Multiplex communications inventions 09/09

20090238064 - Method of transmitting reference signal and transmitter using the same: A method and apparatus of transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A reference signal sequence is generated by using a pseudo-random sequence. A portion or entirety of the reference signal sequence is mapped to at least one resource block and is transmitted. The pseudo-random sequence... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090238063 - Methods and apparatus for diversity combining of repeated signals in ofdma systems: In accordance with a method for diversity combining in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system, repetition diversity equalization and combining may be performed with respect to received OFDMA signals. In addition, receiver antenna diversity equalization and combining may be performed with respect to the received OFDMA signals. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238065 - System and method for contention based tones in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: Systems and methods for round-trip-delay adjustment in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system are provided. In one embodiment, a method for a remote unit to request bandwidth in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) multi-point to point system comprises: transmitting a signal from a remote unit having a... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090238066 - Selection of retransmission settings for harq in wcdma and lte networks: Improvements in the performance of HARQ operation are achieved by considering two channel coding parameters, the number of filler bits F and the number of dummy bits ND, in the selection of the retransmission settings for HARQ operation. In one exemplary embodiment, an optimal RV setting for the retransmission is... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090238067 - Data transmission: In a data transmission system having a plurality of transmitters connected in a ring configuration, a band monitoring unit in each of the plurality of transmitters monitors the bandwidths of a first and a second transmission path between one of the transmitters that comprise the ring and a first and... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090238068 - Method, system and computer program product involving congestion and fault notification in ethernet: A method for sending congestion notifications from a node in an Ethernet protocol including, determining whether the node is congested, generating a congestion message including a unique identifier of the node, responsive to determining that the node is congested, and sending the congestion message to a source transmitter.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090238069 - Device and method for controlling program stream flow: A device for controlling program stream flow is described. The device is capable of saving power during computation. The device may include a de-multiplex unit and a direct memory access controller. The de-multiplex unit, for de-multiplexing a plurality of data, may include a request module for generating a request signal.... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090238072 - Method and system for load balancing using queued packet information: A computer readable medium including instructions executable by a processor to perform a method, the method including obtaining a packet by a load balancer, obtaining queued packet information for a plurality of target hosts operatively connected to the load balancer, selecting the one of the plurality of target hosts using... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090238073 - Method and system for load balancing using queued packet information: Disclosed herein is a communication control apparatus including: a bandwidth measuring section configured to measure a physical bandwidth of data communication via a communication channel; and a rate control section configured to set a threshold that does not exceed the physical bandwidth measured by the bandwidth measuring section, cause a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090238070 - Method and system to adjust cn control loop parameters at a congestion point: A method and system to adjust Congestion Notification control loop parameters at a congestion point are provided. The system comprises a monitor to sample a state of a congestion point the congestion point being to receive messages from a reaction point; a history generator to generate an updated reaction to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090238071 - System, method and apparatus for prioritizing network traffic using deep packet inspection (dpi) and centralized network controller: A method, system, and apparatus for prioritizing network traffic according to one embodiment includes receiving a packet addressed to a receiver device from a sender device, and identifying the packet in a network layer to determine an application and/or protocol associated with the packet. The method further includes generating traffic... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090238074 - Dynamic reroute of network traffic: In an example embodiment, a method is provided that receives a broadcast of available bandwidth from a first routing device. A congestion of traffic is detected along a downstream path to a second routing device. This second routing device is an immediate downstream neighbor. As such, an alternate path is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090238076 - Method and apparatus to enable an ipe domain through eigrp: In one embodiment, a system, method, and apparatus for preventing excessive transmission of routing information in a communications network occurs by receiving a network routing address at a connection node in a communications network, the network routing address allowing the transmission of data packets from a source node to a... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20090238075 - Network routing using a retransmission-time-based link metric: A system computes link costs for a multi-hop wireless network. During operation, the system receives topological information for the multi-hop wireless network which includes a set of nodes, a set of links, and a success probability for a respective link. The system then obtains an average media access time for... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090238078 - Autonomic provisioning of hosted applications with level of isolation terms: In another embodiment, the method includes providing a set of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, selecting a subset of the set of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, the subset of heterogeneous infrastructure resources is defined in a configuration template to fulfill a service level agreement (SLA) with a corresponding level of isolation, and allocating... Agent: Sap Ag

20090238079 - Method and apparatus for discovery and tracking of location of networked devices: Techniques are disclosed for discovery and tracking of locations of devices attached to a computing system network. By way of example, an automated method for determining a location of a target element in a distributed network includes the following steps. One or more locations of one or more sample topology... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090238077 - Method and apparatus for providing automated processing of a virtual connection alarm: A method and apparatus for providing automated processing of a virtual connection alarm on a packet network, e.g., a Virtual Private Network (VPN), are disclosed. For example, the method receives an alarm related to at least one virtual connection for a virtual private network (VPN) from a provider edge (PE)... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090238081 - Network management system, data acquisition apparatus, and method for checking operating conditions of nodes: Disclosed is a network management system, including: a data acquisition apparatus to receive data sent from each of a plurality of nodes to store at least latest receipt time of the data; and a management apparatus to check an operating condition of each of the nodes based on the latest... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090238080 - Tunneling loop detection control apparatus: Disclosed is a technique whereby a tunnel entry point, which encapsulates a packet (generates a tunnel packet), can detect the presence of a tunneling loop causing a packet to loop the same path while encapsulated. According to this technique, upon receipt of a packet from a source node (source) 1100,... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090238082 - Telecommunication system comprising an o&m (operation and maintenance) hierarchical layer structure: A telecommunication system comprising an O&M (Operation and Maintenance) hierarchical layer structure comprising at least two O&M nodes in at least two hierarchical layers, where O&M actions may be initiated at said nodes. The system is arranged for generation of an O&M transaction identifier when an O&M action is initiated,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090238083 - Line monitoring apparatus and line monitoring method: A line monitoring apparatus includes a state change detection number counter configured to count a state change detection number that is a number of a state change in a line being detected by a first type detecting process; and a state change frequency determiner configured to determine whether or not... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090238084 - Network monitoring using a proxy: A method and apparatus for network monitoring using a proxy are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method generally comprises receiving at a proxy, path information for a label switched path (LSP) from a forwarding device located in the LSP, generating a connectivity verification message based on the path information, adding... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20090238090 - Common data channel resource usage report: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate indicating channel resource usage information for receiving additional channel resources in a wireless network. An access point can initially receive a set of channel resources from a network controller for providing wireless network access to one or more devices. The access point can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238089 - Ethernet transmission method, transmission apparatus and system: The present invention, provides an Ethernet transmission apparatus comprising a first and second MEPs provided for each of transmission lines of operational and non-operational systems and for performing the transmission/reception of a frame to be transmitted over each transmission line in a duplexed manner, and a switching processing part for... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090238087 - Intelligent heterogeneous, mobile, ad-hoc communication network: The present invention relates to a Mobile Ad Hoc Network that possesses sufficient intelligence to handle a collection of devices that differ in terms of features either inherent to the device or the environment in which they operate. The different features inherent to the device may consist of different hardware... Agent: Penny Shikowitz

20090238085 - Method and apparatus for measuring voice quality on a voip network: In a method and apparatus for measuring voice quality of an endpoint in a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) network, a plurality of network quality parameters are determined for the endpoint. A voice quality factor for the endpoint is determined in real time based on the network quality parameters.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090238091 - Monitoring control channel in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus of monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is disclosed. A starting location of a search space in a control region of a subframe k is acquired. The search space is defined by a set of PDCCHs at each aggregation level. The set of PDCCHs from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090238088 - Network traffic analyzing device, network traffic analyzing method and network traffic analyzing system: A network traffic analyzing device accurately analyzes traffic of a communications network. The traffic analysis device includes a real time monitoring unit configured to collect information regarding communication data between a primary network and an access network from a traffic collecting device in real time; an alert managing/notifying unit that... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090238086 - Rank dependent cqi back-off: In a wireless communication network UE, an estimated signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) is calculated for each potential transmission mode, and is reduced by a calculated SINR back-off value in response to errors detected in decoding data in each of a plurality of data streams. A Channel Quality... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090238093 - Electronic device, ad hoc network establishment method, and program product: In at least one embodiment of the disclosure an electronic device includes a search unit configured to search wireless communication devices for channels provided for establishing an ad hoc network. A measuring unit is configured to measure a receiving level of wireless signals received from the devices found by the... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090238092 - Method and apparatus for analyzing network having a plurality of links: Provided are an apparatus for and a method of analyzing a network, for example, an asymmetric network having a plurality of links, and a wireless device for use in the network. A method of analyzing a network having a plurality of links includes performing one or more operations of sampling... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090238094 - Transmission apparatus and method for transmitting data based on a communication mode determined employing information on an error rate: A transmission apparatus and method updates a communication mode selection table that updates a communication mode selection table correctly and selects an optimal MCS according to an actual channel condition. A buffer temporarily stores calibration data to be transmitted for updating a table. A scheduler performs scheduling of data to... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090238096 - Apparatus and method for dynamically updating and communicating within flexible networks: A software-based application dynamically updates user lists and enables communication between various network communication devices within a wireless network. The software-based application automatically builds and maintains a list of available users associated with the network communication devices in real-time, without reliance on a centralized server for authentication. Various types of... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090238099 - Dynamic home network assignment: A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes establishing a connection with a gateway device in a wireless network. This includes receiving a configuration packet from the gateway device that identifies home mobility options. The method processes at least one home network address from the home mobility options.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238097 - Method and device for building of a network coding scheme for data transmission, corresponding computer program product and storage means: m

20090238098 - Method and system for the indication of long drx in a wireless network: Methods and apparatus for configuring a discontinuous reception ‘DRX’ period at from an evolved Node B for a user equipment, including: sending a long DRX MAC CE from the eNB if preconditions are met, and at the UE determining whether a short DRX period is configured; if no, setting a... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090238095 - Methods and systems for network channel capacity planning, measuring and analyzing of wlan networks: An apparatus and method for network channel capacity planning, measuring, and analyzing of WLAN networks are presented. In one embodiment, the method includes importing network and node configuration of an existing physical wireless local area network (WLAN) deployment from WLAN surveying system that captures and analyzes WLAN traffic in order... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090238101 - Network topology formation: 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 listen for a period of time for an incoming pilot signal from a remote terminal that exceeds a threshold power level for the purpose of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238100 - System and method of mapping and analyzing vulnerabilities in networks: Systems and methods for mapping and analyzing vulnerabilities in networks. In one embodiment, a network is mapped, comprising: converting network line data into point data; associating the point data with cells of a grid overlaying the network; and analyzing the network by determining the relationship of the point data to... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090238102 - Generating an estimated non-linear echo signal: Embodiments of a method and apparatus for generating an estimated non-linear echo signal are disclosed. One method includes receiving a plurality of data inputs. The plurality of data inputs are partitioned into subsets. A weight vector is computed for each of the subsets. A vector of addresses to memory locations... Agent: Teranetics

20090238103 - Wireless communication device: A wireless communication device capable of restraining interference and thereby improving transmission quality. A wireless controller includes a wireless communication interface, and a baseband controller includes a baseband communication interface for controlling the transfer/reception of baseband signals, a logic circuit, and a memory. The wireless communication interface and the baseband... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090238105 - Method for avoiding unnecessary excessive stay of short cycle in discontinuous reception mechanism: A method for avoiding unnecessary excessive stay of short cycle in discontinuous reception mechanism begins by using the short cycle while the short cycle timer is running. Then, it determines whether the inactivity timer expires or not and whether the short cycle timer expires or not. If the inactivity timer... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090238104 - Mobile computation device and data packet reception method thereof: The present invention provides a mobile computation device and a data packet reception method thereof. The mobile computation device comprising a network communication module and a mobile computation unit, wherein the mobile computation device has a power supply for supplying power to the network communication module when the mobile computation... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090238107 - Method for bearer control and deletion, data distribution, and modification: A method for bearer control, bearer deletion, data distribution, and multicast broadcast service MBS modification are described, which enables MBS data to be received successfully and MBS sessions to be managed effectively. According to the invention involved in a communication field, service distribution information for one MBS service is maintained... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090238106 - Signaling and management of broadcast-multicast waveform embedded in a unicast waveform: Embodiments describe overlaying a broadcast multicast channel on top of a unicast network. Messages can be generated by protocols in a broadcast/multicast (BCMC) stack and tunneled through an IRTP of a serving access node. These messages can be transmitted on a BCMC channel and/or a unicast channel. Other messages can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238108 - Relay device: A relay device receives transfer data from a transfer-source terminal and transfers the received transfer data to a transfer-destination terminal via relaying performed by another relay device. When the transfer data is received, the relay device establishes direct communication with the other relay device if information regarding the other relay... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090238112 - Apparatus and method for location information service of terminal in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for a location information service of a terminal in a broadband wireless communication system re provided. The method includes receiving a first location information request message requesting location information of the MS from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) server; forwarding the first location information request... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090238111 - Apparatus for flow control: Disclosed is a technique which enables a mobile node (MN) connected to a mobile router (MR) to carry out flow filtering in a mobile network. This technique allows an MN 25 in a mobile network 24 to set a policy needed for the flow filtering in an MR 10 and,... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090238110 - Base station apparatus and method for controlling base station apparatus: In a base station apparatus (12), a timing information calculating part (22) calculates timing information indicating a timing when each transmission buffer (40) becomes empty. A packet flow control part (26) selects at least one transmission buffer (40) based on each piece of the timing information calculated by the timing... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090238117 - Cell selection and reselection for closed subscriber group cells: A method for applying a priority of a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell, including receiving priority information for each of a plurality of communication frequencies over which the CSG cell can communicate; storing the priority information at a wireless transmit/receive unit; and applying the priority information to at least one... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090238114 - Cell selection and reselection in deployments with home nodebs: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate cell search, selection, and reselection within a wireless communication network that includes a home node base station (home nodeB). A user equipment (UE) can detect a home nodeB and communicate such identification to a macro network that includes at least one node base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238115 - Communication apparatus and method for controlling communication apparatus: A communication apparatus provides a first transfer unit for transferring a first packet received from a base station to a second home agent, the first packet to be sent from a first mobile station to a second mobile station as a destination, the first terminal and the second terminal being... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090238116 - Method and apparatus for media access control -based fast cell switching for high-speed packet access: Methods and apparatuses for facilitating switching HSPA (high speed packet access) serving cells from each of an RNC (radio network controller), base station, and access terminal are provided. The RNC pre-configures an access terminal and each base station in an active set for HS-DSCH operation by providing identification codes identifying... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238109 - Method for qualified route building in a wireless network: A method of establishing a qualified route in a mesh network includes transmitting a route-discovery request from a source node such that transmitting includes transmitting the route-discovery request from the source node to at least one intermediate node that is a neighbor node to the source node, receiving the route-discovery... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090238118 - Reducing cost of cellular backhaul: Methods and systems for reducing the cost of cellular backhaul are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090238119 - Wireless communication system having mobility-based content delivery: A portable subscriber access unit includes a wireless transceiver and a processor. The processor controls the transceiver, determines a mobility state of the access unit, and determines a data packet content type. The transceiver transmits the mobility state, receives service rights based on the mobility state, and transmits the data... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090238113 - Wireless communications apparatus: A preamble for use in a packet based communication system is defined on the basis of a preamble for use in a legacy packet based communication system. The preamble is constructed by extracting from the legacy preamble a pilot symbol sequence in frequency of the legacy preamble, replicating the pilot... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238133 - Communication apparatus and communication method, communication system, and computer program: A communication system includes a plurality of communication stations arranged to respectively transmit a beacon on which beacon time information related to a beacon received from a peripheral communication station is placed at a predetermined transmission interval and control a beacon transmission timing of its own station while a collision... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090238126 - Communication system, mobile station, and communication method: A communication system includes a mobile station and a base station. The mobile station calculates estimated TA information based on the position of the mobile station and an amount of propagation path delay. The mobile station determines, based on TA information transmitted from the base station and the estimated TA... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090238120 - Dynamic scheduling overwriting of semi-persistent allocation in an uplink: A user equipment (UE) comprising a processor such that, responsive to the UE having a large packet to transmit and where the large packet is larger than a semi-persistent resource allocated to the UE, the processor is configured to promote transmission of a buffer status report in one of the... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090238129 - Mathod for configuring different data block formats for downlink and uplink: A method for establishing a radio bearer in a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving configuration information about a specific protocol layer, the configuration information indicating separate configuring of a downlink data block format and an uplink data block format for an... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090238124 - Method and apparatus for combined medium access control and radio link control processing: A method and apparatus for combined medium access control (MAC) and radio link control (RLC) processing are disclosed. For uplink processing, a combined MAC/RLC (CMR) entity generates an SDU descriptor and allocates protocol data unit (PDU) descriptor resources. A protocol engine (PE) populates a PDU descriptor for each PDU carrying... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090238131 - Method and apparatus for resource management in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate improved resource management in a wireless communication system. As described herein, supergroups can be formed from groups of Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Channels (PHICHs) such that respective PHICH supergroups are multiplexed onto respective non-overlapping resource element subsets, thereby improving resource usage efficiency... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238125 - Method and device for allocation of transmission rate in a radio telecommunication network: The present invention relates to a node and a method for allocation of transmission rates to a mobile terminal for sending packet data over an air interface in a radio telecommunications network by sending messages to the mobile terminal using at least a first radio channel. The invention comprises: providing... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090238122 - Method for allocating non-dedicated resource as a dedicated resource: A method of allocating resources and signatures of a random access resource (RACH) (200) that includes dedicated (202) and non-dedicated (204) resources or sub-resources is disclosed. The network device determines if the dedicated resource is available for allocation. If the dedicated resource is available, the network device allocates the dedicated... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090238130 - Method for allocating radio resources, radio base station, and mobile station: A method for allocating uplink radio resources to a radio communication device includes transmitting a polling signal; allocating radio resources for data transmission based on a response signal to the polling signal; suspending transmission of the polling signal when it is determined that a condition to omit the transmission of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090238128 - Method of data communication in a wireless communication system: A method of data communication in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method of receiving data in a user equipment of a wireless communication system comprises receiving scheduling information from a network, the scheduling information including downlink (DL) resource assignment information and an indicator; if the scheduling information includes... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090238127 - Mobile communication system: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mobile communication system which comprises a plurality of base stations each accommodating mobile terminals via radio channels, and base station control devices connecting the base stations to an Internet Protocol (IP) network via cable channels, and achieves voice... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090238123 - Radio transmission device and radio transmission method: Disclosed are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method capable of containing a plenty of mobile stations for receiving low-rate data and avoiding lowering a system throughput. A group ID assigning unit (108) groups UE receiving low-rate data and assigns a frequency by using the group ID. An... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090238135 - System and method for providing voice over internet protocol quality of service support in a wireless communication network: A system for providing Quality of Service (QoS) for voice over internet protocol (VoIP) provides a remote station with the address of an SIP proxy server. The initiates a VoIP service flow by sending an Invite to the proxy server via a bay station. If the service flow is authorized,... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090238121 - Techniques for reducing communication errors in a wireless communication system: A technique for operating a wireless communication device includes transmitting a scheduling request from the wireless communication device and receiving, following the scheduling request, an uplink grant that assigns an uplink channel to the wireless communication device. A time period between the scheduling request and the uplink grant is determined.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090238136 - Uplink power headroom definition for e-dch in cell_fach: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate reporting an uplink power headroom (UPH) during an E-DCH transmission in a CELL_FACH state. For a E-DCH transmission, a reduced measurement period can be utilized in order to report a UPH measurement. In particular, the reduced measurement period can be less than 100... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238132 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus includes: a communication module configured to wirelessly communicate with first and second counterpart communication apparatuses through a wireless channel during a period in which the wireless channel is allowed to be exclusively used, wherein the communication module multiplexes first and second data frames and transmits the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090238134 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless transmission method and wireless reception method: A wireless communication apparatus that transmits a wireless signal, the wireless communication apparatus including a dividing unit that divides data transmitted in a data area of a frame format of the wireless signal into a plurality of segments. The wireless communication apparatus includes an encoding unit that encodes the data... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090238137 - Base station and method of generating a synchronization channel: A synchronization channel is generated by generating, as a P-SCH basic waveform, a signal sequence in which codes with constant amplitude in a frequency domain are placed at intervals of a predetermined number of subcarriers; transforming the signal sequence into a time domain; multiplying the signal sequence transformed into the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090238139 - Apparatus and method for providing service for media independent handover: A service providing method and apparatus provides a service for a media independent handover (MIH). A first node receives a first message from a second node, the first message including information about whether the second node supports a service through first layer and whether the second node supports a service... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090238140 - Gateway apparatus and handover method: A gateway apparatus for exchanging packet between a home agent and a mobile station, and being a destination gateway apparatus to which the mobile station is connected by handover, having a transmission unit which transmits to the home agent a simultaneous registration request requesting simultaneous registration of a bi-directional tunnel... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090238141 - Method and apparatus for handover in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate system frame number (SFN) indication and identification during a random access procedure (e.g., associated with a handover). As described herein, a target cell can configure one or more Random Access Responses (RARs) designated for transmission to a terminal during the access phase of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238145 - Method and apparatus for wireless communication with low-overhead mobility management: A method and apparatus for supporting handover of mobile communications is provided. A router performs routing services in a service area. The router maintains a location table configured to store current router addresses of mobile nodes that have the router as a home router. The router receives data intended for... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090238144 - Method and apparatus of feedback signaling: A method and apparatus of feedback signaling using a high speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH) includes transmitting to a first cell a first uplink feedback signal that includes channel quality information (CQI) associated with the first cell. A second uplink feedback signal that includes CQI information associated with a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090238143 - Method and apparatus to enable fallback to circuit switched domain from packet switched domain: A method and apparatus are used to perform a Circuit Switched (CS) fallback in wireless communications. The Non-Access Stratum (NAS) of the apparatus determines whether to perform a CS fallback based on an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) registration status, and sends a service request indicating a request to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090238142 - Method for transmitting pdcp status report: A method of transmitting PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) status reports, is performed by a mobile terminal by receiving, from an upper layer, a request for PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) re-establishment; detecting whether there are any out-of-sequence PDCP SDUs (service data units) stored; and if there is at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090238146 - Optimized data reconnect: A method of optimizing reconnection of a point to point protocol link layer in a mobile device comprising the steps of: monitoring whether the mobile device has entered a new zone; starting a stabilization period when the mobile device enters a new zone; checking whether the mobile device enters a... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090238138 - Relocation method of serving radio network controller to avoid the interference caused by ue measurement report: A relocation method of SRNC to avoid the interference caused by UE measurement report. For the relocation process of SRNC without other accompanying flow, or the relocation process accompanying with cell update or registration area update, firstly, by sending measurement control when start to relocate, UE does not report the... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090238147 - System and method of transitioning between cellular and voice over internet protocol communication: A computer implemented method includes determining, at a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) base station, that a mobile device capable of communicating via a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) and via the WLAN is within a range of the WLAN base station. The computer implemented method includes sending a registration... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090238148 - Arrangement and method in a mobile communication network: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for obtaining efficient radio resource allocation in a mobile communication network comprising a communication network entity (15) and at least one user equipment (18) transmitting data to said mobile communication network entity (15) over a radio interface. A first data transmission... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090238150 - High speed download packet access communication in a cellular communication system: A cellular communication system supports High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) services. A first transceiver (201) transmits HSDPA downlink packet data in a first cell and a second transceiver (203) transmits HSDPA downlink packet data in a second cell. A cell overlap processor (205) can determine that a remote station... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090238151 - Method and apparatus for enabling quick paging in telecommunication systems: In a communication system, whether different transmitting stations use the same method or different methods of assigning quick paging code words to receiving stations, the receiving stations in a paging area assume that the same quick paging code words are used by all base stations in the paging area. To... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090238152 - Method of assigning transmission channels in a telecommunications network and user station: A method of assigning transmission channels in a telecommunications network and a user station are provided, which facilitate an increase in the capacity of a telecommunications network. The telecommunications network may include multiple base stations and mobile stations, the transmission channels being provided for transmitting signals between the base stations... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090238149 - Wireless communication method, wireless base station, wireless terminal, and wireless communication system: A first wireless base station providing a first wireless zone encodes a first signal to be transmitted to the first wireless zone at a first coding rate, and transmits the signal at a first transmitting power to the first wireless zone. A second wireless base station belonging to the first... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090238153 - Medium access for de-centralized wireless network: A method of wireless medium access for establishing a decentralized wireless network, the method comprising broadcasting of beacon frames by each of a plurality of devices; listening, at each device, for beacon frames of other devices; identifying, at each device, other devices who's beacon frames have been heard; and forming... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20090238154 - Method for synchronization of assemblies in a base station: A method synchronizes assemblies in a base station to a reference clock signal. A local clock signal and a frame are formed in a first assembly. The clock signal and the frame are transmitted, using a synchronous transmission with a predictable propagation time, to a second assembly. A reference clock... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090238155 - Multi-carrier allocation using reciprocal nature of uplink and downlink in time division duplex to use just uplink pilots: In order to improve efficiency for sub-carrier allocation in a TDM multi-carrier system, the invention provides a novel frame structure and corresponding method and apparatus. During a centralized short period, each terminal sends a probe message including a predefined sequence to a network device and the network device estimates the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090238156 - System and method for antenna training of beamforming vectors by selective use of beam level training: A system and method of performing a beam discovery between a device and a plurality of other devices in a wireless network is disclosed. Sector training sequences to a plurality of other devices are transmitted via a transmit directional antenna having a set of transmit sectors. A plurality of feedback... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090238164 - Adaptive communication system, communication terminal, communication method and access point: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an adaptive communication system, communication method, communication terminal and Access Point (AP). The system includes: an application mode information obtaining module, configured to obtain information about the application mode supported by the network; and an AP, configured to: provide a communication terminal with... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090238157 - Enhanced scanning for access entities: The invention proposes a method for detecting an access entity in a network comprising the access entity and a device for wireless communication, wherein the detection is performed with respect to a changeable parameter, and for each specified parameter the following steps are performed: buffering data packets to be transmitted... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090238160 - Hybrid multiple access method and system in wireless networks with extended content free access period: A method for communicating in a network including a coordinator node and a set of leaf nodes transmits periodically, from the coordinator node to the set of leaf nodes, a beacon defining a superframe, wherein the supper frame includes an active period and an inactive period, and wherein the active... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090238163 - Method and system for determining and optimizing throughput of short range wireless network: Methods and systems for determining and optimizing a throughput of a short range wireless network are provided. The method mainly includes acquiring respective time parameters in a contention access period based on information transmission characteristics of the short range wireless network; and computing and optimizing the throughput of the short... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090238159 - Mobile communication system and communication control method: A mobile communication system for connecting a terminal to service networks includes a wireless access network device, a gateway device, and a mobility management device. The wireless access network device connects to the terminal. The gateway device establishes a plurality of tunnels connecting the terminal to the service networks and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090238158 - Packet fragment adaptation for improved coexistence: This disclosure relates to transmitting wireless packets between multiple stations and changing the duration or fragmentation of the packets.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090238161 - System and method for detecting wireless base stations: A system for detecting wireless base stations and a method thereof are provided. The system includes a detection module, a count module, a storage module, and a switch module. The method includes sending a detection request to a channel, determining whether a wireless base station corresponding to the channel physically... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090238162 - Wireless base station, communication control method and program storage medium: A wireless base station according to an aspect of the present invention is one of a plurality of base stations each forming a wireless area and communicating with a mobile station within the wireless area. The wireless base station includes a reception unit configured to receive a connect request from... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090238165 - Providing a time offset between scheduling request and sounding reference symbol transmissions: A user equipment (UE) including a processor configured to promote scheduling transmission of a series of scheduling requests offset a series of sounding reference symbols.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090238166 - Method for realtime digital processing of communications signals: In a communications or jamming system, accurate timing of the transmission of digitally processed signals is accomplished through the use of standard off-the-shelf components. In order to eliminate the need for high-cost, difficult to develop, specific digital hardware or realtime synchronous software not available from the standard off-the-shelf components, the... Agent: Robert K. Tendler

