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Multiplex communications May archived by USPTO category 05/10

20100128594 - Method of resolving overlaps in data transmission and user equipment therefor: A user equipment and method of transmitting symbols by the user equipment in a wireless communication system. The method includes: generating a first symbol by adding a cyclic prefix (CP) to a first inverse fourier transformed samples, the CP being copied from the first fourier transformed samples; generating a next... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100128596 - Transmission apparatus: There is provided a transmission apparatus being operable to realize a link capacity adjustment scheme (LCAS) between a plurality of nodes forming a network over which signals are transmitted by using a virtual concatenation (VCAT) system, the transmission apparatus including a receiving part being operable to detect a failure of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100128595 - Utilizing a replacement pathway for lost packet delivery during media reception in a set-top box (stb): A replacement pathway in an STB is utilized to determine loss of packets and delivery error during reception of media broadcasts, and to retrieve replacement data from one or more replacement media servers. The retrieval of the replacement data is performed during playback of the received media broadcasts. The communication... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100128597 - Data control device, storage device and method of connecting data control device: A data control device includes: a switch portion that has a plurality of first terminals on an upstream side, a plurality of second terminals on a downstream side, and a circuit portion that optionally switches a connection between the first terminals and the second terminals based on an external switching... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20100128598 - Systems and methods for maintaining persistence by a backup virtual server: The present disclosure presents systems and methods for maintaining persistence of a backup virtual server on connections currently serviced by the backup virtual server. A virtual server operating on an intermediary network device and identified as a primary virtual server for a first connection may receive a request via the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100128599 - Telephone system, gateway for telephone system, and redundancy switching method: According to one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a telephone system comprises gateways used to convert each other's protocols of IP network and PSTN. One of the gateways selectively serves as a main gateway, and the other gateways serve as slave gateways controlled by main gateway. Each of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100128600 - Automated network fault analysis: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller to form inquiries and commands, receive an alarm at an Operational Support System (OSS), automatically capture a state of a failure of the network element as close as possible to a time of the failure... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128601 - Client qos based connection session jogging: Aspects of a method and system for a client QoS based connection session jogging are provided. While receiving a service over a particular delivery route, a user of a user device is provided with the capability to request an alternate route to continue to deliver the service via a user... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100128602 - Method and apparatus for persistent connections to a device through the use of multiple physical network connections and connection hand-offs between multiple bands, modes and networks: Embodiments communicate messages between mobile devices and destination devices. An exemplary embodiment includes a first border server operable to establish a first communication connection to the mobile device over a first network operating under a first protocol, a second border server operable to establish a second communication connection to the... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20100128603 - Method for the reconfiguration of a communications network: A method for reconfiguring a communication network is provided. A first network uses a first network protocol and a second network uses a second network protocol, the two networks being connected by two data links. A first data link is initialized as activated and a second data link is initialized... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100128604 - Video streaming: The bitrate for any practical video streaming system will vary considerably as a function of the difficulty of encoding the sequence in question. This variation is even more apparent when comparing different video clips of different genres for example where sports clips might require a higher average bitrate and fluctuate... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100128605 - Method and system for controlling traffic over a computer network: A rate limiter incorporated in a server connected to a network. The rate limiter is adapted to reduce congestion in the network in response to a congestion notification message. The server is adapted to send packets over the network. The rate limiter includes at least one of: a server rate... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100128606 - First-hop domain reliability measurement and load balancing in a computer network: In one embodiment, probe messages may be transmitted from a local domain to a set of one or more responding probe targets located beyond a plurality of probed first-hop domains of the local domain, the probe messages transmitted via each of a plurality of probed first-hop domains. A reliability of... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100128607 - Method and system for buffer-to-buffer credit recovery in fibre channel systems using virtual and/or pseudo virtual lanes: A method and system for distributing credit using a fibre channel switch element is provided. The switch element includes, a wait threshold counter that is used to set up a status for a port that has to wait for certain duration to send a frame due to lack of buffer... Agent: Klein, O''neill & Singh, LLP

20100128608 - Method of carrier reselection for providing selective traffic redirection: In one embodiment, the AT receives a switching ratio, the AT randomly generates a serving priority value from a uniformly distributed random variable, and the AT determines whether to switch from the first carrier and attach to one of the neighboring carriers based on the serving priority value and the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100128609 - Determining a minimum cost solution for resolving covering-by-pairs problem: In one method for determining a minimum cost solution for resolving a covering-by-pairs problem, a plurality of covering nodes, a plurality of branch nodes, and a plurality of edges connecting the covering nodes and the branch nodes are given. A plurality of vectors are generated. For each vector in the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128610 - Method for supporting sdh/sonet oamp on ethernet: An Ethernet MAC OAMP Control sublayer is provided for supporting SDH/SONET OAMP standard functionality in Ethernet Networks. In accordance with one embodiment, an Ethernet MAC OAMP Control sublayer is provided for processing Ethernet MAC OAMP Control frames. The MAC OAMP Control sublayer provides support for a MAC OAMP Client to... Agent: Morse, Barnes-brown & Pendleton, P.C. Attn:IPManager

20100128611 - Transmitting apparatus, alarm control method, and computer product: Upon detecting the occurrence of a fault in a path that includes the transmitting apparatus, a transmitting apparatus transmits fault information including information about the fault to an initial node in the path corresponding to the fault. Upon receipt of the fault information, a transmitting apparatus determines whether an alarm... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100128612 - Diagnosing network problems in an ipv6 dual stack network: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to diagnosing problems in a dual stack network supporting Internet Protocol Version Six (IPV6). Inventoried information can be retrieved from an inventory system in response to a problem associated the dual stack network. It can be determined whether a mismatch exists between live... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20100128618 - inter-cell interference co-ordination: The invention relates to a cold-working steel having the following chemical composition in % by weight: 1.3-2.4 (C+N), whereof at least 0.5 C, 0.1-1.5 Si, 5 0.1-1.5 Mn, 4.0-5.5 Cr, 1.5-3.6 (Mo+W/2), but max 0.5 W, 4.8-6.3 (V+Nb/2), but max 2 Nb, and max 0.3 S, 10 in which the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100128627 - Base station apparatus, uplink sinr measuring method, uplink scheduling method, and reception-quality measuring method: A base station apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a control signal having predetermined patterns for performing communication control processing at the base station; and a measuring unit that measures SINR of reception data that is obtained from the control signal received by the receiving unit.... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100128616 - Communication control apparatus, wireless communication apparatus, communication control method, and wireless communication method: In a transmission bandwidth notification /analysis unit (107), IP packets including a transmission bandwidth request is analyzed based on IP packets received by reception interface units (101Rx, 103Rx) and a transmission bandwidth notified from a mobile node (300) is notified to a transmission path control unit (113), and a transmission... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100128621 - Communication system, base station, mobile station, communication method, and program: A base station (2) receives paging information for a mobile station (8) from gateway device (1), transmits the paging information after changing the amount of the radio resource of a paging channel, and measures a statistic associated with the completion of communication processing including at least a response of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100128628 - Context-based routing in multi-hop networks: Context-based routing in multi-hop networks involves using a context-based routing metric. In a described implementation, respective path values are calculated for respective ones of multiple paths using the context-based routing metric. A path is selected from the multiple paths responsive to the calculated path values. Data is transmitted over at... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100128613 - Detection of bearer loss in an ip-based multimedia session: The present invention provides a method for detecting bearer loss in an IP-based multimedia session. A multimedia session is initiated by an access terminal. A Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) communicates the Session setup information and the bearer characteristics to a Signaling Gateway (SGW). The SGW uses this information... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Docket Administrator - Room 2f-192

20100128623 - End-to-end analysis of transactions in networks with traffic-altering devices: In a network that includes intermediary nodes, such as WAN accelerators, that transform messages between nodes, an end-to-end path of the messages is determined. The determined end-to-end path is used in subsequent analyses of message traces, to identify timing and other factors related to the performance of the network relative... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20100128626 - High data rate interface apparatus and method: A data interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100128615 - Method and apparatus for the discrimination and storage of application specific network protocol data from generic network protocol data: Discrimination of application specific network traffic from other from general or unclassified network traffic is provided. Users may specify particular applications or data strings to be monitored.... Agent: Patenttm.us

20100128617 - Method and apparatus for two-way ranging: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for wirelessly receiving a first communication from a first mobile device. A processing delay may be measured. An acknowledgement communication indicating receipt of the first communication may be generated. A measurement of the processing delay may be broadcast in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100128624 - Method of managing allocated address in low power wireless personal area network: Disclosed is a method of managing an allocated address through a coordinator in a Low Power Wireless Personal Area Network (LoWPAN) including receiving a first beacon data request message from a mobile node that has entered into a communication region of the coordinator; measuring a Link Quality Indication (LQI) of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100128620 - Mobile communications system, base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, and propagation state collecting method: A mobile communications system is disclosed. The mobile communications system includes a unit which causes a mobile station apparatus residing within a communication area of an arbitrary base station apparatus to measure a propagation state of a wireless signal from a surrounding base station apparatus and which collects the measurement... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100128622 - Radio communication method and radio communication apparatus: A radio communication method and a radio communication apparatus that allow enhancement of a throughput characteristic and a degree of multiplicity of an MCS without a necessity for a special additional function. A channel quality measurement section 21 measures the quality of a channel from a mobile station 3 to... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100128619 - Relay device, relay method, and program: A relay device, a relay method, and a program that can suppress occurrence of congestion of packets, for example applied to a Layer 2 switch. In a case a reception control unit receives multicast packets through ports, the reception control unit stores the received multicast packets in a buffer. A... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100128625 - Remote control method for physical layer device and related physical layer device: A remote control method for a local physical layer device includes receiving a received packet, determining a coding of the received packet according to a packet format to generate a first determining result, determining an identification of the received packet according to the packet format to generate a second determining... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100128614 - Resource allocation in communications system: The application discloses a method for resource allocation in a communications system. The system comprises an apparatus, such as a base station, arranged to monitor the allocation of resource blocks to scheduled data packets. On the basis of the monitoring, eventual non-allocated resource blocks are detected. The apparatus is thus... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20100128629 - Methods and apparatus to select composite link cost-out thresholds: Methods and apparatus to select composite link cost-out thresholds are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises collecting traffic statistics for a communication network, computing, based on the collected traffic statistics, a plurality of flow rates for a composite link of the communication network for respective ones of a plurality of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100128630 - Access point planning mechanism: A method for inserting an access point unit into a wireless telecommunications network, comprising: performing a self installation process in the access point unit, wherein during said self installation process, the access point unit automatically detects physical and RF layer parameters of access points around it, and selects its own... Agent: Deborah A. Gador

20100128631 - Approximating node-weighted steiner network of terminals: According to one method for approximating a network of terminals, a graph comprising nodes and edges connecting at least some of the nodes is received. The nodes include terminals and non-terminal nodes. The non-terminal nodes are each associated with a weight. The terminals are each initialized to a value. The... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128638 - Hierarchical shortest path first network routing protocol: A hierarchical shortest path first (HSPF) protocol, routers of a network are grouped in areas, and routing and client subscription information are distributed through all levels of the network hierarchy in the same way. Each level of the hierarchy identifies its connections with its peers that have the same level... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100128632 - Methods and devices for wire-based configuration of wireless devices: The invention relates to a method for configuring a wireless interface of a first electronic device, comprising establishing a wired Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection with a second electronic device having a wireless interface; negotiating, via said USB connection, a configuration for said wireless interface with said second electronic device,... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk LLC

20100128637 - Network-centric determination of node processing delay: Apparatus and methods are directed to calibrating a delay within a wireless access point for determining a position of a mobile station. One method includes receiving an initial packet at an eavesdropping device, receiving a response packet, sent by another entity, at the eavesdropping device, computing a time difference based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100128634 - Protocol for configuring a wireless network: A target device joins a wireless network by attempting to locate an existing routing device in a predefined neighborhood of the wireless network, designating the existing routing device as a master routing device if the existing routing device is located in the predefined neighborhood, where the master routing device is... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20100128633 - Reverse engineering peering at internet exchange point: A technique for examining the relationships of autonomous systems (ASes) participating in an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) utilizes packet tracing servers proximate the IXPs. Where such packet tracing servers cannot be found in the participating ASes, the methodology identifies additional vantage points by looking at a list of ASes that... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Canavan

20100128636 - Sensor network with rapid, intuitive configuration: A network system for obtaining monitoring information from a patient that includes one or more sensing devices is disclosed. The network is configured by positioning a parent node and a child node within close proximity to each other. An input device on each of the parent and child nodes is... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20100128635 - System, method and device for segregated and independent command and control of wireless service selection, routing, transport and/or delivery: Systems and methods of configuring a wireless device are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment selects at least one of a Carrier Network and transport technology and a service provider via at least one of the Control Channel and command and instruction link; separately selects at least one of a transport network... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20100128640 - Apparatus and method for calculating an optimum route between a pair of nodes in a communication network: A node apparatus and method for calculating a route between a pair of nodes in a communication network. There is provided a topology table for storing topology information on links being used by an existing path in the communication network, and a virtual topology table is generated. The virtual topology... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100128639 - Methods and systems for supporting multiple name servers in a software provisioning environment: A provisioning server can be configured to include a network configuration module that can set-up, configure, and manage network connections served by the provisioning server including name servers, such as Domain Name System (DNS) servers, in the network connections. The provisioning server can be configured to maintain a set of... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20100128641 - Method and apparatus for managing conference calls: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to retrieve from an address book a communication identifier for each of a plurality of participants, determine from the address book a conferencing type for each of the plurality of participants,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128642 - Methods and apparatus for supporting a half-duplex mode of operation for user equipment communications in a radio communication system: Embodiments include methods performed in time division duplex (TDD) radio communication systems in which information is communicated between a first node (e.g., a base) and a second node (e.g., user equipment) in a context of a data frame that includes a plurality of slots. The second node applies an adjustment... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gd)

20100128644 - Wireless communication device: A wireless communication device performing wireless communication by switching between transmission timing and reception timing in time division, controls to supply a heater or a fan with power supplied from a power supply unit in the reception timing period, and controls to suspend supplying the heater or the fan with... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100128643 - Wireless transmission/reception apparatus and wireless transmission/reception method: To a wireless transmission/reception apparatus that has a plurality of antennas, and performs antenna diversity for transmission and reception and transmits and receives a radio signal of a frame configuration containing a plurality of symbol sequences in the frequency axis direction and the time axis direction by using the time... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100128645 - System and method for adaptive power conservation based on traffic profiles: A system and method for conserving power for wireless communications. Packet communication information to and from a wireless device is determined. A traffic profile is selected from a light traffic profile, a periodic traffic profile, and a heavy traffic profile in response to the determined packet communication information. Packets are... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100128650 - Base station apparatus and communication control method: User apparatuses transmit feedback information for reporting that multicast data and/or broadcast data do not satisfy required quality. A base station apparatus for transmitting multicast data and/or broadcast data to the user apparatuses includes: a feedback information determination unit configured to obtain the number of notifications of the feedback information,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100128647 - Effective reception method in wireless communication system providing mbms service: Disclosed is a radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and the terminal, and more particularly, to the method for receiving a MBMS service effectively by considering of time information related to a MBMS service transmission scheme.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100128646 - Fast signaling services for e-utran based wireless systems: Fast Signaling Services (FSS) for E-UTRAN based wireless systems are provided. A mobility management entity defines FSS MBSFN areas for its tracking areas and generates a FSS packet including signaling information intended for a plurality of UEs in a tracking area of the wireless network. The tracking area and its... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100128648 - Random access method for multimedia broadcast multicast service(mbms): A method of performing random access procedure in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of receiving a first message transmitted to count the number of user equipments attempting to receive the broadcast/multicast service from a network, transmitting a preamble for a random access to... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100128649 - Service content synchronization of multicast data for mobile nodes moving between networks with different radio access technologies: The invention relates to a method for continuing the provision of a multicast service to a mobile node, which moved to a network area, in which the multicast service is provided at a different data rate than before. A content synchronization entity is introduced into the mobile communications system for... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100128653 - Ad hoc communication system: A number of data relay devices, e.g. mobile telephones, (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80), are conveyed by vehicles and move relative to each other. They form a vehicular ad hoc wireless network (19, 29, 39, 49), etc in which data stored by a device (20) (either own-generated... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100128654 - Communication systems: A transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system is provided. The method includes, for two apparatuses having overlapping transmission coverage areas, one of the two said apparatuses being an intermediate apparatus, transmitting a first transmission signal from a first one of those apparatuses in a first transmission... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100128651 - Method for transmitting packets in relay networks: A method transmits an L bit packet in a relay network including a source node, a relay node and a destination node. The source node partitions the packet into first fragment of βL bits and a second fragment of (1−β) bits. The first fragment is transmitted from the source node... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20100128652 - Methods and systems for performing harq ack with scanning and sleep in wimax systems: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for processing a HARQ data burst and/or a HARQ ACK message in the event a HARQ ACK message falls within a scanning or an unavailable interval of an MS. For certain embodiments, a HARQ ACK message may be postponed if it falls within... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100128655 - Reconfiguration of a communication system: A communication system is described. In one embodiment, the communication system comprises a mobile station having a transmitter to transmit packets wirelessly according to a protocol and multiple repeaters communicably coupled with the mobile station. Each of the plurality of repeaters receives one or more packets of the wirelessly transmitted... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100128658 - Audio network system and method of detecting topology in audio signal transmitting system: In an audio network system constructed from a main node and a plurality of satellite nodes each having a plurality of ports, the main node generates and transmits a main packet including audio signals of a plurality of channels. Each satellite node selects one of the plurality of ports in... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20100128659 - Bandwidth allocation in satellite communication networks: There is described a method for allocating bandwidth in a satellite communication system comprising a plurality of terminals, the method comprising: at each one of the plurality of terminals: sending a local terminal bandwidth request to a centralized bandwidth manager and to all other terminals of the plurality of terminals... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20100128662 - Dynamic real-time quality management of packetized communications in a network environment: Dynamic real-time quality management of packetized communications in a network environment. Packetized communications are monitored by and exchanged between wireless Access Points (APs) and wireless terminals or by quality monitoring modules located within network segments or at network vertices. The processing unit analyzes the packetized communications to identify communication signatures... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100128660 - Efficient control signaling over shared communication channels with wide dynamic range: Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for efficient control signaling over shared communication channels with wide dynamic range. Some embodiments includes a gateway configured to encode and to transmit multiple physical layer headers, including a first physical layer header and a second physical layer header. The first physical layer header... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100128661 - Mobile satellite communication: Embodiments provide methods, systems, and apparatuses for adaptive coding, sampling, and modulating over a satellite communication channel. In some embodiments, a method of adaptive coding, sampling, and modulating over a satellite communication channel may include providing multiple data frames. At least one modcode partition may be provided for each data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100128656 - Satellite, mobile terminal, and complementary terrestrial component in ofdm based multi-beam satellite system reusing the same frequency band for all the beams, and communication method thereof: Provided is a communication method of a mobile terminal in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based multi-beam satellite system reusing the same frequency band for all the beams, the method including: receiving location information of the mobile terminal from a satellite to determine a location of the mobile terminal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100128657 - Using a signal route dependent on a node speed change prediction: A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for receiving wireless data via a node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route and relaying at least a portion of the wireless data.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100128678 - Adaptive coding and modulation for broadband data transmission: A process is described to build physical layer frames with a modcode adapted to the signal quality of a destination terminal. Data packets assigned to the same modcode may be sent in the same frame, although packets associated with higher modcodes may be used to complete a frame before switching... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100128675 - Base station apparatus and method in mobile communication system: A base station apparatus in a mobile communication system allowing for user equipment terminals having different numbers of receiving antennas is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a mapping unit mapping a reference signal, a primary broadcasting signal, a synchronization signal, and an L1/L2 control signal onto a predetermined signal... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100128670 - Base station interference-free antenna module and wifi base station mesh network system using the antenna module: A base station interference-free antenna module includes a plurality of high frequency transceivers respectively facing different directions, and an antenna controller electrically coupled to the high frequency transceivers. The antenna controller is electrically coupled to a signal processor in order to receive a signal transmitting/receiving request output by the signal... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100128676 - Carrier channel distribution system: Carrier channel distribution systems are presented. Wireless carrier channels can be split from their respective bands and can be allocated among remote transceiver units to ensure proper coverage for wireless services. Carrier channels can be allocated or routed individually or as a group according to reconfigurable routing policy.... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20100128664 - Cell-to-wifi switcher: Systems and methods that enable a user to seamlessly switch between networks and/or devices, during a content delivery session. The system comprises a network change detection component that can determine when the user switches from one network to another. Further, a context management component is employed that stores a context... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128673 - Communication control method, communication system, communication control apparatus and wireless base station: A communication control method for a communication system including a plurality of wireless base stations 1 having adaptive array antennas and a communication control apparatus 2, stores location information indicating an interference region by wireless base stations 1-1 and 1-2 neighboring each other, a first weighting factor for the wireless... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100128671 - Interference-free antenna module and wifi network system using the antenna module: An interference-free antenna module includes a WiFi interference-free antenna module having a plurality of high frequency transceivers respectively facing different directions, and an antenna controller electrically coupled to the high frequency transceivers respectively. The antenna controller receives a signal transmitting/receiving request output by a signal processor to accordingly select one... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100128666 - Method for advertising in ip multimedia subsystem and server and terminal thereof: Disclosure may be to allow a Service Provider (or operator) to intercept SIP messages (e.g., SIP INVITE method, or SIP MESSAGE method) in the path of the IMS signaling link and insert advertising information therein, thereby delivering the advertising information inserted in the SIP messages to one or more end... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100128665 - Method for providing signaling between a core network and a radio access network: Example embodiments provide methods for providing signaling between a core network and a radio access network (RAN). One example embodiment includes receiving an IP packet at the core network; inserting information into a destination options extension header of the IP packet at the core network; and sending the IP packet... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100128667 - Method of operating a wireless access point for providing access to a network: A method of operating a wireless access point 3 for providing access to a network 13 is described. Access to the network 13 is authenticated by a server 15 accessible by the wireless access point 3. The invention includes disconnecting a user of a pre-paid user from the network 1... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20100128674 - Method of responding deletepersonalityrequest message in ultra mobile broadband: A method of responding a Delete Personality Request message in Ultra Mobile Broadband is disclosed. The Delete Personality Request message is sent to the access terminal by the access network through an air interface in Ultra Mobile Broadband. When the access network requests to delete one or more personalities, the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20100128669 - Method of transmitting and processing data block of specific protocol layer in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a data block at a transmitting side in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The present invention generates a data block including polling information but no upper layer data, the polling information requesting a transmission of acknowledgement information (status report) on at least one data block... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100128668 - Radio base station apparatus and radio terminal apparatus: A radio base station apparatus of the invention includes a scramble code-generating part that generates a different scramble code for each sector, at least for adjacent sectors, and a scrambling part that uses a scramble code generated by said scramble code-generating part to scramble a scrambling-target portion in said downlink... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100128677 - Service continuity during local breakout in a femtocell: A system and methodology that facilitates service continuity when a user equipment (UE), employing local breakout mechanisms at a femto access point (FAP) for a communication session, moves out of the femto coverage area is provided. In particular, a network change detection component can be employed to detect when the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128663 - Signal transmission method, radio communication system, communication station, mobile station, and base station: When an RG received from a base station is UP, a mobile station compares E-TFC currently used by a HARQ process for transmitting a signal to the base station from the mobile station with E-TFC previously used for transmission by the same HARQ process. When they are identical, the accumulation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100128672 - Transmitter apparatus, receiver apparatus, mobile station, and radio base station: A transmitter apparatus (10) includes: an MAC-PDU generator section (11) configured to generate an MAC-PDU by multiplexing one or more variable-length information elements each being any one of an MAC-SDU received from an RLC layer, control information, and padding information; and an MAC-PDU transmitter section (13) configured to transmit the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100128689 - Apparatus and method for controlling interference in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for controlling interference in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a signal of a DownLink (DL) frequency band that is adjacent to an UpLink (UL) frequency band supported by a User Equipment (UE), measuring a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) of... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100128684 - Base station apparatus and wireless communication method: A base station apparatus which conducts a packet communication with a wireless communication terminal includes: a retransmission request detection unit which detects a retransmission request from the wireless communication terminal; a bandwidth assignment unit which assigns a communication bandwidth applied to the packet communication; a modulation class calculation portion, based... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100128691 - Binding wireless devices in a building automation system: On a first level of the wireless building automation architecture, sensors and associated actuators communicate directly. The sensor performs control processes appropriate for the sensor and regardless of the type of actuator being used. The actuator performs control processes specific to the actuator regardless of the type of sensor being... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100128688 - Data transmission/reception method in wireless communication system, and data transmitter and data receiver using the same: A data transmission method includes: deciding the priority of data; deciding a channel priority based on a channel state; selecting a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the data based on the priority of data; selecting a transmission channel through which the data is to be transmitted, based on the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100128690 - Method and apparatus for partitioning a resource in a wireless communication system: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of operating a base station includes transmitting a first control channel to a user device. The first control channel has a subframe partition index that partitions resources of an associated subframe into at least one partition. The at least... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100128679 - Method and apparatus for wireless communication: A wireless communication method and device are provided. The wireless communication method includes: generating a bandwidth request packet requesting an allocation of a channel time from a coordinator of a wireless network; and wirelessly transmitting the bandwidth-request packet, wherein the bandwidth request packet includes information regarding a data output mode... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100128685 - Method and system for providing piggyback roaming for sponsoring split roaming relationships: A method for facilitating exchange of one or more signaling messages between a client network and an HSRP network. The method includes identifying by an SPRS router associated with a client network, one or more parameters in the received signaling messages so as to determine from the parameters one or... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100128681 - Method for controlling transmissions between neighbouring nodes in a radio communications system and access node thereof: At least one request between neighboring access nodes in a radio communications system is transmitted after verifying a class of the at least one request being transmitted between the neighboring access nodes, where the class assigned by an access node indicates a priority of the request. Based upon the verified... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100128680 - Method of connection based scheduling with differentiated service support for multi-hop wireless network: There is disclosed a method of centralized scheduling of the access to a common radio channel in multi-hop wireless networks. The requests by the relay nodes (RN(1,1) . . . RN(n,Nn), RNi) of resources for sending uplink flows towards the base station (BS), and/or downlink flows towards relay nodes (RN(1,1)... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100128692 - Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, and mobile station apparatus: The present invention reduces the amount of control information for specifying the transmission method for simultaneously transmitting the uplink data and the reception quality information as well as the uplink data and the ACK/NACK, reduces delay occurring in changing the transmission method, and realizes the mapping of the uplink data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100128683 - Orthogonal reference signals with different bandwidth and overlapping spectrum: The present invention provides a method of generating mutually orthogonal reference signals for different user terminals in and OFDM system that span different but overlapping subcarriers. The subcarriers allocated to the user terminals are divided into a plurality of non-overlapping subcarrier blocks. Each user terminal is then allocated one or... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100128686 - Radio communication base station device and resource sharing method: A radio communication base station device capable of reducing the downlink resources required for ACK/NACK channels to improve data transmission efficiency. In this device, an allocation control channel allocating section (101) allocates inputted uplink allocation information (#1 to #K) to any of allocation control channels (CH#1 to #K). An ACK/NACK... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100128682 - Switch fabric with wireless intra-connectivity: A plurality of wireless interfaces and/or internal radios is utilized within a network switching device to enable wireless intra-connectivity within its switch fabric. The wireless intra-connectivity services switching operations in the network switching device, to prevent and/or reduce blocking in the network switching device. The wireless intra-connectivity is also used... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100128687 - Systems and methods for scheduling and mu-mimo in uplink vo-ip for ofdma/scfdma networks: A system and method for increasing the capacity of VoIP transmissions is disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises fixing original transmissions into a frequency band and changing the retransmissions into separate frequency bands. Alternatively, the original transmissions may be changed into separate bands while the retransmissions may be fixed into a... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100128693 - Method of resolving overlaps in data transmission and user equipment therefor: A user equipment and corresponding method of transmitting symbol by the user equipment in a wireless communication. The user equipment transmits a plurality of symbols to a base station, each symbol including a cyclic prefix and a data part. The method includes: receiving a timing adjustment command from the base... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100128695 - Air interface selection between nodes in peer-to-peer/ad-hoc networks: Aspects describe pairs of nodes negotiating air interfaces in a peer-to-peer and/or ad hoc network. The negotiation can take into account the capability of each node. The negotiation can be performed on a default link and after negotiation, the nodes can facilitate a communication handoff to the negotiated link. Further,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100128696 - Management of seamless handover between different communication systems in an ip dual-mode terminal: A dual-mode terminal designed to connect to an IP-based network via a first communication system and a second communication system, the dual-mode terminal including a first physical network interface module adapted to establish a packet-based communication with the IP-based network via the first communication system, the first physical network interface... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100128694 - Selection of packet data protocol context for handover from cellular network to femto cell: System(s) and method(s) are provided to manage packet data protocol (PDP) contexts upon cellular-to-femto handover, wherein femto network has disparate capabilities to support applications with distinct access point names (APNs) and quality of service (QoS) profiles. Based at least on activity factors of applications associated with PDP contexts, a QoS-based... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128698 - Communication terminal device, communication system and method of selecting base station thereof: To provide a method of selecting an optimal base station for each application when accumulating communication quality in response to an application type for a base station and a communication terminal switches base stations. A communication quality database 31 is prepared by assigning a current location of a communication terminal... Agent: Richard L. Sampson Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20100128697 - Packet data protocol context management for handover from cellular network to a femto cell: System(s) and method(s) are provided to manage packet data protocol (PDP) contexts upon cellular-to-femto handover, wherein femto network has disparate capabilities to support applications with distinct access point names (APNs) and quality of service (QoS) profiles. Based at least on activity factors of applications associated with PDP contexts, a QoS-based... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128699 - Simultaneous use of multiple phone numbers in mobile device by sharing hardware: Determining and simultaneously using a base station coupled to a mobile device, the base station comprising a detector for receiving a first identification signal corresponding to a first module and a second identification signal corresponding to a second module from the mobile device. A transmitter for sending a plurality of... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20100128700 - System and method to implement synchronous channel timing in a wireless communications network: A system and method to implement synchronous channel timing are disclosed. The method comprises establishing a session time interval. In addition, the method comprises establishing a first time interval within the session time interval for transmitting a first data packet.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100128702 - Ad hoc communication protocol method and apparatus: According to one embodiment, a connection is established between a first communication device and a second communication device in accordance with one or more communication layers. Each communication layer is associated with a standard structure and protocol. An ad hoc communication layer structure and/or protocol are determined at the first... Agent: Coats & Bennett/lantiq

20100128706 - Apparatus and method for increasing operation time in ieee802.15.4-2006 beacon based wireless sensor network: Provided are an apparatus and method for increasing operation time in an IEEE802.15.4-2006 beacon based wireless sensor network (WSN) with respect to the same amount of power consumption used by coordinators included in a WSN, by reducing unnecessary standby power consumption required during an active period of a super frame... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100128701 - Beacon transmission for participation in peer-to-peer formation and discovery: Aspects relate to allowing multimodal devices to communicate over multiple bands to take advantage of lower traffic bands. A device can transmit its interface presence information to a base station on an uplink. The base station can broadcast the presence information to other nodes within the vicinity of base station.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100128707 - Call control device, relay device, call control method, and storage medium: A call control device, which controls call connections between a plurality of terminals, includes a device information storage unit that stores device information on call-connectable terminals; a call request accepting unit that accepts a call request from one terminal to another terminal; a determining unit that determines, when the call... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100128708 - Femtocell local breakout mechanisms: A system and methodology that employs local breakout mechanisms at a femto access point (FAP) to facilitate efficient utilization of backhaul and/or macro networks is provided. In particular, a slave Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) can be integrated within the FAP to directly route the incoming traffic from a user... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128709 - Home service integration and management by employing local breakout mechanisms in a femtocell: A system and methodology that facilitates home services integration by employing a local breakout mechanism at a femto access point (AP) is provided. In particular, the system can perform mapping to provide home functions to an authorized user equipment (UE) attached to the femto AP and provide integration with one... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128710 - Infrastructure for wireless lans: A wireless data communications system includes simplified access points which are connected to ports of an intelligent switching hub. The switching hub relays data packets to the access points in accordance with destination address data in the data communications. In a preferred arrangement the access points are provided with power... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20100128703 - Method for routing packets in wireless ad-hoc networks with probabilistic delay guarantees: A method determines an optimal route to deliver a packet from a source node via relay nodes to a destination node in a network. A graph of nodes connected by edges represents possible routes in the network. A probability that the packet arrives at the destination before a deadline time... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20100128704 - Mulitcasting, location services, payment methods and performance management in broadband wireless access networks: Methods, apparatuses and systems for location discovery, electronic payment and multicast broadcast in a wireless broadband network disclosed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100128711 - Transmit power control for mobile unit: In a wireless local area network which includes access point having variable transmitter power levels, transmitter power data is sent from the access points to the mobile units and used by the mobile units in order to provide a corresponding variation in the transmitter power of the mobile unit.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100128705 - Transmitter station with detectable function for radio condition: In a wireless LAN system, the transaction efficiency may be enhanced. The transmitter station holds the number of transaction successes, the number of transaction failures, the data rate when the transaction is carried out, and the number wait to perform the transaction. The transmitter station determines that the radio wave... Agent: Venable LLP

20100128712 - Directional transmission techniques: Embodiments provide techniques for the transmission of broadcasts. For instance, an apparatus may include a sequence selection module, and multiple radiating elements. The sequence selection module selects sequences of directional transmission patterns, where each selected sequence corresponds to a time period. The multiple radiating elements wirelessly transmit a broadcast at... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100128713 - Beam steering in a mesh network with repetitions: b

20100128714 - Method and system for synchronizing data between mobile terminal and internet phone: A method and system for synchronizing data between a mobile terminal and an Internet phone is provided. The method includes transmitting an Internet Protocol (IP) address request message from a mobile terminal to an Internet phone, transmitting an IP address response message from the Internet phone to the mobile terminal... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100128721 - Apparatus and method for providing other service in ip multimedia subsystem (ims): An apparatus and a method for providing other Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services (e.g., Skype, Google talk, and the like) using a terminal which supports an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network are provided. The apparatus includes an interworking apparatus for converting information received from a VoIP service network to... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100128723 - Computer, internet and telecommunications based network: A method and apparatus for a computer and telecommunication network which can receive, send and manage information from or to a subscriber of the network, based on the subscriber's configuration. The network is made up of at least one cluster containing voice servers which allow for telephony, speech recognition, text-to-speech... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20100128720 - Enterprise contact server with enhanced routing features: A server may include logic configured to receive a call-back request from a customer, where the call-back request includes an identifier associated with the customer. The server may further include logic configured to identify, based on the identifier, a call center from a group of call centers having a group... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100128717 - Method and apparatus for operating a computer-telephony system: One embodiment of the invention provides a method of operating a computer-telephony system. The method comprises providing computer-telephony support for a plurality of customers. Each customer maintains customer relationship management, CRM data. The CRM data is uploaded from the plurality of customers into a computer-telephony database. The uploading includes transforming... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100128716 - Method and apparatus for providing network based services to private branch exchange endpoints: Many of the current IMS standards and enriched services were originally designed for the individual subscribers that are serviced by the wireless network. However, the IMS standards do not fully address the problem of providing the IMS enriched services and features to users connected to a PBX. The present invention... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128715 - Protocol conversion system in media communication between a packet-switching network and circuit-switiching network: In media communication by way of a packet-switching network and a circuit-switching network, a protocol conversion device for converting protocols between the packet-switching network and the circuit-switching network includes a call connection unit and a protocol converter. The call connection unit carries out call connection processes of media communication between... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100128722 - Queuing mechanisms for lte access and sae networks enabling end-to-end ims based priority service: A system and method for queuing emergency telecommunication service requests prevent dropped connections by sending messages to nodes requesting the emergency telecommunication service that the request has been queued. This allows for an orderly queuing process and allows congestion related issues to be overcome without preempting existing network traffic.... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20100128719 - Server apparatus and terminal apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory configured to store a management table, wherein the management table showing a correspondence relationship among the terminal ID, a remaining amount of the battery, and an additional service concerning call origination and call termination, an acquisition module configured to acquire... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100128718 - Supporting method for refer message expansion parameter: The present invention discloses a method for supporting extended parameter(s) in a REFER message, applied in a system comprising a parameter proxy server that can receive and forward the REFER message; upon receiving the REFER message including the extended parameter(s), the parameter proxy server performing the following processing: storing said... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20100128725 - Real time packet transforms to avoid re-transmission: There exists a need to reduce re-transmission delays in real time feeds (such as video) by sending the packet with sufficient repair/recovery information inside the packet container so the relaying stations and/or the receiving devices can fix errors in transmission by perusing the contents of the packet and the repair... Agent: Michael J. Cherskov

20100128724 - Tone signaling: In an example embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus comprising a first communication interface, a second communication interface and tone control logic coupled to the first interface and the second interface. The tone control logic is operable to continuously transmit a guard tone on the second communication interface responsive to... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20100128726 - Data transmitter and data transmission method: A data transmitter is provided. The data transmitter is configured to transmit reception data and copy data of the reception data to the outside via respective separate ports. The data transmitter includes an identification information attaching unit configured to attach, to the reception data, identification information identifying the reception data,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100128728 - Method, system and device for removing media access control addresses: The present invention discloses a method, system and device for removing Media Access Control (MAC) addresses. The method includes: sending, by a first User-facing Provider Edge (UPE), a MAC Address Withdraw message, when a handover happens on an access network; receiving, by a network provider edge (NPE), the MAC Address... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100128729 - Packet forwarding device with packet filter: To provide a packet forwarding device which minimizes degradation in packet forwarding performance at the time of execution of filtering there is provided a technique in which a destination decision processing unit of a destination decision and filtering unit decides whether to execute filtering on the basis of at least... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100128727 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, transmitting method, and receiving method: A transmitting apparatus that transmits data to a plurality of receiving apparatuses. The transmitting apparatus includes a transmission part that transmits information for extracting the data whose header is compressed, and a control part that controls the transmission part to transmit the information in a specified cycle to the one... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100128730 - Sip-enabled framework for multi-domain roaming control plane in a wimax access network: Middleware is provided as a control plane for WiMAX control messaging. Each ASN in a WiMAX system is associated with a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server. A plurality of Functional Entities (FEs) are distributed across the ASNs, wherein each FE (or a group of FEs) associated with a SIP agent.... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20100128731 - Method and system for data management in communication networks: A method for operating a node of a communication network including a plurality of peer-to-peer nodes, the node being linked with predetermined neighbour nodes among the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes, includes: a) storing, on a first storage area, node information indicative of predetermined data required by the node to become... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100128732 - Rstp processing system: The invention can achieve a recovery time that satisfies the demands of real-time transmission processing by performing, in an extremely short time period, an RSTP process in a network, which is configured in a ring topology and wherein a plurality of IEEE 802.3 compliant nodes is connected via prescribed transmission... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100128733 - Method and system for dynamic application layer gateways: A method and system are disclosed for providing functionality on a network. A mobile agent moves from a first node to a target node and, at the target node, performs as an application layer gateway.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100128734 - Polyphase rotating-access switch: A polyphase rotating-access switch consists of a set of latent space switches connecting a set of ingress switch modules to a set of egress switch modules. Each latent space switch has a primary rotator connecting each ingress switch module to each transit memory device of a bank of transit memory... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20100128736 - Packet processing apparatus, network equipment and packet processing method: A packet processing apparatus includes a static pattern matcher comparing pattern information defining a packet to be filtered with a value regarding at least a part of a received packet, the pattern information being stored by a pattern information manager. A frequency calculator calculates the frequency of matching by the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100128735 - Processing of partial frames and partial superframes: A system determines when to send out a partial data unit or when to complete a data unit before sending it. The system may identify a data unit, determine whether the data unit is a partial data unit, increase a partial count when the data unit is the partial data... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100128737 - Method and apparatus for the ordering of carrier links: A method and apparatus for provisioning a physical link to a service provider is disclosed whereby physical link information in a carrier network is store, in one embodiment, in a database within the carrier network or, in another embodiment, in a database shared by a carrier and a service provider.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20100128738 - Interim phy solution for lpi compatibility with legacy devices: In one embodiment, a modified local PHY is adapted to couple a legacy host device to link partner implementing Energy Efficient Ethernet. The modified local PHY includes a buffer and if the legacy host transmits data when the modified local PHY is in a Low Power Idle (LPI) state then... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20100128739 - Method and apparatus of scheduling bandwidth in cable network: Disclosed are a method and apparatus of scheduling a bandwidth in a cable network. The method includes receiving variable information set according to a condition of a network, calculating a packet time slot value in which a delay time gain is maximized using the received variable information; setting an algorithm... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100128740 - Context-dependent scheduling through the use of anticipated grants for broadband communication systems: A method of scheduling upstream bandwidth. This method comprises: 1) anticipating the need for the upstream bandwidth in advance of any specific request for said upstream bandwidth; and 2) scheduling the upstream bandwidth in accordance with such need.... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100128741 - Method and system for configuring a media access control header to reduce a header overhead: A method and system for configuring a media access control header to reduce a header overhead is provided. The method includes establishing a connection between a transmitter and a receiver. The method also includes determining a size of a length field in the MAC header of a MAC protocol data... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20100128742 - Methods of transmitting data blocks in wireless communication system: Disclosed is a method for generating a data block to be transmitted from a specific layer in a transmitting side to a receiving side in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving an upper layer datei block from an upper layer and generating a lower layer data block including... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100128743 - Communication control method and transmitting apparatus: A communication control method of a transmission system that exchanges a transmission frame between a first transmitting apparatus and a second transmitting apparatus, the communication control method including causing the first transmitting apparatus to receive a transmission frame, which is encapsulated using a first method or a second method different... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100124162 - Transmitter and ssb signal generation method: A transmitter which is capable of producing an SSB signal having a sharp spectrum cut. The transmitter generates the SSB signal using an FFT circuit (103) which Fourier-transforms a transmission symbol, a zero insertion circuit (104) which zeros the component of either the USB component signal or the LSB component... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20100124164 - Code division multiple access based contingency transmission: Systems (100) and methods (500) for method for providing a redundant or distinct transmission feature to a communication system (100). The methods involve (508) detecting if there is a communication system fault. If a communication system fault is detected (508:YES), then (512) a plurality of modified transmit signals are generated... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20100124163 - Preserving stable calls during failover: According to one method for preserving stable calls during failover, during a dialog between two user endpoints, a determination is made whether a standby call processor has become operational, such as when a corresponding primary call processor is in fault. Responsive to determining that the standby call processor has become... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100124165 - Silent failure identification and trouble diagnosis: According to one method for identifying and resolving a silent failure in a telecommunications network, performance data associated with data traffic passing through a network element in the telecommunications network is collected. A determination is made whether the performance data has fallen below a threshold to identify the silent failure... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100124166 - Combined base transceiver station and base station controller data call and quality of service: A system, method, and computer readable medium for determining a data call rate comprises determining if a supplemental channel (SCH) should be allocated, if the SCH should be allocated, potentially altering the data rate, requesting an SCH allocation at a current data rate or the altered data rate, and receiving... Agent: Rg & Associates

20100124169 - Measurement data record method for detecting hybrid mobile tune away: An apparatus in one example has: a first communication network optimized for high-speed packet data services; a first database operatively coupled to the first communication network; a second communication network for providing both voice and slow data-rate data services; a second database operatively coupled to the second communication network; and... Agent: Carmen Patti Law Group, LLC

20100124168 - Repeater monitor system and repeater monitor method: A monitor terminal transmits a monitor request command to monitor a repeater station designated by an operator to a monitor server via the Internet. The monitor server detects a monitor station located in the communication range of the designated repeater station from the content of the received monitor request command,... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20100124167 - Video processor and video processing method thereof: According to one embodiment, a video processor plays back streaming data while receiving the streaming data via wireless communication from a server which simultaneously transmits the same streaming data to a plurality of devices in a group. The video processor includes a wireless communication module, a playback module, a monitor,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100124172 - Declaring radio link failure based on target-specific threshold: The number of handover-related failures that occur in a communication system may be reduced by taking target access point conditions into account when declaring radio link failure and/or by delaying certain handover operations. In some aspects, criteria for radio link failure detection and access terminal-controlled mobility may take into account... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100124170 - Methods and apparatus to detect border gateway protocol session failures: Methods and apparatus to detect border gateway protocol (BGP) session failures are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus comprises a database interface to obtain provisioned configuration information for a provider edge (PE) router, a BGP engine to receive one or more BGP messages from a route reflector, the one or more... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100124171 - Wireless station, fault detecting method, and computer readable medium: A wireless station includes a measuring unit measuring first and second communication delays of first and second wireless terminals; a first determining unit determining first and second transmission rates of the first and second wireless terminals; a second determining unit determining first and second timings of transmitting a response request... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100124173 - Radio link failure reporting: A communication node determines that radio link failure occurred during connected state mobility of an access terminal and reports the radio link failure to another communication node. For example, a target access point may determine that radio link failure occurred during handover of an access terminal and send a radio... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100124174 - Communication device and loopback testing method: There is provided communication device operable to verify normality of a network by a loopback test, the communication device including a plurality of ports used to connect to a physical link included in the network, and an identification information addition part to add virtual port information used to identify a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100124175 - Apparatus and method for adaptively calculating symbolic start position: An apparatus and a method for adaptively calculating a start position of a series of symbols are provided. The method is applied to a frame synchronization circuit that implements the apparatus for calculating the symbolic start position of a packet-switching communication system. Even under the situations such as higher frequency... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20100124176 - Automatic network topology identification by nodes in the network: An automatic network topology identification technique is described herein. Each node in the network periodically or constantly transmits its unique address to its neighboring node. Once a node receives a different message from its neighbor, the node identifies a topology change in the network. In one embodiment, a current topology... Agent: Sawyer Law Group, P.C.

20100124180 - Apparatus and method for determining a service interruption time measurement: A method and apparatus are provided for determining a service interruption time measurement including routing protocol convergence time and Forwarding Information Base (FIB) insertion time, between network devices A and B in a network which has a routing protocol. A plurality of probe packets are then sent from the device... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100124179 - Method and apparatus for identifying types and access modes of neighbor cells in femtocell environment: In a mobile communication system including macro cells and femtocells, a neighbor cell identification method includes: transmitting, by a neighbor cell that is a macro cell or a femtocell, a neighbor cell identifier containing information regarding the type and access mode of the neighbor cell to a user equipment. The... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100124177 - Method for specifying input edge router: A method of specifying an input edge router has: obtaining a first value of an input packet counter from each of input candidate edge routers having possibility to receive a specified packet passing through a specified area; transmitting a test packet having a destination address of an output edge router... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100124178 - Scalable delay-power control algorithm for bandwidth sharing in wireless networks: A distributed power control technique for wireless networking efficiently balances communication delay against transmitter power on each wireless link. Packets are transmitted over a wireless link from a transmitter to a receiver using a dynamically controlled transmit power level that is periodically updated at the transmitter. The transmit power is... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20100124181 - System and method for managing a wireless communications network: In an embodiment, a method of operating a base station configured to support a plurality of user devices on a plurality of channels is disclosed. The method includes finding an interference level for each channel, comparing the interference level for each channel with an interference threshold, and determining up to... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100124182 - Method and apparatus for classifying traffic at transport layer: Provided is a method and apparatus for classifying applications in traffic easily and accurately by utilizing only statistical data of traffic at transport layer. A method of the present invention includes determining candidate applications by comparing at least one of smallest packet size, biggest packet size and average packet size... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20100124183 - Asymmetric tdd in flexible use spectrum: A method according to an embodiment of the invention includes receiving and transmitting signals over a time division duplex (TDD) communication path. Signals are received over the TDD communication path via a first portion of a first frequency band. The first frequency band is adjacent to a second frequency band... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20100124184 - Methods and systems with frame structure for improved adjacent channel co-existence: Methods and systems are provided for supporting co-existence of two radio access technologies (RATs), which include determining the frame structure of a first RAT, including the boundary of subframes, the DL:UL subframe ratio, and switching periodicity, selecting a frame offset and a DL:UL subframe ratio in a second RAT to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100124186 - Method and apparatus for harq operation with network coding: For use in a wireless communication network, methods for encoding information bit streams at a relay station are provided. Each method includes receiving data packets from a base station and a mobile station. Each method also includes decoding the packets and re-encoding the packets. Each method further includes combining the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100124185 - Relay communications methods and apparatus: Methods and apparatus relating to interference mitigation in a wireless communications system including multi-sector base stations and relay stations are described. Different types of transmission slots are used, e.g., base station-relay station slots, relay station-access terminal slots, and base station-access terminal slots. Relay station to access terminal slots of a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100124187 - Communication system and method of communicating signals: A communication system and method are provided, wherein the system includes a first satellite orbiting in a first orbital path that communicates a first signal having a first content at a transmitting frequency while at a first elevation angle, and a second satellite orbiting in a second orbital path that... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc Legal Staff - M/c 483-400-402

20100124191 - Method and apparatus for facilitating push communication across a network boundary: Provided is a method and apparatus for facilitating push communication from a first network to a target device of a second network, the second network comprising a packet service network such as a GPRS core network. A private IP address, usable for addressing the target device when the packet service... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us)

20100124190 - Method for operating a wireless interconnected data network with a plurality of network nodes, and network nodes: A method is described for operating a wireless interconnected data network with a plurality of network nodes (MP1, MP2, MP 3, MP 4, MP S, MP D, NF MP) between which communications links (KV) exist, at least in part. At least some of the network nodes (MP1, MP2, MP 3,... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC (sen)

20100124189 - Method for transmitting data packets and conrreponding reception method: m

20100124188 - Methods utilized in mobile devices and base stations, and the mobile devices and base stations thereof: A method utilized in a mobile device includes: transmitting a broadcasted random access (RA) preamble to a base station for initiating a first RA procedure; receiving a dedicated RA preamble from the base station after the first RA procedure is initiated; and transmitting the dedicated RA preamble to the base... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100124193 - System and method for distributing wireless network access parameters: A system and method are provided for distributing wireless network access parameters in a multi-mode communications user terminal (UT). The method includes: establishing a link between a UT and a first communications network (i.e., a cellular network); accessing a parameters server via the first network; downloading access parameters for a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100124192 - System and method for enabling radio operations on a wireless computing device: Embodiments of the invention provide for a wireless computing device that comprises a set of one or more radio components to transmit and receive wireless communications on the device. Additionally, the wireless computing device includes processing and memory resources that individually or in combination provide multiple wireless applications, a radio... Agent: Mahamedi Paradice Kreisman LLP

20100124197 - Method and apparatus for resource allocation in a communication system: A base station capable of communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations is configured to allocate a plurality of resource units to at least one subscriber station. The base station includes a controller configured to allocate a plurality of resource units from a two-dimensional logical matrix of resource units. The... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100124194 - Method of transmitting broadcast information in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting broadcast information in a wireless communication system includes transmitting broadcast information and receiving an ACK (Acknowledgement)/NACK (Not-Acknowledgement) signal on an uplink channel from at least one mobile station in a cell, the ACK/NACK signal indicating whether the broadcast information is successfully received or not. A base... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100124195 - Method of transmitting control signal in a wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a control signal in wireless communication system includes generating a multiplexed control signal by multiplexing a first control signal and a second control signal, and transmitting the multiplexed control signal on a control channel. Overhead due to control signaling can be reduced by transmitting or receiving... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100124199 - Method, system and apparatus for notifying as of user state: Disclosed is a method for notifying the state of a user to an Application Server (AS), including: receiving, by a Serving-Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF), new service profile information of the user sent from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) when the user's service profile changes; and sending, by the S-CSCF,... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100124196 - System and method for dynamic automatic communication path selection, distributed device synchronization and task delegation: Systems, software, and apparatuses that provide wired and wireless telecommunications under conditions where signal strength is poor or intermittent, the coordination and synchronization of data and workflows across various communication links under such conditions, especially intermittent or unreliable communications links, and the management of wireless mobile applications in such environments.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100124198 - System and method for name binding for multiple packet data network access: A system and method for name binding for multiple packet data network access is provided. A method for communications device operation includes attaching to a first packet data network through an access network, thereby creating an access point name, triggering a connection to a second packet data network through the... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100124203 - Conditional access terminal initiation of delayed handover: The number of handover-related failures that occur in a communication system may be reduced by taking target access point conditions into account when declaring radio link failure and/or by delaying certain handover operations. In some aspects, criteria for radio link failure detection and access terminal-controlled mobility may take into account... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100124200 - Method and apparatus for predicting handover in wireless communication network: A method and apparatus for predicting a handover of a Mobile Station (MS) of a plurality of MSs to one or more target Base Stations (BSs) of a plurality of BSs in a wireless communication network. The method includes predicting a need for a handover of a MS to one... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20100124201 - Methods and systems using same base station carrier handoff for multicarrier support: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for switching radio frequency (RF) carriers that serve communication between a base station (BS) and a mobile station (MS). The switching of carriers can be viewed as a handoff procedure between two different RF carriers within the same BS. A simplified... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100124202 - Rtp voice packets for base station hand-off in mobile ip telephony: In wireless networks where the goal is to support a large number of VOIP based cellular calls, large overhead headers in RTP voice packets are not acceptable. In wireless networks where multiple base stations are deployed, handsets may handoff from one base station to the other while in a voice... Agent: The Law Offices Of Dennis L. Cook, PLLC

20100124204 - Method and apparatus for improving unbalance of service of cell edge in wireless local area network: A method and apparatus for improving unbalance of service at a cell edge in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). A method of an Access Point (AP) for improving unbalance at service of a cell edge in a WLAN includes monitoring for a continuous decrease of a signal strength of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100124205 - Distributed adaptive scheduling of communications among nodes in a mobile ad hoc network: Communications in a mobile network are scheduled by defining reservation frames having time slots during which network nodes can transmit certain traffic loads while avoiding interference. The nodes maintain maps that identify the slots as either free or reserved based on each node's existing reservations, and reservation information the node... Agent: Bae Systems

20100124207 - Distributed medium access control (dmac) for mobile ad hoc networks: Message or traffic data is transmitted from a given radio or node for reception by one or more other nodes in a communications network, by arranging the node for transmitting the data according to a selected one of a number of different medium access protocols. The medium access protocol selected... Agent: Bae Systems

20100124206 - Time-division multiplexed pilot signal for integrated mobile broadcasts: A pilot channel signal for time-division multiplexing with one or more traffic channel signals in a broadcast/multi-cast signal and for code-division multiplexing with a continuously transmitted pilot channel signal is described. In an exemplary method for transmitting a broadcast/multicast signal, a pilot symbol sequence is obtained for each slot of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100124208 - Wireless communication system and method of calling terminal: p

20100124209 - Method for power consumption in wireless sensor network: A method for reducing power consumption in a wireless sensor network is provided. An optimized path destined for a sink node is set using a common channel in which first and second nodes use a CSMA scheme. A first channel is set and transmission/reception slots for packet transmission/reception arc allocated... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100124210 - Method and system for rf transmitting and receiving beamforming with gps guidance: A method for radio frequency transmitting and receiving beamforming using both GPS guidance and wireless access points is disclosed. The method comprises providing a wireless networking device with preloaded wireless access point locations; calculating a relative vector to an access point based upon at least one of the preloaded wireless... Agent: Sawyer Law Group, P.C.

20100124212 - Method and system for rf transmitting and receiving beamforming with location or gps guidance: A method and system for radio frequency transmitting and receiving beamforming using both GPS guidance and wireless access points is disclosed. The method and system comprises providing a wireless networking device with a locating system; providing an access point, the access point broadcasting its location; calculating a relative vector from... Agent: Sawyer Law Group, P.C.

20100124214 - Position based wpan (wireless personal area network) management: Position based WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network) management. Based on either the relative position or the specific location of devices within a WPAN, communication between the various devices is managed by grouping the devices into two or more groups. In addition, the communication between theses various devices may be governed... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100124211 - Reducing an occurrence of a voip call on hold from being dropped in ev-do systems: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for reducing an occurrence of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call from being disconnected in an Evolution Data Only (EV-DO) system are disclosed. The VoIP call is placed on hold and at least one keep-alive packet is issued to prevent a radio link from disconnecting.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100124213 - Wireless terminal device, communication method, and computer-readable recording medium: A wireless terminal device performs first, second, and third scans in sequence to detect wireless access points; stores base station information on the detected wireless access points in a storing unit; sets a disappearance flag in base station information that correspond to a wireless access point that was detected in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100124215 - Transmitter, remote controller and transmission method: A transmitter includes a power measurement unit, a carrier sense unit, and a transmission unit. A first frequency band is allocated to a TDMA system. The power measurement unit measures a receiving power over a part of a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The carrier sense unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100124217 - Apparatus and method for connection control with media negotiation successful on different media formats: In an apparatus for connection control between two terminals, a communication unit transmits or receives a connection control signal to or from the terminals. A storage stores media format information usable on the two terminals, which are to be supplied with the media format information on media formats converted by... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100124216 - Method and apparatus for providing call routing in a network: A method and an apparatus for providing call routing in a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a signaling message for a call, and determines if the signaling message contains information for determining if routing of the call requires an ENUM (tElephone Numbering Mapping) query. The method then... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100124218 - Method and system for connecting a voice call using a domain name database: A method for connecting a telephone call includes receiving, at a server, from a communication terminal, a first message including at least one word corresponding to a name of an individual or an organization, wherein the first message is transmitted using an Internet-compatible protocol; searching for the at least one... Agent: Bardmesser Law Group, P.C.

20100124224 - Communications system for delivering multimedia internet protocol packets across network boundaries: A communications system and method enables delivery of packets over network boundaries while preserving the QoS bits configuration. The communications system includes at least one sending site configured to send the packet. The packet may have a first set of bits in a first bit-set location that indicates an intended... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412

20100124220 - Method and systems for incrementally resolving a host name to a network address: Methods and systems are described for incrementally resolving a host name to a network address. In one aspect, the method includes receiving, by a path node in a network path to a destination node, a packet including a name corresponding to a portion of a network address. The method also... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20100124219 - Method for routing packets in ad-hoc networks with partial channel state information: A method routs a packet from a source node, via relay nodes, to a destination node. The nodes are connected by wireless links x. A channel power gain γ is measured for each link x. Resource trade-off curves y=ƒ(x) are constructed for each link x from the channel power gains... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20100124222 - Method of transmitting data: The invention is related to a method of transmitting data whereby a transmission channel towards an access point (10) is shared among a plurality of users (12), the data being transmitted using the Contention Resolution Diversity Slotted ALOHA (CRDSA) method. According to the invention the number of copies (14a,14b, 14c;... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20100124221 - Methods and apparatus to infer the status of border gateway protocol sessions: Methods and apparatus to infer the status of BGP sessions are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises querying a configuration file of a router of a first AS to identify a BGP session to a second AS, querying the file to determine whether the BGP session is a single hop,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100124223 - Selective paging in wireless networks: A method and system for selectively paging user equipment in a communication network is disclosed. The selective paging is implemented with a set of rules that determine whether a packet triggers a page request to user equipment. The rules can be dynamic and can discard unwanted packets to avoid waste... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20100124226 - Electronic data transmitting apparatus: An electronic data transmitting apparatus is provided, which is capable of determining a transmission method for each address in accordance with the attribute of each address (receiver), such as a title or a position. When a user specifies addresses A to F and instructs the electronic data transmitting apparatus of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100124225 - Service instance applied to mpls networks: Domain-wide unique node identifiers and domain-wide unique service identifiers are distributed within a MPLS domain using routing system LSAs. Nodes on the MPLS network compute shortest path trees for each destination and install unicast forwarding state based on the calculated trees. Nodes also install multicast connectivity between nodes advertising common... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20100124229 - Forwarding packets using next-hop information: A method may include receiving a packet associated with a flow of packets, the packet including a destination address; selecting one of a plurality of memory banks, the selected memory bank being associated with the flow of packets, wherein each of the plurality of memory banks stores the same next-hop... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100124228 - Remote access to local network: Multiple protocol tunnels (e.g., IPsec tunnels) are deployed to enable an access terminal that is connected to a network to access a local network associated with a femto access point. A first protocol tunnel is established between a security gateway and the femto access point. A second protocol tunnel is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100124227 - Systems and methods for electronically routing data: Systems and methods for electronically routing data are provided. A data hub for electronically routing data may include an interface module that receives an electronic communication from a data source. The electronic communication may include a destination identifier associated with an intended destination for the communication, a source identifier associated... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20100124230 - Terminal apparatus and program: An apparatus transmits reservation information including a contents-ID identifying the contents and a terminal-ID identifying the apparatus that transmits the reservation information to the apparatus determined by the contents-ID, receives the reservation information transmitted from the apparatus that accepts the reservation operation and updates a reservation terminal list that associates... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100124232 - Communication system and communication method: GW apparatuses send messages including data being sent from ECUs to a distribution apparatus without sending to an ECU. The distribution apparatus stores the messages on a database, and sends the messages to an ECU, and an ECU. In a case, the distribution apparatus sends the messages in a message... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100124233 - Method for sending message, access router and data cache system: The disclosure relates to a method for sending a message, an access router, and a data cache system. The method for sending a message includes: sending a data request received by the access router to a gateway node in the home routing area of the access router; receiving location information... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100124231 - Summarization and longest-prefix match within mpls networks: In general, techniques are described for summarizing label mappings and thereby enabling longest-prefix match within Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks. More specifically, a first router included within a first area of a network comprises a control unit that maintains a label space defining labels available for mapping to a plurality... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20100124234 - Method for scheduling packets of a plurality of flows and system for carrying out the method: The invention concerns a method for scheduling packets belonging to a plurality of flows received at a router. It is also provided the system for carrying out the method. According to the invention, a single packet queue is used for storing said packets, said single packet queue being adapted to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100124235 - System and method for controlling use of a network resource: A system includes a control source that is provided on a server and control logic that executes on a terminal. The control logic executes on a terminal to (i) identify a plurality of attributes on the terminal, the attributes including an identifier for each of a plurality of terminal assets... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20100124236 - System and method of leveraging sip to integrate rfid tag information into presence documents: A system and method is provided for converting RFID tag information into presence documents and, in particular, a system, topologies and a method is provided for leveraging session initiation protocol (SIP) to integrate RFID tag information into presence documents. The method is implemented in a computing environment, which includes receiving... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20100124237 - Methods of generating data block in mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for generating a lower layer data block to be transmitted from a specific layer in a transmitting side to a receiving side in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving an upper layer data block from an upper layer and generating a lower layer data... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100124238 - Method and apparatus for forming superframe for qos and multiple link connections in low-rate wireless network: Provided is a method and apparatus for forming a superframe in a low-rate wireless personal area network. The structure of an IEEE 802.15.4 superframe is extended to support QoS by increasing the number of GTSs and to minimize waste of a bandwidth through the precise resource reservation although the SO... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100124239 - Systems and methods for compressing packet data: A system, method, and computer program for compressing packet data is provided. In exemplary embodiments, one or more blocks may be identified that include block data similar to packet data of one or more packets. The one or more blocks may comprise archives of previously transferred packets. The packet data... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20100124240 - Method and system for network synchronization: A method and a system for network synchronization are provided. In this method, when a node attempts to join a network, a parent node is searched from all other nodes already joined the network per specific time interval. If the parent node can be found, sync-information sent by the parent... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100124241 - Barrier synchronization apparatus, barrier synchronization system, and barrier synchronization method: A barrier synchronization apparatus includes a receiving device which transmits a first synchronization signal to a synchronization device when the first synchronization signal in which a transmission destination is set in advance according to setting conditions including an algorithm of the barrier synchronization and an execution condition is received. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100124242 - Pseudo noise code tracking circuit and pseudo noise code tracking method: A pseudo noise code (PN code) tracking circuit includes a first correlator, a storage device, a second correlator and a detector. The first correlator is utilized for performing correlation on a first PN code in a first signal frame with a local PN code to generate a first set of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100118691 - Method for generating codeword and transmitting control information using the same: A method for generating a codeword from a vector generated by combining four symbols PO, P1, P2 and P3 includes generating 16 vectors Vi (i=0˜F, where i is an index) by combining the four symbols with repetition allowed, and producing the codeword by mapping data to the 16 vector combinations.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100118693 - Method and system for using the synchronization channel to obtain measurements in a cellular communications system: A method and apparatus that utilizes the synchronization channel (SCH) by the user equipment (UE) to obtain time synchronization information and to perform cell search. In order to perform the SCH detection, only a correlation between the known SCH signal and the received sequence is needed, hence the FFT is... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100118692 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless transmission apparatus is a wireless communication apparatus constituting a base station capable of communicating with one or more terminals, via a wireless LAN, the wireless communication apparatus including: an inverse fast Fourier transform processing section configured to obtain an output signal sequence in a time region from an... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100118694 - Wireless communication device: The mobile station performs Fourier transform of a signal received from a base station presently in communication in parallel to demodulation processing, by means of a plurality of FFT each having FFT start timing shifted one after another, so as to detect the synchronous timing of another base station by... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100118695 - Spectrum sensing of bluetooth using a sequence of energy detection measurements: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for detecting presence of a Bluetooth device in the vicinity of a WiFi device by sensing the spectrum of the Bluetooth device using a sequence of energy detection measurements, generating a test statistic based on the measurements and comparing the test statistic... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118696 - Transmission apparatus, transmission network, and method being employed therefor: A transmission apparatus searches a new protection path at the time point that a failure has occurred in a working path and the working path has been switched to a protection path, registers the searched protection path, and secures the working path and the protection path of which a ratio... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100118697 - Multi-rate statistical multiplexing: A multi-rate statistical multiplexing system is configured to determine whether a subscriber-line is in a congested-state. The subscriber-line provides one or more channels requested by a subscriber. The system selects a version among different versions of each requested channel based on the level of congestion and an indicator of perceived... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100118698 - Radio communication method, radio communication system, radio communication device, and congestion control method: Disclosed is a technique to prevent a collision in a state that radio communication devices are congested. According to the technique, in the state that the radio communication devices are congested, one of the radio communication devices becomes a representative node and transmits a representative node advertisement message. When the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100118699 - Systems and methods for dynamic quality of service: Systems, methods, and apparatus for routing are provided in which a connection track comprising a plurality of network or transport layer packets, received by a router, is identified by examination of header fields of one or more first packets in the plurality of packets. One or more quality of service... Agent: Jones Day

20100118700 - Automatic detection and re-configuration of priority status in telecommunications networks: A technique for ensuring that a node that carries high-priority protocol data units and low-priority protocol data units is properly configured to accord the high-level protocol data units priority treatment is described. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, two streams of protocol data units are transmitted through a node to... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20100118701 - Methods and apparatus for making transmitter and/or receiver communications decisions: Methods and apparatus for making communications decisions are described. In some embodiments, a method includes recovering a quality of service level from a transmission request response signal and making a decision whether or not to transmit traffic data based on the recovered quality of service level. In other embodiments a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118702 - Methods and apparatus supporting adaptive decentralized traffic scheduling including a dynamic transmitter yielding threshold: Methods and apparatus relating to scheduling of air link resources, e.g., traffic segments, in a wireless communications system are described. Various described methods and apparatus are well suited to wireless peer to peer networks in which traffic scheduling is decentralized, e.g. an ad hoc peer to peer network. An individual... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118703 - System and method to identify and communicate congested flows in a network fabric: The invention provides a system and method for identifying and communicating congested paths throughout a network fabric. Briefly, the present invention augments the congestion management mechanism defined in ASI to allow for the communication of congested paths through the fabric, rather than the simple congested output port notification supported today... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20100118704 - Method and apparatus for use in a communications network: A method is provided of regulating a load placed on a first node of a telecommunications network caused by messages sent to the first node by a second node of the network according to a signalling protocol between the first node and the second node, comprising: using a leaky bucket... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100118705 - Method for seamless transfer of a mobile station to a neighboring base station in an overload condition: A method includes receiving a request from a mobile station (102) to initiate a call session with a base station (104). After receiving the request, the base station determines that it cannot process the call session with the mobile station because the base station is fully loaded and sends a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100118707 - Device and method for determining high speed shared control channel in a communication terminal: An apparatus and method for detecting high speed shared control channel of a communication terminal is provided, which recognizes decoding reliability for each of high-speed shared control channel by decoding each of a plurality of high-speed shared control channels; decides a maximum and a minimum in the decoding reliability, calculates... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100118706 - Information on reference signal structure for neighboring cell measurements: The present invention relates to cellular radio communication and in particular to providing information on neighbour cells to enable terminals to perform neighbour cell measurements. In the prior art the terminal attempts to make neighbour cell measurements in a reference signal structure that is the same in the neighbour cell... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100118708 - Method, system, and device for configuring operation, administration and maintenance properties: A method for configuring operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) properties, a system for configuring OAM properties, and a node device are provided. The method includes: delivering a message carrying OAM property configuration indicating information; and flowing through a plurality of nodes to be configured in the process of delivering the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100118709 - Method and apparatus for providing end to end virtual private network performance management: A method and apparatus for managing a virtual private network are disclosed. For example, the method collects performance data for at least one parameter from a plurality of customer edge routers and a plurality of provider edge routers associated with the virtual private network. The method correlates the performance data... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100118710 - Network failure detecting method and device: A network failure detecting method for detecting a failure of a network including a number of transferring devices by tracing data flow rates of the transferring devices based on physical topologies of the transferring devices for the network, composing a group of the transferring devices adjacent to one another, data... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100118712 - Systems and methods for notifying users of a network resource outage: Systems and methods are disclosed for a network switch that periodically determines whether there are connectivity problems with first ports and a second port independently of responding to requests from computer systems. Information to be sent to the computer system that sends a request is generated. The information includes an... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100118711 - Tools that facilitate diagnostics for mobile backhaul networks: A diagnostic tool is provided for calculating the availability of multi-segment pseudowires within an internet protocol (IP)-based mobile backhaul network. A control message is transmitted from an originating node towards a destination node within the IP-based mobile backhaul network over a primary multi-segment pseudowire and a secondary multi-segment pseudowire. From... Agent: Garlick, Harrison & Markison (alu)

20100118719 - Base station apparatus, user equipment, and communication control method: A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using a downlink shared channel is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a radio resource allocation unit allocating radio resource blocks to the shared channel after allocating the radio resource blocks to at least one of a synchronization... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100118729 - Channel assignment based on spatial strategies in a wireless network using adaptive antenna arrays: Channels are assigned based on co-spatial constraints in wireless network using spatial division multiple access. In one example, the invention includes assigning a co-spatial constraint to each of a plurality of conventional traffic communications channels of a base station, and receiving a request from a user terminal to communicate using... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100118721 - 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; receives the measurement packet which has been circulated among a plurality of slave nodes; according to time-keeping of an internal clock; stores a sending time and a received time of the measurement packet; sends... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100118732 - Loop prevention technique for mpls using service labels: In one embodiment, a loss of communication is detected between a first edge device of a computer network and a neighboring routing domain. A data packet is received at the first edge device, where the received data packet contains a destination address that is reachable via the neighboring routing domain.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100118716 - Method and apparatus for directional clear channel assessment in a wireless communications system: A method of communication is provided. The method includes detecting at least a portion of a preamble of a packet transmitted by a first device by sweeping over a plurality of receive directions; receiving and decoding a header of the packet based on a first receive direction to identify that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118723 - Method and apparatus for enabling and disabling a supplementary downlink carrier: A method and apparatus are disclosed for multi cell wireless communication, wherein a status of a secondary serving cell is determined. On the condition that the secondary serving cell is disabled, a Hybrid Repeat Request (HARQ) process associated with the secondary serving cell is released.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100118720 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and processing component carriers: A method and apparatus are described which perform bandwidth aggregation by simultaneously monitoring and processing a number of simultaneous, non-contiguous or contiguous component carriers in the downlink. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) can be configured by an evolved Node-B (eNodeB) to support additional component carriers. A pre-configured additional component carrier... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100118724 - Method and system for monitoring a gtp communication path in an umts/gprs network: A method for monitoring a GTP communication path in an UMTS/GPRS network as well as a corresponding monitoring system that is connected to the UMTS/GPRS network. The monitoring system comprises means for generating a GTP-C message in the form of a GTP echo request message containing an IP address of... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20100118728 - Navigation within a wireless network: A wireless device is registered in a first wireless router by storing information in the first wireless router, a message is created comprising a unique identifier for the wireless device and a unique identifier for the first wireless router; the message is transmitted to at least one second wireless router.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100118715 - Optimal probing for unicast network delay tomography: Systems and methods are disclosed to probe a network includes generating a set of probing pairs from a network topology for unicast network delay tomography; probing the network using monitoring hosts in the network; and determining network performance from the probing results.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20100118718 - Qos degradation point estimation method, qos degradation point estimation device, and program: A QoS degradation point estimation device (S1) includes a flow set decision unit (3), a flow quality information collection unit (1), a path information collection unit (2), a flow link table management unit (4), and a QoS degradation point estimation unit (8). Before generating a flow link table which associates... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100118713 - Scheduling of measurement occasions of a mobile terminal: In a method of downlink operation in a communication system having a network controller, a base station and a terminal, one communication channel is scheduled by the base station; and one communication channel is scheduled by the network controller. The terminal listens to the channel scheduled by the base station... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100118714 - System and method for correlating traffic and routing information: In one aspect, it is realized that changes in routing configuration (and therefore network topology) may have an effect on how data is forwarded in a communication network. More particularly, it is realized the changes in the control plane have a statistical effect on information tracked in the data plane,... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20100118727 - System and method for link quality source routing: Systems and methods for routing packets by nodes in an ad hoc network in accordance with a link quality source routing protocol are disclosed. Route discovery, route maintenance, and metric maintenance are designed to propagate and keep current link quality measurements. Metric maintenance includes a reactive approach for links that... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100118722 - System and method for providing data streaming and timing information with missing package recovery: The present invention provides a monitoring device and method for supplying timing information for a data stream assembled from data packets and also for assembling a replacement data packet when a data packet is missing. The data packets received from a data network and the start time and the end... Agent: Wang Law Firm, Inc.

20100118725 - System for constructing a mobility model for use in mobility management in a wireless communication system and method thereof: A method for constructing a mobility model for use in optimizing mobility management in a wireless communication system is disclosed, which comprises steps of collecting a plurality of network traffic statistic data of a plurality of desired items, wherein the desired items are related to the behavior of a plurality... Agent: Raymond Sun Law Offices Of Raymond Sun

20100118726 - Systems and methods for reducing reflections and frequency dependent dispersions in redundant links: A network device includes a group of high speed redundant transmission lines and a switch. The switch is configured to select one of the high speed redundant transmission lines. The switch causes reflections and frequency dependent dispersions in the selected high speed redundant transmission line. The network device further includes... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100118730 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, and communication method: A transmitting apparatus is capable of transmitting data at a first frequency and second frequency to a receiving apparatus. A transmitter of the transmitting apparatus transmits a predetermined wideband signal, in a first time period in a frequency band which does not include the first frequency and in a second... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100118717 - Unauthorized access information collection system: In an unauthorized access information collection system for monitoring unauthorized access to a honeynet so as to collect unauthorized access information, the system includes: a plurality of honey pots in which a private address or a global address is respectively set and which construct the honeynet; and an unauthorized access... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20100118731 - Wireless line usage status monitoring method and device: For monitoring a wireless line usage status more effectively, a mobile station extracts a synchronizing signal of each of frames received from a plurality of base stations and a known signal transmitted together with transmission data within a time slot in which the transmission data are included but not transmitted... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100118734 - Host discovery across different address spaces: The “dual stack” capability of a network supporting two or more address spaces is used to perform host discovery in the network address space of one network address format using the network address space of another network format (e.g., via a PING sweep in the network address space of the... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20100118735 - Large frame path mtu discovery and communication for fcoe devices: Embodiments of the invention relate to performing network communications according to an existing protocol by using frames that are larger than those usually allowed by the existing protocol. Thus, embodiments of the present invention provide for an extension of the existing protocol which allows for the use of larger frames.... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100118737 - Method and apparatus for constructing synchronous sensor network: Provided are a method and apparatus for using a synchronous sensor network medium access control (MAC) protocol such as a ZigBee or IEEE 802.15.4 low-rate wireless personal area network (WPAN). Also provided are a method and apparatus for constructing a ubiquitous sensor network (USN) of which a life is increased... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100118733 - Methods and apparatus supporting adaptive decentralized traffic scheduling for wireless communications: Methods and apparatus relating to scheduling of air link resources, e.g., traffic segments, in wireless communications are described. Various described methods and apparatus are well suited to wireless peer to peer networks in which traffic scheduling is decentralized, e.g. an ad hoc peer to peer network. A first wireless terminal... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118736 - Routing method and wireless network system: A routing method of a wireless network system is provided. Paths of the wireless network system are divided into down-stream and up-stream paths. The up-stream paths are reset for each period, or whenever a network is changed, or whenever transmission of data fails more than a predetermined number of times.... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20100118739 - Method and apparatus for the determination of multiple spanning trees: A method of, and apparatus for, determining multiple spanning trees over a computer network, each spanning tree providing a particular arrangement of communication links between nodes of the computer network, and the method comprising increasing a cost associated with using a particular communications link if said communications link is included... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100118738 - Multicast tree designing device, method, and program: A multicast tree design apparatus designs a multicast tree by mathematical programming. The multicast tree design apparatus is one for designing a multicast tree for transferring a packet from a source node to a plurality of destination nodes on a network that includes nodes and links connecting the nodes, the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100118740 - System and method for identifying non-multiple spanning tree protocol control planes: A system, method, and node for identifying non-Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol control planes. The method includes the steps of identifying a specific non-Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol control plane instance, associating a General Control Plane Identification, GCPID, with the specific control plane instance, wherein the GCPID binds a Virtual Local Area... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100118741 - Method of emergency communication in broadband radio access system: A method of emergency communication between a mobile station and a base station in a broadband radio access system and a mobile station which supports the method of emergency communication are disclosed. The method of emergency communication is divided into a case where the mobile station requests an emergency service... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100118742 - System and method for monitoring call flow in heterogeneous environments: The call states of all devices in a call are monitored and reported even when the devices belong to networks that use different types of call identifiers. A first device and a second device are different types of devices selected from a group of types comprising: a legacy device type,... Agent: Avaya Inc. Margaret Carmichael, Docketing Specialist

20100118743 - Method, system, base station and terminal for processing the reference symbol: A method, system, base station and terminal for processing the reference symbol can support to transfer the common reference symbol and the user dedicated reference symbol synchronously. In the present invention, the transmitting end configures the reference symbol structure for the downlink sub-frame according to the used antenna number; the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100118744 - Wireless transceiver system for supporting dual mode: The present invention relates to a wireless transceiver system for supporting a dual mode, and more particularly to a wireless transceiver system for supporting a dual mode that simultaneously supports the Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) method and the Time Division Duplex (TDD) method in a certain frequency band. The present... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100118745 - Wireless communication apparatus: In a wireless communication apparatus adopting a time division duplex system for executing transmission and reception using a plurality of antennas, deviation of amplitude and phase occurring between transmission and reception circuits is detected and corrected using a communication signal. Channel estimation means 105 detects channel information based on reception... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100118746 - Method for radio communication between a base station and a user terminal using transmission on component carriers, a base station, a user terminal and a communication network therefor: The invention concerns a method for radio communication between a base station (BS) and a user terminal (UE) using transmission on component carriers, wherein at least one primary component carrier (DLp) is assigned to the user terminal (UE) for communication with the base station (BS), and based on a transmission... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100118749 - Method and apparatus for directional channel access in a wireless communications system: A method of wireless communications is provided. The method includes detecting at least a portion of a preamble of a packet transmitted by a first device by sweeping over a plurality of receive directions; receiving and decoding a header of the packet based on a first receive direction to identify... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118751 - Radio communication apparatus, radio communication system and radio communication method: A radio communication apparatus for performing radio communication, including: a first interface conversion unit which extracts a first signal and a second signal multiplexed and input, and corresponding to two different formats, and combines the extracted first and second signal; and a common amplifier which is shared by the first... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100118747 - User specific downlink power control channel q-bit: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate controlling transmission power of a wireless terminal. A downlink power control channel segment may include an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) tone-symbol that may comprise a first component and a second component. The first component may be an in-phase (I) component and the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118748 - Video share model-based video fixing: Systems and methods for model-based video fixing are disclosed. A video can be retrieved and analyzed to determine if any portion of the video can be represented by a model. If a portion that can be modeled is identified, a model that approximates the portion can be specified, the portion... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Pk Attn: Patent Docketing

20100118750 - Wireless mesh network system and control method thereof, and wireless device: A wireless mesh network system includes a plurality of wireless devices and is adapted to forward a message packet. Each of the wireless devices includes a transmitter, a receiver, a communications controller, and a RAM. Further, the communications controller detects a reception completion time of a message packet received, and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100118752 - Method and apparatus of transition to a battery efficient state or configuration by indicating end of data transmission in long term evolution: A method is provided for sending a Fast Dormancy (FD) indication from a User Equipment (UE) to an access device through a Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The method includes receiving an indication from an upper layer that there is no more data for a prolonged period of time and... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100118753 - Power saving in ieee 802-style networks: A system and method for power saving in IEEE 802-style and ITU-T G.984-style networks overcomes the limitations of conventional techniques using information from user and network devices for initiating power savings by the user or network device, enabling power savings on links such as optical networks. This innovative technique provides... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20100118759 - method of obtaining a multimedia broadcast multicast service supporting ability of a cell: A method for obtaining the MBMS supporting ability of a cell is disclosed. The method concludes: step 1 in which RNC transmits an audit request message to Node B; step 2, the Node B returns an audit response message containing the MBMS supporting ability information of the cell to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100118755 - Control apparatus, signal transmission method and computer program product for the control apparatus: A control apparatus, a signal transmission method and a computer program product for the control apparatus are provided. The control apparatus, which is for use in a wireless network comprising at least one mobile station (MS), comprises a storage module, a receiving module, and a determination module. The storage module... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20100118758 - Distributing content in a communication network: A method involves determining a first content identifier for content and determining a second content identifier for the content, wherein the first content identifier belongs to a first system layer and the second content identifier belongs to the second system layer. The method further involves requesting for delivering of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100118757 - Method for reducing times of receiving overhead information by mobile multimedia broadcast terminal: A method for reducing times of receiving overhead information by a mobile multimedia broadcast terminal, comprising the following steps: a mobile multimedia broadcast system multiplexes different services according to service type, generates different overhead information, and adds an overhead information update indication in a corresponding service data segment for indicating... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20100118760 - Method for transmitting mobile multimedia broadcast service data flow and a multiplexing frame for transmitting: The present invention discloses a method for transmitting mobile multimedia broadcast service data flow and a multiplex-frame for transmitting to improve transmission efficiency and fault tolerance of a multimedia broadcast system. The method comprises: using, by a transmitter, one or more multiplexing blocks to carry a service data packet of... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20100118756 - Methods and systems for supporting mimo bursts for multicast and broadcast services: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for supporting multicast and broadcast services (MBS) with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capabilities. This can be achieved by adding specific MIMO information into existing MBS-MAP messages while providing backward compatibility.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118754 - System and method for multicasting in a network environment: An apparatus is provided in one example embodiment and includes a content player that receives a request for content from an endpoint and evaluates whether a given portion of the content has already been multicasted. If the portion has been multicasted, then the endpoint is connected to a multicast version... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100118761 - Methods and apparatus supporting adaptive decentralized traffic scheduling including a dynamic receiver yielding threshold: Methods and apparatus relating to scheduling of air link resources, e.g., traffic segments, in a wireless communications system are described. Various described methods and apparatus are well suited to wireless peer to peer networks in which traffic scheduling is decentralized, e.g. an ad hoc peer to peer network. An individual... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118762 - Mobile terminal and communication control method: An object is to realize execution of an access point function while keeping power consumption low. A cell phone 1 has a relay unit 16 for relaying data transmitted between a digital camera 5 and a network, and a relay controller 17 for changing an operation state of the relay... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100118768 - Adaptive coding and modulation using linked list data structures: A process is described to build physical layer frames with a modcode adapted to the signal quality of a destination terminal. Data packets assigned to the same modcode may be sent in the same frame, although packets associated with higher modcodes may be used to complete a frame before switching... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100118764 - Bandwidth allocation across beams in a multi-beam system: Satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. In one embodiment, a satellite communications system is configured to dynamically allocate bandwidth and frequencies among different beams. Bandwidth request data may be received and compiled from the terminals. The satellite may be configured with different beam coverage areas, and may... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100118765 - Carrier group apportionment for a satellite communications system: Satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. In one embodiment, a satellite communications system is configured to dynamically allocate bandwidth and frequencies among different beams. Bandwidth request data may be received and compiled from the terminals. The satellite may be configured with different beam coverage areas, and may... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100118763 - Data transfer: A radio system comprises a transmitter, an intermediate station, and a receiver for data transfer from the transmitter to the receiver. The intermediate station receives at least one data packet addressed to the receiver from the transmitter, transmits each data packet to the receiver, and performs signaling of the receiver... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20100118767 - Resource fairness policies for allocation of resources in a satellite communications system: Novel satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. In some embodiments, a satellite communications system is configured to dynamically allocate bandwidth to terminals. Such a system may be made up of a satellite in communication with terminals (e.g., user terminals or gateways). The satellite or a Network Control... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100118766 - Traffic class pool sizing for a satellite communications system: Novel satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. In some embodiments, a satellite communications system is configured to dynamically allocate bandwidth to terminals. Such a system may be made up of a satellite in communication with terminals (e.g., user terminals or gateways). The satellite or a Network Control... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100118769 - Terminal slot assignment for a satellite communications system: Novel satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. In some embodiments, a satellite communications system is configured to dynamically allocate bandwidth to terminals. Such a system may be made up of a satellite in communication with terminals (e.g., user terminals or gateways). The satellite or a Network Control... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100118791 - Communication system and handover communication method: When a downlink transmission is performed in the handover state in a mobile communication system having a mobile station, base stations and a base station controller, user data from the base station controller is transmitted from a first base station to the mobile station and error correction code for the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100118789 - Communication system and individual control information transmission and reception method: A communication system that transmits individual control information to a plurality of respective user terminals using a shared control channel, wherein when transmitting individual control information and prescribed control information to the user terminals, a base station device divides user terminals into groups according to the contents of the prescribed... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100118792 - Dual mac arbitration: A network appliance includes a first media access controller with a first transmit queue storing one or more data packets to be transmitted to a first wireless device. A second media access controller includes a second transmit queue storing one or more data packets to be transmitted to a second... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20100118778 - Improvements in mobile technology: Apparatus for enabling interworking of CS (Circuit Switched) video calls with video calls using IP multimedia protocols, comprising: a MGW (2); and a MGCF (4); wherein the apparatus is arranged to use MONA functionality (10, 11, 12, 14) to accelerate the set-up of video calls.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100118786 - Method and apparatus for collaborative sensing based on an allowed error range of a sensor in a wireless sensor node: A method and an apparatus for transmitting sensor data by using AER sensing and collaborative sensing in order to increase the energy efficiency in a wireless sensor network. The method includes calculating an AER for each of said at least one sensor using sensor data measured from said at least... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100118774 - Method for changing radio channels, composed network and access router: A method and apparatus for changing radio channels includes transmission of first data between a first user device and a second device via a first network element and via a first radio channel. A transmitting channel between the first network element and a second network element is used to transmit... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20100118782 - Method for communicating in a mimo context: The present invention relates to a method for communicating from a primary station with an array of transmit antennas to a secondary station on a downlink channel, said method comprising steps of, at the primary station, (a) configuring the downlink channel, step (a) being subdivided into steps of: (a2) computing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100118783 - Method for providing precoding information in a multi-user mimo system: The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network having a primary station and a plurality of secondary stations, said method comprising a step of, at the primary station, (a) configuring at least one downlink channel from the base station to a first secondary station, step (a)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100118788 - Method for random access in wireless communication system, wireless communication system, wireless terminal, and base station unit: In the event of detecting first information used for first random access and second information used for second random access, the second information being received from the base station unit, a wireless terminal selects one between the first information and the second information. Thereby, either one of the random accesses... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100118790 - Method of bearer deletion, device, and system: A method of bearer deletion is provided to improve the universality of the bearer deletion process. The method includes: receiving, by the original intermediate NE, the cancellation type indication parameter sent by the HSS, and deleting the bearer between the serving gateway (S-GW) and a packet data network gateway (P-GW),... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. Ipr & Standards Department

20100118771 - Method of transmitting protocol message for media independent handover in wireless access system: Disclosed is a method of transmitting a media independent handover (MIH) protocol message in a wireless access system. A method for a mobile node to transmit an MIH message in a wireless access system includes receiving a primitive including prescribed information from a first entity, generating the MIH message by... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100118772 - Methods and systems for extensible extended information element mapping: Methods and apparatus for expressing two or more extended information elements (IEs) of a MAP message using a single Extended or Extended-2 Downlink Interval Usage Code (DIUC) or Uplink Interval Usage Code (UIUC) in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) or orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame are provided. This... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118777 - Mobile communication system, base stattion apparatus and mobile station apparatus: When a mobile station 200 is out of uplink synchronization, an efficient procedure is realized no matter whether a dedicated signature can be allocated. In a mobile communication system in which a base station 100 transmits a DL-SCH to a mobile station 200, when the mobile station 200 is out... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100118780 - Packet communication method and receiving-side apparatus: A packet communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: starting, at a predetermined sublayer of a receiving-side apparatus, a reordering timer, when receiving a second packet before receiving a first packet in a case where a sequence number of the first packet is smaller than a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100118787 - Radio base station and mobile station: An error detection coding processing section of the radio base station performs an error detection coding process with data including both first control data to be used for receiving a downlink signal and second control data to be used for sending an uplink signal as a unit. A sending section... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100118784 - Recommending a transmission mode for a mimo-supporting ue: The present invention relates to methods, a network controller unit (120A, 120B) and a network unit 110A, 110) in a wireless communications system (100). According to the present invention, the transmission/reception mode to be used by a user equipment UE (130A, 130B) can be decided in the network controller unit... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100118779 - Retransmission request transmitting method and receiving-side apparatus: In a retransmission request transmitting method, an RLC sublayer of a receiving-side apparatus determines whether or not an RLC-PDU-data (or an RLC-data-Sub-PDU) not received yet is under retransmission control processing in a MAC sublayer; and generates and transmits a STATUS-PDU (NACK) including only a RLC-data-PDU which has neither been received... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100118770 - System and method for transferring data using variance based messaging: A system and method for providing data transfer from a source node to a destination node in a network using variance based messaging is provided. The method comprises the steps of receiving one or more messages by the source node; selecting a plurality of messages to be grouped from the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100118781 - Transmission scheme of protocol data units during a procedure that comprises the reset of the protocol layer: The invention relates to a method for transmitting data via a protocol sublayer of the mobile node during e.g. a handover that comprises the re-establishment of the protocol sublayer. The mobile node anticipates the handover, and has therefore more time to empty its transmission buffer of the protocol sublayer. Also,... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100118773 - User device, base station, and method: A disclosed user device generates an uplink control channel including at least one of acknowledgement information and a channel quality indicator regarding downlink and transmits the uplink control channel via a dedicated frequency band when no resource is allocated for transmission of an uplink data channel. The uplink control channel... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100118785 - Wireless communication device, wireless communication system and wireless communication method: A wireless communication device includes: a reception portion that receives a transmission request signal addressed to the wireless communication device that is transmitted from a counterpart communication device; a determination portion that, when the reception portion receives the transmission request signal, determines whether data transmission from the counterpart communication device... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100118775 - Wireless mesh network system and control method thereof, and wireless device: A wireless mesh network system includes a plurality of wireless devices adapted to forward a message packet. Each of the wireless devices includes a transmitting unit, receiving unit, a communications controller, and a RAM. Further, the communications controller controls such that an original source address contained in a message packet... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100118776 - Wireless mesh network system and control method thereof, and wireless device: A wireless mesh network system having a plurality of wireless devices is adapted to forward a message packet. Each of the wireless devices includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, a communications controller, and a RAM. Further, if a message packet received is an acknowledgement signal, the communications controller controls... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100118809 - Apparatus and method for allocating id cell to avoid preamble pseudo noise code duplication in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus is configured to allocate an IDentification (ID) cell to avoid duplication of a preamble Pseudo Noise (PN) code in a broadband wireless communication system. The apparatus selects one sector inside the system. A temporary ID cell for the selected sector is selected. Whether an ID cell of a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100118816 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data in wireless communication system: An apparatus for transmitting in a wireless communication system includes: a frame generating unit configured to generate a frame based on user data and to transmit the frame and frame information; a scheduling unit configured to generate a schedule of the frames to be transmitted on a frame-by-frame basis based... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100118801 - Autonomous downlink code selection for femto cells: Downlink codes may be chosen autonomously for femtocells in a wireless communication environment. Downlink transmissions are received from Home NodeBs that are neighbors of the femtocell and macrocell base stations near the femtocell. The downlink transmissions are evaluated to recognize a first set of detected downlink codes that each have... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118803 - 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 communicating with the mobile station, the base station apparatus applies a scheduling scheme for assigning radio resources to mobile stations for each constant period, and the mobile station transmits a first signal to the base station... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100118817 - Channel quality feedback in multicarrier systems: A wireless communication system facilitates multichannel periodic and aperiodic feedback (e.g., Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), Rank indicator (RI), Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI)) from a population of user equipment while facilitating legacy single carrier communication. Paired downlink (DL)/uplink (UL) or many-to-one mapping communication can be established by common system information or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118795 - Cognitive error control coding for channels with memory: Techniques for adapting error control codes (ECCs) based on memory conditions in a channel. A wireless communication system may be adapted to detect and quantify memory in a channel, such as memory resulting from multipath fading, and adjust an ECC to reduce the possibility of errors impacting communication in the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100118820 - Communicating data block in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting/receiving a data block is disclosed. In receiving at least one data block multiplexed to one physical channel, the present invention includes the steps of receiving control information for a data block transmission, checking whether there is a necessity for configuring a table having combination information of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100118793 - Communications methods and apparatus related to patitioned traffic segments: Methods and apparatus related to partitioning traffic segments are described. An access router, having concurrent connections with two access terminals and desiring to transmit traffic signals to the two access terminals in the same traffic segment, partitions a traffic segment. The partition is such that a first portion of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118815 - Discontinuous reception control method of user equipment in wireless communication system: A Discontinuous Reception (DRX) control method and apparatus are provided for determining a start time of the duration period of DRX operation in a wireless communication system using a short DRX cycle and a long DRX cycle. A DRX control method of a user equipment of the present invention includes... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100118802 - Method and apparatus for directional association in a wireless communications system: A method of wireless communications is provided. The method includes transmitting, from the first device to the second device, at least one association request having a plurality of packets, each packet being respectively transmitted in a different direction; detecting an association response from the second device; and determining a preferred... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118807 - Method and apparatus for indicating deactivation of semi-persistent scheduling: A method and apparatus for performing semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) deactivation in a wireless mobile communication system are disclosed. A base station (BS) transmits a downlink control channel to a user equipment (UE), and deactivates the SPS when a binary field indicating resource allocation information contained in the downlink control channel... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100118808 - Method and apparatus for inter-frame sharing in cognitive radio system: An operating method of a source Base Station (BS) for inter-frame sharing in a Cognitive Radio (CR) system includes generating a first random number for a frame contention; requesting the frame contention to one or more destination BSs by carrying the first random number; receiving responses for the frame contention... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100118813 - Method and apparatus for switching operational modes in a cognitive radio system: A method and apparatus for switching operational modes in a Cognitive Radio (CR) system are provided. A method for switching between a normal operation mode and a coexistence operation mode in a CR system includes occupying at least one channel in the normal operation mode, when there is no channel... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100118799 - Method for selecting rach freamble sequence for high-speed mode and low-speed mode: A method for selecting a RACH preamble sequence for a high-speed mode and a low-speed mode is disclosed. In the case of acquiring sequence-type information to be used by a specific UE contained in a high-mobility region, a signaling reanalysis method under a general circular shift condition is disclosed, and... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100118811 - Method for state transition of mobile terminal: In a wireless mobile communications system, a state transition method of a mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal receives downlink data in a first state of the mobile terminal, a state of the mobile terminal keeps in the first state or transits to a second state based on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100118800 - Method for transmitting downlink control channel in a mobile communications system and a method for mapping the control channel to physical resource using block interleaver in a mobile communications system: A method for transmitting a downlink control channel in a mobile communication system and a method for mapping the control channel to physical resources using a block interleaver are provided. In order to transmit a downlink control channel in a mobile communication system, information bits are modulated to generate one... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100118812 - Method of allocating logical channels in wireless sensor network: A method of allocating logical channels in consideration of an interference range in a wireless sensor network includes defining logical channels to increase the number of available channels and determining the number of logical channels in accordance with the number of nodes within an interference range, allocating the logical channels... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100118796 - Method of allocating resources in wireless communication system: A method of allocating resources in a wireless communication system includes configuring priorities for a plurality of logical channels according to a first criterion, wherein each of the plurality of logical channels has each priority and allocating resources to a subset of the plurality of logical channels according to a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100118818 - Method of resolving overlaps in data transmission and user equipment therefor: A user equipment and corresponding method of transmitting symbols by the user equipment in a wireless communication system. The method includes: generating a first symbol and a second symbol, each symbol including a cyclic prefix and a data part; manipulating a part of the second symbol to be ignored in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100118798 - Method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system: A method for transmitting data in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method for transmitting data from the user equipment (UE) of the wireless communication system to the network comprises, upon receiving uplink scheduling information from the network, periodically transmitting uplink data to the network according to a first... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100118821 - Method of transmitting feedback information in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm)/ ofdm access (ofdma) mobile communication system: A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS. After determining to do so, the MS transmits a request message... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100118822 - Method of transmitting feedback information in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm)/ ofdm access (ofdma) mobile communication system: A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS. After determining to do so, the MS transmits a request message... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100118823 - Method of transmitting feedback information in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm)/ ofdm access (ofdma) mobile communication system: A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS. After determining to do so, the MS transmits a request message... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100118824 - Method of transmitting feedback information in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm)/ ofdm access (ofdma) mobile communication system: A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS. After determining to do so, the MS transmits a request message... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100118797 - Methods and systems using fast dl / ul synchronization for mobile systems: Certain embodiments provide techniques and apparatus that may allow for improvements in performance and power consumption in sleep and idle mode through fast DL and UL synchronization for wireless communications systems, such as Mobile WiMAX Systems.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118805 - Mobile communications system, base station apparatus, user apparatus, and method: A user apparatus which wirelessly communicates with a base station apparatus within a mobile communications system is disclosed. The user apparatus includes a receive unit which receives control information in downlink; and a transmit unit which transmits a first channel in uplink, wherein the transmit unit, based on the control... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100118794 - Partitioned traffic segment communications methods and apparatus: Methods and apparatus related to partitioning traffic segments are described. An access router, having concurrent connections with two access terminals, each desiring to transmit traffic signals to the access router in the same traffic segment, partitions a traffic segment. The partition is such that a first portion of the traffic... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118814 - Radio frame control device, radio communication device, and radio frame control method: A radio frame control device comprises a controlling unit, a resource block allocation unit, and a resource block conversion unit. The controlling unit controls a downlink radio frame of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme. The resource block allocation unit allocates resource blocks to a terminal station using any... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100118810 - System and a method for supporting a plurality of multiple access technology and the frame structure thereof: A system and a method for supporting a plurality of multiple access technologies and the frame structure thereof, wherein, the method comprises the following steps: a base station sending a downlink frame which comprises at least one downlink multiple access zone, wherein each downlink multiple access zone supports one downlink... Agent: Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe

20100118819 - Systems, processes and integrated circuits for improved packet scheduling of media over packet: A method of processing first and second record packets of real-time information includes computing for each packet a deadline interval and ordering processing of the packets according to the respective deadline intervals. A single-chip integrated circuit has a processor circuit and embedded electronic instructions forming an egress packet control establishing... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100118806 - Unequal multipath protection of different frames within a superframe using different cyclic prefix lengths: Techniques for providing multipath protection of a portion of a frame classified as having a first importance level (e.g., critical) are provided. Different cyclic prefix lengths may be used, depending on whether a frame contains information deemed critical.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118804 - Wireless packet communication system and resource scheduling method thereof: According to the present invention, a wireless packet communication system having a protocol structure that can improve radio resource efficiency while reducing the amount of control information in packet transmission for radio resource allocation to a mobile station, and a radio resource allocation method of the system, is provided.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100118826 - Evolving-type user resource structure/channelization with enhanced diversity for ofdma based time-varying channels: An evolving-type resource structure supports high data rate services at high mobile speeds. The evolving-type resource structure is an efficient diversity-exploiting user resource structure for fast time-varying frequency-selective fading channel environments. In one example, an evolving-type resource structure takes advantages of both band-type and interleaved-type structures which exploit both multiuser... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100118828 - 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

20100118829 - Method, data structure and computer system for packing a worlwide interoperability for microwave access (wimax) frame: A method of packing a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) frame, characterised in that the method comprises the steps of: creating a matrix of substantially the same number of rows and columns as the WiMAX frame; mapping a first control message to a position in a first corner of... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20100118827 - Methods and systems for allocation of macro cell resources in a distributed femto cell network and a distributed relay station network: Methods and systems for reusing macro cell resources in femto cell base stations or relay stations in a non-collaborative manner are disclosed. In addition, orthogonal resource allocation between a macro cell base station and femto cell base stations/relay stations may be dynamically adjusted by considering user-population variance. Moreover, an additional... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20100118825 - Radio base station used in mobile communication system: A disclosed radio base station is used in a mobile communication system employing a single carrier scheme for uplink and includes a scheduler configured to allocate radio resources such that a first control channel accompanying an uplink data channel is transmitted using the same frequency band allocated to the uplink... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100118832 - Method for connection termination in mobile ip: A method is provided for optimizing the sending of a Mobile IP Revocation Reply. According to the invention methodology, a Foreign Agent operating as the care-of address for a given mobile unit will send to the Home Agent for that mobile unit a Revocation Acknowledgement message immediately after receiving a... Agent: Docket Administrator (room 2f-192)

20100118831 - Method for network layer handoff over a wireless lan and an associated access point device: A method and a wireless access point device for a network layer handoff of a wireless mobile node over a wireless local area network. The method includes detecting a wireless mobile node that has moved into the coverage area of the wireless access point device; maintaining an available IP address... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100118833 - Method for performing initial ranging in wireless communication system: A method of performing initial ranging in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a ranging request message and receiving a ranging response message including a temporary identifier for a mobile station which transmits the ranging request message. By using the temporary identifier which identifies the mobile station before establishing authentication,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100118830 - Mobile intelligent roaming using multi-modal access point devices: A system and method are provided in which access point (AP) devices in a wireless local area network (WLAN) are typed or configured into one of three measurement and reporting roles: Monitor-Mode AP (MMAP), Portal AP (PAP), a Border AP (BAP) or an Interior AP (IAP). APs are assigned specific... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100118839 - Conveying information through phase offset on pss relative to dl-rs: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate conveying information utilizing a constant phase offset on Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS). In general, the subject innovation can employ a fixed set of beams and phases in which a PSS and a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) can be transmitted with the fixed set... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118834 - Device beacon for communication management for peer to peer communications: A wireless communication device transmits a device beacon in accordance with a system timing of a wireless wide area network (WWAN). For one example, the beacon is transmitted relative to WWAN uplink channels of the time-frequency space of the uplink WWAN channel assignment. In response to the reception of the... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20100118838 - Heterogeneous back-off mechanism to decrease latency in mobile ip telephony: A heterogeneous back-off algorithm wherein latency-intolerant messages follow a linear back-off and other messages follow an exponential back-off protocol is disclosed. Typically exponential back-off techniques are used to schedule retransmissions to increase the probability of successful transmission in temporally high contention scenarios. However, exponential back-off can create an exponential increase... Agent: The Law Offices Of Dennis L. Cook, PLLC

20100118835 - Method and apparatus for channel access in a wireless communications system: A method of wireless communications is provided. The method includes transmitting a channel time allocation request from a first device to a second device, wherein the channel time allocation request comprises a list of devices to be trained by the first device; receiving a channel time allocation granted by the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118836 - Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system: The present invention relates to a method for sending reserved sub-carriers to a UE for the purpose of reducing peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of the transmitted signal to ensure sufficient quality of the modulated signal to achieve high data rate, including the steps of sending the information related... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100118840 - Pilot arrangement method in mobile radio communication system and transmitter/receiver adopting same: A pilot arrangement method in a mobile radio communication system by which, in order to avoid a problem that poor CQI accuracy affects the scheduling of channel arrangement to cause the throughput to be deteriorated, a working frequency band is divided into a plurality of predetermined bands and time division... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100118837 - Using synchronization frames for mesh networking with piconets: Certain aspects provide a technique for managing transmissions in a wireless network. The technique generally provides for an access terminal to transmit synchronization packets containing timing information regarding an existing piconet. The synchronization packets may contain an indication of resources of the piconet allocated to the access terminal by an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118853 - Advance notification of transmit opportunities on a shared-communications channel: A technique is disclosed that enables both an IEEE 802.11 transceiver and a Bluetooth transceiver to be employed in a single wireless telecommunication station (e.g., a device supporting a wireless telephone, personal digital assistant, etc.) without interfering on each other. In particular, the illustrative embodiment enables standard “off-the-shelf” IEEE 802.11... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100118851 - Apparatus and method for providing wlan service using multiple channel: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing a WLAN service using multiple channels. The wireless local area network (WLAN) service apparatus includes a service request receiver configured to receive service request information from a first wireless terminal accessed through a first channel, a data receiver configured to receive data... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100118848 - Communication terminal and image data transfer method: A communication terminal capable of easily transferring image data of a taken image and rapidly transferring the image data by using wireless LAN ad-hoc mode communication. In the terminal, a transmission section (109) transmits a beacon signal through a switching section (108) and an antenna (107) to search a terminal... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20100118843 - Communications methods and apparatus for use in communicating with access routers and/or other devices acting as communications peers: Methods and apparatus for performing peer to peer communications with access routers and non-access router peer devices are described. An access terminal generates a channel estimate estimating the channel between the access terminal and an access router. For at least some communication with the access router, a channel compensation operation... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118842 - Device beacon for handoff management of handoffs to access nodes: An access node receives a device beacon transmitted from a wireless communication device in accordance with a system timing of a wireless wide area network (WWAN). When transmitted within a WWAN uplink channel, the device beacon is mapped to designated beacon channels within the time-frequency space of the uplink WWAN... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20100118841 - Device beacon for handoff management of handoffs to base stations: A detecting base station comprises a device beacon detector that is configured to apply wireless wide area network (WWAN) system timing to receive a device beacon transmitted by a wireless communication device in accordance with the WWAN system timing and outside of a WWAN uplink channel. The detecting base station... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20100118854 - Dual band wlan communication frequency synthesizer technique: A dual band WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) communications technique is provided where a frequency synthesizer unit generates an LO (Local Oscillator) signal at a frequency between both frequency bands and two downconversion units and/or two upconversion units are provided. One of the units performs conversion between the LO signal... Agent: B. No&#xeb L Kivlin Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20100118844 - Dynamic lightweight remote management of hybrid femtocell gateways: System(s) and method(s) that facilitate dynamic remote management of consumer premise devices comprising femtocells integrated into broadband gateways are presented. A communication network platform is associated with a consumer premise device(s) and can include a remote management component that facilitates dynamic and remote management of consumer premise devices in a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100118845 - Method and apparatus for implementing generic access network functionality in a wireless communication device: According to one aspect of the teachings presented herein, a “smart” phone or other wireless communication device includes a “modem” processor configured to support cellular communication network signaling and an “applications” processor configured to host call control and/or user applications, such as by providing a desired Operating System (OS) for... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100118850 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in wireless network: A method and apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless network. A piconet coordinator transmits a frame, which is built by combining and capsulating a plurality of datagrams respectively corresponding to a plurality of devices, to the plurality of devices. Thus, since a time interval to ensure a frame header... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100118846 - Mobile router with serial device interface: A mobile router having a serial interface is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the mobile router may comprise a serial port data publisher module that may take data received from a serial device connected to a serial port of the mobile router and make the data from the serial device... Agent: Buchalter Nemer

20100118849 - Ofdm receiving device and ofdm receiving method: An OFDM receiver 1 receives an OFDM signal. The OFDM signal is composed of a useful symbol period for transmitting a signal relating to data and a guard interval period for transmitting a signal that is the same as part of the signal transmitted in the useful symbol period. An... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100118852 - System and method of processing data using scalar/vector instructions: A method of processing data is disclosed that includes performing a fetch of a plurality of instructions from a memory unit. The method also includes grouping the plurality of instructions into packets of instructions of different types for parallel execution by a plurality of instruction execution units. The packets of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118847 - Wireless communication terminal, access point equipment, wireless communication system, and method for providing and extracting data: A wireless communication system includes a first network including a base station, a second network including a second base station, and a data providing server. The second base station extracts a first identification data to identify the base station by receiving a radio wave transmitted from the base station. The... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20100118855 - Method and apparatus for hybrid fdm-cdm structure for single carrier based control channels: A system and method for hybrid FDM (frequency division multiplexing)-CDM (code division multiplexing) structure for single carrier control channels is provided. The hybrid FDM-CDM structure maximizes frequency diversity over the entire available bandwidth such that orthogonality between signals from users in a given cell is maintained. Thus, users in the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118856 - Radio link performance prediction in wireless communication terminal: A wireless communication terminal including a controller coupled to a transceiver wherein the controller is configured to determine a synchronization based on a mapping of channel state information to decoder error rate corresponding to a hypothetical control code word, to attempt to decode a control codeword in a received signal,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100118857 - Method of performing polling procedure in a wireless communication system: A method of performing a polling procedure in a wireless communication system is disclosed. In a method of performing polling procedure in a protocol layer in a wireless communication system, wherein the protocol layer performs a data retransmission function, the method comprises triggering a polling procedure to request a receiving... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100118858 - Method and apparatus for locationing an object in a communication network: A method and apparatus for locationing an object in a communication network. The method includes transmitting by a wireless transceiver fixed to the object of unknown location a plurality of radio frequency (RF) packets to a plurality of locationing receivers (LRs) in the communication network. The method further includes determining... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100118865 - Apparatus and method for providing recording service in ip multimedia subsystem: An apparatus and method are provided for proving the recording service in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The apparatus includes a communication unit for receiving a recording request from a calling portable terminal or a called portable terminal, and a recording service manager unit coupled to the communication... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100118864 - 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

20100118861 - Inter-working between a packet-switched domain and a circuit-switched domain: The present invention proposes a solution for providing packet-switched services to a user, even in case the user is accessibly only via a circuit-switched access. For this purpose it is proposed to force the user to report changes in the reachability status and to keep the user's registration alive in... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100118866 - Internet protocol transport of pstn-to-pstn telephony services: A system for transporting public switched network (PSTN) terminated signaling across an Internet protocol (IP) network includes a gateway between the PSTN and the IP network. The gateway receives a telephony signaling message from the PSTN and determines if the telephony signaling message maps to an IP signaling message. If... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100118860 - Method and arrangement for allowing enterprise and personal domains in the ims: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for allowing private domains in the IMS, which makes it possible to use a SIP URI like ID@private-domain.TLD. This is achieved by providing an administration support and an interface to the IMS interconnect DNS and the DNS system of the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100118863 - Method for realizing a re-answer call: A method for realizing a re-answer call, comprises: S402, the calling user that a mobile terminal belongs to calls and communicates with the called user that a fixed terminal belongs to, and a media gateway control equipment sends to a media processing equipment a detecting event of re-answer signal; S404,... Agent: Gable & Gotwals

20100118862 - Method of and a system for establishing a call over an ip multi media communications system and a circuit switched communications system: A system and method for simultaneously supporting IMS signaling and Circuit Switched signaling during a call between a calling user terminal in an IP Multi media System (IMS) and a called user terminal in a Circuit Switched CS network. A first IP address is determined by the calling user terminal,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100118859 - Routine communication sessions for recording: Systems and methods for recording a communication session between a customer and an agent are provided. In this regard, a representative method comprises: routing a media stream associated with the communication session based on information corresponding to routing criteria, wherein the routing criteria include call control protocols or policies; receiving... Agent: Lawrence A. Aaronson, P.C. Lawrence A. Aaronson

20100118867 - Switching frame and router cluster: A switching chassis includes more than one cascade unit and more than one switching unit, where: the cascade units have cascade interfaces to connect line processing chassis; the switching units have switching ports to connect the cascade interfaces; and any cascade interface of any cascade unit is connected to one... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100118873 - Audio network system: A plurality of partial networks can work independently from each other, and each partial network connects together several nodes including a connection node for transmission of audio signals. A connection network connects respective connection nodes of the respective partial networks so as to connect the plurality of the partial networks... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20100118872 - Communication apparatus and path setting control method: A communication apparatus operable to set a path based on path setting information used to set a communication path over a communication network formed by a plurality of the communication apparatuses, the communication apparatus including a first storage medium operable to store first path setting information formatted with a first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100118869 - Facilitating transition of network operations from ip version 4 to ip version 6: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to facilitating transitions from IPv4 to IPv6 networks. In particular implementations, the invention facilitates or enables accessibility of network application services between IPv4 and IPv6 hosts, or traversal of network paths including both IPv6 or IPv4 domains. Particular implementations of the invention are directed to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100118874 - Method, system and peer device for message routing: A method for message routing in a Peer to Peer (P2P) network includes the following steps: when a request message is routed from a source peer to a destination peer, the source peer and every intermediate peer that needs to be recorded add path information of the local peer to... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100118870 - Phase control of a synchronization signal in a packet switching network: The present invention pertains to a device able to send packets in a packet communication network comprising at least two stations, the said device comprising means for: -extracting image pips on the basis of a synchronization signal; -initializing a first counter on the basis of the said image pips; -initializing... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100118868 - Secure network optimizations when receiving data directly in a virtual machine's memory address space: Techniques are disclosed for increasing the security of a system where incoming network packets are directly placed into the memory space of a virtual machine (VM) operating system (OS) running on the system via direct memory access (DMA). In an embodiment, each packet is split into a first portion, which... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20100118871 - Systematic approach towards minimizing packet classifiers: A method is provided for constructing a packet classifier for a computer network system. The method includes: representing a set of rules for packet classification as a directed graph; formulating a plurality of minimization problems from the directed graph, where subgraphs extending from non-terminal nodes in the directed graph represent... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100118875 - Interconnecting network processors with heterogeneous fabrics: A method and apparatus to perform protocol translation for a modular system may be described.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20100118876 - Link layer control protocol implementation: The present invention relates to a link layer control protocol implementation in a communication system. To improve operative efficiency of the link layer control protocol implementation it is suggested to delay issuance of a retransmission request for a missing data unit during a retransmission delay time period. Therefore, according to... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100118877 - Communications switching architecture: Presently described is a system and method for switching multimedia data communications, including but not limited to Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony, cable TV, digital audio and video. The system utilizes a single, integrated device to provide all PacketCable-compliant functionality, including enhanced user privacy, compliance with CALEA, E911 and other... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20100118878 - Method and apparatus for non-disruptive call modification: A method and system for changing the extent of data plane resources controlled by a control plane for a network connection which spans a contiguous set of nodes controlled by existing network control resources is disclosed. This is done in a non-disruptive manner. This typically involves two steps: i) Creating... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20100118880 - Method and system for network switch element: Method and system for a network switch element is provided. The switch element includes a plurality of megaports, each megaport uniquely identified by a unique megaport address identifier for network addressing. Each megaport includes a plurality of operational ports, each operational port identified by a unique operational port address identifier.... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20100118881 - Routing network packets based on electrical power procurement arrangements: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of selecting routes for network packets through a computer network based, at least in part, on electrical power procurement arrangements of devices in the computer network. As described herein, there may be a plurality of routes through a computer network from a first device... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20100118879 - Session continuity for support of simultaneous terminal accesses: Methods and nodes are provided for supporting session continuity for terminals capable of having simultaneous accesses while served by a plurality of gateways. Distinct binding cache entries (BCE) are stored for a terminal, each BCE being related to one of the gateways serving the terminal. The BCEs identify the terminal,... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20100118882 - Method, apparatus, and system for packet transmission: This invention discloses a method, apparatus, and system for packet transmission. The method for packet transmission includes: configuring the two logical interfaces of a bidirectional tunnel to operate in bridge mode; at the first logical interface of the two, encapsulating Layer 2 packets and the protocol type information in tunnel... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100118884 - Method for resolving mutex contention in a network system: A method of resolving mutex contention within a network interface unit which includes providing a plurality of memory access channels, and moving a thread via at least one of the plurality of memory access channels, the plurality of memory access channels allowing moving of the thread while avoiding mutex contention... Agent: Mhkkg/oracle (sun)

20100118883 - Systems and methods for queue management in packet-switched networks: This disclosure relates to methods and systems for queuing traffic in packet-switched networks. In one of many possible embodiments, a queue management system includes a plurality of queues and a priority module configured to assign incoming packets to the queues based on priorities associated with the incoming packets. The priority... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100118885 - Predictive packet forwarding for a network switch: A network switch includes a predictor using data in a packet to predict a flow for the packet. A forwarding engine forwards at least a portion of the packet on a switch fabric to an egress port in the switch determined from the predicted flow. The forwarding engine is operable... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100118887 - Communication system and communication method: A communication device 1 has a first protocol analysis section 11 that analyzes a status of a transmission signal Vs received at a transmission signal receiver 10. A transmission controller 14 determines a communication available period and a communication unavailable period based upon the analysis result. When the communication available... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20100118886 - System, apparatus and method for providing aggregated network connections: The invention discloses a network aggregation system, apparatus and method for creating aggregated network connections to provide high availability and increased throughput where the plurality of network connections may possess diverse physical and logical characteristics. Increased throughput on the aggregated network connection equals the sum of the available throughput on... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20100118888 - Message synchronization over a stochastic network: Methods and apparatus to communicate between a local component and a remote component, where the local component is connected to the remote component using a non-deterministic communication link. A local clock is synchronized with a remote clock to within a maximum offset. A rate message from the remote component is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100118890 - Method of data processing in a wireless communication system: A method of data processing in a protocol layer of a wireless communication system, the protocol layer having a header compression function, comprises generating at least one of a control packet which includes control information, and a data packet including at least part of an upper layer data block transferred... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100118889 - Method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system: A method of configuring a lower layer data block in a protocol layer of a transmitting side of a wireless communication system comprises receiving upper layer data from an upper layer, and configuring a second lower layer data block to include a first upper layer data block comprising at least... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100118892 - Efficient ue qos/ul packet build in lte: An apparatus for wireless communication includes a processing system. The processing system is configured to perform a first set of functions in a first thread. The first set of functions includes obtaining second data from a second thread and providing first data to the second thread to facilitate construction of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100118891 - Packet assembly in a communication network supporting virtual networks: In a first node, through which optical packets are able to input to the communication network, optical packets coming from the virtual network are assembled in packet field. The first node constructs a burst comprising the packet field and a label preceding the packet field and including helping to identify... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100118893 - Reducing overheads of a protocol data unit in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to transmitting data units of a radio protocol layer, wherein one logical channel identifier is added to one or more data units belonging to one logical channel. Because only one logical channel identifier is added to the data units belonging to one logical channel in constructing... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100118894 - Differential timing transfer over synchronous ethernet using digital frequency generators and control word signaling: A method, system and master service interface transfer differential timing over a packet network. The transmitting service interface receives a service clock and is coupled to a receiving service interface through a network backplane. A primary reference clock is provided to time the network backplane. The primary reference clock and... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20100118896 - Method and analysis of synchronized data traffic of a packet and address-oriented data network and configuration of such a data network for the implementation of the method: In a method and network for the analysis of synchronized data traffic, at least one network participant stores sent and/or received data packets in a mirror memory, and the data in the respective mirror memories are frozen and made available for evaluation via the entire data network, upon the occurrence... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20100118895 - Network timing synchronization systems: A method and means synchronize timing of a follower system to a reference system. A Hierarchical CFF function (“HCFF”) is applied to a set of Correction Factor Functions types (“CFFs”) or a set of other HCFF. Each CFF type uses the same input data set specific to that type and... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff And Associates, LLC.

20100110872 - Adaptive modulation for fixed wireless link in cable transmission system: In one embodiment of a communications network, the predetermined encoding scheme and symbol constellation configurations are chosen so that the range in channel qualities that the encoding scheme and symbol constellation configurations are designed to be utilized within overlap with each other. This overlapping provides hysteresis, which reduces the frequency... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100110874 - Method and apparatus for transmitting signal in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The signal transmission method includes grouping a plurality of subcarriers included in a first Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) symbol within distributed resources into a plurality of subcarrier groups, each subcarrier group having a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100110873 - Method of transmitting synchronization signal in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a synchronization signal includes generating a sequence P(k) for a synchronization signal from a Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence having the odd numbered length N, the sequence P(k) having the even numbered length N−I, mapping the sequence P(k) to subcarriers so that the sequence P(k) is halved with... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100110875 - modified slm scheme with low complexity for papr reduction of ofdm systems: Provided are an apparatus and method for reducing a PAPR with less computation complexity without distortion using a selected mapping scheme (SLM) in an OFDM system. The method includes: generating a plurality of OFDM signal sequences by performing an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) operation on input symbol sequences, which... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20100110876 - Backward-compatible long training sequences for wireless communication networks: A network device for generating an expanded long training sequence with a minimal peak-to-average ratio. The network device includes a signal generating circuit for generating the expanded long training sequence. The network device also includes an Inverse Fourier Transform for processing the expanded long training sequence from the signal generating... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100110878 - Method and apparatus for providing control signaling: An approach is provided for an efficient control signaling associated with an error control scheme. A determination is made whether data has been properly received according to an error control scheme. A first pilot sequence representing an acknowledgement is generated if the data is properly received. A second pilot sequence... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20100110879 - Method and apparatus for providing multimedia broadcast multicast service: Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing a multimedia broadcast multicast service. The method for providing a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) in a base station includes determining the number of terminals receiving the MBMS and determining a unit-cell or multi-cell transmission scheme by comparing predetermined unit-cell and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100110877 - System and method for failover of mobile units in a wireless network: A method of handling a discontinuation of service from a wireless access device is provided. The first wireless access device has a first basic service set identifier and communicates with a plurality of mobile units using a first channel. The method comprises transmitting a first service notice with a second... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20100110880 - Method for reconfiguring a communication network: A method for reconfiguring a packet-switched communication network using a network protocol for installing a logic topology of the network formed as a spanning tree is disclosed. The method includes detecting failure of a direct link to a root bridge of the spanning tree by a first bridge; detecting the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100110882 - Method and apparatus for implementing automatic protection switching functionality in a distributed processor data router: An automated-protection-switching (APS) software suite for distribution over multiple processors of a distributed processor router has an APS server module running on a first one of the multiple processors for managing communication and distributing configuration and state information and APS client modules running on second ones of the multiple processors,... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20100110881 - Method for protection switching in ethernet ring network: Provided is a protection switching method via forwarding table correction in an Ethernet ring network. Upon detecting a failure in a link, a node generates a protection switching frame including an address list of a forwarding table corresponding to a port connected to the link, and transmits the protection switching... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100110883 - Method and system for determining alternate paths: An approach is provided for determining alternative paths. Information is stored specifying a set of available paths among network elements within a connection-oriented network. The available paths are sorted according to a predetermined criterion. The sorted paths are selectively filtered based on either a particular one of the network elements,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100110884 - Method for reconfiguring a communications network: A method of reconfiguring a communications network is provided. A first network using a first network protocol and a second network using a second network protocol are connected by a master data link initialized as activated and two slave data links initialized as inactivated. A failure of the master data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100110885 - Method, network element device and network system for establishing connection between maintenance node and base station: A method for establishing a connection between a maintenance node and a base station includes the following steps: the base station switches over to a preset standby Operation & Maintenance (OM) channel when an main OM channel fails and sends to the maintenance node via the standby OM channel a... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100110886 - Automated local spectrum usage awareness: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus and computer programs providing localized awareness of spectrum usage and other factors in uncoordinated deployments of radio access networks. A method includes transmitting a beacon from a first access node for reception by a first user terminal that is associated with the first access node... Agent: Harrington & Smith

20100110887 - Admission control for a heterogeneous communication system: A heterogeneous communication system comprises a plurality of heterogeneous access networks and a core network connecting the heterogeneous access networks. An admission server of the core network receives resource indications indicative of an estimated resource usage for a given communication service and a given access point of an access network.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100110888 - Method of preventing data collosions in beacon-enabled zigbee system having tree routing scheme: Provided is a method of preventing a data collision that occurs when two or more child nodes simultaneously transmit data to a parent node in a ZigBee network having a tree routing scheme and operating in a beacon mode. In the ZigBee system having the tree routing scheme and operating... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100110889 - Policing device: A policing device having a table storing monitored bandwidth, packet history information for each importance level, and the allocation weight of the monitored bandwidth for each importance level, a policing table control circuit for reading out these items of information into each storage of a policing unit when a packet... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20100110890 - Wireless network selection management: Providing for network selection management for a mobile communication environment is provided herein. By way of example, the network selection can supersede default network selection configurations of a mobile terminal. Usage behaviors of mobile terminals can be monitored to gauge service demand for individual terminals. Based on the service demand,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100110892 - Network system, adjusting method of data transmission rate and computer program product thereof: A network system, an adjusting method of a data transmission rate of the network system, and a computer program product thereof are disclosed. The network system comprises a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus. The transmitting apparatus is configured to transmit a packet train at a transmission rate to the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20100110891 - Sharing performance measurements among address prefixes of a same domain in a computer network: In one embodiment, performance measurements may be obtained at a local domain from a set of one or more responding targets of a particular remote domain. The performance measurements may then be applied to prefix-specific policies of any corresponding destination address prefix within the particular remote domain, such that traffic... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100110894 - Automatic provisioning of a remote test head of a combined ip/telephony/cable network: In a telecommunications network that includes: a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) (4) that has a DSLAM ID assigned thereto, a test head (2) coupled to the DSLAM (4) including a VLAN ID and a MAC address, and an auto-provisioning server (10), a public IP network is created between... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20100110897 - Method for monitoring downlink control channel in user equipements: The method for discontinuously monitoring downlink control channel in a user equipment in a wireless communication system includes receiving a discontinuous reception (DRX) Start Offset from a base station to be used for both a first DRX Cycle and a second DRX Cycle, and starting an On Duration Timer at... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100110896 - Method of improving discontinuous reception functionality and related communication device: The present invention provides a method of improving discontinuous reception (DRX) functionality. The method includes entering a DRX cycle, executing a first equation according to a system frame number, a subframe number, and a DRX cycle parameter, for generating a first result, executing a second equation according to a DRX... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100110895 - Methods of packet element transmission in wireless communications system: A method of packet element transmission for a mobile device of a wireless communication system includes generating a control element including a triggered capability report and a header of the capability report when the mobile device has sufficient resources to transmit both of the capability report and the header thereof... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100110893 - System and method for providing user feedback in association with content in a network: Methods and apparatus are described for enabling users to provide feedback in relation to content. Such a method includes receiving a stamp registration request from a first client terminal, wherein the stamp registration request includes first content identification information for identifying a first content item and first stamp information representing... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20100110898 - Optical network terminal management and control interface over ethernet: An apparatus comprising a data framer configured to frame an external protocol extension message for transmission, the external protocol extension message comprising a header that indicates an external protocol extension and at least one type-length-value (TLV) comprising a type field, a length field, and a value field, wherein a format... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. C/o Conley Rose, P.C.

20100110899 - Stressing a network device: A method of stressing a network device includes sending an echo request having a payload to the network device. The payload is configured to stress the network device. The method also includes determining whether the network device is healthy despite receiving the payload.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100110900 - System and method of detecting and locating intermittent electrical faults in electrical systems: Signals are transmitted from at least one transmitter that is positioned in an electrical network. The signals that have been transmitted are received by the at least one single receiver at a single receiver positioned within the electrical network. At the single receiver, the received signals are analyzed and a... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100110901 - Techniques for radio link problem and recovery detection in a wireless communication system: A technique for radio link detection in a wireless communication system includes estimating a first error rate of an indicator channel. In this case, the indicator channel includes an indication of a number of symbols in a control channel. A second error rate of the control channel is also estimated.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20100110902 - Traffic matrix computation for a backbone network supporting virtual private networks: This invention provides a more effective method for capacity planning and traffic engineering of packet networks that connect Virtual Private Network (VPN) sites. A distributed architecture efficiently computes traffic matrixes that show the number of bytes and/or packets exchanged among provider edge (PE) routers and/or service nodes. Each PE router... Agent: At&t Corp.

20100110903 - Fault location: The nodes (200, 201), etc in a hierarchical network are also capable of forming direct wireless connections between each other. Each node checks on a regular basis to determine whether its network connection is intact. If a node (211) discovers that its direct broadband connection (31, 21, 33, 24, 34)... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100110904 - Identifying improper cabling of devices: A system and method are disclosed for identifying an improper cabling of control system devices connected to redundant communication networks of a distributed control system, such as a substation automation system. As proposed in the standard IEC 62439 (Parallel Redundancy Protocol PRP), messages including a sender identification or source address... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100110906 - Efficient full mesh load testing of network elements: s

20100110913 - Interference detecting device and method for detecting interference for wireless communication: The present invention relates to a method for detecting interference and an interference detecting device for a wireless communication capable of improving detection accuracy of an interference signal in a wireless communication device without influencing network operation while the interference signal is detected; and, more particularly, to a method for... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100110922 - Method and apparatus for estimating channel bandwidth: A bandwidth estimation algorithm detects peaks and/or average per-user bandwidth of data communication networks, such as narrowband and broadband wide-area radio access networks. Estimation can be performed at the TCP/IP layer with no lower layer (PHY, MAC, etc.) information assumed to be available. However, the bandwidth estimation algorithm can be... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20100110909 - Method and apparatus for estimating traffic flows using dynamic latency constraints: A method and apparatus that use dynamic latency to estimate traffic flows in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method obtains a demand matrix having at least one point pair demand, and satisfies each of the at least one point pair demand in the demand matrix by selecting... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100110915 - Method and apparatus for inspection of compressed data packages: A method for inspection of compressed data packages, which are transported over a data network, is provided. The data packages comprise a data package header containing control data for securing the correct delivery and interpretation of the package and a payload part containing data to be transferred over the data... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20100110918 - Method and apparatus for performance monitoring in a communications network: A method and device for determining a packet drop indicator, for use in a communication system is described. The method comprises the following steps: A. determining the number of packets sent at a sending side within a first time period; B. determining the number of packets received at a receiving... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100110919 - Method and device for controlling data connections in a data network having a plurality of data network nodes: A method and a device for controlling data connections in a data network including a plurality of data network nodes. The quality of a first data connection is evaluated on the basis of the adaptations of at least one coding used for the first data connection, and a second data... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100110925 - Method and system for adjusting configuration of border object: The present disclosure relates to communication technologies and discloses a method for adjusting BO configuration and an EMS for use in a mobile communication network. The method includes: exchanging, by an Element Management System, EMS, information about BOs managed by other EMSs with each of the other EMSs; and negotiating... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100110911 - Method and system for conserving power in powerline network having multiple logical networks: A method and system for conserving power in a powerline network, such as a Homeplug AV (HPAV) network, that has multiple logical networks, such as multiple AV logical networks (AVLN). Power conservation is achieved through the expedient of a packet presence region (PPR) that informs nodes whether or not they... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20100110912 - Method and system for transmitting the broadcast/multicast service: The present application discloses a method and system for transmitting a Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS), which is used for solving the problem that macro cell coverage of the MBMS and macro diversity combining of multi-cells cannot be implemented efficiently based on a frame structure of the existing Time Division-Synchronous Code Division... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20100110923 - Method of operating a telecommunications network: In a method of operating a data network comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes (30) each of which is operable to perform one or more services upon receiving a suitable request for a service, one or more user devices (10) connected to the network can issue requests (12,14) for a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100110905 - Method of providing point-to-multipoint service in mobile communication system: A method of providing a point-to-multipoint service in a mobile communication system and transmission controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a better quality of a point-to-multipoint service can be provided in a manner of coping with time-variable channel situation variable adaptively. In a mobile communication system providing a point-to-multipoint... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100110914 - Method of transmitting channel quality indicator in wireless comunication system: A method of transmitting a channel quality indicator (CQI) includes obtaining CQIs for each of a plurality of sub-bands, a sub-band comprising a plurality of sub-carriers, dividing the plurality of sub-bands into a plurality of layers according to a CQI of a sub-band, a layer comprising at least one sub-band,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100110920 - Method used for radio measurement and a communication node in a communication network: A method used for radio measurement in a communication network is provided. The communication network comprises multiple basic service sets controlled by a core network controller. The method comprises the steps of: the core network controller issuing a measurement request to a communication node working on a service channel; the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100110917 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for adaptive reference symbol placement: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided that determine the length of an idle period, such as the idle period preceding a DL-to-UL switch point, and then insert a symbol including reference signal(s) (RS) at a position within a downlink slot that varies based upon the length of... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100110908 - Methods and apparatus for adding latency and jitter to selected network packets: A method for adding latency and jitter to a number of selected packets transmitted between end systems within a network of end systems is described. The method includes receiving a packet identifier, the packet identifier indicating a selected packet to which latency and jitter is to be added, receiving a... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20100110926 - Methods and apparatus for processing radio modem commands during network data sessions: A radio modem device includes a serial interface adapted for connection to a host device via a wired serial link with use of a PPP connection; a radio modem router coupled to the serial interface; a radio modem server coupled to the radio modem router; and RF transceiver processing circuitry... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. LLC

20100110927 - Monitoring portal systems and methods: In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a monitoring portal configured to receive state information descriptive of usage of a plurality of communication services provided on a plurality of communication networks of different types and to make the state information available to a subscriber of the plurality of... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100110924 - Multihop radio hazard reporting system: A method and a system for the propagation of a message in a radio-operated communication network having a base unit and a plurality of members, wherein the base unit and the members each includes a transmitter and a receiver, the receiver being activated at cyclical switch-on times for a certain... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100110910 - Multiservice communication device with dedicated environmental monitoring: A multiservice communication device includes a plurality of transceivers that wirelessly transceive data with a corresponding plurality of networks in accordance with a corresponding plurality of network protocols. An environmental monitoring receiver processes received RF signals over a broadband spectrum and that generates environmental data in response thereto. A processing... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100110921 - Pre-evaluation of multiple network access points: The present application describes, inter alia, novel techniques to perform pre-evaluations of multiple Wi-Fi Access Points (AP) and Access Networks (AN). A pre-evaluation determines whether or not an AP is connected to the Internet and measures the path performance that the AN, via that particular AP, can offer between the... Agent: Attn: Stephen B. Parker (wpd) Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100110907 - System and method for measuring interface utilization using policers: An approach is provided for monitoring interface utilization. Bandwidth data for an interface is collected during a configurable time interval, and a peak utilization of the interface over the time interval is determined using a plurality of incremented policers to measure the collected bandwidth data. An implementation of which is... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100110916 - Wireless communication network analyzer: A packet controller for simultaneous processing of data packets transmitted via a plurality of communication channels includes a plurality of inputs to receive a respective plurality of signals, such that each of the plurality of signals is indicative of a presence of a data packet on a respective one of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20100110930 - Energy-efficeint neighbor discovery for mobile wireless sensor networks: A node device (601) of a wireless sensor network comprises a receiver (651) for receiving transmissions from other nodes. A controller (641) selectively switches on said receiver (651) according to a timetable. The node device (601) maintains synchronization with and receives beacon transmissions from another node in said wireless sensor... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20100110931 - Method for allocating an address of device in wireless personal area network (wpan) and wpan device: The present invention relates to a method of efficiently assigning addresses in a WPAN and a WPAN device. The address assignment method of the present invention is performed by a higher device. Address assignment information for determining an address to be assigned to a lower device, is managed. An address... Agent: David A. Einhorn, Esq. Baker & Hostetler LLP

20100110928 - Methods and apparatus to advertise network routes to implement a hybrid network topology: Example methods and apparatus to advertise network routes to implement a hybrid network topology are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves receiving a route advertisement from a first node and identifying a first destination internet protocol address associated with the route advertisement. When the first destination internet protocol address matches... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100110932 - Network optimisation systems: We describe a 3D computer network optimisation tool using network management data including one or more of: network device data including hardware identification data, interface data characterising one or more interfaces of a said network device, firmware identification data for a said network device, operating system identification data for a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20100110929 - Transmission with hopping for peer-peer communication: Techniques for transmitting signals using time hopping or time and frequency hopping are described. In one design, a terminal selects different slots to use for transmission in multiple frames with time hopping. Each frame includes multiple slots, and each slot covers a particular time duration. The selected slots are at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100110933 - Change management of model of service: A system for managing a computer implemented service, according to given requirements has a template (71) of a model of the service, parameterised by requirements and also representing allowed operations (65) to change the model, parameterised by requirements. A rendering tool (61) uses the template to create a service model... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100110935 - Efficient content authentication in peer-to-peer networks: A method and distributed network are provided. The method includes: providing an abstract tree structure having a root node, a plurality of tree nodes, and a plurality of leaf nodes, wherein each leaf node corresponds to at least a portion of data (box 601); mapping, in accordance with a first... Agent: Harrington & Smith

20100110936 - Method and system for classifying data packets: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for building a classification tree based on a plurality of rules. Each rule includes multiple fields having different priority levels. The classification tree is built to provide for single pass classification of a received packet according to the multiple rules. The classification tree... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20100110934 - Optimized cache consistency algorithm in a point-to-point interconnected multiple processor system: A spanning tree is assigned to a processing node for each processing node in a point-to-point network that connects a plurality of processing nodes. The spanning tree uses the processing nodes as vertices and links of the network as edges. Each processing node includes input snoop ports that can be... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100110937 - Systems and methods for improving multicast communications: Systems and methods for improving multicast communications for media services in a network are provided. In this regard, a representative method, among others, includes receiving information related to consumers and at least one routing algorithm associated with the network; generating a multi-hop packet propagation tree based on the receive information... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100110938 - Multipoint multimedia/audio conference using ip trunking: A multipoint communication system uses Internet protocol trunking to facilitate communication between media control units (for sending and receiving multipoint communication signals between end-point devices), a media gateway (for translating between non-Internet protocol multipoint communication signals and Internet protocol communication signals), and a controller (for establishing and controlling a multipoint... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20100110939 - Information processing apparatus and duplex transmission method: There is provided an information processing apparatus includes a first module and a second module. The first module includes a first signal generator that produces a first signal by coding a first transmitted data into a waveform not including a direct-current component, having a polarity being inverted in each half... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100110940 - Acoustic wave filter, duplexer using the acoustic wave filter, and communication apparatus using the duplexer: An acoustic wave filter having excellent steepness is provided without adding any exterior components or any new manufacturing steps. A plurality of filters (10-1) each having a first resonator (2a-1) placed in a serial arm and having a resonance frequency frs and an anti-resonance frequency fas, and a second resonator... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100110941 - Management unit network for collaboratively managing a plurality of multiservice communication devices: A management unit includes a communication device interface for facilitating a bidirectional data communication with multiservice communication devices via a wireless control channel, the bidirectional data communication including outbound control data sent to at least one of the multiservice communication devices and inbound control data received from at least one... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100110942 - Layer 2 relay multiplexing and interference mitigation: A network arrangement comprising a relay node (RN), wherein the RN is configured to assign a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) allocated by an enhanced node B (ENB) for at least one user equipment (UE). A network comprising an ENB, wherein the ENB is configured to allocate a plurality of... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100110943 - Advanced active metamaterial antenna systems: Techniques, antenna systems and apparatus based on composite right and left handed (CRLH) metamaterial (MTM) structures to couple CRLH MTM circuits to transistors to amplify signals in wireless RF receivers and transmitters.... Agent: Rayspan Corporation

20100110944 - Communication terminal apparatus, communication administering apparatus, communication method, communication program, and recording medium: A communication terminal apparatus transmits to a communication administrating apparatus, request information requesting issue of identification information and including time information related to the transmission of the information from a requesting unit. The communication administrating apparatus, upon receipt, by a receiving unit, of the request information requesting issue of identification... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100110946 - Detecting the presence of coding scheme cs-i rlc/mac control message: A method of transmitting a downlink, coding scheme CS-1 RLC/MAC control message from a BSS to an EGPRS MS (61), and receiving and detecting the CS-1 RLC/MAC control message in the MS. The BSS places in an MCS-1 radio block, a CS-1 RLC/MAC control block identical to a coding scheme... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100110947 - Method and apparatus for sending system information in a wireless communication system: Techniques for transmitting system information (SI) in SI messages to enable efficient reception by user equipments (UEs) are described. In an aspect, SI messages may be scheduled using both a forward space after a reference time and a backward space prior to the reference time to allow more SI messages... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100110945 - System and method for providing closed subscriber groups in a packet-based wireless communication system: Systems and methods for providing radio frequency transceiver user equipment in a packet based radio frequency signaling communication system are disclosed. User equipment is provided with closed subscriber group “CSG” capability including permanent storage for a CSG whitelist, the whitelist including identifiers of CSGs the user equipment is a member... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100110950 - Method and apparatus for aligning power savings classes: A method for power savings in a wireless communications network, including selecting all Type-1 power savings classes (PSCs), selecting all Type-2 PSCs, and selecting all Type-3 PSCs. The method further includes aligning the Type-1 PSCs of the device, if more than one Type-1 PSC is selected, and aligning the Type-2... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100110952 - Method and system for low latency state transitions for energy efficiency: Aspects of a method and system for physical layer control of low latency state transitions for energy efficiency. In this regard, a determination may be made to reconfigure a network device from an energy saving mode of operation to a higher performance mode of operation. A first portion of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100110954 - Method and system for synchronization between application layer controllers and wireless device: Method and system for synchronizing the working of the application layer functions with the wireless device functions. More particularly, core and management functions of layer 2 and layer 3 applications in wireless systems such as handheld device and base station, wherein there is a need for close frame timing synchronization... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20100110953 - Method for transmitting phasing information and phasing method in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting paging information and a paging method in a mobile communication system. According to the invention, in a case of starting to transmit downlink information to mobile stations that do not maintain uplink synchronization while performing a low-power-consumption operation in an active... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100110949 - Methods and apparatus for access point scanning in voip systems: A system is configured to scan for APs on DFS channels while maintaining VOIP traffic employing both passive and active scans. During passive scan mode, the APs are configured to listen only. During active scan mode, the STA sends a probe request, and the AP(s) send(s) probe responses. During power... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20100110948 - Methods and apparatus for locating a mobile device in a sleep mode: Apparatus and methods are provided for locating a mobile device in a sleep mode. A method comprises transmitting a beacon signal configured to initiate transmission of a response signal from a mobile device in a sleep mode. The mobile device is associated with a first wireless access device on a... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20100110955 - Signalling channel and radio system for power saving in wireless devices: Wireless devices, transmitters, systems and methods are provided that have a narrow band signalling channel and a wide band channel, for example an OFDM channel. In order to save power, the wireless device is nominally powered down with the exception of a receiver specific to the narrow band signalling channel.... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20100110951 - Techniques for device and piconet controller availability notification in wireless personal area and wireless local area networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising notifying of device and piconet controller (PNC) availability in wireless personal area network (WPAN) and/or wireless local area networks (WLAN) at the start of a superframe, wherein whether the PNC will stay awake or go to sleep during a part... Agent: James S. Finn C/o Intellevate, LLC

20100110962 - Access point, wireless communication station, wireless communication system and wireless communication method: The present invention implements an intermittent reception method with which a portable station that does not receive a multicast service does not enter the Awake state unnecessarily. A packet buffer portion buffers a received packet in such a memory as RAM and recording device, and judges whether the buffered packet... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100110965 - Base station, apparatus, and mobile station: First paging information is determined in advance according to the characteristics of delivered data for each channel of delivered multicast data, and the multicast data delivery frame of each channel is determined based on the first paging information. Paging information (second paging information) for a mobile station which selects a... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100110956 - Emergency alert: A wireless area network terminal receives an unsolicited broadcast from a network to all wireless area network terminals in a predetermined category. The unsolicited broadcast includes an indicator that an emergency alert is waiting. The indicator triggers a request to be sent from the terminal to the network to allow... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100110960 - Mbms data transmission and receiving in packet based on mobile communication system: Provided is a data transmission/reception method for simultaneously transmitting MBMS data from multiple cells through a HARQ method by allocating a shared feedback channel to user equipments of each cell and, when there is an error in the transmitted MBMS data, reporting feedback on a cell basis. The method for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100110961 - Method and apparatus for supporting mbms in system architecture evolution: The present invention discloses a system structure for supporting Evolved Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (Evolved MBMS), comprising: a Broadcast/Multicast Service Center (BM-SC) for initiating control signaling and bearer services for Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS); a System Architecture Evolved Gateway (SAE GW) for receiving MBMS service data and MBMS control signaling or... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100110958 - Method for content synchronization when broadcasting data in a wireless network: The present invention relates to an arrangement and method for content synchronization when broadcasting data from an infrastructure node in a communication network. The arrangement comprises a receiver receiving data sequences and a transmitter for transmitting data sequences. Each data sequence has a data size and comprises a sequence number... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100110964 - Method for relays within wireless communication systems: A relay design backward compatible with existing wireless communication networks. The invention provides details of apparatus and methods to enable operation of inband relays. Using a grant-based inhibit mechanism, a Relay and an eNB can efficiently cooperate to improve the performance by allowing one of either UE or the Relay... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100110959 - Mobile communication system, terminal device, base station device and data communication method: A base station transmits multimedia broadcast/multicast service data on the resource block allocated to a multimedia broadcast/multicast service to a number of terminals. The terminal extracts multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service, which is contained in the signal received from the base... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100110957 - Negotiating different mobile ip delivery styles: The present invention provides a system and method to selectively negotiate different delivery styles for different types of packets sent from the Mobile Node to the Foreign Agent, which will allow the Mobile Node to negotiate a delivery style that will permit the Foreign Agent to transmit certain selected outbound... Agent: Hemingway & Hansen, LLP

20100110963 - System and method for multicast/ broadcast service zone boundary detection: A wireless communication method for providing zone boundary detection performed by a controller managing communications within a multicast/broadcast service (MBS) zone. The method includes assigning to a boundary paging group a first base station communicating within the MBS zone and near a boundary of the MBS zone. The method further... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100110972 - Apparatus and method for processing the relayed data in a multihop relay broadband wireless access communication system: An apparatus and a method for processing the relayed data in a multihop relay broadband wireless access communication system are provided. A method for an operation of a Relay Station (RS) includes determining whether a packet received from an upper node comprises a Relay Media Access Control (MAC) Header (RMH),... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100110974 - Bandwidth request method and relay station: The present invention provides a bandwidth method and a relay station (RS). After receiving the bandwidth request message sent by subordinate network entity, RS judges whether it has available bandwidth; if it has available bandwidth, sending a bandwidth request message to superordinate network entity based on the available bandwidth; otherwise,... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100110973 - Communication system: The present application relates to a wireless communication system and related methods and apparatuses for transmitting a signal from a source apparatus to a destination apparatus, via at least one intermediate apparatus. In particular, the present invention relates to techniques which seek to improve the throughput of data in multi-hop... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100110969 - Cooperative relay method and system in multi-hop relay network: A cooperative relay method and system in a multi-hop relay network are provided. The method may include receiving, at a first time slot, resource allocation information from a base station, and identifying a first hop Mobile Station (MS) data zone, receiving, at the first time slot, first hop MS data... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100110966 - Incremental redundancy relays for broadcast transmission: Techniques for relaying a broadcast transmission in a wireless network are described. In one design, a relay may receive at least one transmission of a packet from a transmitter (e.g., a broadcast station) and may process the at least one transmission to decode the packet. The relay may generate at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100110971 - Method and apparatus for processing control message which requests retransmitting data: A method and an apparatus for processing a control message for a request of retransmission are provided. The method includes generating a First Missing Serial number (FMS) describing a serial number of a data unit having a lowest serial number among data units which are not received, determining whether a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100110967 - Method for cooperative relaying within multi-hop wireless communication systems: A method for cooperative relaying within multi hop wireless communication systems includes a base station, in an attempt to decode a data packet, combining hard sliced channel bits and Logarithmic Likelihood Ratio (LLR) quality information received from relay stations who had also received the data packet with stored information about... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20100110968 - Multiple relay based multiple input multiple output communication system: A base station with multiple antennas including a relay scheduler to select a serving relay from a plurality of candidate relays. Each candidate relay may have a user group including at least one user. The selection may be based on an achievable transmission capacity of each candidate relay with respect... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100110970 - Wireless network using superposition coding scheme: An operation method of a relay node in a wireless network using a superposition coding scheme is provided. In particular, a relay node may receive a first transmission message from a first source node in a first time slot. The relay node may also receive a second transmission message from... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100110976 - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a sectorparameters message in an active state in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a SectorParameters message in an Active state is provided. The method comprises transmitting a SectorParameters message over a Forward Traffic Channel Medium Access Control(MAC) in superframe number wherein the superframe number is divisible by NOMPSectorParameters, setting a SectorSignature field of an ExtendedChannelInfo... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100110986 - Base station device, terminal device, communication system and communication method: A base station device performs communication with terminal devices, and includes a load information acquisition section which acquires load information which shows a load on the base station device, a reporting method selection section which selects a reporting method for the terminal devices to report reception state information to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100110992 - Call processing method and intelligent network service control device for implementing one number multiple terminals service: A call processing method for implementing “one number multiple terminals” service is disclosed. A service control point (SCP) in a first network exercises control to route a call that is triggered to a “one number multiple terminals” user in a local network to a second network; and an SCP in... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100110983 - Downlink network synchronization mechanism for femtocell in cellular ofdm systems: A method of downlink synchronization for a femto base station in a cellular orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is provided. The femto base station first scans one or more received reference signals transmitted from a plurality of neighboring macro base stations. The femto base station then determines a desired... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20100110978 - Ims device reconfiguration: A method and arrangement in a telecommunication system for facilitating communications 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. The first terminal A initiates a service capability check and in response,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100110977 - Management unit network for managing a plurality of multiservice communication devices: A management unit network manages a plurality of multiservice communication devices capable of communicating via a plurality of networks. The management unit includes a plurality of local management units, each of the plurality of local management units engaging in bidirectional data communication with at least one of the plurality of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100110975 - Mapping an original mac address of a terminal to a unique locally administrated virtual mac address: In a network terminals communicate wirelessly through gateway devices with an access node. In the access node an original media access control (MAC) address of a terminal is mapped to a unique, locally administered virtual MAC address for the terminal. This virtual MAC address has a particular portion indicating a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100110988 - Method and apparatus for utilizing multiple carriers in high speed packet access communications: A method and an apparatus for utilizing multiple carriers are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) capable of receiving on a single downlink carrier at a time may tune the receiver to one downlink carrier and switch the downlink carrier in accordance with a configured pattern. The WTRU may switch... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100110990 - Method and device for forwarding data transport frames: In a data communication system according to the invention the functionality of the gateway device is distributed in a data communication network thereby reducing the need to direct the data traffic from and to terminals (212, 213, 214) through a single point in the data communication network. A first data... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100110981 - Method and system for station-to-station directional wireless communication: Method and system for directional wireless communication, is provided. One implementation involves directionally transmitting a request for access to a shared wireless communication medium, for directional communication between two wireless stations, and receiving a broadcast response indicating a time period during which the wireless stations may perform directional communication therebetween... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100110982 - Method for transmitting channel quality information based on differential scheme: A method for transmitting channel quality information based on a differential scheme is disclosed. When channel quality information of a predetermined number of sub-bands selected by a receiver in a frequency selective channel is transmitted, total average channel information is transmitted. Channel information of the selected sub-bands is transmitted as... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100110984 - Retransmission request transmission method, transmitting- side apparatus and receiving-side apparatus: In a retransmission request transmission method, a receiving-side apparatus notifies identification information of an RLC-data-PDU and a retransmission start position and a retransmission end position in the RLC-data-PDU, through a STATUS-PDU; and a transmitting-side apparatus retransmits a portion from the retransmission start position to the last portion in the RLC-data-PDU,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100110987 - Selection of wireless network in conjunction with selection of a wireless cell set: An access terminal may switch to a different mode of wireless network selection as a result of manual selection of a wireless cell set (e.g., a closed subscriber group) associated with one or more wireless cells. For example, if the user of an access terminal selects a closed subscriber group... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100110979 - System and method for incorporating a low power mode in wireless communication: According to one embodiment, a method for wireless communication comprises providing, at a base station, a plurality of endpoints with access to a wireless network. The method also comprises the base station entering a low power mode, wherein the base station ceases to provide the plurality of endpoints with access... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100110993 - System and method for multi-network coverage: A system and method are provided for a multi-network wireless communications access terminal (AT) to access multi-network coverage. The method registers a multi-network AT in a first communications network. In response to registering with the first network, the AT receives information via the first network that is required for accessing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100110980 - Technique for controlling establishment of a tandem-free transcoder operation: The invention relates to a technique for controlling establishment of a tandem free operation (TFO) for transfer of TFO frames including content frames between a first and a second transcoder unit without transcoding of the content frames. A method aspect of the technique comprises the steps of transmitting, in case... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100110989 - Transport protocol performance using network bit rate information: A method for communicating in a telecommunications system is provided. The method comprises conveying a downlink bit rate and an uplink bit rate associated with an access point name to a user agent.... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100110991 - User equipment for physical layer automatic repeat request: A user equipment for physical layer automatic repeat request is disclosed. The user equipment comprises a higher layer automatic repeat request (ARQ) mechanism, a physical layer transmitter, a physical layer receiver, an acknowledgment (ACK) transmitter and an adaptive modulation and control unit (AMC). A higher layer ARQ mechanism generates data... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100110985 - Window control and retransmission control method and transmitting-side apparatus: In a retransmission control method, a transmitting-side apparatus manages an acknowledgement information reception window; and the transmitting-side apparatus does not perform the window control processing and the retransmission control processing of a packet on the basis of the acknowledgement information for a sequence number of the packet which is included... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100111007 - method, system and terminal for implementing upward frequency hopping transmission: A method for implementing upward frequency hopping transmission is adopted to the communication system with time slotted frame structure, and it comprises: receiving the frequency band and frequency hopping mode allocated by the network side; after implementing the upward transmission on one frequency band allocated in the first predivided time... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20100111018 - Apparatus and method for removing self-interference and relay system for the same: An apparatus, a method and a relay system for removing self-interference (SI). If a relay transmitting end transmits relay-reference signals (R-RS) through a region where a base station does not transmit signals, based on a protocol predetermined with the base station, a relay receiving end obtains SI channel values from... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20100111005 - Apparatus and method for transmitting uplink signals in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for transmitting uplink signals in a wireless telecommunication system. According to the present invention, it is characterized that at least one uplink signal is allocated to other symbol duration for time dispersion in case a plurality of uplink signals are scheduled... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20100111008 - 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 calculation unit configured to calculate path loss between the user equipment terminal and the base station apparatus; an MCS selection unit configured to select an MCS level of the shared channel... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100111027 - Communication system: The present application relates to a wireless communication system and related methods and apparatuses for transmitting a signal from a source apparatus to a destination apparatus, via at least one intermediate apparatus. In particular, the present invention relates to techniques which seek to improve the throughput of data in multi-hop... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100111028 - Downlink reception indication method in packet based mobile communication system: Provided is a method for indicating a mobile station maintaining radio resource control (RRC) connection but not maintaining uplink physical layer synchronization to receive downlink signals when packet data to be transmitted to the mobile station are generated to thereby make the mobile station start uplink signal transmission. The method... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100111009 - Downlink signaling for closed loop antenna selection: Disclosed herein is a method, apparatus and computer program associated with a user equipment. The method includes determining a characteristic related to a receipt of a resource allocation in a particular subframe and, based on the determined characteristic, selecting one of a plurality of transmit antennas for use in transmitting... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100110996 - Dynamic fractional frequency reuse in ofdma networks: A method allocates resources in an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) network including a set of base stations (BSs), and a set of mobile stations (MSs) for each BS. Each cell includes a center and edge zone. A node weighted constraint graph is constructed for the network. Maximal independent sets... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20100111029 - Fast feedback contention-based data transmission in wireless communications systems: A fast feedback mechanism is provided in a contention-based data transmission procedure. A Subscriber Station (SS) transmits a data burst to a base station (BS) using a selected data grant in a previous uplink (UL) frame. The SS also starts a timer associated with the data transmission. The data grant... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20100111022 - Femtocell base station apparatus and self-configuring method thereof: A self-configuring method of a femtocell base station extracts preambles from signals received from adjacent macrocells and femtocells. Transmission power of the femtocell base station is set using the extracted macrocell preambles. In addition, the preambles of the femtocell base station are selected using the correlation values between the macrocell... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100111013 - Frequency selection for femto access point: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a femto access point scans an area of a network to find a serving base station in the area, requests one or more physical link profiles from a network server on the network, receives one or more physical link profiles from the... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Cpa Global

20100111023 - Method and an apparatus for providing control information for multi-carrier uplink transmission: A method and an apparatus for providing control information for multi-carrier uplink transmission are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may set a happy bit for enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transmissions on each uplink carrier considering aggregated transmission capability over all uplink carriers. The happy bit is set to “unhappy”... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100110994 - Method and apparatus for allocating a physical random access channel in an othogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system: A method and eNode B are disclosed that allocate a Physical random access channel (PRACH) in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system. In one embodiment, the eNode B maintains a predetermined location of a PRACH within a sub-frame, which predetermined location is adjacent to a Physical uplink control channel... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100111024 - Method and apparatus for feeding back and receiving acknowledgement information of semi-persistent scheduling data packets: The present invention relates to radio communications, and discloses a method and apparatus for feeding back and receiving acknowledgment (ACK) information of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) data packets. The method for feeding back ACK information of SPS data packets includes: receiving an uplink downlink assignment index (UL DAI) from a base... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100111026 - Method and apparatus for improving a semi-persistent scheduling resource release process in a wireless communication system: A method of improving a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) resource release process for a medium access control (MAC) layer of a user equipment in a wireless communication system includes deactivating allocated SPS resources when receiving an SPS resource release command and transmitting a MAC control element including an SPS resource release... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100111000 - Method and apparatus for resource allocation: A method and apparatus for allocating resources to a node in an ad-hoc communication system is provided herein. During operation, nodes of the system will receive resource allocations from their parent node. The resource allocation comprises a portion of available resources that may vary in size. Each node will determine... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100111025 - Method and apparatus for sharing a single data channel for multiple signaling flows destined to multiple core networks: A method and apparatus for sharing a single data channel for multiple signaling flows destined to multiple core networks are disclosed. For example, the method receives a plurality of service requests from a plurality of corresponding service clients on a single mobile endpoint device, where each of the plurality of... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100111016 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving packet data unit in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a PDU including an Extension Bit field and a Length Indicator field in a UE or a Node B. A method for transmitting a PDU generated with more than... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100111014 - Method and apparatus for transmitting signal in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The signal transmission method includes generating encoded packet data for transmission on an uplink, setting distributed resources in a plurality of contiguous subframes, and transmitting at least part of the encoded packet data through the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100111017 - Method and apparatus of generating signals for initial ranging in ofdma system: Provided is a method and apparatus of generating signals for initial ranging in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system. The method, includes: generating a plurality of ranging symbols by cyclic-shifting sample data of a ranging symbol in one OFDMA symbol period as much as a value obtained by... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100111019 - Method and related communication device for parameter reconfiguration in a wireless communications system: A method for reconfiguring a parameter of a medium access control layer for a mobile device of a wireless communication system includes, when a radio resource control dedicated signaling for reconfiguration of the parameter is received during activation of the parameter, starting to apply the reconfiguration of the parameter at... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100110995 - Method and system for performing tasks on collaborating wireless devices: A method and system for performing functions on multiple physical devices, is provided. One implementation involves connecting the physical devices via wireless links, discovering function capabilities of each physical device, wherein a function capability of a physical device comprises a local resource and a virtual resource, and collaborating among the... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100111002 - Method for establishing a packet switched call at a dual mode access terminal: A method for establishing a packet switched call at an access terminal, which is processing an established circuit switched call, enables a user to be informed that the packet switched call has been requested. The method comprises adding a call type indication to a call setup message in a serving... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100111003 - Method for managing transmission resources in a cellular communications network, corresponding terminal, base station and computer program product: A method and apparatus are provided for managing transmission resources in a cellular communication network having a plurality of cells each associated to a base station. The network includes at least two radio-communication terminals, a list of available transport formats or authorized list being associated with each of the terminals.... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100111015 - Method for transmitting downlink control messages in cellular system: A method for transmitting control messages is disclosed. The method includes grouping a plurality of control messages for at least one user equipment based on at least one criteria of whether or not uplink ACK/NACK channel indexes are allowed to be implicitly used in the control messages, whether or not... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100111010 - Method of managing discontinuous reception offset in a wireless communications system and related communication device: A method of managing an offset operation of discontinuous reception, hereinafter called DRX, for a mobile device of a wireless communication system includes separately managing a start offset operation of a long DRX cycle and a start offset operation of a short DRX cycle.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100111004 - Method of transmitting data employing data operation pattern: A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system includes configuring a data operation pattern for a plurality of data blocks with variable size, generating the plurality of data blocks according to the data operation pattern and transmitting the plurality of data blocks. Although a data generating time or... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100111020 - Method, access point and terminal for selecting channel in wireless local area networks: A method for selecting a channel for an access point (AP) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). The method includes the AP receiving network conditions of APs within the sensing range of a terminal sent by the terminal, and the AP selecting a channel based on the received network... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100111012 - Methods and systems for fast network entry and re-entry in multiple access networks: Certain aspects of the present disclosure present techniques for requesting and granting bandwidth reservations during network entry and network reentry processes. The subscriber station transmits a request message to the base station including a bandwidth reservation for uplink allocation for at least one subsequent request messages to be transmitted. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100111006 - Multi-channel directional devices with beacons: A communication system includes first and second devices, where a processor of at least one of the first device and the second device is configured to assign a control channel common to the first device and the second device; exchange control information over the control channel; from the control information,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100110997 - Multiservice communication device with cognitive radio transceiver: A multiservice communication device includes a plurality of transceivers that wirelessly transceive network data with a corresponding plurality of networks in accordance with a corresponding plurality of network protocols, wherein the plurality of transceivers includes at least one cognitive radio transceiver that is configured based on cognitive transceiver configuration data... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100110998 - Service aggregator for allocating resources to a plurality of multiservice communication devices: A service aggregator allocates network resources to a plurality of multiservice communication devices capable of communicating via a plurality of networks. The service aggregator includes a communication device interface for facilitating a bidirectional data communication with the plurality of multiservice communication devices via a wireless control channel, the bidirectional data... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100111011 - System and method for accelerated network entrance: In one embodiment, a method for wireless communication includes providing, at a base station, access to a network to a preferred endpoint during a first communication session. In addition, the method includes determining, at the base station, to treat the preferred endpoint as preferred. The method also includes causing, at... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100111001 - System and method for synchronization signal detection and recovery from false triggers: A system and method for detecting a synchronization (sync) signal in a communication signal are disclosed. A received communication signal is stored in a memory and portions thereof are read from the memory and monitored to detect the sync signal. When a detected sync signal is determined to be invalid,... Agent: Jones Day (rim) - 2n

20100111021 - System and method of resource allocation and scheduling among base stations: This invention pertains to wireless communications, specifically, methodology and algorithm to management resources and schedule users in a coordinated way among a group of base stations, such as Femtocells, Picocells, self-organized Basestations, Access Points (APs) or mesh network nodes, or among the basestations in a two tiered networks, to improve... Agent: Patentique PLLC

20100110999 - Transmit power control based on receiver gain setting in a wireless communication network: Techniques for performing transmit power control based on receiver gain setting in a wireless communication network are described. In an aspect, a terminal A may estimate pathloss to another terminal B, e.g., based on a peer discovery signal received from terminal B. Terminal A may then determine a transmit power... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100111030 - Frequency hopping scheme for ofdma system: Available bandwidth is divided into multiple sub-channels, and respective sub-bands containing one or more of these sub-channels are allocated to one or more users. A first frequency allocation is determined, and mathematical operators are used to determine at least one further frequency allocation from the first frequency allocation. A frequency... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100111031 - Method for transmitting control signal using efficient multiplexing: A method of transmitting a control signal using efficient multiplexing is disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of multiplexing a plurality of 1-bit 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-hit control... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100111036 - Base station, user apparatus, and method: A base station comprises a transmission buffer configured to store a service data unit received from the access gateway; a retransmission buffer configured to store a packet data unit to be retransmitted in a radio downlink; a scheduler configured to determine assignment of radio resources to user apparatuses and supply... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100111041 - Communication system and data transmission method thereof: A communication system and data transmission method thereof are provided. The method includes adding an end marker to the end of source data and transmitting the source data and the end marker for a Packet data network GateWay (PGW) to a source evolved Node B (eNB) if a handover is... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100111037 - Communication system, base station and mobile station used in the communication system, and base station switching method: In an OFDMA communication system in which data communication is performed between a plurality of base stations 10 and a plurality of mobile stations, each base station 10 includes subchannel assignment setting unit 15-1 which sets assignment of subchannels including a first subchannel and a second subchannel for each of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100111035 - Location-based handovers from a macrocell to a femtocell using periodic measurement reporting: The present invention provides a method for implementation in user equipment that is configured to communicate with a wireless communication system that includes macro-cells femtocells. The method includes determining a distance between the user equipment and the femtocell(s). The method also includes periodically transmitting first measurement reports from the user... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20100111034 - Management unit for facilitating inter-network hand-off for a multiservice communication device: A management unit allocates network resources to a plurality of multiservice communication devices capable of communicating via a plurality of networks. The management unit includes a communication device interface for facilitating a bidirectional data communication with the plurality of multiservice communication devices via a wireless control channel, the bidirectional data... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100111039 - Method and apparatus for controlling discontinuous reception in mobile communication system: A method and apparatus is configured to control a discontinuous reception (DRX) in a mobile communication system. The method includes: interrupting the DRX operation when a radio resource control (RRC) connection reestablishment procedure is initiated; transmitting an RRC connection reestablishment request message from the user equipment to an evolved node... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100111040 - Method and apparatus for fast break-before-make media independent handover: A method and apparatus may be used to perform a Media Independent Handover. Data may be received from a source node in a source network serving a WTRU. The WTRU may transmit a first message to an intermediary node and receive a second message in response. The WTRU may establish... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100111032 - Method for handling random access response reception and an e-utran and user equipment thereof: A method for handling Random Access Response reception in a user equipment (UE) when communicating with a E-UTRAN includes transmitting a RA preamble to the E-UTRAN for initialing a random access (RA) procedure according to a received trigger event; receiving a RA response from the E-UTRAN corresponding to the RA... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100111038 - Method for managing internet protocol handoff in network system: There is provided a method of processing Internet Protocol (IP) handoff of a mobile node in a network system, in which the IP handoff is processed distinguishing a signal packet path for the IP handoff from a data packet path the method including receiving a registration request message when the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100111033 - Multiservice communication device with dedicated control channel: A multiservice communication device includes a plurality of transceivers that wirelessly transceive data with a corresponding plurality of networks in accordance with a corresponding plurality of network protocols. A control channel transceiver transceives control channel data with a remote management unit including local control data sent to the management unit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100111043 - 1xrtt and hrpd neighbor list support over lte: Devices and methods are provided for supporting single carrier Radio Transmission Technology (1×RTT) and High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) neighbor lists over LTE, thereby enabling efficient scans for 3GPP2 neighbors with minimal interruption to the LTE operations both when idle or when in-traffic. In one embodiment, the method may involve... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100111042 - Mobility mechanisms for home cellular network: A communication system comprises a communication network including a computer processor operating a network management system and a femtocell network management system. The communication system further comprises a broadband base station providing a first service signal and creating a mapping table configured to include at least one unique identifier of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100111045 - Base station and method for providing uplink service: A method for providing uplink service from a base station to a terminal includes: transmitting information on a TCP packet and a dedicated code to a terminal; receiving a code number from the terminal using the dedicated code; searching a requesting bandwidth for the code number and allocating resources to... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100111046 - Method and system for mobile receiver antenna architecture for european band cellular and broadcasting services: A method for an antenna architecture that handles European band cellular and broadcast channels may be provided. The method may comprise receiving at a first radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) integrated within a mobile terminal, RF signals in a first cellular frequency band of a first cellular network via an... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100111044 - Mobile station, base station, communication system, and communication method: A communication system is provided with a plurality of mobile stations and a base station. A mobile station makes a pilot channel composed of a Cassak code correspond to a signal having a plurality of frequency components in a predetermined band disposed in parallel with each other in a constant... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100111049 - Method and apparatus for enabling registration of endpoint devices through provisioning: A method and apparatus for enabling registration of an endpoint device that is incapable of supporting a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) registration are disclosed. For example, the method performs a static registration of the endpoint device in a plurality network elements associated with an... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100111048 - Method for allocating a beacon slot using a beacon table in wireless personal area network (wpan) and wpan device: The present invention relates to a method in which each device sets its own beacon slot by using beacon slot information of its neighbors and its neighbors' neighbors in a WPAN. In the method, beacon slot information of the neighbors and the neighbors' neighbors is received from neighbor devices. The... Agent: David A. Einhorn, Esq. Baker & Hostetler LLP

20100111047 - Techniques to support multiple radio-access technologies: Techniques to permit scheduling of mixed radio access technologies. In some cases, a first radio access technology mode of a base station is scheduled during a first time region and a second radio access technology mode of a base station is scheduled during a sleep mode of the first radio... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100111050 - Wireless network system using cyclic frame: A wireless network system using a cyclic frame including a beacon period (BP), a mesh contention access period (MCAP), and a slot period (SP). The cyclic frame has a frame structure that shares a channel hopping sequence of a node, thereby sharing the channel hopping sequence that operates as an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100111061 - Addressing scheme for a relay network system: According to one general aspect, a method may include collecting at least one Mobile Station (MS) Medium Access Control (MAC) Packet Data Units (PDUs), associated with at least one Mobile Station. In various embodiments, the method may also include generating at least one MS station identifier (STID) sub-header (MSID-SH), indicating... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20100111062 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving system information in a wireless communication system with hierarchical cell structure: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving system information in a wireless communication system with a hierarchical cell structure are provided. A method for transmitting system information in a micro Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system in which at least one micro cell exists within a macro cell includes... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100111060 - Communication of information between devices in communication networks: A first node in a connection network and a method for providing said first node with information related to a geographical position of a user terminal, which connection network comprises said first node, a second node and an access network, wherein: the first node has access to at least one... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100111059 - Content delivery: Wireless routers having an ADSL or cable connection to content data available via the Internet, a wired connection for connecting local clients in a LAN and a wireless controller for connecting to other wireless routers and clients in a wireless local area networks (WLANs). The WLANs often intersect and therefore... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100111058 - Discontinuous reception operation during continuous transmission: The present invention relates to communicating between a network and a mobile terminal in a wireless communication system. The invention includes receiving a coded data unit from a network, determining whether the coded data unit can be successfully decoded, determining not to receive a transmission from the network for a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100111051 - Management unit for managing a plurality of multiservice communication devices: A management unit manages a plurality of multiservice communication devices capable of communicating via a plurality of networks. The management unit includes a communication device interface for facilitating a bidirectional data communication with the plurality of multiservice communication devices via a wireless control channel, the bidirectional data communication including outbound... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100111052 - Management unit with local agent: A management unit manages a plurality of multiservice communication devices capable of communicating via a plurality of networks. The management unit includes a device interface for facilitating a bidirectional data communication with the plurality of multiservice communication devices via a wireless control channel, the bidirectional data communication including outbound control... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100111064 - Method and apparatus of selectively tying the opening and closing of evdo and ppp sessions: Method, and associated apparatus, for operating a hybrid access terminal operable in a CDMA 1x/EVDO hybrid communication session system. The hybrid access terminal is operable to communicate pursuant to an EVDO communication session and to a PPP communication session. The opening and closing of the communication sessions are independent of... Agent: Docket Clerk Kelly-krause

20100111056 - Recalculating airtime quota in wlan to use up bandwidth: In a wireless communication channel, the time per a service interval is distributed among multiple data services. The data services have been allocated airtime quotas in order to comply with their QoS requirements. These airtime quotas are scaled by a factor that is the ratio between, on the one hand,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100111063 - Signal strength guided intra-cell upstream data forwarding: Intra-cell upstream data forwarding is utilized in a wireless network such as a wireless local area network. A network forwarding path is determined based on the signal strength of an access point signal received at client stations within the network, referred to as the OASS. In particular embodiments, a station... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Slusky

20100111054 - System and method for robust data loss recovery in a wireless local area network: A system and method for robust data loss recovery in a wireless 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 and broadcasting the beacon frames... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100111053 - Techniques for enhanced network discovery: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising retrieving a first network scan while connected to a second network access point (AP), without actually accessing the air, by the AP sending a message to “Get first network base station (BS) list” to devices in communication with the AP... Agent: James S. Finn C/o Intellevate, LLC

20100111055 - Wireless access point, wireless network architecture, and method for establishing wireless network architecture: The invention provides a wireless access point, a wireless network architecture, and a method for establishing the wireless network architecture. The method of the invention includes the following steps. First a first wireless access point and a second wireless access point are defined. Second a first function mode of the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20100111057 - Wireless communication device and access point connection method: A wireless communication device quickly connectable to an access point of a destination service area without wasting power when the wireless communication device moves from a service area to a different one. When a state change detecting section (203) of the wireless communication device detects that the received radio field... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100111065 - Method for transmitting downlink reference signals in a multi-antenna wireless communication system: A method for transmitting downlink reference signal in a multi-antenna wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes allocating RSs for a first antenna group to a subframe having a predetermined area with different access levels for user equipments having different access capabilities, pairing RSs for a second antenna group... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100111068 - Method and apparatus for tti bundling transmission in a wireless communications system: A method for handling a transmission time interval, hereinafter called TTI, bundling operation for a mobile device of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes performing transmission of a TTI bundle, and ignoring all feedbacks and uplink grants for retransmission when the feedbacks and uplink grants for retransmission... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100111067 - Method for improving random access procedure in wireless communications system and related communication device: A method for improving a random access procedure for a mobile device of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes initiating the random access procedure, starting a time alignment timer of the mobile device when receiving a time alignment message transmitted by a base station of the wireless... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100111066 - System and method for variable beacon timing with wireless devices: Systems and methods for supporting variable beacon timing for a first wireless device and a second wireless device are provided. An exemplary system may include a number of wireless devices configured to wirelessly communicate with one another. The system includes a beacon-transmitting wireless device and a listening wireless device. The... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20100111070 - Apparatus, method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for time synchronization procedure in a cellular network: The apparatus, signaling method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for time synchronization procedure in a cellular network are provided, wherein the network comprising a plurality of femto base stations and relay stations. The source of providing time synchronization information to femto base stations and relay station could be macro base... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20100111069 - System and method of downlinking data to an unsynchronized user equipment in a telecommunications network: A system, method and node of downlinking transmissions to an unsynchronized UE in a telecommunications network. The method begins by a node in the network requesting synchronization of the UE with the network. A first transmission of data is sent from the node to the UE prior to synchronization of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100111071 - Communication device for providing value-added information based upon content and/or context information: A communication device, for use in a communication network, provides value-added information to a user of the communication device. The communication device includes a transceiver, operable to transmit and receive communications over the communication network, and a processor. The processor is operable to facilitate detecting context information representative of an... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100111072 - Internet phone service system and internet phone service method by using softphone created by users: Provided are an Internet phone service system and method by using softphone created by users. The Internet phone service system includes: a service system creating a softphone created by users based on information input through a webpage and connecting calls made over the Internet by using the softphone created by... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20100111075 - Main apparatus and bandwidth allocating method: According to one embodiment, a main apparatus includes a memory configured to store a priority information table showing correspondence relationships among the terminals or lines and priority of the use bandwidth on the communication network, a monitor module configured to monitor a use bandwidth on the communication network, and a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100111076 - Method and apparatus for enabling customer premise public branch exchange service feature processing: A method and apparatus for enabling customer premise Public Branch eXchange (PBX) service feature processing to be performed in a service provider network using an intermediary device are disclosed. For example, the method receives a signaling message by an intermediary device managed by a service provider of a communication network,... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100111077 - Method and apparatus for enabling customer premise public branch exchange service feature processing: A method and apparatus for enabling customer premise Public Branch eXchange (PBX) service feature processing to be performed in a service provider network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a signaling message associated with a user, and accesses a customer premise Internet Protocol (IP) Public Branch eXchange (PBX) to... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100111078 - Method and apparatus for enabling customer premise public branch exchange service feature processing: A method and apparatus for enabling customer premise Public Branch eXchange (PBX) service feature processing to be performed in a service provider network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a signaling message associated with a user by an application server deployed in a communication network, and accesses a customer... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100111079 - Method and apparatus for network based fixed mobile convergence: A method and apparatus for providing a network based Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) service are disclosed. For example, the method receives a NB-FMC call request originating from a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) NB-FMC endpoint device or a non-SIP NB-FMC endpoint device, and processes the NB-FMC call request using a single... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100111074 - Transcoders and mixers for voice-over-ip conferencing: Transcoders and mixers having reduced algorithmic delay and processing complexity. An improved mixer for signals having encoded speech parameters wherein the parameters obtained through decoding are used by a parameter estimator to improve the encoding by providing a parameter estimate for the mixed signal. In the case of pitch parameters,... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20100111073 - Universal plug and play method and apparatus to provide remote access service: Provided are a universal plug and play (UPnP) method and an apparatus thereof to provide remote access service, where the method includes receiving external inputs of an identifier of a remote access server (RAS) to generate a credential and a session initiation protocol (SIP) identifier of the RAS, generating a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100111083 - Application for non disruptive task migration in a network edge switch: An apparatus and a method are described for zero packet loss task migration in an network switch in a computer network. The invention relates to active or programmable networks, i.e. networks based on packet switching algorithms and switch configurations which are subject to change. A well-defined protocol enables an intelligent... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20100111080 - Graceful network merge by performing a graceful transition of conflicting routing identifiers: Methods and apparatus for merging two or more networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first switch of a first network receives a second set of information including routing identifiers associated with a second network, wherein the first switch of the first network is connected to a second switch of... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20100111081 - Method and system for physical signaling between a higher layer and a phy to manage energy efficient network devices and/or protocols: In an Ethernet network comprising link partners coupled via an Ethernet link, an energy efficient Ethernet network communication control policy may specify a power level mode. Power level control data may be communicated between a PHY and a MAC via an MII, MDIO or a bus that is not specified... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100111082 - Packet switching device and local communication network with such a packet switching device: A packet switching device comprises a network interface configured to send and receive data packets via a communication network, a plurality of string interfaces configured to transmit and receive data packets to/from a plurality of participants and a switching unit connected to the network interface and to the plurality of... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100111084 - Method and apparatus of joint-registering in multicast communication network: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for registering to a designated router in a rendezvous point in an anycast group in a multicast communication network, wherein the rendezvous point implements a joint-registering based on registering status of all rendezvous points in the anycast group. The main rendezvous point... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100111085 - Method and system for personalizing a multimedia program broadcasted through ip network: A method and a system. A Medium Access Control (MAC) frame includes an embedded Internet Protocol (IP) frame and a MAC address. The IP frame includes content of a second multimedia program and a second multicast address of the second multimedia program, the MAC address having been resolved from the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100111086 - Multicast and bidirectional unicast signaling in single root multipoint services using rsvp-te: A method for establishing a downstream multicast and a upstream and downstream unicast connections between a root and at least one leaf, the root and the at least one leaf being in a tree-type configuration, comprises: creating a downstream unicast label; and distributing the created downstream unicast label in a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100111087 - method and an arrangement for handling a service request in a multimedia network: A method and arrangement for handling a service request in a session control unit in a multimedia network. Upon receiving the service request from a user equipment, the session control unit checks a service profile associated with a user-identity of the service request in order to find an application server... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100111088 - Mesh network: A mesh network has a plurality of nodes that can be arranged in a two or three dimensional arrangement. The address-based mesh routing scheme sends a full address and full data on every clock cycle. The system can include broadcasting to columns, rows, planes, or all system elements using a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20100111090 - Method, system, and device for transmitting trau frame over a packet network: A method for transmitting a transcoder & rate adaptation unit (TRAU) frame over a packet network according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving a packet TRAU (P_TRAU) frame sent from an opposite device; parsing the P_TRAU frame to obtain control information required for packet network transmission; and... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100111089 - Methods for exchanging data in a communications system and apparatuses utilizing the same: A communication system is provided. A first communications device transmits at least one first message including predetermined bit sequences. A second communications device determines one or more antenna weighting vectors (AWVs) and one or more bitloading vectors (BLVs) by using the first message in accordance with a predetermined rule and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100111091 - Method and apparatus to perform network routing: A method and apparatus to route information over a network is described.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20100111092 - Ring connection control circuit, ring switching hub, ring ethernet system, and ring connection controlling method: If either of the MAC processing units in one of the ring connection control circuits receives a MAC frame that includes control information for the redundancy control process related to one of the subrings from that subring, then output of the relevant MAC frame to the transfer processing unit is... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100111093 - Methods and apparatus to dynamically control connectivity within virtual private networks: Methods and apparatus to dynamically control connectivity within VPNs are disclosed. A disclosed example route server to control connectivity within a VPN comprises a memory to implement a database, a border gateway protocol (BGP) engine to process BGP advertisements, a network interface to receive a first BGP advertisement, which a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100111094 - Relay device, access analysis device, method of controlling relay device, and storage medium for the same: When transmitting, to an information processing device (such as a server) via a telecommunications line, a plurality of pieces of information obtained in a target device that is a target of maintenance, a relay device (computer) refers to priority recognition information used to recognize priority in transmitting the pieces of... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100111095 - Data transfer: A bridging system, comprising bridges 3, 4 and network 5, is arranged to transfer data using TCP/IP or similar between a local Storage Area Network (SAN) 1 and a remote SAN 2. In one embodiment, the bridge 3 is arranged to transfer data from a plurality of ports 12-1˜12-n in... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100111096 - Methods and systems for frequency and time division access: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for managing and allocating bandwidth in a communication medium. Some aspects relate to the determination of bit usage patterns for use in allocating bandwidth. Some aspects relate to the further determination of a derived usage pattern from the bit usage... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20100111097 - Adaptive utilization of a network responsive to a competitive policy: A system (10) and method (20) includes transmitting (22) Service Related (SR) data (15, 16, or 17) from each one of a plurality of networks (11, 12, and 13), receiving and processing (24) at a device (14) the SR data from each of the plurality of networks, and identifying (26)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20100111098 - Low power telemetry system and method: A telemetry system is described in which a plurality of channels are coupled to a bus. A control subsystem controls the channels so that one of the channels presents to the bus during its designated time period a channel characteristic. The control subsystem interrogates in the analog domain each of... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20100111099 - Communicating in a network that includes a medium having varying transmission characteristics: A method and corresponding system for operating in a network in which stations communicate over a shared medium are presented. The shared medium has at least one varying channel characteristic that varies approximately periodically. The method includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from a coordinator station for coordinating transmissions among a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100111100 - Systems and methods for digital interface translation: Systems and methods of digital interface translation are described. One embodiment of the invention includes multiple receiver lanes, where at least one of the receiver lanes is configured to receive a data channel at a first data rate and encoded in accordance with an input digital interface standard, an auxiliary... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20100111101 - Method and system for managing content for access during a media session: An approach is provided for managing content for access during a media session. Content or information relating to the content is received from a user over a data network. A message is generated, according to an application layer protocol, specifying an address for subsequent retrieval, by the user, of the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100111104 - Bandwidth allocation for video-on-demand networks: Methods for the optimal allocation of bandwidth among a plurality of video-on-demand (VOD) programs available on each link of a VOD tree network, where a server at the root node of the tree network broadcasts the multiple VOD programs. Each node in the network has demands for a subset of... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100111103 - Executing and supporting a multiple bandwidth reservation request: In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a first message that includes at least a first bandwidth request that specifies a first bandwidth and a second bandwidth request that specifies a second bandwidth. The first bandwidth is a preferential bandwidth. The method also includes determining whether the first bandwidth may... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100111102 - Resource allocation in peer-to-peer streaming: A system and method for resource allocation in peer to peer streaming includes steps of: inferring global properties of a neighborhood made up of peer nodes, wherein the global properties are inferred from a summarization of information obtained locally at each peer node; allocating resources for each peer node to... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20100111106 - Apparatus, computer program product, and methods for flexible data unit segmentation and arrangement: Apparatus, computer program products and methods allow inclusion and segmentation of multiple SDUs within a PDU, and generate information (such as header information) necessary to identify, e.g., the position of the segmented SDUs within the PDU. Prior knowledge of the typically used (i.e., predetermined) SDU size is used to perform... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100111105 - Data center and data center design: According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a data center comprising: a plurality of data center sections, each section having a different predefined level of reliability; and a plurality of sets of applications, each set of applications being populated on one of the plurality of data... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100111107 - Device and method for transmitting downlink control information in a wireless communication system: A Downlink Control Information (DCI) processing device and method for a wireless communication system that encodes/decodes downlink control information based on a payload size of DCI format. The method includes determining a payload size of a first DCI format; and determining a payload size of a second DCI format by... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100111110 - Method and apparatus for generating pdu and base station thereof: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for generating a PDU and a base station thereof. The method for generating a PDU includes: segmenting an input SDU into at least one segmentation in such a manner that the at least one segmentation is distributed in at least one PDU; and setting... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100111109 - Method and system for synchronized mapping of data packets in an atsc data stream: Mapping data packets of a first data stream into data fields of a second data stream at several transmitters is provided by generating a first data stream with first data packets containing data associated with stationary receivers and second data packets containing data associated with mobile receivers in a head-end,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100111108 - Systems and methods of reducing delay in decoding: In one embodiment, a method includes inserting a packet containing an interpolated timestamp into a burst media stream. The insertion is responsive to a channel change request. The burst media stream includes a series of cached frames.... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20100111111 - Transmission device: A transmission device comprises first interfaces each of which receives time-division multiplexed signals from an external device in units of frames, a switch which is connected with the first interfaces and sets paths of the signals received from the first interface in regard to each packet, and second interfaces each... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100111112 - Automated synchronization of data between electrical grids: A method and system of automatically correlating data measured by monitoring devices that monitor first and second electrical grids. The second electrical grid producing alternating current signals that are electrically isolated from alternating current signals produced by the first electrical grid. An example power monitoring device includes a controller, a... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20100111116 - Data transmission method, system and terminal: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data transmission method, a data transmission system and a CLT. The method being applicable to a semi-duplex Ethernet Passive Coaxial-cable Network and the network comprising a CLT and at least one CNU; the CLT transmitting downlink data to each CNU in a preset... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100111114 - High quality timing distribution over dsl without ntr support: A method and system in which a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) that is part of a DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) system is able to provide synchronous services to end user equipment connected to the DSLAM via a DSL link and Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). A sniffer device having... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100111113 - Network element clocking accuracy and stability monitoring over a packet-switched network: Various exemplary embodiments include a method and related system and monitoring entity including one or more of the following: generating timing information at a master node in a packet-switched network, the timing information specifying a value of a master clock; communicating the timing information from the master node to a... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20100111115 - Node-to-node synchronizing apparatus, node-to-node synchronizing method, and computer product: A node-to-node synchronizing apparatus includes an information generating unit. Before receiving a synchronization request for synchronization, the information generating unit receives, from each process in each computing node, a mask generation request requesting to generate process location information (mask) indicating the location of processes that participate in synchronization. The information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100111117 - Transferring data between asynchronous clock domains: A device comprises an integrated circuit having first and second domains, the first domain having a first clock boundary module; and the second domain having a second clock boundary module. The first clock boundary module comprises: a buffer, for storing data for transfer to the second domain; and a first... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing