Multiplex communications inventions 10/09

20090245081 - Fast seamless joining of channels in a multi-channel communication system: At least one channel is joined to a group of active channels in a communication system by transmitting control signals to configure respective customer premises equipment (CPE) of the active channels into a joining mode of operation, and transmitting a joining signature sequence to CPE of the joining channel over... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090245082 - System and methods for cancelling interference in a communication system: Systems and methods for canceling interference in a communication system are described. A signal that comprises current data from a current access point and secondary data from one or more secondary access points is received. The secondary data is demodulated using one or more secondary channel estimates if a signal... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245083 - Adaptive transmissions for optimized application delivery in wireless networks: Methods and devices of the invention relate to sending information over a wireless communications channel using an adaptive frame structure (AFS) having unequal error protection. Unequal error protection relates to a first data region of the frame being modulated with a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a second... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090245087 - slow speed mute resistance via selective cofdm bin loading: Systems and methods are presented for improving the ability to withstand slow speed mute via diversity transmission while avoiding loss in link level margin. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods are presented for improving resistance to slow speed muting by employing transmit diversity where a second... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090245085 - Graph-based method for allocating resources in ofdma networks: A method allocates radio channel resources in an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access network including a set of base stations (BS) and a set of mobile stations (MS). For each BS, a diversity set is maintained for the sets of MS. Each BS determines possible interference at the MS based on... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090245086 - Graph-based method for allocating resources in ofdma networks: A method allocates radio channel resource in an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access network including a set of base stations (BS) and a set of mobile stations (MS). For each BS, a diversity set is maintained for the sets of MS. Each BS determines possible interference at the MS based on... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090245084 - System and method for communicating data using efficient fast fourier transform (fft) for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm): A system communicates data and includes a transmitter for transmitting a communications signal that carries communications data. It includes an efficient modulator for approximating the frequencies of sine/cosine basis waveforms using complex exponential functions and adding and subtracting the complex exponential functions to generate an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM)... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090245093 - Apparatus and methods for update of symbol information: Apparatus and methods for updating symbol information in a communication device with hardware such as a microcontroller are disclosed. The disclosed apparatus and methods employ waiting for the beginning of a symbol in a sample stream at a predetermined time. One or more programmed instructions are read at the beginning... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245092 - Apparatus, processes, and articles of manufacture for fast fourier transformation and beacon searching: In embodiments, a wireless receiver employs a hardware-based Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) engine controlled by firmware. The FFT engine executes tasks stored in a task list. Each task is associated with a different portion of a signal, for example, one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulated (OFDM) symbols. Each task... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245089 - Bit-width minimization scheme for wireless communication: A technique for generating a reduced bit-width in a signal generated by a first-type modulator in a communication apparatus that includes two distinct modulators. In particular, the communication apparatus includes a first modulator adapted to generate a first modulated signal quantified to a first bit-width, a second modulator adapted to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245090 - Broadband pilot channel estimation using a reduced order fft and a hardware interpolator: Within a receiver, a channel estimation mechanism involves a hardware interpolator. In a first mode, narrowband pilot values are analyzed to generate channel parameters that are supplied to the interpolator such that the interpolator generates channel estimate values. The channel estimate values are used to demodulate a tile of a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245091 - Buffered demod and demap functions: An apparatus operable in a wireless communication system, the apparatus may include an FFT symbol buffer and a demapping device. The FFT symbol buffer can feed FFT symbol data derived from received communication signals to a channel estimation device and a shared buffer. The channel estimation device can also provide... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245088 - Communication equipment which receives ofdm signal, ofdm-based wireless communication system and method for receiving ofdm signal: When a receiving apparatus which employs a OFDM-based cellular wireless communication scheme detects as an excessive signal for each frame, the signal having signal intensity exceeding a reference value after a Fourier transform, a gain variable according to an excessive quantity relative to the reference value is used for each... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090245096 - Apparatus and method for supporting hybrid automatic repeat request in a broadband wireless communication system: A broadband wireless communication system using a plurality of Frequency Allocations (FAs) is provided. A method for packet transmission of a packet of a transmitting end includes dividing one encoded packet into a plurality of parts, mapping a plurality the plurality of parts of the packet to the FAs through... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090245094 - Outage analysis system: A device may receiving alarms identifying failures of network elements, create a site table that includes a list of sites at which the alarms are generated and a number of alarms for each of the sites, determine whether an outage has occurred based on the alarms, analyze whether the outage... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090245095 - Voice over internet protocol clarity during degradation: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for improving voice over Internet Protocol clarity during degradation. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises monitoring a call, determining whether degradation exists; and responsive to a determination that degradation exists, applying... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090245097 - Signal transmitting device for switching forwarding destination: A device includes: an ingress interface unit determining an output port of an input signal, adding destination information including information on the output port, and outputting the signal; two or more egress interface units; a switch unit receiving the signal including the destination information, determining a forwarding destination of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245098 - Failover/failback trigger using sip messages in a sip survivable configuration: Provided are methods, devices, and systems for maintaining a SIP survivable network. The present invention may utilize messages, such as SIP NOTIFY messages, to trigger various network components to failover and failback based on the determined status of the SIP network.... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20090245099 - Repeater and communication method: A repeater for sending and receiving a routing message for changing routing information determines whether a routing message received from a first adjacent repeater which is disposed adjacent to the repeater is to be sent or not. If it is judged that the routing message is not to be sent,... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090245100 - Line accommodating device: A line accommodating device for accommodating lines of a first communication network and a second communication network, the line accommodating device includes an interface connecting to the first communication network; a connecting block for connecting to the interface; and a plurality of relay modules connecting to the connecting block and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245101 - Apparatus and method for transmitting reverse packet data in mobile communication system: A method for controlling a reply signal transmission in a mobile communication system. The method includes determining whether an error is detected in the received data through the radio channel, generating a reply signal according to the error detection, determining a repetition control signal with a value that differs according... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090245102 - Network backup system and method: A network backup system and method are proposed. The network backup system provides a function for automatically switching network connection lines when a network connection line fails to provide a normal connection, thereby allowing a user to keep processing data transmission via a network system, without any interruption, and data... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090245103 - Congestion detection method, congestion detection apparatus, and recording medium storing congestion detection program recorded thereon: According to an aspect of the embodiments, a congestion detection method causes a computer to function as a congestion detection apparatus connectable to a network. Packets on the network are obtained and a packet loss is detected. A packet group made up of a series of packets based on the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245104 - Apparatus and method for controlling buffering of an arrival packet: An apparatus for controlling buffering of an arrival packet. The apparatus includes a packet buffer for temporarily storing each of one or more packets to be transmitted in association with an arrival time thereof, and a packet discard section for determining an arrival packet to be discarded or to be... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245105 - Method for network transmission: The method for the network transmission adjusts retransmission timeout timer (RTO) with the fuzzy rule to make the value of RTO change with network traffic. The method not only minimizes retransmission and lost packets, but also keeps utilization higher. The method is used to solve the congestion collapse problem in... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090245106 - Transmission control method and system thereof: A control server 4, receives the number of user terminals U which have transited to the individual Web pages from a monitoring server 3 in Step S41. In Step S42, based on the received number of transitions U of the individual Web pages, application of control is decided by the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090245107 - System and method of forecasting usage of network links: An approach is provided for forecasting usage of network links. The method includes determining traffic data values for traffic over a network link that is used to provide one or more services to one or more customers, where the traffic data values are taken at intervals for a predetermined range... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090245108 - Proactive uplink aggregate maximum bit rate enforcement: A system and method for enforcing uplink aggregate maximum bit rate (AMBR) at a network gateway is provided. In one embodiment, a network gateway may inform one or more network access nodes that are sending data to the network gateway that a total data flow rate on a plurality of... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20090245109 - Methods, systems and computer program products for detecting flow-level network traffic anomalies via abstraction levels: Methods, systems and computer program products for detecting flow-level network traffic anomalies via abstraction levels. An exemplary embodiment includes a method for detecting flow-level network traffic anomalies in a computer network, the method including obtaining current distributions of flow level traffic features within the computer network, computing distances of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090245111 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing network bandwidth: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing network bandwidth. A monitor module monitors traffic of a plurality of peer computers over a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network. A detection module detects traffic exceeding a traffic threshold for the network. A delay module delays issuing each TCP/IP acknowledge... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090245112 - Communication device, communication system, communication control method and recording medium: The present invention provides a communication system that is capable of performing band control on a LAG group between devices. A communication system according to the present invention includes multiple communication devices (M1, M2, and E1 to E3). Each of the communication devices (E1 to E3) manages output ports of... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090245110 - System and method for improving equalization in a high speed serdes environment: A method and accompanying system are disclosed for tuning each channel of a high-speed SerDes link interface arranged in a configuration linking a local side to a remote side. The method includes transmitting a flow control packets from the local side to the remote side to change remote side transmission... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20090245113 - Load balancer, network system, load balancing method, and program: In a load balancer and a load balancing method, if load on a server becomes higher and the server enters a high-load state, processing is transferred from the server to a second server. In a load balancer, for user terminals registered to SIP servers, a server as a register request... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090245114 - Methods for collecting and analyzing network performance data: Techniques are described to collect and analyze network performance data. Servers are modified so connection data, including data re-transmitted, is stored on each server of a data center that serves data to clients. Each server then sends the connection data stored to a collection server that aggregates the data. The... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090245117 - Detection of network impairments through tilt-normalized measurement data: A method and apparatus are provided for detecting network impairments through tilt-normalized measurement data, the method including: collecting data for a network signal; computing a best-fit tilt for the collected data; performing tilt-normalization of the collected data responsive to the computed best-fit tilt; and determining whether the tilt-normalized data crosses... Agent: Pequignot + Myers LLC

20090245115 - Method and system for porviding holistic, interative, rule-based traffic management: An approach is provided for monitoring traffic over a network link that is used to provide one or more services to one or more customers. A determination is made regarding whether a failure mode of the network link has occurred by comparing the monitored traffic to predetermined bandwidth criteria. A... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090245116 - Method for mobile network operational state indication: A method to indicate a transitional operational state of a communication link is provided. The method includes indicating the operational state of the communication link is operable, transmitting data between a communication management unit and an endpoint via the communication link, and determining if the transmitted data is received at... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090245127 - Application service level mediation and method of using same: A method and apparatus for using an application layer demarcation point are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises monitoring end-to-end performance of a network application at an application demarcation point in a network, and mediating between provider infrastructure and customer infrastructure based on results of monitoring.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090245126 - Communication apparatus, communication method, and recording medium storing program: When a communication apparatus (server device) that includes wireless access means and can send content data by using the wireless access means starts sending content data, it calculates a communication band that remains available for the server device to perform communication, so that any content that has a rate equal... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090245119 - Communications system for exchanging spectrum sensing measurements through a drop box and method of using same: A communications system and method for exchanging spectrum usage information through a drop box (100) includes one or more central stations (101) that defines a region of operation. A central drop box (102) is associated with the central station (101) for providing a database of spectrum usage information. Stations (103,... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090245120 - Ethernet physical layer transceiver with auto-ranging function: A method in an Ethernet physical transceiver device for selecting a transmission speed includes resetting a first register and a count value, establishing a link with a remote network device at a first transmission speed, incrementing the first register to a first value, monitoring the link by counting the number... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20090245128 - Integrated switch tap arrangement with visual display arrangement and methods thereof: An arrangement in a network device for monitoring network traffic is provided. The arrangement includes a set of network ports, which includes a set of input network ports for receiving the network traffic and a set of output network ports for outputting the network traffic from the network device. The... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090245121 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a quickchannelinfo block in active state in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and processing a QuickChannelInfo block is described. It is determined if a superframe is with odd superframe index. A QuickChannelInfo block is transmitted in every superframe with an odd superframe index. The contents of the QuickChannelInfo block are changed in accordance with the QuickChannelInfo... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090245123 - Method for simultaneously accessing circuit services and packet services in a cellular mobile radio system: A method for simultaneous access to circuit services and packet services in a cellular mobile radio system comprising second generation cells and third generation cells, in which method, if a packet or a circuit connection is required by a terminal already having a circuit or a packet connection set up... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC Suite 800

20090245124 - Receiving device, clock synchronizing method, and computer program: There is provided a receiving device including: a receiving unit that receives a packet stream; an oscillator; a measuring unit that performs a measuring operation; an acquiring unit that reads the newest time stamp read from the packet stream received by the receiving unit and the newest measurement value measured... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090245122 - System and method for monitoring global network performance: The present invention provides a system and method for monitoring global network performance across a public Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or private networking through a secure IPSec gateway, and providing a user interface for performance metrics through a secure Internet browser.... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090245118 - System and method for providing quality of service mapping: A system and method for providing quality of service mapping including a first receiver to receive location data of a mobile device, a transmitter to transmit the location data to one or more servers of a service provider, and a second receiver to receive signal quality information based on the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090245125 - Wireless communication system for reducing power consumption when receiving a frame having a low reception success possibility: A header analysis unit reads a parameter showing a format of a digital signal contained in a received signal. A received signal quality measurement unit measures a quality of the received signal. An awake/sleep control unit controls restart and sleep of a reception unit based on data from the header... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090245129 - Call admission control method: A method and arrangement for controlling call admissions to a path in a packet-switched network. A restriction factor is determined on the basis of a load condition on the path as defined by indicators such as jitter and packet loss. The restriction factor is adjusted based on a previous load... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090245130 - Systems and methods for intelligent policy enforcement in access networks: Systems and methods of intelligent policy enforcement in access networks are disclosed. One such method is implemented in a network device and comprises updating a traffic history with information associated with an incoming packet arriving from or destined to a subscriber link. The method also comprises calculating a drop probability... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090245133 - Broadcast/multicast based network discovery: Embodiments of the invention relate to apparatus, system and method for use of WLAN access enabled mobile devices such as notebooks and handheld communication devices. In particular, embodiments of the invention relate to methodology whereby WiFi enabled devices can automatically select the appropriate service provider, in a power efficient manner,... Agent: Client 21058 C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090245134 - Broadcasting a message in a parallel computer: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for broadcasting a message in a parallel computer that includes: transmitting, by the logical root to all of the nodes directly connected to the logical root, a message; and for each node except the logical root: receiving the message; if that node is the... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090245132 - Dynamic vlan ip network entry: Systems and methods for tagging packets in a wireless network are described. The methods can comprise detecting initial entry of subscriber equipment into a wireless network at a first base station and generating a network tag for the subscriber equipment, the network tag associating the subscriber equipment with the first... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090245135 - Flexible network switch fabric for clustering system: A network switch fabric is provided for a clustering system to facilitate flexibility of network-related interconnection selection and system scalability. The network switch fabric includes replaceable network switch(s) and network interface(s) selectively configured on a base board. Multiple types of interconnection protocols with similar characteristics will be able to implement... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090245137 - Highly available virtual stacking architecture: At least one embodiment of the present invention provides a single High Availability virtual switching architecture that allows for sub convergence times in the event of a switch or switch link failure. In some instances, the High Availability architecture uses an adaptation of an ISIS protocol to leverage separation of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090245136 - Information processing apparatus, summarizing method and summarizing program: An information processing apparatus retains topology information indicating how all nodes are connected in a predetermined target area within a network divided into plural areas. The information processing apparatus includes an ingress/egress determining unit that determines, by referring to connected area information indicative of which area an area border node... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245138 - Method and system for topological navigation of hierarchical data groups: A system and method to visually navigate hierarchical data groups are provided. If a user wishes to graphically view network traffic data for a particular business group of network nodes, a network topology navigation tool may be provided to display to the user such information that is relevant to the... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20090245139 - Method for controlling memory consumption in router-based virtual private networks: A method to determine the maximum number of VPNs assignable to plurality of routers in a VPN network. The first step in the method can be specifying a tolerance which is a probability that consumed router memory will exceed available router memory for each router in a plurality of routers.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090245131 - Remotely controlled gateway management with security: A system and method are disclosed for remotely controlled gateway (135) management. The method and apparatus receive a request (120-1, 120-2) for content (164), the request (120-1, 120-2) comprising global addressing information (125-2, 126-2) of a gateway (135) and corresponding to a network appliance 105 on a local network (165)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090245140 - Bionets architecture for building services capable of self-evolution: Systems and methods are provided for effectuating a basis for implementing services capable of self-creation, self-evolution and/or substantive personalization without direct intervention from, e.g., a service provider. The resulting services are flexible and user-friendly, as a basic set of service primitives can be updated and extended at any point. Additionally,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090245141 - Ethernet ring protection-resource usage optimization methods: Reconfiguring a ring network having N nodes and S spans that prevents a maximum usage parameter to be exceeded. The network is configured by selecting a span as a protection span to remain idle. An effect of the configuration on the network that causes the network to exceed a maximum... Agent: Dickinson Wright, PLLC