20090238167 - Redundant data forwarding storage: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for redundant data forwarding. A method includes, in two or more networks of interconnected computer system nodes, receiving a request from a source system in a first network to store data, directing the data to a first computer memory in a first network,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090238169 - Call intercept for voice over internet protocol (voip): A device receives, from a calling party, a call to a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) subscriber, and generates a request for the calling party to record information. The device also receives information from the calling party based on the request, and provides the information from the calling party and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090238168 - Communication node and method for handling sip communication: The present invention relates to a communication node and method for connecting and maintaining a call between a caller device and a callee device. The communication node comprises a session controller module and a plurality of internal SIP UA (Session Initiation Protocol User Agent) servers. The session controller module is... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090238177 - Internet protocol telephony voice/video message deposit and retrieval: A method for signaling an Integrated Messaging System (IMS) on an Internet Protocol (IP) based network to deposit a message, including the steps of sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SIP INVITE request to the IMS indicating a message deposit action; receiving a corresponding SIP message from the IMS agreeing... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090238172 - Ip phone terminal, server, authenticating apparatus, communication system, communication method, and recording medium: A transfer unit transfers a message between a network and an external terminal. An input unit inputs a user ID for identifying a user. A generating unit generates a registration message requesting a registration of address information of the user. A transmitting unit transmits the registration message to a server.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090238170 - Method and system for providing voice over ip (voip) to wireless mobile communication devices: A wireless voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) system comprises a VOIP-enabled wireless communication device (WCD) and a VOIP gateway. The WCD includes a short-range wireless interface and a client application configured to place and receive VOIP calls through the short-range wireless interface. The VOIP gateway includes a short-range wireless interface... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20090238176 - Method, telephone system and telephone terminal for call session: A method for call session, an IP telephone system and an IP telephone terminal are disclosed, the method including: receiving a call session operation signal from a first IP telephone terminal; detecting based on the call session operation signal whether a second IP telephone terminal using the same telephone number... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090238174 - Service handling in a service providing network: A method is described for handling services in a service providing network. The network comprises a serving network node connected to one or more application servers. The method comprises the steps of a first terminal comprising one or more services, preferably VoIP services, sending a registration message to the serving... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090238175 - 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

20090238171 - Telecommunications system and method for connecting several csta clients to a pbx: A system connects a plurality of CSTA Clients to a communications system that supports only one CSTA Client at a time, such as a PBX. The system includes a server or other processor programmed to provide a CSTA dialog with each of the plurality of CSTA Clients, and a single... Agent: Overhauser Law Offices, LLC Docketing Department

20090238173 - Voip integrating system and method thereof: An internet phone integrating system includes a PC, a VoIP phone, a softphone, an HID signal-transmitting unit, and a media transmitting unit. The VoIP phone provides an HID inputting signal. The softphone provides an HID outputting signal and a media controlling signal and decodes an audio coding streaming to a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090238178 - Method, system, and computer program product for implementing stream processing using a reconfigurable optical switch: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing stream processing are provided. The system includes an application framework and applications containing dataflow graphs managed by the application framework running on a first network. The system also includes at least one circuit switch in the first network having a configuration... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090238180 - Communications switching architecture: Presently described is a system and method for switching multimedia data communications, including but not limited to Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony, cable TV, digital audio and video. The system utilizes a single, integrated device to provide all PacketCable-compliant functionality, including enhanced user privacy, compliance with CALEA, E911 and other... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090238179 - Destination mac aging of entries in a layer 2 (l2) forwarding table: In one embodiment, entries in an address table of the forwarding engine in a linecard or supervisor are updated to a current time value when the MAC address in the entry matches the destination MAC address of a received packet to prevent flooding if the linecard or supervisor is a... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20090238181 - Network packet steering via configurable association of processing resources and network interfaces: Methods and systems are provided for steering network packets. According to one embodiment a method is provided for steering incoming network packets. Each network packet processing resource of a network routing/switching device is dynamically assigned to one or more network interfaces of the network routing/switching device. Each of the network... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20090238183 - Packet processing system and method thereof: A packet processing system for a network packet delivery device and a method thereof are provided. The packet processing system includes a packet receiving module for receiving packets transmitted from an external device; a packet replication module for replicating the packets received by the packet receiving module, wherein the number... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090238182 - Tree-type broadcast system, method of instructing mode switch, broadcast device, and broadcast process program: p

20090238184 - Content driven packet switch: A packet switch routes data packets based on both packet headers and data payloads in the data packets. The packet switch receives data packets, identifies a destination port of the packet switch for each data packet based on a packet header of the data packet, and routes the data packet... Agent: Glass & Associates

20090238187 - Distributed method for minimum delay multi-hop data delivery in vehicular networks: An inventive method for data delivery in a multi-hop vehicular network with multiple vehicles and intersections is presented. The method comprises, at each source vehicle, initiating packet flow, labeling packets with destination coordinates and a current location, and forwarding the packet flow, and at each intersection, selecting a header vehicle,... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090238186 - Interface system and method of controlling thereof: Provided are an interface system and a method of controlling the interface system. The interface system may include a memory, a first processor, a second processor, and an interface unit. The memory may be configured to store received data in packets. The first processor may be configured to analyze a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090238188 - Method and device for forwarding information: An information forwarding method includes obtaining data information to be forwarded which carries a route indicator indicating a destination edge network, obtaining route information to a border router in the destination edge network according to the route indicator, and sending the data information to the border router in the destination... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090238185 - Relay based header compression: Relays can be used to facilitate communication of a packet, such as from a base station to a mobile device. The packet can include a header that designates an intended destination for the packet. The header can transfer such that the intended destination designation can be sent with or without... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238189 - Method and system for classifying network traffic: A system includes a physical NIC associated with the computer and including receive rings for storing network traffic addressed to the VNIC, where the receive rings include a local receive ring for storing local traffic and a forwarding receive ring for storing forwarding traffic. The physical NIC further includes a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090238190 - Ethernet virtualization using a network packet alteration: A method of Ethernet virtualization using network packet alteration. The method comprises receiving network packets from a host destined for transmission over a network, checking whether the network packets have headers, if the packets do not have headers, forming a first portion of the header using firmware, storing the formed... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090238192 - In-band dpi application awareness propagation enhancements: Various exemplary embodiments are a method and related device and computer-readable medium including one or more of the following: receiving a packet sent from the source node to the destination node; associating the packet with an active flow by accessing information in the packet; performing deep packet inspection (DPI) to... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090238191 - Topology arrangement for achieving reliable communication in wireless automotive networks: A wireless network arrangement includes an enclosure having a hindrance to wireless communication. The hindrance includes a fixed barrier and/or a space for accommodating a moveable barrier. At least three wireless electronic nodes are wirelessly and communicatively coupled to each other. A broadcast range of the nodes is greater than... Agent: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20090238193 - Access router, service control system, and service control method: A service is transparently provided to a mobile terminal device without the mobile terminal device knowing an address of a service providing device or a device which relays a packet in a network. A packet between the service providing device which provides a service and a mobile terminal device 10... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090238195 - Different ip interfaces in a communication network system: A control apparatus determines a user plane interface type via which a call is to be processed, indicates the user plane interface type in a termination reservation message and transmits the termination reservation message. A gateway apparatus receives the termination reservation message, determines the user plane interface type from the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090238194 - Pstn bypass for ip media: A system and method for falling back to a secondary network when there is insufficient quality on a primary network is disclosed. The present invention uses a PSTN as a fallback for the IP media when the IP network cannot pass the media acceptably and while continuing to use the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090238196 - Network system and relay device: when a network system of the present invention performs a bandwidth-guaranteed communication, a terminal device collects information on one or more relay devices on a path to another terminal device via a bandwidth request packet transmitted to the another terminal. When the bandwidth cannot be allocated, a detour path is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090238197 - Ethernet virtualization using assisted frame correction: A method for Ethernet virtualization using assisted frame correction. The method comprises receiving at a host adapter data packets from a network, storing the received data packets in host memory, storing the received data packets in a hardware queue located on the host adapter, setting a status indicator reflecting the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090238198 - Packing switching system and method: A packing switching system and method is disclosed. A pipelined processor processes image pixels to generate a number of bit streams. Subsequently, a packing unit packs the bit streams into packets in a way that the bit stream or streams with minimum pixel order number are packed before other bit... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090238199 - Wideband upstream protocol: Some embodiments of the present invention may include a method to stream packets into a queue for an upstream transmission, send multiple requests for upstream bandwidth to transmit data from the queue and receiving multiple grants to transmit data, and transmit data from the queue to the upstream as grants... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090238200 - Method and arrangement relating to admission control of broadband services: A broadband access node and method for controlling access by end users to services over communication channels. A resource admission control mechanism includes a first memory for storing information about a currently available transmission capacity on an uplink channel, a second memory for storing information about a currently available transmission... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090238202 - Random phase multiple access system with meshing: A method of communicating through a random phase multiple access network is provided. A signal that has been spread using a pseudo-noise code and offset by a random timing offset and that contains payload data is received from a device. A destination is selected for the payload data based on... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090238201 - Uplink transmitter in a random phase multiple access communication system: A method for communicating through a multiple access communication interface includes receiving a first signal from a first tag, where the first signal is spread using a predetermined pseudo-noise (PN) code, and further where the first signal includes first payload data. A second signal is received from a second tag.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090238203 - Network interface and detection module to enable network communication within information handling systems: A network interface and detection module to enable network communication within information handling systems is disclosed. According to an aspect, a network interface module is disclosed. The network interface module can include a housing including a first cavity configured to receive a first network plug having a first dimension. The... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20090238204 - System and method for obtaining cross compatibility with a plurality of thin-client platforms: Techniques for use within computer systems that communicate with multiple different terminal systems using multiple different terminal protocols are disclosed. In one embodiment, a partial protocol converter module is installed in a computer server system to enable the computer server system to communicate with terminal systems that use terminal protocol... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090238205 - Methods and apparatuses for transmitting sua signaling network management message: A method for transmitting an SUA signaling network management message includes: upon the determination that the received signaling network management message is an SUA signaling network management message and the signaling point with a changed state is an IP signaling point according to the address information in the SUA signaling... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090238206 - Band control method and communication apparatus: The present invention intends to improve communication efficiency between two communication apparatuses each engaged in the communication by full duplex communication method by using a surplus band of the one to transmission band of the other. A first bandwidth required by a first communication apparatus (A) at data transmission and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090238207 - Dynamic aggregated maximum bit rate for evolved packet system non-guaranteed bit rate quality of service enforcement and network bandwidth utilization: A system is provided for specifying a dynamic aggregated maximum bit rate (AMBR). The system includes a processor configured to determine whether a change in the AMBR currently applicable to a first network component should be requested. If a change in the AMBR is requested, the processor is configured to... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090238208 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus wherein the throughput is improved. In a wireless communication apparatus (100), a frame generating part (120) adds a header to a data portion to form a transport frame. A control part (190) acquires a variation index in a propagation path and decides the length of the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090238209 - Method for transmitting fragmented packets, communication system, and tunnel equipment: A method for transmitting fragmented packets, a communication system and tunnel equipment are disclosed herein to enable fragmented packets to traverse the NAT or firewall. The method includes: the first tunnel equipment receives an IP fragmented packet and converts it into a non-fragmented packet, and transmits the non-fragmented packet to... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090238210 - Slotted mode acquisition: A method for conserving resources in a communication system includes entering an awake state from a sleep state at a first time, where the first time occurs a predetermined period prior to a communication event. The predetermined period is greater than or equal to a worst-case determination period for determining... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090238211 - Method, system and computer program product involving congestion detection in ethernet: A method for determining data packet transmission times in an Ethernet protocol including, receiving a first data packet having a first data packet send time, wherein the first data packet send time is a time the data packet is sent by a source transmitter, subtracting the first data packet send... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090238212 - System and method for transferring high-definition multimedia signals over four twisted-pairs: A system and method for transferring high-definition multimedia signals over four twisted-pairs. The system includes a multimedia source for transmitting multimedia data and source-to-sink management data to a multimedia sink over a first channel, a second channel and a third channel wherein the multimedia source is further being capable of... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090238213 - Network synchronization system and information processing device: In a network synchronization system including plural information processing devices, a first information processing device includes a synchronization-use common storage unit configured to copy and store first information for each user authorized to use the first information processing device, so that the first information can be shared with another information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090238214 - Time synchronization method, time synchronization equipment and network communication system: A time synchronization method includes the following steps. First, network communication equipment receives time information sent by at least two time servers respectively, in which the time information includes time synchronization status information of each of the time servers. Then, it is determined whether time synchronization status of each of... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090231989 - Method and apparatus for interference reduction: A method and apparatus for reducing interference caused by an interfering signal are disclosed for use in an access node, such as a base station, communicating with at least one mobile terminal in a wireless network, the method comprising the following steps: receiving information related to at least one data... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090231990 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving multiple codewords in sc-fdma system: The present invention relates a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data using multiple codewords in a communication system using SC-FDMA (single carrier frequency division multiple access). A transmitter generates the multiple codewords for user data and transmits the generated multiple codewords. A receiver receives the multiple codewords and sequentially performs... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090231991 - Transmitter apparatus, receiver apparatus, transmitting method, receiving method, and program: A serial-parallel converter 102 of a transmitter apparatus receives an input of a signal to be transmitted and serial-parallel-converts this to output m (m≧2) number of intermediate signals. A unitary matrix modulator 103 modulates the output m number of intermediate signals into a unitary matrix of m rows and m... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20090231994 - Demodulating circuit, demodulating method, program, and receiving device: Disclosed herein is A demodulating circuit including: an FFT processing section; an intercarrier interferential component removing section; an extracting section; a transmission path characteristics estimating section; an interpolating section; a symbol sequence estimating section; and an interference replica generating section.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090231992 - Method for designing operation schedules of fft and mimo-ofdm modem thereof: The present invention provides a method for designing operation schedules of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) and a multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modem (MIMO-OFDM modem) thereof. According to the present invention, an operation speed of an FFT operator is set up, a receiving symbol is arranged... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090231993 - Methods of uplink channelization in lte: Methods of a slot-level remapping physical uplink control channels into two resource blocks respectively located at two slots of a subframe, are generally adapted to a 3GPP LTE physical uplink where ACK/NAK resource blocks may be applied by the extended cyclic prefix, adapted to a complex 3GPP LTE physical uplink... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090231995 - Tunneled direct link setup collision resolution in a wireless local area network: Collisions between tunneled direct link setup (“TDLS”) requests are resolved by associating each request with a priority value. Upon issuing a TDLS request the encapsulated frame is associated with a priority value. When a station, which is waiting for a response from a recently issued TDLS request, receives a TDLS... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20090231997 - Method for displaying a packet switched congestion status of a wireless communication network: A method and mobile electronic device are provided that display, for a user, a packet switched congestion status of a wireless communication network that is useful for estimating a network quality of service. The method includes transmitting a packet switched congestion status inquiry message from the mobile electronic device to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090231996 - Method for the phase-related scheduling of data flow in switched networks: There is described a method for communicating a real-time data traffic in a collision-preventing communications network, during which the following steps are carried out before a real-time data traffic, which is composed of real-time messages and which cyclically recurs within a macro cycle composed of successive cycles: routing the cyclically... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090231998 - Selective filtering of network traffic requests: Several approaches to selectively filtering network traffic are described. One approach involves a system for selectively filtering network traffic. The system includes a helper application, which is coupled to a networking program, and is used to identify a user-initiated request. A network filter driver is coupled to the networking program,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090232000 - Network controller and control method with flow analysis and control function (as amended): A network controller, capable of high-speed extraction of malicious traffic from networks and determining characteristics of such traffic, includes a unit for accumulating a number of packets for each arbitrary itemset included in the header portions of packets to be transferred, and a unit for determining whether the accumulated value... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090231999 - Quality of service in a home network: In one embodiment, a method for establishing Quality of Service (QoS) in a home network is provided. The method comprises: receiving a request for bandwidth in a virtual private network (VPN); receiving a traffic specification of an application on a control point retrieving a traffic policy; retrieving path characteristics of... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090232001 - Congestion control in wireless mesh networks: A congestion control system. In particular implementations, a method includes receiving packets into one or more queues and monitoring the one or more queues for congestion. The method also includes, if a number of packets in the one or more queues exceeds a first threshold, determining a congestion control mode.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090232002 - Random early detection over wireless links: Random early detection (RED) controlled loss (i.e., discarding data packets) is determined as a function of change in processing gain assigned by a resource management system in a data network having a communications link between first and second network nodes. Rather than triggering RED controlled loss as a function of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090232003 - Oam tools for meshed tunnels in a computer network: In one embodiment, a tunnel mesh probe, initiated for a computer network having a tunnel mesh, may be received at a first tail-end node of a probed tunnel. In response, the first tail-end node processes the probe, and forwards the probe to another tail-end node of a non-probed tunnel selected... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090232004 - Transmission apparatus: In a transmission apparatus of a Gigabit Ethernet signal, in order to improve line efficiency, time division multiplexing is used. Further, if it is possible to branch/insert plural multiplexed Gigabit Ethernet signals at arbitrary nodes, it is possible to construct a more flexible network. For this reason, importance of a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090232006 - Continuity check management in a link state controlled ethernet network: An OAM link trace message is sent from a source node to a target node in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network. The link trace message using an 802.1ag format except, as a destination address, it uses either the unicast Ethernet MAC node ID of the target node, or... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20090232005 - Ip network and performance monitoring using ethernet oam: Network and performance monitoring in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network. A first node receives a network layer monitoring command from a network layer monitoring requestor. The monitoring command is directed to a second node. The first node resolves the network layer monitoring command into one or more Ethernet... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20090232007 - Method for detecting video tiling: A method for detecting errors on an audio/video (A/V) data stream in a data service network includes providing multicast components operably coupled to each other via respective links for transmitting the A/V data stream to a user and for defining at least one multicast tree. The method further includes generating... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412

20090232008 - System for connecting equipment with a service provider, apparatus for facilitating diagnostic and/or management communication with such equipment, and procedure for communicating with such equipment: A system, apparatus, and procedure connects customer premises equipment with a service provider network and includes a first local area network, a second local area network, and a management interface device. The first local area network connects the customer premises equipment to the service provider network and is configured to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (tellabs)

20090232009 - Internet connectivity verification: Verification of Internet connectivity using multiple prior connection attempts to Internet destination(s). The Internet destinations may be destinations that have high reliability and that do not easily have intermediating systems that might deny a connection request. Such an Internet destination might be, for example, root Domain Name Server (DNS) servers.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090232010 - Method and apparatus of connectivity recovery in a wireless network: A wireless communication device and a method of operating an antenna training process to discover first and second communication paths between at least two stations, to rank according to a quality criterion transmitting and receiving modes of an antenna, to report best transmitting mode and best receiving mode for transmitting... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090232011 - Method, apparatus, and system for diagnosing route in network based on diameter protocol: A method, system, and apparatus for diagnosing a route in a network based on a Diameter protocol are provided. The method includes the following steps. A source Diameter node generates a diagnosis message and sends it. An intermediate Diameter node adds diagnosis information thereof to the diagnosis message after receiving... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090232016 - Apparatus and method for collecting and analyzing communications data: A method of monitoring data on a first communication line. Data is received from the first communication line (402) and a plurality of packets (406) are extracted (416) from the data. Statistics are then recursively generated (408), the statistics corresponding to the plurality of packets.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090232012 - Method and monitoring system for sample-analysis of data comprising a multitute of data packets: The invention is related to a method and a monitoring system for sample-analysis of data comprising a multitude of data packets. Defined parent population numbers (N) of data packets are sampled by an out of N sampling and classified or vice versa. Classification is done by classification rules to create... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090232018 - Method and apparatus for processing padding buffer status reports: A method and system for processing buffer status reports (BSRs) such that when BSR triggering is performed, the size(s) of the necessary sub-header(s) are also to be considered together in addition to the BSR size. The steps of checking whether any padding region is available in a MAC PDU that... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090232014 - Method for determining a route distance value: A method determines a route in distance value for use in routing protocols. An optimum route is determined for time-critical transmissions such as videotelephony or VoIP. For this purpose, the route distance value is calculated as the product of the link metrics for the links of a route, said link... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232013 - Method, measuring system, base station, network element, and measuring device: There is provided a measuring system comprising: a measuring device configured to measure parameters of a serving cell required for camping into the neighbor cells of the serving cell, to camp into the neighbor cells in order to store reception quality and neighbor cell lists from the neighbor cells; and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090232019 - Providing multiple levels of service for wireless communication: Local breakout is provided by one or more nodes (e.g., a local access point and/or a local gateway) in a wireless network to facilitate access to one or more local services. In conjunction with local breakout, multiple IP points of presence relating to different levels of service may be provided... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232017 - System and method for traffic prioritization: A method for management of Internet Protocol (IP) traffic comprises (a) receiving an uplink data packet associated with a connection of a plurality of connections; (b) assigning a weight to the uplink data packet; (c) updating a debt associated with the connection based on the weight assigned to the uplink... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090232015 - Traffic control device, packet-based network and method for controlling traffic in a packet-based network: A traffic control device (50) for a Quality of Service-aware packet-based network (10) comprises detection means (52) for detecting packet flows in a packet stream (46) by preferably repeatedly performing a data packet inspection on the packet stream (46), the data packet inspection being neither based on signaling information nor... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090232020 - Automatic-configuration systems and methods for adding devices to application systems: A method for adding a device to an application system is disclosed. The method may include associating a set of Media Access Control address ranges with a set of device providers. The method may also include obtaining a Media Access Control address associated with the device. The method may also... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090232023 - Combined omni- and directional- communications in high-frequency wireless networks: In a wireless communication network, specific portions of the communication may combine directional transmission with omnidirectional reception. In particular, sector-level directional transmission may be established through sector sweeps, followed by antenna training for more directionality. In some embodiments, collisions during the exchange may be reduced by having different network devices... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090232027 - Method for optimizing the frequency of network topology parameter updates: Accuracy of network topology information and efficient usage of available bandwidth when broadcasting topology updates are optimized in accordance with the principles of the present invention by collecting and utilizing locally known network usage information to update the network topology information between regular updates. This information is then used in... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090232026 - Multi-radio wireless mesh network solutions: Techniques for providing multi-radio wireless mesh network solutions are described herein. According to one embodiment, routing information of neighboring mesh APs is monitored via a dedicated monitoring antenna of a current mesh access point (AP). The current mesh AP is one of mesh APs of a wireless mesh network, each... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090232025 - Network discovery tool: A method for discovering network devices having special IP addresses may include collecting a plurality of IP addresses, where each IP address corresponds to a network device. One or more IP addresses may be identified as a predetermined IP address and/or a predetermined address type. Each of the IP addresses... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin)

20090232024 - Node discovery method for providing optimal path preserving location privacy: A technology that can provide a node discovery method that can detect a TA that can provide a quasi-optimal data path to acquire the quasi-optimal path while protecting location privacy of a MN and the like are disclosed. The technology includes a step in which a first proxy node 105... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090232022 - Transition between ip protocol versions: A method comprising: receiving, in a network element of a packet data core network, a network resource request from a user equipment, said request including indication on the user equipment's Internet Protocol (IP) version capability; creating, in said network element, a set of parameters for guiding the user equipment in... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20090232021 - Wireless network automation: network topology learning: Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to one example, a method may include receiving, by a gateway node, at least one base station message from each of a plurality of base stations, the base station messages each including a network identification (ID) of the sending base station. The method may... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090232028 - Configuration systems and methods for utilizing location information to configure devices in application systems: A method for configuring at least one of a first device, a second device, and an application system is disclosed. The application system may be utilized in a spatial unit. The spatial unit may include a plurality of spatial subunits. The method may include determining a first spatial subunit in... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090232029 - Method and apparatus for providing full logical connectivity in mpls networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for configuring logical connectivity for a network comprising a plurality of nodes. A method includes determining a physical topology of the network, determining a set of LSP paths based on the physical topology of the network, and determining a set of LSPs using... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090232030 - Overlay link calculation device, calculation method and program thereof: The overlay link calculation device which determines a link between nodes in an overlay network formed by layers of a higher order than a network layer, which includes a topology information obtaining unit which obtains topology information of the network layer and a link calculation which calculates an overlay link... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090232031 - Receiver-based construction of point-to-multipoint trees using path computation elements in a computer network: In one embodiment, a trigger to add a leaf node to a multicast group of a computer network is detected, and the leaf node may determine a root node of the multicast group to request a path between a tunnel tree and the leaf node of the multicast group. In... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090232032 - Methods and apparatus for the manipulation of conferenced data: Methods and apparatus may permit the manipulation of conferenced data. Primary sequenced audio-optical data structures may be populated with conferenced data, and secondary sequenced audio-optical data structures may be populated with derivative conferenced data. Electronic identity characteristics may be utilized to selectively deny access of conference participants to an exchange... Agent: Santangelo Law Offices, P.C.

20090232033 - Hybrid frequency compensation network: Hybrid frequency compensation is provided. Hybrid circuits are used to subtract the transmit signal from the receive signal in a full duplex communication system. Since the hybrid circuit and the main line driver are exposed to different loads, accurate subtraction is difficult to achieve. A frequency dependent network is used... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090232035 - Beaconing and frame structure for directional antenna communications: In a wireless communications network containing network devices capable of both directional and omnidirectional communications, a network controller may arrange a series of superframes into groups of multiple consecutive superframes, in which only one superframe in each group contains an omnidirectional beacon, and the remainder of the superframes in the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090232034 - Methods and apparatus for wireless communications including direct paging in combination with hopped data signaling: Methods and apparatus for wireless communications in regional networks, e.g., ad hoc peer to peer networks, are described. Wireless communications devices transmit and monitor for presence indicator signals broadcast from other peer communications devices in its local vicinity. A wireless communications device maintains a list of discovered devices in its... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232037 - Adaptive mechanism for dynamic reconfiguration of mesh networks: In a wireless mesh network of network nodes, there is identified a first subset of the nodes that have a direct connection to at least one end user, and a second subset of nodes that are necessary to maintain connections among the end users. The first subset is exclusive of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090232036 - Allocating radio resources to reduce the transmission power of a terminal: The invention concerns a mobile telecommunication network comprising a plurality of terminals and an allocating entity adapted to allocate radio resources. One radio resource is associated with a transmission power. One terminal of the network is selected (21) based on at least one transmission power respectively associated with at least... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090232038 - Autonomous wireless networks: A wireless device is operable to use received signals to divide time into a succession of frames, each frame having plural consecutive timeslots, and into a succession of four or more superframes. A transmitter is operated only in a single timeslot in one frame. A receiver is operated in the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090232039 - Portable terminal and mode control method for the same: A portable terminal capable of Internet access and a mode control method for the same are provided. The mode control method includes analyzing, upon reception of a packet during a sleep mode, the received packet, determining whether the received packet corresponds to service setting information, and transitioning, when the received... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090232040 - Scanning groups of profiles of wireless local area networks: Two or more connection profiles stored in a wireless device are partitioned into two or more groups, each group having a different number of sleep intervals associated therewith. The number of sleep intervals associated with a particular group determines a wait between subsequent scans for wireless local area networks matching... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20090232043 - Data relaying apparatus, communication apparatus, and data relaying method: A data relaying apparatus for relaying data bidirectionally transmitted between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus includes a first symbol string generator configured to generate, in accordance with a first modulation method, a first symbol string from first data transmitted from the second communication apparatus; a second... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090232041 - Method and system for advertising bluetooth multicast feature: Aspects of a method and system for advertising a Bluetooth multicast feature are provided. A master device may provide a multicast service to active slave devices during a Bluetooth piconet connection. A Bluetooth multicast packet addressed to a specific slave device may be transmitted over a point-to-point connection. The multicast... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090232042 - Wireless network including post groupcast time: In one aspect thereof the invention provides a method that includes transmitting from a first (beaconing) mesh point at least one multicast or broadcast frame; and transitioning the first mesh point to a lower power mode of operation state after expiration of a specified post groupcast time from a last... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090232044 - Apparatus and method for retransmitting of data in a wireless communication system using relay: An apparatus and method for retransmitting of data in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting data to at least one lower node, temporarily storing the data transmitted to the lower node, if ACKnowledgement (ACK) information of a relay link is not received for a predetermined time... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090232045 - System and method of message delivery in a wireless communication network: A router system maintains a status of a wireless device of either available or unavailable. The status of available may be indicative of the wireless device being in-coverage with a wireless network, whereas the status of unavailable may be indicative of the wireless device being out-of-coverage with the wireless network.... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. LLC One Magnificent Mile Center

20090232046 - Communication network: A telecommunication network for establishing radiofrequency links between gateways and ground terminals via a multispot satellite, the network comprising a multispot satellite, a plurality of gateways, each gateway establishing a link with the satellite on at least Ns link channels corresponding to Ns frequency intervals [fi; fi+1] with i varying... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090232055 - Apparatus and method of controlling unsolicited traffic destined to a wireless communication device: An apparatus and method of controlling unsolicited traffic are disclosed herein. The apparatus and method can be applied to wireless communication networks such as CDMA2000, UMTS, GPRS and the like so that traffic which is not solicited by wireless communication devices operating on those networks is not sent over the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090232054 - Behavior for wireless transmit/receive unit and mac control elements for lte drx operations: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) stops discontinuous reception (DRX) timers that are running and that are related to uplink and/or downlink transmissions during a DRX time period. The WTRU stops the DRX timers in response to receiving a medium access control (MAC) control element signal from an eNode-B.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090232048 - Computer program products for connecting ad hoc piconets to wide area networks: A hyper-scatternet includes a first ad hoc piconet, a second ad hoc piconet and a wide area network, wherein the first and second ad hoc piconets are configured to communicate with one another via the wide area network. Each ad hoc piconet can include an application server that includes an... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090232052 - Frame termination: Techniques to increase capacity in a wireless communications system. In an aspect, systematic non-transmission, or “blanking,” of minimal-rate frames transmitted in a communications system is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, eighth rate frames in a cdma2000 voice communications system are systematically substituted with null-rate frames carrying zero traffic bits. Provisions... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232050 - Method and system for determining limited soft buffer size on transport blocks for rate matching: Aspects of a method and system for determining a limited soft buffer size on transport blocks for rate matching are provided. A data stream may be processed for transmission between a base station (eNodeB) and a UE via HARQ procedures. A two-stage rate-matching algorithm may be used in the HARQ... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090232051 - Method and system for the extension of frequency offset estimation range based on correlation of complex sequences: Aspects of a method and system for the extension of frequency offset estimation range based on correlation of complex sequences may include partitioning each of a received sample sequence and a local replica sample sequence into three or more similar length contiguous sample sub-sequences. For each of the three or... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090232058 - 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

20090232056 - Radio communication method and radio communication apparatus: A beacon slot position control section of a radio communication apparatus constituting a radio network system which detects whether empty beacon slots are present in a beacon period. When an empty beacon slot is present before the period in which the radio communication apparatus transmits a beacon, a movable counter... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090232057 - Radio communication method and radio communication apparatus: A beacon slot position control section of a radio communication apparatus constituting a radio network system which detects whether empty beacon slots are present in a beacon period. When an empty beacon slot is present before the period in which the radio communication apparatus transmits a beacon, a movable counter... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090232049 - System and method for a multiple hop wireless network: A system and method for wireless communication over a multi-hop network are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes an access point and a plurality of wireless devices. Each of the access point and the plurality of wireless devices includes a high-rate module to send or receive data over a... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090232047 - Systems for connecting ad hoc piconets to wide area networks: A hyper-scatternet includes a first ad hoc piconet, a second ad hoc piconet and a wide area network, wherein the first and second ad hoc piconets are configured to communicate with one another via the wide area network. Each ad hoc piconet can include an application server that includes an... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090232053 - Wireless communication apparatus having acknowledgement function and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus includes a reception unit, an information management unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives data including a plurality of data frames. The data frames are transmitted from an identical data source and managed by an identical traffic identifier. The information management unit retains acknowledgement... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232067 - Ack/nack channelization for resource blocks containing both ack/nack and cqi: In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: transmitting a value from an access node towards an apparatus, where the value is indicative of a size of a first portion of an uplink resource block, where the uplink resource block is shared among a plurality of apparatus, where the first portion... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090232071 - Apparatus and method for using guard band as data subcarrier in communication system supporting frequency overlay: A method and apparatus for using a guard band as a data subcarrier in a communication system supporting frequency overlay are provided. In a method of operating mobile station for using a guard band as a subcarrier for signal transmission in a communication system supporting frequency overlay, the method includes... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090232066 - Apparatus, methods, and computer program products providing improved flexible resource usage: In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, an apparatus includes: a transmitter configured to send an advertisement message having communication information for an access point; and a receiver configured to receive a flexible use message indicative of how the access point may utilize at least a portion of a shared... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090232063 - Arrangements for association and re-association in a wireless network: A method is disclosed for associating network devices to a network. The method can include receiving a beacon from a source by an antenna array, allocating resources to beamform and beamforming after receiving at least a portion of the beacon. The beamforming can be accomplished prior to completion of an... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090232074 - Auction based resource allocation in wireless systems: Systems and methods to assign one or more resources in a multi-user cellular Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) uplink includes specifying a resource allocation problem for one or more resources; converting the resource allocation problem into an assignment problem; solving the assignment problem through an auction; and allocating one or... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090232062 - Base station, communication terminal, transmission method and reception method: A base station includes: means configured to manage frequency blocks; means configured to determine, for each frequency block, scheduling information for assigning one or more resource blocks to a communication terminal being in a good channel state; means configured to generate a control channel including the scheduling information for each... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090232070 - Data and control multiplexing in pusch in wireless networks: Transmission of information in a wireless network is performed by allocating a channel from a transmitter to a receiver. The channel has at least one time slot with each time slot having a plurality of symbols. Each slot contains at least one reference symbol (RS). As information becomes available for... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090232079 - Frame structures for wireless communication systems: Superframe preamble structures for wireless communication systems are provided. The preamble can include system determination information, which can improve acquisition performance. The superframe structures can allow efficient determination of flexible parameters that determine preamble structure. The superframe structures can also facilitate quick paging capacity to scale with bandwidth.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232080 - Frequency reusing method in wireless communication system and radio access station system for the same: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a frequency reusing method for efficiently transmitting traffics in a radio access station system. A frequency reusing method in a wireless communication system including a coverage region, which has first, second and third regions comprises (a) transmitting... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090232059 - Latency reduction when setting up an uplink wireless communications channel: The present invention relates to wireless communications. More especially it relates to wireless packet data communications. Particularly it relates to latency reduction responding <<ReStart>> to downlink data when received <<SpStop>>.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090232077 - Media receiver hub: A media receiver hub receives wireless signals from multiple sources (e.g., satellite signals from multiple satellites) and provides the signals to end devices over a local network. According to an example embodiment, a satellite hub is responsive to channel input selections received from end devices by selecting channels from within... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090232076 - Method and apparatus for handling a contention-based random access procedure: A method for handling a contention-based random access procedure in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes steps of sending a Scheduled Transmission message, which applies an HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat request) process for transmission, starting a Contention Resolution Timer and monitoring a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090232078 - Method and apparatus for mac layer inverse multiplexing in a third generation radio access network: A channel inverse multiplexer/multiplexer (IMUX/MUX) (14a) of a MAC sublayer (14) of a UTRAN RNC (11) for providing to a UE (18) traffic (communication signals including in general both control and user data) at a higher rate than the UE can accept over a single channel. The channel IMUX/MUX performs... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090232082 - Method and apparatus for providing quality of service (qos) in a wireless local area network: Methods, apparatus, and computer programs for configuring one or more transmission parameters of a wireless client in a wireless local area network (WLAN) are provided. In one implementation, the method includes associating a wireless client with a wireless communication system in a WLAN, and at the wireless client, receiving one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090232073 - Method and apparatus of physical resource allocation, method of data receiving, and receiving end: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus of physical resource allocation as well as a method of data receiving and a receiving end in a wireless communication system. The method of physical resource allocation includes: detecting a pilot signal sent by each user within a designated range; obtaining received... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090232068 - Method for dynamically assigning channels of wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method for dynamic channel assignment for a wireless communication system. First, a respective channel allocation probability vector at each mobile terminal is randomly generated, and is then sent to the base stations covering the mobile terminal. Subsequently, the channel allocation probability vectors are integrated into... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090232083 - Method for selecting transport format combination guaranteed qos in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to selecting a transport format combination (TFC) such that a quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed in a mobile communication system of a certain level even for a service having a low priority. The present invention selects a transport format combination such that not only a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090232069 - Method for status reporting in wireless communication systems when one-time allocated resource is insufficent: A wireless communication terminal (103) including a controller configured to prompt a transceiver to transmit a partial status report accommodated by a radio resource available to the terminal. The partial status report includes a sub-set of complete acknowledgement information that is associated with set of protocol data units, wherein the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090232060 - Method, wireless communication system, communication apparatus, and tangible machine-readable medium for establishing a routing path during a network entry process of a subscriber station based on a multi-hop relay standard: A method, a wireless communication system, a communication apparatus, and a tangible machine-readable medium for establishing a routing path during a network entry process of an SS based on a multi-hop relay standard are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a BS, an SS, and an RS. The SS transmits... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090232065 - Methods of assigning resources for the uplink control channel in lte: A method of a slot-level remapping physical uplink control channels into two resource blocks respectively located at two slots of a subframe, is generally adapted to a complex 3GPP LTE physical uplink where ACK/NAK recourse blocks may be applied by the extended cyclic prefix, mixed resource blocks (where the ACK/NAK... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090232075 - Radio communication system, base station, mobile station and resource block allocation method: A radio communication system includes at least one mobile station and a base station, wherein one and the same two-dimensional table, in which resource block numbers are allocated to a plurality of resource blocks obtained by dividing a system bandwidth by a frequency domain, is stored in both the base... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090232061 - Reconfigurable multiple-input multiple-output systems and methods: An exemplary wireless commutation device and method are disclosed for configuring a plurality of radio resources including a first radio resource and second radio resource in the wireless communication device. According to one aspect, the first and second radio resources are configured for spatial multiplexing according to a first communication... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232072 - Resource allocation apparatus and method in broadband wireless communication system: A resource allocation apparatus and method in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A communication method of a base station includes allocating a resource region to a user by performing resource scheduling, determining a node ID corresponding to the allocated resource region according to a hybrid resource structure based... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090232064 - Scheduling in multi-cell multi-carrier wireless systems: Transmission is scheduled in a multi-cell multi-carrier wireless network. Assignments are determined for subcarriers by determining marginal gains for receivers, determining a receiver and an associated base station corresponding to a highest marginal gain, and assigning the receiver to the base station. These steps may be iteratively repeated until each... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090232081 - System and method for transmitting and receiving a traffic indication message in a broadband wireless access communication system: A system and method for transmitting a traffic indication message in a Broadband Wireless Access communication system. A base station (BS) transmits the traffic indication message to mobile subscriber stations (MSSs). The traffic indication message includes information on a number of MSS groups and information on a number of traffic... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090232085 - Communications system using frame structure for different wireless communications protocols and related methods: A communications system may include a first wireless communications device communicating based upon a first wireless communications protocol, a second wireless communications device communicating based upon a second wireless communications protocol different from the first wireless communications protocol, and a wireless base station. The wireless base station may communicate with... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090232084 - Method and system for multi-carrier packet communication with reduced overhead: A method and system for minimizing the control overhead in a multi-carrier wireless communication network that utilizes a time-frequency resource is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more zones in the time-frequency resource are designated for particular applications, such as a zone dedicated for voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications. By grouping applications... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090232086 - Methods and apparatus for acquiring and using multiple connection identifiers: Methods and apparatus related to a peer to peer wireless communications system supporting the association of multiple connection identifiers with a single connection between a pair of wireless terminals are described. A differentiated quality of service is supported by assigning different numbers of connection identifiers to different connections. The number... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232087 - User equipment multiplexing in downlink multiuser, multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiple access: This invention is a method of downlink, multiuser, multiple input, multiple output communication between a single base station and plural user equipment. Resource buffers are distributed into sub-bands. Each user equipment is assigned to a sub-band with at least one sub-band assigned plural user equipment. The base station transmits user... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090232096 - Base station, mobile terminal, and program storage medium: There is provided a base station that includes a search request receiving unit configured to receive from a mobile terminal a search request requesting search of a candidate base station for a handover target; an examination request transmitting unit configured to transmit to other base stations an examination request for... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090232089 - Fast synchronised transparent handover method and system: A mobile communications system (100), comprising at least one mobile terminal (200), a plurality of base stations (300a-300e), at least one central entity (400) adapted to manage said plurality of base stations, adapted to perform a handover, wherein: —said mobile terminal (200) is adapted to transmit a handover request message... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232093 - Header compression optimization method during and after handovers in cellular communication network: The present invention concerns a method for optimizing ROHC RTP (Robust Header Compression Real Time Protocol) compression applied to IP header of data packets stream so as to use more compact formats enable to remain in a steady state, to never discard received packet, and to serve radio resources without... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090232092 - Method and apparatus for improving transmission reliability in wireless communications network: There is provided a method and apparatus for allocating transmission resources in a wireless network in which some of the terminals communicate with the base station by exchanging communication frames that are compatible with a first communication protocol while other terminals receive communications from the base station that are compatible... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090232097 - Method and apparatus for performing handover in a wireless communication system: A method for performing handover by wireless User Equipment (UE) is provided. The UE includes a Long Term Evolution-Mobile Extreme Convergence (LTE-MXC) application processor, a LTE processor and a Digital Signal Processor (DSP). The UE buffers a set of IP packets when a Radio Access Technology (RAT) indicator is less... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090232094 - Method and function for maintaining mapping between media independent handover functions and transport addresses: A media-independent handover (MIH) environment supports a MIH function that uses a mapping table to communicate with other MIH functions using a MIH transport protocol. The MIH function updates the mapping table upon receipt of a message having fields to invoke an operation. The operation can update an existing mapping... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLLC

20090232095 - Method for resolving collision of uplink signals: A method for processing data in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a first uplink scheduling command indicating a first radio resource, receiving a second uplink scheduling command indicating a second radio resource through a random access response, and stopping a procedure associated with the second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090232088 - Network selection: A mobile station MS1 can communicate through a PLMN (2) and also through a number of local wireless networks e.g. WLAN (6) and WiMAX (7). When the user of MS1 wishes to run an application, for example an video player application, a suitable one of the networks is selected for... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090232090 - Performing handovers for fixed mobile convergence networks: According to one embodiment, an anchor access gateway receives packets from a home agent. The packets are destined for an access terminal, and the anchor access gateway serves the access terminal. The packets are forwarded to the access terminal. The anchor access gateway receives a handoff request from a target... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090232091 - Precedence and preemption extension for remote terminals: Precedence and preemption may be extended for remote terminals. In an example embodiment, a communication node implements a method with respect to a communications system that implements an enhanced multi-level precedence and preemption (eMLPP) scheme. The method includes acts of receiving, mapping, and transmitting. An incoming connection establishment communication having... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090232098 - Method and system for performing a handoff in a wireless communication system: A system for maintaining wireless communication with a plurality of base stations in a communication network is disclosed. A portable terminal having a communication unit is configured to measure signal strength of a transmission signal for neighboring base stations in a frequency band being used by the communication unit, and... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090232099 - Method of arranging data transfer in a wireless telecommunication system: A method of arranging data transfer in a wireless telecommunication system comprising at least one wireless terminal, a first radio access gateway and a first base station connected thereto, a second radio access gateway and a second base station connected thereto. The first base station and the first radio access... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090232100 - System and method for dynamic receive diversity allocation: A system and method for dynamic receive diversity allocation. A communications device comprises a first physical layer (PHY) unit, a second PHY unit, a first signal path coupled to a first antenna and to the first PHY unit, a switchable signal path coupled to a second antenna and switchably coupled... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090232101 - Control and data multiplexing in communication systems: Apparatus and method for a base station to assign to a user equipment (UE) communicating with the base station a number of coded control information symbols being transmitted with coded data information symbols during the same transmission time interval by the UE. The method includes assigning, by the base station,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090232102 - Walsh code management in a code division multiple access cellular wireless communication system: A cellular wireless communication system and method of operation manages Walsh codes in order to ensure that sufficient Walsh codes are available to prevent call blocking and to support additional hand-off operations. In an initial operating condition, the cellular wireless communication system services normal hand-off operations in which a maximum... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090232103 - Apparatus and method adapted for directional bandwidth reservation with fixed announcement slot in wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver operable in a wireless personal area network, wherein the transceiver is configured to communicate with a coordinator and at least one receiver and wherein the transceiver and the coordinator use a directional reservation of free channel time blocks... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090232106 - Beaconing and superframe structure for millimeter wave wireless technologies: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising communicating in a wireless network with a MAC layer that uses multi-level beacons, the multi-level beacons including a Discovery beacon (DB) which is transmitted in an omni mode and an announcement beacon/frame (AB) transmitted in a beamformed mode.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090232108 - I/q imbalance estimation using synchronization signals in lte systems: A method and apparatus perform I/Q imbalance estimation and compensation using synchronization signals in LTE systems. Primary and secondary synchronization signals (P-SCH and S-SCH), which carry synchronization information, are embedded in each LTE frame, and are used for receiver I/Q imbalance estimation. Additionally, the performance may be significantly improved by... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090232105 - Mechanism to avoid interference and improve communication latency in mmwave wpans: Briefly, a mechanism to avoid interference and improve channel efficiency in mmWave Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) is disclosed. In particular, interference information during various time periods is tracked and used to optimize transmission scheduling. Further, a mechanism is provided to improve communication latency by distributing responsibility for coordination of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090232109 - Method and system for optimal beamforming in wireless networks: Aspects of a method and system for optimal beamforming in a wireless network are presented. Aspects of the system may include one or more processors for use in a requesting communication device wherein the one or more processors may be operable to request a transmission time slot allocation. A determination... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090232107 - Method of performing uplink synchronization in random access procedure: A method and device for performing a contention based random access procedure by a mobile communication terminal in communication with a base station. The method according to an embodiment includes transmitting a random access preamble message to the base station; receiving a random access response from the base station, the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090232110 - Resource allocation in a packet-based radio communication system: A scheme for resource allocation for variable rate users in a packet-based radio communication system such as a UMTS TDD system is based on a representation (200) of the resource space organized orthogonally in 3 dimensions by codes, timeslots and frames. The representation (200) is searched to identify new resources... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090232104 - Techniques enabling dynamic bandwidth reservation in a wireless personal area network: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising dynamically reserving free channel time blocks for directional transmissions in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) by a transceiver communicating with a Coordinator and the Coordinator allocating a part or a whole of unreserved channel time blocks for a directional... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090232111 - Modem timing offset compensation for line card redundancy failover: In one embodiment, a first ranging timing description describing at least a duration of time during which a subject cable modem (CM) may burst and a duration of time during which the subject CM and other CMs in a multiple access network are not permitted to burst is translated into... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090232112 - System and methods for polling for dynamic slot reservation: Embodiments include systems and methods for allocating time to a plurality of devices in the network of a piconet controller. Embodiments comprise selectively directing a steerable antenna beam of the piconet controller to a plurality of devices in succession during a polling process to receive time allocation requests from one... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090232113 - Wireless communication system, base station and transmission timing control method: A wireless communication system includes first and second transmitting stations cooperating with each other to transmit data signals in parallel to the same receiving station. The first transmitting station transmits data at a slot reference timing of each TDMA slot within a data transmission period. The second transmitting station calculates... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090232118 - Coordinated uplink transmission in lte drx operations for a wireless transmit receive unit: A method and apparatus for discontinuous reception (DRX) operation in a wireless transmit receive unit aligns uplink and downlink transmissions with a DRX cycle. The transmission may be a channel quality indicator report, a sounding reference signal, or a silence descriptor among other downlink and uplink transmissions.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090232116 - Mechanism to avoid interference and improve channel efficiency in mmwave wpans: Briefly, a mechanism to avoid interference and improve channel efficiency in mmWave Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, neighbor devices can identify whether a certain high rate channel is being used or not through a communication on another channel, and thus... Agent: Rita M. Wisor Intel Corporation

20090232119 - Method of updating proxy information: A method of updating proxy information in a mesh network is provided. The method includes transmitting a first multi-hop management frame from a source mesh point (MP) to a destination MP, the first multi-hop management frame comprising a proxy update information element (IE) to update the source MP's proxy information,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090232114 - Priority-based multimedia stream transmissions: A method is provided that accesses a priority and a multimedia stream to be transmitted. The priority then is embedded within the multimedia stream. The multimedia stream thereafter is transmitted. Another method is provided that receives the multimedia stream that includes the priority. Here, another priority is accessed and both... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090232115 - Supporting communications in a wireless network using an ip address: An apparatus for wireless communications and method for the same are provided. The apparatus is configured receive an identifier associated with a first node, determine an IP address of the first node from the identifier, and use the IP address to communicate data with the first node through a second... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232117 - Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication terminal control method: A mobile phone terminal acquires and stores therein current position information thereof from a public wireless base station. The mobile phone terminal reads out a profile name corresponding to the acquired position information from a public wireless base station WLAN profile association table, and sets the read WLAN profile as... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090232120 - Sorting frequency arrays to account for multi-protocol frequencies: A system comprises transceiver logic that receives signals on each of an array of frequencies. The transceiver logic is adapted to communicate using a first communication protocol. Processing logic couples to the transceiver logic. The processing logic identifies from among the array of frequencies a subset of shared frequencies that... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090232121 - Wireless communications using frequency agile radio: A frequency agile radio configured to determine an estimated coverage area of a primary transmitter is disclosed. The radio includes at least one position device configured to determine a position coordinate of the radio and generate a corresponding position signal. The radio also includes at least one frequency agile receiver... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20090232122 - Radio base station, radio terminal and radio communication method: Date that is to be transmitted from transmitting antennas in each of a plurality of resource blocks, obtained by dividing a radio resource, used for communication with a radio terminal is multiplied by weigh information. A group of plural pieces of the weight information associated with resource blocks to be... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090232123 - Extended range wireless packetized data communication system: A limited acknowledgement-based communication methodology increases the throughput efficiency of extended range, wireless packetized data transmissions to a ‘master’ data-reception site from a ‘slave’ data-sourcing site, geographically remote with respect to the data-reception site. Rather than return an acknowledgement for each received packet, the master returns an acknowledgement only after... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090232124 - Multi-receiver frame aggregation: When using a multi-receiver aggregation protocol in a wireless communications network, a sub-header may be used to identify groups of data units that share common parameters, such as destination addresses, acknowledgement modes, modulation/coding rates, lengths, etc. The layout of this sub-header may permit each receiving device to identify the portion... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090232125 - Cell search method, forward link frame transmission method, apparatus using the same and forward link frame structure: A method of transmitting a forward synchronization signal in a wireless communication system according to the present invention includes generating a frame comprised of a plurality of sync blocks; and transmitting the frame through a forward link, wherein the frame comprises primary synchronization channel sequences which provide timing information of... Agent: Jae Y. Park

20090232126 - Channel synchronization for wireless systems: In some embodiments, a method for mitigating interference between wireless networks is disclosed. A network communications controller, such as a piconet controller that is new to an area, can monitor for and receive inter-network transmission from adjacent networks and the controller can monitor the received transmission and detect a synchronization... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090232132 - Common mobility management protocol for multimedia applications, systems and services: A framework of a common mobility management protocol for Q.5/16 includes a high level protocol for performing the functions of address resolution, routing, location update and authentication. The common mobility management protocol can be used by existing and future multimedia applications (MA's) to support mobility management for messaging among mobility... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090232130 - Gateway router and priority control for emergency call in ip telephony system: A gateway router in an IP telephony system includes a determination section which determines whether or not an arriving session control signal is of an emergency call, and a controller which dynamically assigns to emergency calls and other general calls a predetermined number of sessions that can be simultaneously connected... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090232131 - Method and apparatus for providing emergency calls to a disabled endpoint device: The present invention enables the remote activation of a device by a packet-switched service, e.g., VoIP network service for the purposes of receiving calls identified as urgent from a pre-identified calling party when the device is disabled. The present invention enables registered users to select the calling parties they wish... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090232129 - Method and apparatus for video services: A method for providing a multimedia service to a multimedia terminal includes establishing an audio link between the multimedia terminal and a server over an audio channel, and detecting one or more media capabilities of the multimedia terminal. The method also includes providing an application logic for the multimedia service,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090232128 - Method for lawful interception during call forwarding in a packet-oriented telecommunication network: The invention relates to a method for lawful interception in the case of call forwarding (AW_TlnB) in a packet-oriented telecommunications network (TK1, TK2, TK3), in which switching functions (S-CSCF1, . . . , P-CSCF3) are made available by servers. The additional aim in this telecommunications network (TK1) is to monitor... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090232127 - Upd-based soft phone state monitoring for cti applications: A supervisor computer directly communicates, via User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets, with a call control application software in a soft phone. The UDP packets provide real-time information, from a desktop of the soft phone, describing call activity and usage status of the soft phone. The supervisor computer is able to... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090232133 - Ethernet access device and method thereof: The present invention discloses an Ethernet access device and method thereof. The device includes at least two downlink physical port units, a multiplex/demultiplex unit and an uplink physical port unit. The downlink physical port unit is adapted to convert between a low-speed physical layer signal input to/output from the access... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090232134 - Indirect address connection service over an extended network: the storage (144) of correlations between address calls and network addresses comprising address calls stored as multiplets of a predetermined format, this format comprising an element linked to a user provided with an account according to a predetermined naming rule, whilst the network addresses are indirect addresses, the address providing... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090232135 - Receiving apparatus and receiving method: A receiving unit receives a group of packets transmitted from a transmitting apparatus. A detecting unit detects a missing packet based on the received group of packets. A first output unit outputs data corresponding to the group of packets, irrespective of a result of the detection by the detecting unit.... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090232136 - Method and apparatus for scalable protocol snooping in a pon: In various example embodiments, a system, method and apparatus are provided for scalable protocol snooping in a PON. In an example embodiment, a method is provided. The method may include receiving a control packet on a network. The method may further include snooping the control packet. The method may also... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090232138 - Information processing system, tunnel communication device, tunnell communication method, proxy response device, and proxy response method: Provided is an information processing system and the like that can make a communication between plural information processing devices belonging to different LANs. A first tunnel communication device includes a first address correlating information memory unit that stores information for correlating an address in a first LAN with an address... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090232139 - Multiple virtual local area network databases in a switch with a relational lookup engine: An apparatus and method for transferring data through a network switch. The network switch comprises a plurality of ports each having at least one port identifier and associating with at least one virtual local area network (VLAN) database, and a relational lookup engine storing a plurality of relations between at... Agent: James Madison Kelley

20090232137 - System and method for enhancing tcp large send and large receive offload performance: A system and method for enhancing TCP large send and large receive offload performance are disclosed. A method may include: (a) receiving from a particular sender one or more incoming packets, each incoming packet having control information indicating a source node and a destination node for that packet; (b) determining... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090232140 - Packet transmission apparatus and method: A packet transmission apparatus includes a transmission unit dividing input data and transferring segments, which are obtained by adding sequence numbers to the respective pieces of the divided data, a switch unit transferring the segments to one of a plurality of reception units, and a reception unit reconstructing an original... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232141 - Using a hash value as a pointer to an application class in a communications device: Systems and methods according to the present invention provide techniques for improving the efficiency of routing for requests in devices, e.g., mobile devices.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090232142 - Methods and apparatus for using connection identifiers having different priorities at different times: Methods and apparatus related to scheduling and/or utilization of air link traffic resources are described. A connection identifier is associated with priority with regard to use of an air link resource, e.g., a peer to peer traffic segment which is in contention. A particular connection may acquire and hold one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232143 - Methods and apparatus for using multiple connection identifiers based on traffic requirements: Methods and apparatus related to scheduling and/or utilization of air link traffic resources are described. A peer to peer connection holds a set of multiple connection identifiers for a plurality of successive traffic slots. Corresponding to a particular traffic slot, each of the connection identifiers in the set of connection... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232144 - Network intermediate apparatus and method for ubiquitous network and ubiquitous network system using the intermediary apparatus: Discloses is an ubiquitous network intermediate apparatus and intermediate method that supports various internet services in order that wired terminals can connect to the network without an additional network setting. An ubiquitous network intermediate apparatus according to the present invention comprises a terminal access device outputting a packet received from... Agent: LexyoumeIPGroup, LLC

20090232145 - Internet/intranet access mechanism: A method connects one of several customer premises equipment (CPE) via an ATM network to one of several service providers (SP). Each CPE is connected to the ATM network via a corresponding network termination point (NT). There is an access server function (ASF), having a permanent virtual connection (PVC) to... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090232146 - System comprising nodes with active and passive ports: A data processing system comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes (10), each node (10) comprising a media processor (12), and one or more ports (14, 16), each port (14, 16) connected to a respective media processor (12). Each port (14, 16) is configured to be active or passive, an active... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090232148 - Communication system: A packet communication system of this invention includes a user access device at a user point for providing a user with connectivity to a plurality of carriers, carrier communication networks linked to the user access device, and a carrier management network which controls and manages the user access device and... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090232149 - Coordinated multi-network data services: Content and/or services are provided for a session to a user by controlling use of at least two different networks to deliver the content and/or services for the session to the user. The at least two different networks have different data transfer characteristics. Control of use of the at least... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090232147 - Method for forwarding signalling data in an interworking unit and in a control unit and coprresponding devices: The embodiments relates to, among other things, a network interface unit (IM-MGW) in which signaling data is separated from useful data by the values of received data. The signaling data is tunneled to a control unit (MGCF). Two different data transmission networks (CS, IMS) can thus be simply combined, in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232152 - Method and apparatus for aggregating ports: A method for aggregating ports includes: when creating a static link aggregation group (LAG) at the local end, judging whether a port receives an aggregation packet sent from the peer end; if yes, determining the state of the port according to the Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP); otherwise, maintaining the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090232151 - Multi-rate backplane transceiver: An apparatus is disclosed that includes first transceiver circuitry adapted for transmitting and receiving Ethernet data over a network using a first Ethernet communication protocol at a first data rate, second transceiver circuitry adapted for transmitting and receiving Ethernet data over a network using a second Ethernet communication protocol at... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090232150 - Service edge platform architecture for a multi-service access network: A service edge node for a multi-service access (MSA) network is provided. The service edge node includes a line card, numerous service cards, a control system, and switching fabric. The line card receives packets from an access network and removes framing information from the packets to provide raw packets. For... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20090232153 - Communication channel establishment method and system: The present invention provides a communication channel establishment method that establishes a communication channel used particularly when a cipher communication is carried out. Where a packet indicative of an ISAKMP message transmitted from a second communication device to a first communication device is awaited when a communication channel between the... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090232154 - Prioritizing resource utilization in multi-thread computing system: One embodiment of the present invention prioritizes resource utilization in a multi-thread processor. A priority register stores thread information for P threads. The thread information includes P priority codes corresponding to the P threads, at least one of the P threads requesting use of at least one resource unit. A... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090232155 - Method and apparatus for coordinating adjacent channel transmissions on multiple radio nodes: A method, apparatus and computer program product for coordinating adjacent channel transmissions on multiple-radio nodes is presented. A Maximum Channel Occupancy Duration (MCOD) limit for a length of an overall transmit period is defined. A set of timers (NNAV) for each neighbor node is maintained, each of said NNAV including... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090232156 - System, apparatus, and method for loading bits into sub-channels: An apparatus and a method for loading a predetermined number of bits into a plurality of sub-channels are provided. The apparatus comprises a sort module, a calculation module, and a decision module. The sort module is configured to sort the sub-channels into a plurality of sorted sub-channels according to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090232157 - Data definition apparatus, systems, and methods: An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to send a selected data type without self-definition information to a receiver if a state capable of interpreting the selected data type has been maintained by the receiver, and to send the selected data type with... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090232158 - Method and apparatus for radio link control padding for enhanced general packet radio service: A method (300) for radio link control padding is shown. In its simplest form, it can include the steps of: providing (310) N bytes of data from a base station; interleaving (320) the N bytes of data using a turbo-interleaver; pre-pending (330) K bytes of zero padding; and passing (340)... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090232160 - Bandwidth requests of scheduling services: Methods and apparatus for providing bandwidth requests of scheduling services, such as, for example, best effort services, in a telecommunication network are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a plurality of bandwidth requests from different scheduling connections. The example method further includes combining the plurality of bandwidth requests in a... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090232159 - Dynamic bandwidth allocation processor: A dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) processor comprises a DBA co-processor having DBA co-processor components and operative to perform and accelerate DBA functions, and a processing core logically coupled to the DBA co-processor through a processing bus and operative to configure and dynamically control all the DBA co-processor components and to... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090232161 - Hierarchical header format and data transmission method in communication system: In order to transmit data between layers in a communication system, and ARQ controller determines a transmission method of a service packet according to QoS of the service packet of an upper layer, determines a retransmission method of the service packet according to the transmission method, generates a fragmentation block... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232162 - Communication apparatus and method: A delay in packet output due to packet fragmentation processing is reduced. If input data is output upon being subjected to fragmentation processing, fragmented data, from among a plurality of fragmented data items fragmented based upon a set value in an MTU register, which belongs to a first fragmented packet... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090232163 - Method for generating subframe including resource distribution information: A method for generating a subframe including resource distribution information is disclosed. The method for generating a subframe includes arranging resource allocation information in a subframe by sequentially allocating a localized permutation and a distributed permutation, and arranging a subframe control header including a resource unit index in a predetermined... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090232164 - Apparatus and method for time weighted bpsk code combining: A method for time weighted combining of a plurality of binary phase shift key (BPSK) code sequences that is implemented by providing first, second and third sequences of chips of a BPSK code having a first, second and third code powers, respectively. A majority vote (MV) sequence of chips from... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090232165 - Digital broadcast multiplexing apparatus: In a digital broadcast multiplexing apparatus for multiplexing a plurality of programs on a single physical channel so as to broadcast the digital multiplexed broadcasting program, there are provided with an apparatus for correcting positions of PCR packets contained in transport streams within the respective programs, and a PCR correction... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090225646 - Methods and systems for choosing cyclic delays in multiple antenna ofdm systems: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method to determine appropriate values of cyclic delays applied at a transmitter with multiple antennas in order to provide accurate estimation of channel gains in a multiple-input single-output (MISO) system or multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090225647 - Radio transmission device, radio reception device, radio transmission method, and radio reception method: Disclosed is a radio transmission device for lightening the waveform distortion of a received signal in a single-carrier transmission irrespective of a fading state. In this device, an FFT unit (103) converts a modulation signal outputted from a modulation unit (102), into a signal of a frequency range, and a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090225648 - 10gbase-t training algorithm: A method of identifying and correcting each of the changes that may occur with wire pairs between the transmitter and receiver in Ethernet 10 GBase-T cabling is provided. The method includes four wire pairs A, B, C and D, a polarity swapping and scrambler state machine that determine if the... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090225649 - Method and apparatus for a fault resilient collaborative media serving array: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and apparatuses for a fault resilient collaborative media serving array comprising a plurality of nodes. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for creating a fault resilient collaborative media serving array where the array nodes do not share memory, the... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090225651 - Communication management system, communication management method, and communication management device: A failure is detected in at least one of an active system including an active packet transfer board, an active system packet processing board, and an active system switch board. At least function setting information for executing functions of the active system packet transfer board and the active packet processing... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090225650 - Path reroute in a computer network: In an example embodiment, a method is provided that receives a first label from an area border routing device. Here, the first label is associated with a first routing device, which is an immediate downstream neighbor of the area border routing device. The first label is then associated with a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090225653 - Line status monitoring circuit, node, communication system, and failure occurrence determining method: There is provided a line status monitoring circuit, a node, a communication system, and a failure occurrence determining method which can detect occurrence of a failure in some of redundant lines between nodes. A line status monitoring circuit receives a frame through one of a plurality of lines from another... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090225652 - Locating tunnel failure based on next-next hop connectivity in a computer network: In one embodiment, a trigger is signaled to protect a tunnel from a head-end node to one or more tail-end nodes in a computer network via one or more intermediate nodes along the tunnel. One or more receiving nodes along the tunnel receive the trigger, and in response, establish a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090225654 - Methods and systems for capability-based system collaboration: A method for establishing a full end-to-end functionality chain of collaborating network accessible capabilities within a network centric environment is described. The method includes identifying the network accessible capabilities that are necessary to implement the end-to-end functionality chain, receiving data relating to which capabilities are available at each network node,... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090225655 - System, method, and apparatus for prioritizing network traffic using deep packet inspection (dpi): A method, system, and apparatus for prioritizing network traffic according to one embodiment includes receiving a packet addressed to a receiver device from a sender device, identifying the packet at a network layer to determine an application and/or protocol associated with the packet, and generating traffic priority information associated with... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090225657 - Method and apparatus for managing aggregate bandwidth at a server: A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for managing traffic in a network data processing system. Traffic for a plurality of network paths is monitored. In response a packet for a particular network path within the plurality of network paths causing traffic for the particular network path to exceed a... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090225656 - Radio communication system, radio communication method and base station: A base station according to the present invention includes: a detecting unit configured to detect a discard of the uplink user data received from a radio terminal; and a scheduling unit configured to transmit an AG or an RG instructing a decrease of an SG assigned to the radio terminal,... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090225658 - Mesh with nodes having multiple antennas: An architecture and protocol stack for matrix mesh wireless networks, where one or more nodes (102) and/or clients in the network have more than one antenna (208). One or more frequency bands and support devices with different communication protocols can be utilized. Matrix channel characteristics are used to establish parameters... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090225659 - Method and apparatus for the continuous collection and correlation of application transactions across all tiers of an n-tier application: Method and apparatus of transaction determination for non-tcp protocols employs a network analyzer to observe network traffic. Non-TCP protocol sequential traffic from a client to a server and sequential traffic following from a server to the client are considered to be one transaction for test and measurement analysis purposes.... Agent: Patenttm.us

20090225660 - Communication device and operation management method: A communication device includes a communication section for receiving or transmitting an Operation Administration and Maintenance (OAM) frame from or to a Layer-2 network; and a controller for providing a destination Media Access Control (MAC) address to the OAM frame when the OAM frame is transmitted in the Layer-2 network,... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090225661 - Ethernet connectivity fault management (cfm) area boundary translator: An Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Area Boundary Translator is configured to translate incompatible CFM messages being sent between networks operating according to different CFM versions which are not fully compatible. Such translation may include the Ethernet CFM area boundary translator acts as a proxy in forwarding translated the CFM... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20090225664 - Method and system for coordinating operation modes of a gprs network: A system and method for coordinating network operation modes of a GPRS network is disclosed. The system includes a database storing a preferred list of network operation modes of the GPRS network that a mobile subscriber registered for. A SGSN detects the status of an interface for GPRS packet data... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Dwt

20090225662 - Motion-aware mobile time and frequency tracking: A method is provided for compensating for clock drift error and movement error of an access terminal. A forward link error is obtained that is attributable to at least a first error (e.g., clock drift error) component and a second error (e.g., movement error) component. The first error component and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090225663 - Network management apparatus and method thereof: A network management apparatus in a network that includes a physical network, and a logical network assigned to the physical network performs: acquiring nodes stored in a distance information storage unit with distances larger than a distance for a node identified by fault information, and a service providing device to... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090225666 - Base station, mobile station, and propagation path measuring signal transmission control method: A base station includes a transmission method determining portion that determines whether to allow a mobile station to transmit a propagation path measuring signal by one of a multi-carrier method and a single carrier method; and a transmission method sending portion that sends information indicating the determined transmission method with... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090225665 - Method, system, computer program product, and hardware product for ethernet virtualization using an elastic fifo memory to facilitate flow of unknown traffic to virtual hosts: A packet that represents unknown traffic for a virtual host is received. A first test is performed to ascertain whether or not a destination connection can be determined for the received packet wherein, if a destination connection can be determined, a second test is performed to ascertain whether or not... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090225668 - System and method for detecting and isolating a remote loop: A system and method are provided for enabling a first network to detect a loop in a second network connected thereto. The first network runs a first instance of a Spanning Tree Protocol and the second network runs either a different instance or no instance. The method includes sending a... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090225667 - System and method for electronically identifying connections of a cross-connect system: A system and method for electronically identifying connections established through a cross-connect system provides for identification of all hard-wired and temporary patch connections, and any modifications made to same. Connection identification and status information is acquired in near real-time and stored in a database which is accessible by a user... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090225669 - System and method for wireless communication network having round trip time test: A system and method for providing a proximity control between devices in a wireless network is disclosed. A test message for a Round Trip Time (RTT) test is transmitted from a first device to a second device via a modified reservation function, wherein the modified reservation function is based on... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090225670 - Endpoint report aggregation in unified communication systems: User quality of experience in a real time communication system is determined by analyzing endpoint performance metric reports correlated with performance factors of each endpoint in an endpoint profile for a more complete view of an audio/video quality of experience. Reports may include endpoint profile reports, which may be sent... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090225673 - Hardware efficient monitoring of input/output signals: A communication device comprises first and second circuits to implement a plurality of ports via which the communicative device is operable to communicate over a plurality of communication channels. For each of the plurality of ports, the communication device comprises: command hardware that includes a first transmitter to transmit data... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090225676 - Method and apparatus of duplicate packet detection and discard: Duplicate packet detection and discard employs hash values and time stamps of received packet data, wherein the hash value is employed as an index to a table, and if data at a table entry has a time stamp near a time of the packet data, a duplicate is determined.... Agent: Patenttm.us

20090225672 - Methods and apparatus to detect wideband interference in digital subscriber line (dsl) systems: Methods and apparatus to detect wideband interference in digital subscriber line (DSL) systems are disclosed. An example method comprises retrieving a first plurality of performance parameters for a first time interval for respective ones of a plurality of DSL modems, wherein each of the plurality of DSL modems are associated... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090225675 - Methods, apparatus and data structures for segmenting customers using at least a portion of a layer 2 address header or bits in the place of a layer 2 address header: Limiting or controlling access to various services thereby performing a firewall function. An access router may permit or deny a packet based on at least a portion of a unique bit string (or context information) which replaced layer 2 header information (e.g., the layer 2 (e.g., MAC) address). Further, a... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090225671 - Monitoring quality of a packet flow in packet-based communication networks: A communication system includes multiple routers interconnected by a packet-based communication network. Each of the routers includes a monitoring application that monitors quality of one or more packet flows during each of multiple successive monitoring periods. For each of the packet flows, the monitoring application determines quality metrics based on... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090225674 - Server, terminal, and method for supporting mobility: A server, terminal, and method for supporting mobility in a network are provided. A server includes a storage which stores a double chord lookup table including server search information based on identifiers and location information of terminals on a network, a controller which finds a server for providing an optimal... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090225677 - Data transfer application monitor and controller: The present invention teaches methods and systems for monitoring and controlling bandwidth usage between an internal local area network and an external network. By providing controls from inside the external network connectivity point, greater detail in bandwidth control is possible. This in turn leads to less restrictive bandwidth restricting algorithms.... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090225680 - Apparatus and method of processing stateful address auto-configuration protocol in ipv6 network: Apparatus and method for processing a stateful address auto-configuration protocol in an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) network are provided. The method includes multicasting, at an IPv6 network, a Router Solicitation (RS) message, acquiring and managing flag values of a Router Advertisement (RA) message received from at least one router,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090225681 - Method and apparatus for configuring and managing customer premises equipment: A method and apparatus for configuring and managing customer premises equipments (CPE) are disclosed. The method includes obtaining information of the data model supported by the CPE; extracting the CPE data model and the relationship between the CPE data model and the CPE from the obtained information; finding the data... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090225678 - Network and method for the computer-assisted operation of an autonomous network comprising a plurality of autonomous terminals: An autonomous network has a plurality of autonomous terminals, equipped with at least one programmable transceiver, and which are embodied to independently identify frequency ranges provided for a communication link and used to reconfigure the programmable transceiver thereof. One or more technical system states of the network, with which a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090225679 - Reconfiguration of a communication system: A communication system and method are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises a switch receiving information from at least one repeater for each packet received without errors by the at least one repeater, the switch, in response to the information, determining an amount of wireless communication activity each of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090225683 - Connectivity management and diagnostics for cellular data devices: A cellular network device comprises a data network indicator and an automatic network reconfiguration module. A data network indicator provides an indication when data network connectivity associated with a cellular network does not meet performance or configuration criteria. An automatic network reconfiguration module automatically reconfigures network data connectivity in the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090225682 - Optimization procedure for wireless networks operating in infrastructure mode with standard protocol ieee 802.11: The present invention is a procedure that allows configuring a random access IEEE 802.11 wireless network, operating in infrastructure mode (all terminals communicate exclusively with an AP (Access Point)), in such a way that throughput is optimized when the network is saturated, satisfying traffic characteristics, in presence or absence of... Agent: Eric Hanscom Law Offices Of Eric Hanscom

20090225685 - Computer-implemented voice markup language-based server: A computer-implemented method and system for a telephony server to provide services based upon a call from a user. A user communicates with the telephony server over a telephone communication device. The telephony server retrieves a voice application over a computer network from a remote web site and uses it... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090225684 - Method for reducing the risk of call connection failure and system to perform the method: A method for reducing a risk of a call connection failure in a video communication providing a multimedia ring back tone service includes replying to a call connection request from a calling terminal, receiving a first message, determining whether the first message includes predetermined data and if the first message... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090225686 - Packet communications methods and apparatus using half-duplex uplink and downlink transmission intervals that support packet retransmission and expansions: Packet transmissions between a base station and terminals are performed using half-duplex uplink and downlink transmission intervals with adaptive intra-interval packet retransmission and packet expansion. The uplink and downlink transmission intervals used for communication with a terminal may be offset commensurate with a degree of symmetry of information flow between... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090225687 - Estimation of eigen coherence bandwidth: Closed loop MIMO FDD schemes can offer significant performance gains for OFDM based wireless communication systems over open loop MIMO schemes. However, the pre-coding weights (eigenvectors) on each of the frequency bands need to be updated and this adds extra overhead. The number of adjacent frequency fingers which can use... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090225688 - Method for extending mobile ip and aaa to enable integrated support for local access and roaming access connectivity: This document describes a way to extend Mobile IP Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA) signaling to enable a node to request from a network operator combinations of home and local service capabilities (when roaming) in an efficient and scalable manner. It also enables the home and foreign service providers to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090225689 - Multi-mode base station and operating method and wireless communication system thereof: A multi-mode base station and an operating method and a wireless communication system thereof are provided. The multi-mode base station includes: at least two protocol processing modules, vested in at least two modes respectively, and adapted to process data and/or signaling of the mode according to the protocol corresponding to... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090225691 - Apparatus and method for changing multicast and broadcast service channel of terminal in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for changing a Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) channel of a terminal in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the method, an overall channel scheduling information message comprising group information for Connection Identifications (CIDs) of all channels in service is received from a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090225692 - Apparatus and method for communicating multicast and broadcast service map message in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for communicating a Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) MAP message in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. An operation method of a Base Station (BS) includes periodically generating an MBS MAP message that includes burst allocation information on at least one MBS channel having a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090225690 - Network node, a communication network and a method of operation therefor: A communication network (100) comprises a roaming network node (109) which may move within the network. The network node (109) comprises a network interface (201) for receiving data from a first node (107) of the network (100). The received data may be multicast data or unicast data. The network node... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090225693 - Radio communication scheme for providing multimedia broadcast and multicast services (mbms): A radio communication scheme applicable to UMTS providing packet data services, such as multimedia broadcast and multicast services (MBMS), to one or more users by modifying (augmenting) certain existing radio communication protocols while employing a new transport channel (a point-to-multipoint DSCH), and/or by establishing new physical downlink shared channels (C-PDSCH... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090225695 - Apparatus and method for admission control for service flow in broadband wireless access communication system using multi-hop relay scheme: An apparatus and method for an admission control for a service flow in a broadband wireless access communication system using a multi-hop relay scheme is provided. In a method for operating a relay station in a broadband wireless communication system using a multi-hope relay scheme, a request message requesting an... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090225694 - System and method for trasmitting/receving a signal in a communication system: Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a communication system. In the system and method, a base station transmits data to a first relay station, which is connected directly thereto from among relay stations belonging to a first relay station group, through a first frame interval,... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090225698 - Communication methods in a network: a second transmission of at least one data packet present in the second queue, the second transmission being carried out from the master station to a second slave station and the first transmission continuing as long as the first queue is not empty.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090225697 - Device, system, and method of wireless beamforming calibration: Device, system, and method of wireless beamforming calibration. In some embodiments, a wireless communication device include a wireless communication unit to transmit a wireless beamforming calibration announcement packet to another wireless communication device, and to transmit a first null-data-packet after transmitting the announcement packet and prior to receiving a second... Agent: Shiloh Et Al.

20090225703 - Medium access control protocol for ofdm wireless networks: A medium access contention protocol that is highly beneficial in wireless networks and particularly in wireless networks that employ a fixed minimum burst size such as OFDM wireless networks. In one embodiment, a MAC protocol is a demand-assigned protocol that maximizes utilization of the bus medium (the allocated frequency spectrum.)... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090225696 - Method and apparatus for operation of a communication device: A method of operation of a communication device. A first communication module is operatively coupled to a second communication module within the communication device. The second communication module is designed for carrier sensing. An instruction is communicated from the first communication module to the second communication module to begin sensing... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090225701 - Method for transmitting and receiving signals based on segmented access scheme and method for allocating sequence for the same: A segmented access based signal transmitting/receiving method and a sequence allocating method for the same are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of transmitting a signal of a user equipment in a communication system includes selecting a channel in accordance with at least one selected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090225699 - Radio communication system, radio communication method, and base station: A base station includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not a total of an initial transmission rate and assigned transmission rates exceeds a maximum receiving transmission rate when the base station receives a communication start request from a radio terminal; a selecting unit that selects a decrease target... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090225700 - Transmission of multiple ack/nak bits with data: This invention is a method of wireless communication having a communications protocol providing more downlink subframes than uplink subframes. The user equipment transmits a combination of a plurality of ACK/NAK response signals and related data. The related data could be the number of bits N of the plurality of ACK/NAK... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090225702 - Uplink transmission method, downlink transmission method, and convergence device: The present invention relates to the communication field, and discloses an uplink transmission method, a downlink transmission method, and a convergence device. The convergence device selects user plane UDP packets compliant with a multiplexing condition among the user plane UDP packets that come from at least one Node B, multiplexes... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090225714 - Apparatus and method for composing diversity subchannel in wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for composing a subchannel in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes performing a subband-based permutation on resources for composing a subchannel; selecting one or more subbands as resources for a band selection subchannel from the resources passing through the subband-based permutation; composing... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090225705 - Apparatus and method for negotiating quality of service: The present invention discloses a gateway and a terminal negotiating a QoS in a network interworking system. The terminal negotiates a QoS with a WLAN access point and establishes a WLAN access bearer. In addition, the terminal negotiates a QoS with the gateway for packet exchange through the WLAN access... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090225710 - Authorizing transmission of resource utilization messages: An authorization scheme limits the number of nodes that send out resource utilization messages. Here, a first node may determine whether a second node is allowed to transmit a resource utilization message, and send a message to the second node indicative of this determination. The second node may then determine... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090225716 - Base station link adaptation method: The invention relates to a method of selecting link adaptation characteristics in a base station of an OFDM mobile digital communication system, the base station being coupled to at least one mobile station, the method comprising the steps of: measuring a mobile station's velocity in the mobile station; receiving a... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090225717 - Coexistence and collocation of remote network and local network radios: A coexistent communication system of a first network device includes a remote network radio. The remote network radio has a remote transmission distance, operates based on remote network protocols, and communicates with a base station using a first communication link corresponding to a first frequency band. A local network radio... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20090225709 - Managing uplink resources in a cellular radio communications system: The technology in this application provides a method and apparatus for efficiently using common uplink radio resources, e.g. a common uplink enhanced-dedicated physical channel (E-DCH) resource. A UE releases a common E-DCH resource very quickly after a completed transmission. In addition or alternatively, a base station may release a common... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090225711 - Method and apparatus for prioritizing logical channels: A method and apparatus are disclosed for prioritizing logical channels when a new transmission is performed. Logical channel resources are allocated for available data to a plurality of logical channels. A maximum bit rate (MBR) credit (i.e., token) is decremented in a buffer (i.e., bucket) associated with a particular one... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090225707 - Method for processing the random access transmission in the frequency domain: There is provided a method of operating a communication system, the communication system comprising a user equipment and a receiver, the method in the system comprising generating a random access transmission in a user equipment and transmitting the random access transmission to the receiver in the communication system, the random... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090225706 - Method for resource allocation of transmissions in a communication network employing repeaters: A communication network includes at least one base station, at least one relay station, and a plurality of subscriber stations. Within the communication network, a method for resource allocation of transmissions comprises: classifying each of a plurality of subscriber stations as one of a directly communicatively coupled subscriber station and... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090225719 - Method, apparatus and system for sharing network resources: A method for sharing network resources includes: setting a sharing group based on service types in the process of setting up a bearer and determining a maximum network resource for the sharing group; and allocating a resource for the bearer in the range of the maximum network resource. The present... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090225713 - Mobile communication method, mobile communication system and radio base station: The radio base station includes: a step of making a comparison between transmission format identification information received from the mobile station and transmission format identification information based on a data amount calculated in a step of calculating the data amount of uplink user data; and a step of retransmitting a... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090225715 - Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, and radio network controller: A mobile communication system is configured as a mobile station in a first communication state shifts to a second communication state when at least one high speed uplink packet communication compliant radio link is established by the mobile station.... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090225708 - Mobile station, base station, and communication control method: A base station according to the present invention includes: a scheduling unit configured to perform a persistent scheduling for transmitting data at a predetermined timing; and a scheduling information generating unit configured to generate scheduling information and to notify the scheduling information to a predetermined mobile station, when the persistent... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090225718 - Techniques for setting up traffic channels in a communications system: A control channel supporting traffic control in epochs is divided into two control subchannels each being less than or equal to about a half epoch in duration and occurring serially in time. Slot allocation data may be transmitted and received independently over the subchannels. One subchannel may be used for... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090225712 - Traffic scheduling based on resource contention: In a system where multiple resources are available for carrying traffic, a scheduler may give higher scheduling priority to those resources for which a RUM has been sent. For example, if a node has sent a RUM to reserve a specified carrier of a set of allocated carriers, the scheduler... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090225704 - Uplink tile index generation apparatus and a uplink subchannel allocation apparatus of an ofdma system: A tile index generation apparatus for allocating subchannels of a control channel and a diversity channel, a subchannel allocation apparatus for allocating subchannels of a diversity channel, and a subchannel allocation apparatus for allocating subchannels of an adaptive modulation coding (AMC) channel, which are used for an uplink of an... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090225720 - Base station cooperation and channel estimation: A method estimates channels in a wireless cooperative cellular network including a set of base stations, and each base station communicates cooperatively with a set of mobile stations. A first sounding signal including a first midamble is transmitted from a first base station to a first mobile station. A second... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090225721 - Hierarchical pilot structure in wireless communication systems: A method for communicating control channel information in a wireless communication system, including transmitting a super-frame having a time-frequency resource region containing an allocation control channel and multiple pilot elements, at least some of which are associated with the allocation control channel, and indicating, in a configuration information control channel... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090225722 - Hierarchical pilot structure in wireless communication systems: A method for communicating control channel information in a wireless communication system, including transmitting a super-frame having a time-frequency resource region containing an allocation control channel and multiple pilot elements, at least some of which are associated with the allocation control channel, and indicating, in a configuration information control channel... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090225724 - Communication system, communication terminal, routing control method, and router: A mobile terminal according to the present invention judges, based on a router advertisement transmitted from an access router, whether handover is to be executed between access points connected to the access router, and transmits a link moving notification, which indicates that handover is executed under control of the access... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225723 - Support for handoffs in high rate packet data systems: The invention supports two types of handoffs. The first handoff is for an inter-AN cell selection where the source AN allows the AT to add a cell under the control of a different AN to its active set and then allows the AT to switch to the target AN. A... Agent: Hemingway & Hansen, LLP

20090225725 - System, method, and apparatus for providing multimedia session continuity: A system, method, and apparatus for providing multimedia session continuity such that support is provided for a handover of a multimedia session at a multi-mode terminal between bearers of different access modes. The system includes: a remote UE; an MCC UE, adapted to initiate a handover request of the multimedia... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090225726 - Mobile communication method, mobile communication system, and radio base station: A radio base station includes an assignment unit that selects a transmission rate control channel channelization code assigned to a fewest mobile stations, upon receipt of a communication start request from a mobile station, from among a plurality of transmission rate control channel channelization codes specified by a radio network... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090225728 - Analogue beamforming: An orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) network including a base station (BS) associated with a set of mobile stations (MS) in a cell. The set of MS are grouped into sets of active MS, wherein each set of active MS corresponds to a beam formed at the BS. The... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090225727 - Generating method for short training field in ieee 802.11n communication systems: The present invention discloses a generating method for short training field in IEEE 802.11n communication systems, mainly comprising the steps of: storing only a first set of time-domain HT-STF sequences in the memory; and deriving a second set of the time-domain HT-STF sequences from the first set of the time-domain... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090225733 - Apparatus and method for delivering public switched telephone network service and broadband internet access: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for delivering Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), Broadband Internet access and Private Data services using Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) over an Ethernet based transport network though a private fixed wireless network. An embodiment of the invention utilizes a Class 4/5 soft switch connected to... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20090225736 - Bridging between a mobile cellular telephone network and a data, voice over internet protocol (voip) network: A method for providing telephone communications in a system including a wide area data network and a wireless cellular mobile telephone network. A local cellular mobile telephone operator serves the wireless cellular mobile telephone network by providing a radio communications interface within a local region. The local cellular mobile telephone... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090225732 - Method and devices for routing messages: A system for sending a data packet from a messaging device to a receiving device in a signalling network (210) is described. The system comprises a distributed service center (255) a message receiving service center (290), a plurality of signalling units (260, 270) for passing the data packet to the... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20090225734 - Method for transmitting closely-spaced packets in wlan devices and systems: A wireless local area network (WLAN) device transmits multiple data packets within a data burst. In various embodiments, after the first packet is transmitted, subsequent packets are transmitted before expiration of an Interframe Space (IFS). The subsequent packets may have a full-length preamble, a partial preamble or no preamble at... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090225735 - Mobile station traffic routing: Devices, networks and methods relating to routing gateway traffic in a mesh network for wireless access. A mesh network has multiple nodes in at least one gateway node through which all incoming and outgoing data traffic pass through. The nodes provide wireless access to wireless and user devices, each of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090225729 - Radio base station: A radio base station apparatus that can be installed simply is provided. A radio communication system includes a base station control apparatus (200) connected to an upper communication network (300) by using a communication line (L1) such as an optical fiber cable, or the like, a base station control apparatus... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090225730 - Techniques enabling neighbor location discovery for mmwave wpan with an out of band control channel: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of neighbor discovery in a wireless personal area network, comprising coordinating communications in the WPAN by a WPAN coordinator, and transmitting beacons by the WPAN coordinator on a control channel of the WPAN that specifies the time slots and the order... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090225731 - Wireless network including request to trigger function: In one aspect thereof the invention provides a method that includes transmitting a beacon frame from a first mesh point to a second mesh point; determining if a trigger frame is received at the first mesh point within some predetermined period of time from the second mesh point and, if... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090225737 - Method for transmitting downlink control information: A method for efficiently transmitting downlink control information is described. A method for transmitting control information in a multiple antenna system which can simultaneously transmit a maximum of two codewords includes transmitting modulation and coding scheme (MCS) information, a new data indicator (NDI) and a redundancy version (RV) for information... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090225738 - Systems and methods for transmitting channel quality indicators for mutliple sub-bands: A method for using an uplink control channel to transmit a channel quality indicator (CQI) for sub-bands of a frequency bandwidth is described. The uplink control channel is provided in a format. The uplink control channel in the format is capable of carrying more than two bits of information. One... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090225739 - Method for requesting resource based on timer in mobile telecomunication systems: Provided is a timer-based resource requesting method in a mobile telecommunication system. The resource requesting method includes the steps of: a) waiting in a waiting mode for an event to occur while a timer of a terminal operates; b) transmitting scheduling information including information on a quantity of packets existing... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090225740 - Multi-beam transmitting and receiving apparatus: A multi-beam transmitting and receiving apparatus in a wireless communication system includes a plurality of transmitting beam forming units for forming timely-divided multiple beams, each of the timely-divided multiple beams having a period of a total number of time division NTD at every time TD when the beams are activated;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090225741 - Wireless system using a new type of preamble for a burst frame: The present invention relates to a signal generator and signal processor for single carrier wireless communication systems with frequency domain equalizer, which are operable to use pseudorandom-noise sequences as part of a preamble and possibly as cyclic prefix. The different arrangements and examples of said pseudorandom-noise sequences could be used... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225742 - Method for enabling periodic scanning in wireless communication networks: A method is provided for enabling periodic scanning in a mesh network. The method includes transmitting from a first access point an announcement that it will be temporarily unavailable, wherein the announcement includes: a first information element for quieting a station associated with the access point during a time period;... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090225743 - Using a network frequency reference to augment timing synchronization in a wireless base station: A method and an apparatus for augmenting timing synchronization in a base station using backhaul network frequency synchronization are provided. When in a first mode an external time epoch reference synchronized with system time is used to synchronize the base station to system time. When in a second mode a... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090225747 - Bandwidth management and codec negotiation based on wan topology: A system for bandwidth management and codec negotiation, according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a configuration storage module having supported codecs storage, codec lists and preferred site settings storage, and a call manager having an extension module, a trunk module, a location service engine, a codec manager,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090225744 - Internet protocol for ip private branch exchanges: An Internet protocol query for Internet protocol private branch exchanges including a private branch exchange that is connected to the public switched telephone network for receiving a call setup request, the private branch exchange not being enabled for receiving calling name delivery information from a telecommunications circuit; at least one... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090225746 - Methods and apparatus to control a flash crowd event in avoice over internet protocol (voip) network: Methods and apparatus to control a flash crowd event in a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving at a VoIP border element a VoIP registration response message having a field representing a priority assigned to a VoIP endpoint, receiving a message from the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090225745 - Methods and apparatus to provide a network-based caller identification service in a voice over internet protocol network: Methods and apparatus to provide a network-based caller identification (CID) service in a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a session initiation protocol (SIP) communication session initiation request message comprising an early-media indicator, disabling a ringtone generator, sending a SIP ringing message containing... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090225748 - Networked computer telephony system driven by web-based applications: A networked telephony system and method allow users to deploy on the Internet computer telephony applications associated with designated telephone numbers. The telephony application is easily created by a user in XML (Extended Markup Language) with predefined telephony XML tags and easily deployed on a website. The telephony XML tags... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - San Francisco

20090225749 - Telephone device: A telephone device may be configured to selectively communicate via a public telephone network and an IP telephone network. The telephone device may be configured to receive a call request. The telephone device may be configured to execute a call request notice on a condition that the call request is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090225750 - System and method for remote home monitoring utilizing a voip phone: A system and method for remote monitoring through a voice over Internet Protocol phone. An indicator configured to activate a video interface of the VoIP phone is received. A determination is made whether the indicator authorizes the video interface. The video interface of the VoIP phone is activated in response... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090225751 - Mobile nodal based communication system, method and apparatus: An improved micro architectural approach for a network microprocessor has low power consumption, and employs two specialized processing cores, a MAC processing core and a network processor core. Each of these processing cores has facilities designed for a specific set of functions, to handle ISO layer 2 and layer 3... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090225752 - Apparatus and method for transferring frames through aggregated communication links: A communication apparatus that performs instant switchover from working links to backup links. The communication apparatus has a plurality of output interfaces each comprising a set of physical links constituting a different portion of a logical link. Aggregate destination management data is provided to define which physical links to use... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090225753 - Method and device for communications: A communication device that communicates as a device with a plurality of hosts by using a communication interface that is designed to be used for a point-to-multipoint network on which a single host is connected to a plurality of devices, includes a control unit that controls to cause a disconnecting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225754 - Scalable ip-services enabled multicast forwarding with efficient resource utilization: Methods, apparatus and data structures are provided for managing multicast IP flows. According to one embodiment, a memory of a router has stored therein a data structure, which includes information relating to multicast sessions being handled by the router and including a first pointer for each multicast session, at least... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20090225756 - Information transmission system: An information transmission system, includes: a local area network having a communication module, a capture module for picking up the headers of frames exchanged by way of the communication module, a programming module adapted to control the capture of the frame headers and the transmission of the headers captured as... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090225755 - Method and system for forwarding an mpls packet: A method and a device for forwarding an MPLS packet, the method comprising: allocating a private MAC address to a port number of the MPLS packet interface board, and establishing a correlation between the private MAC address and the public MAC address; obtaining the private MAC address and the port... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090225757 - Processing apparatus and method for processing ip packets: A processing apparatus that processes received IP packets comprises a control unit and a processing unit, wherein the control unit controls a first memory. While data indicating a reception state of fragmented IP packets is transferred from a second memory to the first memory, the processing unit performs processing for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090225759 - Hierarchical metering in a virtual router-based network switch: Methods and systems are provided for applying metering and rate-limiting in a virtual router environment and supporting a hierarchy of metering/rate-limiting contexts per packet flow. According to one embodiment, multiple first level metering options and multiple second level metering options associated with a hierarchy of metering levels are provided. A... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20090225758 - Network relay apparatus, data receiving apparatus, data transmitting apparatus, multipath mtu finding method and multipath mtu finding system: Disclosed is a technique in which, when a plurality of packet routing paths exist, a sender of the packet selects an optimum packet length so as to use network resources effectively. According to the technique, when a plurality of routing paths like a network A (104) and a network B... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090225761 - Prefix delegation support for mobile networks: An apparatus comprising a mobile router (MR) configured to communicate with a plurality of mobile nodes (MNs), wherein the MR is configured to obtain from a home agent (HA) a prefix for MNs using a binding update (BU) message and a binding acknowledgement (BA) message. Also disclosed is a network... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090225760 - Sip-http application correlator: Systems and methods according to the present invention facilitate communications between devices which utilize different signaling protocols. A gateway can analyze incoming messages, in a first protocol such as SIP, to identify an application instance to which the messages should be routed. The messages can then be converted into another... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090225764 - Method for managing resources in a multi-channeled customer service environment: A method for managing custom relationship management (CRM) resources including communicatively linking a service router to a plurality of service resources. For each of the service resources, at least one routing criterion can be established. A multitude of service requests can be received by the service router via a multitude... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090225762 - Providing dynamic quality of service for virtual private networks: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing dynamic Quality of Service (QoS) for connections to virtual private networks (VPNs) are provided. The method receives a message from an organization associated with the VPN, wherein the message includes information identifying the VPN connection and information associated with the organization. The... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090225763 - System and method for enforcement of service level agreements and policies across geographical domains: A service access gateway is described that provides enforcement of service level agreements across geographically remote domains. Each domain can comprise an access tier and a network tier that can be scaled by adding or removing server nodes. At the network tier level, a master node can be selected in... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090225765 - Transmission method, system and router based on a border gateway protocol: A transmission method, system, and router based on a border gateway protocol (BGP) are provided. The method includes: notifying a standby route and a data packet ID corresponding to the standby route to a peer autonomous system (AS); receiving a data packet carrying a data packet ID from the peer... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090225766 - Gateway for automatically routing messages between buses: A gateway is provided for automatically routing messages between buses, the gateway being connected to multiple communication components for temporarily storing and transmitting messages via these buses, and having a gateway control unit which is connected to the communication components via a system bus for the exchange of messages, and... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090225771 - Apparatus and method for tcp buffer copy distributed parallel processing: A TCP buffer copy distributed parallel processing apparatus includes: a TCP reception processing section (TCPRPS); one or more TCP buffer copying sections (TCPBCS); a socket processing section; a reception packet buffer (RPB); and an application buffer. The TCPRPS executes packet receiving and TCP protocol processes. When packet receipt order matches... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090225768 - Centralized ts packet buffer management in multiple transport stream mpeg-2 demux: A de-multiplexer is disclosed. A transport stream de-multiplexer includes a plurality of input buffers (211-21N) each receiving bytes from a plurality of packets in a corresponding transport stream, a main buffer (230) for temporal storage of said packets and an input arbiter temporally allotting a space of at least one... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090225769 - Method to support flexible data transport on serial protocols: A serial buffer transports packets through queues capable of operating in a packet mode or a raw data mode. In packet mode, entire packets are stored in a queue. In raw data mode, packet header/delimiter information is not stored in the queue (only packet data is stored). Packets can be... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090225770 - Method to support lossless real time data sampling and processing on rapid i/o end-point: A serial buffer monitors an incoming stream of packets to identify single missing packets and multiple consecutive missing packets. Upon detecting multiple consecutive missing packets, an interrupt is generated, thereby stopping the data transfer. Upon detecting a single missing packet, a single missing packet identifier is inserted into the packet... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090225767 - Network packet capturing method: A network packet capturing method for capturing a plurality of packets from a physical layer to an application layer by a network server through a network card is described. The packet capturing method includes the following steps. Capture packets by a new application interface (NAPI); set a ring queue in... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090225772 - Methods and apparatus for fibre channel interconnection of private loop devices: Methods and apparatus for Fibre Channel interconnection is provided between a plurality of private loop devices through a Fibre Channel private loop device interconnect system. In the preferred embodiments, the Fibre Channel private loop device interconnect system is a fabric or an intelligent bridging hub. In one aspect of this... Agent: O''melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-13-a7

20090225773 - Methods and systems for controlling network communication parameters: Methods and systems for controlling network communication parameters (e.g., data transfer rate) employed by two or more network nodes communicating over a network communications link by using the Inter-Packet Gap (IPG) length to sending network communication parameter information (e.g., rate control information) between the nodes over the network communications link.... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20090225774 - Networks having plurality of nodes: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of communicating in a network with a plurality of nodes. In the method, information is gathered from the plurality of nodes, where information from each node specifies other nodes from which the node detected messages. Based on the gathered information,... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20090225775 - Serial buffer to support reliable connection between rapid i/o end-point and fpga lite-weight protocols: A serial buffer includes a first port configured to implement an serial rapid I/O (sRIO) protocol and a second port configured to implement a Lite-weight serial (Lite) protocol. SRIO packets received on the first port are translated into Lite request packets compatible with the Lite protocol. The Lite request packets... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090225776 - Method and apparatus for a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol in a wireless communication system: A self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol in a broadband wireless communication system. The protocol uses a combination of incremental and aggregate bandwidth requests. stations primarily transmit incremental bandwidth requests to their associated base stations, followed by periodic transmissions of aggregate bandwidth requests. Risks are reduced that a base station erroneously issues... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090225777 - Method and apparatus for controlling link aggregation: A method and apparatus for controlling link aggregation are provided. When a transmission path for transmitting data is established, it is detected whether an available bandwidth of a bearer link at a destination end of the transmission path to be established is sufficient for bearing the data to be transmitted.... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090225778 - Operating system for a mobile device: An operating system for a mobile device, is provided having an intelligent client system with an upper layer, said upper layer interfacing with a software application, and communicating with an IP layer; a communications protocol; said communications protocol dynamically modifying packets sent by said mobile device to include information relating... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20090225779 - System and method for dynamically swapping master and slave phys to allow asymmetry in energy efficient ethernet: A system and method for dynamically swapping master and slave physical layer devices (PHYs) in energy efficient Ethernet (EEE). A physical layer communication mechanism can be used to dynamically reassign the master/slave assignments to facilitate the asymmetric application of EEE to a link.... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090225783 - Apparatus and method for adding burst of single-input multiple-output mode or collaborative spatial multiplexing mode to frame in spatial multiplexing system: A system and method for adding a burst of a single-input multiple-output mode or collaborative spatial multiplexing mode to a frame in a spatial multiplexing system. A base station is configured to add a burst of a single-input multiple-output mode to a frame in a spatial multiplexing system. The system... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090225780 - Apparatus for modifying part of predetermined packet: An apparatus for modifying part of a predetermined packet comprises means (31) for receiving a TS and determining whether or not each TS packet is a predetermined packet, means (32) for delaying the TS, means (33) for modifying part of the predetermined packet, and means (34) for receiving a delayed... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090225782 - Method of processing a signal and apparatus for processing a signal: A method and apparatus for signal processing which enable data compression and recovery with high transmission efficiency are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with correlation and grouping is used to increase coding efficiency. A method for signal processing, the method indues decapsulating the signal received over an... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090225781 - System, method and computer program product for bulk event transfer: A system, method and computer program product related to the bulk transfer of events are provided. The events may be transferred between various nodes on a network. A first node on the network may have various events to be transmitted over the network to other nodes. The events may be... Agent: Venable LLP

20090225784 - Communication circuit and method therefor: In one embodiment, a circuit is configured to operate with a communication protocol that has at least three different signal levels wherein different sequences of the three levels identify different elements of the communication protocol. In another embodiment, a modular control block may be used to select the communication protocol... Agent: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC Intellectual Property Dept. - A700

20090225785 - Device for generating sequences of coding elements for an item of transmitting equipment of a cdma communications network: X1=1, Y1=−1, Z1=1, and U1=1, then ii) converting the 2×2 intermediary matrix (MK) with rank K into an N×N final matrix (M′K) with rank K, where N=2K, in which each element associated with one of the N rows and N columns is a value, and iii) delivering N sequences which... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090225786 - Delay line combination receiving method for ultra wideband system: The present invention relates to a delay line combination receiving method for ultra wideband system, which comprises a frame-differential delay line, which is collecting and combining all multi-path signals from desired users, and a delay line combination receiver, which is detecting the time at the sharpest rising or falling edge... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090225787 - Generation of clock signal from received packet stream: A receiving unit receiving packets of a packet stream having an evaluating unit for comparing the arrival times of the packets to a generated clock signal. The generated clock signal is used in transmitting information carried in the packets from the receiving unit. From the delays, a signal producing unit... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090225790 - Low latency digital audio over packet switched networks: Method and Apparatus for delivering audio signals from a source node to a destination node on a network. The apparatus uses a number of switches that transmit prioritized data on a packet network. The switches are coupled to a number of send/receive nodes for sending and receiving digital audio signals... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090225789 - Method and system for the blind determination of frequency hopping sysem characteristics and synchronization thereto: A method and system for achieving synchronization at a local site to a wireless communication system transmitting data in a plurality of data packets distributed among a plurality of frequencies alternating in a sequence determined in accordance with at least two characteristics of said remote site by blindly determining at... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Dc

20090225788 - Synchronization of media display with recording of audio over a telephone network: A sender is presented with a media selection that is delivered in discreet segments from a media server over a distributed network to a client computer or other presentation device. The sender can annotate each media segment and record, also in segments, a reading of any text of the media... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090225791 - Ip stream communicating system, ip stream receiving apparatus and reception processing timing sync method for use in ip stream receiving apparatus: s

20090225792 - Data communication system and method: A communication system comprises a multiplexer and a transmitter. The multiplexer is for receiving a plurality of channels and at least one zapping service. The multiplexer combines the channels and the zapping service(s) into a time sliced signal. The signal comprises time slices each including a burst of one channel... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090219800 - Transmission method with optimal power allocation emitted for multicarrier transmitter: A transmission method (1) for an N carrier transmitter (EM). The principle of the method is to select a set of carriers from the N carriers and distribute them amongst subgroups in application of a determined criterion and to determine a set of powers transmitted per subgroup that complies with... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090219802 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data using a plurality of carriers: The present invention relates to a data transceiving method in a communication system based on a plurality of carriers, and more particularly, to a method of designing a sequence in a communication system using orthogonal subcarriers. The present invention includes the steps of generating a time-domain sequence with a specific... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090219803 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless communication operable on frequency selective channel, and channel compensation method: Disclosed is an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) wireless communication system operable on a frequency selective channel, and a channel compensation method. An IDFT (inverse discrete Fourier transform) unit of a transmitter includes first through third N-point IDFT units, and performs IDFT on a binary information signal twice. A DFT... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090219801 - Transmitter in fdma communication system and method for configuring pilot channel: The present invention relates to a transmitter in a frequency division multiple access communication system. The transmitter generates a plurality of pilot symbols, and groups the plurality of pilot symbols into a plurality of groups according to a location of a subcarrier. In addition, the transmitter inverse fast Fourier transforms... Agent: Jae Y. Park

20090219804 - Routing protocols for accommodating nodes with redundant routing facilities: Graceful restart in routers having redundant routing facilities may be accomplished by replicating network (state/topology) information.... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090219805 - Cooperative tcp / bgp window management for stateful switchover: A system and method for performing stateful switchover with reduced data, such as only metadata about a TCP window state. The metadata comprises a size of TCP packets used to send BGP messages, and which of those have been acknowledged by a neighbor networking device. The networking device comprises a... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090219806 - Method, apparatus, and system for protecting head node of point to multipoint label switched path: A method for protecting the head node of a Point to Multipoint Label Switched Path (P2MP LSP) includes: a Backup Head Node (BHN) establishes a backup LSP from the BHN to all Merge Points (MPs), where the backup LSP bypasses a Master Head Node (MHN); the MHN forwards data along... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090219807 - Method and router for controlling graceful restart status: A method for controlling the Grace Restart (GR) status is disclosed. The method includes: entering a GR status when a router detects that neighbor relationship with a neighbor router breaks and the router itself does not restart; receiving a neighbor relationship establishing message sent by the neighbor router; and quitting... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090219808 - Layer-2 ring network system and management method therefor: Disclosed is a ring network in which ring domains are managed in ring forms, layer 2 switches located on both ends of a link shared by a plurality of the ring domains monitor the shared link, and one of the ring domains that share the shared link expands to another... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090219809 - Redundant mux cnfiguration: A system and method in accordance with the principles of the present invention prevents data from being permanently lost when external interference causes packet loss, and the interference is long enough in duration to cause adjacent packets to be lost. A data packet stream is transmitted. A redundant data packet... Agent: Paul E Schaafsma Novuslp, LLC

20090219810 - Implicit reservation of resources in a point-to-multipoint or multi-point-to-multipoint network: A point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint communication network comprises at least one management center and remote traffic stations, between which radio links sharing resources allocated dynamically by the management center have been established. Each traffic station is tasked, whenever it needs additional resources to increase the useful traffic (UT) that it must... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090219813 - Application specific service ping packet: A method of using an application specific service ping packet, and related application specific service ping packet, including one or more of the following: creating the application specific service ping packing including a special packet identification field that identifies the application specific service ping packet as a special packet, and... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090219811 - In-bound mechanism that monitors end-to-end qoe of services with application awareness: A method of monitoring end-to-end QOE of services with application awareness, including one or more of the following: building an application specific service ping packet having an application identification field that identifies an application to which the application specific service ping packet corresponds; forwarding the application specific service ping packet... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090219812 - In-bound mechanism that verifies end-to-end service configuration with application awareness: A method of verifying end-to-end service configuration with application awareness, including one or more of the following: building an application specific service ping packet having an application identification field that identifies an application to which the application specific service ping packet corresponds; forwarding the application specific service ping packet towards... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090219816 - Access channel load management in a wireless communication system: Techniques for managing the load of an access channel in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, the load of the access channel may be controlled by having each terminal regulates its use of the access channel (e.g., its rate of system access) based on a rate control... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090219814 - Methods and apparatus for prioritizing message flows in a state machine execution environment: A method and apparatus are provided for prioritizing message flows in a state machine execution environment. A state machine is disclosed that employs a flow graph that provides a flow control mechanism The flow control mechanism defines a plurality of states and one or more transitions between the plurality of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090219815 - Self-adapting mechanism for managing data streams in a multiple access shared network: A method and a system for managing the transmission of data streams by a terminal of a multiple-access shared communications network, said data streams being structured as data frames and comprising at least one priority data stream and at least one non-priority data stream. The method comprises the steps of... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090219817 - Method and apparatus for reducing flood traffic in switches: An improved method and apparatus for making forwarding decisions in a switching device. The invention reduces the flooding of frames to particular network segments connected to the switch. To insure a device sees a frame addressed to it, if a switch does not know what segment a device address is... Agent: Jeffrey Alan Carley

20090219818 - Node device, packet switch device, communication system and method of communicating packet data: A node device including a congestion detection unit which detects an occurrence and release of congestion for each class of a second communication quality classification, output to a ring-type network, when packet data for each class classified by a first communication quality classification received from a port; a class association... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090219819 - Supporting an access to a destination network via a wireless access network: For supporting an access to a destination network by a mobile device via a wireless access network, the mobile device generates a predetermined request, which is addressed to a connectivity test server in the destination network. The predetermined request is transmitted to the wireless access network. In case the predetermined... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090219820 - Systems and methods for automatic configuration of customer premises equipments: A system for automatically configuring a device which is compatible with the Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, said system comprising a first automatic configuration server compatible with the Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, which is adapted and arranged for communicating with said device and for automatically... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090219821 - Switch apparatus and network system: A switch apparatus providing with a loop detection function sets a port identification to a port which activates the loop detection function, only receives the loop detection frame by a high-order port in the switch apparatus connected with a backbone network or a high-order switch apparatus on the basis of... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090219822 - Troubleshooting voice over wlan deployments: A voice over WLAN diagnostic system. In particular implementations, a method includes simulating, in response to a triggering event, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications with a remote diagnostics engine; gathering metric data characterizing one or more aspects of the simulated VoIP communications; and periodically transmitting diagnostic packets including the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090219823 - Method and apparatus for automating hub and spoke internet protocol virtual private network trouble diagnostics: A method and apparatus for automating hub and spoke network trouble diagnostics in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method retrieves provisioning and configuration data, access interface alarm information, and network facility status data related to the communication network by a diagnostic system, and identifies at least one... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090219824 - Systems, methods and apparatus for testing a data connection provided over a power supply line: Systems, methods and apparatus are described for testing a data connection provided over a power supply line. A testing apparatus is coupled to a socket of the power supply line. The AC power supply line communicatively couples the testing apparatus to a communication device or another testing apparatus. The testing... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.L.C. Legal Department

20090219825 - Endpoint device configured to permit user reporting of quality problems in a communication network: An IP telephone or other endpoint device in a network is configured to support a reporting mode of operation that may be entered, for example, responsive to user entry of a report command via a user interface of the endpoint device. In one aspect, the endpoint device stores call information... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090219829 - Method and apparatus for network packet capture distributed storage system: This is invention comprises a method and apparatus for Infinite Network Packet Capture System (INPCS). The INPCS is a high performance data capture recorder capable of capturing and archiving all network traffic present on a single network or multiple networks. This device can be attached to Ethernet networks via copper... Agent: Intellevate

20090219828 - Method and system for managing data transfer: A method and a system for managing data transfer are provided. The method includes receiving a poll request for a status report on Protocol Data Units (PDUs) transmitted sequentially during the data transfer, determining a status reporting range of the PDUs to be accounted in the status report based on... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090219827 - Registered state change notification for a fibre channel network: Disclosed herein are various aspects of a Fibre Channel (Fibre Channel) fabric having switches that employ Registered State Change Notifications (RSCNs) with enhanced payloads. Two types of RSCN message formats are provided, both including status information about the affected device(s). In one embodiment, a RSCN message format for inter-switch communication... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090219826 - System and method for limiting access to an ip-based wireless telecommunications network based on access point ip address and/or mac address: A system and method manages call connections between mobile subscribers and an EP-based wireless telecommunications network through a wireless access point. Communications between the mobile subscribers and the IP-based wireless telecommunications network are initiated by a registration request. During the registration request various identifiers (IMSI, MAC address, IP Address, etc.)... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090219833 - Autonomous and heterogeneous network discovery and reuse: In some embodiments, a method is disclosed involving a mobile device discovery and use of target wireless networks which are at least partly within a coverage area of another wireless network which provides location information which includes: acquiring data from a plurality of said target wireless networks; acquiring location information... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLLC

20090219831 - Bridge port mac address discovery mechanism in ethernet networks: Various exemplary embodiments are a method and of discovering medium access control (MAC) addresses in a network and a related access node including one or more of the following: receiving, at an access node, a diagnostic message from an operator, the diagnostic message comprising physical port information and indicating that... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090219834 - Dynamic configuration of ip for a terminal equipment attached to a wireless device: Techniques for dynamically configuring IP and providing IP connectivity for a terminal equipment attached to a wireless device are described. The wireless device obtains from a wireless network a dynamically assigned IP address, an IP gateway's IP address, a subnet mask, or none or any combination thereof. Wireless device determines... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090219832 - Fast configuration of a default router for a mobile node in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to a method for fast configuring of a default router for a mobile node in a mobile communication system. A default router is used by a mobile node to transmit outgoing data to. The mobile node moves from a first to a second network area, which are... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090219830 - Thin desktop local area network switch: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for an automatically configured network switch are provided. The network switch includes a plurality of ports, a switch fabric, switch control logic, and a switch configuration module. The ports are configured to be coupled to a plurality of network communication links. The switch fabric is coupled... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090219835 - Optimizing a physical data communications topology between a plurality of computing nodes: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for optimizing a physical data communications topology between a plurality of computing nodes, the physical data communications topology including physical links configured to connect the plurality of nodes for data communications, that include carrying out repeatedly at a predetermined pace: detecting network packets transmitted... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090219836 - Distributed spanning tree protocol on a multi chassis port channel: In one embodiment, a technique for routing traffic in networks represented by logical topologies, such as Multi Chassis Port Channel (MCPC) or Multi Chassis Ether Channel (MCEC) topologies, is provided. By modifying a port priority vector (PPV) to include an additional “Switch ID” field that identifies a designated bridge ID... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090219838 - Closed-loop mimo systems and methods: Methods, devices and systems are provided for transmitting and receiving MIMO signals. Transmitting of the MIMO signals involves pre-coding each of at least two data symbols using a respective pre-coding codeword to preclude a corresponding plurality of pre-coded data symbols. A respective signal is transmitted from each of a plurality... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090219837 - Signal transceive for wireless communication device: A signal transceiver for saving the production cost of a wireless communication device includes an antenna, an antenna switch module, a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, an RF front-end circuit, a first selection unit and a second selection unit. The signal transceiver uses the RF front-end circuit unit to meet requirements... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090219839 - Tdd frame format in wireless mesh network: In a wireless mesh network a method includes, at a first node, receiving a transmission from a second node during a first sub-frame of a frame with a first transceiver operating with a first center frequency; processing the received transmission; and transmitting, after a predetermined fixed interval, with a second... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090219840 - Method and apparatus for processing supplemental and non supplemental assignments: A method and apparatus for processing supplemental and non supplement assignments in a wireless communication system are described. A forward link assignment block (FLAB) is received from a shared signaling medium access control (SS MAC) protocol. It is determined if a medium access control identity (MAC ID) of the FLAB... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090219841 - Method for supporting flexible frame structures in wireless communication systems: A wireless communication base station including a transceiver coupled to a controller configured to cause the base station to serve a plurality of user terminals in a series of downlink radio frames each having a first temporal region and a second temporal region. The controller is configured to assign the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090219842 - Method of communication using frame: A device and method for communicating by a mobile communication terminal in communication with a base station. The method according to an embodiment includes exchanging a frame of data with the base station. The frame of data includes a) a plurality of first subframes each having a first number of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090219843 - Mobile communication method and system for signalling information relating to network's capabilities: A mobile communications method and system for signalling information between a mobile terminal and a network element of a mobile communications network. The mobile terminal transmits information relating to the desirability and/or possibility to support Voice Call Continuity (VCC), to the network element during a communication, and the network element... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090219844 - Access point with proxy functionality for facilitating power conservation in wireless client terminals: A novel power conservation scheme is provided for conserving power in client terminals by using a proxy server. The client terminal, having a low-power communication interface and a high-power communication interface, may power down its high-power communication interface, to conserve power. Prior to shutting off its high-power communication interface, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090219845 - Method and apparatus for processing in an idle state by an access network in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for processing an Idle state by an Access Network in a wireless communication system is described. an IdleState.Activate command and an ActiveSetManagement.Activate command are issued. It is determined if the protocol receives an IdleState.ConnectionFailed indication, or a ReverseTrafficChannelMAC.SupervisionFailed indication.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090219846 - Method for supporting paging and deep sleep with multiple radio interfaces: A method of paging for a wireless device with multiple radio interfaces corresponding to multiple access networks. The method provides a first interface from the multiple radio interfaces to listen to paging for the multiple radio interfaces; turns the rest of the multiple radio interfaces into deep-sleep mode; and maintains... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090219847 - System and method for message queue management in a power-save network: A method and apparatus for communicating information between networked devices. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise, for example, a first networked device communicating information over a wireless communication network to a second networked device having power-save mode capability. The first networked device receives an incoming message from the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090219849 - Apparatus for and method of multicast and broadcast service (mbs) macro-diversity based information processing: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of multicast and broadcast service (MBS) macro-diversity based information processing for use in MBS enabled wireless communication systems. MBS allocations and transmissions from base stations are not coordinated and independent of each other. The characteristics of the MBS signal, such as waveform,... Agent: Zaretsky Patent Group PC

20090219850 - Method for terminal to join multicast broadcast service in wireless network and system using thereof: A method for a terminal to join a multicast broadcast service (MBS) in a wireless network and a wireless communication system are provided, so as to enable a terminal to successfully join an MBS and receive MBS content. The method and the system relate to a wireless communication field. A... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090219848 - Provision of multimedia broadcast/multicast service (mbms) for roaming subscribers: The present invention proposes a solution for providing multicast/broadcast service to users roaming between different operational domains. In particular it is proposed to provide means enabling the user to contact a home multicast/broadcast server Said means might be a request being triggered by the user Said request includes a network... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090219851 - Adding hybrid arq to wlan protocols with mac based feedback: A wireless node having a MAC layer configured to coordinate access to a shared wireless medium using a MAC protocol, a PHY layer configured to provide an interface to the shared wireless medium, and a HARQ layer between the MAC and PHY layers, the HARQ layer being configured to support... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090219852 - Method of controlling relay communication: A method for reporting a channel status in a mobile communication system including a relay station (RS) is provided. When a mobile terminal in the coverage of a base station (BS) receives a service through an RS, the RS reports a channel status between the RS and the terminal to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090219854 - Radio base station, relay station and communication control method: A radio base station which performs data transmission with radio terminals under a plurality of relay stations via the plurality of relay stations respectively, including a control unit which transmits a first data addressed to a first radio terminal under a first relay station and a second data addressed to... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090219853 - Wireless communication systems: A multi-hop wireless communication system, in which packets of data are transmitted over a connection between a base station (MR-BS) and a subscriber station (SS) via at least one relay station (RS), the packets of data being transmitted in accordance with one of a plurality of service classes each having... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090219857 - method of serving sector maintenance in a wireless communication systems: An apparatus and method for serving sector maintenance in a wireless communication system is described. A forward link shared signaling Change (FLSS) command is received and it is determined if a FLSS in the ChangeFLSS command is a member of a NonSynchronousSubset.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090219860 - Base station and communication method: The present invention relates to a base station for generating and transmitting system information to a mobile station. The present invention also relates to a communication method of communicating system information in a communication system including the base station and the mobile station. The base station generates system information; categorizes... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090219858 - Method and system for transmitting a signal to a communication device in a cellular communication system: A method for transmitting a signal to a communication device in a cellular communication system is provided. The method comprises transmitting a signal using a first antenna being provided in a first sector of the cellular communication system, and transmitting another signal using a second antenna being provided in a... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090219856 - Method of assigning traffic resource: A communication system receives attributes associated with access terminals within a cell and groups them in accordance with similarities between the received attributes. Resource assignment messages customized to their respective attributes are transmitted to the groups, thereby ensuring that all groups receive these messages. These groups are formed dynamically as... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090219859 - Radio communication terminal: A radio communication terminal according to the present invention comprises: a call request transmitter configured to transmit a call request for a destination terminal to a call control server; an input information acquisition unit configured to acquire inputted information; a message creation unit configured to create a message for the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090219855 - Transmission control method of downlink packet communication and wireless base station: A wireless base station for transmitting a data packet to a plurality of mobile stations through a downlink shared channel determines two powers to be allocated to the downlink shared channel using two large and small transmission power margins. The wireless base station carries out a step of relating a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090219861 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, and paging information reception method: A disclosed transmitting apparatus includes a paging indicator information generating unit generating paging indicator information including a group ID of users who are to receive a paging channel and information indicating a radio resource in which the paging channel is transmitted; and a multiplexing unit multiplexing the paging indicator information.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090219878 - Apparatus and method for persistent allocation in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for persistent allocation in a wireless communication system are provided. An operation method of a Base Station (BS) includes determining if decoding information for one or more persistent allocations assigned to one or more corresponding Mobile Stations (MSs) is updated, if the decoding information is updated,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090219880 - Automatic quality of service based resource allocation: A system and method for providing quality-of-service based network resource allocation and utilization in a dynamic network environment. For example, a wireless communication network may comprise a first system and a second system. The first system may provide a current service to a user at a current quality level. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090219877 - Communication apparatus and allocation determining method: A communication apparatus for communicating via a frame containing a plurality of first type blocks into which pilot information is inserted and a plurality of second type blocks into which control information or data is inserted, the communication apparatus including a channel estimation accuracy predicting unit for predicting channel estimation... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090219875 - Frame for flexibly supporting heterogeneous modes and tdd/fdd modes, and method for transmitting signals using the same: A frame structure for flexibly supporting heterogeneous modes and TDD/FDD modes and a method for transmitting signals using the same are disclosed. A method for transmitting a signal using a preset frame structure in a communication system which supports a TDD mode and an FDD mode and supports two or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090219865 - Information encoding for a backward channel: The invention relates to an information encoding method for the backward channel of a base station (BS) of a mobile radio system. The base station (BS) comprises M resources and periodically emits (t), toward user terminals (UT), pilot signals enabling, via the latter, the measurement of quality of transmission of... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090219879 - Method and apparatus for bandwidth request/grant protocols in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. One embodiment uses a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol. The self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol utilizes a combination of incremental and aggregate bandwidth requests. CPEs primarily transmit incremental bandwidth requests to their associated base stations, followed by... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090219881 - Method and apparatus for providing enhanced messages on common control channel in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for providing new configurations for transmitting control information between a mobile terminal and a network using a common control channel (CCCH) logical channel/transport channel. The new configurations enable messages to be sent that are larger than currently allowed and the availability of the new configurations is... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090219866 - Method and apparatus for transitioning from monitor state in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus is provided, comprising determining if a ForwardTrafficChannelMAC.PageReceived indication is generated and transitioning to an access state based upon the ForwardTrafficChannelMAC.PageReceived indication. A method and apparatus is further provided, comprising determining if a ControlChannelMAC.PageReceived indication is generated and transitioning to an access state based upon the ControlChannelMAC.PageReceived... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090219867 - Method and apparatus of processing an access grant block in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for processing an AccessGrant block in a wireless communication system is provided, comprising placing the AccessGrant in a public data, adjusting timing of the sector that transmitted the AccessGrant, instructing a RCC MAC to initialize transmit power and transmitting an AccessGrantReceived indication for a sector.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090219869 - Method for communication in a mobile communication network: The invention pertains to the field of reservation methods for communication within a mobile communication network. It is a reservation method for communication within a mobile communication network (10) comprising access points for accessing the mobile communication network and mobile terminals intended to be connected to the access points. For... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090219868 - Method for scheduling radio resources in mobile communication system: A method for scheduling radio resources in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes allocating radio resources to a specific User Equipment (UE), receiving a release request message of the allocated radio resources from the specific UE and re-allocating unused radio resources to other UEs other than the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090219864 - Method for the early establishment of uplink tbfs: A mobile station operating in EGPRS mode needs to the early establishment of an uplink TBF although has not data to send, at the only precautionary purpose of preventing an intolerable latency negatively affecting the subsequent delay-sensitive transmissions. To this aim, the mobile sends a Packet Channel Request message in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090219871 - Method of operation in a dual carrier communication system: A mobile device in a dual carrier communication system communicates with a network via first and second carriers by receiving data in the first cell via one of the first and second carriers on one carrier frequency, whilst receiving system information and/or downlink data from a second cell via the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090219863 - Methodology for designing environment adaptive ultra low power wireless communication systems & methods: Low-power wireless receivers and low-power communication methods and systems are provided. According to some embodiments, a low-power wireless receiver can comprise an input module, a controller, and a feedback loop. The input module can receive a wireless signal from a wireless communication channel. The controller can receive the wireless signal... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP/marco/ga Tech Ryan A. Schneider, Esq.

20090219862 - Mobile station, wireless access network apparatus, mobile communication system, and intermittent reception method: A mobile station includes: means that performs discontinuous reception only for a signaling control channel, means that determines presence or absence of traffic data addressed to the own mobile station, and means that, when it is determined that there is traffic data addressed to the own mobile station, receives corresponding... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090219874 - Radio communication system: A radio communication system in which radio communication is carried out between a terminal and a base station through any of the predetermined number of random access slots. The radio communication system includes a base station which subjects a received access signal to CRC error judgment and signal-to-noise ratio judgment.... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090219876 - Radio resource allocation control apparatus and method and base station: A radio resource allocation control apparatus for controlling allocation of radio resources used in communication by a plurality of user equipment in a wireless communication system, the apparatus including a selecting unit for selecting a user equipment to which the allocation is performed by using a priority evaluation formula in... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090219870 - Resource block candidate selection technique employing packet scheduling in wireless communication systems: A method of transmitting data packets over a plurality of dynamically allocated resource blocks in at least one or a combination of a time, code or frequency domain on a shared channel of a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of selecting a number of resource block candidates for potential... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090219873 - Transmitting device, receiving device, and random access control method: A disclosed transmitting device includes a random access channel generating unit configured to generate a random access channel including a preamble that includes at least a part of control information; and a transmission control unit configured to allocate a continuous frequency band or a discontinuous comb-like frequency band set to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090219872 - Wireless base station and method of controlling wireless communications: A wireless base station is disclosed. The wireless base station includes a traffic-identifying section which determines a type of traffic of data input; a resource manager and allocator which allocates, for the data input, a wireless resource at constant periods and in a constant pattern when the data input is... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090219885 - Adaptive piconet protocol: A method for adaptive piconet protocol begins by determining, by a master device, a number of slave devices that are currently affiliated with the master device in a piconet. The method continues by determining, by the master device, data requirements and/or voice requirements of each of the slave devices currently... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090219882 - Cell search method, forward link frame transmission method, apparatus using the same and forward link frame structure: Provided are a cell search method, a forward link frame transmission method, an apparatus using the methods, and a forward link frame structure. The cell search apparatus includes a sync acquirer acquiring synchronization of sync channel symbols using a sync channel of a forward link, and a group detector detecting... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090219883 - Method and apparatus for transmitting synchronization signals in an ofdm based cellular communication system: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for transmitting the synchronization signal in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based cellular system. The cell search process widely used in the OFDM based cellular system is divided into two steps for obtaining the frame timing synchronization and obtaining the cell-specific scrambling code.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090219884 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control information in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control information in a wireless communication system are provided, in which physical layer signaling information to be transmitted in a frame is determined, a coded block is generated from signaling information having a fixed number of bits included in the physical layer signaling information,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090219886 - Arrangements and method for handling macro diversity in utran: The present invention relates to a Diversity Handover, DHO, node adapted to execute a macro diversity functionality in a mobile telecommunication system and a method and a computer program product thereof. The DHO node comprises means for performing an uplink combining of Dedicated Channel, DCH, frames wherein said DHO node... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090219889 - Method and apparatus for utilizing synchronization information: A communication method and system are provided that include providing synchronization information about a co-sited downlink carrier. This information may be transmitted to from a base station to a mobile device. The mobile device may receive this information and perform handover or measurements based on the received synchronization information.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090219887 - Method and apparatus of processing non-sticky assignments in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for management of Non-Sticky Assignments in a wireless communication system comprising receiving Non-Sticky Forward Link Assignment block with matching broadcast or unicast MACID, determining value of FLImplicitDeassignEnabled and determining TunedAway indication.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090219890 - Method, apparatus and system for establishing s1 signaling connection in an evolved network: A method, apparatus and system for establishing S1 signaling connections in an evolved network are disclosed. A source evolved NodeB (eNodeB) sends a HANDOVER REQUEST message that carries original S1 signaling connection parameter information to a target eNodeB to initiate a process that a user equipment (UE) is handed over... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090219888 - System and method for providing connection handoffs in wireless networks: System and method for providing connection handoffs from macrocell to femtocell in wireless networks. A method comprises determining a group identifier from a received pseudorandom number sequence, determining a list of access points from a plurality of access points, wherein the access points in the list of access points are... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090219891 - Method and apparatus for increasing efficiency of data packet transmission: An apparatus and method for increasing efficiency of data packet transmission comprising receiving a TCA message and a new pilot signal; determining if the TCA message includes at least one scheduler tag; performing one of the following: determining if there are other pilot signals associated with the at least one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090219893 - Method and apparatus for soft handover area detection using inter-band measurements: A method and system for soft handover area detection for uplink interference avoidance that includes a network device and mobile device in a communications network. A trigger criteria threshold is determined for the mobile device. The mobile device is using a downlink carrier. If a trigger criteria has risen above... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090219892 - Method for processing handoff: Provided is a handoff processing method including measuring a moving speed of a mobile terminal; measuring a size of a data packet generated in an application layer; measuring quality of a data transmission channel of the mobile terminal; calculating a maximum handoff delay time based on a relation between the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090219894 - Method of selecting target network for hand-over and method thereof: Through dedicated protocol message exchanges between a user equipment and a network or between networks, resource availability of candidate networks is checked in advance, a handover target network is selected from among the candidate networks according to a result of checking, and the selected target network is designated as a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090219896 - Frame and chip offset for srnc in ue involved relocation on carrier sharing: This invention is related to a system and method to setup a radio link in a CDMA mobile communication network. In particular, a radio network controller (RNC) sends a radio link setup request message, and a processing device receives the radio link setup request message. The processing device sends a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090219895 - Systems and methods for generating a codebook to encode embedded information: A method for generating a codebook to encode embedded information is described. A distribution pattern of symbols is determined. A first number of codewords associated with the distribution pattern of symbols is determined. A subset of codewords from the first number of codewords is selected. The subset of codewords is... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090219897 - Dtx detection when ack/nack is transmitted with scheduling request: A method for signaling between a mobile apparatus (10) and a network node (12) is described. The method includes generating a message that includes a scheduling request. Determining whether a second indication (e.g., an acknowledgment) is to be transmitted in a sub-frame with the first indication is also included. The... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090219898 - Device and method for increasing the robustness or the capacity of wireless communication systems: The invention relates to a method for increasing the capacity of a wireless communications system comprising at least two users U1 and U2 communicating by means of at least one frequency band F1, F2 wherein the stream of information s1(t) of the first user U1 and the stream of information... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090219904 - Method and apparatus for enabling coexistence of plurality of communication technologies on communication device: A method and apparatus for enabling coexistence of a plurality of communication technologies on a communication device is provided. The method includes receiving one or more first communication events from a first communication technology of the plurality of communication technologies. The method further includes converting the one or more first... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090219899 - Method for interfacing a second communication network comprising an access node with a first communication network comprising a contact node: An operational method interfaces a second communication network containing an access node with a first communication network encompassing a contact node. In a first step, an access node reads or receives an identity which is specific for the second communication network and is stored in a storage medium of a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090219900 - Method, system and arrangements for setting up and maintaining a wlan connection within predictably moving vehicles: Setting up and maintaining wireless communication connections with end user's terminals (301) on board a predictably moving vehicle (303) is shown with mechanisms for correcting for Doppler effects. A central device (302) within the vehicle (303) acts as a hub of a wireless network. There are a number of fixed... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090219903 - Millimeter-wave reflector antenna system and methods for communicating using millimeter-wave signals: Embodiments of millimeter-wave chip-array reflector antenna system are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the millimeter-wave chip-array reflector antenna system includes a millimeter-wave reflector to shape and reflect an incident antenna beam and a chip-array antenna comprising an array of antenna elements to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20090219902 - Radio communication terminal device, radio communication control station device, and radio communication method: Provided are a radio communication terminal device, a radio communication control station device, and a radio communication method capable of effectively managing a radio resource allocated to a terminal and context such as registration information when the terminal compatible with a plurality of different RATs moves between the RATs. According... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090219905 - Wireless communication collision detection: Collisions in a wireless network are detected and resolved through the use of transmissions by access points in the network. In some aspects, each access point may select a resource from a set of resources and transmit an indication of a unique identifier (e.g., a long identifier) of that access... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090219901 - Wireless content aquisition for mobile electronic devices: Improved methods, computer readable media and systems that facilitate data acquisition by mobile electronic devices are disclosed. One aspect pertains to content acquisition between mobile electronic devices that are within range of a local wireless network. Another aspect pertains to content acquisition by mobile electronic devices capable of communicating across... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090219906 - Channel transmission apparatus and channel transmission method: A radio physical channel is available to multiple logical channels commonly, and multiple radio physical control channels are provided concomitantly with the radio physical channel and include a commonly usable common control channel. A channel transmission apparatus includes a logical channel type determination unit determining a type of a logical... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090219907 - User equipment identification specific scrambling: A base station for use in a code division multiple access communication system comprises circuitry configured to process a user equipment identification (UE ID) by ½ rate convolutionally encoding the UE ID to produce a code. The code is used by the base station for scrambling a high speed shared... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090219908 - Method and system for processing signals via diplexers embedded in an integrated circuit package: Methods and systems for processing signals via diplexers embedded in an integrated circuit package are disclosed and may include generating via a diplexer, one or more RF signals at different frequencies from one or more received RF signals. The diplexer may be integrated in a multi-layer package. The generated RF... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090219909 - Method for switching and managing frequency access in cognitive radio system, base station and subscriber station using the same: Provided are a channel switching method for effectively performing channel switching in a cognitive radio system while protecting an incumbent user, a method of managing a frequency channel, and a base station and customer premises equipment (CPE) using the methods. In the channel switching method performed by the base station,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090219910 - Method for transmitting and receiving signals using multi-band radio frequencies: A method for transmitting and receiving signals using multi-band Radio Frequencies (RFs) is provided. The method transmits an information unit of a specific layer above a physical layer through a plurality of frequency allocation bands managed by the specific layer and transmits control information identifying each of the plurality of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090219914 - Base station, mobile station, and method of communicating: A base station is disclosed. The base station includes a transmitting unit which variably controls a TTI length including multiple subframes, each of which is to be allocated to a mobile station, and transmits to the mobile station scheduling information which indicates allocation of wireless resources to each user; a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090219913 - Communication device and method of controlling communication device: In a base station device 12 which sequentially stores a part or the whole of packets in physical slots formed for time-division multiplexing to perform radio communications with another communication device, an empty region determination unit 22 compares the maximum storage size of each of the physical slots and the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090219911 - Physical channel segmentation in wireless communication system: A wireless communication transmitter (200) configured to segment a transport block into C segments, encode each segment into a set of encoded bits, determine, for γ encoded segments, a subset of size M0′ of encoded bits for each encoded segment and for C−γ encoded segments, a subset of size M1′... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090219912 - Scheduling depending on quality of service and channel properties: A method is described for scheduling a plurality of data flows to a plurality of shared channels in a wireless communication system transmitting data packets in time intervals of frames and applying adaptive modulation and coding. The method comprises the steps of determining virtual link adaptation parameters for at least... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090219915 - Distributed request queue for a data communication system, and related operating methods: A user equipment (UE) device and associated operating techniques can be utilized to manage the queuing of network service requests in a distributed manner throughout a data communication system. The request queuing methodology leverages request queues maintained at UE devices within the system. An embodiment of a UE device that... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gd)

20090219916 - Method to scan for critical transmissions while transmitting on a conventional time division multiple access channel: A method allowing wireless communications devices to scan for critical transmissions while transmitting on a conventional time division multiple access channel (TDMA) is disclosed. The TDMA channel is divided into a plurality of slots, each slot capable of carrying audio, video, control, and/or data transmissions. A first slot is used... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090219917 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an extendedchannelinfo message in an active state in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an ExtendedChannelInfo message. The method comprises broadcasting the ExtendedChannelInfo message over a Forward Traffic Channel Medium Access Control (MAC); transmitting the ExtendedChannelInfo message in superframes, wherein the superframe number is divisible by NOMPExtendedChannelInfo; delivering the ExtendedChannelInfo message in one superframe or in... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090219918 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving in-band signaling information in a wireless broadcasting system: A method is provided for transmitting in-band signaling information in a wireless broadcasting system that transmits broadcast service data through a plurality of data Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) constituting a frame. Non-PLP signaling information is included in a data PLP for a particular broadcast service and the data PLP is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090219919 - Data transport container for transferring data in a high speed internet protocol network: The present invention relates to a data transport container for transferring a number n of different types of data in an Internet Protocol network. The number n is superior or equal to 2, and data is generated as Ethernet Jumbo packets, wherein the data transport container is an Internet Protocol... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090219926 - Call control method and ims cs control apparatus: A call control method and an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) circuit-switched (CS) control apparatus are disclosed. The call control method includes these steps: a terminal device and a second party set up a call through a CS call leg set up between the terminal device and an IMS CS control... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090219922 - Exchange system and server device: An exchange apparatus serves a plurality of telephone terminals and a server device is connected to the exchange apparatus via an exchange network and that, in a case in which the plurality of telephone terminals are grouped, stores in association and administers, for each group, a different single number and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090219925 - Internet protocol telephony voice/video message deposit and retrieval: A method for signaling an Integrated Messaging System (IMS) on an Internet Protocol (IP) based network to deposit a message, including the steps of sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SIP INVITE request to the IMS indicating a message deposit action; receiving a corresponding SIP menage from the IMS agreeing... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090219923 - Method and apparatus for accessing communication data relevant to a target entity identified by a number string: Service resource items for use in call setup in a telephone system are held on servers that are connected to a computer network which is logically distinct from the telephone system infrastructure; this computer network may, for example, make use of the Internet. Each service item is locatable on the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412

20090219921 - Method for localization and location-related connection of a mobile voice-over-ip subscriber to an emergency call station: The invention relates to a method for localization and location-related connection of a mobile voice-over-IP subscriber to an emergency call station even when the subscriber is temporarily registered in the voice-over-IP network with an address of a location other than his home address (2). For this purpose, the voice-over-IP network... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090219924 - Voice call communication switching system: A voice call communication switching system in which a first network and a second network are connected to each other and which includes a user equipment that establishes communication using the networks and an application server that controls communication exchanged. The application server includes a message control unit that receives... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090219920 - Voice-over-ip-(voio-) telephony computer system: v

20090219927 - Induced answering method and system for circuit switching-based telephony: Induced answering method and system for CS-based telephony. A user terminal (5) for communication over a telecommunications network (3) includes at least a CS-telephony device (CSO) for processing CS-based telephony signals (CS1, CS2), the CS-based telephony signals being received and transmitted over a circuit switched bearer service. The user terminal... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090219928 - Returning domain identifications without reconfiguration: In one embodiment, a technique for returning Domain IDs to a Fibre Channel fabric without a full build fabric (BF) phase is provided. A switch in the fabric may send a principal switch a message requesting the return of one or more Domain IDs assigned to that device. The principal... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090219929 - Adaptive refresh rate for header compression over long propagation channels and related methods: An adaptive telecommunications packet transmission system. Implementations may include a compression engine configured to compress a header of at least one uncompressed packet and to send at least one compressed packet corresponding to the at least one uncompressed packet across a communication channel coupled to the compression engine. A refresh... Agent: Booth Udall, PLC

20090219930 - Compressed ip flow recoginition for in-line, intergrated mobile dpi: Various exemplary embodiments comprise a method and related device and computer-readable medium including one or more of the following: receiving an uncompressed packet sent from the source node to the destination node during a compression negotiation stage; storing information extracted from the uncompressed packet, the stored information sufficient to uniquely... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090219931 - Method and system for synchronization of packet: A message synchronization demarcation method includes: a backup board receives a message of an opposite terminal from an interface board; the message is copied to a main board; the main board processes the message, copies it to the backup board through the buffer unit and transmits the data. Also a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090219932 - Multi-stream data transport and methods of use: A method of data transmission in a multimedia network. The network having a source coupled to a sink by a linking unit capable of supporting at least one virtual channel. The method receiving a plurality of source data streams in accordance with a native stream rate and packetizing each stream... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20090219934 - Service-specific logical interfaces for providing vpn customers access to external multicast content: A network device seamlessly handles multicast traffic flow between virtual private networks (VPNs) and content providers located external to the VPNs. For example, the network device, such as a router, comprises an interface card and a forwarding component. The forwarding component maintains forwarding data for a public network and forwarding... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090219933 - System, server and method for optimizing a group management protocol: The present invention discloses a method, server and system for optimizing a group management protocol so as to reduce the complexity in setting and switching filter modes in the prior protocols. The method includes: a group member sends a membership report to a multicast router; upon reception of the membership... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090219937 - Method and apparatus for biasing of network node packet prioritization based on packet content: A method and apparatus for biasing of network node packet prioritization based on packet content. The method may include marking a packet of data from a data stream of packets. The packet can be marked with a packet type such that subsequent nodes determine the relative priority of the packet... Agent: Prass LLP

20090219936 - Method and system for offloading network processing: The invention relates to a method for processing a packet. The method includes receiving the packet by a physical network interface, determining a target virtual network interface card (VNIC) using the destination address and a virtual switching table (VST), transferring the packet to a receive ring (RR) associated with the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090219935 - Method and system for transferring packets to a guest operating system: In general, the invention relates to a method for transferring a packet. The method includes receiving the packet by a physical network interface, determining a virtual network interface card (VNIC) using a virtual switching table, where the VNIC is located on a computer operatively connected to the network express manager... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090219938 - Systems and methods for multi-layer interworking: Systems, modules, computer-readable mediums and methods for multi-layer interworking are provided. An identified traffic path is selected from one or more traffic paths. The identified traffic path is selected based on information indicative of traffic path parameter information associated with the identified traffic path relative to traffic path parameter information... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090219939 - Transporting packets: A method and network node for transporting IP packets in an IP network. The IP packets are received at a first network node, which separates the packets into a plurality of streams. The packets of each stream share an IP header in common, which denotes a second network node as... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090219940 - System and method for providing throttling, prioritization and traffic shaping during request processing via a budget service: A network gateway application is described that provides throttling, prioritization and traffic shaping for incoming requests from client applications. A request is received by a plug-in manager component of the gateway application. The plug-in manager can then invoke the budget service in order to determine a current available budget for... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090219941 - Selective node tracking: A list of nodes is segmented into one or more segments, each segment having a node limit and a segment criteria, attributes associated with a first node are identified, a determination is made whether to add the first node to a particular segment of the node list based on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090219942 - Transmission of data packets of different priority levels using pre-emption: A method for transmitting data packets of at least two different priority levels via one or more bearer channels is described. The method comprises the steps of fragmenting a data packet into a plurality of corresponding code words, each code word comprising a sync code, with the sync code being... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090219943 - Information processing system, information processor, server, information processing method and program: An information processor (1) comprises: a history packet transmitter (11) for transmitting a history packet; a request packet transmitter (12) for transmitting a request packet requesting transmission of a return packet; a packet transmission controller (13) for controlling transmission of a request packet by using a binary search method; a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090219944 - Methods and devices for allocating frequency ranges: A method of allocating frequency ranges to at least one communication device is provided. The method comprises determining available frequency ranges within a plurality of frequency ranges, combining the available frequency ranges to at least one combined logical frequency range, and allocating the at least one combined logical frequency range... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090219945 - Combined join and state transfer: A method and apparatus for processing messages is described. In one embodiment, an application programming interface provides for a flush protocol to force members of a group to send all of their pending messages prior to a predetermined event. A client sends a request to a coordinator of the group... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090219946 - System and method for resource admission and control: System and method for resource admission and control is disclosed. The system for resource admission and control includes an interface unit for application function unit configured to receive service request sent from the application function unit; a policy decision function unit configured to identify the type of an access network... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090219947 - Communication device, communication method, and data structure: A communication device communicates by reserving a Medium Access Slot (MAS) based on WiMedia_Alliance. The communication device includes a control part that generates negotiation request information, the negotiation request information requesting a reservation change so that an own device uses a MAS having been reserved by other communication device, and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090219948 - Connection adapter for communication device: When a connection adapter 1 for connecting a host device 10 to communication modules 21, 22, and 23 includes storage means 151a for storing a telephone number associated with necessary connection destination information for a network connection, and a connection control unit 121 for receiving a connection request including a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090219949 - Connection adapter for communication device: A connection adapter 1 is interposed between a host device 10 and a communication equipment 20. Upon receipt of a communication start TCP packet from the wireless packet communication network 40 after the establishment of a connection with a wireless packet communication network 40, the connection adapter 1 temporarily stores... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090219950 - Connection adapter for communication device: A communication equipment connection adapter 1 for connecting a host device 10 to communication modules 21, 22, and 23 generates a replica of communication data between the host device 10 and a first communication partner 41, and accumulates the communication data in a communication data storage unit 152a. When the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090219951 - Apparatus and methed for constructing a data unit that includes a buffer status report: An apparatus and method for constructing a data unit that includes a buffer status report (BSR) such that when BSR triggering is performed, the size(s) of the necessary sub-header(s) are also to be considered together in addition to the BSR size. There is a checking unit that checks whether any... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090219952 - Wireless terminal baseband processor high speed turbo decoding module supporting mac header splitting: A baseband processing module for use within a Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver includes a downlink/uplink interface, TX processing components, a processor, memory, RX processing components, and a turbo decoding module. The RX processing components receive a baseband RX signal from the RF front end, produce a set of IR samples... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090219953 - Method and apparatus for allowing non-ip based networks to interact with iptv-based systems: A method of allowing a non-IP-based network to interact with an IPTV-based network is provided. The method comprises: receiving an indication at an IPTV Mediation Application Server (IPTV Mediation AS) that a subscriber to IPTV service is watching television, wherein the television is connected to an IPTV set-top box (IPTV... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent