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Multiplex communications April category listing, related patent applications 04/10

20100103810 - Modulation coding scheme selection in a wireless communication system: A base station and method for selecting a modulation coding scheme (MCS) in an OFDM communication system, includes a first step 500 of estimating the channel response on each antenna based on the uplink feedback. A next step 502 includes calculating transmit weights from the uplink feedback. A next step... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100103811 - Method for generating mutually orthogonal signals having a controlled spectrum: A method for generating mutually orthogonal signals having a controlled spectrum, includes the generation of a plurality of mututally orthogonal, controlled-power discrete spectra s(i) having dimension Q, i designating spectrum number. The aforementioned spectra represent time signals in the spectral range and have a modulus &mgr; that is constant in... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100103812 - Transfer of user dial plan to an access gateway: A system, method, and Soft Switch for maintaining a current user dial plan in an Access Gateway. When an H.248 control link is established between the Access Gateway and the Soft Switch, the Soft Switch downloads the current dial plan to the Access Gateway. The downloaded information includes termination IDs... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100103813 - Provisioned provider link state bridging (plsb) with routed back-up: A method of managing traffic flow in a packet network. A working sub-network is provided, which comprises one or more provisioned static working paths between at least one source node and one or more destination nodes in the network, and the working sub-network with a service instance. A backup sub-network... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100103814 - Method of transmitting data in wireless communication system supporting multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system supporting a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) includes transmitting a data block for the MBMS through a main channel, and transmitting the data block through a sub-channel if an error report for the data block is received. Waste of radio resources... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100103815 - Method and apparatus for reflecting forwarding plane utilization in control plane: A method is provided that includes setting a first oversubscription factor of a control plane for an interface, measuring forwarding plane utilization on the interface, and calculating a second oversubscription factor of the control plane for the interface using the measured forwarding plane utilization as compared with a target forwarding... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100103816 - Transmission apparatus, transmission system and transmission method: A transmission apparatus that receives data from a first external apparatus via a first network, and transmits the received data to a second external apparatus via a second network, the transmission apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives data from the first external apparatus, a storage unit that stores the... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100103817 - Wireless communication system and base station: Admission control wireless resources including abase station which obtains a down wireless resource available rate based on a down QoS requested bandwidth Bi requested by a terminal i during QoS communication and a data rate Ri which the terminal can receive. A down wireless resource usage rate is obtained by... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20100103819 - Flow control system architecture: One or more flow control modules, implemented on various types of network topologies, provide a number of functionalities for controlling the flow of IP packets (such as TCP/IP packets) over a network connection. The flow control modules may be implemented within a sender and/or receiver or may be deployed into... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100103818 - Sip server overload detection and control: The current invention is related to a system and a method for session overload protocol (SIP) server overload detection and control. The current invention proceeds by receiving SIP messages at the SIP server from a communications network; processing the received SIP messages; detecting an overload based on a trigger condition... Agent: Venable LLP

20100103820 - Fair use management method and system: A method of managing a plurality of subscribers using a communication network involving: obtaining network usage data for a plurality of service flows associated with the plurality of subscribers using the network; from the network usage data, determining which of the plurality of subscribers has been using an excess amount... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20100103821 - Method and apparatus for anchor cell designation in network mimo: Systems and methods that designate a control attachment point(s) during transmission of data in a Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) system. The control attachment point is represented by an anchor cell to address control signaling and represent a User Equipment's (UE) interaction with the wireless communication system from a perspective of control... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103822 - Network assessment and fault isolation: Fault isolation in a network includes embedding in-band traceroute packets in a media stream, passing the traceroute packets into a network connecting a proximal end point and a distal end point, monitoring the network for responses, expected from respective traceroute packets, from each of a plurality of network devices that... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100103823 - Operating network entities in a communications system comprising a management network with agent and management levels: The present invention relates to operating of network entities in a communications system, wherein said communications system comprises a management network with agent and management levels, wherein a fault and/or performance management related data provided or occurring in an agent level is correlated and/or analyzed in said agent level with... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20100103825 - Mobile station localization apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments herein may use first and second path loss values L1 and L2 to calculate first and second distances R1 and R2 between the MS and first and second base stations BS1 and BS2, respectively, in a wireless packet-carrying network. L1 and L2 may comprise values of a reduction in... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100103824 - System and method for monitoring a plurality of network devices: A system for monitoring a plurality of network devices within a network comprises a network monitor embedded within one of the network devices for automatically discovering and requesting status information from other network devices. The network monitor, in the event that another network monitor is discovered, initiates cooperation with the... Agent: Sim & Mcburney

20100103826 - Redundant acknowledgment in loopback entry: Redundant acknowledgment between agents performing a loopback test over bidirectional communications bus is described. In one example, in a processor including a communications agent coupled to a bidirectional communications bus, the communications agent initiates loopback communications to a second agent, sends a packet including a redundant acknowledgment sequence to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100103828 - Cellular system, communication path quality measuring method, base station, and mobile station: A cellular system comprises a mobile station and a base station. The mobile station includes a means for transmitting a pilot signal synchronized with data transmission and a means for transmitting a pilot signal not synchronized with data transmission. The base station includes a means for measuring an interference power... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100103831 - Controlling access to an ip-based wireless telecommunications network via access point management: An access point management facility manages use of an access point configured for IP-based communications in a telecommunications system. The facility allows for the establishment of one or more static and/or dynamic parameters for limiting use of the access point for IP-based communications. The facility monitors traffic on the access... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100103832 - Feedback apparatus, feedback method, scheduling apparatus, and scheduling method: A scheduling apparatus in a MIMO control station for switching between SU-MIMO mode and MU-MIMO mode receives feedback information from each of a plurality of MIMO terminals. The scheduling apparatus comprises a SU-MIMO selecting unit that selects a terminal that has a SU-MIMO optimal performance metric among all the terminals;... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100103830 - Integrity of low bandwidth communications: The invention relates to a method for checking the integrity of a set of data packets received by a receiving communication device from a sending communication device, the data packets of the set being received in unpredictable order. The invention also relates to a communication device implementing a method according... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20100103838 - Method and apparatus for evaluating component costs in a communication network: A method and apparatus for calculating a cost index in a communication network. In one embodiment, a plurality of first cost factors associated with a first set of network elements is obtained. Subsequently, a plurality of second cost factors associated with a second set of network elements is obtained. A... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100103834 - Method and apparatus for uplink network mimo in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate generation and processing of control signaling to support uplink network multiple-in-multiple-out (N-MIMO) communication in a wireless communication system. As described herein, respective network nodes associated with an uplink N-MIMO framework can generate channel state information (CSI) corresponding to an uplink channel from... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103833 - Radio bearer specific cqi reporting: An improved mechanism for providing channel state feedback from a user equipment (UE) 800, to a base station 900 is provided, applying radio bearer specific channel state feedback reporting trigger criteria at the UE. In the UE it is initially determined (502) whether at least one channel state feedback reporting... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100103836 - Remote optimizing wireless wan modular transmitter/bridge: The invention is a modular, optimizing transmitter/bridge device for optimizing placement of a transmitter/bridge for WWAN communication for one or more WWAN service providers, comprising a transmitter/bridge for WWAN communication, including software for identifying signals from the one or more WWAN service providers, a WWAN interface for providing WWAN service... Agent: Shutts & Bowen, LLP

20100103835 - Scheduler and scheduling method for transmitting data in mimo based wireless lan system: A scheduler and scheduling method that may select a data transmission time interval and a data transmitting station are included in a multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication system. An access point may include a receiver to receive channel measurement signals from stations using a plurality of receive antennas;... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100103827 - System and method for estimating internet-wide transmission path and transmission delay: Disclosed herein is a system and method for estimating an Internet-wide transmission path and transmission delay. The system includes indexing construction means configured to function as storage for storing the results of actual measurement of transmission delay for all destinations on the Internet, and configured to, in order to search... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein

20100103829 - System and method for mobility management: A telecommunications system having a plurality of access networks, each of which can provide a facility for mobile terminals to communicate data in accordance with a communications service when in a coverage area provided by the access networks. The telecommunications system includes a mobility manager which receives network evaluation messages... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20100103840 - Techniques for ldpc decoding: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a device may dynamically select a frequency on which to communicate on a wireless local area network by determining which channels are available and which are unoccupied, for example using a received signal power level measurement. A linear folding algorithm may... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100103839 - Testing of transmitters for communication links by software simulation of reference channel and/or reference receiver: A transmitter for a communications link is tested by using a (software) simulation of a reference channel and/or a reference receiver to test the transmitter. In one embodiment for optical fiber communications links, a data test pattern is applied to the transmitter under test and the resulting optical output is... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20100103837 - Transparent provisioning of network access to an application: An apparatus and method for enhancing the infrastructure of a network such as the Internet is disclosed. A packet interceptor/processor apparatus is coupled with the network so as to be able to intercept and process packets flowing over the network. Further, the apparatus provides external connectivity to other devices that... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100103845 - Cell relay mobility procedures: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate performing intra-cluster and inter-cluster reselection for relay eNBs. In intra-cluster reselection, a relay eNB can reselect a disparate relay eNB and indicate its identifier in a bearer list update message. The disparate relay eNB and upstream eNBs (including the donor eNB) can update... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103844 - Method for connecting to wireless lan access point and apparatus using the same: A method and system for connecting to a wireless LAN Access Point (AP) using position information and an apparatus using the same. The method and system includes scanning APs in a preset period, determining a current position of an AP access apparatus based on the scanned APs, calculating distances between... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100103843 - Method, terminal, and address server for configuring a terminal: The invention relates to a method for configuring a terminal (EG1, EG2), wherein a user (N1,N2) first enters an authentication code (AC) provided by a provider (providerA, providerC) into the terminal (EG1, EG2). The authentication code is then transmitted from the terminal (EG1, EG2) to an address server (AS), which... Agent: Gregory A. Nelson Novak Druce & Quigg LLP

20100103842 - Self-assignment of detectors and workers among access devices in a wireless network environment: A self-assignment method for assigning detector and working devices among a plurality of access devices in a wireless network begins by performing wireless data collection with the access devices during an automated calibration period. During this time, each access device receives beacons from one or more other transmitting access devices.... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20100103841 - System and method for wirelessly connecting diverse ad-hoc network groups: A wireless connection system and method are provided to connect diverse Ad-hoc network groups. A first Ad-hoc network group has a first network node and a first edge node wirelessly connecting with each other. The second Ad-hoc network group has a second network node and a second edge node wirelessly... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20100103846 - Provider link state bridging (plsb) computation method: A method of multicast route computation in a link state protocol controlled network. A spanning tree is computed from a first node to every other node in the network using a known spanning tree protocol. The network is then divided into two or more partitions, each partition encompassing an immediate... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100103847 - Method and arrangement relating communication devices: A method for use in controlling transmit power of a radio transceiver for communication with a receiving and/or transmitting node is provided. The method may include transmitting a signal from the radio transmitter, the signal including a Transmit Power Control portion, and altering the TPC re-transmission when the radio transmitter... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100103848 - Methods and systems for diversity idle mode in a mobile station: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure may allow a mobile station (MS) to monitor the paging interval of a serving base station (BS) as well as one or more neighboring BSs with sufficient signal strength or signal quality. Monitoring the paging intervals of multiple BSs may help improve paging success... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103849 - Power-saving control method for wireless lan: A power-saving control method for wireless LAN is applied to a portable electronic device, such as laptop computer. When the portable electronic device is booted and drives the wireless LAN device, the scan function of the wireless LAN device is disabled. Therefore, automatically scanning the wireless access point is avoided... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia Patent Office Of Bang Shia

20100103852 - Dedicated radio resource control: The present invention provides for a method of controlling switching between dedicated radio resources of the mobile radio communications network including sending an RRC massage to UE within the network requesting both RB release and RB set-up at the user equipment, such that only a single message is required for... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100103850 - Method and apparatus for channel selection in a wireless communication system: A node in a wireless communication system announces a channel switch operation to facilitate a smooth transition to other channel. The node detects a requirement to discontinue communications at a first channel and sends a message to a plurality of neighboring nodes in response to detecting the requirement. Generally, the... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20100103854 - Method for receiving system information in multimedia broadcast/multicast service: The present invention allows the terminal not to receive the same system information from corresponding cell when the terminal is moved to another cell within the global MBMS area, thereby preventing unnecessary reception and preventing network resources from being wasted.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100103856 - Method of transmitting multicast data based on proxy mobile ipv6 during handoff: Provided is a method of transmitting multicast data based on proxy mobile Internet protocol version 6 (PMIPv6) during handoff. The method includes, when a first access router detects that a mobile node in the region of the first access router moves out of the region, transmitting, at the first access... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20100103855 - Method, system and base station for transmitting mbms in single frequency network: A method, system and base station for transmitting MBMS in a single frequency network are provided. The method includes: sending, by an RNC, MBMS data to base stations of the target cells or sectors, distributing the same time and frequency resources, scrambling code and midamble to the cells or sectors... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100103851 - System for enabling communication over a wireless intermittently connected network: Disclosed are methods, apparatus' and systems for enabling communication over wireless intermittently connected networks. A system includes at least one dispatch center for managing various communications of the intermittently connected network, a plurality of geographically separated nodes and a plurality of mobile terminals. The at least one mobile terminal is... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20100103853 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus (100) includes a broadcast/multicast reception determination unit (120) for determining whether data distributed by broadcast/multicast is being received or not; a wireless session close process unit (140) for performing a wireless session close process when a wireless session close timer is expired; and a control unit... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100103857 - Cell relay network attachment procedures: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate attaching cell relays to a wireless network. During the attachment procedure, a relay eNB can request assignment of an identifier, or a portion thereof, from a donor eNB for subsequent packet routing to the relay eNB. This can occur through one or more... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103863 - Bearer qos mapping for cell relays: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate mapping multiple evolved packet system (EPS) bearers to a single relay eNB radio bearer. In particular, an upstream eNB can select a radio bearer of a downstream eNB for association to an EPS bearer; the selection can be based on a best effort... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103861 - Cell relay packet routing: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate packet routing among relay eNBs in a wireless network. A donor eNB can create at least a portion of a tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID) for a relay eNB communicating with a UE or other device. In addition, the relay eNB communicating with the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103864 - Cell relay protocol: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing a relay protocol to facilitate communicating upper layer protocol data among relay and donor nodes. In particular, a donor node can create a relay protocol packet upon receiving data for a relay node from a core network. Donor node can indicate an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103862 - Device attachment and bearer activation using cell relays: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate assigning TEIDs, or portions thereof, to UEs or other devices during network attachment and/or dedicated bearer activation using one or more cell relays. Relay eNBs can request bearer establishment from a UE, which can be based on receiving an attach accept from an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103865 - Header compression for cell relay communications: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate compressing packet headers for cell relay communications. Since cell relays can support a number of evolved packet system (EPS) bearers over a given dedicated radio bearer (DRB), robust header compression (RoHC) can be multiplexed for communications to/from a given cell relay. Thus, an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103858 - Method and apparatus for communicating in a relay communication network: Techniques for transmitting data in a relay communication network are described. In an aspect, stations in the relay network may be grouped into multiple depths, and stations at each depth may send the same transmission in each time interval. Packets may be transmitted in a pipelined manner in the relay... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103860 - Method of operating relay station in wireless communication system: A method of operating a relay station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes operating in a first mode comprising a first sub-mode and a second sub-mode, in the first sub-mode a first downlink and a first uplink between a base station and the relay station being... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100103859 - Relay connection unit for vehicle: A Relay connection unit (20) which is connected to a first communication line (11) of a first communication protocol for communicating a first message (m1) via time-divided slots (TS) and a second communication line (12) of a second communication protocol for communicating a second message (m2) with the ID (identifier)... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100103866 - Resource management in mesh satellite communication systems: A method of allocating resources in a mesh-connected communication network comprising a plurality of terminals, and a limited quantity of communication resources for allocation between said terminals, comprises: a request phase in which a plurality of terminals calculate their requirements for resources and issue the same as requests; a distribution... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20100103867 - Base station apparatus, user equipment, and method used in mobile communication system: A base station apparatus for a mobile communication system is disclosed that includes a unit to receive an uplink reference signal transmitted from user equipment, a unit to provide transmission power control data indicating whether a transmission power value of the uplink reference signal to be transmitted later is to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100103870 - Context-aware packet switching: Embodiments of a communication system, a method, and a device for use with the communication system are described. Communication between the devices in the communication system may be enabled by the method. In particular, nodes or devices (henceforth referred to as devices) in a network (such as an ad-hoc network)... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100103880 - Data transmission control method and data transmission device: The embodiments relate to the wireless communication field, and a data transmission control method and a data transmission device are provided. The method includes: receiving from a sender and buffering data in a buffer, and then forwarding the buffered data to a receiver; receiving an acknowledgement (ACK) returned by the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100103882 - Early termination of low data rate traffic in a wireless network: Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to wireless communications, and more specifically, to various systems and techniques for early termination of low rate traffic in a wireless network. A physical layer packet (PLP) grouping factor K configures the PLP into K groups and an ACK/NACK is received on each group.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100103875 - Establishing parallel tunnels for higher bit rate: An object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism for an improved network capacity when using fixed wireless terminal. The object is achieved by a method in a radio access network node for establishing at least two packet data tunnels for packet transmission, from a fixed wireless terminal... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100103874 - Method and arrangement, node and article for optimized ps domain in gan: A method and arrangement for optimizing a packet-switched (PS) domain of a Generic Access Network (GAN) that communicates with a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) in the PS domain. The SGSN detects that a GAN access is being attempted by a mobile station. In response, communications between the mobile station... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100103873 - Method and system for enabling connection of a mobile communication terminal to a radio communication network: A method for enabling connection of a mobile communication terminal (110) to a radio communication network, comprising broadcasting through a geographic area (100) information about available radio access networks available in the geographic area, the information being intended to be used by the mobile communication terminal for determining which radio... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100103872 - Method and system of managing qos-guarenteed multimode fast mobility in wireless networks: Disclosed herein is a method and system for managing QoS-guaranteed multimode fast mobility in wireless networks. The method includes the steps of (a) in response to a request for call establishment, registering a user ID, the unique IP address of a user, a currently used temporary IP address and the... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20100103868 - Method for modeling wireless network coverage under line-of-sight conditions: A line-of-sight (LOS) wireless communications network uses an initial coverage map to indicate expected performance of at least a portion of the network. Man-made structures, terrain and vegetative barriers may degrade system performance. The initial coverage map is updated using techniques, such as the automatic searching of construction database information,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Dwt

20100103881 - Method for transmitting control channel in a mobile communication system: In a mobile communication system using both a discontinuous transmission scheme and a compressed mode transmission scheme, if a preamble and/or a postamble of a channel including control information for transmitting a specific channel overlaps a compressed mode (CM) gap, an overall transmission unit is not transmitted or remaining signals... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100103871 - Methods and systems for providing user information in telecommunications networks: Example embodiments and methods are directed to providing and otherwise handling user information within telecommunications networks, including wireless telecommunications networks. Example embodiments may include wireless networks having a Correlation Data Records Store (CDRS) that may store and update all user data needed by applications and services operating in example networks.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100103876 - Mobile terminal and communication management device: A technology is disclosed for actualizing flow filtering associated with a packet destined for a mobile terminal while minimizing processes performed by the mobile terminal in a network environment in which a network-based mobility protocol is operating. In the technology, a mobile node 10 having two communication interfaces (IF_A 101... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100103879 - Systems and methods for providing wireless communications for data and voice communications: A wireless communications system that provides communication for a plurality of communication devices. The wireless communications system includes an interface including a local exchange carrier (LEC) connection port, a subscriber connection port and a wireless connection port. The wireless communications system includes a wireless terminal connected to the interface that... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Pk Attn: Patent Docketing

20100103877 - Systems and methods providing mobile transmit diversity: A method for use by a remote unit in an Evolution Data Optimized (EVDO) network includes sending transmissions to a base station, each of the transmissions corresponding to a respective one of multiple hypotheses of multiple antenna usage. The method also includes receiving feedback from the base station in response... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103869 - Transferring data in a mobile telephony network: A mobile telephony network comprises base stations operating according to a predetermined standard. A transfer node allows the transfer of data from a first base station to a second base station in the mobile telephone network. Data is sent from the first base station to a data receiver of the... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100103878 - Wireless sensor-network system, sensing terminal node, and base station: To correct a sensor data acquisition time with a simple hardware configuration, provided is a wireless sensor-network system including: a base station; and a plurality of sensing terminal nodes, the base station transmitting a beacon at predetermined intervals to the plurality of sensing terminal nodes, the plurality of sensing terminal... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100103897 - Apparatus and method for allocating resource in a wireless communication system using ofdma: An apparatus for allocating a resource in a wireless communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) scheme includes an analysis unit to analyze a signal received from a terminal over a channel to determine characteristics of the channel; an allocation unit to allocate a first frequency band... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100103890 - Base station apparatus, user apparatus, and method used in mobile communications system: A base station apparatus in a mobile communications system which uses orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for downlink is disclosed. The base station includes a unit which generates a first signal; a unit which generates a second signal; a unit which multiplexes the first signal and the second signal to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100103884 - Broadband data communications network with back-up gateways, and associated methods: A broadband data communications network includes mobile wireless communications devices, base stations, and a master access gateway for operating using a full data set for controlling broadband data communications between the base stations and the mobile wireless communications devices. A back-up gateway is coupled to a given one of the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20100103888 - Circuit switching user agent system, communicating device, and service providing method used therefor: A circuit switching user agent system includes a service processing device arranged in a home network of an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)/MMD (Multi-Media Domain). The circuit switching user agent system also includes a communication device arranged in a visited network where a mobile terminal has visited, the communication device having... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100103898 - Communication systems: A transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system is provided. The system includes a source apparatus, a destination apparatus and two or more intermediate apparatuses. The system has access to a time-frequency format for use in assigning available transmission frequency bandwidth during a discrete transmission interval, said... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100103883 - Distributed reservation protocol enhancement for bidirectional data transfer: A method for reserving bandwidth in a wireless system is provided. The method includes reserving one or more communications slots between two or more wireless devices communicating in a wireless network and providing preferential access to at least one wireless device across the network according to a first subset of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103894 - Method and apparatus for mapping resource unit in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for mapping a resource unit in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining a frequency partition (FP) count (FPCT), an size of FPi (FPS) for i>0, and subband (SB) count of FPi (FPSC) for i>0 (where FPi is an ith FP), obtaining a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100103895 - Method and apparatus for mapping resource unit in wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus for mapping a resource unit in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining LCRU,FPi indicating the number of contiguous resource units (CRUs) of an ith frequency partition (FPi) and LDRU,FPi indicating the number of distributed resource units (DRUs) of the FPi and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100103899 - Method and apparatus for signaling user equipment status information for uplink packet transmission in a soft handover region: A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting user equipment (UE) status information in communication with one serving Node B and at least one non-serving Node B in a mobile communication system. The method and apparatus comprise generating transport channel data including UE status information; transmitting the transport channel data... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20100103885 - Method and apparatus of daynamic bandwidth managment: A wireless communication device, a wireless communication system and a method of transmitting by a piconet controller (PNC) a poll request frame using beamforming techniques to one or more devices, wherein the poll request frame includes a time offset for sending a poll response frame by the device. The PNC... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100103896 - Method and apparatus of subchannelization in wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus of subchannelization is provided. The method includes receiving information indicating the number of physical resource unit (PRU) sets allocated to a subband from a base station, and mapping PRUs of a physical region to a subband PRU or a miniband PRU in a granularity of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100103892 - Method and arrangements for scheduling transmission resources with variable guard intervals: Method and arrangements for scheduling transmission resources in a first node in a cell comprised within a wireless communication network. The first node is arranged to communicate over a communication channel with at least one user equipment within the cell. The communication is made by using a frame comprising uplink... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100103886 - Method for transmitting control signals in a wireless communication system: A method of transmitting control signals includes configuring a multiplexing indicator indicating that a plurality of control signals are multiplexed on a control channel, generating a multiplexed control signal by multiplexing a first control signal and a second control signal according to the multiplexing indicator and transmitting the multiplexed control... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100103889 - Preamble allocation method and random access method in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a preamble allocation method and a random access method in a mobile communication system. In the present invention, one among preamble resources is allocated to specific mobile stations in advance, before random access. The mobile stations request random access by transmitting a preamble based on... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100103893 - Spatial division multiple access wireless communication system: A method and system for wireless communication in a network of wireless devices, is disclosed. The network includes multiple stations (STAs) and an access point (AP). Each wireless device includes plural antennas. In one embodiment, multiple stations accessing the access point at the same time using a spatial division multiple... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100103887 - System and method for implementing effective channel quality indication: A method for implementing effective channel quality indication includes, at an endpoint of a wireless network, establishing a communication session with an access station via a wireless connection. The method also includes determining a highest modulation and coding scheme (“MCS”) value supported by the endpoint using the wireless connection. The... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100103891 - User apparatus, base station apparatus, and method in mobile communication system: A user apparatus transmits an uplink control signal to a base station apparatus using a single carrier scheme. The user apparatus includes: a unit configured to prepare acknowledgement information indicating positive acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for a downlink data signal based on a result of demodulation of the downlink data... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100103901 - Base station, communication terminal, transmission method, and reception method: A base station includes a scheduler configured to perform frequency scheduling for each subframe; a control channel generating unit configured to generate a control channel including common control information to be mapped to radio resources distributed across a system frequency band and specific control information to be mapped to one... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100103900 - Beamforming method and device: The present invention relates to a beamforming device in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access system, and a method thereof. In the method, a switched beamforming algorithm is applied to perform downlink beamforming, and an adaptive beamforming algorithm is applied to perform uplink receiving beamforming. In addition, a half wavelength... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100103902 - Method of transmitting sounding reference signal: A method of transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) includes receiving SRS operation information including a sounding indicator, the sounding indicator indicating whether SRS transmission takes place at a subframe; generating the SRS according to the SRS operation information, and if the sounding indicator indicates occurrence of SRS transmission, transmitting... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100103904 - Enhanced forward link transmission: A method for processing forward link channel signals generated by a CDMA base station includes time sharing by several mobile stations of spreading codes, which are orthogonal codes such as Walsh Code, and code-combining soft/softer handoff across sectors in the mobile station active set to increase dimensions on the CDMA2000... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103905 - Method and system for service link handover: A method and a system for service link handover are provided. The method and the system are in a communication technical field. The method is as follows. Apply for service processing resources of a second service processing unit. A service link establishment message is sent to the second service processing... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100103903 - Methods and systems for handover using increased probablity for fast ranging success: Techniques presented herein disclose handover using increased probability of the fast ranging success. Propagation delay of the RF signal transmitted from an MS to a target BS may be estimated based on a known propagation delay to a current serving BS and a relative difference in propagation delays to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103907 - Device and method for bit-interweaving: To support the higher modulation (such as 64QAM) in HSPA+ downlink data channel whilst fully be compatible with the existing HSDPA system, a device and method for bit interleaving are disclosed to process bit interleaving of a HS-PDSCH channel in HSPA+ of the WCDMA system.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100103906 - Method and apparatus for cell search in an orthogonal wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that provide techniques for efficient cell search in a wireless communication system. In one aspect, a frequency reuse pattern can be generated by applying frequency shifts to reference signals transmitted from cells that provide coverage for a NodeB based on cell IDs or cell group... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103908 - Method and apparatus for efficient sharing of communication system resources: A method for accessing a reverse channel for communication from a remote unit to a base station is disclosed. The method includes waiting a random period of time in response to determining that the reverse channel is available at a first time. The method also includes monitoring a forward channel... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Zo Attn: Patent Docketing

20100103913 - Apparatus and method for determining contention window size in multi user mimo based wireless lan system: A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output data transmission system includes access stations and an access point having multiple receive antennas. An access point has a minimum contention window size decision unit to determine a minimum contention window size based on the number of receive antennas and a number of access stations, a broadcasting... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100103911 - Apparatus and method providing an ieee-802.16 self-organizing network: Systems and methods are disclosed that include a receiver configured to receive a command message a controller configured to interpret the command message. The controller is also configured to perform a scan according to the command message using the receiver. The controller can also transmit a report message based upon... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100103912 - Communication apparatus, communication apparatus control method, and computer program for causing computer to execute the control method: In 80211.n, the time during which the band is occupied is prolonged by the use of the frame aggregation method or in accordance with the type of communication frame, and this may influence communication of another apparatus. To solve this problem, a communication frame length (a communication frame to be... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100103909 - Data packet, system and method for multiple nodes transmitting under ad-hoc network architecture: A system and method are provided for multiple nodes to wirelessly transmit in an Ad-hoc network architecture. First of all, an integration module of the system integrates a multi-node transmission protocol into a reservation column of a data packet. Next, an initial node of the system transmits the integrated data... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20100103916 - Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus, and radio communication method: A radio communication system, a radio communication apparatus, and a radio communication method allow networks to operate without interference between contending networks. When plural piconets collide on the same frequency channel, a control station of one of the piconets temporarily sets a buffer super frame period to coexist between the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100103910 - Smart device profiling: Providing device profiles for devices attached to local ports of access nodes on a wireless network. A device connected to a local port of an access node on a wireless network, such as a USB, IEEE1394 or wired IEEE 802.3 Ethernet port, is identified and the identification information sent to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100103915 - Virtual streams for qos-driven wireless lans: A virtual stream (VS) in a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) that exists solely within the medium access control (MAC) sublayer of the WLAN. The VS includes a unidirectional path in the wireless network between a station sourcing a quality of service (QoS) session... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100103914 - Wireless transmission method, apparatus, and system: A wireless transmission method, performed in a second layer of a wireless LAN apparatus, for transmitting data from a first layer of the wireless LAN apparatus to a third layer of the wireless LAN apparatus, comprising steps of: retrieving information related to unacknowledged frames from the first layer; aggregating the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20100103918 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data in human body communication system: An apparatus and a method for reducing wireless data transmission in a personal area network is configured to generate and transmit a packet including information discriminating between a synchronous channel and a data channel. The apparatus and method discriminate between the synchronous channel and data channel when receiving a packet... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100103917 - System and method for synchronizing phases and frequencies of devices in multi-user, wireless communications systems: A system and method for synchronizing the phases and frequencies of devices in multi-user, wireless communications systems are provided. A primary beacon signal is transmitted by a destination node in a wireless communications network to a plurality of source nodes. Secondary beacon signals are also exchanged between the source nodes.... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Newark

20100103920 - Common and dedicated modulation and coding scheme for a multicarrier system: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which at least one modulation and coding scheme (MCS) is determined based on feedback received for a plurality of downlink (DL) carriers and transmitted from a device. Data is modulated and coded, according to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100103919 - Radio communication method and radio communication device: When the SC-FDMA method is used in combination with the multi-antenna transmission technique, a radio transmission method effectively improves the frequency use efficiency by performing appropriate frequency allocation to a plurality of antennas while suppressing degradation of the reception quality caused by interference. In the radio transmission method of the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100103921 - System and method for insertion of time stamp into real time data within a wireless communications network: A system for adding a time stamp to transmission traffic on a wireless network comprises a front end processor that receives a packet from the network and generates a Start Of Frame pulse and a LENGTH field corresponding to a length of the packet. A time stamp generator generates a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100103923 - Content synchronisation for mobile communication network: The present invention provides for a method of forming RLC blocks for contents synchronisation within a mobile radio communications network and including the step of providing a control element for each of a plurality of SDUs within the said block, wherein each control element comprises a header element arranged to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100103922 - In-band time synchronization technique: A communication system includes devices configured to communicate with each other via wireless communication by exchanging information in a sequence of time slots in frames. These time slots may be synchronized across the devices using distributed mutual synchronization in which each device exchanges time stamps in the frames with other... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100103924 - Method and system for wireless multi-hopping communication: A method (400) and system (100) for a wireless multi-hopping communication system is provided, wherein the system (100) includes an access point (102), a source node (CR1), and a plurality of nodes. The source node (CR1) is in communication with the access point (102), and configured to transmit a signal... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20100103926 - Communication apparatus and server, and methods and computer programs therefore: A communication apparatus enabled to communicate over at least one communication bearer is disclosed. The communication apparatus comprises a receiver arranged to receive an page message from a public land mobile network node, the page message being present when another party requests communication with the communication apparatus; and a connection... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20100103927 - Method and apparatus for interworking sip communication waiting with circuit switching and packet switching nodes: A method and apparatus for interworking a session by a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) server enhanced for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Centralized Services (ICS), the method comprising receiving at the MSC an invite message and the MSC sending a setup message comprising an information element indicating a call waiting tone... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./q&b Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20100103925 - System, method, and apparatus to correlate a tcap web service request to an application server session: A method includes encoding a session identifier into a uniform resource identifier (URI) associated with a TCAP Begin message request originating at an application server, where the session identifier identifies a communication session. The method also includes transmitting the TCAP Begin message request from the application server to a transaction... Agent: HolmanIPLaw/ibm Rsw

20100103928 - Telephone outlet with packet telephony adapter, and a network using same: An outlet for a Local Area Network (LAN), containing an integrated adapter that converts VoIP to and from analog telephony, and a standard telephone jack (e.g. RJ-11 in North America) for connecting an ordinary analog (POTS) telephone set. Such an outlet allows using analog telephone sets in a VoIP environment,... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20100103929 - Method, apparatus, and system for automatic data aligner for multiple serial receivers: A method, apparatus and system for employing an automatic data aligner for multiple serial receivers in serial link technologies is provided. In one embodiment, converting a transmission data path of a single bit into a parallel bit via a data aligner, wherein the data is being transmitted via one or... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100103931 - Communication apparatus, communication control method and computer-readable storage medium: A local communication apparatus for communicating with another apparatus via a relay apparatus receives communication interface information that has been transmitted by the other apparatus, acquires information relating to the communication rate of the local apparatus, compares the received communication interface information with the acquired information relating to the communication... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100103932 - Data distribution apparatus, relay apparatus and data distribution method: A distribution apparatus includes a packet divider which divides contents data into multiple contents data and packetizing each of the divided contents data to generate a transfer packet. A priority degree setter assigns a phase to each transfer packet generated by the packet divider according to each position in contents... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100103930 - Method for generating and identifying identifier and communication system: A method for generating and identifying an identifier and a communication system are provided. In the method, a subclass of a port in a packet is retrieved. In addition, the subclass of the port serves as a part of the identifier. A first device transmits the packet to a second... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100103934 - Method, system and apparatus for admission control of multicast or unicast: The embodiment of this invention discloses a method, a system and an apparatus for admission control of multicast or unicast. The method for admission control of multicast comprises: a network device receives a multicast request and executes admission control operation of multicast resources according to the multicast request; when multicast... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100103933 - Network relay apparatus: The network relay apparatus includes: a plurality of distributed processing units configured to receive and send a packet from and to an external device; an integrated processing unit connected with the plurality of distributed processing units; and a mode selector configured to change over a processing mode of the network... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100103938 - Context sharing between a streaming processing unit (spu) and a packet management unit (pmu) in a packet processing environment: A context-selection mechanism is provided for selecting a best context from a pool of contexts for processing a data packet. The context selection mechanism comprises, an interface for communicating with a multi-streaming processor; circuitry for computing input data into a result value according to logic rule and for selecting a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100103936 - Self-configuration of a forwarding table in an access node: c

20100103937 - System for utilizing genetic algorithm to provide constraint-based routing of packets in a communication network: A Path Generator connects to a communication network and uses genetic algorithms to assign flows to paths. Genotypes encode flow to path assignments for working and protection paths. Genotype fitness functions are computed as a weighted sum of constraint fitness functions. Each constraint fitness function evaluates the degrees to which... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100103935 - Using a cache of outgoing packet identifiers to recover from a protocol error in gtp-u: A process of using a cache of outgoing packet identifiers to recover from a protocol error includes assigning a receive identifier associated with a user entity to a traffic stream at a receive node. The receive identifier is sent to a transmit node. The transmit node is instructed to associate... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100103939 - Determining the configuration of an ethernet fabric: A Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) device obtains knowledge of the configuration of an attached Ethernet fabric during a fabric initialization or login (FLOGI) process. FCoE N_Ports obtain similar information during the port initialization or login (PLOGI) process. The FCoE device may provide network management services to attached FCoE devices.... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (c/o)

20100103941 - Data collection from cpe devices on a remote lan: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for collecting data from CPE devices located on a remote LAN are provided. Communication is established over a WAN with a gateway attached to the LAN. The gateway is then used to enumerate the CPE devices on the LAN. A firewall pinhole is created in... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100103942 - Label switched path networking: A network arranged to implement label switched paths, comprising: an ingress label edge router (LER), atleast one label switching router (LSR), and an egress LER, in which the ingress LER is connected to the egress LER via one or more of the LSRs. In said network the ingress LER is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100103940 - Rapid dissemination of bulk information to widely dispersed network nodes: Bulk information is transferred to nodes in a communication network having a plurality of widely dispersed nodes. The information can be an image, content, or configuration information. The information is uni-cast to a selection of nodes by a central node or server, to seed the information at certain nodes in... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100103945 - Control architecture and implementation for switches with carrier sensing: A scalable switch, a system of switches and methods, configured to sense a carrier at the output of the respective switch. The invention intelligently, and dynamically, controls the connection of a respective switch input to a respective switch output as a function of a carrier being present, or absent, at... Agent: Law Office Of Robert C. Klinger

20100103944 - Ethernet wide area networks and methods: Ethernet wide area networks and methods are disclosed. A disclosed example Ethernet wide area network includes a first network Ethernet switch having a first network interface and a first service interface. The first service interface is to communicate with a first local area Ethernet switch. The network also includes a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100103943 - Methods and apparatus to provide power over an ethernet-based network to a wide area network access device: Methods and apparatus to provide power over an Ethernet-based network to a wide area network access device are described. In some example systems, a local area network (LAN) access point is configured to provide power to a gateway device, such as an optical network termination (ONT), via a wired Ethernet... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100103946 - Packet capturing device: A next sequence number, which is a sequence number that a next packet should have, is compared with the sequence number of a current packet, an identifier of a previous packet is compared with the identifier of the current packet, and a delay is judged to be a simple delay... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100103947 - Distributed digital subscriber line access multiplexers to increase bandwidth in access networks: Example distributed DSLAMs to increase bandwidth in access networks are disclosed. An example DSLAM comprises a first distribution cable segment to couple an SAI to a first pedestal and to transport user data, a second distribution cable segment to couple the first pedestal to a second pedestal and to transport... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100103948 - Backup transmission structure of electronic device: A backup transmission structure of an electronic device includes a switching unit, and primary and backup transmission circuits connected to host and terminal equipment respectively. The primary and backup transmission circuits include first and second switches respectively. The switching unit normally outputs an ON signal to the first switch to... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100103949 - Method of allocating reference signals in mimo system: There is provided a method of allocating reference signals in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. The method includes allocating a first reference signal, a second reference signal and a third reference signal in a first OFDM symbol so that the first reference signal, the second reference signal and the third... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100103950 - Way of bandwidth efficient distribution of multiple transport streams with partially same content: A method of bandwidth efficient distribution of multiple transport streams with partially the same content solves the centralized way of distribution of multiple transport streams with partially the same set of TV, radio programs, with the distribution network having significant bandwidth reduction, presenting network adapter to other layers.... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20100103951 - Adjusting link layer control frame to facilitate data throughput: A base station subsystem includes logic to change the modulation and coding scheme for radio communications, and logic to communicate with a switching GSM to cause a change in link layer control frame size to reflect the change in modulation and coding scheme.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Moazzam Attn: Patent Docketing

20100103952 - Method, device, and system for data communication with preamble for reduced switching noise: A data communication device or system includes a preamble unit and a data interface. The preamble unit generates or detects a first preamble having a first length for a first data line, and generates or detects a second preamble having a second length for a second data line. The first... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20100103953 - Method, apparatus and computer-readable code for data compression of network packets: Methods, apparatus and computer readable code for compression, encoding and decoding of units of data such as packets are disclosed. In some embodiments, methods, apparatus and computer readable code for transmitting and/or receiving the data packets (for example, transmitting from a sending location to a receiving location where packets are... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20100103954 - Multiple infiniband ports within a higher data rate port using multiplexing: In particular embodiments, there are provided methods and apparatus including receiving one or more Infiniband signal streams, de-serializing the received one or more Infiniband signal streams to generate a corresponding one or more parallel data streams, de-serializing further including selectively adding or deleting a control symbol associated with a quiescent... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100103955 - Power management of a network device: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a synchronization command to synchronize time information among each component of a set of components in a communication path. The method includes generating a power state message. The method includes transmitting the power state message, by the first component, to the remaining components... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20100103956 - Synchronised control method of a plurality of formatting equipment and stream formatting equipment:

20100097922 - Systems and methods for generating sequences that are nearest to a set of sequences with minimum average cross-correlation: A method for generating sequences that are nearest to a set of sequences with minimum average cross-correlation is described. Each element of a set of sequences is projected to a nearest constellation point. The set of sequences is converted into a time domain representation. An inverse discrete Fourier Transform (IDFT)... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20100097923 - Peak-to-average reduction of sc-fdma signals with frequency mask: A wireless transmitter exhibits improved power de-rating reduction, which improves the power efficiency of non-constant envelop communication systems by mapping N first samples of a first discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of a group of coded symbols to M sub-carriers according to a first sub-carrier mapping rule (212), performing a first... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP - Freescale

20100097924 - Data transmitting and receiving system, terminal, relay device, and data transmitting method: The terminal includes: the transmitting and receiving unit (908) transmitting and receiving the observation packet for observing the transmission quality and data; the transmission quality managing unit (906) (i) exchanging the observation packet with another terminal via the transmitting and receiving unit (908), (ii) observing a loss rate of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100097926 - Methods and systems for providing network access redundancy: In a networked multi computer environment, with redundant links, network interface cards (NICs) are commonly duplicated and teamed to provide a recovery mechanism when network components fail. Embodiments of the present inventions avoid teaming of pairs of NICs and provide a computing host with redundant network connections for the computing... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us) Attn: Patent Group

20100097925 - Selective routing traffic controls and automated recovery among parallel multi-access interfaces: The present invention discloses a solution for automated interface switching among routing interfaces. In the solution, a routing daemon can be responsive to operator commands. Routing can be performed in a restricted parallel multi-access interface configuration comprised of a primary and backup interface for conveying routing protocol traffic. The backup... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20100097927 - Method and apparatus for automating the detection and clearance of congestion in a communication network: A method and apparatus for enabling a network to determine the call volume rate versus the call blocking rate on a predefined time interval basis over multiple predefined time intervals are disclosed. For example, if call blocking rates do not show a progressive trend of decline as call volume rates... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100097928 - Method and apparatus for increasing survivability in ip networks: A method and apparatus for increasing the capability of a network topology model having a plurality of nodes connected by existing links to maintain service continuity in the presence of faults. The steps of the method include adding new links to the network topology model to protect against single node... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20100097929 - Communication terminal apparatus, distribution apparatus, error notification method, and error notification program: A communication terminal apparatus (130) includes a receiving unit (132) that receives distribution data distributed through a unidirectional communication network (210), an OS/application unit (131) that accepts transmission data to a tunneling apparatus (120), and a communication processing unit (133) that transmits the transmission data to a bidirectional communication network... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100097930 - Rnc capacity licensing: A method of controlling the rate of traffic flow through an Iub interface of a Radio Network Controller is described. The method includes obtaining a licensed rate, which defines the maximum throughput permitted through the Iub interface, at the Radio Network Controller. The rate of traffic flow through the Iub... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100097931 - Management of packet flow in a network: Packets to be transmitted are received and stored by a first stand alone component. A packet sequencer may be generated and/or sequence number within packets may be used to track the transmitted packets of a given packet flow. Thus, packets may now be transmitted through different network paths. Transmitted packets... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20100097932 - Satellite traffic and congestion-based upstream scheduler: Systems and methods for implementing a traffic and congestion-based scheduler. The method includes receiving a bandwidth request. The method further includes analyzing the application type to determine which of a plurality of schedulers is best equipped to efficiently service the bandwidth request based on the application type, analyzing network traffic... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100097933 - Fast credit system: The invention provides an improved architecture for credit based flow control. Briefly, the memory space within the receiving switch is separated into two parts, a statically allocated portion and a dynamically allocated portion. Packets are first placed in the dynamically allocated portion, and the credits are returned immediately. When the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20100097934 - Network switch fabric dispersion: Methods and apparatus for communicating data traffic using switch fabric dispersion are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first tier of switch elements; and a second tier of switch elements operationally coupled with the first tier of switch elements. In the example apparatus, the first tier of switch elements is... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20100097937 - Method and apparatus for wireless transmit/receive unit specific pilot signal transmission and wireless transmit/receive unit specific pilot signal power boosting: A method and apparatus are described for providing improved channel estimation for wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) that require improved channel estimation (e.g., cell edge WTRUs) by allocating additional resource elements (REs) as pilot signals to improve channel estimation. These additional REs may be allocated to be used with expanded reference... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100097935 - Method and device for channel inspection in a communication system: To perform a channel inspection, a wireless communication device: monitors a common announcement channel (CACH) until detecting that a first set of identified parameters associated with a signal on a first channel matches a second set of known parameters for the first channel; performs an inspection on the first channel... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100097936 - Method of transmitting and receiving status report in a mobile communication system: A method of transmitting and receiving a status report in a mobile communication system and a transmitter for the same are disclosed. A method of transmitting a status report in a mobile communication system includes triggering transmission of one status report, constituting the status report by using at least two... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100097938 - Traffic matrix computation for packet networks: Systems in the current art provide capacity planning for packet networks. These systems require input data that characterizes traffic demands. The demands may be expressed as matrixes that record the number of bytes and packets exchanged between access routers or service nodes for each type-of-service. This invention defines a system... Agent: Samuel H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20100097939 - Fault detection method and apparatus of wireless resource: A sub-carrier frequency block forming a wireless resource is assigned to a downlink transmission data by a scheduling (schedule processing) based on a wireless communication method dynamically utilizing the wireless resource among a plurality of users. Sub-frame data of the sub-carrier frequency block assigned is transmitted and a retransmission request... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100097940 - Apparatus and method for servicing a network: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to receive first operational data from a portable testing device that is temporarily connected to a network interface device of a network where the network interface device is customer premises equipment and... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20100097941 - Redundant intermediary switch solution for detecting and managing fibre channel over ethernet fcoe switch failures: A method for detecting a switch failure and managing switch failover in a Fibre Channel over Ethernet network. The plurality of Fibre Channel over Ethernet switches are connected to an intermediary Ethernet switch and to each other via an Ethernet connection. The intermediary Ethernet switch is different from the plurality... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100097943 - Method and apparatus for performing reachability testing within the context of customer virtual private networks: In one embodiment, the invention comprises a method and apparatus for verifying connectivity in a network comprising a plurality of provider edge routers and a plurality of customer edge routers facilitating communication within at least one customer virtual private network. In another embodiment, the invention comprises a method for determining... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100097942 - Serializer/deserializer test modes: Serializer, deserializer, and/or serdes ICs are configured to support one or more test modes to enable end-to-end testing in communication links in which the ICs are implemented. To support the end-to-end testing, the ICs can include a multiplexing stage with means for deterministically mapping a plurality of input parallel data... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20100097944 - Layer 2 network rule-based non-intrusive testing verification methodology: Systems and methods are described that that analyze Layer 2 network performance and identify problems without having to disrupt customer service. Embodiments employ a two-phase approach to identify network problems. For an ingress switch, embodiments monitor frame relay Management Information Base (MIB) port and channel objects. A trouble ticket with... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Canavan

20100097954 - Apparatus and an associated method for facilitating communications in a radio communication system that provides for data communications at multiple data rates: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating operation of a radio communication system that provides for multi rate data communications, such as a CDMA 2000 system that provides for 1xEV-DV communication services. A supplemental pilot, or control, signal generator embodied at a mobile station generates a supplemental pilot, or control,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100097945 - Centralized analysis and management of network packets: This description provides tools and techniques for centralized analysis and management of network packets. These tools may provide methods that include storing network packets as identified by packet-detecting devices within networks. These methods may also define baseline behavior patterns applicable to the network, as well as thresholds applicable to deviations... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100097948 - Characterization of co-channel interference in a wireless communication system: Disclosed herein is a method for characterizing interference in a radio communication system including a plurality of radio transceiver stations configured to communicate with user equipments, the method including: measuring, by a user equipment in radio communication with a serving transceiver station, quantities indicative of interference from interfering transceiver stations;... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100097951 - Detecting and discriminating between interference caused by different wireless technologies: There is provided a method and a device for detecting interfering radio technologies. The method in accordance with the invention is applicable in order to detect and identify possible interfering technologies that can be found, e.g., in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, by use of a device having a single... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100097953 - Estimation of bandwidth requirements in a communications network with access controls: In one aspect, a method for estimating the bandwidth requirements for a transmission between an input node and an output node of a network with access controls is provided. According to the method, with respect to a time period, the sum of the value of the average bandwidth of the... Agent: Dickinson Wright, PLLC

20100097950 - In one or more network coexistable environment, a method for determining whether a specific channel is available or not, a method for receiving a signal for detecting and a method for communicating in coexistence with a different kind of network: Network communication and more particularly a method for determining whether a specific channel is available or not in an environment a plurality of networks can coexist are disclosed. In addition, a method for increasing a range for detecting a signal of a different type of network using a signal composed... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100097952 - Method and system for classifying communication signals in a dynamic spectrum access system: Methods and systems for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in a wireless network are provided. A DSA-enabled device may sense spectrum use in a region and, based on the detected spectrum use, select one or more communication channels for use. The devices also may detect one or more other DSA-enabled devices... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100097949 - Method for transmitting and receiving feedback information: A method for efficiently transmitting and receiving feedback information is disclosed. A cluster size as a unit for computing the feedback information and a reporting period of the feedback information are not uniformly determined by a base station. Information about a downlink channel status of each user equipment is reported,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100097946 - Optimized data transfer between approaching devices: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for passively sensing with a hot spot wireless device, a presence of beacon messages from any other wireless devices within a coverage area, ignoring active beacon group merging operations, allowing a mobile wireless device to join in the beacon group, within... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20100097947 - Voip network element performance detection for ip nsep special service: A system and method for receiving performance measurements for a communications network, generating alerts based on each performance measurement and a corresponding performance threshold, receiving network traps from network elements of the communications network, each network trap being generated by the network element based on a process measurement and a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Fkm

20100097955 - Rate determination: Techniques for performing low-latency blind rate detection of a frame, wherein the frame is divided into a plurality of sub-segments. In an exemplary embodiment, symbols of a primary sub-segment of a frame are received and deinterleaved to recover information bits and at least one quality metric for each of a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100097958 - Apparatus and method for controlling access to network in wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system, an apparatus and method for managing an uplink communication between a network and a plurality of terminals is achieved by transmitting a response condition parameter from the network to the plurality of terminals subscribing to a multicast service. The parameter is associated with controlling the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100097957 - Discovery of multiple inter-node links in wireless multi-hop networks: An extension to reactive ad-hoc routing protocols in multi-hop wireless mesh networks. The protocol discovers bi-directional links during route establishment, particularly multiple links between a single pair of nodes. Source and intermediate nodes transmit a route request, at least one of the nodes transmitting the route request on more than... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20100097956 - Multi-interface management configuration method and graphical user interface for connection manager: A terminal device includes interfaces that establish links to networks. The networks can be wired, wireless, and the like. The terminal device includes a connection manager that manages the network connections based on configured parameters. Based on the configuration parameters it may compare network performance of different links in the... Agent: Attn: Stephen B. Parker (wpd) Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100097959 - Apparatus and method for asymmetrical conferencing between local and external transceivers: These multimedia conferencing apparatus and method manage asymmetrical public and/or private conferences. A conference takes place between an external transceiver and at least a local transceiver; local transceivers may take part to a plurality of conferences simultaneously. The apparatus comprises a communication interface connected to a packet data communication network... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20100097960 - Communication apparatus, communication method for communication apparatus, and computer-readable medium storing communication control program for communication apparatus: A communication apparatus that includes a media processing device that includes at least one codec and that encodes data, a packet processing device that transmits and receives packet data, a correlation value computation device that computes a correlation value between jitter of packet data transmitted to a partner communication apparatus... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100097961 - Method and apparatus for providing spontaneous multi-way telephone conversation with inserted messaging: The present invention provides a method for simultaneously broadcasting a message to a plurality of end-point devices. More specifically, the present invention receives a request to initiate a teleconference from a subscriber. The plurality of end-point devices is then invited to join the teleconference.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100097962 - Communication control method, base station device, terminal device, and communication control system using tdd-ofdma communication method: In a base station device 10, based on a pilot symbol included in uplink information transmitted from a terminal device 20 through an assigned channel assigned by a channel assignment response, it is estimated whether a received timing of receiving the uplink information is early or late, the received timing... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100097963 - Method and a device for enhanced performance in a cellular wireless tdd system: The invention discloses a method (800) for use in a cellular wireless system (100) with a base station (120), a cell (110) in the system and a first user terminal (130) which can be scheduled for receiving traffic from the base station during a down link period, and for transmitting... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100097964 - Method and a device for enhanced performance in a cellular wireless tdd system: The invention discloses a method (1100) for a cellular wireless access TDD system (100) with a base stations (120, 220) for respective cells (110, 210) in the system, where each cell can accommodate at least a first user terminal (130, 230). The user terminals can receive traffic from their base... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100097965 - Data communication control: A femtocell base station apparatus may sense a wireless propagation environment around the femtocell base station apparatus to obtain wireless propagation environment information, transmit first control information including the wireless propagation environment information to at least one master base station adjacent to the femtocell base station apparatus, receive second control... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100097966 - Concurrent dual-band receiver and communication device having same: A concurrent dual-band receiver includes a front-end subsystem and a concurrent dual-band down-converter. The front-end subsystem supplies radio frequency signals in a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The concurrent dual-band down-converter includes a dual-band frequency synthesizer, a first down-converting circuit, and a second down-converting circuit. The dual-band... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100097967 - Apparatus and method for transmitting packet: Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting a packet. The apparatus and method indicate a policy with respect to an acknowledgement packet and a retransmission packet, which correspond to the type of data to be transmitted, in a packet included in the data. The apparatus includes a Media Access... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100097968 - Method and apparatus for reshaping cell-based traffic: A cell-based router comprising a controller to receive provisioning information including a transport rate of at least one frame-based router among a group of frame-based routers in a communication network, adjust cell transmission rate to avoid packet losses at the frame-based routers, where cell-based traffic is routed to a bidirectional... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20100097969 - Low-power wireless multi-hop networks: A method of communication or transmission of data between a first and a second node in a wireless multi-hop network comprises bringing the first node and the second node in a fully operative mode for communication with each other and subsequently bringing the first node and the second node in... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100097970 - Method and device for displaying information of mobile terminal: A method and device for displaying information of a mobile terminal has an information display. The terminal includes: a display unit for outputting at least one of a standby screen, a screen corresponding to activation of a program, a data-free screen corresponding to a sleep mode, and a screen for... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20100097972 - Detection and efficient use of broadcast-only modes of cellular communication system operation: Operation of a network node in a mobile communication system that serves a User Equipment (UE) includes ascertaining whether the network node is operating in a broadcast-only mode. If so, then broadcast channel information is transmitted on a physical multicast/broadcast channel. Otherwise, the broadcast channel information is transmitted on a... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100097973 - Method and apparatus for idle mode notification in cellular communications system: An apparatus and method for idle mode notification in a cellular communications system is provided. A user transmits, prior to entering an idle mode, a de-registration request message to a Base Station (BS) which then transmits a Dynamic Service Addition REQuest (DSA-REQ) message to the user and adds the user... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100097975 - Method and apparatus to facilitate broadcast packet handling: A first network element determines (11) that a given mobile node using mobile Internet Protocol should receive subsequent broadcast packets as may be sourced by a corresponding Home Agent. This first network element can then determine (12) whether to support such subsequent broadcast packets using a first broadcast packet handling... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100097974 - Method and device for realizing paging in mobile switching center pool: A method for realizing paging in a mobile switching center (MSC) pool includes the following steps. An MSC server selects a media gateway (MGW) from more than one MGW connected to a base station controller (BSC)/radio network controller (RNC), delivers a paging message of an international mobile station identity (IMSI)... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100097971 - Method for configuring and managing multicast data delivery path in mobile ad-hoc network and multicast data delivery system using the same: A method for configuring and managing a multicast data delivery path in a wireless ad-hoc network and a multicast data delivery system using the same are disclosed. The method includes transmitting, by a parent node, first messages to respective child nodes, transmitting, by each of the child nodes, a second... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20100097978 - Data transmission via a relay station in a wireless communication system: Techniques for supporting data transmission via a relay station are described. In an aspect, data transmission may be supported using ACK-and-suspend. A transmitter station sends a first transmission of a packet to a receiver station. The transmitter station receives no ACK information for the first transmission of the packet and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100097976 - Incremental redundancy relays for wireless communication: Techniques for relaying transmissions in a wireless communication network are described. In one design, a relay may receive at least one assignment for a packet, which may be sent to the relay or intercepted by the relay. The relay may receive at least one transmission of a packet sent from... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100097977 - Mobile ip proxy: The present invention relates to a device, method, system, and program for facilitating the control in an intermediate telecommunications network (202) of user plane traffic between a visiting node (209, 210), attached to an access network (203), and a home network (201). The intermediate network includes a mobile IP proxy... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100097979 - Packet relay method and device: Feedback information including a transmission quality of a packet transmitted from a transmitting device to a receiving device is received from the receiving device and the transmission quality included in the feedback information is revised down, to be transferred to the transmitting device, based on information of resource consumed for... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100097980 - Satellite communications interoperability module: A satellite communications interoperability module and method for frequency down-conversion. The module insertable in-line with an intra-facility link communicating a multiplexed signal between the outdoor unit (ODU) and the indoor unit (IDU). Electrical circuitry of the module transforming and forwarding the multiplexed signal over the intra-facility link, the multiplexed signal... Agent: Babcock Ip, PLLC

20100097996 - Base station almanac assisted positioning: A database provides base station almanac information pertaining to more than one network mode of communication. A wireless device accesses this database through a centralized server or network, or via the base station, base station controller or the like, with which it is currently communicating.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100097998 - Base station apparatus and communication method: In order to reduce interference between cells through hopping and use frequencies in a good propagation situation, a scheduler section 102 carries out scheduling for determining to which user data should be sent using CQI from each communication terminal apparatus, selects a user signal to be sent in the next... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100097991 - Communication method, communication system, mobile communication device, and destination partner communication device: A technology is disclosed for performing route optimization on only a one-way direct route when communication is performed between a mobile node and a correspondent node on a direct route without passing through a home agent of the mobile node. In the technology, (1) the MN transmits a HoTi message... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100097989 - Communication system and communication method for assisting user retrieving geography-associated multimedia information: The invention discloses a communication system for assisting a user for retrieving geography-associated multimedia information, and the communication system comprises a data processing device and several mobile communication devices. The data processing device receives a first request information including a location term and a time term from a terminal device... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20100097983 - Connection based local ip-mobility: The invention relates to a method for packet switched data transmission in a local network, the local network comprising a mobile node and a plurality of interconnected connection anchor points each with a link at which the mobile node can attach. The method comprises the steps of detecting a movement... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100097982 - Dynamically configured wireless communications, for example, in automatic data collection environment: Dynamic configuration of a wireless environment, for example a wireless automatic data collection environment adjust various thresholds that trigger searching or scanning for new wireless access points (WAPs) and/or roaming. Thresholds may be increased or decreased based on various outcomes.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20100098000 - Hybrid fiber twisted pair local loop network service architecture: A new architecture capable of utilizing the existing twisted pair interface between customer premises equipment and an associated serving local switching office is used to provide a vast array of new services to customers. Using an intelligent services director (ISD) at the customer services equipment as an interface for the... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Canavan

20100097986 - Loop-detection in moving networks: A method of generating network identifiers for use by mobile routers of a moving network is provided which enables fast and efficient routing loop avoidance and detection. The method comprises receiving at a mobile router of a sub-network chain, a beacon from a preceding mobile router in the chain, the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100097990 - Method and apparatus for providing circuit switched domain services over a packet switched network: A method and Packet Mobile Switching Center (PMSC) for providing MSC-based services over a packet-switched network. An interface between a mobile station and the PMSC is used to transfer control plane and user plane information between the mobile station and the PMSC over the packet-switched network. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100097999 - Method and apparatus to enable multiple receivers: Briefly, a wireless communication device that includes a processor to enable a determined number of receivers of a MIMO system according to a value provided with a request to enable the receivers is provided. A method for enabling the receivers of MIMO system is also provided.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100097984 - Method and system for efficient connection setup procedure for mobile terminated (mt) calls: The invention relates to telecommunication systems and in particular to a method and system for efficient connection setup procedure for mobile terminated calls. A method of connection setup for mobile terminated calls is proposed in which a page message originating from the access network contains one access sequence along with... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100097985 - Method for randomly accessing a wireless network: In a wireless network including a base station (BS) and a set of mobile stations (MS), a MS transmits a ranging request message to the BS, using random access, when the MS enters the cell. The ranging request message includes request MS specific information for identifying the MS. The MS... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20100097987 - Method of controlling data retransmission in a wireless communication system: A method for controlling data retransmission at a transmitting side in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method, the transmitting side transmits a new transmission packet to a receiving side. The transmitting side then transmits reason indication information, indicating a reason why the transmitting side has initiated the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100097981 - Methods and systems for providing multiple media streams in a hybrid wireless network: A hybrid cellular and IWLAN network having an access gateway providing a user with simultaneous access to GGSN base packet data services and PDG based broadband multi-media services with one IP address. The system further comprises an authentication center retrieving the user's subscription profile information from an operator network to... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20100097997 - Mimo transmitter and methods for transmitting ofdm symbols with cyclic-delay diversity: A multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) transmitter and methods for transmitting orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols with cyclic-delay diversity (CDD) are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a base station uses a number of antennas for MIMO transmission of OFDM symbols. For the number of antennas, quadrature-amplitude modulated (QAM) symbols... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100097992 - Network controlled overhead reduction of data packets by route optimization procedure: The invention relates to a method for reducing the header size of data packets exchanged between a Mobile Node (MN) and a gateway that is located between the MN and a Corresponding Node (CN). Different sort of headers are utilized between the MN and the gateway, and between the gateway... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100097995 - Packet routing methods and apparatus for use in a communication system: An access controller is coupled to an access point and receives data packets from connected user equipment. The access controller is configured to perform packet inspection techniques on the received packets to determine if they should be locally switched. In some embodiments, packets destined for a local intranet services may... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20100097994 - System and method for mobile ip: Network system for communicating between a mobile node and a correspondent node via a first IP edge-IP network-second IP edge connectivity, comprising a user IP addressing space and a network IP addressing space, wherein a locator identifier space is inserted between the user IP and network IP addressing space, wherein... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100097993 - System for effective position management signaling associated with mobile node moving in mobile network, router, mobile node, and mobile router: The present invention provides a system and method for achieving fast and efficient location management signaling between a mobile node, which is nested in a mobile network for possibly long periods of time, and a plurality of correspondent nodes and home agents associated with the said mobile node. More particularly,... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100097988 - Wireless sensor network with linear structure being capable of bidirectional communication and method thereof: Disclosed is a wireless sensor network with a linear structure capable of bidirectional communication. The wireless sensor network includes a plurality of nodes linearly connected from a sink node to a terminal node by connecting each node to a single upper-level node and a single lower-level node, each node has... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20100098001 - Adaptive channel selection by wireless nodes for improved operating range: Improved message range in a wireless network is achieved by each node performing an energy/noise scan to determine a receiving channel having the lowest noise and/or interference, e.g., best reception conditions, relative to the other channels available in the wireless network. Each node may thereafter scan available channels periodically to... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100098014 - Advanced multi-sensor processing: Each receiving node (120) of a plurality of receiving nodes (120-1, 120-2 and 120-3) such as base stations in a wireless network converts a superposition of signals received from a plurality of transmitting nodes such as mobile terminals (10) to produce soft complex signal information. The soft complex signal information... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100098006 - Avoidance of feedback collision in mobile communications: The invention relates to feedback transmission for data packets in a mobile communication system. In particular the invention provides a communication system wherein feedback information of a retransmission protocol for transmitted data packets is transmitted. Further, the invention relates to a method for determining radio resources for the transmission of... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100098008 - Base station apparatus and communication control method: A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using an uplink shared channel, includes a resource allocation unit configured to allocate radio resources according to a first resource allocating scheme for dynamically allocating radio resources and a second resource allocating scheme for periodically allocating radio resources,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100098009 - Base station apparatus, user apparatus and method in mobile communication system: A base station apparatus includes: a scheduling unit configured to determine resources to be assigned to one or more users requesting downlink communication; a unit configured to determine a PV applied to a plurality of antennas according to a feedback signal from each user apparatus; a communication scheme determination unit... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100098010 - Method and apparatus for handling ul-sch transmission: A method for handling Uplink Shared Channel (UL-SCH) transmission in a User Equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes steps of performing an UL-SCH transmission, and prioritizing a Message 3 (Msg3) transmission when the Msg3 transmission and a retransmission of a transport block (TB) already... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100098007 - Method and apparatus of allocating resources in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a resource allocation device for efficiently using resources by persistently allocating the resources in a wireless communication system, and a method thereof. In the method, a quality of service (QoS) configuration is received according to a predetermined service, persistent resource allocation is performed according to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100098011 - Method and mobile terminal providing priority-based uplink scheduling infomation: A method and mobile terminal for providing uplink scheduling information to a scheduler in a wireless telecommunication system. When a logical channel having data available to transmit triggers a buffer status report, the mobile terminal determines whether a priority level associated with the logical channel exceeds a predefined threshold. If... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100098013 - Method and system for service dependent resource allocation: Disclosed is a radio communications network (RCN) and a method of allocating a resource in a RCN that is configured to provide to a user device at least a first service type and a second service type in a cell of the radio network. A request for a service requiring... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100098005 - Method for receiving ack/nack signal in mobile communication system: A method for transmitting information of resources for use in transmission of ACK/NACK signals in a mobile communication system is disclosed. An example method for receiving ACK/NACK signals in a mobile communication system is also disclosed. When resources for transmission of data and resources for transmission of control information of... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100098015 - Method for transmitting and receiving a signal to protect against erroneous feedback information: A method for providing precoding weights for data symbols of data control subframes includes generating a downlink frame having control subframes which individually correspond to one of a plurality of downlink data subframes, and inserting weight information into each of the control subframes, such that the weight information is to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100098002 - Method of transmitting data within a telecommunications system: A method of transmitting data within a telecommunications system, wherein scheduling of data transmissions and scheduling of re-transmission data is performed independently.... Agent: Harrington & Smith

20100098003 - Packet scheduling: A method of scheduling packets in a mobile communication system includes, in each time period, assigning to each bearer of a terminal, a credit. In each time period for which resources are available, accepting data packets from a bearer in accordance with predefined constraints of priority, buffer content and credit.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100098012 - Uplink control information transmission methods for carrier aggregation: A method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) for Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) using carrier aggregation is disclosed. Methods for UCI transmission in the uplink control channel, uplink shared channel or uplink data channel are disclosed. The methods include transmitting channel quality indicators (CQI), precoding matrix indicators (PMI),... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100098017 - Virtually centralized uplink scheduling: A method of scheduling uplink transmissions from a plurality of source user equipments to a base station is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining the amount of data in the data buffer of each of the user equipments, comparing the amount of data in the data buffers of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100098018 - Virtually centralized uplink scheduling: A method of scheduling uplink transmissions from a plurality of source user equipments to a base station is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining the amount of data in the data buffer of each of the user equipments, comparing the amount of data in the data buffers of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100098004 - Wireless communication device, wireless communication system, wireless communication method, report information transmitting method, and scheduling method: A wireless communication device receives signals using a channel allocated from N channels to the wireless communication device by another wireless communication device. The wireless communication device includes: a storage that stores information concerning at least newest (M−K) request channels among M request channels that are candidates to be allocated;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100098016 - Wireless communications apparatus and wireless communication method: A communication method of a base station transmits a modulation signal based on an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) scheme to a plurality of communication terminals. The method includes using a transmission frame on which a first subcarrier group and a second subcarrier group are arranged, the first subcarrier group... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100098019 - Method for transmitting control signal using efficient multiplexing: Methods of transmitting a control signal using efficient multiplexing are disclosed. One of the method includes the steps of multiplexing a plurality of 1-hit control signals within a prescribed time-frequency domain by code division multiple access (CDMA) and transmitting the multiplexed control signals, wherein a plurality of the 1-bit control... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100098020 - Method for transmitting downlink control signal: A method of transmitting a downlink control signal is disclosed, by which localized allocation and distributed allocation are efficiently used in transmitting a downlink control signal. The present invention includes multiplexing the downlink control signal in a manner of if there exists downlink data transmission to a prescribed UE, applying... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100098024 - Base station and wireless communication system: A packet storage unit stores therein a data packet and an inter-base-station transfer packet assigned with sequence numbers. When the inter-base-station transfer packet is stored in the packet storage unit, a packet reading unit reads the inter-base-station transfer packet in order of the sequence number, and then reads the data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100098028 - Communication system, mobility management network element and method for processing resources: A method for processing a resource receiving, by a mobility management network element of a packet switched (PS) network, a Release Request message sent by an access network of the PS network when a user equipment (UE) is handed over from the PS network to a CS network. After receiving... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100098023 - Maintaining circuit switched continuity in an enhanced universal terrestrial radio access network: A method for implementing a fallback procedure from a packet switched (PS) radio access technology (RAT) to a circuit switched (CS) RAT is disclosed. A paging message is received at a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) via the PS RAT, the paging message including a WTRU identifier and a domain indicator,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100098027 - Media independent trigger model for multiple network types: A media independent trigger model for multiple network types is disclosed. A change in communication environment trigger is communicated from a media dependent interface to an upper media independent application. The communication environment trigger may be from a local event detected by the interface or may be a remote trigger... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100098022 - Method and apparatus for routing a packet in mobile ip system: The invention relates to a method, apparatus and system to preferably route a packet via an IP network, and more particularly to a routing entity having a buffer storing packets from/to a mobile entity. An initiation unit (500, 121) initiates a distribution of a routing topology change. A buffer unit... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100098025 - Method and appartus for handover between ieee 802.16e and 802.16m systems: Methods for a mobile station to handover between IEEE 802.16e and 802.16m systems are provided. The mobile station is served by an IEEE 802.16e-only base station or an IEEE 802.16e zone of a 16e/16m-conexistence base station. In a zone-switch based handover procedure, the mobile station first performs an IEEE 802.16e... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20100098026 - Partner node migration control unit and method: Disclosed is a migration communication control device constructed to control a continuous communication between a mobile node and a node unaffected the mobile node's migration. The migration communication control device comprises a first migration control unit, a second migration control unit on the mobile node, and a third migration control... Agent: Price, Gess & Ubell

20100098021 - Policy-driven layer 3 handoff for mobile services: In one embodiment, an apparatus can include an input configured to receive a request for available layer 3 points of attachment from a mobility anchor, and logic configured to provide a list of layer 3 points of attachment based at least upon a set of dynamic network conditions.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100098029 - Method, base station and relay station for supporting mobile station ranging: A method for supporting MS ranging is provided in an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes: determining the public frame that is to be used for allocating the dedicated initial ranging transmission opportunity information; and notifying the MS of information about the determined public frame to potential target... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100098030 - Method and arrangement for sinr feedback in mimo based wireless communication systems: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement to enhance the communication performance in wireless communication systems. The method of the invention provides better adjustment of reported SINR in MIMO, and PARC-MIMO based communication systems. According to the method information relating to signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio is determined by the user... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100098031 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing initial cell acquisition and pilot sequence detection: Disclosed herein are apparatus, methods and computer program products for performing cell acquisition and pilot sequence detection in a cellular telecommunications system such as, for example, an OFDM system. In the apparatus, methods and computer program products, a primary synchronization channel sequence and a secondary synchronization channel sequence are transmitted... Agent: Harrington & Smith

20100098032 - Local and wide-area transmissions in a wireless broadcast network: To broadcast different types of transmission having different tiers of coverage in a wireless broadcast network, each base station processes data for a wide-area transmission in accordance with a first mode (or coding and modulation scheme) to generate data symbols for the wide-area transmission and processes data for a local... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100098037 - Apparatus,systems and methods adapted for opportunistic forwarding of uplink short messages in wireless metropolitan area networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a subscriber station (SS) operable to communicate with a base station (BS) and at least one additional subscriber station (SS) in a wireless metropolitan area network, wherein the at least one additional SS attempts to overhear a first message from... Agent: James S. Finn Intel Corporation

20100098038 - Deploy apparatus, method, and computer program product thereof for a wireless network: A deploy apparatus, method and computer program product thereof for a wireless network are provided. The wireless network comprises at least one first network node and a second network node. The method comprises the following steps: calculating an output constant and a node constant according to a first default value,... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20100098041 - Intra-premises wireless broadband service using lumped and distributed wireless radiation from cable source input: A premises, connected to receive broadband service(s) and also connected to a cable system, is provided with a broadband interface which connects to in-premises cabling which is coupled to consumer receivers such as a television sets, PDAs, laptops. Connected to the broadband interface is an adjunct device which channels broadband,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Haynes Attn: Patent Docketing

20100098040 - Method for providing voip services for wireless terminals: The present invention relates to a system and method for wireless telecommunication in a packet-based network comprising a Software Radio Port (SRP) which functions as a radio base station and a VoIP gateway to interconnect the wireless network with the VoIP packet network. Together with a Network Server Platform (NSP)... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.,

20100098033 - Method for transmitting network data: The method allows data to be stably transmitted in a wireless network environment. Data stability can be guaranteed and a high transfer rate can be provided by adjusting a data transfer rate to achieve only moderate loss. In a wireless network environment, multimedia data such as video data can be... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20100098039 - Method for variable cyclic length in ofdm communications: Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20100098035 - Methods and apparatus for service provisioning in wireless communication networks: An open service provisioning method may be implemented by a terminal. The method may include receiving a customer's selection of a first-time network access provider and network service provider (NAP/NSP). The method may also include establishing a connection with the first-time NAP/NSP. The method may also include receiving information about... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100098036 - Self-configuration of wireless access devices in a wireless network environment: A self-configuration method for access devices in a wireless network begins by performing wireless data collection with the access devices during an automated calibration period. During this time, each access device receives beacons from one or more transmitting access devices, the beacons being transmitted and received using a plurality of... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20100098034 - Wi-fi enabled router having uplink bandwith sharing capability: A method and apparatus is provided for forwarding data traffic to a broadband network. The method includes receiving at a local broadband wireless router data traffic to be forwarded to a broadband network and acquiring over a wireless communications link current bandwidth utilization rates for one or more neighboring broadband... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100098045 - Apparatus, system, and method for communication: A communication apparatus communicates with a receiving apparatus which receives, combines and decodes first and second data sections as part of a coded data block. The communication apparatus includes a controller that controls the ratio of how much part of the second data section overlaps with the first data section... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100098043 - Contention-based random access method with autonomous carrier selection: The method and apparatus described herein controls transmission from a plurality of user terminals to an access point on a random access channel in a wireless communication system. An access point determines an allowed information rate for each user terminal and transmits a rate control parameter indicative of the allowed... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100098044 - Methods for polarization-based interference mitigation: A method for mitigating interference for a received wireless signal comprises at least three steps. The method comprises receiving a wireless signal with a receiver device. The wireless signal includes at least an interference signal and a desired signal. The method further comprises breaking the received wireless signal into sub-bands;... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP 5200 Bank Of America Plaza

20100098046 - Radio transmission apparatus and radio reception apparatus in a cdma communication system: A reception section receives a signal on which signals of channels are multiplexed in a same frequency band through an antenna. A separation section separates a part used for correlation value calculation in the reception signal. Correlation sections create delay profiles by calculating a correlation value using a first basic... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100098042 - Using the same multiplexed radio resource for pilot and information signals: A method and apparatus for using the same multiplexed radio resource to simultaneously transmit a pilot sequence and an information signal is described herein. After traveling through a multi-path propagation channel, a receiver receives the transmitted pilot and information signals, correlates the received signal with the known pilot sequence to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100098048 - Method for hybrid medium access control for vehicle communication: A method for hybrid media access control for vehicle communication is provided. The method divides a radio channel into time slots, which are predetermined time units, and sets terminals as owners or non-owners for the divided time slots to be able to access the channel. Accordingly, it is possible to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100098047 - Setting a data rate of encoded data of a transmitter: Embodiments for setting a data rate of encoded data of a transmitter are disclosed. One method includes determining a physical layer transmission rate based on a transmission link quality of a link, estimating a transmission throughput that can be transmitted over the link ensuring a level of Quality of Service... Agent: Tzero

20100098049 - Method and device for channel inspection in a communication system: To perform channel inspection, a wireless communication device conducts a full inspection on a first channel carrying a first signal that includes: determining a location of a first synchronization message; and determining whether the first signal is of interest. Upon determining that the first signal is not of interest, the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100098053 - Method and system for synchronization of link layer windows: A method and system for synchronization of link layer windows in a wireless communications system is disclosed. At a transmitter in the wireless communications system, the transmitter transmits a plurality of frames in a transmitter's link layer window, wherein each frame comprises segments and sends a request for an acknowledgement... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100098051 - Mobile communication system, mobile station device, base station device, and mobile communication method: A mobile station device that communicates with a base station device, including: a downlink synchronization error detecting portion that detects the occurrence of a downlink synchronization error from the measurement result of a transmission signal of the base station device; a synchronization monitoring portion that sets information showing the occurrence... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100098050 - Radio communication system and mobile station device: A mobile station device transmits a random access preamble to a base station device and performs uplink timing alignment based on the synchronization timing deviation information included in a random access response which the base station device transmits in response to the transmitted random access preamble, wherein in an uplink... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100098052 - Radio communication system and radio base station apparatus: A radio communication system and a radio base station apparatus which are capable of high-speed transmission and the network synchronization using a metallic subscriber line are provided. The radio communication system has a plurality of radio base station apparatus CS which accommodates a radio terminal PS, a communication apparatus 1... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100098060 - method and apparatus for connecting packet telephony calls between secure and non-secure networks: Described herein is a method and apparatus for connecting packet telephony calls between secure networks and non-secure networks. A first telephony stream having information content for delivery to a first address may be received wherein the first telephony stream is formatted according to a first communication protocol used by a... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100098058 - Broadband communications device: The Residential Communications Gateway (RCG) is a broadband communications device that combines all voice, data and video communications to and from a typical residence or small business for transmission over a single, or a plurality of Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) lines separately or in conjunction with, a wireless broadband... Agent: Law Office Of Clay Mcgurk

20100098055 - Communication system and method: A method of controlling a connection between a user terminal and an access node connected to a communication network is provided. The user terminal establishes a data connection with the access node, periodically generates a message at predetermined intervals and transmits the periodic message to at least one network node... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100098056 - Ims surrogate registration: A method and arrangement in a telecommunication system for facilitating communication between a first terminal A configured to use a first session model and a second terminal B configured to use a second session model for media transportation. A first feature tag representing a contact between the first terminal A... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100098064 - Method and apparatus for dynamically providing comfort noise: A method and apparatus for dynamically enabling the activation and deactivation of comfort noise over a VoIP media path or channel are disclosed. The present method detects all sound levels in the media path and only activates the comfort noise in the absence of sound and when the background noise... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100098062 - Method and apparatus for providing e911 services via network announcements: A method and apparatus for providing emergency services, e.g., E911 services, for nomadic users by utilizing network announcements to remind customers to update location information used to provide services on packet networks, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks, are disclosed. For example,... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100098065 - Method and apparatus for providing emergency ring tones for urgent calls: A method and apparatus for enabling calling parties to request the VoIP network to provide a special ring tone to be signaled as the occurrence of an urgent call to called parties are disclosed. Alternatively, a high frequency intercept tone or call waiting tone is also provided when the called... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100098054 - Method and apparatus for providing internet protocol services to a user of a private branch exchange: A method and apparatus for providing one or more Internet Protocol (IP) services to users of a private branch exchange (PBX) in a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives user phone information from the private branch exchange (PBX) via a data feed, and stores the user phone information... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100098066 - Method and apparatus for providing shared services: The present invention enables an overlay capability to be invoked on network systems and elements that are designed to support multiple customer bases. Depending on the registered identification of the user, screens and other user interfaces that provide access to functions can be overlaid on the network component and segmented... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100098067 - Method and apparatus for routing calls to an alternative endpoint during network disruptions: A method and apparatus for enabling calls destined for a terminating point on a packet network, e.g., a VoIP network, that is experiencing a service disruption to be forwarded by the network to another endpoint is disclosed. The method enables subscribers to register an alternative number, such as a cell... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100098068 - Method and apparatus for sending alerts to internet protocol phones: The present invention enables an alert message and the display of calling party identity on all on-hook phones associated with an extension sharing the same phone number, when one phone is off-hook and in use. In one exemplary embodiment, this capability enables all other members of a household to receive... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100098063 - Method and apparatus for supporting multiple active sessions on a per user basis: A method and apparatus for establishing multiple application sessions, such as video, audio, voice, and data sessions, and displaying them on a video display device such as a television are disclosed. These sessions can be independent of each other or the user can request the network to join these sessions... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100098061 - Methods and apparatus for maintaining connectivity with an internet protocol phone operating behind a firewall: Methods and apparatus for maintaining connectivity with an Internet protocol (IP) phone operating behind a firewall are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises registering the IP phone in response to receiving a first registration request from the IP phone, the first registration request including first registration information, the first... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100098059 - Splitter wall plates for digital subscriber line (dsl) communication systems and methods to use the same: Splitter wall plates for digital subscriber line (DSL) communication systems and methods to use the same are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a splitter to separate a digital subscriber line (DSL) signal from a plain old telephone signal (POTS) signal, and a switch to selectively couple a VoIP signal received... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100098069 - System and method for providing a plurality of multi-media services using a number of media servers to form a preliminary interactive communication relationship with a calling communication device: A system and method for processing a plurality of requests for multi-media services received at a call control element (CCE) defined on the system from a calling communication device. The system includes a Network Routing Element, a Service Broker (SB), at least a primary media severs (MS) and at least... Agent: Paul D. Durkee Daly, Crowley & Mofford, LLP

20100098057 - Telephone call processing: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for providing one-telephone dialing number telephony services where only a single telephone dialing number is required for each subscriber, despite each subscriber having multiple telephony devices on which they wish to be contacted. Calls to a one-telephone dialing number telephony service subscriber... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100098070 - Multistage switch control circuit: A multistage switch control circuit allows unit switches to be set at a higher speed than conventional multistage switch control circuits. Higher-order half first and second control elements are connected to a first section of a bus to form a first cluster, while lower-order half third and fourth control elements... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20100098073 - Mechanism for enabling layer two host addresses to be shielded from the switches in a network: A mechanism is disclosed that enables layer two host addresses (e.g. a MAC addresses) to be shielded from a network. In one implementation, the mechanism updates each packet sent by the hosts into the network to indicate that the source layer two (L2) address for that packet is a shared... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20100098071 - Method and network for forwarding packet of resilient packet ring: Method for transmitting packet in resilient packet intersect ring includes: at least two resilient packet intersect ring intersect each other on two intersect node, the intersect node receives a broadcast packet from the first resilient packet ring, and copies the said broadcast packet; the said intersect node judges whether allowing... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20100098072 - System and method to route data in an anycast environment: A method of routing data in an anycast environment includes sending an instruction from an intelligent route reflector device to an anycast router associated with an anycast network. The instruction signals the anycast router to statically pin up to an initial service node corresponding to a network service. The initial... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20100098074 - Systems and methods for providing a network link between broadcast content and content located on a computer network: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20100098075 - Systems and methods for providing a network link between broadcast content and content located on a computer network: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20100098079 - Data communication system, backup server and communication control apparatus: In order to distribute multicast packets, using different multicast addresses and avoiding fault points, a backup server is installed close to a master and converts backup multicast packets and sends them as master multicast packets to the client. At this time, backup multicast packets are delayed and sent while the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100098078 - Forwarding groups of multicast flows: A routing element and method for forwarding multicast traffic in a network includes grouping a collection of path-related multicast information flows from a source and associating each information flow of the collection with a multicast address from a set of multicast addresses. Forwarding information is placed in routers within the... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20100098077 - Method and device for distributing a data segment of a data stream to a group of a plurality users: A status message is sent by each node a group of nodes in a network to other nodes in the group using a multicast and/or broadcast channel of the network to identify the nodes in the group. The status message includes a piece of information about a data segment to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100098076 - Method for multicasting of packets in pon residential gateways: A method for multicasting packets in a passive optical network (PON) residential gateway. The method comprises storing a payload portion of an input packet in a memory; duplicating a header of the input packet to create duplicate headers as the number of destination end-point devices; modifying each of the duplicated... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100098084 - Internal substitution bi-level addressing for compatible public networks: Communications traffic in a network is addressed. An original signal comprising an embedded destination service address is receiving at an ingress capable network device of the network. A database server is queried to obtain an internal routing address corresponding to the embedded destination service address. A transit signal corresponding to... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Gb Attn: Patent Docketing

20100098081 - Longest prefix matching for network address lookups using bloom filters: Methods and systems for performing parallel membership queries to Bloom filters for Longest Prefix Matching, where address prefix memberships are determined in sets of prefixes sorted by prefix length. Hash tables corresponding to each prefix length are probed from the longest to the shortest match in the vector, terminating when... Agent: Radlo & Su LLP

20100098082 - Method for application broadcast forwarding for routers running redundancy protocols: A method for application broadcast forwarding for routers running redundancy protocols in a network is provided. The network includes a first router running at least one program instance of a redundancy protocol at one interface, and a second router running at least one program instance of the redundancy protocol at... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100098085 - Method, system, and device for implementing active/standby switchover: A method for implementing an active/standby switchover includes: sending received data to an active device corresponding to a physical IP address in a mapping relation with a preset communication identification (ID); changing the physical IP address of the active device in the mapping relation with the communication ID to the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100098083 - Packet transfer device, packet transfer method, packet transfer program and communication device: a transfer unit that transfers a packet having the address information and the port number which are converted by the address conversion unit; and a session restriction unit that manages a number of sessions between a user terminal in the plurality of private networks and a device in the global... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100098080 - Payload header suppression with conditional field suppression: A conditional payload header suppression is disclosed to improve compression, by providing the flexibility to dynamically introduce fields/header bytes, which change temporarily or infrequently in packets. The embodiment also uses a dynamic mask as part of the payload header suppression packet to indicate which of the conditionally suppressed header bytes... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20100098086 - Preventing forwarding of a packet to a control plane: This invention includes tools that prevent forwarding of a packet to a control plane of a packet switch. The tools receive a packet comprising indicia suggesting that the packet be forwarded to a control plane of a packet switch. After receiving the packet, the tools may modify the packet to... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20100098087 - Traffic generator using parallel coherent transmit engines: There is disclosed a packet generator and method of generating a packet flow. The packet generator may include a plurality of parallel transmit engines to form packets for transmission and a multiplexer to coherently interleave packets formed by the plurality of transmit engines.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20100098089 - Packet transfer device and method: Conventional Packet transfer technology relaying data through the network system needs to designate a relay communication line designated by the network system, together with relaying while taking into account the degree of importance or degree of priority of a packet. Accordingly, there is implemented, in a network system having a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100098088 - Pseudo wire establishing method and device: For precluding useless resources of a pseudo wire in a device distributing pseudo wires to lighten the receiving capacity, MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) tunnels are established with an opposing device. From among the established MPLS tunnels, an MPLS tunnel having a remaining resource for a pseudo wire at interfaces... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100098091 - Communication system, communication apparatus and terminal accommodation apparatus: A communication system, a communication apparatus and a terminal accommodation apparatus which use a metallic subscriber line and are a high-speed and inexpensive are provided. The communication system includes a plurality of terminal accommodation apparatuses 200 for accommodating terminals 3c, 3d, a communication apparatus 1 connected to an IP network... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100098090 - Method for electing aggregator nodes in a network: A method for electing aggregator nodes in a network, wherein the network includes a plurality of sensor nodes to measure data, and at least one of the sensor nodes functioning as aggregator node to aggregate sensored data obtained by at least a subset of the sensor nodes, the network further... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100098092 - Accelerating data communication using tunnels: Methods and systems are provided for increasing application performance and accelerating data communications in a WAN environment. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for securely accelerating network traffic. One or more tunnels are established between a first wide area network (WAN) acceleration device, interposed between a public network... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20100098094 - Mechanism for protecting a pseudo-wire: A method is provided for setting up at least two pseudo-wires able to broadcast a stream of data, wherein a first pseudo-wire is set up between an input router of a packet-switched network and first output router of the packet-switched network, and a second pseudo-wire is set up between the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100098100 - Media gateway device: A media gateway device includes a first specific call control unit performing line connection control of one of plural interconnection units and plural second call control units requesting the first specific call control unit to perform the line connection control of one of the plural interconnection units. The first specific... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100098096 - Method and apparatus for implementing bearing path: A method and apparatus for implementing a bearer path are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: a Media Gateway (MG) reports a preset Path Request (PR) event to a Media Gateway Controller (MGC) according to a received request message related to a bearer path, requesting the MGC to deliver... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100098093 - Method and system for ip multimedia bearer path optimization through a succession of border gateways: A method for identifying alternative end-to-end media paths through Internet protocol realms using substitute session description protocol parameters is disclosed. The method includes receiving a session description protocol offer, including a list of internet protocol realms. The list may include any number of previously traversed through internet protocol realms and/or... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100098097 - Multiple channel system for a twisted pair telephone wire local loop system: The system (50) has a subscriber digital filter system (54)connected to the twisted pair telephone wire (56). A subscriber controller (52) sends control signals to the subscriber digital filter system (54). An office digital filter system (58) is connected to the twisted pair telephone wire (56). An office controller (60)... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100098099 - Ppp terminating equipment, network equipment and method of responding to lcp echo requirement: In a PPP terminating equipment 100 connected with a switch fabric and terminating PPP link, the PPP terminating equipment 100 has an LCP echo requirement detecting section 20 detecting whether or not a received packet is the LCP echo requirement packet, and an LCP echo response producing section 40 producing... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100098095 - Routing method in in-vehicle gateway device: A routing method and an in-vehicle gateway device having a plurality of interfaces for communication, automatic setting of routing function is enabled to perform, in consideration of characteristics of data which a connecting network handles. A network is classified to an information-system, a control-system and a safety-system, based on characteristics... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100098098 - Virtual switching using a provisional identifier to conceal a user identifier: This document describes tools useful in relaying a data stream from a data device to a network tunnel, such as by enabling virtual switching using a provisional identifier to conceal a user identifier. These tools, for example, may use an inexpensive switch module to create virtual switch instances. To do... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20100098101 - Packet format for a distributed system: A method is provided for transmitting a packet including information describing a bus transaction to be executed at a remote device. A bus transaction is detected on a first bus and a network packet is generated for transmission over a network. The network packet includes an opcode describing the type... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100098103 - Hybrid tree/mesh overlay for data delivery: Hybrid tree/mesh overlays for data delivery involve using a tree overlay network and a mesh overlay network to delivery a data stream via a push mechanism and a pull mechanism, respectively. In an example embodiment, a network node enters a mesh overlay network and attaches to a tree overlay network.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100098102 - Systems and methods for reducing power consumption in communication networks: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for reducing power consumption in communication networks. In one exemplary embodiment, a system includes a leader node in communication with a plurality of follower nodes. The leader node causes the leader and follower nodes to transition from an awake mode to... Agent: Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne P.C.

20100098104 - Switching device: A switching device comprising a plurality of ingress ports and a plurality of egress ports. The switching device is arranged to receive data packets through said ingress ports and to forward received data packets to respective ones of said egress ports. The switching device is further arranged to: determine a... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100098105 - Scheduling policy and quality of service through the presence access layer: A method for specifying a level of Quality of Service (QoS) for a transmission of presence information to a watcher is provided. The method includes a Presence Access Layer (PAL) specifying the level of QoS for the transmission, and the PAL providing the presence information to the watcher using the... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100098106 - Method and apparatus for allocating wireless resource and wireless network system: A wireless resource allocation apparatus and method which maintain quality of service (QoS) in a wireless communication network are provided. The wireless resource allocation method includes calculating the number of medium access slots (MAS) to be allocated to at least one of a plurality of divided zones of at least... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100098107 - Generating a data stream and identifying positions within a data stream: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating a data stream encoded by means of a Variable Length Coding scheme. Code words for a data stream including a plurality of code words are encoded in accordance with a Variable Length Coding scheme. A separation marker is inserted between encoded... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20100098108 - Method and system for transmitting in tdm mode: A method for transmitting data in TDM mode is provided to solve the problem in the prior art that the data processing between a transmitter side and a receiver side could not be real time and the delay time during data transmitting would be longer. The method comprises: packaging TIME... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100098109 - Packet header compression system and method based upon a dynamic template creation: Header compression system for compressing the header of the data packets of a flow transmitted from an ingress node to an egress node through a data transmission network comprising template creating means, in both ingress node and egress node, adapted for creating the same compression template from a predetermined number... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100098110 - Method and apparatus for using ranging measurements in a multimedia home network: According to various embodiments of the disclosure, systems, methods and apparatuses are provided for using ranging to improve network efficiency. In particular, various embodiments of the disclosure provide ranging to improve local clock time synchronization. According to one embodiment, a method for synchronizing a plurality of nodes on a communication... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20100098111 - Method and system for precise-clock synchronization, and device for precise-clock frequency/time synchronization: A precise-clock synchronization method and system and a precise-clock frequency/time synchronization device are provided. In the embodiments of the present invention, two time stamp engines are provided at a slave clock side. A relative time stamp engine provides a relative arrival time stamp. An absolute time stamp engine provides an... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100091640 - Communications device capable of adjusting power consumed thereby and method thereof, and ethernet communications device: A communications device is capable of adjusting power consumed thereby and includes a receiver and a control circuit. The receiver includes an analog-to-digital converter and a decoding circuit. The analog-to-digital converter receives receive-data from another communications device, converts the receive-data into a digital signal, and provides the digital signal to... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100091641 - Transmit diversity scheme for uplink data transmissions: Systems and methods are described herein for transmitting uplink SC-FDMA symbols. When an extended cyclic prefix is used, the symbols are divided into pairs, and the first symbol and a function of the second symbol in each pair is transmitted via a first antenna and the second symbol and a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091642 - Apparatus of cell acquisition in wireless communication system and the method thereof: An apparatus and a method for performing a cell search are disclosed. The apparatus includes fast Fourier transform (FFT) units converting signals received by the multiple antennas into frequency domain signals, inverse randomizers inverse-randomizing the frequency domain signals, an alignment unit aligning the inverse-randomized frequency domain signals to form an... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20100091644 - Method of handling response failure for a bluetooth communication system and slave device for controlling the same: A method of handling a response failure for a slave device of a Bluetooth communication system includes increasing a size of a variable backoff window when a transmission failure of a response packet utilized for responding to an inquiry packet sent by a master device of the Bluetooth communication system... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100091643 - Methods and apparatus for robust slotted mode operation in fading wireless environments: Methods, devices and computer program products are disclosed that allow for wireless communication devices to operate more robustly in the slotted mode of operation in the event of network system loss. Specifically, present aspects require the wireless device to move to or remain in the slotted mode of operation as... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091645 - System and method for providing a multipath switchover between redundant streams: A method is provided in one example embodiment and it includes receiving a first plurality of packets from an active stream at an output device and communicating the first plurality of packets to a next destination. The method also includes receiving a second plurality of packets from a standby stream... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100091647 - Method for restoration and normalization in a mesh network: The present invention is directed to methods for signaling that enable bandwidth reservation, path restoration, path normalization, and path removal in a mesh network that supports shared mesh restoration.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Haynes Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091646 - Method of redundancy of ring network: A ring network redundancy method is disclosed. If somewhere the connection of the ring network is damaged and broken, then the state of an initially blocked port that has been assigned as blocked is set as forward so as to keep the network functioning. And after the problem is repaired,... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20100091648 - Method, device and system for protecting multicast traffic: A method, a device, and a system for protecting a multicast traffic in the field of mobile communication are provided. A backup path is set up for a path that needs to be protected. Route information of the backup path is pre-stored in an entry of a route table. When... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100091649 - Reporting dial up access problems using a real-time automated system: A server for automatically handling dial-up connectivity problems via a voice connection can include a controller to interface with a caller during a voice call, query a network operations center using a data connection to determine whether a dial-up number associated with the caller and received by the server is... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091650 - System and method for conveying priority associated with a communication among a plurality of networks: A system for conveying priority associated with a communication conveyed among networks includes: (a) a first network originating the communication in packets; each respective packet including two segments; a first segment containing a portion of the communication in information payload bits in a first encoding scheme; a second segment containing... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20100091651 - Methods and systems for broadcasting qos information to assist admission control in wireless communication systems: A base station may broadcast quality of service (QoS) and loading information to mobile stations. When a mobile station determines that there is demand for a new traffic connection, the mobile station may select a base station from which to request the desired traffic connection based on the QoS information... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091652 - Service interface for qos-driven hpna networks: An out-of-band signaling model media control (MC) terminal for an HPNA network includes a QoS management entity (QME) and an admission control entity (ACE) and provides end-to-end QoS by passing the QoS requirements from higher layer to the lower layers of the HPNA network. The QME receives an end-to-end QoS... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091653 - Flow balancing in communications networks: Methods and systems are disclosed that provide flow balancing for multiple radio access technologies in a communication network. A mechanism is provided that enables the handover of one or more data flows when a mobile device is attached to more than one access technology at the same time. The handover... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20100091654 - Method for controlling path switching in wireless communication system, and controller and wireless base station in that system: In a wireless communication system including a wireless terminal, a plurality of wireless base stations that wirelessly communicate with the wireless terminal, and a controller that changes the path used for communication with the wireless terminal from a first path via a first wireless base station to a second path... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100091655 - Method and apparatus for initiating routing messages in a communication network: Switches within a telecommunications network exchange so-called available bandwidth messages, each of which advertises how much bandwidth remains unassigned on a respective link. The network is of a type in which circuits are provisioned with various predefined numbers of time slots (equivalent to bandwidth). The sending of an available bandwidth... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Slusky

20100091656 - Method and apparatus for communications traffic engineering: This invention provides for a technique for selectively off-loading traffic from congested sub-regions of a network to more lightly-loaded regions by making use of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). For each network element, an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing is employed to provide re-routing and to identify congested links caused by... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Haynes Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091660 - Communication control apparatus, wireless communication apparatus, communication control method and wireless communication method: The communication control apparatus 100 of the present invention carries out complementary communication by selecting plural wireless communication paths 10A, 10B between a wireless communication apparatus 300 and itself. The communication control apparatus 100 includes: a calculation unit (135, 137, 105) for calculating, on the basis of a packet received... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100091659 - Computer networks: A computer implemented method for analysing a connection between two computers. The method comprises generating output data indicating performance of the connection, the output data comprising a first predetermined number of data points, each data point having a value selected from a second predetermined number of discrete data values.... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20100091658 - Method to improve the performance of a computer network: A method is disclosed for indicating a status of a transfer of data from a first device to a second device over a network. In one embodiment, the data includes one or more data frames. Each frame includes a header having one or more bits. The method includes setting a... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100091657 - Methods and apparatus to manage power consumption in wireless local area network devices: Methods and apparatus to manage power consumption in wireless devices are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus comprises performing a first received signal strength indicator (RSSI) scan to determine a beacon interval and a first beacon time for a wireless channel, calculating a second beacon time for the wireless channel based... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100091661 - System and method for planning ports in digital subscriber line (dsl) network elements: Example systems and methods for managing resources in broadband networks are disclosed. An example method for configuring a port of a digital subscriber line access multiplexor (DSLAM), the method including obtaining from a pre-defined configuration for the port a parameter indicating that a customer line termination port card is to... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100091662 - Defect-tolerant demultiplexers based on threshold logic: Embodiments of the present invention include defect-tolerant demultiplexer crossbars that employ, or that can be modeled by demultiplexer crossbars that employ, threshold logic “TL” elements. The threshold-logic elements provide for tolerance for signal variation on internal signals lines of a defect-tolerant demultiplexer crossbar, and thus tolerance for defects which produce... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100091663 - Railway-train communication apparatus: A railway-train communication apparatus transmits a first transmission signal flowing through an inter-car network between cars of a railway train and a second transmission signal flowing through an in-car network in each of the cars. A node device includes a first signal converter and a second signal converter that perform... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100091664 - Real-time network analyzer: A real-time network-analysis system comprises a network appliance and a plurality of management devices. The network appliance continuously monitors an object network and synthesizes a current network image comprising contemporaneous indicators of connectivity, occupancy, and performance of the object network. A management-client device may gain access to the network image... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20100091665 - Loopback device and mirroring method: A transmission destination of a packet to be transmitted by a web server (11) and an application server (21) incorporated in the same machine (30) is set to a loopback device (50). When a packet is received from one of the servers (11 and 21), the loopback device (50) decides... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100091679 - Automated interoperability assessments based on iterative profiling and emulation of sip or t.38 fax-relay enabled devices: A system for and method of efficient interoperability assessment based on automated Behavioral Profiling and Emulation of SIP or T.38 Fax-relay Enabled Devices, for example, for profiling and emulating VoIP Phones such as SIP Phones, or T.38 Fax-relay devices such as Internet Aware Fax Terminals. The method includes a Multi-step/Multi-technology... Agent: Overhauser & Lindman

20100091672 - Base station apparatus and communication control method: A base station apparatus for communicating a mobile station over a downlink shared channel includes a reception unit configured to receive acknowledgement information for the downlink shared channel from the mobile station over a control channel frequency-multiplexed with an uplink shared channel, a measurement unit configured to measure a radio... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100091668 - Communication quality evaluation system, device, method, and program thereof: A communication quality evaluation system, a device, a method, and a program for evaluating communication quality at an arbitrary location, in the form which can actually felt by a user, are provided. According to an instruction from an evaluator, a control device displays a map or layout diagram of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100091666 - Discovering parameters for a communications link: To dynamically adjust at least one setting of an interface to a communications link in a system, in response to receiving an indication of a change in a characteristic of the communications link, a representation of potential solutions for parameters associated with the communications link is constructed. From the representation,... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100091678 - Downlink rank indication and uplink rank reporting for dedicated beamforming: A network transmitter and receiver are for use with a network MIMO super cell. The network transmitter includes a rank control unit configured to provide a rank indication for a dedicated beamforming transmission from the network MIMO super cell, wherein the rank indication corresponds to spatial multiplexing of multiple data... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100091670 - Method and apparatus to allow coeixtence between wireless devices: The present invention relates generally to wireless transceivers, and more particularly but not exclusively to non 802.11 detection and avoidance methodologies for wireless devices including transceivers. In one or more implementations, a method for detecting non 802.11 operating in the unlicensed 5.25-5.35 and 5.47-10.725 GHz radio bands, using wireless devices,... Agent: Sawyer Law Group PC

20100091671 - Method and arrangement for controlling service level agreements in a mobile network: A method and an arrangement in a service assurance module for controlling service level agreements for communication services in a mobile services access network. A network performance rule is created for a service level agreement, and is based on an associated performance indicator indicating the current network performance with respect... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100091667 - Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system: The present invention relates to resource management in a telecommunication system. In particular the invention relates to detection and estimation of transport network load and optimization of transport network resources. According to the method and arrangement of the invention a serving node engaged in admission control identifies a transport network... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100091682 - Method and system for remotely detecting parasite software: An IP usage pattern of a first computer system is monitored by a second computer system that is remotely located from the first computer system. The second computer system is associated with an ISP. First parasite software may be identified based on an abnormal change in the IP usage pattern.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091680 - Method of transmitting control signal in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a control signal in a wireless communication system includes receiving data or a control signal, and transmitting a feedback signal through a control channel in response to the data or the control signal, wherein the control channel comprises a plurality of mini-tiles in a plurality of... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100091669 - Method to select access point and relay node in multi-hop wireless networking: A method and apparatus are described for selecting an access point in a wireless network, including initializing a channel index, recording a received signal power and information contained in one of a beacon message and a probe request response message, calculating an access link metric for each candidate access point,... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100091676 - Multi-segment network application monitoring and correlation architecture: A system, method and computer program product are provided for network and network application monitoring. Accordingly, one or more media modules are each coupled to an associated network segment. In the case of network application monitoring, each media module is coupled to a network segment on which a network application... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20100091674 - Radio carrier identification methods and apparatus: A user equipment (UE) in a communication system measures the power received in a bandwidth on possible downlink carriers in a frequency band that is supported by the UE in order to search for available carriers. Search times can be decreased on average by using a specially configured filter to... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100091681 - Vlan communication inspection system, method and program: It is possible to identify a communication range even for a communication across a plurality of VLAN in a network having a plurality of communication paths because of a redundant switch configuration when managing switch VLAN setting information. A device having a predetermined VLAN-ID is made to be a KEY... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100091677 - Web server and method for hosting a web page for presenting location based user quality data related to a communication network: A web-server communicates wireless networking performance data that reflects the true user experience of a mobile device operating in a particular location and operating on a particular wireless network.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20100091673 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication, and computer program: A wireless communication apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive packets in multiple formats in which two or more different types of preamble information and intra-header control information are multiplexed, a demodulation and decode unit configured to demodulate and decode the received packets, and a measurement unit configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100091675 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device and wireless communication method, and computer program: A wireless communication system which includes a transmitter and receiver each having two or more antennae, the system including: a channel condition determining unit which determines a condition of a channel between the transmitter and the receiver; and a system control unit which changes a transmitting system in the transmitter... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100091683 - Rate monitoring apparatus: A rate monitoring apparatus using a token bucket algorithm for controlling a packet flow, the apparatus includes a packet information storage unit having two storage media for storing packet information extracted from a packet data, a token identifying information storage unit having two storage media for storing identification information used... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100091685 - Method and system for deducing network routes by querying routers: A method and system for detecting and correcting invalid network paths in a network having a plurality of routers and a set of global invariant rules imbedded in the network including querying a subset of a routing table data structure defining network paths wherein said subset includes a plurality of... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20100091686 - Method and system to reset a device of a wireless network and wireless network device: The invention relates to resetting devices of a wireless network, particularly wireless home control networks, for example lighting control networks in buildings. It is an object of the invention to provide an improved method and system to reset devices of a wireless network and an improved wireless network device. According... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100091684 - System and method for discovery of dynamically assigned information handling system ip addresses: A network manager tracks network nodes in an IPv6 network by identifying server nodes that dynamically-assign network addresses, such as DHCP server nodes, retrieving prefix information from the DHCP server nodes, and querying a range of network addresses determined from application of the prefix information to identify client nodes of... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20100091687 - Status of events: An event management system is configured to provide first status information corresponding to a scheduled event to at least a first person associated with an in progress event where the in progress event includes a first plurality of event endpoints that provide a first set of media streams to a... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100091688 - Simultaneous multiple signal reception and transmission using frequency multiplexing and shared processing: A novel mechanism for simultaneous multiple signal reception and transmission using frequency multiplexing and shared processing. Multiple RF signals, which may be of various wireless standards, are received using one or more shared processing blocks thereby significantly reducing chip space and power requirements. Shared components include local oscillators, analog to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100091689 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving control information in a broadband wireless communication system using half frequency division duplex: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving control information in a broadband wireless communication system using Half Frequency Division Duplex (H-FDD) are provided. An operation of a Mobile Station (MS) includes, in the case of a frame at which control information is not transmitted, performing uplink communication at a front end... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100091690 - Distribution diplexer: A multi-band RF circuit has receive paths for two or more bands, and transmit paths, a bidirectional one-in multi-le-out transmission line junction (100) for combining the paths for coupling to an antenna. A switch combines transmit and receive paths, and a receive path circuit (110, 150, 160, 230, 240) is... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100091692 - Access terminal, control method thereof, base station and control method thereof: An access terminal receives, from a base station 10, an access terminal identifier (MAC-ID) assigned thereto to identify a self-terminal and information (Semi Connected Permit MAC-ID List) to permit a shift into a semi connected state where an access terminal 17 saves power while holding the access terminal identifier. When... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100091691 - Dynamic thermal control for wireless transceivers: Methods and apparatus for dynamic thermal management and control within, e.g., small form-factor wireless devices such as laptop computers or cellular “smartphones”. In one embodiment, a thermal management system monitors the temperature (or other relevant criteria) for one or more components, and implements different operating states within the wireless transceiver... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20100091693 - Method and a device for saving power in a wireless user terminal: A method (400) for use in a cellular system with at least one controlling node (110), eNodeB, which controls user terminals, UEs (130), in a cell (120). According to the method, a UE can be in one of at least two different states (410), an idle state, a DRX state,... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100091695 - Method and apparatus for optimizing idle mode stand-by time in a multicast system: Methods and apparatus for optimizing idle mode stand-by time in wireless device operable in a multicast system are disclosed. In order to maximize or optimize the stand-by time for idle mode, a time line for decoding of overhead information symbol (OIS) data received in one or more superframes in the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091696 - Method and apparatus for providing point-to-multipoint multimedia service in a mobile communications system: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing at least one user equipment (UE) with a point-to-multipoint multimedia service through two or more common physical channels in a mobile communications system. A radio network transmits a point-to-multipoint multimedia service through a plurality of physical channels using multiple... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100091694 - Method and system of traffic processor selection for broadcast/multicast service in a wireless network: A method and system for selecting traffic processors for processing and transmitting broadcast/multicast service flow in a cellular network includes evaluating processor occupancy of a plurality of traffic processors and selecting the traffic processors with the highest available processor occupancy. The cellular network has one or more base stations that... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20100091697 - Ditributed turbo coding and relaying protocols: This invention concerns distributed turbo coding and relaying protocols wireless relay networks. In particular, the invention concerns a method for relaying signals at a relay node, a method for processing signals at a destination node, a relay system and software to perform the methods. The wireless relay networks comprise a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20100091698 - Radio relay apparatus, radio terminal apparatus, method, and recording medium for performing radio communication based on beacon: A radio relay apparatus to periodically transmit a beacon to a radio terminal apparatus, comprises: a control section for generating a beacon including group identification information indicating a group to which a radio terminal apparatus of a reception object of the beacon belongs; and a transmission section for transmitting the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20100091699 - Profile-based bandwidth scheduler: A profile-based scheduler is disclosed. In other embodiments, the profile-based scheduler may profile previously accessed websites and/or FTP sites. In doing so, the profile may compile bandwidth requirements for all such profiled websites and/or FTP sites within a lookup table. When a website and/or FTP site is accessed, the profiler... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100091714 - Access point multi-level transmission power control supporting periodic high power level transmissions: A wireless access point selects its own transmission power for different types of the transmissions. The access point transmits to client devices at reduced power levels, however, periodic beacons and other selected non-beacon transmissions can be transmitted at a high power level to facilitate association by other client devices... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100091700 - Ad-hoc network acquisition using chaotic sequence spread waveform: Method and system for identifying neighbor nodes in an ad-hoc wireless network including two or more nodes. The method involves generating a beacon signal at a first node of the network for alerting other nodes in the network of the presence of the first node. A digitally generated first spreading... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20100091708 - Base station apparatus, mobile station, radio communication system, and communication control method: In a radio communication system including a mobile station and a base station apparatus for communicating with the mobile station according to a SC-FDMA scheme in uplink, the mobile station includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit at least one of a first signal and a second signal; and a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100091703 - Binding update method, mobile terminal, home agent, and binding update system: Disclosed in a technique for providing a binding update method and the like capable of resolving such a situation that a BA message keeps reciprocating between HAs. According to the technique, there is provided a binding update method, in which a mobile terminal transmits, to a home agent of the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100091702 - Cell search based on beacon in a wireless communication system: Techniques for transmitting beacon signals to assist user equipments (UEs) perform cell search and techniques for detecting for beacon signals are described. In an aspect, cells may be assigned beacon patterns defined based on orthogonal grouping of subcarriers. U subcarriers usable for beacon may be arranged into G orthogonal groups,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091705 - Method and device for transmitting tcp data over asymmetric links: In a method and device the TCP load offered in the uplink is manipulated such that an offered load asymmetry is achieved. Using such an arrangement it is possible to compensate for a link asymmetry when uplink and downlink connections are sharing the same uplink buffer in order to increase... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100091701 - Method for cognitive radio based communication and method for broadcasting policy information for the same: A method of broadcasting frequency policy information in a cognitive radio based communication system, apparatus therefore and a communication method using the same are disclosed. In particular, a policy broadcaster is provided as a subject performing a broadcast of frequency policy information in cognitive radio communication. A method of broadcasting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100091709 - Method for processing radio protocol in mobile telecommunications system and transmitter of mobile telecommunications: An apparatus and method for performing procedures (protocols) of a PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) layer and an RLC (Radio layer in an E-UMTS (Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) which has evolved from UMTS, among radio protocols of a mobile communication system. The PDCP layer performs ciphering on data (i.e.,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100091707 - Method for route optimization between mobile entities: A communication network (10, 12, 14) and method for route optimization between two mobile entities (20, 30) includes at least one home agent (40) that determines an optimized route between the two mobile entities (20, 30), and delivers the route optimization information to either (or both) of the mobile entities... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100091710 - Method of providing ip mobility using sctp signaling in 3gpp based next generation mobile communication network: Provided is a method of providing IP mobility using SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) signaling in a 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) based next generation mobile communication network. The method of providing IP mobility constructs an IP mobility protocol on an SCTP layer of an interface protocol used between an... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100091713 - Method of transmitting control information: In a method of transmitting a logical channel by using a downlink transport channel, a plurality of transmission configurations are limited into a limited set of the transmission configurations. Control information relating to the limited set of the transmission configurations of the downlink transport channel is transmitted and at least... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100091704 - Mobile telecommunications and random access preamble content: The present invention provides for a mobile radio communications device of a mobile radio communications network arranged for delivering a non-synchronized random access preamble message such that the non-synchronized random access preamble message comprises a multi-bit message including Cause ID bits and selective bits comprising at least signature bits for... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100091706 - Scp-controlled overlay between gsm and ims: The invention relates to method of executing a service in a Media Gateway Control Function (12) for establishing a call between a calling party's terminal (8) served by a Mobile Switching Centre (2), and an IP Multimedia Subsystem Service (20). The Media Gateway Control Function (12) is arranged to query... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100091711 - Wireless communication method: A wireless communication method is provided which includes the steps of selecting, by a wireless communication device belonging to a communication system operating on a certain communication protocol, a communication protocol among a plurality of communication protocols, exchanging, among a plurality of wireless communication devices including the wireless communication device,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100091712 - Wireless communication methods utilizing a single antenna with multiple channels and the devices thereof: The present invention provides wireless communication methods utilizing a single antenna with multiple channels and the devices thereof. The method includes providing a plurality of communication channels within the single antenna. The plurality of communication channels may include a probe channel and a data channel. The single antenna may selectively... Agent: Eastwind Consultants Company Limited

20100091730 - Apparatus and method for determining uplink scheduling priority in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for determining an uplink scheduling priority in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a basic priority determination unit for calculating a basic priority metric of at least one Mobile Station (MS), a calculation unit for calculating a correction value for considering an... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100091724 - Base station apparatus and communication control method: A base station apparatus is disclosed that includes a selection unit selecting user equipment terminals to which radio resources are allocated based on priority levels indicating a priority order of allocating the radio resources for a shared channel and a resource determination unit determining a transmission power level of a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100091725 - Base station apparatus and communication control method: A base station apparatus capable of communicating with user equipment terminals using an uplink shared channel includes a selection unit configured to select a user equipment terminal to which the base station apparatus allocates the shared channel among the user equipment terminals other than a user equipment terminal where a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100091726 - Base station apparatus and communication control method: A base station apparatus capable of communicating with user equipment terminals using an uplink shared channel includes a user selection unit configured to select a user equipment terminal to which the base station apparatus allocates a radio resource based on whether the base station apparatus receives a signal for requesting... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100091727 - Base station apparatus and communication control method: A base station apparatus capable of communicating with user equipment terminals using an uplink shared channel includes a radio resource allocation unit configured to allocate radio resources to the shared channel after allocating radio resources to a random access channel, a control channel, and a Message-3 in a random access... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100091731 - Channel allocation method and apparatus for wireless communication networks: A channel allocation method for use in a wireless communication environment, where Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) coexist, includes collecting, at an access point, information on channels used by the WLANs and WPANs, determining available WLAN channels and available WPAN channels based on the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100091715 - Cognitive channel adaptation in wireless sensor networks: Cognitive radio adaptation is employed in WSNs to reduce effects of RF interference. Communication channel quality is assessed locally at each node. Using beacons to propagate channel quality and node related information among the nodes of the network, channel adaptation decision is made either centrally by identifying a channel that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100091722 - Communication system, base station, terminal, and communication method: There is provided communication control means 2-1 that performs communication in compliance with an OFDMA scheme having traffic channels including first sub-channels for containing information showing enabled or disabled sub-channels and second sub-channels for storing data pertaining to services in correspondence with the first sub-channels, that allocates a plurality of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100091729 - Distributed message-passing based resource allocation in wireless systems: Systems and methods are disclosed to allocate resources in discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency division multiple access (DFT-S-OFDMA) networks, which involve determining a reward for each user when assigned a frequency chunk (FC) of subcarriers, where each FC is a set of contiguous subcarriers; splitting each user into one... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20100091721 - Method and arrangement for efficiently utilizing radio resources in a communication network: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for obtaining efficient radio resource utilization over a radio interface in a communication network comprising a transmitting entity (18) transmitting data over said radio interface to a receiving entity (15), said transmitting entity (18) comprising at least an upper layer... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100091728 - Method for allocating radio resources: Provided is a method for allocating radio resources in a mobile telecommunication system. The method for allocating a downlink radio resource in a base station includes retrieving a downlink radio resource allocated to a first mobile terminal if the first mobile terminal does not have a downlink packet, continuously checking... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100091718 - Method for the reduction of pilot power transmission in mobile communication systems: The innovation relates to a system and/or methodology for the reduction of pilot power transmission in mobile communication systems. More specifically, the innovation relates to varying the transmit power of a pilot signal to increase the power available to other services, such as customer voice and data communication. In addition,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091720 - Method for transmitting and receiving paging message in wireless communication system: A method to transmit and receive a paging message in a wireless communication system is provided. In a method to transmit a paging message, a Base Station transmits a paging message including identifier and location information of a UE to be paged to the UE and receives a paging response... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100091723 - Method of transmitting data block in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a data block in a wireless communication system includes generating a data block having a variable size in an upper layer, transmitting a radio resource request message to a base station according to the size of the data block in a medium access control (MAC) layer... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100091716 - Method to quite consecutive narrow band channels: A method and apparatus for quieting multiple channels is provided herein. During operation, transmission activity on each channel is analyzed and a best band is identified. Once the band is chosen, a wideband transmitter is utilized to transmit simultaneous reservation messages on consecutive channels simultaneously. Because a wideband transmitter is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100091717 - Method to quite hidden nodes: A method and apparatus for quieting multiple channels on unlicensed spectrum is provided herein. During operation, a cluster head (or centralized controller such as a base station) will listen to determine if channels exist without primary system traffic. A message will then be sent out by the cluster head quieting... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100091719 - Methods and apparatus for system selection in a multimode wireless device: Methods and apparatus for system selection in a multimode wireless device are disclosed. The method and apparatus afford selection of a wireless communication system access technology from a number of wireless system access technologies supported by a wireless device. Selection is accomplished by storing identification information concerning access technologies pertaining... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091737 - Apparatus and method for handover/roaming during file downloading/streaming: Apparatuses and methods for handover or roaming during a file download or streaming. A streaming roaming method in a Convergence of Broadcast and Mobile Services (CBMS) system includes generating a Session Description Protocol (SDP), a fragment, or a notification message indicating streaming roaming or handover information, and transmitting the SDP,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100091735 - Apparatus and method of transmitting and receiving data in soft handoff of a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and receiving data in soft handoff of a wireless communication system. According to an aspect of the present invention, in the method of receiving data in soft handoff of a wireless communication system, a mobile station receives a first sequence being... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100091733 - Method for handover between heterogenous radio access networks: A method for handover between heterogeneous radio access networks is disclosed. When a multi-mode mobile station performs Inter-RAT handover, pre-authentication is performed before implementing a link layer handover procedure with a target access point. The pre-authentication method has as little an effect on currently served quality of service as possible... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100091738 - Methodology for base station assisted channel selection for interference handling in mobile networks: A mechanism is disclosed where a Base Station provides assistance to a mobile device in the channel-switch process because a mobile device might have to perform frequent channel switches to overcome adverse channel conditions due to interference in the 900 MHz ISM band. The Base Station broadcasts channel-specific information that... Agent: The Law Offices Of Dennis L. Cook, PLLC

20100091734 - Packet forwarding method in the case of the handover between base stations: A method for forwarding packets in handover between base stations (eNBs) is provided. A source eNB confirming handover success sends control data indicating an EOD of a forwarding packet to a target eNB when there are no more packets to be forwarded to the target eNB, and the target eNB... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100091732 - System and method to provide fast wide-area mobile ip handoffs: A system, device, and method for real-time handoff in a mobile IP network is provided. In an embodiment, an indication that a mobile device is in a new network is sent out more often in a beacon than in an IRDP message in order to provide an effective seamless connectivity... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100091736 - System for packet data service in the mixed network of asynchronous communication network and synchronous communication network and hand-over method thereof: Disclosed herein is a mobile communication terminal and handover method therefor, which enable handover of a mobile communication terminal that is using a packet data service or is in a dormant state in a mobile communication network in which asynchronous and synchronous networks coexist. In the handover method, if a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100091739 - Methods and systems for pre-allocating a cqi channel during handoff: Methods and systems for improving handover performance by pre-negotiating channel quality information between a serving base station and a target base before a handoff is initiated in a wireless communication system are described. The target base station may send to the serving base station an assigned location within an uplink... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091740 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for transmitting streaming media to a mobile terminal using the bandwidth associated with a wireless network: A communication network is operated by obtaining a subscription at a wireless network from at least one device for a rebroadcast of streaming media and rebroadcasting the streaming media to the at least one device using the wireless network responsive to obtaining the subscription.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091742 - Correlation method and apparatus for acquiring synchronization in wireless local area network: Provides is a correlation method for acquiring a synchronization in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In the correlation method, an auto-correlation value is measured in a receive (RX) signal based on the WLAN standard by use of a successive partial short preambles. A time point when the auto-correlation value... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100091743 - Preparation phase for switching between su-mimo and mu-mimo: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for switching between different modes in a communications network. The network comprises a number of transmit and a number of receive antennas, said modes comprising a single user mode and a multiple user mode. The method including the steps of: transmitting... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100091741 - Wifi system and method with high-speed mobile voice and video data communication: A WiFi system with high-speed mobile voice and video data communication includes a plurality of mobile devices and a WiFi base station connected to a WiFi network. The WiFi base station transmits and receives packets to/from a mobile device within a time frame. The time frame is repeated at a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100091744 - System and method for extending neighboring cell search window: A system and method for accommodating mobile station synchronization to neighbor cells in a mobile communication system. At least one available frame is utilized as a search window in an uplink data transfer multiframe for receiving neighboring cell synchronization information. At least one transmit time slot in a frame adjacent... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20100091751 - Communication subsystem for wireless devices or the like: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a wireless terminal may include an application subsystem and a communication subsystem. The communication subsystem in one embodiment may enable a virtual direct interface to a remote network to be presented to the application subsystem via a wireless communication system air... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20100091745 - Coverage optimisation for wireless networks: In a wireless network comprising access points deployed within a designated zone of coverage, the radio frequency field strength resulting from radiation from the access points is optimised as a function of location by means of control of the transmission power and/or radiation pattern of the access points in response... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100091746 - Coverage-hole detection and self healing: A system, apparatus and techniques for detecting and self-healing coverage hole conditions in a wireless network are disclosed. The apparatus includes a monitor module that is configured in a data forwarding plane of a network switch and a regulatory module configured in a control plane of the switch. The monitor... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100091747 - Dynamic thermal control for wireless transceivers: Methods and apparatus for dynamic thermal management and control within, e.g., small form-factor wireless devices such as laptop computers or cellular “smartphones”. In one embodiment, a thermal management system monitors the temperature (or other relevant criteria) for one or more components, and implements different operating states within the wireless transceiver... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates P.C.

20100091750 - Method for transmitting and receiving system information: A device and method for receiving, by a mobile terminal, system information from a base station. The method includes: receiving a block of first system information from the base station in a predetermined frame of a broadcast channel configured to broadcast only system information; and after the block of first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100091749 - Transmission and reception parameter control: A system and method for implementing transmission parameter control at a transmitting station is described. The exemplary system and method comprises querying a transmission parameter control module for a transmission schedule. The transmission schedule comprises at least one schedule entry defining a set of transmission parameter controls as they pertain... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20100091748 - Voice transmission apparatus: A voice transmission apparatus includes a jitter absorbing buffer unit provided in the receiving unit and which absorbs a transmission delay in the packets, and a transmission wait control unit provided in a transmitting unit and which links a packet to be transmitted when transmission temporarily breaks down to a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100091752 - High frequency circuit, high frequency component and communication device: An inventive high frequency circuit includes a switch circuit (SPDT1), connected to an antenna terminal (Anti), using a field-effect transistor for switching between a connection with first to third transmitting terminals (Tx1-1, Tx2-1, Tx3-1) and a connection with first to third receiving terminals (Rx1-1, Rx2-1, Rx3-1); a transmitting-side triplexer (Trip1)... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100091753 - Method and arrangement for noise floor estimation: A method of enabling improved soft noise power floor estimation in a code division multiple access wireless communication system, measuring (SO) samples of a received total wideband power, estimating (S1) a probability distribution for a first power quantity from the measured received total wideband power, estimating (S2) a mean power... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100091754 - Tfc selection apparatus in mobile communication system, tfc selection method and program therefor: A TFC selection apparatus includes: a SIR calculation unit calculating SIR by using a CPICH symbol of receive data; a conversion unit obtaining STFC(m) which contains m pieces of TFC corresponding to the calculated SIR; a total transmit power calculation unit selecting TFC corresponding to the obtained STFC(m) from a... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100091755 - Method of transmitting scheduling request in a wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a scheduling request which is used to request a radio resource for uplink transmission includes configuring an uplink control channel for transmission of a scheduling request in a subframe, the subframe comprising two consecutive slots, a slot comprising a plurality of single carrier-frequency division multiple access... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100091756 - Method of using acknowledgment tones for data consistency in intra-vehicular wireless networks: A method for providing electronic communications between wireless nodes includes wirelessly transmitting data from a transmitting one of the nodes to a plurality of receiving ones of the nodes. A respective first acknowledgment tone is wirelessly transmitted from each of the receiving nodes to the transmitting node and to each... Agent: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20100091757 - Methods and systems for efficient tlv management: Certain embodiments provide a method for managing updates to type-length-value (TLV) parameters used in a mobile station. The method generally includes generating a TLV bitmap having a plurality of bits to indicate whether or not updates exist to a corresponding plurality of TLV parameters, generating one or more client module... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091758 - Transmission scheduling optimization method and wireless user equipment device: A wireless user equipment device transmits a control channel and a data channel. Each of the control channel and the data channel include a plurality of time slots. The control channel is configured to transmit control information and includes both transmission time slots and non-transmission time slots. The data channel... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091759 - Media access control protocol data unit aggregation in a time division multiple access media access control layer: A method and apparatus are described for creating a multi-media stream (e.g., video, voice, audio, etc. . . . ) Super-MAC frame in a physical protocol data unit, including inserting a physical layer header into a channel time allocation and generating the multi-media stream SuperMAC frame further including, appending a... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100091760 - Method and apparatus for time-of-day synchronization between network nodes: A node with local GPS time in an ad-hoc wireless network synchronizes with the network time immediately and slowly pulls the network time to GPS time. However, network nodes may immediately transition to the common GPS time after an island or group head node determines that the transition in network... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100091766 - Abbreviated dialing using a voip platform: A feature server provides an abbreviated dialing feature via an internet protocol based network to facilitate abbreviated dialing between a first phone system that serves a first location and a second phone system that serves a second location. A routing table at the first phone system stores a number range... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091765 - Apparatus and method for enabling optimized gateway selection for inter-working between circuit-switched and internet telephony: An optimized gateway selection process of the present invention is based on a universal mobility manager (UMM), a component for inter-technology location management. The UMM is capable of holding location information for diverse cellular networks, as well as for Internet telephony systems. For cellular networks, UMM acts as a traditional... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20100091764 - Communication system for voip using an internet protocol converter: A proprietary internet converter (PIC) is disclosed, which allows a calling party end-user device with internet access such as a mobile telephone, to initiate voice communication with a called party VoIP (Voice Over Internet protocol) end-user device. The ID (Internet Device with a built-in PIC) converts the protocols used by... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20100091768 - Coordination of user information across session initiation protocol-based proxy servers: An improvement in the design and operation of telecommunications networks is disclosed, in which when a calling party's telecommunication terminal does not know the address of the called party's terminal, the calling party's telecommunication terminal contacts its home Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy server (or “home proxy”). Upon determining that... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20100091763 - Handling information: A communication method, for use with a telecommunications system, enables special communications to be routed to respective devices in a group of the devices by addressing the devices with a respective special identifier. The telecommunications system includes a network core and a plurality of subscriber devices registered with the network... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20100091769 - Method and system for improving real-time data communications: A system and method for improving real-time data communications by accounting for sampling rate mismatches between a transmitter and a receiver. Based on an analysis of the average number of packets received at a receiver over a period of time, a buffer monitor cooperating with the receiver can trigger an... Agent: King & Spalding

20100091767 - Methods, systems, and devices for providing voice-call services responsive to a dialed sequence: A connection is established in a communications network responsive to receiving a Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) signal at a port having an assigned sequence associated therewith. A dialed sequence corresponding to the received DTMF signal is identified. If the dialed sequence is associated with a request for a specified service,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091761 - System and method for placing a call using a local access number shared by multiple users: The present document describes a method and system for placing a call through an Internet Protocol (IP) network, from a contact voice interface device for use by a contact user located in a first geographical area, to a subscribed voice interface device for use by a subscribed user located in... Agent: Benoit & Cote, S.e.n.c.

20100091762 - System, method, and apparatus for user-initiated provisioning of a communication device: An embodiment of a method and apparatus for provisioning of a communication device includes receiving a registration request from a first communication device. The registration request includes an address associated with the first communication device. The method further includes registering the first communication device in response to receiving the registration... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100091770 - Packet relay device: The packet relay device includes a clock generation portion adapted to generate a clock signal of prescribed frequency as a standard for operation of the packet relay device; a timer portion adapted to count up a timer value over a first number of clock cycles on the basis of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100091771 - System and method for incoming telephone call distribution among inbound links of service platforms: A method for distributing incoming telephone calls among inbound links of a service platform is provided. First information is accumulated regarding routing of the incoming telephone calls during a previous time period to the inbound links of the service platform by a network call processor. Second information including a number... Agent: Sprint

20100091777 - Burst processing modem and related methods: A burst processing modem and related methods. Implementations of a first method of demodulating bursts from a plurality of channels may include receiving a plurality of channels from a received beam and separating the plurality of channels and storing a plurality of frames in a random access memory (RAM) array... Agent: Booth Udall, PLC

20100091774 - Dynamically assigning packet flows: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method includes accessing data of an egress packet belonging to a flow, storing data associating the flow with at least one queue based on a source of the data of the egress packet. The method also includes accessing an ingress packet... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100091776 - Packet processing device, frame control method, and communication device: A packet processing device for processing data conveyed by at least one data block including a plurality of packets including a control packet having control data, includes: a packet processor for receiving and storing the data block; and a controller for processing data in each data block stored in the... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100091775 - Packet switching system: A packet switching system includes a forwarding processing unit determining a destination of an input packet by analyzing the input packet and outputting it as an output packet, the forwarding processing unit comprises an ingress interface card checking if the input packet has a sequential cyclic number and an egress... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100091772 - Providing iptv multicasts: A method of operating a Reliable Transmission Protocol switch node to provide an IPTV multicast. IP packets transporting an encrypted media stream are received from an IPTV Head-end. The media stream contains complete image frames. Unencrypted identifiers identifying packets containing complete image frame data are also received. The received packets... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100091773 - System and method for identifying network-connected user: A system and method for identifying a network-connected user are disclosed. The method includes connecting a user end device to a routing device and guiding the user end device to a specific routing path by the routing device according to a programmed file of the user end device, thereby overcoming... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100091779 - Arrangement and method relating to identification of hardware units: A switching node in a distributed transmission network. The node, which is assigned a unique switching node identity (SID) includes a number of switch ports for connection of a number of line boards with subscriber line ports. The node detects a request for an IP address from a line board... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100091778 - Method and apparatus for identifying label distribution protocol flapping events: A method and apparatus for identifying a Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) flapping event in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method counts a total number of LDP session up events, a total number of LDP session down events, a total number of link up events, and a total... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100091780 - Frame traffic balancing across trunk groups: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses and/or systems for logical ports in trunking are disclosed. For example, a method of routing a flow of frames may include applying a correspondence between logical ports and physical ports of a switch.... Agent: Wong Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20100091781 - Mpls virtual private network using dual network cores: A multi-protocol label switching system using multiple cores. In establishing a virtual private network in a MPLS system, more than one core is available. Paths are established over each core separately and weights are assigned to the two routes. Thus, the route which is preferred by manually configuring in advance... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Haynes Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091784 - Filtering of redundant frames in a network node: A method of filtering redundant frames including a MAC source address, a frame ID and a CRC value, in a network node with two ports each including a transmitting device and a receiving device, is provided. The transmitting device includes a transmission list in which frames to be transmitted are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100091782 - Method and system for controlling a delay of packet processing using loop paths: A method and system for introducing controlled delay of packet processing at a network device using one or more delay loop paths (DLPs). For each packet received at the network device, a determination will be made as to whether or not packet processing should be delayed. If delay is chosen,... Agent: 3com Corporation

20100091783 - Method and system for weighted fair queuing: A system for scheduling data for transmission in a communication network includes a credit distributor and a transmit selector. The communication network includes a plurality of children. The transmit selector is communicatively coupled to the credit distributor. The credit distributor operates to grant credits to at least one of eligible... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20100091785 - Packet processing apparatus: A packet processing apparatus includes a packet buffer with a queue for storing packets. An actual queue length/position discriminator acquires, at every sampling period, the latest actual queue length indicating the occupancy status of the queue, determines the positional relationship of the actual queue length to a random early detection... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100091786 - Control of a computing system having adjustable inputs: A technique for controlling an output of a computing system having multiple adjustable inputs includes providing a set of adjustable inputs to the computing system, observing an output of the computing system while the system is in operation, and selecting a subset of adjustable inputs from the set of adjustable... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100091787 - Direct inter-thread communication buffer that supports software controlled arbitrary vector operand selection in a densely threaded network on a chip: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for retrieving arbitrarily aligned vector operands within a highly threaded Network On a Chip (NOC) processor are presented. Multiple nodes in a NOC are able to access a single Compressed Direct Interthread Communication Buffer (CDICB), which contains a misaligned but compacted set... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20100091788 - Configuration for messaging multiplexed channel instances with varying connection speeds: A method, system and article of manufacture are disclosed for selecting a channel instance for connecting a client with a server in a multi-channel instance computer system. In this computer system, when a new channel instance is used for connecting the client with one of the servers, defined channel information... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20100091789 - Cognitive radio communication terminal and method for detecting collision using feature detection: A cognitive radio communication terminal including a transmission processing unit to divide data by a quiet time slot that is allocated at a first point in time of a collision detection period, to transmit at least one portion of the divided data to a reception side, and a sensing unit... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100091790 - Patch identification beacon: Aspects of the disclosure provide a patch identification beacon (PIB) device that can enable location tracking with reduced time and cost. The PIB device can include a first interface coupled to a network. The first interface can be configured to receive signals from the network, and transmit signals to the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100091791 - Method for power control for mixed voice and data transmission: Power control of mixed voice and data transmissions is disclosed. A voice signal is transmitted at a dynamically-adjusted voice transmit power capped at a maximum voice transmit power limit. Concurrently, data bursts are transmitted on top of the voice signal. Data noise is inserted between the data bursts transmissions. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091792 - Conversion apparatus: A conversion apparatus, which mutually connects a layer 2 network and an asynchronous network, including a first converter that converts a check frame received from the layer 2 network into a check cell of the asynchronous network to transmit the check cell to the asynchronous network; and a second converter... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100091793 - Max-min fair network bandwidth allocator: Allocation of an amount of available bandwidth among a plurality of users of a computer network is provided. Each user has a maximum allocation of bandwidth. Tier information of a plurality of tiers is accessed. In the tier information, users are grouped according to maximum allocation. Tier information includes a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (tellabs)

20100091794 - Sending method, receiving and processing method and apparatus for adapting payload bandwidth for data transmission: A sending method, a receiving and processing method and an apparatus for adapting a payload bandwidth for data transmission are provided. In the method, N coding blocks containing 64B are acquired, in which N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and the acquired N coding blocks are... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100091795 - Transmission stream generating device for generating transmission stream which additional data is stuffed in a payload area of a packet, digital broadcast transmitting/receiving device for transmitting/receiving the transmission stream, and methods thereo: A transmission stream (TS) generating apparatus includes an adaptor which receives general data and generates a stream having a plurality of packets, and which provides adaptive field in some of the plurality of packets, and an inserter which inserts additional data into all the payload areas of some of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100091797 - Apparatus for reconstructing control message, apparatus for restoring control message, method of reconstructing control message, and method of restoring control message: The present invention relates to an apparatus for reconstructing a control message, an apparatus for restoring a control message, a method of reconstructing a control message, and a method of restoring a control message. To this end, an exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for reconstructing a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100091800 - Integrated circuits, systems, apparatus, packets and processes utilizing path diversity for media over packet applications: In one form of the invention, a process of sending real-time information from a sender computer (103) to a receiver computer (105) coupled to the sender computer (103) by a packet network (100) wherein packets (111,113) sometimes become lost, includes steps of directing (441) packets (111) containing the real-time information... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100091799 - Method and data structure for exchanging data: A method and system for exchanging at least one data value between a first device and at least one second device, including providing at least one data structure at the first device, the data structure including at least one descriptive field and an associated at least one data value field,... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20100091798 - Method, apparatus, and system for data transmission and processing in a wireless communication environment: According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which indications of signal quality associated with each of the plurality of user stations are received. Multiple user stations (e.g., a first user station and a second user station) are selected to receive data from a base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091796 - Selecting an adaptor mode and communicating data based on the selected adaptor mode: A device selects a mode and communicates data based on the selected mode. The device comprises at least one interface circuit configured to monitor analog audio signals from a customer premise equipment device and a processor circuit. The processor circuit assigns a first band mode for converting the analog audio... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100091801 - Data communication system, data transmitting device, data transmitting method, data receiving device, and data receiving method: A probe transmitting section (216) in a packet receiving terminal (210) sends a probe packet to a second radio channel (320) at fixed intervals. A probe analyzing section (117) in a packet sending terminal (110) detects a burst loss on the basis of a state of reception of the probe... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100091802 - Time division multiple access communication network system: A transmitter node includes a first data transmission portion that transmits data in a first transmission time slot on a first transmission channel and a second data transmission portion that transmits the same transmission data from the first data transmission portion in a second transmission time slot on a second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100085866 - Apparatus and method for estimating channel in mimo system based ofdm/ofdma: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for estimating a channel in a MIMO wireless telecommunication system supporting the 0FDM/0FDMA. The present invention, in estimating a channel by using two or more pilots included in at least one received signal among received signals of a first channel and... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20100085865 - Method and an apparatus for estimating a delay spread of a multipath channel: Low complex algorithms for estimating a delay spread or a RMS delay spread of a multipath channel using channel estimates are disclosed, leading to low overall power consumption. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a delay spread or a RMS delay spread of the multipath channel is determined... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100085868 - Method and apparatus for improved multicast streaming in wireless networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing media content. The method includes duplicating each packet of an original packet stream for which an associated importance level satisfies an importance condition, inserting each duplicate packet within the original packet stream to form thereby a modified packet stream, and transmitting... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20100085867 - System and method for an embs design to optimize spectrum efficiency, link adaptation and embs traffic security: A wireless communication network capable of providing Enhanced Multi-Broadcast Service (EMBS) to a plurality of subscriber stations. At least one base station in the network transmits a downlink frame to the plurality of subscriber stations. The downlink frame includes an EMBS MAP configured to identify locations of EMBS data bursts.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100085869 - Method and apparatus for maintaining network performance in a communication system: A method and apparatus is disclosed for method and apparatus for maintaining network performance in a communication system. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network management server (NMS) that manages operations of a communication system including an access office (AO) coupled to... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20100085870 - Global detection of resource leaks in a multi-node computer system: A process is disclosed for identifying and recovering from resource leaks on compute nodes of a parallel computing system. A resource monitor stores information about system resources available on a compute node in a clean state. After the compute node runs a job, the resource monitor compares the current resource... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100085871 - Resource leak recovery in a multi-node computer system: A process is disclosed for identifying and recovering from resource leaks on compute nodes of a parallel computing system. A resource monitor stores information about system resources available on a compute node in a clean state. After the compute node runs a job, the resource monitor compares the current resource... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100085872 - Self-healing chip-to-chip interface: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing a set of signal paths for a chip. A defective signal path within the set of signal paths for the chip is detected. Signals are re-routed through the set of signal paths such that the defective signal path is removed from the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100085874 - Bandwidth allocation method and apparatus: System for bandwidth assignment to manage congestion over a network bottleneck, comprises a regulation point being set up downstream of the bottleneck in the network to manage congestion in data packets arriving from various sources via the bottleneck. For each of the sources, a priority level assigner assigns priority levels... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20100085873 - Lane synchronisation: A method of monitoring a plurality of transmission lanes in a data transmission system includes the step of extracting individual lane parameters in the data transmission system independently of a transmitted training sequence.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100085876 - Method for traffic engineering of connectionless virtual private network services: A method for traffic engineering of connectionless virtual private network (VPN) services that includes receiving physical connectivity data for a connectionless VPN. The data includes service nodes and links between the service nodes. One or more of the service nodes are also edge nodes. Logical connectivity data for the edge... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20100085875 - Methods and apparatuses for processing packets in a credit-based flow control scheme: Methods and systems for processing a second request before processing of a first request has completed. The first request is associated with a first flow control credit type, and the second request is associated with a second flow control credit type. After a period of time, the second request is... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman LLP

20100085877 - Method and apparatus for non contiguous sliding window: A method that limits data flow between two network nodes to an amount within a window where a first portion of data within a first segment of the window is separated from a second portion of data within a second segment of the window by a third portion of data... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100085878 - Automating identification and isolation of loop-free protocol network problems: An apparatus is configured to generate a reference model of a bridged network representing a plurality of nodes in the bridged network, wherein each of the plurality of nodes implements a loop-free topology algorithm; determine an expected data path based on the reference model of the bridged network; receive information... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20100085879 - Methods and apparatus to diagnose enhanced interior gateway routing protocol problems in networks: Example methods and apparatus to diagnose enhanced interior gateway routing protocol (EIGRP) problems in networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method to identify whether an EIGRP problem is present in a network comprises automatically performing one or more tests of one or more routers of the network in response to... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100085889 - statistical, signature-based approach to ip traffic classification: A signature-based traffic classification method maps traffic into preselected classes of service (CoS). By analyzing a known corpus of data that clearly belongs to identified ones of the preselected classes of service, in a training session the method develops statistics about a chosen set of traffic features. In an analysis... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20100085883 - Application detection architecture and techniques: An application detection architecture and related techniques are provided for detecting, identifying, and managing network-based applications. In various embodiments, a combined layered approach to application detection and various application-detection techniques provide for quick assessments that move from simplest to complex for rapid detection of unauthorized or misbehaving applications in communication... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100085885 - Communication system, management apparatus, communication apparatus and computer program: In a ring type network, a master node sends a measurement packet to a slave node in the backward direction and the forward direction, receives the measurement packet which has been circulated among a plurality of slave nodes, stores a received time of the backward direction measurement packet and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100085884 - Dynamic topological adaptation: Apparatus and methods for reconfiguration of a communication environment based on loading requirements. Network operations are monitored and analyzed to determine loading balance across the network or a portion thereof. Where warranted, the network is reconfigured to balance the load across multiple network entities. For example, in a cellular-type of... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20100085888 - Method and apparatus for analyzing source internet protocol activity in a network: Method and apparatus for analyzing source Internet protocol (SIP) activity in a network is described. In one example, a SIP address is obtained. Log data collected over a predefined time period by a plurality of network facilities is automatically queried using the SIP address as parametric input to generate a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100085880 - Method and arrangement in a wireless communication network: Method and arrangement in a first node for requesting a status report from a second node. The first node and the second node are both comprised within a wireless communication network. The status report comprises positive and/or negative acknowledgement of data sent from the first node, to be received by... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100085886 - Packet delay characteristic measuring apparatus and method: A packet delay characteristic measuring apparatus that can accurately only measure a delay in a network even if a delay may occur also in a device that receives packets. The apparatus includes: a sending section for periodically sending out test packets each including sending time information to the network; a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100085882 - Radio communication system, least significant station, and intermediate station: In a lower-level station (1), as a configuration to determine a channel utilization probability, which is a probability based on which the relevant lower-level station (1) determines whether a channel determination operation is stared or not, a correction unit (16B) is newly provided, which corrects the channel utilization probability based... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100085887 - System and method for adjusting the window size of a tcp packet through network elements: A system for adjusting the window size of a TCP packet on a packet network including a sending network element in communication with a receiving network element for transmitting and receiving data packets between the sending network element and the receiving network element on the packet network, wherein at least... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100085881 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication terminal, base station and wireless communication method: Provided is a wireless communication system for performing communication using a shared control channel that can be used in a predetermined period for each of a plurality of base stations and a plurality of traffic channels that can be adaptively allocated to each of a plurality of wireless communication terminals.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100085891 - Apparatus and method for analysing a network: The invention relates to an apparatus for analysing a network flow, comprising—a parser for extracting flow identification information from the network flow, —a flow metering unit for metering the network flow, —a programmable controller for controlling the flow metering unit and the parser.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100085890 - Removing time tag jitter and crossover distortion: Techniques for removing time tag jitter and crossover distortion from a measurement system are described. A period or clock drift estimate is generated for each sensor, and the estimates are used to remove time tag jitter and detect and remove crossover distortion. This crossover distortion condition is common to measurement... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100085894 - Apparatus and method for mapping a wired network: The present disclosure relates to a device, system and method for generating an electrical wiring diagram of an electrical network containing nodes by determining node locations with respect to other nodes and mapping the nodes. The nodes may include a processor, a sensor and a low voltage power supply and... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20100085896 - Extension connection method and route selection device: When receiving an extension connection request from a first mobile terminal, a first route selection device selects a first extension connection route from among a plurality of extension connection routes and transmits the type of the first extension connection route and calling-side address information used on the first extension connection... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100085897 - Method and apparatus for reconfiguring network routes: A method and apparatus for ensuring that every path in an IP network that interconnects a pair of VoIP network elements comprises diverse network routes and is engineered with adequate bandwidth to support VoIP phone calls are disclosed. In the event that a single point of failure or inadequate bandwidth... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100085892 - Overlay network coordination redundancy: An overlay network coordinator redundancy method and apparatus are disclosed having network coordinator functionality latent in a plurality of application-layer network elements, coupled with a precedence schema provided to all application-layer routers which together provide resiliency and rapid recovery in the event of a hardware failure of the acting overlay... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20100085893 - Sensor nodes in multiple sensor network, method for creating grid-based tree of sensor nodes and spatial query processing system using grid-based tree: A method for creating a grid-based tree in a multiple sensor network includes: dividing an entire area in which a base station node and a plurality of sensor nodes are disposed into grid areas; assigning a grid ID to each of the grid areas; setting, sequentially from the base station... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100085895 - System and method for preparing and exhibiting a network coverage map: Systems and methods by which network coverage in a specific area can be exhibited to a user of a mobile node. Information stored on an information server may be used in an application which is capable of exhibiting the network coverage in a specific area. The network coverage may be... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100085898 - Methods for detecting routing loops between home agents: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods for detecting a routing loop between at least two home agents utilizing the mobile internet protocol (MIPv6) standard. In a first method, the home agent sends a test message to the last care of address associated with a mobile node and receives... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100085899 - System and method for generating symmetrical spanning trees: In one embodiment, a network device receives on a first port a first spanning tree protocol (STP) control message including a first path-tracking field corresponding to a given spanning tree instance in a network. The first path-tracking field includes a value based on one or more other network devices that... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100085900 - System and method for managing communication between parties: Communication between a client and server software is managed in an environment that has at least one mobile station that has the client software installed therein, and a contact center for incoming and outgoing calls. The client software and the server software have functionalities for handling information in connection with... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20100085901 - System and method for coordinating half-duplex communications protocols: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for operating a user agent (UA) and access device located within a communications cell according to a half-duplex (HD), frequency-division duplexing (FDD) protocol. The system and method are designed to accommodate a guard period (GP) between downlink (DL) and uplink... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./q&b Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20100085902 - Time reversal method of processing symbols in bidirectional communication: For processing symbols transmitted in frames and separated by guard slots via a propagation channel between first and second communicating entities (EC1, EC2) using time-division duplexing, the second entity (EC2) receives at least one pulse (IMP) transmitted by the first entity (EC1). The second entity estimates the impulse response of... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20100085903 - Apparatus and method for managing packet routing through internally-powered network devices in wireless sensor networks: Various embodiments provide an apparatus and method for managing packet routing through internally-powered network devices in wireless sensor networks. An example embodiment includes a hybrid network having an externally-powered node and an internally-powered node, the method includes configuring a role that the internally-powered node will take during an operations phase... Agent: Bradley P. Heisler Heisler & Associates

20100085904 - Power control system in radio communication: A power control system for controlling power consumption of a mobile station used in a radio communication system. The power control system includes a prediction unit and an operation mode setting unit. The prediction unit is configured to predict an outside-communication-area-time taken for the mobile station to pass through a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100085906 - Communication device and method of managing communication resources: In response to a resource acquisition request received from a terminal device, whether or not there is an available communication resource among a plurality of communication resources used for receiving or transmitting broadcast signals is checked. When those communication resources are being used and there is not an available communication... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100085905 - Communication system and wireless communication device: A communication system includes a center station communication device and a plurality of local station communication devices. The center station communication device includes a transmission unit which transmits first data including reference information to the local station communication devices, the reference information being used for switching the local station communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100085907 - Wireless relay device, wireless terminal, and recording medium that records program: A wireless relay device and method that wirelessly connects a wireless terminal, measures a communication index indicating a communication state of a wireless terminal wirelessly connected, detects a weak connection wireless terminal and a strong connection wireless terminal out of wireless terminals according to a communication index of the wireless... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100085908 - Terminal measurement based synchronization for mesh satellite communications: Methods, systems, and devices are described for synchronization in mesh satellite communications. The arrival time of the gateway signal may be used to set a start of receive frame time for a terminal. A received control signal from the gateway may then be used to set a start of transmit... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100085909 - Terminal self-synchronization for mesh satellite communications: Methods, systems, and devices are described for synchronization in mesh satellite communications. The arrival time of the gateway signal may be used to set a start of receive frame time for a terminal. A received control signal from the gateway may then be used to set a start of transmit... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100085910 - Allocating communication frequencies to clusters of access points: A system is used in a wireless communication system made up of cells, at least one of which includes at least one sector. The system includes first access points in a first area of a sector of a cell. The first access points are prohibited from communicating over a first... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100085919 - Amble modulation series: A base station in a multi-hop network wirelessly transmits a preamble series to be received by a subscriber station in the network, and wirelessly transmits a reverse version of the preamble series to be received by a relay station in the network. The relay station receives the transmitted reverse version... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100085911 - Base station device and signal processing method: A base station device of the present invention includes a base-station main body and multiple antenna units connected in series to the base-station main body. Each of the antenna units includes: a wireless communication unit that includes an antenna for wirelessly transmitting and receiving a signal to and from a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100085917 - Method and apparatus for cooperation strategy selection in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate cooperation strategy selection for a network multiple-in-multiple-out (N-MIMO) communication system. As described herein, one or more nodes in a communication system capable of N-MIMO communication can calculate marginal utilities, projected per-user rates, and/or other parameters corresponding to respective associated users. Based on these... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100085918 - Method and apparatus pertaining to updating a high-bandwidth hardware-based packet-processing platform local session context state database: These various embodiments comprise or are suitable for implementation by a high-bandwidth hardware-based packet-processing platform that is configured to be installed at a traffic-aggregation point for a communications network having a plurality of attachment points at its edge. These teachings provide for receiving (via, for example, a packet-receiving interface) at... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100085914 - Method and system for providing ims session continuity to a user equipment across a plurality of communication networks: A method and system for providing IP Multi-media Subsystem (IMS) session continuity to a User Equipment (UE) across a plurality of communication networks is provided. The UE traverses from a first communication network to a second communication network. A public user identity associated with a private user identity of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100085912 - Method for transmitting feedback information: There is provided a method for enabling a user equipment to transmit feedback information. The method includes generating feedback data representing the feedback information, the feedback data expressed by a binary number having N bits, where N is an integer, the N bits comprising 2 levels, the feedback information represented... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100085920 - Method of subnet roaming within a network: Disclosed is an apparatus and method of client device roaming from a home subnet to a foreign subnet of a network. The method includes the client device accessing the network through a first access node of the home subnet, and the client device roaming to a second access node of... Agent: Law Office Of Brian Short

20100085915 - Overlay network node: A technology is disclosed for actualizing route optimization on a network base, even when privacy-sensitive information, such as a position of a mobile node, is not revealed between two different networks. In the technology, a pHA 124 functions as a proxy home agent of a MN 130. When the pHA... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100085913 - System acquisition with interference cancellation in the presence of femtocells: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate acquisition of a cell in the presence of interfering cells. An undesired cell in close proximity to a user equipment unit (UE) can inhibit detection of a desired cell. For instance, a femto cell near the UE can interfere with detection and acquisition... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100085916 - Systems and methods for hybrid wired and wireless universal access networks: A method for operating a network having one or more nodes wherein each of the nodes having one or more resources, comprising the steps of: forming the network using one or more nodes, wherein certain one or more of the nodes is a gateway connecting to two or more different... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20100085927 - (h)arq for semi-persistent scheduling: A radio communications link is established between radio stations, and a semi-persistent radio resource is allocated to support data transmission over the communications link. The semi-persistent radio resource is associated with a corresponding automatic repeat request (ARQ) process identifier. Non-limiting examples of a semi-persistent radio resource include a regularly scheduled... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100085925 - Base station: A base station communicating with a user device using multiple antennas in a system where a subframe is composed of multiple slots each composed of multiple basic time units is disclosed. The base station includes a first mapping unit configured to map one or more reference signals used for demodulation... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100085924 - Carrier assignment method for cellular system, cellular system, base station, and mobile station: The threshold value of the cell center is increased or decreased depending on the communication quality of a mobile station in the cell center. For example, if the block error rate in the communication of a mobile station in the cell center is high, the threshold value of the cell... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100085932 - Method of scheduling shared channels and a scheduler therefor in a wireless packet communication system: The present invention relates to a method of scheduling a shared channel of a wireless packet communication system, and more particularly, to a shared scheduler of a wireless packet communication. The present invention includes determining priorities of provided services for target terminals of cellular phones and ratios of carrier signal... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100085931 - Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving channel quality indicator (cql) in broadband wireless communication system: A terminal is operable to transmit and receive CQI in a broadband wireless communication system. An operating method of the terminal for transmitting a CQI in a broadband wireless communication system includes requesting a band Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) subchannel to a base station; after requesting the band AMC... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100085929 - Mobile station, radio base station and synchronization establishing method: A mobile station (UE) is configured to establish uplink synchronization with a radio base station (eNB). The mobile station (UE) is configured not to return transmission acknowledgment information for downlink data until receiving a command for adjusting uplink transmission timing, when the radio base station (eNB) allocates a radio resource... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100085933 - Multipoll for qos-driven wireless lans: A method and a system are disclosed for providing quality of service (QoS)-driven channel access within a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless network. At least one available TO is allocated to a selected non-PC station having traffic to transmit. A multipoll frame containing information relating to at least... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20100085926 - Radio control signal generating method, radio base station apparatus, and mobile station: A method of generating a control signal is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: generating one or more control messages to be transmitted; and multiplexing the one or more control messages to generate a control message block to generate the control signal to be transmitted in a transport channel,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100085923 - Scheduling of users on a shared radio resource using a combination of link quality and traffic information: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for optimizing radio resource utilizations when scheduling data transmissions between a radio base station (15) and one or more user equipments (18) on a radio channel over a radio interface in a communication network comprising a plurality of said radio... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100085930 - Super frame structure and beacon scheduling method for mesh networking: A super frame structure supporting a mesh network, and a beacon scheduling method. The super frame structure and the beacon scheduling method may support a mesh topology in a beacon enabled mode, may have an algorithm that is simple and easily realized via beacon scheduling using a distribution method, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100085921 - System and method for data distribution in vhf/uhf bands: Whitespace devices can use unused television frequencies for transmission and reception of WiFi OFDM signals. Three contiguous bands, such as former channels 2, 3, and 4, may be bonded together to define a whitespace band. In order to fit a WiFi OFDM signal into this whitespace band, a whitespace device... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20100085922 - System and method for improving bandwidth of wireless local area network: A system and method for improving bandwidth of a local area network is provided. The method includes splitting user data into multiple data fragments. The method further includes creating multiple beacon frames by placing each data fragment in a unique beacon frame. Further, the method includes broadcasting the beacon frames... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100085928 - User apparatus, base station apparatus, and method in mobile communication system: A user apparatus transmits an uplink control signal to a base station apparatus using a single carrier scheme. The user apparatus includes: a unit configured to receive a downlink control signal and a downlink data signal; a unit configured to prepare acknowledgement information indicating positive acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100085934 - Method and apparatus for transmitting signal and a communication system: A method, apparatus and system for transmitting signal, the method includes: using the weighting factor sequence, processing weighting repeating modulation for the basic cell block mapped by the data symbol block at the sending end, and obtaining a plurality of the repeating cell blocks corresponding to the said basic cell... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100085940 - Handoff procedures and intra-network data routing for femtocell networks: The present invention is directed toward a system and method for enabling handoffs of a connected mobile device between an external macrocell access point and a local femtocell access point without interrupting data communication sessions occurring on that connected mobile device. In some embodiments, this entails maintaining an IP address... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20100085936 - Method and apparatus for optimizing network entry during handoffs in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for optimizing network entry during handoffs in a wireless communication network (100) includes receiving (302) target ranging codes from a serving network node (220), wherein each of the target ranging codes identifies one of a plurality of target network nodes. A handoff request is transmitted (304)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100085939 - Method for supporting mobility for vertical handover of mobile node: A method for supporting mobility for a vertical handover of a mobile node (MN) includes dividing service domains of respective first and second networks in different layers when an external correspondent node (CN) and the MN communicate with each other through the first network. When the MN moves to the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100085935 - Methods and apparatus for supporting short burst messages over wirelss communication networks: A multi-mode mobile station may include an extended preferred roaming list (PRL). The extended PRL may include an extended system table. The extended system table may include at least one WiMAX extended system record and at least one CDMA extended system record. The extended PRL may also include an extended... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100085937 - System and method for inbound roaming in ip multimedia subsystem networks: A system and method for enabling a UE to roam to a visited IMS-based network from a home network that does not have an IMS infrastructure. A visiting UE sends to an Intelligent Roaming Application Server (I-RAS) in the visited network, a first SIP Registration message that includes a SIP... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100085938 - Wifi network system for performing a high-speed handover of voice and multimedia data and method applied to the same: A WiFi network system for performing a high-speed handover of voice and multimedia data includes a wireless station (STA), a network router for connecting to the Internet; first and second smart base stations respectively connected with the Internet through the network router, wherein the second smart base station is adjacent... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100085942 - Communication control apparatus and communication control method: There is provided a base station having a resource assigning unit for assigning QoS resources in response to a QoS setting request and a resource securing unit for securing, when a wireless communication terminal that is communicating with a base station by setting a QoS specifies the own base station... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100085943 - Handover of wireless connections: A connection between a communications terminal and a communications network is arranged such that on detection of imminent degradation or loss of such connection, the utilization of the connection is maximized in advance of such degradation. The network temporarily reallocates the maximum bandwidth that the terminal is capable of using... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100085941 - Methods and apparatus for scanning for neighbor base stations in time synchronous wireless communication systems: A method for scanning for neighbor base stations in a time synchronous wireless communication system may be implemented by a mobile station. The method may include detecting a serving base station preamble index that is transmitted by a serving base station in a subcarrier subset during a frame. The method... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100085944 - Method and system for supplemental channel request messages in a wireless network: A method and system for obtaining reverse channel resources for a mobile device, the method filtering a closed loop correction power value; calculating a data rate utilizing the filtered closed loop correction power value; and sending a supplemental channel request message, including the calculated data rate, to a base station... Agent: Moffat-rim

20100085946 - Adaptive transmissions in wireless networks: A network includes an access point and a station. The station transmits to the access point a current clear-to-send packet at a current time during a current exchange. The transmission is based on success or failure of a previous exchange during which a previous clear-to-send packet was transmitted at a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100085945 - Network station identifiers in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system allowing transmission of identifiers of network stations, the system including: a first network station, such as a femto cell basestation, with an identifier and a first transmission coverage area; a second network station, such as a macro cell basestation, with an identifier and a second transmission... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100085948 - Apparatuses for hybrid wired and wireless universal access networks: A gateway switch comprises: two or more transceiving modules, wherein each of the transceiving modules is capable of transmitting and receiving data, wherein the data is an analog signal or a digital signal, and wherein each of the transceiving modules provides a different network connection type; a system module for... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20100085949 - Base station apparatus, authenticator apparatus and method for attaching a base station apparatus to an authenticator apparatus: A Base Station apparatus includes a network attachment device and a memory. The network attachment device is adapted to attach the Base Station apparatus to an Authenticator apparatus by sending a Base Station Attachment signal. The Base Station Attachment signal is adapted to request globally scoped or per-Base Station information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100085951 - Managing unscheduled wireless communication in a multiradio device: A system for managing the operation of a plurality of radio modules integrated within the same wireless communication device. A control strategy may be employed to manage both more predictable and more spontaneous wireless communication mediums, wherein a local controller may be employed in a radio module utilizing an unscheduled... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20100085947 - Method of transmitting data to a mobile device: A system for transmitting data via a core portion of a computer network to a mobile device is described. The network includes a plurality of access points wherein each access point includes a memory where data for onward transmission to the mobile device may be cached and is operable to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100085950 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication method: A wireless communication device includes a physical layer protocol processor which can transmit and receive data by first to Nth communication schemes, where ith communication scheme has compatibility with the first to (i−1)th communication scheme. A first controller generates a first frame for forbidding communication by the first to Nth... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100085953 - Method for ending a call session in a communication system: A repeater receives an indication that a subscriber unit is initiating a call session on a channel, and indicates that the channel is busy. The repeater repeats a transmission from the subscriber unit and sets a timer for a first time upon determination that the transmission has ended. The timer... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100085952 - Method of communicating which channel is to be monitored by subscriber units that are idle in a communication system: The present invention discloses, in a two-way radio frequency (RF) communications system having at least one repeater, a plurality of channels, and a plurality of subscriber units, a repeater receives a message that identifies a channel that is selected to serve as a rest channel for the system. The channel... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100085954 - Method of operating an event-driven, delay-critical wireless sensor network: A method of operating wireless devices includes providing a plurality of sender nodes each having a respective message to wirelessly send to a receiver node. A probability distribution is assigned to a plurality of frequency channels such that a respective probability of selection is assigned to each frequency channel. At... Agent: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20100085956 - Method for resolving collision of uplink signals: A method for processing data in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a first uplink scheduling command indicating a first radio resource, receiving a second uplink scheduling command indicating a second radio resource through a random access response, and stopping a procedure associated with the second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100085955 - Transmit diversity for sc-fdma: Techniques for transmitting data with transmit diversity for single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) are described. In one design, a transmitter (e.g., a UE) may form a first symbol vector including first and second modulation symbol sequences. The transmitter may also form a second symbol vector including third and fourth... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100085960 - Atm telecommunications systems and method for routing narrow band traffic: A telecommunications system comprises an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network having uncommitted bandwidth, and a plurality of adaptive grooming routers (AGR) coupled to the network. The AGRs comprise a group adapted to function as a virtual transit exchange whose fabric and control are distributed over the group. The visual comprising... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100085958 - Method and system for service preparation of a residential network access device: The invention relates to a method and system of service preparation of a residential network access device from one or more remote provisioning devices to prepare said residential network access device to receive a network service over a communications network. The method comprises the steps of receiving a line identifier... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100085961 - Method, device, and system for synchronizing terminal state in generic access network: The present invention relates to wireless communication, and discloses a method, a device, and a system for synchronizing a terminal state in a GAN to ensure that the GAN can know the relevant state context information of the terminal correctly. In the present invention, a network device of the GAN... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100085957 - Methods and apparatus to form secure cross-virtual private network communications sessions: Example methods and apparatus to form secure cross-VPN (virtual private network) communication sessions in multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)-based networks are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a communication session initiation request from a first device associated with a first MPLS-based VPN, determining whether the communication session initiation request is directed... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100085959 - System and method for achieving interoperability between endpoints operating under different protocols: A teleconferencing system for achieving interoperability between a multiple endpoints including a first endpoint following SIP protocol, a second endpoint following H.323 protocol and a third endpoint following a proprietary protocol. The teleconferencing system incorporates a signaling gateway and a call control server. In the teleconferencing system, the signaling gateway... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100085962 - Method for fast circuit switched service enabling handover from packet-switched only networks: Quick and efficient handover of a user equipment (UE) from a Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) packet switched only network to a Circuit Switched enabled (CSe) network is provided. Parallelization of the Radio Access Network (RAN) processes and the User Equipment (UE) processes can help to reduce delay in such... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100085964 - Communications system and method: A method for transmitting data using data packets includes dividing a data portion of the data packet into two or more data segments, each having a corresponding check portion. The data packet may also be communicated over two or more logical communication channels. The order of data portions in one... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20100085965 - Content transmitting method and apparatus: A content transmitting method transmits content to a content receiving apparatus connected via a network. Copy control information on content to be transmitted is transmitted immediately before the content, controlled by the copy control information, via the same application layer session as a packet different from a packet including the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100085963 - Reconstruction of errored media streams in a communication system: A method for reconstructing and reproducing a received media stream while minimizing storage space is presented. The media stream transmitted by a transmitting device is uploaded to an external storage device. Metadata including packetization mapping information, missing packets not received by the receiving device, and reproduction time at the receiving... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100085966 - Systems and methods of using application and protocol specific parsing for compression: Systems and methods of storing previously transmitted data and using it to reduce bandwidth usage and accelerate future communications are described. By using algorithms to identify long compression history matches, a network device may improve compression efficiently and speed. A network device may also use application specific parsing to improve... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100085967 - Transmission stream generating device for generating transmission stream which additional data is stuffed in a payload area of a packet, digital broadcast transmitting/receiving device for transmitting/receiving the transmission stream, and methods thereo: A transmission stream (TS) generating apparatus includes an adaptor which receives general data and generates a stream having a plurality of packets, and which provides adaptive field in some of the plurality of packets, and an inserter which inserts additional data into all the payload areas of some of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100085969 - Communication network, information processor and address assigning method: A communication network of the present invention includes: a plurality of superordinate nodes 110 to 1m0 forming a cascade type topology; and a plurality of terminal nodes 111 to 11n, connected to at least one superordinate node from among said plurality of superordinate nodes and forming a star type topology... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100085971 - Computer tracking and locking: A method and system are provided for locating a device connected to a network. The method comprises querying the network to determine an address of the device connected to the network; accessing network address information to determine a switch IP address and a switch port associated with the address of... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20100085970 - Method and apparatus for providing multicast communication: A method of providing multicast communication between a home domain and a mobile device visiting a foreign domain comprises receiving a request to participate in a multicast session from the mobile device and registering the mobile device, from which the request was received, with a sub-session associated with the requested... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100085972 - Method and routing device for advertising routing information: A method for advertising routing information by a routing device includes: checking whether a routing device is active; by the routing device, generating routing information, and marking the routing information with a check result; and advertising the routing information. With the present invention, a route attribute of routing information is... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100085968 - Routing data in a computing device: A computing device comprises an architecture 30 having a number of network connections which independently connect to different LANs and which each independently and separately allocate private IP addresses. The device includes an interface manager 32 which functions to apply a unique network ID extension (NID) to the network address... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20100085973 - Methods and apparatus for identifying and/or selecting a connection identifier: Wireless terminals in a peer to peer system, which desire to communicate traffic signals, acquire a connection identifier associated with traffic transmission request air link resources. The air link resources in the system, in some embodiments, are structured so that each connection identifier has a one to one mapping to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100085974 - Communication device and communication method: A communication device includes: a transmission label table storage that stores a transmission label table that holds pseudo wire labels for each header information of Ethernet (standardized by IEEE 802.3 committee) frames; and an encapsulation unit that deletes the header information from the Ethernet (standardized by IEEE 802.3 committee) frame,... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100085975 - Framework for optimizing and simplifying network communication in close proximity networks: A framework capable of providing transparent handling of network traffic in close proximity networks such as home networks is provided. A single virtual network interface is exposed to users/applications on connected devices. A virtual network interface manager determines available physical network interfaces and switches to a different physical network interface... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100085976 - Enforced routing in switch: A method and system for enforcing routing in Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FCAL) switch define a message route for an initiator to initiator message in a FCAL network. The message route is for the initiator to initiator message to traverse each selected switch device in the FCAL network. If the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20100085977 - Optimized dynamic multipoint virtual private network over ipv6 network: Method and apparatus including registering a first spoke router with a hub router, forwarding an Internet Protocol version Four (IPv4) data packet from the first spoke router to a second spoke router over an Internet Protocol version Six (IPv6) multipoint tunnel via the hub router, transmitting a binding information associated... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100085978 - Methods and systems for accounting in an access gateway: Methods and systems are disclosed that provide accounting in an access gateway of a communication network. Logic can be implemented in an access gateway to provide accounting in an access gateway when the data is tunneled or encapsulated by a protocol when passing through the access gateway. The access gateway... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20100085979 - Models for routing tree selection in peer-to-peer communications: Peer-to-peer communications sessions involve the transmission of one or more data streams from a source to a set of receivers that may redistribute portions of the data stream via a set of routing trees. Achieving a comparatively high, sustainable data rate throughput of the data stream(s) may be difficult due... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100085980 - Receiver device, transmission system, and packet transmission method: In a transmission system of transferring a packet input from a first device to a second device via a network, a receiver device comprises a storage module configured to successively accumulate received packets, which are transferred over a multiple transmission paths, in correlation to each of the multiple transmission paths,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100085981 - Port trunking at a fabric boundary: F_PORTs of an edge switch are logically trunking with N_PORTs of a node device outside the fabric via a trunked group of communications links. The trunked N_PORTs of the node device and the trunked F_PORTs of the edge switch are configured to send and receive frames of a particular stream... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20100085982 - Optimized synchronization of mac address tables in network interconnection apparatuses: Network interconnection apparatus (10) comprising a platform with interface ports (12, 14) for network interconnection and comprising in turn a first series (11) and a second series (13) of interface port cards and an interconnection unit (15) for commanded interconnection at least between the cards of the first and second... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100085983 - Electronic protocol converter: Systems and methods are provided allowing two or more electronic devices that each operate under different protocols to communicate. In one embodiment, a gateway component is configured to convert electronic signals or messages using a first protocol to messages or electronic signals in another protocol. In one such embodiment, the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100085984 - Method and ip translator for translating protocol to support compatibility between networks each employing different types of protocols: A method and Internet Protocol (IP) translator for translating a protocol to support compatibility between networks employing different types of protocols is provided. The IP translator includes a virtual platform to operate at least one operating system (OS) which supports different types of IPs, and a protocol translating unit which... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100085986 - Systems, processes and integrated circuits for rate and/or diversity adaptation for packet communications: A media over packet networking appliance provides a network interface, a voice transducer, and at least one integrated circuit assembly coupling the voice transducer to the network interface. The at least one integrated circuit assembly provides media over packet transmissions and holds bits defining reconstruction of a packet stream having... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100085985 - Transmission of physical layer signaling in a broadcast system: Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses, computer media, and methods for supporting the broadcast of signaling data over a network. Signaling data is encoded, partitioned into M signaling segments, and distributed over M corresponding data frames. A data stream with the partitioned signaling data is transmitted through a digital terrestrial... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100085987 - Communication device, control method therefor, and information storage medium: There is provided a communication device including a first communication unit and a second communication unit that use a band causing a conflict between them, the communication device changing a compressibility of communication data to be transmitted by the second communication unit based on a communication status of the first... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100085988 - Information processing apparatus and signal transmission method: An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a signal multiplexing unit for multiplexing a plurality of transmission signals, each in a different frequency band and not containing a DC component, and a power signal supplied from a DC power supply and generating a multiplexed signal, a single signal cable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100085989 - Systems and methods for packet based timing offset determination using timing adjustment information: Systems and methods for performing timing offset and or fractional frequency offset for the purpose of time and/or frequency synchronization are provided. Timing packets are exchanged between a master device and a slave device. In addition, timing adjustment information is received by the slave device. The slave device uses the... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20100085990 - Systems and methods for a network device to update timing packets to reflect delay: Systems and methods for a network device to update timing packets to reflect delay are provided. A timing packet processor is externally connected to the network device. All timing packets are processed by the timing packet processor. The timing packets are updated to reflect an estimate of delay introduced by... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20100080111 - Method and system for ethernet switching, conversion, and phy optimization based on link length in audio/video systems: Aspects of a method and system for Ethernet Switching, Conversion, and PHY optimization based on link length in Audio/Video Systems are provided. In this regard, the length of a link over which a first communication device communicates with a second communication device may be determined and Ethernet PHY's residing in... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100080112 - Frequency offset estimation in orthogonal frequency division multiple access wireless networks: A method of wireless transmission for estimating the carrier frequency offset in a base station of a received transmission from a user equipment (UE) accessing a radio access network. The method time de-multiplexes selected symbols of a received sub-frame, computes the frequency-domain symbols received from each antenna through an FFT,... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100080114 - Low complexity bandwidth efficient carrier frequency offset estimation technique for ofdma uplink transmissions: transmitting plurality of null subcarrier signals and data subcarrier signals from plurality of said subscriber stations (SS) to the base station; processing said transmitted subcarrier signals at the base station by estimating carrier frequency offset (CFO) by means carrier frequency offset unit; selecting the subcarrier signals based on carrier assignment... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100080113 - Tone reservation techniques for reducing peak-to-average power ratios: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe closed loop scheduled peak-to-average power (PAPR) reduction systems and methods to facilitate desired PAPR reduction. Other embodiments describe weighted tone reservation (WTR) methods and systems for PAPR reduction. Still other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100080115 - Methods and apparatus to monitor border gateway protocol sessions: Example methods and apparatus to monitor border gateway protocol sessions are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes detecting a failure of a first border gateway protocol (BGP) session and initiating a session-down timer in response to detecting the failure. The example method also includes generating a sustained-down alarm when a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100080116 - Re-establishing a radio resource control connection with a non-prepared base station: A method for establishing a radio resource control connection is disclosed. A wireless communication device may establish a radio resource control connection with a first base station. The wireless communication device may send a message to a second base station that requests re-establishment of the radio resource control connection. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080117 - Method to manage path failure threshold consensus: A system for providing hosts with a capability to determine which threshold rule of a plurality of threshold rules to use based upon threshold consensus. For example, the system would address a configuration case of several hosts sharing an output port of a fabric via zoning and that port being... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Tucson

20100080118 - Radio network system and control node switching method: A radio network system and a control node switching method which can improve a reliability of the whole network and improve a wording efficiency. The system includes at least one alternate control node which can be substituted form the control node. The alternate control node monitors an operating state in... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100080119 - Method for restoring connections in a network: for receiving the sorted list and initiating the replacing of nominal paths (1-2-3-4) of the affected connections with selected alternative paths (1-5-3-4, 1-2-7-4, 1-5-2-3-4, 1-2-5-3-4, 1-2-3-6-4) in order of the list of sorted connections, control plane elements (CPE) of terminating network nodes (1) of the nominal paths (1-2-3-4) is used.... Agent: Carmen Patti Law Group, LLC

20100080120 - Protected-far-node-based solution for fault-resilient mpls/t-mpls multicast services: A system and method providing fault resilient multicast services using a network topology in which a source node communicates with a plurality of receiver nodes via at least two disjoint paths in which at least one receiver node is provisioned according to a 1+1 protection mechanism.... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20100080121 - Communication method and radio network control device in a mobile communication system: A mobile communication system in which a mobile station copies data and transmits that copied data to a plurality of base stations, each base station sends that copied data to a serving radio network control device (S-RNC) directly or via a drift radio network control device (D-RNC), and the S-RNC... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100080122 - Communication device and computer usable medium therefor: A communication device that is to be connected to a providing server for providing time information via a network is provided. The communication device includes a congestion-degree obtainer to obtain a congestion degree indicating a condition of traffic in the network, a time information obtainer to obtain the time information... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy &presser, P.C.

20100080125 - Edge continued evolution, improved channel request method and system: The present invention is a method and system adapted to facilitate, between a mobile station (MS) and network, an indication of support for reduced time transmission interval (RTTI). The MS can provide a base station system (BSS) with an indication of its multislot capability within an access burst sent at... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100080127 - Interception method and device thereof: An interception method and an interception device are provided. The interception method includes the following steps. An interception center assigns an interception task to an interception network element (NE) to request to intercept an interception target. The interception NE reports user plane data of corresponding service sessions of the interception... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100080123 - Method and apparatus for signaling proprietary information between network elements of a core network in a wireless communication network: The invention includes a method and apparatus for signaling proprietary information between network elements of a core network (CN) of a wireless communication network. A method for signaling proprietary information within the CN includes encoding the proprietary information in an IPv4 Options field of an inner header of an IP... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20100080124 - Method to manage the load of peripheral elements within a multicore system: A method to provide reliability, power management and load balancing support for multicore systems based on Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) and to efficiently implement architectural support for this method by introducing complex packet handling mechanisms is achieved by modifying the basic network interfaces attached to the cores of multicore computation systems. It... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us) Attn: Patent Group

20100080126 - Transmission apparatus and transmission method: A transmission apparatus for stably transmitting or receiving data of high priority is provided. In the transmission apparatus of the present invention, processing of the priority packet to be transmitted and processed by priority and processing of the non-priority packet are conducted separately. At transmission side, the above-mentioned priority packet... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20100080128 - System and method for providing least-cost routing of voice connections between home and foreign networks using voice-over-ip infrastructure: A system and method are described for providing least-cost call routing for mobile wireless devices having access to voice-over-IP (VoIP) infrastructure, such as may be operated by an enterprise having global presence. Using a local wireless connection, such as a wireless local area network (WLAN), a software agent on the... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC

20100080129 - Network troubleshooting using path topology: A system, and a corresponding method, implemented on a suitable computing device, provides for troubleshooting a network using path topology. The system includes a network node manager that generates and displays a path topology. The path topology a most probable path between two end point elements in the network. The... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100080130 - Synchronization of session-initiation-protocol proxy databases: An improvement in the design and operation of telecommunications networks is described in which when a caller's telecommunication terminal does not know the address of the called party's telecommunications terminal, the caller's telecommunication terminal contacts one Session Initiation Protocol Proxy server after another until the address of the called party's... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20100080131 - Validation of routes advertised by border gateway protocol: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with validation of routes advertised by Border Gateway Protocol. One embodiment validates or invalidates a route received in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update message. A route is validated in response to determining that the originating autonomous system... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20100080142 - Automatic detection of channel bandwidth: A step-wise approach to automatically determining the bandwidth of a communication channel includes dividing the channel's potential bandwidth into a number of ranges. An initial range is then selected and a series of data packets specific to the selected range are transmitted from a first endpoint to a second endpoint,... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20100080134 - Background scanning method for wlan client devices: Background scan for 802.11 client devices allows them to keep most of its components in low power mode when certain criteria are not met. A method for changing dynamically those criteria according to the air data traffic conditions is described in the present invention. This increases the time the system... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100080135 - Base station apparatus, mobile station, mobile communication system, and communication control method: A base station for communicating with a mobile station which transmits an uplink signal according to a frequency division multiplexing scheme includes a first measurement unit configured to measure reception power on a frequency band for the random access channel in uplink or a second measurement unit configured to measure... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100080138 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method: Disclosed herein is a data processing apparatus including: an adjusting section configured to receive a stream including packets and a start flag indicative of the beginning of each of the packets in the stream, adjust a rate of the stream to a certain rate, and output the adjusted stream that... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20100080132 - Dynamic configuration of potential links between processing elements: According to some embodiments, first and second processing elements may be provided on a die, and there may be a plurality of potential communication links between the first and second processing elements. Moreover, control logic may be provided on the die to dynamically activate at least some of the potential... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100080140 - Managing mobile telecommunications packet data service traffic in real-time: The invention allows managing mobile telecommunications packet data service traffic. Packet data service traffic of a mobile telecommunications network is received from data collectors. The service traffic is stored in a traffic file. The traffic file is split into service specific capture files. The capture files are stored. Key information... Agent: Ronald R. Santucci, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20100080133 - Media session identification method for ip networks: A method of allocating, restricting or refusing communication resources to media sessions in accordance with individual session or session type, comprises: categorizing passing packets using packet traffic characteristics such as packet length or inter-arrival period; grouping together those packets having similar traffic characteristics, and analyzing the grouped packets for session... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20100080141 - Network system, monitoring device, information processing device, information processing method, computer-readable recording medium: The network system comprises a replica creating device configured to create a replica of delivery information indicated by list information memorized in a list information memorizing device of the monitoring device, in any one of the information processing devices, when a response message corresponding to a monitor message sent by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100080137 - Primary and secondary associations for improving cell edge performance in cellular networks: Embodiments of the invention provide a method to efficiently enable Network MIMO for use in the downlink direction. An association is established between a primary NodeB in a first cell and a secondary NodeB in an adjacent second cell. A set of downlink transmission resources is reserved for use by... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100080139 - Techniques for supporting relay operation in wireless communication systems: Techniques for supporting operation of relay stations in wireless communication systems are described. In an aspect, a bitmap may be sent by a base station and/or a relay station to identify subframes of at least two types in multiple radio frames. For example, the bitmap may indicate whether each subframe... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080136 - Uplink transmit diversity enhancement: A method for uplink transmit diversity enhancement is described. Two or more potential uplink transmission configurations are determined. Each potential uplink transmission configuration is evaluated. An uplink transmission configuration is selected based on the evaluation. Metrics of the selected uplink transmission configuration are determined. Cycle adaptation parameters are adjusted. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080144 - Resilient 1:n first-hop gateway selection mechanism: Exemplary methods, systems, and computer program products describe selecting a gateway based on health and performance information of a plurality of gateways. The techniques describe gateways advertising health and performance information, computing devices creating a table of this health and performance information, and selecting a gateway using the table. In... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100080143 - System and method for testing mobile telephone data services: A system and method of determining the quality of data services of a mobile telephone is provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises wirelessly receiving content as data stream of data packets at the mobile telephone via a mobile telephone network, storing the received data packets in a memory, storing... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20100080146 - Joining a mesh network in a multiple network environment: Wireless mesh network nodes in a mesh network are operable to join a desired wireless mesh network in a multi-network environment. The nodes search for a compatible mesh network, find a compatible mesh network, join the found compatible mesh network, indicate whether the joined mesh network is the desired mesh... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100080147 - Methods for reconciling trunk group identification information among various telecommunication network management systems: A method includes retrieving a first data set from a switch within a network, the first data set including a set of switch records. Among the switch records included in the first data set is a first switch record associated with and including a field identifying a first trunk group... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100080145 - Throttling network traffic generated by a network discovery tool during a discovery scan: This invention describes a method to limit the number of concurrent discovery processes into networks based upon the network traffic volume and discovery duration per device.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100080148 - Adaptive enterprise service bus (esb) runtime system and method: Disclosed are embodiments of an adaptive enterprise service bus (ESB) runtime system and an associated method, which build, at a restart, only the most advantageous path configuration between composable units (e.g., between applications and/or between primitives within a single application). Specifically, during the execution of instantiations of modeled paths and... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20100080149 - System and method for providing packet network-based multimedia ringback tone service: Disclosed herein is a system and method for providing a packet network-based MRBT service. In the method, when an originating MSC (110) requests call termination location information from an HLR (120), the HLR transmits an MRBT service request message, including a calling number and a called number, to an MRBT... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100080150 - Clearing house for publish/subscribe of status data from distributed telecommunications systems: A distributed contact center and method of managing data transfers between the distributed parts of the contact center is provided. Distributed parts of the contact center are joined together through a known communications initiation protocol such as SIP, then status information and/or control signals are transferred between the distributed parts... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20100080151 - Multiple-antenna device having an isolation element: A multiple-antenna device is provided, comprising: a printed circuit board having a ground plane configured to provide electromagnetic isolation between a first side of the printed circuit board and a second side of the printed circuit board; a first non-conductive support member formed over the first side of the printed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080152 - Method and apparatus for providing signaling of redundancy versions: An approach is provided for efficient signaling of redundancy version information. A redundancy version signaling module detects the start of a system information radio transmission window and assigns a redundancy version sequence at the start of the transmission window.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20100080153 - Method and apparatus for prioritizing packets for use in managing packets in radio access networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus adapted for managing packets within a Radio Access Network (RAN). A method includes receiving a packet within the RAN, determining a packet priority assigned to the packet, and managing the packet within the RAN based on the packet priority of the packet and... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20100080154 - Method of transmitting reference signals in a wireless communication having multiple antennas: A method of transmitting signals by a transmitting end in a wireless communication system comprises sharing control information related to reference signal with a receiving end; generating one or more precoded reference signals considering a given rank; allocating the one or more precoded reference signals to have a specific pattern... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100080155 - Uplink resynchronization for use in communication systems: A method and apparatus for reusing an uplink control channel configuration associated with an uplink control channel, the method comprising the steps of, at a user agent, receiving an uplink control channel resource configuration assigned by an access device, transmitting to the access device using the control channel resources associated... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./q&b Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20100080156 - Methods and apparatus for power saving in personal area networks: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of reducing power consumption in a wireless network device, comprising determining a duration prior to a beacon being received by the device; comparing the duration against a predetermined value; and adjusting a duration of a sleep period in response to the comparison.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20100080158 - Network controller wake on communications request: When there are no network devices currently associated with a wireless network controller, the network controller may reduce power consumption by placing itself in a standby mode. In the standby mode, the network controller may place some of its components into a non-operational low power state, while keeping enough components... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100080157 - Periodic synchronization link quality in a mesh network: Wireless mesh network nodes in a mesh network are operable to receive a periodic beacon from at least one other mesh network node, where the received beacon comprises received beacon link quality information for the at least one other mesh network node. The nodes are further operable to record the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100080163 - Apparatus and methods of providing and receiving venue level transmissions and services: A venue-cast system and method for providing and receiving venue level transmissions and services, including discovery of a venue specific transmission by receiving an overhead signal from a non-venue network, extracting information for receiving the venue specific transmission from the overhead signal, and tuning to receive the venue specific transmission... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080159 - Evolved multimedia broadcast/multicast service base station, user equipment and methods thereof: The present invention provides a user equipment (UE), comprising: first receiving means for receiving on a first carrier information for determining a second carrier and a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) notification; second receiving means for receiving Radio Bearer (RB) configuration information and MBMS scheduling information on the second carrier determined... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100080160 - Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system: The present invention provides, inter alia, a method of operation of a radio base station in a wireless telecommunications system, in which system information is transmitted on a broadcast control channel. The method comprises the steps of transmitting the broadcast control channel continuously on a first carrier; and also transmitting... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100080161 - Mobile communication system, multicast data distribution method, core network apparatus, and access network apparatus: A core network apparatus notifies a piece of identification information on each service for receiving multicast data in a down link to an access network apparatus. The access network apparatus receives the piece of the identification information notified from the core network apparatus to capture a radio channel for the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100080162 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication station, access point and wireless communication method: An object of the present invention is to suppress quality deterioration of a multicast packet due to transmission delay jitter. An access point comprises: a received packet analysis unit which extracts, from a packet transmitted from a wireless communication station, identification information for identifying a wireless communication station, MC reception... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100080164 - Methods and apparatus for operating a wireless communications system: wherein the overall frame structure is arranged to position the idle period for the first relay station between the first-protocol access period and the first-protocol relay period, to accommodate switching of the first relay station between the one of the transmit mode and the receive mode and the other of... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100080165 - Mimo repeater apparatus, mimo handheld terminal apparatus, mimo wireless communication method: An apparatus performing wireless communication with a group of a plurality of base station antennas disposed on a wireless base station apparatus side in accordance with a multi-input multi-output wireless communication system includes a group of a plurality of repeater antennas disposed around the body of a user. The apparatus... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100080166 - Techniques for supporting relay operation in wireless communication systems: Techniques for supporting operation of relay stations in wireless communication systems are described. In an aspect, a base station may transmit data to a relay station in a portion of a subframe instead of the entire subframe. The relay station may transmit control information during part of the subframe. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080173 - Apparatus and method for wireless communication: A first storage stores a first number of streams which are capable of being demultiplexed by the wireless communication apparatus. A first acquisition unit acquires a second number of streams which are capable of being demultiplexed by a first wireless communication apparatus. A second acquisition unit acquires a third number... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20100080167 - Handshaking method and apparatus for ofdm systems with unknown sub-channel availability: A method and device for determining available communication sub-channels in an OFDM communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of transmitting, on at least one first sub-channel (207), information (210) regarding sub-channels available for a first transmission of at least one first data packet (245), receiving, on at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100080169 - Hierarchical mobility label-based network: A system includes a label edge router associated with a geographical region, an area label edge router associated with an area that includes the region, and a route reflector associated with the area. The label edge router registers a first mobile node, creates a mobility binding for the first mobile... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100080170 - Improved mac-d multiplexing in utran hsdpa wireless networks: UTRAN MAC-d multiplexing of data from multiple logical channels to a single MAC-d flow is supported while reducing overhead and achieving octet alignment in MAC-d PDU length. In one embodiment, the C/T field of a multiplexed MAC-d PDU is eliminated, and the logical channels multiplexed into the MAC-d flow are... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100080171 - Method and arrangements for circuit switched services in communication networks: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in mobile radio telecommunications for enabling access to Circuit Switched (CS) services for a user equipment (UE) that is connected to a LTE/SAE (Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution) network. The UE's current position is stored in a LTE position format in the... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100080168 - Probabilistic routing for vehicular ad hoc network: A probabilistic method of determining a second vehicle in the VANET to which a packet is to be forwarded from a first vehicle is provided. The method includes determining the second vehicle to forward the packet from the first vehicle based on pre-calculated expected latency data corresponding to the second... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20100080172 - Proxy mobile internet protocol (pmip) in a multi-interface communication environment: A communication entity (such as a User Equipment (UE), an Access Gateway (AGW), a Packet Data Network Gateway (PGW), a Policy Charging Rule Function (PCRF), and so forth) notifies another communication entity that the UE intends to use a single Internet Protocol (IP) address for connections to multiple AGWs. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080175 - Web based smart sensor network tracking and monitoring system: A wireless sensor network including a plurality of Smart Sensors coupled to a wide area network such as the Internet via a Wireless Sensor Coordinator. Each wireless sensor network comprises a plurality of Smart Sensors, each operable to measure one or more physical quantities. Each wireless sensor communicates the measured... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100080174 - Wireless communication system, management server, wireless terminal, and network selection method: A wireless terminal that can connect to a plurality of networks makes a request for a connection to a management server. The management server holds network information about unchanging service characteristics of a plurality of networks constituting a wireless communication area. The management server selects networks satisfying a request condition... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100080187 - Apparatus and method for supporting transmission of sounding reference signals from multiple antennas: Methods and apparatuses, through the use of a Downlink Control Indication (DCI) format or through higher layer signaling, for dynamic activation and deactivation of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) transmissions from User Equipments (UEs) in an UL Component Carrier (CC) with configured SRS transmissions, the dynamic configuration of SRS transmissions parameters,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100080181 - Base station device, mobile station device, program, uplink synchronization requesting method, and synchronization-shift measurement signal transmitting method: A base station device includes: a re-synchronization factor detector that detects an uplink re-synchronization factor of a mobile station device; a data controller that generates, when the re-synchronization factor detector detects the uplink re-synchronization factor, data in which information indicative of an uplink synchronization request addressed to the mobile station... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100080188 - Centralized contention and reservation request for qos-driven wireless lans: A method and a system is disclosed for providing quality of service (QoS)-driven channel access within a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A contention control (CC) frame is sent from a point coordinator (PC) of the BSS during a contention-free period (CFP) of a... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.,

20100080182 - Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones: A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mobile computing devices. The network accommodates real time voice transmission both through dedicated, scheduled bandwidth and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100080184 - Method and apparatus for improving interaction between scheduling request procedure and random access procedure: The present invention provides a method for improving interaction between a Scheduling Request procedure and a Random Access procedure in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The method includes steps of triggering a Scheduling Request procedure; repeatedly sending a Dedicated Scheduling Request (D-SR) message on a Physical... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100080176 - Method and apparatus for scheduling downlink transmissions in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system: A communication system performs adaptive scheduling by considering present and past reported CQI values and other indications of channel conditions in scheduling a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) and then executing a ‘dithering’ function in order to effectuate an MCS that is intermediate between adjacent discrete MCSs. In one embodiment,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100080185 - Method and apparatus of handling a timer for triggering buffer status report: A method of handling a timer for triggering buffer status report in a user equipment of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes starting a timer used for triggering a buffer status report (BSR), and restarting the timer in a transmission time interval (TTI) for which a semi-persistent... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100080186 - Method and system for selecting network equipment: A method and a system for selecting network equipment are provided. The method includes: selecting a primary pool or a pool with the highest priority from preset information when UE needs to select network equipment; and selecting the network equipment for the UE from the selected primary pool or pool... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100080179 - Methods of announcing a call and transmitting application data to an access terminal in a wireless communications system: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for announcing a call to an access terminal in a wireless communications system. Receiving, at an access network, a request to call a given access terminal and determining whether a cluster to which the given access terminal belongs... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080180 - Methods of announcing a call and transmitting application data to an access terminal in a wireless communications system: A method for improving distributed resource allocation in OFDMA based wireless communication networks such as WiMAX IEEE 802.16 for either fixed or mobile subscriber stations SSs is executed by neighbor Base Stations BSs serving the SSs. Each BS controls the allocation of respective permutation zones and radio resources encompassing different... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100080177 - Multiband communication device for communication control of remote devices and methods for use therewith: A communication device includes an RF transceiver for communicating first data with at least one of a plurality of remote communication devices via a first protocol and a first frequency band in a first mode of operation. A millimeter wave transceiver communicates second data with at least one of the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100080183 - System and method for interference mitigation in wireless networks: A computer-implemented method for scheduling a packet for transmission in a wireless local area network can be used to account for hidden and/or exposed terminals. The method includes determining whether the packet is to be transmitted to a computing device through a wireless access point that is in conflict with... Agent: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

20100080178 - Techniques for high mobility communications: Techniques for high mobility communications are described. An apparatus may comprise a fixed device having a zone management module operative to perform mobility zone classification for multiple mobile devices in a mobile communications system. The zone management module operative assigns the mobile devices to different mobility zones based on a... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20100080189 - Method and apparatus for plug-and-play venue-cast co-channel with wide-area network: A system, method, and apparatus for providing venue-cast service in a wireless access network are disclosed. A local transmitter can request reservation of air link resources on the wireless access network for a venue-cast transmission. The local transmitter can receive a forward link signal with a timing reference for data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080190 - Handoffs in hierarchical mobility label-based network: A system establishes a communication path between a mobile node and a first label edge router, registers the mobile node at the first label edge router, and creates a mobility binding at the first label edge router. The system also establishes a label switched path between the first label edge... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100080191 - Mobile communication system, wireless base station, and transmission rate allocation method: In the present invention, a base station comprises: an RTWP measurement unit that measures RTWP of the base station; a monitoring unit that monitors the start and the removal of the Gating state by each of a plurality of mobile stations; a threshold setting unit that lowers a threshold by... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100080192 - Cell timing acquisition in a w-cdma hard handover: Cell timing is detected by first trying to detect a target handover cell through detecting a primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) followed by a common pilot channel (CPICH). If that fails, N number of retrials is performed using a full-window search on the CPICH. The full-window CPICH search is performed blindly,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080193 - Mobile wireless terminal, wireless module, handover method, and recording medium: Provided is a mobile wireless terminal connected to a base station via wireless, including: a storage section which stores and holds a plurality of handover execution threshold values used for execution of handover processing of changing connection in a wireless communication network; a service suspension period identifying section which identifies... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100080194 - Radio base station and mobile station: A radio environment acquirer acquires a radio environment condition of radio communication with a subordinate mobile station. A transmitter transmits, to the mobile station, information notifying a signal which is selected from among multiple signal groups and which is to be transmitted in a transmission area of a random access... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100080195 - Mobile communication system: A mobile communication system including a plurality of base stations includes a radio communicator for communicating with mobile terminal devices with a plurality of carriers, and a communication controller for changing radio field intensity of the radio communicator; and a management device including: a storage for storing information of each... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100080196 - Rsvp/sbm based up-stream session setup, modification, and teardown for qos-driven wireless lans: A method and system is disclosed for setting up, modifying and tearing down an up-stream communication session in a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN), so that the communication session has a defined Quality of Service (QoS). Regarding setting up an up-stream communication session, a... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20100080206 - Autoconfiguration system for wireless sensor network and its method, and gateway apparatus for wireless sensor network: The wireless sensor node transmits a router solicitation message to a gateway apparatus; the gateway apparatus analyzes the message to extract the discrete information of a device or service, searches for a service server based on such information and acquires the configuration information necessary for execution of a service application... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100080200 - Identifying a desired mesh network in a multiple network environment: Network devices in a multi-network wireless mesh network environment identify themselves as members of the network by receiving a broadcast message from a first mesh network device that has joined the wireless mesh network, and identifying that the broadcast transmission has been received such as by actuating a light, playing... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100080198 - Internet protocol cellular private branch exchange: In one embodiment, a communication system includes a private cellular base station subsystem to communicate, using a cellular radio frequency air radio interface, with home cellular wireless devices and visiting cellular wireless devices located within a coverage area associated with the private cellular base station subsystem. Each of the home... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20100080203 - Method and apparatus for providing wireless communications within a building: A wireless distribution secured cabling system includes faceplates, each of which contains an antenna or other radiating element and an active amplifier, which serves as a bi-directional repeater for the wireless communication system. The system further includes a patch panel or distribution module which connects multiple cables, which may be... Agent: David M. Carter Carter & Schnedler, P.A.

20100080197 - Method and system for gigabit wireless transmission: A method and system for wireless communication with a mobile device. A first wireless communication network, such as a WiMax or cellular-based network, has a first maximum wireless speed. A second wireless communication network, such as a near-photonic speed gigabit link (“GiLink”) network, has a second maximum wireless speed. The... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20100080199 - Out-of-synchronization handling method and apparatus: A method for handling out-of-synchronization (SYNC) includes generating a plurality of combination sets of transport channels utilized by a communication device. The method also includes selecting, based on a window-based parameter, a highest-ranking combination set of transport channels out of the plurality of combination sets of transport channels. The highest-ranking... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080205 - Rate recovery mechanisim, method and system for a wlan-bluetooth coexistance system: In accordance with the invention, a method and system relating to the rate recovery mechanism in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Bluetooth coexistence system is provided.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100080201 - Wi-fi broadcast of links: A method and system is disclosed for transmitting wide fidelity (Wi-Fi) signals to an electronic device. These Wi-Fi signals may contain content specific links that may be relevant to the surroundings of a user. The user may be able to select these links by interfacing with the electronic device to... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20100080202 - Wireless device registration, such as automatic registration of a wi-fi enabled device: A system for providing a wireless device with access to a computer network includes an access point that sets up a radio link with the wireless device and couples the wireless device to the network. The system also includes a server that receives data packets from the access point through... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100080204 - Wlan transceiving system: A WLAN transceiving system, which comprises: a plurality of antennas; a plurality of receiving circuits, wherein each one of receiving circuits is coupled to one of the antenna to receive a input signal from the antennas; and a plurality of transmitting circuits, for outputting one of an output signal and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100080207 - Channel structuring method and base station therewith: The present invention is directed to a channel structuring method that includes a step of providing time frames segmented at a predetermined interval in communication channels of n subcarriers, a step of selecting a predetermined number of subcarriers from n subcarriers and a step of inserting a common control channel... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100080208 - Frequency division multiplex transmission device: A frequency multiplex transmission device configured to transmit and receive a frequency multiplex signal having a plurality of subcarriers, the frequency multiplex transmission device comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit the frequency multiplex signal by using a plurality of modulation methods; a receiver configured to receive a signal state to... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100080209 - Radio synchronization method, radio synchronization system, and base station: In a radio synchronization method having a reference base station and a plurality of base stations in a service area, a synchronization executing station executes radio monitor on base stations in a radio monitor range of the synchronization executing base station, selects a base station, which is synchronized with the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100080210 - System clock synchronization apparatus and method for mobile communication system: A system clock synchronization apparatus, for use in a mobile communication system, supplies a GPS clock received from a GPS reception module to a Radio Frequency clock generation module and selects a candidate system clock. The candidate system clock is selected from among plural candidate system clocks having different phases,... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100080212 - Impairment reduction for tandem voip calls: A method and apparatus are provided for allowing IP endpoints to communicate over a PSTN with improved signal quality. Watermarks are used in the handshaking between the end-points when a communication session is being established, the watermarks indicating that the endpoints are capable of VoIP. If the two end-points establish... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20100080214 - Integration of a private cellular system into a unified communications solution: In one embodiment, a communication system includes a private cellular base station subsystem to communicate, using a cellular radio frequency air radio interface, with home cellular wireless devices and visiting cellular wireless devices located within a coverage area associated with the private cellular base station subsystem. Each of the home... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20100080215 - Method and system for measuring market share for voice over internet protocol carriers: Methods and apparatus to measure market share for voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) carriers is disclosed. An example method includes querying a plurality of VoIP carrier servers to determine the VoIP carrier server that owns the telephone subscriber number and, in response to the querying, receiving a plurality of messages... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20100080211 - Methods and apparatus for communicating internet protocol based control signaling through a communications system: An embodiment of a method for communicating call control signaling information in a communications system that includes a user equipment (UE) and a base includes the UE formatting the call control signaling information, transmitting the call control signaling information over a first logical channel that is mapped to a first... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gd)

20100080216 - Real-time communication blocking for dot not call\" registered information: A real-time call blocking system based on Session Internet Protocol (SIP), e.g., Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) over both wireline and/or wireless systems using relevant Internet Protocol (IP) based systems. This also includes communications originating on traditional legacy or other non-SIP protocols that are converted to SIP somewhere during the... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC 7th Floor

20100080217 - Sip telephone system and method for controlling line key display: According to one embodiment, a SIP telephone system includes a plurality of terminals each configured to include a plurality line keys configured to blink or light and distinguish a plurality of lines, and an SIP server apparatus configured to house the plurality of terminals and be connected to a communication... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100080213 - Systems and methods for utilizing a spare switch in a distributed voip system: A distributed VoIP system includes a network and a first switch at a first site coupled to the network. The first switch is configured to provide telephony services to a first communication device. The system also includes a second switch at a second site coupled to the network. The second... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100080219 - Communication device: A communication device includes a communication control unit for conducting communication with a destination device according to a first communication sequence or a second communication sequence more suitable for communicating through an IP network than the first communication sequence. The communication device further includes an IP network determining unit for... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20100080220 - Communication transfer apparatus and communication transfer method: A communication transfer apparatus and a communication transfer method can transfer communications at low cost without the need of requesting a global IP network to switch any port number. The local internet protocol address of the origin terminal of transfer described in a record relating to a transfer out of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100080218 - Protocol extensions in a display port compatible interface: Contents of extension packets of a DisplayPort specification are described that can permit a computer to control a target device. In one example, an extension packet controls the target device in at least one of power consumption, image rendering, and register updating.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100080221 - Predictive multicast cache: A method is provided for distributing multicast channels from a multicast/predictive multicast cache located in at least one selected network device of a multicast network. The network device upon receiving a channel request from an end-user transmits the requested channel from the multicast cache if the requested channel is available... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (alu)

20100080222 - Automatic rd rewrite technique to achieve fast convergence in inter-as networks: A virtual private network (VPN) is formed with a pair of autonomous systems (ASes) connected by each having at least two autonomous system border routers (ASBRs) connected to the corresponding ASBRs at the other AS, referred to as an Option B VPN-IPv4 network. Route reflectors (RRs) only reflect the best... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100080228 - Demand-based distribution of internet protocol routing information across a network: Systems and methods are described that disassociate Internet route table growth from the ability of a router to maintain service. A network operator may base their network design using predetermined devices implemented from the beginning of service as constrained routers. This eliminates concern that these devices would require upgrade or... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Canavan

20100080223 - Efficient acl lookup algorithms: A rule management system and methods are disclosed. A rule management system includes a processor and an interface for receiving data comprising a plurality of data fields. The processor includes in a data structure nodes corresponding to combinations of first and second data field values. The data structure includes a... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20100080225 - Method and system for routing using multi-stage route entry lookup: The invention relates to a method for routing packets. The method includes receiving a first packet to route, obtaining a first route entry using a first IP address associated with the first packet, where the first route entry includes a first prefix, a first route nexthop generation (RNG) and a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20100080229 - Method of exchanging information in a communication network, corresponding communication network and computer program product: A method of performing transactions in a communication network in which is exchanged between Intellectual Property (IP) cores has information transported in packets which include a header for transporting control information and one or more payloads transporting content. A versatile packet format is used which is adapted to transport different... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20100080224 - Methods and apparatus for packet classification based on policy vectors: In one embodiment, a method, comprising producing a first policy vector based on a first portion of a data packet received at a multi-stage switch. The method also includes producing a second policy vector based on a second portion of the data packet different than the first portion of the... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20100080227 - Network device with proxy address resolution protocol: A network device includes a proxy ARP (address resolution protocol) unit for comparing a target IP (Internet protocol) address contained in an ARP request frame with a first set of IP addresses in a proxy ARP table of the proxy ARP unit, and for generating an ARP reply frame containing... Agent: Patent Prosecution O2mirco , Inc.

20100080226 - Service path selection in a service network: A service chain system is provided. The system includes a packet of data that is operable to pass through a network of service nodes as defined by a service chain; and a service classification device that is operable to change the service chain based on a system performance.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100080230 - Translator for ip networks, network system using the translator, and ip network coupling method therefor: A translator for coupling a first IPv4 network and a second IPv6 network having different addressing architectures for IP addresses so as not to exhaust the IP addresses of one of the two networks, a network system using the translator, and a network coupling method. When a packet is transferred... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20100080231 - Method and system for restoration of a packet arrival order by an information technology system: A system and method for restoring the arrival order of a plurality of packets after receipt of the packets and prior to a retransmission of the plurality of packets are provided. The invented system is configured to process a first number of packets through a high latency path, and then... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20100080232 - Method for selecting qos policy and system thereof: A method and a system for selecting Quality of Service (QoS) policy is provided. The method includes: setting QoS policy processing information in a QPH; receiving, by a QoS Manager (QM), a QoS request from a CP, selecting a QPH to provide QoS policy for a traffic stream according to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100080234 - Anycast-based internet protocol redirection to alleviate partial routing tables: Systems and methods are described that instruct routers having constrained hardware/memory to redirect all outbound traffic to a helper router. The helper router contains a full routing table that can forward any packet to its destination. In a large service provider network, helper routers may be distributed at multiple locations... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Canavan

20100080233 - Demand-based distribution of internet protocol forwarding information within a router: Systems and methods are described that reduce the amount of forwarding table state on components within routers. This is performed by having a router line card generate a prefix-request message to its central processor which contains a full routing table. Line cards only populate their forwarding tables for packets needed... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Canavan

20100080235 - Forwarding apparatus, forwarding method, and computer program product: An extranet direct route allowing extranet forwarding to a directly linked device is written in a layer 2-layer 3-integrated forwarding table. The procedure of introducing a layer 3 address-to-layer 2 address correspondence relation table entry into the layer 2-layer 3-integrated forwarding table searches the layer 2-layer 3-integrated forwarding table with... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100080237 - Fibre channel proxy: A fibre channel proxy proxies storage operations in a fibre channel storage network. A first set of fibre channel proxy ports are configured to receive storage operations from one or more initiators. A second set of fibre channel proxy ports are configured to forward the storage operations to one or... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100080236 - Next generation aircraft radios architecture (ngara): An aircraft radio architecture is provided. The aircraft radio architecture includes a processing subsystem, a network subsystem communicatively coupled to the processing subsystem, and a radio front end communicatively coupled to the processing subsystem via network connectivity and the network subsystem. The processing subsystem includes a storage and processing medium... Agent: Honeywell/fogg Patent Services

20100080238 - Extended private lan: A virtual private network is provided across a Provider Link State Bridging (PLSB) network between a first node connected to a private LAN and a second node connected to a roaming device. The roaming device is authenticated. A successful authentication results in a Service Identifier for the VPN being sent... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100080240 - Routing device and method of translating addresses in cascade in a network: A routing device includes means for executing a function of translation between at least one address of a first network and at least one address of a second network; means for receiving an association request from a terminal of said first network; means for generating a second request by substituting... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100080239 - Technique for combating loops in communication network: Technology for combating loops in multi-domain networks, by assigning to network domains categories, at least such as “high/trusted” and “low/less trusted”, and by making a decision about relearning Forwarding Information Base FIB of any edge node interconnecting different network domains, utilizing the assigned categories.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20100080241 - System and method for providing timer affinity through engine polling within a session-based server deployment: The session-based server deployment can be comprised of an engine tier that is designed for high throughput processing of communications and a state tier that maintains state information for access by the engine tier. The engine tier can include a plurality of engine nodes that process incoming messages. The state... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20100080242 - Wireless network card: A wireless network card comprises a substrate, a wireless network module installed on a surface of the substrate, an electric connection interface formed on one side of the substrate, a fixing plate arranged on another side of the substrate and vertical to the electric connection interface, wherein the substrate is... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20100080243 - Serial bus structure: Embodiments of the invention relate to a bus structure for a serial bus for communicatively coupling a plurality of nodes. Each node is coupled to the transmit channel via a logic gate. The transmit channel is looped back as a receive channel to the receive terminals of all coupled nodes.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20100080244 - Method and system for network bandwidth allocation: A method and system of an embodiment may include a method, comprising receiving, at a computing device, network bandwidth information for a network, receiving, at a computing device, a request for network bandwidth, identifying, at a computing device, one or more portions of network bandwidth to fulfill the request. The... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100080245 - Digital transmission system and digital transmission method: A digital transmission system includes at least a client device and a transmission device, and rate-adjusts the client signal transmitted from the client device to the transmission device before accommodating/multiplexing the signal in a frame. The transmission device includes a rate adjusting unit and a frame processing unit. The rate... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100080246 - Computer-readable recording medium storing packet identification program, packet identification method, and packet identification device: A packet identification device has a reception unit that successively receives packets. The device has an obtaining unit that obtains, every time a packet is received, an interval of reception times between the received packet and a packet received immediately before the received packet, in the same connection as that... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100080247 - Reassembly of service data units in communications system: The solution relates to reassembling RLC service data units. In the method, received RLC protocol data units in an RLC reception buffer are sequenced according to respective sequence numbers to form a protocol data unit sequence. On the basis of the sequencing, it can be detected if one or more... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20100080249 - System, method and apparatus of time information synchronization: A system and a method of time information synchronization as well as related apparatuses are disclosed to improve precision of frequency synchronization or time synchronization. The application port subsystem in the information synchronization system is configured to: generate at least one local clock according to a locally running real-time clock,... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100080248 - Techniques for time transfer via signal encoding: Techniques for time transfer via signal encoding are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for time transfer via signal encoding comprising generating a time service ordered-set for inclusion in a physical coding sublayer frame of a physical layer device, generating time service... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100080250 - Physical channel bundling in data transmission: Embodiments related to bundling of data streams in data communication are described and depicted... Agent: Spryip, LLC Ifx