20090245142 - Additive service beacon: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for wirelessly transmitting a plurality of beacons describing one or more services offered by a service providing device are disclosed. In some embodiments, the service providing device transmits a first beacon including a first component providing a basic description of one or more services offered... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090245143 - Conference system, conference program, and conference resource allocation method: Conference system includes a conference status recording unit recording an identifier of a conference using allocated resources and a usefulness value indicating the degree of usefulness of the conference. A request accepting unit accepts a conference start request from a user. A conference opening unit instructs a multipoint connection apparatus... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245144 - Ip telephone terminal: In an IP telephone terminal, a function implementation controlling unit is configured so as to be capable of controlling implementation of a function instructed by a file received via IP telephone communications when the communicating unit receives the file. The configuration data storing unit stores configuration data that is used... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090245145 - Extending the range of a hand-portable radio: A repeater system for hand portable radios that may be outside normal coverage in a mobile radio system. Short messages or emergency messages from the portable radio are transmitted to an on-board or other mobile station, and forwarded from there to a central station or other required station in the... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20090245146 - Advanced active metamaterial antenna systems: Techniques, antenna systems and apparatus based on composite right and left handed (CRLH) metamaterial (MTM) structures to couple CRLH MTM circuits to transistors to amplify signals in wireless RF receivers and transmitters.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090245147 - System for maintaining synchronization between multiple asynchronous communication links: An apparatus for maintaining synchronization with a plurality of asynchronous communication links includes a first counter that generates a first local network clock, and a second counter that generates a second local network clock. The apparatus also includes an offset controller coupled with the first counter and coupled with the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090245149 - Multi-protocol label switching support for proxy mobile internet protocol version 6: A mobility access gateway (MAG) comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising establishing a multi-protocol label switched (MPLS) tunnel with a local mobility agent (LMA), and establishing communications with a plurality of mobile nodes (MNs) associated with a plurality of service providers, wherein a plurality of... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090245148 - Techniques for channel sounding in a wireless communication system: A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes receiving an assigned starting point index and an assigned reference signal bandwidth for a reference signal. The reference signal is then transmitted multiple times, beginning at an initial resource block that is associated with the assigned starting point index and in... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090245150 - Method and system for managing idle mode of a mobile node with multiple interfaces: A method for controlling a first interface and a second interface installed on a mobile node is provided, wherein the mobile node communicates with a first access network (AN) through the first interface and communicates with a second AN through the second interface. The method comprises following steps. A first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090245152 - Power managing method applied to a wireless network apparatus and power management thereof: A power managing method applied to a wireless network apparatus includes the steps of periodically detecting whether the wireless network apparatus is operated in a non-link status to determine whether to enter a first power-saving mode when the wireless network apparatus powered on; and determining the wireless network apparatus whether... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090245151 - Process of communication between a first node and a second node of a home automation installation: p

20090245157 - Managing an assignment of unicast traffic channels to access terminals participating in a multicast session within a wireless communications network: In an embodiment, an access terminal sends a multicast session registration request to an access network. The access network determines whether to assign a unicast traffic channel (e.g., media access control (MAC) identifier (ID)) to the access terminal, for the access terminal to provide feedback (e.g., channel quality indicators (CQIs)... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245153 - Multiuser sector micro diversity system: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for a multiuser sector micro diversity system are described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090245156 - Parameter setting change method and setting apparatus: A parameter setting change method for a system that performs multicast distribution from an information distribution apparatus to a plurality of mobile stations via a relay node is provided. In the method, a parameter adjustment setting apparatus analyzes a data reception state output from the plurality of mobile stations and... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090245154 - Signaling parameters channel processing: In a multicasts wireless telecommunication system providing an aggregation of one or more independent data components as a flow, wherein the OIS is located at the latch point of the beginning of the superframe, and the OIS programming is latched at the superframe boundary, the improvement of deriving signal parameter... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245155 - Wireless communication system, wireless base station, user equipment, and multi service management equipment: A wireless communication system includes a multi service supplying unit which transmits the same data to a plurality of user equipment and a quality evaluation result collecting unit which collects quality evaluation results of a multi service from the plurality of user equipment. The wireless communication system includes a resource... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090245158 - Customization of data session retry mechanism in a wireless packet data service network: In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for customization of a mobile communications device's data session retry mechanism in a wireless packet data service network. Upon detecting that a cause code has been returned by a node disposed in a wireless packet data service network, a structure is interrogated to... Agent: The Danamraj Law Group, P.C.

20090245163 - Access point device for wireless lan and method of securing communication path: An access point device of a wireless LAN connecting a client device to a wired LAN: monitors a connection between the access point device and the wired LAN; transmits a portal request, to an adjacent access point device, indicating a request for serving as a proxy connection node accessing the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090245162 - Communication systems: A method of assessing a potential communication link in a wireless communication system, the system comprising a source apparatus, a destination apparatus and at least one intermediate apparatus, said source apparatus being operable to transmit information in a communication direction towards the destination apparatus either directly along a single communication... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090245160 - Geographical scheduling and association procedure for wimax systems: Techniques to manage communication between a subscriber station and a base station or a relay station are disclosed.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090245161 - Information communication apparatus, information transmitting apparatus, and information communication method: An information communication apparatus (100A) that receives transmission information transmitted from a broadcast station, generates and relays response information to an information communication apparatus (100C) having access to a communication network (120) includes: a broadcast-wave I/F that receives the transmission information; a wireless I/F that transmits the response information to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090245165 - Method and system for resource scheduling in wireless system: A method for resource scheduling in a wireless system, applicable to a multi-hop network, includes a MS acquiring bandwidth granted by an MS synchronous station, and transmitting data to the MS synchronous station with the bandwidth. Each node between the MS and an MMR-BS acquires bandwidth granted by the superordinate... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090245166 - Sending station, relay station, and relay method: In a relay station, a packet fragmented by a sending station is received. The fragmented packet is selectively further fragmented into a plurality of refragmented packets. Identification information (FSN) is added to each of the refragmented packets and to a non-refragmented packet not fragmented. Each of the packets to which... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090245159 - System and method for node-clustering and multi-hop routing in wideband wireless ad-hoc networks: An ad-hoc network system for computing a proposed number of node-clusters that enable a relative threshold data rate. The ad-hoc network system includes a source terminal, a destination terminal, a plurality of relay terminals, and a cluster determination engine. The source terminal sends a network communication to a destination terminal... Agent: HolmanIPLaw

20090245164 - Wireless communication systems: A wireless communication system comprising at least one user terminal (MS) in wireless communication with a relay station (Access RS), the relay station being in communication with at least one super-ordinate station in the system such as a base station (MR-BS) such that the user terminal can perform either single-hop... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090245167 - Method and apparatus for processing location service messages in a satellite position location system: Method and apparatus for processing location service messages in a satellite position location system is described. In one example, a mobile receiver includes a satellite signal receiver, wireless circuitry, and at least one module. The satellite signal receiver is configured to receive satellite positioning system signals, such as Global Positioning... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090245172 - Base station and scheduling method: A base station performing wireless communications with terminals includes: a scheduler scheduling data transmitted to the terminal; a desynchronization determining unit acquiring synchronization information on synchronization between the base station and a neighboring base station to the base station and determining, based on the synchronization information acquired, whether the desynchronization... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090245176 - Device managed access point lists in wireless communications: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate device-side access point list management. Blacklists of access points unsuitable for providing network access to a related mobile device can be maintained as well as whitelists of suitable access points. The lists can be managed using an interface provided at the mobile device.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245178 - Method and apparatus to report and manage cells in a multi carrier system: Methods and apparatuses for facilitating managing cells in a multi-carrier system from an access terminal and base station are provided. The base station and access terminal communicate via an anchor carrier and a supplementary carrier. A triggering algorithm generated by the base station is transmitted to the access terminal. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245179 - Method and system for processing international calls using a voice over ip process: A method for processing an multi-country international phone call, free from an international toll charge, using a voice over IP (VoIP) call from a first mobile handset to a second handset. The method includes transferring destination number information associated with a destination number within a first country code from the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090245174 - Methods and apparatus for data transfer in a packet-switched data network: Apparatus for and methods of enabling a gateway node of a first packet-switched data network to select a first channel for transferring a data packet to a destination packet data protocol address of a correspondent node provided service in the first network are disclosed. The gateway node is configured to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090245175 - Mobile radio terminal: A mobile radio terminal has a first radio communication unit and a second radio communication unit adopting mutually different communication systems, first starts the first radio communication unit and connects to a content server CS, obtains meta-data of a desired content, and a control unit determines a communication system to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090245173 - Radio communication terminal, radio base station, and packet communication method: A radio communication terminal according to the present invention transmits and receives multiple types of packets including a RTP packet to and from a communication destination device. The radio communication terminal sets an auxiliary service instance used for transmitting the RTP packet and a main service instance used for transmitting... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090245181 - Real-time rate control mechanism for multi-rate data transmissions in wireless networks: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the invention, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090245168 - Server for enhancing communication between a content provider and a radio communication device and method therefor: The present invention relates to a server (103) for a general way of enhancing communication between a content provider (104, 105, 105) and a radio communication device (107) and a method therefor. A server (103) of the present invention automatically and dynamically collects data information from the radio communication device... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090245177 - System and method for multiple packet data network connectivity detachment: A system is provided that includes a component configured to promote detachment of a user equipment (UE) from a plurality of packet data network (PDN) gateways by sending a message to the plurality of PDN gateways to detach multiple PDN connections associated with the UE.... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20090245169 - System and method for multiplexing on an lte uplink control channel: A wireless communication network comprising a plurality of base stations capable of wireless communication with a plurality of subscriber stations within a coverage area of the network, wherein at least one of the plurality of base stations is capable of: determining a multiplexing scheme for multiplexing a frequency- selective channel... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090245170 - System and method for the placement of rank information in a physical uplink shared channel: A wireless communication network comprising a plurality of base stations capable of wireless communication with a plurality of subscriber stations within a coverage area of the network, wherein at least one of the plurality of base stations is capable of selecting two or more orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090245180 - System, method and apparatus for implementing multimedia call continuity: A system, method, and apparatus for implementing multimedia call continuity solve the problem that when a domain transfer happens, part of a media flow in a multimedia session cannot be transfer between bearers of different access modes. Besides a remote UE, the system further includes a multi-mode terminal MTF UE... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090245171 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication system and a wireless communication device capable of performing communication by each transmission signal without mutual interference, when a plurality of transmission signals of different communication systems or the same communication systems exist within the same frequency band. The system includes a first wireless communication device, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090245182 - Adaptively reacting to resource utilization messages including channel gain indication: An adaptable decision parameter is used to determine whether to react to resource utilization messages. The decision parameter may comprise a decision threshold that is adapted based on received resource utilization messages. The decision parameter may comprise a probability that is used to determine whether to react to a received... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245184 - Concierge launcher: In accordance with an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein an application launcher, referred to herein as a “Concierge Launcher,” that enables a mobile device to access a wireless local area network (WLAN) and launch an application with one click. In an example embodiment, the WLAN advertises one or more... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090245187 - Downlink phich mapping and channelization: Methods and apparatus for downlink Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat-reQuest (HARQ) Indicator Channel (PHICH) mapping and channelization in a communication system. First, a base station assigns uplink (UL) physical resource block (PRB) indices to a set of units of user equipment in a cell. Then, for each user equipment, the base... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090245194 - Dynamic assignment of ack resource in a wireless communication system: Techniques for dynamically assigning acknowledgement (ACK) resource to a user equipment (UE) are described. For dynamic scheduling, a scheduling message may be used to send scheduling information for a single transmission of data. For semi-persistent scheduling, a scheduling message may be used to send a semi-persistent assignment for multiple transmissions... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245191 - Extension of power headroom reporting and trigger conditions: A method can include determining a power headroom report, and transmitting the headroom report. The power headroom report can provide both positive and negative values of power headroom according to the determination, in which negative values indicate the missing power in dB to fulfill requirements, such as those given by... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090245193 - Method and apparatus for mapping virtual resources to physical resources in a wireless communication system: Techniques for mapping virtual resources to physical resources in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, a virtual resource (e.g., a virtual resource block) may be mapped to a physical resource in a selected subset of physical resources based on a first mapping function, which may map contiguous... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245186 - Method for transmitting data in packets in a radio communications system: The subject matter relates to a method for transmitting data in packets in a radio communications system, according to which the receipt of data packets from at least two terminals is confirmed by a base station of the radio communications. The confirmation of receipt takes place without an overlap in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245185 - Method of scheduling groups of mobile users: A method of scheduling groups of mobile users includes setting a group identifier for each mobile user and scheduling physical layer resources at a base station for those users requiring resources. The physical layer resources are divided into sub-resources shared between mobile users having the same group identifier and provide... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245190 - Radio base station, user device, and method used in mobile communication system: A radio base station used in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The radio base station includes a scheduler configured to allocate one or more resource blocks, which are defined by a predetermined bandwidth and a predetermined transmission time interval, to a user device; and a reporting unit configured to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090245188 - Radio communication system, radio transmission apparatus, and resource allocation method: Provided is a resource allocation method capable of improving a reception quality when connecting a plurality of sub frames into one frame and performing a communication process for each of the frames. In this method, when a sub frame #1 is transmitted, LRB is selected as a resource allocation format... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090245189 - Radio communication terminal, radio base station, and packet communication method: A radio communication terminal according to the present invention selects any one of a first session setting mode and a second session setting mode depending on a communication condition of the radio communication terminal. If the first session setting mode is selected, an auxiliary service instance and a main service... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090245192 - Reconfigurable wireless modem sub-circuits to implement multiple air interface standards: A flexible and reconfigurable digital system (for example, a wireless modem) includes a set of sub-circuits. Each sub-circuit includes a task manager and an amount of configurable hardware circuitry for performing a type of operation on a data stream. The task manager of a sub-circuit can configure and control the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245183 - Simultaneous active registration in a sip survivable network configuration: Provided are methods, devices, and systems for maintaining a SIP survivable network. The present invention is adapted to allow SIP endpoints or User Agents to discover and select the controller or controllers that the SIP endpoint will register with. Selection of the controller or controllers may be based upon the... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20090245195 - Transmission of signaling messages using beacon signals: Techniques for sending signaling messages with beacon signals in a wireless communication network are described. In one design, a transmitter station may map a signaling message (e.g., a reduce interference request) to multiple code symbols. The transmitter station may select multiple resource elements from among a plurality of resource elements... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245196 - Wireless communications method, wireless control station, and wireless base station: The present invention relates to a wireless communications method, a wireless control station, and a wireless base station. One of the objects of the present invention is to make it possible to allocate the wireless resources to more than one road side device without interference thereamong. Therefore, the allocation information... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090245198 - Channelization procedure for implementing persistent ack/nack and scheduling request: In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: configuring a common resource space having a plurality of time-frequency resources and code resources, where the common resource space includes a first portion for a first type of signaling and a second portion for a second type of signaling, where the first type... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090245197 - Methods and systems to mitigate inter-cell interference: The present invention provides methods and devices for mitigating inter-cell interference in communication environments having a plurality of cells. In some embodiments, a time-frequency transmission resource that includes multiple sub-carriers over multiple OFDM symbol intervals is partitioned into a first zone and a second zone. In the first zone, transmissions... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090245205 - Apparatus and method for controlling reverse-link data transmission rate during handoff: Method and apparatus for controlling data transmission rate in a wireless communication system during handoff comprises a terminal recognizing an active set comprising a serving base station and at least one non-serving base station with respect to the terminal communicating with the network at a first data transmission rate, receiving... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090245201 - Base station, path control apparatus and handover control method: A path control apparatus includes a sequence number assignment unit assigning successive sequence numbers to respective user data packets transmitted from an upper layer; and a transmission unit transmitting the user data packets with the assigned sequence numbers to a handover source base station or a handover target base station.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090245200 - Method and apparatus for communication between wireless telecommunications networks of different technology types: For handover between wireless telecommunications networks of different technology types, an air interface is set up between a first node 4 included in a network of a first technology type and a second node 10 included in a network of a second different technology type. Signaling messaging, in accordance with... Agent: Docket Administrator - Room 2f-192 Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090245203 - Method and apparatus for performing a serving hs-dsch cell change: A method and apparatus for performing a serving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) cell change from a source cell to a target cell are disclosed. A radio network controller (RNC) may pre-load a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) with HS-DSCH configuration for the target cell. The WTRU receives and stores... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090245204 - Method and device for carrying out a handover between base stations of a mobile telecommunication network for a mobile terminal: A method and system for carrying out a handover between base stations of a telecommunication network. Each mobile terminal is in communication with a set of base stations including at least a first and a second base stations, the first base station receiving downlink data to be transmitted within data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090245206 - Method for searching for radio network, and system, and multimode device: A method for searching for a radio network, and system, and a multimode device, which shortens the delay of handing over the multimode device between networks and reduces the power consumption of the multimode device in searching for the network. In the embodiments of the present invention, the multimode device... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090245202 - Tunnel handover between a wlan and a cellular network: A method, dedicated to the management of the interworking between a wireless local area network and a mobile network, consists, in case of reception by an SGSN node (S1) of the mobile network of a routing area updating report sent by a mobile station (MS) during a transfer from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090245199 - Wireless hand-over in mobile deployments: The network communication system includes a wireless interface to exchange wireless signals during at least one network connection, and a handover controller that uses a route profile identifying access points distributed over a given route or region that are capable of supporting the network connection, and to handover the network... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090245207 - System and method to improve uplink coverage in multi-carrier systems: A method of uplink carrier handoff in a multiple carrier communication system may include receiving a measurement report from a mobile providing information regarding path loss as measured at the mobile for one of the multiple carriers on the downlink. A serving carrier may be the carrier over which the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090245209 - Apparatus and method for allocating ovsf codes and i/q channels for reducing peak-to-average power ratio in transmitting data via enhanced up-link dedicated channels in wcdma systems: An apparatus and method in which an Enhanced Uplink Dedicated transport CHannel (EUDCH) is used in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system is provided. In a User Equipment (UE), when physical channels for transmitting EUDCH data are transmitted in addition to existing physical channels, a Peak-to-Average Power Ratio... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090245210 - Cdma communication system and method: In CDMA communications, a base station detects a difference between a reference phase of a spreading code and a phase of a received signal of each terminal station, and feeds a phase jump signal PJ-i representative of the phase difference back to each terminal station. After timing acquisition, the reception... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090245208 - Method and apparatus for data-centric multiplexing and asynchronous command interface to the encoder and multiplexer modules: An apparatus and method for data centric multiplexing in a wireless communication system with a plurality of channels comprising assigning a first resource to a first of the plurality of channels; assigning a second resource to a second of the plurality of channels wherein the second resource is not the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245213 - Efficient quality of service (qos) scheduling in ofdma wireless networks: A system and methods for A method for efficient Quality of Service (QoS) scheduling in OFDMA wireless networks are presented. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a number of time slots to allocate to one of a plurality of wireless mobile stations according to a linear solution that satisfies... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20090245211 - Method and apparatus for providing system information in ofdma cellular system: Provided is a method and apparatus for transmitting system information in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) cellular system. The system information transmitting method in a base station of a cellular system includes: generating a plurality of system information blocks that constitute the system information; generating a system information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245212 - Reporting of ack and cqi information in a wireless communication system: Techniques for reporting acknowledgement (ACK) information and channel quality indication (CQI) information in a wireless communication system are described. A user equipment (UE) may be able to receive data from up to two cells with dual-cell operation. The UE may determine CQI information for a first cell, determine CQI information... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245216 - Coexistence mechanism for wimax and ieee 802.11: A network device includes a first communication module and a second communication module. The first communication module communicates with a first device using a first wireless communication standard. The first communication module receives data from the first device during a first time period and transmits data to the first device... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20090245217 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit including plural memory banks, a wireless communication unit for executing the wireless communication process, a communication quality information storage unit for storing the communication quality information indicating the communication quality of the wireless communication unit in the case where one of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245215 - Mobile communication terminal, mode switching method, and network switching method: In order to input/output only necessary information in accordance with the form of application, a mobile phone includes: a wireless circuit 22 to connect to a first network in order to communicate with a device connected to the first network; a wireless LAN circuit 23 to connect to a second... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090245214 - Selecting uplink sounding sub-carriers: A method and apparatus of selecting a number of uplink sounding sub-carriers are disclosed. One method includes estimating an uplink channel of between a base station and a subscriber. A time domain channel response is determined from the estimated uplink channel. A sub-carrier distribution of uplink sounding sub-carriers is selected... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090245218 - Media gateway preferential routing circuit allocation techniques in uma: The present invention provides for giving preference to a specific media gateway in the selection of the next circuit so that in a multi-media-gateway soft-switch where a call may take any of many possible paths, an outgoing circuit on the same media-gateway as the incoming circuit is preferably selected, so... Agent: Rg And Associates

20090245219 - Active spread code detection: A System, method and computer readable medium for determining an active code set comprises determining code detection statistics for corresponding spread code indices, sorting the determined code detection statistics and the corresponding spread code indices according to amplitudes of the code detection statistics, and determining an active code set based... Agent: Rg & Associates

20090245220 - Random access channel preamble: One out of sixteen preamble signatures is selected. A code is produced based on the selected preamble signature. The produced code is phase rotated to produce a processed preamble signature signal. The processed preamble signature signal is used in processing the CDMA RACH signal and the CDMA RACH signal is... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090245221 - Multiradio operation using interference reporting: A system for managing a plurality of wireless communication mediums that may operate in a substantially simultaneous manner. The plurality of wireless communication mediums may be supported by one or more radio modules in the same device. Parameters related to applications, device and/or wireless communication mediums may be used to... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090245222 - Return link time adjustments in fdd ofdma or sc-fdm systems: A method for adjusting timing in a Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) system, including receiving a request to perform a timing correction, generating a time domain FDM symbol, and controlling the timing correction in the time domain FDM symbol by at least one of adjusting a length of a cyclic prefix,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245224 - Method and apparatus for providing quality of service in wireless networks and sensor networks: A method and apparatus that provides quality of service in wireless or sensor networks is disclosed. The method may include determining a class of service for transmission of one or more messages, adjusting a maximum packet length based on the determined class of service, allocating message time slots based on... Agent: Prass LLP

20090245225 - Method and apparatus of transmission time interval bundling management: A method for managing transmission time interval bundling transmission in a user equipment of a wireless communication system includes forming a plurality of packets to be transmitted, and selecting a fixed time interval or a dynamic time interval for repeatedly transmitting each packet of the plurality of packets to a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090245223 - Techniques for reducing buffer overflow in a communication system: A technique for operating a wireless communication device includes transmitting a first downlink rate in a first control message. The first downlink rate is based on a latency of an inter-processor communication link associated with the wireless communication device. First downlink data at the first downlink rate is then received... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090245226 - Communication system and method for improving efficiency and linearity: A communication system and method is provided that modifies a signal for transmission at a transmitter to reduce peaks associated with the signal. The signal can be modified employing signal shaping, signal clipping, signal decomposition or other techniques to remove peaks associated with the signal. The communication system can also... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090245229 - Base station: A base station for transmitting a synchronization signal on a synchronization channel with a system bandwidth which is less than the maximum system bandwidth in a radio communication system supporting multiple system bandwidths includes a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the synchronization channel and a channel other than the synchronization... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090245231 - Communication device and method of correcting the same: A communication device includes a reference clock generator that generates a first reference clock signal, and a super frame timer that clocks a period of super frame based on the first reference clock signal generated by the reference clock generator. The communication device further includes a physical layer that performs... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090245230 - Compensating for drifts occurring during sleep times in access terminals: A method and apparatus are presented for compensating drifts in access terminals occurring during a sleep time. The method includes determining whether a sleep time exceeds a threshold, buffering time domain samples containing acquisition pilots and a paging channel, powering down RF circuitry in the access terminal after buffering samples,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245227 - Methods and apparatus for uplink frame synchronization in a subscriber station: A method for uplink frame synchronization in a subscriber station may include recording a first time stamp corresponding to a first downlink frame and recording a second time stamp corresponding to a second downlink frame. The first time stamp and the second time stamp may be used to determine a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245228 - Radio equipment (re)-based synchronization: Synchronization reference information is provided to one of the REC and RE nodes. The synchronization reference information in the one node is compared with timing information received from another of the REC nodes to generate a timing difference. The timing difference is used to adjust a timing unit at the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090245233 - unified session signaling system for use in multimedia communications: A design for a unified session signaling system for use in multimedia communications is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes interfacing, via an application interface, with an associated application and a session, tracking, via a call state/session manager, a call state and session properties across multiple calls associated with... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090245237 - Architectures for clearing and settlement services between internet telephony clearinghouses: A system for routing voice telephone calls over IP networks as opposed to traditional switched circuit networks. The voice communications during the telephone call are packaged as digital data and access the Internet through gateways. The system supports the linking of a source gateway in a first clearinghouse to a... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20090245234 - Dynamic rerouting of voip sessions: Network connections that are used in routing VoIP session to their end destination are monitored to determine when a call fails to reach its destination. When a network failure is detected, the call is automatically routed to another device that is not dependent on the failed network connection. The call... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090245232 - Group paging synchronization for voip system: This invention overcomes the problem of delay associated with establishing connections with individual phones by providing a method for sending a virtual real time voice message processed through a VOIP system to a group of phones concurrently. The method includes assembling a portion of the voice message. The voice message... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090245240 - Method, network and apparatus for routing sessions: The present disclosure provides a method, network and apparatus for routing sessions so as to route sessions correctly according to the IDs of the domain-related users when the domain-related users are not registered on the IMS network. The method includes: obtaining a wildcard route ID; determining the corresponding domain user... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090245236 - Method, system, and computer program product for managing routing servers and services: A method, system, and computer program product for routing network traffic (calls in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)), which expands the capabilities of existing systems by providing faster and more efficient direction of network traffic, is disclosed. A routing management system includes a routing manager which maintains a list... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090245239 - Performing operations on ip telephony device from a remote client: A method and system for remotely accessing an intelligent IP telephony device is provided. Information about at least one IP telephony device associated with a user is stored in a database. The database is accessible to a user through a secured environment. From a remote location, the user may logon... Agent: 3com Corporation

20090245235 - Relay apparatus and memory product: If a call session has been established between terminal apparatuses on the sending side and receiving side when a voice packet is received from the terminal apparatus on the receiving side, a firewall apparatus sends the received voice packet to the terminal apparatus on the sending side. On the other... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245238 - Telephone system, associated exchange, and transmission control method: According to one embodiment, a telephone system which realizes voice communication by using a packet network comprises an exchange which accommodates a telephone terminal as its extension and a call processing server which processes calls on the packet network. The exchange comprises a first trunk connected to the packet network,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090245241 - Communication system and method in a hybrid wired/wireless local area network: A method for communication is disclosed and includes performing by one or more processors in a first access point, receiving a first messaging protocol message from a first switch. The first messaging protocol message is also communicated from the first switch to at least a second switch. A second messaging... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090245242 - Virtual fibre channel over ethernet switch: A system for using a virtual switch in a network. In response to a switch connecting to a network, network configuration data is read to determine whether the switch is part of a virtual switch. In response to determining that the switch is part of the virtual switch, a priority... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090245245 - Bus scaling device: A scaling device or striper improves the lane efficiency of switch fabric. The striper controls or adjusts transfer modes and payload sizes of a large variety of devices operating with different protocols. The striper interfaces between network devices and the switch fabric, and the resulting switching system is configurable by... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090245247 - Communication terminal and communication network: Routing schemes are provided for a communication network. In one scheme, destination terminals and associated neighboring terminals are listed in a routing control cache at each communication terminal in the network, and packets are routed toward the destination terminal through the associated neighboring terminals. In another scheme, a single path... Agent: Venable LLP

20090245243 - Method and apparatus for sending a packet from a source node to a destination node in the same broadcast domain: A method of sending a packet from a source node to a destination node in the same broadcast domain. The packet is associated with a traffic flow directed from the source node to the destination node. The source node is connected with the destination node via a first and a... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090245244 - Method for transmitting packets in a network: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) transmits packets to the remote peer with a size equal or smaller than Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU). The MTU can be discovered by SCTP utilizing the path-MTU discovery algorithm of RFC1191 (or similar techniques). However the MTU of a certain path within a SCTP association... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245246 - Systems and methods for improving packet scheduling accuracy: A packet scheduler is configured to perform quality of service (QoS) scheduling on a per-data unit basis. A downstream processing engine is operatively connected to the packet scheduler for receiving forwarded packets. A feedback path is operatively connected between the downstream processing engine and the packet scheduler for transmitting a... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090245254 - Communication system: To provide a communications system capable of resolving dropped data by achieving retransmission control without increasing the communications load, such as with ACK. Measurement data received by a transmitting station is stored in the form of a ring buffer after the assignment of a data number for each specific number... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20090245252 - Communication terminal and retransmission request method: A multicast communication system in which a receiving node which has detected a packet loss can make a retransmission request without applying a high load to a transmitting node, all receiving nodes, and the band of the entire network. The transmitting node transmits an explicit multicast data packet including an... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090245253 - Computing point-to-multipoint paths: An apparatus comprising a path computation element (PCE) configured to communicate with a path computation client (PCC) and compute a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) path across an autonomous system (AS) domain. Also included is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising obtaining a computation request... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20090245250 - Content transmitting apparatus, content receiving apparatus, content transmitting method, and content receiving method: A content transmitting apparatus includes a content transmitting unit (111) that IP packetizes content to be transmitted through a communication network (101), and an encapsulating unit (112) that encapsulates the content IP packetized by the content transmitting unit (111) to generate a transmission packet to be transmitted through a broadcast... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090245251 - Frame processing method and frame processing apparatus: When a data link layer frame whose destination address has been designated as a multiple address is inputted from a tunneling source via a decapsulation unit 202, a destination processing unit 201 generates data link layer frames in which the destination address of the frame is replaced with each of... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090245248 - Method and apparatus for providing resiliency in multicast networks: Techniques for providing resilient multicast traffic processing in a network element are described herein. In one embodiment of the invention, a network element separately joins equivalent multicast traffic streams at a first and second interface respectively. During uninterrupted operation, the network element processes the packets of the multicast traffic stream... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090245256 - Method and system for providing multicast services: The present disclosure discloses a method for providing multicast services, which includes receiving a multicast service request sent by a UE through an IMS network, obtaining the media transmission parameters of the multicast media streams, sending a response to the UE through the IMS network with the media transmission parameters... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090245255 - Multicast method and apparatus: A multicast method and a multicast apparatus are disclosed. The multicast method includes: retaining the multicast forwarding subtree and forbidding to forward multicast data through the multicast forwarding subtree when the created multicast forwarding subtree does not need to forward any data; and forwarding the multicast data through the multicast... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245249 - Multicast node apparatus, multicast transfer method and program: To provide an apparatus that optimizes the wait time in node apparatuses performing a packet backup using a multipath. The apparatus uses statistic information related to the transmission qualities of the paths constituting the multipath, thereby determining the minimum wait time that satisfies a target packet backup rate.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090245258 - Apparatus and method for forwarding packet data: An apparatus includes an input part, a plurality of output parts, and a switching part. The input part inputs a packet and builds at least one forwarding data block including a predetermined destination identifier and packet data extracted from the inputted packet. The switching part includes a forwarding destination storing... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090245259 - Fast reroute (frr) protection at the edge of a rfc 2547 network: In one embodiment, an edge device in a first routing domain is configured to communicate with a second routing domain via a data link. The edge device receives a data packet containing a destination address that is reachable via the second routing domain and an indication that the data packet... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090245260 - Method and apparatus providing media aggregation in a packet-switched network: Techniques are described for aggregating multiple media packets to improve end-to-end bandwidth efficiency. The techniques include using an RTP aggregation protocol that is not sensitive to packet loss to aggregate multiple media packets under a single header. According to the RTP aggregation protocol, the single header for an aggregated media... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090245257 - Network on chip: A network on chip (‘NOC’) that includes integrated processor (‘IP’) blocks, routers, memory communications controllers, and network interface controllers, with all communications including a route code specifying a route through the routers of the NOC from a source to a destination, each router including routing logic that directs a communication... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090245261 - Hierarchical virtual private lan service hub connectivity failure recovery: Techniques for recovering from hierarchical virtual private LAN service (HVPLS) hub connectivity failure are described herein. In one embodiment of the invention, a provider edge network element reuses an HVPLS spoke connectivity failure recovery mechanism in an MTU to protect against a failure of HVPLS hub connectivity. The PE network... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090245263 - Apparatus and method for transmitting packets in a packet switched network: An apparatus includes means for transmitting a packet, through one of a plurality of pseudo wires, from a PW ingress node thereof to a PW egress node thereof. Each of the plurality of pseudo wires is a communication path for transmitting a packet between a pair of end nodes included... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090245262 - Method to operate a wireless network having a predictable and stable performance: A method for operating a wireless network having a predicable and stable network performance. The method includes controlling output distribution of nodes in the network to adapt to traffic changes in the network, distributing power control to adapt to environmental changes in the network, and providing traffic sensitive routing to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090245265 - Communication gateway device and relay method of the same: To continue communication of a client even if an SIP server falls into a congestion state. Each of a communication gateway device and a relay method of the present invention couples to a client device and to an SIP server device for managing coupling information of the client device via... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090245267 - Gateway device, communication method and program: A gateway device compatible with a synchronous transaction network and an asynchronous transaction network includes a communicating means communicating with a synchronous transaction network-compatible device and an asynchronous transaction network, and a holding means holding a transaction request received from the synchronous transaction network-compatible device, and, when an event is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245269 - Method and core router for delaying burst: A method and a core router for implementing forward delay for bursts are disclosed. The core router configured with an FDL performs proactive delay processing for the burst to be overlapped after predicting that the burst will be overlapped on the link to be protected, thus reducing the probability of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245264 - Method and system for updating a virtual local area network (vlan) status of a node in a mesh network: A method for updating at a bridge node a virtual local area network (VLAN) status of a first node in a mesh network as provided enables improved network connectivity. The method includes processing a first VLAN status message that associates a first VLAN identifier with the first node, wherein the... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090245266 - Universal plug and play device and method of resolving network address conflict by considering remote access: A Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device and method of resolving a network address conflict by considering remote access. In the method, a UPnP remote access server (RAS) in a home network selects a virtual network address in the home network that is accessible by a remote device on a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090245268 - Video router and method of automatic configuring thereof: A video router comprises a multiple port Ethernet switch that may used to connect at least one Internet Protocol (IP) camera; a power over Ethernet unit that supplies power to the at least one connected IP camera; at least one network interface; and a central processing unit (CPU) capable of... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090245270 - Method and system of updating routing information in a communications network: A method of updating routing information in a network where reboot information of other nodes in the network is used to determine whether a given node has recent route updates. If the reboot information indicates the given node has not recently rebooted, then routing information from that given node is... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090245271 - Signal packet relay device: A packet-signaling relay device selectively relays incoming signal packets, and includes a random number generation unit which generates a random number, a delete threshold generation unit which generates a delete threshold based on an objective delete probability, a comparison unit which compares the random number and the delete threshold to... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20090245272 - Method and arrangement for improving media transmission quality using robust representation of media frames: In a method of improved media frame transmission in a communication network. Initially a plurality of “original” or regular media frames are provided for transmission. According to the invention, robust representations of the provided regular media frames are generated and stored locally. Subsequently, one or more of the regular media... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090245274 - Apparatus and method for auto-negotiation in a communication system: A communication system includes a first device and a second device that can advertise multiple capabilities using communication links. A first type of auto-negotiation between the first and second devices is performed using a first communication link between the devices. A second communication link between the devices is used to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090245273 - Frame transmission device and control method for the same: A problem is solved in that a transmission path is continually used even if multiple collisions occur in the frame transmission device. An Ethernet transmission device 1 includes a PHY/MAC block 3 for transmitting/receiving a frame. The device 1 also includes the collision monitoring unit 8 for detecting the occurrence... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090245275 - Communication station, communication method, computer-readable storage medium, and communication system: A communication station receives data from a transmission station, transmits a reception response representing the data reception condition, and determines, based on reception responses from other communication stations, whether communication station which has not normally received the data from the transmission station exists among the other communications. Upon normally receiving... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090245277 - Information receiver and method for receiving information: An information receiver includes: a communication module that is configured to receive, over a network, information from a first apparatus that uses an internet protocol of a first version as a communication protocol and a second apparatus that uses an internet protocol of a second version as a communication protocol;... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090245276 - Systems, methods and apparatus for transmitting data over a voice channel of a telephone network using linear predictive coding based modulation: The various embodiments described herein generally provide apparatus, systems and methods which facilitate the transmission of data between a client device and a remote device over a voice channel of a telephone network. More particularly, data from a client device is modulated into an audio signal using linear predictive coding... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.l.c. Legal Department

20090245278 - Network address translation bypassing based on network layer protocol: A system, method and apparatus are described herein that allow a mix computers or other devices that are configured for communication in accordance with different network layer protocols, such as Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), to share a single physical connection to a WAN.... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090245279 - Apparatus and method for coordinating bluetooth and wireless local area network (wlan) and wimax communications: The invention provides a method for operating an apparatus capable of Bluetooth and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)/WiMAX communications. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a Bluetooth module, and a WLAN/WiMAX unit comprising a packet traffic arbitration (PTA) module, and a WLAN/WiMAX module. The Bluetooth module sends a request for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090245280 - Energy-saving indicator in transmitted frames: In embodiments, a transmitting device sends a time reference field to a receiving device when indicating that no more frames will be sent to the receiving device. The time reference informs the receiving device of the length of time that the transmitting device has committed not to transmit to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245282 - method of processing data in a medium access control (mac) layer: A method of processing data in a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer through which at least one first channel is mapped to a second channel in a transmitting end of a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a MAC layer data block is configured by including at least one... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090245281 - Method of processing data in a medium access control (mac) layer: A method of processing data in a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer through which at least one first channel is mapped to a second channel in a transmitting end of a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a MAC layer data block is configured by including at least one... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090245284 - Encoding and decoding of control information for wireless communication: Techniques for sending control information in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a user equipment (UE) may map first information (e.g., CQI information) to M most significant bits (MSBs) of a message and may map second information (e.g., ACK information) to N least significant bits (LSBs) of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090245283 - Method and apparatus for repairing samples included in container files having lost packets: There are provided a method and apparatus for repairing samples included in container files having lost packets. The apparatus includes a receiver and a file patcher. The receiver is for receiving packets including container files therein, identifying any of the packets for which a packet loss has occurred, and identifying... Agent: Thomson Licensing Llc

20090245285 - Method for data packet substitution: A system and method for substituting data packets into a data stream, is provided. In one embodiment, the data stream is a video data stream. The system includes packet buffers, a multiplexer, a packet substitution controller, a direct memory access (DMA) engine and a link list buffer controller. A method... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090245286 - Method and apparatus for physical layer routing in a wireless device: A method includes, in a physical layer of a communication stack of a wireless communication device, receiving a first radio frequency (RF) signal, converting the first RF signal to a first digital data signal, and passing the first digital data signal to a higher communication stack layer. The method also... Agent: Anthony Miologos Honeywell International Inc.

20090245287 - Method of generation and set of implementation efficient preambles for ofdm systems: In one embodiment, a network node includes a lookup table configured to store one or more of the following frequency domain bit sequences: i) x010101000110xxxxxxx011000000000; ii) x1011000111000000011011110xxxxxxxxxxxxx0110111001101001010111010; iii) x0011011011111010011101111xxxxxxxxxxxxx0111010010111110000000101; iv) x000000011000100110100100xxxxxxxxxxxxx1011011110000110101011100; and v) x1000010000110111100000110xxxxxxxxxxxxx1100110011101101111110110. The node includes a processing channel configured to generate a preamble including at least one of... Agent: Duane Morris LLP (entropic) Ip Department

20090245288 - Techniques for reducing interference in a communication system: A technique of operating a communication device includes identifying a signal null associated with a signal to be transmitted on a first communication channel. A channel gain of the first communication channel is adjusted at a time that substantially coincides with the signal null to reduce transient noise spectrum coupled... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090245289 - Programmable time division multiplexed switching: A network device may include a set of switches. Each of the switches may include a set of ingress links and a set of egress links. One of the switches may store mapping information that identifies a first timeslot and one of the egress links for data received, during a... Agent: Infinera Corporation

20090245290 - Efficient synchronization of a sliding buffer window to prevent packet re-injection in an internet protocol (ip) network: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for efficient synchronization of a sliding buffer window to prevent packet re-injection in an IP network. The steps of the method include receiving a data packet which comprises a packet sequence number. The method initializes a replay counter, an update counter, and a... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090245291 - System and method for communicating timing to a remote node: A system and method for synchronizing a clock for data transmissions. A data packet is received at a remote node. A timing characteristic of the data packet corresponds to a tick of a clock form a reference clock. A tick of the clock is determined based on the timing characteristic... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090245292 - Clock recovery apparatus and method: A clock recovery apparatus allows that a clock of data is transparent before and after a relay. A clock recovery apparatus for performing clock recovery from a received signal, the clock recovery apparatus receiving a signal transmitted from a transmission apparatus converting a signal having a first signal-format with a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245293 - High speed, low power all cmos thermometer-to-binary demultiplexer: High speed, low power all CMOS thermometer-to-binary demultiplexer. A received signal undergoes digital sampling (e.g., as within an ADC) to generate a signal that subsequently undergoes encoding (e.g., transformation from thermometer encoded data to binary encoded data) and de-multiplexing. Two separate de-multiplexing stages are employed when performing combined encoding and... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison