network: A method of putting a communications unit into communication with an Internet network in which the communications unit calls the services platform, the services platform identifies the calling line, and an operating system is automatically installed in the communications unit enabling a connection to be provided with an Internet network... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090201913 - Learning the expiry time of an address binding within an address translation device for an sip signaling server: A signaling server (SS) comprising means for transmitting SIP signaling messages with a client (T) through a NAT address translation device temporarily binding a public address to the client's private address, including means for receiving registration messages from the client and for sending the client a validity duration, at the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090201914 - Method and system for authorization checking when setting up a connection: Present-day on-line charging mechanisms make it possible, in a non-blocking application, for the setting up of a connection to be allowed initially even though it is not yet clear, or cannot be clarified at this time whether a prepaid subscriber (SIP client) still has sufficient money in his account. This... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090201912 - Method and system for updating the telecommunication network service access conditions of a telecommunication device: A system is provided for updating the conditions under which a telecommunication device accesses services provided by a telecommunication network. The system includes a network access point through which the device accesses the network, and a database, wherein the system authenticates the device via the access point on the basis... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090201922 - Method for changing session media, method for establishing a call, and equipment thereof: A method for changing ICS session media includes: receiving a media type change request including a new media type sent from a terminal equipment or a MSC, releasing a CS call leg based on an original media type between an ICCF and the terminal equipment, establishing a CS call leg... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090201918 - 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.

20090201916 - Method, system and apparatus for verifying validity of location information in a packet-switched network: According to embodiments of the present invention, there are provided a method, system and apparatus for determining validity of location information in a packet-switched network. A method for determining if location information associated with an endpoint in a packet-switched network is valid, the location information having been stored in a... Agent: Sean Murray

20090201917 - Pragmatic approaches to ims: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing services such as provided by Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) with an IP network that is not the IMS. According to one embodiment, a system for providing communication services can comprise a communication network, one or more subsystems communicatively... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090201919 - System for providing hosted telephone services to a subscriber via the internet: An Internet controlled telephony system employing a host services processor connected to a subscriber via the Internet and further connected to the public switched telephone system (PSTN). The subscriber employs a web interface to populate a database with preference data which is used by the host services processor to handle... Agent: Charles G. Call

20090201921 - Wide area communication networking: A communications network is disclosed and includes a broadband communication line having a first derived voice channel and a second derived voice channel, wherein the first and second derived voice channels are established as a function of an available bandwidth associated with the broadband communication line. The communication network further... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090201923 - Apparatus and method for a fault-tolerant scalable switch fabric with quality-of-service (qos) support: Embodiments of the present invention relate to portions of a switch fabric having a single logical stage and at least one physical stage. In addition, the data paths and the control paths of the switch fabric can be decoupled thereby allowing additional processing to be performed than would otherwise be... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (tellabs)

20090201925 - Apparatus and method for setting routing path between routers in chip: An apparatus and a method for setting a routing path in System-on-a-Chip (SoC) having an n×n net topology-based structure comprising a plurality of intellectual properties (IPs), each with a unique address, and a plurality of switches forming one-to-one correspondence to the IPs, to transmit and receive data between the IPs... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090201926 - Fibre channel processing by a host channel adapter: A method for data storage includes mapping a queue pair (QP) of a channel adapter to a specified Fibre Channel (FC) exchange for communication with a storage device. Upon receiving at the channel adapter from a host computer a storage command directed to the storage device, the storage command is... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20090201927 - System and method for communicating using a multiserver platform: Aspects of the invention include receiving a first packet from a first of a plurality of blade servers at a first data rate and determining a second blade server that may receive the first packet. Data responsive to the received first packet may be transferred to the second blade server... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090201924 - System and method for squelching a recovered clock in an ethernet network: A system and method for squelching a recovered clock in an Ethernet network. In one embodiment the invention provides a method for squelching a recovered clock in an Ethernet network comprising a local node coupled to a remote node by a link, the method including receiving a descrambler status signal,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090201928 - Methods for reliable multicasting in local peer group (lpg) based vehicle ad hoc networks: A method for routing a multicast message comprising the steps of receiving a multicast message including at least a message, a source identifier, a sequence number, a time-to-live value and a multicast group destination, determining if the multicast group destination is in a multicast forwarding table, determining if the message... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090201929 - System and method for switching from a unicast to a multicast data transmission session: A communications system and method provide a seamless switch from a first session to a plurality of multicast sessions. A server transmits data over both a first session and alternatingly between a plurality of synchronized multicast sessions. At predetermined time intervals, the server stops transmitting data over the currently active... Agent: Graybeal Jackson Haley C/o Realnetworks Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20090201931 - Method and apparatus for transferring ip transmission session: A method for transferring an IP transmission session is disclosed, including the following: a transmission session is created between the first node and second node based on a single IP protocol; the first node and second node obtain a transferable address pair by exchanging the session transfer management signaling; the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090201930 - System, method, and computer program product for improved distribution of data: A method for improved distribution of data in a computing environment includes receiving data for distribution in the computing environment, receiving configuration data of the computing environment, parsing the data for distribution using the configuration data, and outputting header information of a packet, the packet including the data for distribution.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090201933 - Method, device and system for signaling transfer: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a signaling transfer method and device for transferring signaling. The method includes: creating, by a signaling transfer device, address mapping table according to address information carried in a registration message upon receipt of the registration message; and determining a match with the address... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201934 - Spoof checking within a label switching computer network: A label switching router (LSR) is described that spoof checks Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) packets to prevent malicious or inadvertent injection of MPLS packets within a label switched path (LSP). The LSR ensures that MPLS packets received from an upstream label switching router (LSR) contain labels that were advertised to... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090201935 - System and method for parsing and allocating a plurality of packets to processor core threads: An apparatus and method are provided for allocating a plurality of packets to different processor threads. In operation, a plurality of packets are parsed to gather packet information. Additionally, a parse operation is performed utilizing the packet information to generate a key, and a hash algorithm is performed on this... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Rmi

20090201932 - Method and system for implementing mpls network diffserv traffic engineering: A method for implementing DS-TE in MPLS network is disclosed. The method includes carrying Quality of Service (QoS) parameters relating to resource allocation in a path message when establishing an LSP; reserving bandwidth resource for service traffic according to the QoS parameters; using the reserved bandwidth to forward service traffic... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201938 - Access point and method for operating the access point: An access point is connectable to a first network and a second network different from the first network. The access point includes: a communication control device configured to connect one or more first terminals on the first network to the second network; and a communication stop device configured to deactivate... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201939 - Data communication apparatus, method for its network configuration, and computer readable recording medium storing its program: A transmission apparatus for participating in a virtual network constructed on a physical IP network, said transmission apparatus including: a node link monitoring unit configured to search an in-subnetwork node, which is a virtual network node existing within a first IP subnetwork that the transmission apparatus belongs to; a gatenode... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201940 - Method, system and gateway for negotiating the capability of data signal detector: Methods and systems for negotiating the capability of a data signal detector include a sender gateway sending a first signaling containing data signal detector support capability message during voice band data transmission (301); a receiver gateway determining, according to the received first signaling, whether the sender gateway sends the data... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201941 - Method, system, and network entity for obtaining session description protocol capability information: A method, system, network entity for obtaining Session Description Protocol capability information are disclosed. The method, system and network entity are used to solve the problem that a communication party is unable to acquire the Session Description Protocol capability information of the other party with the existing technology. The technical... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090201937 - Resilient provider link state bridging (plsb) virtual private lan service (vpls) interworking: A method of peer interfacing a Link-State controlled network domain with an Ethernet Bridging controlled network domain. A pair of peer attachment points are provided between the Link-State controlled network domain and the Ethernet Bridging domain. The peer attachment points are respective endpoints of a set of one or more... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP

20090201936 - Time synchronizing device and process and associated products: The present invention concerns a time synchronizing device and process, and a local gateway comprising that device. The time synchronizing device synchronizes a router arranged between two communication networks. It comprises intercepting means of a message coming from an apparatus of a source network for that message, having a specific... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090201942 - Method and apparatus for marking and scheduling packets for transmission: A method and system for profile-marking and scheduling of packets are disclosed. Using a dual-rate scheduler, the profile state of a packet being scheduled for transmission by a flow traffic descriptor is determined based on the traffic rate of the flow traffic descriptor, which is associated with the queue that... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090201943 - Method for transferring test messages and network element device: A method for transferring test messages includes a Network Element (NE) A and NE B negotiating and determining a logical channel type. The Link Management Protocol (LMP) entity of NE A constructs a test message packet which includes the local Ethernet data interface ID, and transfers the test message packet... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090201944 - Controlling external communication of embedded device using proxy server: An embedded device communicates with another device via an external proxy server acting for the embedded device to control communication. The embedded device includes a communication device capable of communicating with the proxy server, a storage unit storing a state of communication with the other device, an updating unit, a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090201945 - Method, system, and computer program product for data exchange: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for exchanging data among data processing systems. The method may comprise transmitting a first data structure from an originating system in the format native to such system to a management component; identifying a target system for receiving the first data structure;... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090201946 - Dynamic dsl line bandwidth management with the subscriber's consent: A system and method for allocating bandwidth to a plurality of subscriber devices operably connected to a DSL subscription network is described. An embodiment according to the invention comprises a bandwidth management system that operably connects a service network to a plurality of subscriber devices attached to a LAN. After... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20090201947 - Method and arrangement for reducing the amount of messages sent in a communication network: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for reducing the amount of messages sent in a communication network comprising a first communication network entity (200), a second communication network entity (100) connected to said first communication network entity (200) over a communication interface and one or more user... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090201949 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, and program, whereby unnecessary standby time can be reduced in depacketizing processing, and processing can be performed easily and at high speed. A common header creating unit 203 creates common headers which are headers added in common to each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201948 - Methods and apparatus for formatting headers in a communication frame: Methods and apparatus for formatting headers for data packets within a communication frame for use in a wireless communication system are presented. Formatting headers includes determining the size of a wireless communication frame, and formatting the payloads and associated headers within the communication frame according to the determined size. This... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201950 - Band limiting method and wireless communication system: A receiver estimates a channel quality. A transmitter amplifies a signal by a gain proportional to a difference between a required signal-to-noise power ratio and channel quality information, which is an estimation result of the channel quality, and transmits the signal so that the receiver can obtain the signal-to-noise power... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201951 - Method and adjusting transmission timing and transmitting continuous packets and mobile station thereof: A method of adjusting transmission timing, a method of continuously transmitting packets, and a mobile station are provided. The method of adjusting the transmission timing includes adjusting the transmission timing according to a transmission timing adjustment command when the transmission timing adjustment command is received from a receiving side; and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090196161 - Combined echo and crosstalk cancellation: Combined echo and crosstalk cancellation is provided. Frequency domain adaptive filters are used to remove or reduce the effects of echo and crosstalk for a multi-channel and full-duplex communications system. Data from each transmit channel is buffered and converted to the frequency domain. The frequency domain data is multiplied by... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090196162 - Utran enhancements for the support of inter-cell interference cancellation: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing uplink inter-cell interference cancellation. A radio network controller can receive measurement reports in order to identify non-serving nodes that are receiving interference from user equipment. Based on evaluation of such measurement reports, an interference message can be communicated to a Node B,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196163 - Bandwidth asymmetric communication system based on ofdm and tdma: The present invention relates to a communication system comprising a plurality of terminals each having an uplink transmission unit (1) for transmitting radio frequency OFDM signals at a radio frequency and an access point having an uplink receiving unit (4) for concurrently receiving said radio frequency OFDM signals from at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090196164 - Method and apparatus for closed loop transmission: In a wireless communication system, a method and apparatus for closed loop transmission is disclosed. In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a time frequency portion of an uplink frame is dynamically reserved as a sounding zone for uplink channel sounding. A first message is transmitted to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090196165 - Transmitting and receiving apparatuses and methods: A transmitting apparatus which transmits a transmit symbol in orthogonal-frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes a unit which provides a unicast channel; a unit which provides a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) channel; a unit which provides a specific pilot channel which is specific to a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090196166 - Receiver and frequency information estimating method: A receiver 100 has a Fourier transform section 105 Fourier-transforming symbols for propagation path estimation including subcarriers modulated by known signals different for two or more antennas to calculate first frequency information, a multiplying section 107 multiplying the first frequency information by complex conjugate signals of two or more known... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090196167 - Method and apparatus for improving reset mechanism of radio link re-establishment timers in a wireless communications system: In order to avoid system malfunctions, the present invention discloses a method of improving the reset mechanism of radio link re-establishment timers for a user equipment in a wireless communications system. The method includes performing a cell update procedure according to a radio link failure event, stopping a plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090196168 - Method and apparatus for radio link failure recovery in a wireless communications network: In a method for radio link failure (RLF) recovery in a wireless communications network, a timer T sets a predetermined time period from a command to a mobile terminal UE to hand over to a new eNB. Resources are reserved at a target eNB 2. If the time period expires... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090196169 - Methods and apparatuses for processing and managing subscriber data in telecommunication network: In order to overcome the defects of the centralized subscriber data management in the telecommunication network, a highly effective distributed data management system for the communication network is achieved in the present invention through improving and applying the distributed Hash table (DHT) technology to subscriber data management in the communication... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090196170 - Quality of service, policy enhanced hierarchical disruption tolerant networking system and method: According to an embodiment, a method includes a Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) software overlay residing in a first plane of a node of the network is used to define hierarchical forwarding behavior for data being generated in the first plane. In a second plane of the network, local buffering and... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090196171 - Shortening of communication cutoff time: A topological information management frame is classified based on the contents stored in the topological information management frame, and information stored in a database is updated based on the contents stored in the topological information management frame depending on the classification of the topological information management frame.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090196172 - Method and apparatus for ethernet ring protection: An Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) method and the corresponding apparatus and communication equipment are disclosed. The method includes: when a link on an Ethernet ring network is faulty, judging whether the faulty link is a link where the normally blocked port is located; sending a control message which carries first... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090196173 - Management of a wireless network: The disclosure describes a system for active channel management in a wireless network. The system may include spectrum monitoring in order to determine channel usage within a wireless network and/or to provide a projected transmission quality for each available channel. Another aspect of the system concerns allowing nodes in a... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090196176 - Bandwidth control apparatus and bandwidth control method: A policer sets in advance, with respect to tokens consumed with the passage of arriving packets, a threshold for each bandwidth usage rate (for each rate order ranked by the bandwidth usage rate) to be compared with the remaining amount of tokens at packet arrival time to determine whether to... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090196175 - Method and apparatus for initializing, preserving, and reconfiguring token buckets: A method and an apparatus are provided for initializing token buckets to a non-zero value, preserving the token buckets during a medium access control (MAC) reset or handover, resetting the token buckets based on a minimum bucket size or ratio of sizes, and transmitting a token status report.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090196174 - Virtual scheduling in heterogeneous networks: Providing for virtual management of wireless resources in a mobile communication environment is described herein. By way of example, access terminals in the communication environment can maintain connections with nearby network transmitters and report factors pertinent to wireless scheduling to a central entity, such as a macro base station. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196178 - Disconnected transport protocol connectivity: In an embodiment, an existing transport protocol connection though a mobile device is recognized as having entered a state of disconnect. A lowest received sequence number is determined from received messages to be transmitted over a disconnected transport protocol connection. A disconnect acknowledgement message with a receive window of zero... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090196177 - Method, apparatus and computer program for uplink scheduling in a network that employs relay nodes: User equipments UEs send their buffer status reports and data to a relay node RN. The RN stores the data in actual buffers per radio bearer group RBG, and stores the UEs buffer occupancies in virtual buffers per RBG. The RN then sends its own status report to the controlling... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090196180 - Dynamic time-spectrum block allocation for cognitive radio networks: Dynamic time-spectrum block allocation for cognitive radio networks is described. In one implementation, without need for a central controller, peer wireless nodes collaboratively sense local utilization of a communication spectrum and collaboratively share white spaces for communication links between the nodes. Sharing local views of the spectrum utilization with each... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090196179 - Representation of qualitative object changes in a knowledge based framework for a multi-master synchronization environment: The subject disclosure relates to synchronizing among network nodes in a multi-master synchronization environment that extend a knowledge based synchronization framework to include notions of object quality. In one embodiment, additional dimension(s) are placed on a knowledge vector for a given version of an object that represent quality information for... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090196181 - Technique to automatically deaggregate an optimum set to prevent suboptimal routing or routing failures within a link state flooding domain: In one embodiment, information is signaled between aggregating routers indicating the components of aggregated addresses. This information is used to dynamically leak, or deaggregate, specific parts of the aggregated address space to reduce sub-optimal routing and possibly prevent routing black holes from occurring in a network.... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20090196182 - Method and system for congestion control: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for congestion control by implementing congestion aware applications. The congestion aware applications can adjust an occupancy of network resource according to a network congestion status. The method for congestion control can include transmitting data from an application to a transport protocol at a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090196183 - Optimized sip routing architecture using an integrated network and systems approach: Session initiation protocol (SIP) control traffic routing decisions, such as rapid failure detection and recovery mechanisms, are based on detection of events and/or conditions that may result in suboptimal performance. The disclosed approach ensures that the SIP traffic is routed or rerouted on an optimal basis. Sample inputs to the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090196184 - Method and system for path identification in packet networks: A method and system for extracting and building end-to-end route information in a multi-area Internet protocol (IP) autonomous system (AS) is disclosed. The method and system enable a user, such as a network administrator, to explicitly identify a full set of paths (links and routers) that a given IP packet... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090196186 - Root cause problem detection in network traffic information: A device retrieves a first subset of events from data associated with a network, and determines one or more discriminating features of the first subset of events using a feature selection method. The device also retrieves one or more additional subsets of events, different than the first subset of events,... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090196185 - System and method for characterizing communication network capacity in a geographic area: A system for characterizing network capacity that stores premise addresses of subscribers and weighted values for the corresponding capacity of the network. Geographic areas containing subscribers are displayed and portions or all of them may be selected by a user. The system generates first descriptors for the selected geographic areas.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090196188 - Frame counter correction apparatus, opposing apparatus, and frame counter correction method: A frame counter correction apparatus connected to an Ethernet network, including transmission counter for counting a number of frames to be transmitted; inspection frame generator for generating an inspection frame for measuring a frame loss; and transmission counter correction unit for calculating a difference between a counter value of the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090196187 - System for remote supervision and diagnosis using mobile program: A system for performing remote supervision and diagnosis, having a plurality of local terminals for performing supervision and diagnosis on an object, by executing a mobile program transmitted from a central system. When a disaster occurs and the network is cut, inevitably disconnecting the local terminals from the central system,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090196196 - Carrier management in a wireless communication device assigned a set of two or more carriers by a wireless communication network: Carrier management in a wireless communication device assigned a set of two or more carriers by a wireless communication network is disclosed. In one aspect, a method of carrier management includes transmitting data over the wireless communication network on one or more carriers forming a subset of active carriers from... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196194 - Energy aware early detection: An incoming data packet is received, and a rate of change of residual capacity of a portable power supply is determined. From the determined rate of change it is decided to enqueue or drop the incoming data packet. If the decision is to enqueue, the packet is transmitted. If the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090196190 - Method and apparatus for channel quality indicator report: A method for a UE reporting a CQI comprising steps of: obtaining a total number M of CQI report sub-bands in a system and a number N of CQI report sub-bands needed to be reported; measuring channel qualities of all sub-bands and according to the measurement result, determining N CQI... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090196197 - Method and apparatus for performing discontinuous reception and downlink inter-frequency and inter-radio access technology measurements in cell_fach state: A method and apparatus of performing discontinuous reception (DRX) and downlink inter-frequency and inter-radio access technology (RAT) measurements in CELL_FACH state are disclosed. While in DRX mode, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may perform inter-frequency and inter-RAT measurements in a measurement occasion that fall into a DRX period. The WTRU... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090196189 - Method and arrangement for measuring transmission quality in a packet mode communication network: A method and an arrangement for measuring a transmission quality in terms of lost packets between two pre-determined nodes arranged to transmit and receive packets in a packet mode communication network. Each node is provided with a counter arranged to count transmitted packets in one node and received packets in... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090196193 - Method in a scheduler for reducing inter-cell interference: The present invention relates to a method for reducing inter-cell interference in a cellular radio system in which said scheduler controls a set of shared radio resources. The method comprises the steps of—assigning cell specific resource priority weights (RPW) to the different radio resources of a cell, said assignment differs... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090196195 - Network controlled throughput for enhanced uplink fach: Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for network control of interference associated with uplink transmissions by user equipments, UEs, operating in a random access state, e.g., the CELL_FACH state. A radio network controller, RNC, can determine, and then transmit, a limitation on uplink transmissions for such UEs,... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090196192 - Power control and scheduling method in consideration of interference levels between neighbor sectors in communication system: In order to perform uplink scheduling for a terminal, a base station receives information on uplink interference due to the terminal from neighbor base stations, transmits the information on the uplink interference to the terminal, receives information on transmission power of a feedback channel from the terminal through the feedback... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090196198 - Resource state monitoring method, device and communication network: A resource state monitoring method, device and communication network are provided. The method includes: acquiring network event state information of a node in a network running process, detecting a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource state of the node when it determines that the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090196191 - Wireless communication method for transmitting a sequence of data units between a wireless device and a network: Method for transmitting a status report for a sequence of data transmitted along a wireless communication link between a wireless device and a network having several base stations, said link having a transmitting side and a receiving side. The method comprises: on the receiving side, determining status information on data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090196200 - Communication apparatus, communication system, and network establishing method: A communication apparatus determines whether another communication apparatus participating in a network established in accordance with a first communication standard is also compatible with a second communication standard. The communication apparatus detects leaving of the network by another communication apparatus incompatible with the second communication standard. The communication apparatus establishes... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090196201 - Switching device adapted to switch an aircraft wireless network from a maintenance configuration to a commercial configuration and vice-versa: The object of the invention is a switching device in an aircraft wireless network for configuring the network from a maintenance configuration to a commercial use wherein the passengers have access to the network. The aircraft comprises a maintenance server and a cabin server as well as a cabin access... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090196202 - Transmitting apparatus and path setting method: A transmitting apparatus in a network constituted of a plurality of rings connected via a plurality of routes includes a node type determining unit and a backup path setting message transmitting unit. The node type determining unit determines, on receipt of a working path setting message requesting to set a... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090196199 - Wireless programmable logic device: A programmable logic device includes a control module, a plurality of input/output modules, and a plurality of configurable logic and millimeter wave (MMW) transceiver modules (CXM). The control module is operable to: receive a programming instruction; identify a set of the plurality of CXMs based on the programming instruction; identify... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090196204 - Methods and devices relating to downlink assignments: The invention relates to a method in a first communication device of receiving control information over a radio channel from a second communication device. The first communication device receives a subframe over the radio channel, and determines whether the subframe is a downlink subframe with downlink assignment intended for the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090196203 - Wireless communication system and communication control method: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system that performs data communication using a spatial multiplex transmission scheme. A mobile station includes a transmission weight calculating unit that calculates a transmission weight and a beam information notifying signal generating unit that transmits a known signal for generating partial space... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090196205 - Clock synchronization in a bidirectional network: An architecture for providing high-speed access over frequency-division multiplexed (FDM) channels allows transmission of ethernet frames and/or other data across a cable transmission network or other form of FDM transport. The architecture involves downstream and upstream FDM multiplexing techniques to allow contemporaneous, parallel communications across a plurality of frequency channels.... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090196207 - Display generating device, display generating method, program, and wireless communication system: A display generating device includes a display screen generator generating a display screen showing connection status between each wireless communication device in a wireless network in which a plurality of the wireless communication devices operate in an autonomous and distributed manner, and a detector detecting an operation of changing connection... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090196206 - Wireless network sensors for detecting events occurring proximate the sensors: A detection sensor for detecting proximately occurring events such as traffic patterns. The detection sensor includes a housing having several apertures and a wireless network sensor located in the housing. The wireless network sensor has several sensors for detecting events occurring proximate them, a processor for receiving and processing data... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090196209 - Code keying in a power savings mode: A device may include logic to enter a power savings mode and wirelessly transmit a first synchronization packet to a remote device within a first transmission time slot in a first power savings cycle, the first synchronization packet including a code that is a member of a set consisting of... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090196210 - Collaborative coexistence of co-located mobile wimax, wireless lan, and/or bluetooth radios: Collaborative coexistence of co-located mobile WiMAX, wireless LAN, and/or Bluetooth radios. Within a communication device that includes multi-protocol communication capability, the various radio modules included within such a communication device operate cooperatively such that collisions are avoided between those various radios. When a first of the radio modules operates as... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090196208 - Control signal management system and method: A user equipment (UE) including a processor configured to transmit control plane data irrespective of on-duration/off-duration status.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090196212 - Scheduled peer power save mode: Embodiments of scheduled peer power save systems, devices, and methods are disclosed. For example, methods of saving power for stations configured to communicate via a direct link are provided. Embodiments of scheduled peer power save systems, devices and methods are disclosed. For example, methods of saving power for stations configured... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090196211 - Unscheduled peer power save mode: Embodiments of unscheduled peer power save systems, devices and methods are disclosed. For example, a method of saving power for nodes configured to communicate via a direct link is provided. In one embodiment, among others, the method comprises forming, at an access point node (AP node), a indication frame for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090196213 - System, device and method for controlling a bearer change: A system and a device for controlling bearer change are provided. The system includes a bearer change notifying entity and a bearer change control entity. The bearer change notifying entity is adapted to acquire information that a bearer needs to be changed, and send a bearer change notice to the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090196214 - Device, system, and method of bidirectional wireless communication: Device, system and method of bidirectional wireless communication. In some demonstrative embodiments a method may include, for example, receiving by a wireless communication relay node a superimposed transmission corresponding to first and second transmissions from first and second wireless communication nodes, respectively, wherein the first transmission includes a first packet... Agent: Shiloh Et Al.

20090196215 - Wireless repeater with smart uplink: An over the air repeater for enhancing wireless communication is provided. The repeater employs a system and method by which strong signals can be prevented from exceeding the repeater's uplink output limits while still providing full operational gain to any concurrently amplified weak signals, while adapting to time slot variations... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20090196229 - Acknak and cqi channel mapping schemes in wireless networks: A transmission of information from a secondary to a primary node occurs in a plurality of N logical time durations. The transmission from the secondary to primary node in a wireless network is obtained using an orthogonal covering sequence and a second sequence. Embodiments of the present invention mitigate interference... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090196224 - Base station and scheduling method used in base station: Disclosed in the present invention are base stations and scheduling methods used in base stations. The base station uses a multi-user multi-input and multi-output method, and is characterized in comprising: a storing means for storing codebook vector group information relevant to a combination of codebook vectors capable of being used... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090196226 - Broadcast receiving terminal device, broadcast receiving method, program, and recording medium: Provided is a broadcast receiving terminal (5), which comprises a reception processing section (21) capable of receiving a group of packets which are broadcasted repeatedly at a predetermined period without change in content, a demultiplex section (22) for selecting target packets from the group of packets received by the reception... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090196225 - Devices and method for guaranteeing quality of service per service data flow through the bearer layer: In scenarios where the quality of service is negotiated through a signalling layer whereas the services are actually carried through a bearer layer, application functions at the signalling layer are not always aware of how quality of service is individually accomplished at the bearer layer on a service basis. The... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090196222 - Method and apparatus for interfacing synchronous core network with asynchronous radio network: A method and apparatus for interfacing a synchronous core network with an asynchronous radio network in a next-generation mobile telecommunications system is disclosed. The method for mapping a message in order to interface a synchronous core network with an asynchronous radio network, the radio network having a base station (BS),... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc.

20090196234 - Method and apparatus for persistent communications, interoperability and situational awareness in the aftermath of a disaster: A system for providing situational awareness outside a temporary incident area network includes a prioritized connection module for connecting a mesh network at the incident area to one of a plurality of available communications channels, with the selection based not only on the availability of a communications channel but also... Agent: Bae Systems

20090196221 - Method and apparatus for providing signaling access: Signaling-only access may be established with an access node under certain circumstances such as, for example, upon determining that a node is not authorized for data access at the access node. A node that is not authorized for data access at an access node may still be paged by the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196235 - Method and apparatus for setting gain factors for dedicated physical channels in a mobile telecommunications system: An apparatus and method are provided for setting gain factors for dedicated physical channels in a mobile communication system. The UE receives configuration information indicating uplink dedicated physical channel configuration. The UE sets a gain factor of a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) to 1 in the case that no... Agent: John E. Holmes, Esq. Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20090196232 - Method and apparatus to exchange channel information: A method and apparatus to exchange channel state information between two or more stations is provided, The channel state information may be used to adapt a power, a transmission rate and a modulation scheme of a transmitted signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090196227 - Method and network node for routing data packets in communication networks: A method routes data packets especially in wireless communication network formed by a plurality of network nodes. In order to transmit data packets from a first network node acting as a data packet source to a second network node acting as a data packet sink according to said method, the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090196230 - Method for controlling uplink load in cell_fach state: A method for a user equipment (UE) to perform uplink re-access in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes performing an uplink access procedure to establish a data transmission channel, checking whether or not the data transmission channel has been released, and delaying uplink re-access to the data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090196228 - Method of connecting to network in broadband wireless access system: The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow a mobile station to perform a method of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090196219 - Methods and apparatus for quality of service-based uplink polling schemes: A method for allocating polling bandwidth may include generating polling tokens corresponding to connections maintained by a base station. The polling tokens may be generated at configurable time intervals. The method may also include assigning priorities to the polling tokens. The priority of a polling token may depend on a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196220 - Mobile communication apparatus: When a browser is started up by a user, a packet call establishment request unit of a cellular phone requests the start of processing for establishing a packet call, and a communication control unit executes a packet all establishment processing. A mobile communication network sends a packet call establishment response... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090196231 - Mobile ip multiple registrations and pcc interactions: In a wireless communication system having multiple access nodes, a home agent (HA) maintains home address (HoA) for a mobile node so that an IP session can be established. As the mobile node moves within a coverage area of various access nodes, the mobile node can establish a secure relationship... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196233 - Radio communication system, radio access method, access point and gateway: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a radio communication system and a radio access method. In accordance with the embodiments of the present invention, an AP with a PDP forward function unit forwards service traffic accessing an AS to a Packet Radio Service Gateway Support Node, and sends Internet service... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090196217 - Signalling the presence of extension frames: Aspects of the invention are directed to signalling extension frames in a telecommunication system. Extension-frame-signalling data may signal whether one or more extension parts are present in one or more gaps in time between data frames, when the one or more extension parts occur, and one or more durations for... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090196223 - Transmit power controller: A transmit power control system includes: an output power estimator for estimating a transmit power of a transmitter; and a transmit power controller responsive to the output power estimator and to compare this with a requested power in order to calculate a target power which takes account of errors within... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090196216 - Wireless communication device: A wireless communication device that performs wireless communication in a multi-carrier transmission system using a frame composed of a plurality of sub-frames, which includes: an extraction part (8) extracting a modulation parameter from a modulation information sub-frame for constituting a received frame and notifying a receiving side of the modulation... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090196218 - Wireless system gateway cache: A wireless system gateway cache is presented. The gateway includes a first, wireless interface, a second interface, and a cache controller. The cache controller receives a characteristic of a parameter of a first device. The cache controller also receives a value of the parameter from the first device via the... Agent: Anthony Miologos Honeywell International Inc.

20090196236 - Method and apparatus for allocation of an uplink resource: A component in a telecommunications network including a processor configured, responsive to receiving a scheduling request from a user equipment (UE), to grant a minimum level of resource capacity to the UE for an uplink transmission from the UE to the component. The processor further configured to determine the minimum... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090196244 - Method for encoding data unit by using a plurality of crc algorithms: A wireless communication system and a terminal providing a wireless communication service and to a method by which a base station and a terminal transmit and receive data in an evolved universal mobile telecommunications system (E-UMTS) evolved from universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) or a long term evolution (LTE) system,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090196239 - Method for transmitting response information in mobile communications system: A method for transmitting radio resources in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a random access channel (RACH) preamble from a plurality of UEs and transmitting response information associated with the received preambles over a common channel wherein the plurality UEs can access the common channel... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090196240 - Method, apparatus and computer program to map a cyclic shift to a channel index: From the network perspective, an uplink resource allocation (PDCCH) is sent that grants an uplink resource to a plurality of user equipments UEs, and the allocation has an indication of a cyclic shift CS for each of the plurality of UEs. The granted uplink resource is mapped to a downlink... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090196246 - Mobile communication method, mobile communication system, and radio base station: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: notifying, from a MAC-e functional unit 10, to a first mobile station UE through a first E-AGCH, a transmission rate for the EUL in the first mobile station UE, in a 2 ms interval; notifying, from the MAC-e functional unit... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090196238 - Multiplexing pucch information: An exemplary method of communicating includes multiplexing control signaling in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) onto a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) by puncturing PUSCH data with PUCCH control information using a uniform distribution of the PUCCH information within at least one resource block of the PUSCH data. One... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C./alcatel-lucent

20090196241 - Radio base station and scheduling method: The present invention is to accommodate a large number of users required in a digital radio communication system and to prevent communication quality from deteriorating. The present invention is to prevent the occurrence of a delay by adding a process for restricting packet assignment for a call having low communication... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090196243 - Radio protocol for mobile communication system and method: Radio protocol for a next generation mobile communication system is disclosed including a radio link control layer for connecting to an upper layer through a service access point provided in advance and for connecting to a lower layer through a plurality of logic channels provided in advance. The radio link... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090196242 - Resource allocation for enhanced uplink using an acquisition indicator channel: Techniques for supporting UE operation with enhanced uplink are described. A UE may select a first signature from a first set of signatures available for random access for enhanced uplink, generate an access preamble based on the first signature, and send the access preamble for random access while operating in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196247 - Simultaneous transmission of acknowledgement, channel quality indicator and scheduling request: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate simultaneous transmission of control information in a single sub-frame. For instance, simultaneous transmission can maintain single carrier waveforms for a control channel even when a plurality of information types is scheduled in concurrently. Channel quality indicators, scheduling requests and acknowledgement messages can be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196237 - Transmission-compensated radio channel quality: A channel quality of a radio channel between a transmitter and a receiver is detected by the receiver. The channel quality is compensated for an affect of a transmission on the radio channel when the receiver detected the channel quality or an affect of a future transmission on the radio... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090196248 - Transport format combination selection in a wireless transmit/receive unit: A method and apparatus for selecting a TFC in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The WTRU estimates a transmit power for each of a plurality of available transport format combinations (TFCs). A TFC is selected for an uplink dedicated channel and a TFC is selected for an enhanced... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090196245 - Virtual scheduling in heterogeneous networks: Providing for virtual management of wireless resources in a mobile communication environment is described herein. By way of example, access terminals in the communication environment can maintain connections with nearby network transmitters and report factors pertinent to wireless scheduling to a central entity, such as a macro base station. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196249 - Base station, user device, and method used in mobile communication system: A base station used in a mobile communication system employing a single carrier scheme for uplink transmission is disclosed. The base station includes a scheduler configured to allocate one or more uplink resource blocks to a user device according to uplink channel conditions of the user device; and a reporting... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090196250 - Method and system for allocating channel measurement resources in wireless broadband access: A method for allocating resource of channel measurement in wireless broadband access includes the following steps. A subscriber station receives a channel measurement request which includes a channel to be measured and a measurement time from a base station, and performs a measurement on the channel to be measured within... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090196257 - Apparatus and method for performing handover of terminal in wireless communication system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for performing a handover of a terminal in a wireless communication system. In the method, a ranging code is transmitted to a target base station on which a handover is to be performed. A ranging response message comprising Connection Identification (CID) update information... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090196255 - Differentiating ggsn terminated pdp context from pgw terminated eps bearer during inter-rat handovers: A method and apparatus that can be used for differentiating a GGSN terminated PDP context from a PGW terminated EPS bearer during the Inter-RAT handovers are provided. The method can include checking an access point name received from a first network entity. The method can also include, when the access... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090196253 - Location based femtocell device configuration and handoff: Methods and apparatus for configuring femtocell devices for performing handoffs in a communication system. The communication system is provided with a plurality of macrocell base stations, a femtocell device, a wireless softswitch and a mobile node. In the communication system, each macrocell base station serves a macro cell, and the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090196251 - Management of a multi-application mobile carrier tree: Efficient utilization and management of integrated mobile base station carrier trees is provided herein. Such trees provide an organizational structure for allocating calls in a code division, tone division, time division and/or like mobile infrastructure. Calls can be allocated to portions of the carrier tree as a function of characteristic(s)... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20090196256 - Method and apparatus for enabling cell reselection for wtru operating in discontinuous reception: A method for discontinuous reception (DRX) implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) during cell reselection including initiating cell reselection; disabling DRX operation, wherein disabling DRX operation enables continuous reception; transmitting a CELL UPDATE message; receiving a CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message; and enabling DRX operation based on the received CELL... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090196254 - Method of performing handover in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a handover method of a mobile station in a wireless communication system, and a base station and a mobile station for the same. A list of neighboring base stations that can accept a handover of a mobile station is shared by the mobile station and... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090196252 - Wireless communication method for transmitting a sequence of data units between a wireless device and a network: Wireless communication method for transmitting a status report for a sequence of data transmitted along a wireless communication link between a wireless device and a network having a plurality of base stations, the wireless communication link having a transmitting side and a receiving side. The method comprises: on the receiving... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090196259 - Method and apparatus for serving high speed downlink shared channel cell change: A method and apparatus for serving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) cell change are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) sends a measurement report to a radio network controller (RNC) when a signal strength of a target cell approaches a signal strength of a source cell. The RNC adds... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090196258 - Switching of an infrastructure-less network to a fixed-infrastructure network: A communication session between a first terminal and a second terminal is switched from a first network with no fixed infrastructure to a second network with a fixed infrastructure upon degradation on a first transmission channel between the terminals in the first network. In each terminal, a controller detects a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090196260 - Method for signaling a modulation scheme to user equipment in a communication system: A method signals a modulation scheme to user equipment on a control channel in a communication system. The method includes encoding the modulation scheme on a modulation specifier and encoding a number of channelization codes on a code group indicator. When the modulation scheme is other than quadrature phase shift... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090196261 - Resource allocation for enhanced uplink using a shared control channel: Techniques for supporting operation with enhanced uplink are described. A user equipment (UE) may select a signature from a set of signatures available for random access for enhanced uplink, generate an access preamble based on the selected signature, and send the access preamble for random access while operating in an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196262 - Methods and apparatus for intra-user quality of service uplink scheduling: A method for intra-user quality of service (QoS) uplink scheduling may include determining scheduling types associated with active uplink connections that are maintained by the subscriber station. The method may also include determining QoS parameters corresponding to the different scheduling types. The method may also include scheduling the active uplink... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196263 - Wireless receiver: In a method for full discontinuous (DTX) control in a receiver in a wireless communication system it is determined if full DTX is allowed in a current timeslot. If not, then a full DTX indicator is set for the previous frame to false and the method ends. If full DTX... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090196264 - Dedicated channel entry method: A dedicated channel entry method for a system of digital wireless communications utilizing time division multiplex access and including a base station for voice transmission with wired connection to a command console for voice input/output and with wireless connection to a plurality of mobile station, including the steps of: executing... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090196265 - Apparatus and method for selecting a visited network: The present invention is aimed to provide a mechanism whereby a roaming user can select a visited network allowed for roaming by the home network operator among a plurality of visited networks accessible through an access network. Therefore, the present invention provides a new method, a new roaming device likely... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090196266 - Method and apparatuses for mobile communication: According to an embodiment, an apparatus such as a femto base station may include a transmitter to send via a local network an information to a mobile network for informing on an active state of apparatus. The apparatus may be configured to send the information when being switched on, or... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090196268 - System and method for indicating a subscriber's zone within converged telecommunications networks: A system and related method provide a registration request via an access point, wherein the access point is associated with a defined service zone. In response, an authorization signal to access telecommunications services is received. The authorization signal includes service zone name data for the service zone and/or at least... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090196267 - Systems and methods for providing location based services (lbs) utilizing wlan and/or gps signals for seamless indoor and outdoor tracking: Systems and methods for tracking a wireless device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the wireless device includes a hybrid global positioning system (GPS) and wireless local area network (WLAN) circuit board for seamless indoor and outdoor tracking. In embodiments, GPS and WLAN data are combined to obtain a position... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20090196269 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling access to voice resources in mobile networks using mobility management signaling messages: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling access to voice resources using mobility management messages are disclosed. According to one method, a mobility management message associated with a mobile subscriber is received. A priority level of the mobile subscriber is determined based on the mobility management message and access... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090196272 - Mobile station, base station and radio communication method: A mobile station that receives multibeam data in preceding Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) from a base station, using a plurality of antennas, includes: a code book that includes contents identical to contents of a code book installed in the base station and that includes information of beam selection for... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090196271 - Pilot signals for synchronization and/or channel estimation: The frame words of the embodiments are suitable for frame synchronization and/or channel estimation. By adding the autocorrelation and/or cross-correlation functions of frame words, double maximum values equal in magnitude and opposite polarity at zero and middle shifts are obtained. This property can be used to slot-by-slot, double-check frame synchronization... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090196270 - Radio transmission device and radio transmission method: It is possible to provide a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method capable of improving resource use efficiency without increasing or decreasing the number of Signatures. The device and the method use a Signature table having Access types, DL CQI, and Signatures uniquely correlated to one another. In... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090196273 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data in wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for a random access scheme for multi-channel in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for performing the random access scheme for the multi-channel in the wireless communication system includes randomly generating a backoff counter value to transmit data; adjusting the backoff counter value... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090196274 - Frequency error estimation: Aspects relate to frequency estimation and tracking. Frequency information is extracted based on an observation of a single symbol carrying pilot tones, which can be at any bandwidth location. Specifically, the frequency error information is extracted after selecting tones assigned to a specific user. The frequency error can be corrected... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196275 - Uplink delay budget feedback: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate signaling and/or utilizing uplink delay budget related feedback in a wireless communication environment. A lowest delay budget associated with a most urgent Radio Link Control (RLC) service data unit (SDU) retained in a buffer of an access terminal can be determined. Further, a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196276 - Internal data structure of mobile terminal for qos-based uplink data transmission, and operational methods thereof: A recording medium having an internal data structure for uplink data transmission based on QoS in a mobile terminal of an OFDMA/TDMA-based high-speed portable Internet system, the internal data structure comprising a connection identifier index indicating a predetermined connection of the mobile terminal; a service class index indicating QoS classes... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090196278 - Pilot signals for synchronization and/or channel estimation: The frame words of the embodiments are suitable for frame synchronization and/or channel estimation. By adding the autocorrelation and/or cross-correlation functions of frame words, double maximum values equal in magnitude and opposite polarity at zero and middle shifts are obtained. This property can be used to slot-by-slot, double-check frame synchronization... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090196279 - Tdm based cell search method for ofdm system: Provided are a sync channel of a forward link, a common pilot channel structure, and an initial cell search method and an adjacent cell search method for handover in a cellular system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). A cell search method in an OFDM cellular system in which a... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090196277 - Wireless network synchronization: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate synchronizing timing among wireless nodes in a wireless communication network. A tracking wireless node can synchronize to a global positioning system (GPS) signal if available. Alternatively, the tracking wireless node can receive quality metrics related to one or more target nodes. The quality... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196280 - Extension unit and handheld computing unit: An extension unit includes a connection module, a processing module, a video graphics interface module, and a user interface module. The processing module is operable to: detect coupling of the handheld computing unit to the connection module; determine identity of the handheld computing unit; determine access privileges of the handheld... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090196286 - Domain transfer method, server and controller: The present embodiments disclose a domain transfer method, a server and a controller. The domain transfer method includes: receiving a call request from a terminal, where the request carries a session transfer identifier allocated by a server in advance for identifying the session and domain transfer of the session; and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090196281 - Energy star compliant voice over internet protocol (voip) telecommunications network including energy star compliant voip devices: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications system, a method of managing a communications network in such a system and a program product therefore. The system/network includes an ENERGY STAR (E-star) aware softswitch and E-star compliant communications devices at system endpoints. The E-star aware softswitch allows E-star compliant communications devices... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090196285 - Method and apparatus for provisioning dual mode wireless client devices in a telecommunications system: Method and apparatus for provisioning a wireless multi-modal client device in a telecommunications system includes determining a provisioning environment within and a provisioning condition under which the client device is operating, determining a state of a configuration file of the client device and obtaining an updated configuration file based on... Agent: MoserIPLaw Group / Vonage

20090196284 - Method for providing an emergency call service for voip subscribers: A requirement for an emergency call is to reach the nearest emergency call centre and to transmit information to said centre concerning the location of the caller. However, a pre-defined assignment of the subscriber number of the VoIP subscriber is not necessarily given, as a VoIP subscriber can use the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090196282 - Methods and apparatus for providing quality-of-service guarantees in computer networks: An arbitration mechanism provides quality of service guarantees for time-sensitive signals sharing a local area computer network with non-time-sensitive traffic. Device adapters are placed at all access points to an Ethernet network. The device adapters limit admission rates and control the timing of all packets entering the network. By doing... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090196283 - Multi-channel generating system on wired network: The present invention relates to a multi-channel provision system for a wired network. The multi-channel provision system of the present invention includes a tap-off unit (330) for dividing a frequency band, assigned to a wired network for network communication, and providing resultant frequency bands to respective subscriber units belonging thereto.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090196287 - Method and apparatus for forwarding data in ethernet: The present invention provides a method for forwarding data in the Ethernet, an Ethernet physical layer cross apparatus, an Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) layer cross apparatus, an Ethernet IP layer cross apparatus and cross cascade systems. In the method of the present invention includes the following features: configuring cross... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090196288 - Efficient packet replication: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for efficient packet replication. In an embodiment, a packet is stored as a linked list of at least one page. Replicating the packet comprises creating a new header page and linking it to the first page of the linked list. Each replica... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090196289 - Fast-path implementation for an uplink double tagging engine: A network component for processing a packet can include a buffer configured to receive a packet in an ingress port at a network component, a first identification unit configured to identify a destination address and a network identifier from the packet received at the buffer, and a look-up table configured... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090196291 - Computer network packet classification method and system based on a nonoverlapping rule group encoding scheme: A computer network packet classification method and system based on a nonoverlapping rule group encoding scheme is proposed, which is designed for integration to a network system for classification of packets within the network system. The proposed method and system is characterized by the use of a nonoverlapping rule group... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090196292 - Method and apparatus for automatically setting ip address: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of setting an IP address of an electronic apparatus including receiving a router advertisement transmitted from the router, receiving prefix information of the router advertisement, additionally storing an IP address based upon the received prefix information as an IP address... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090196290 - On-demand mac address lookup: Described is looking up network information (e.g., port data) on demand upon receiving a (e.g., DHCP) request packet containing a MAC address. The MAC address may be looked up in a cache to find the port data. If not cached or cached but outdated, the lookup continues via a querying... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090196293 - Packet transfer unit: The present invention relates to a packet transfer unit, which comprises a search key memory that stores a search key for a transfer destination of a packet and verification information generated from the search key, in association with a storage location of transfer information memorized in a transfer information memory,... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090196294 - Packet transmission via multiple links in a wireless communication system: Techniques for generating and transmitting packets on multiple links in a wireless communication system are described. In one aspect, a transmitter generates new packets for the multiple links based on the likelihood of each link being available. The transmitter determines the likelihood of each carrier being available based on whether... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090196295 - One or more multiport systems to facilitate servicing of asyncrhonous communications events: One or more multiport systems are used to facilitate servicing of asynchronous communications events. A multiport system, such as an open collector multiport system, receives from one of a plurality of source components an asynchronous communications event directed to a target component coupled to the plurality of source components. The... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090196296 - Data verification by challenge: An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and method for data verification by challenge. The apparatus and method perform acts including: sending a hash value of a data piece in a sender; if the hash value matches a stored hash value in a receiver, then sending a challenge from... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090196297 - Inducing symmetry via multi topology routing: In one embodiment, a technique for selecting a topology, in a multi-topology routing network, based on a source-destination pair of a packet is provided. The packet may be routed on a preferred path of the selected topology. By selecting the same topology for the source-destination pair even if the source... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090196298 - Transportation of ieee 802.1ah frames over multiprotocol label switching pseudowires for virtual private lan services: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means for transportation of IEEE 802.1ah frames over Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) pseudowires for Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS). The IEEE 802.1ah frames include a corresponding B-VLAN tag, while the MPLS packets including these frames do not include the corresponding... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20090196299 - Transporting x.25-over-isdn through ip, using cugs/protocol translation: In one example embodiment, the method includes receiving an X.25 packet at a LAN interface of a network device. Further, the method includes determining whether a local CUG value is associated with the X.25 packet. The local CUG value may be replaced with a network CUG value associated with the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090196300 - Method for forwarding data packets and communication network having flooding transport properties: A method of forwarding data packets in a communication network includes the following steps: a) generating a stream of data packets at a first subscriber; b) adding to each of the data packets in the stream a recipient individualizing information to form individualized data packets; c) forwarding the individualized data... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090196301 - Methods, systems and apparatus for monitoring and/or generating communications in a communications network: A module for use in a communications network in which a plurality of signals are transmitted between respective first and second nodes, the module having an engine for receiving the plurality of signals over the network, for extracting protocol data therefrom and for providing the extracted protocol data to an... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20090196302 - Indication of service availability for a user terminal: Disclosed herein is a method for providing a user with an indication of availability of a service at a user terminal, the user terminal being connected to a gateway via a first communications link, and the gateway being connected to a service provider via a second communications link. The method... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090196303 - Switch fabric with memory management unit for improved flow control: A method for controlling a flow of packet data in a memory management unit of a network switch fabric is disclosed. A first portion of a data packet is received at a port on an ingress bus ring of the network switch fabric. A class of service for the data... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090196304 - Method and system for providing multicast contention resolution: An approach is provided for providing contention resolution for resources of a network. Individual contention resolution parameters are determined for respective multicast groups of terminals. The terminals within each of multicast groups able to perform contention resolution over a contention channel based on the respective individual contention resolution parameters.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090196305 - Control station and method for setting idle time for base station: A control station communicates with at least one base station in a wireless network system. The control station includes a storage and a controller. The storage stores reference data for calculating the idle time according to the number of terminals. When an arbitrary one of the base stations undergoes a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090196306 - Contention access to a communication medium in a communications network: A method of providing contention access to a communication medium in a communications network includes transmitting priority information with each of a plurality of network nodes prior to a shared-contention transmission opportunity. The priority information for each node indicates a priority level of a frame that the node intends to... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090196308 - Method and system for coordinating services provided by different service providers: The present invention discloses a method and a system for coordinating services provided by different service providers, the core concept of which lies in that: after obtaining a service request from a sending end, a Service Adaptor/Dispatcher Center (SADC) transfers the service request into a form supported by a receiving... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090196307 - Transmitter apparatus, receiver apparatus, moving image and audio transmission evaluation method, and computer readable storage medium storing program thereof: There is provided a transmitter that transmits a transmission packet including a group of various types of data and identification data associated with the group to a receiver apparatus. The transmitter apparatus includes a packet information storing means for storing a transmission packet table in which the identification data and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090196309 - Communication apparatus, communication system, communication method and program: A communication apparatus includes a physical layer to perform signal transmission/reception with another communication end, and a protocol conversion section (PCL) to connect an upper level user application and the physical layer. The protocol conversion section includes a parameter extraction section to extract a prescribed parameter from communication start request... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090196310 - Device and method for improved settling time in multiplexed input systems: An acquisition device and corresponding method for operating the acquisition system are provided. Generally, during operation a plurality of input signals are filtered and multiplexed. The multiplexed input signals are then applied to an amplifier stage; however, when a clamping condition for the amplifier stage occurs, a buffer is switched... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090196311 - Initiation and expiration of objects in a knowledge based framework for a multi-master synchronization environment: The subject disclosure relates to synchronizing among network nodes in a multi-master synchronization environment where a knowledge based synchronization framework is extended to include notions of initiation and/or expiration of synchronized object(s). Advantageously, according to the synchronization framework, endpoints can synchronize data in a way that allows a definition of... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090196312 - Integrated circuit: An integrated circuit multiplexes transmission data faster than by a system clock, and transfers a timing pulse Txclk for that multiplexing and a multiplexed signal Txdata from a transmitter chip 100 to a receiver chip 150 through communications by inductive coupling, respectively. Because of a transfer by inductive coupling being... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090196313 - High-data-rate communication link using multiple lower rate modems: A method for communication includes receiving a composite signal, which carries data at a first data rate and includes multiple sub-signals that are interleaved in a time domain and are separated by boundary indicators. The received composite signal is demultiplexed into the sub-signals by automatically detecting the boundary indicators between... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd