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20100246375 - Carrier allocation and time sharing for ofdma/tdma networks: P

20100246376 - Cell-specific shifting of reference signals in multi-stream transmissions: A base station is provided. The base station comprises a downlink transmit path comprising circuitry configured to transmit a plurality of reference signals in one or more subframes. Each subframe comprises one or more resource blocks. Each resource block comprises S Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. Each of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100246379 - Method and apparatus for transmitting signals for multiple input multiple output wireless communication system: A storage unit stores a preamble signal defined in a legacy system and a preamble signal defined in a MIMO system. A monitoring unit in a transmitting apparatus monitors the existence of any communication apparatus which is not compatible with the MIMO system but accepts the legacy system. A channel... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100246378 - Method for signal mapping and signal transmission with subcarrier shift schemes: A signal mapping method and a signal transmission method applying a subcarrier shift method are described. A signal mapping method using shifted subcarriers includes shifting positions of data subcarriers by as much as a frequency band corresponding to half of spacing between data subcarriers on a frequency axis, and shifting... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100246377 - Mimo beamforming-based single carrier frequency division multiple access system: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beamforming-based single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system is disclosed. At the transmitter, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) is performed on transmission data to generate frequency domain data. The frequency domain transmit data is mapped to assigned subcarriers. An inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) is... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100246380 - Communication control device and information processing apparatus: A communication control device includes: a first processing unit that converts an electrical signal received by a communication channel into digital data and outputs the digital data, and in a second operation mode in which an amount of power supplied to the communication control device is lower than in a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100246381 - Method for preventing overload in mobile telephone networks by using 'always-on' in the case of a call from a mobile telephone: When the GGSN is going to deactivate said PDP Context for having been inactive for a preestablished time, an indication of such deactivation is sent to the IMS client which maintains said characteristic IMS identity-IP address association and marks it as fictitious; and when said user generates a new call,... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20100246382 - Method for reparing an error depending on a radio bearer type: A method of re-establishing a radio bearer in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method of re-establishing a radio bearer of a user equipment in a wireless communication system comprises establishing a radio bearer; identifying whether an error has occurred in the radio bearer; and selectively re-establishing the radio... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100246383 - Motherboard with backup network circuit: A motherboard includes at least one backup network circuit except for a network circuit used in a normal setup. The motherboard includes a first network circuit, a second network circuit, a network port, a switch circuit and a driver. The switch circuit is configured for coupling the first network circuit... Agent: Lanway Ipr Services

20100246384 - Method and system for providing voice survivability: A system for controlling telecommunication equipment configured to provide voice survivability within a telecommunication network comprises a call server monitoring apparatus, a call server management apparatus, and a call server management apparatus. The call server monitoring apparatus is configured for monitoring a connectivity status of a call server. The penalty... Agent: Alcatel-lucent

20100246385 - Industrial controller employing the network ring topology: A network for an industrial control system employs a ring topology that is normally opened by a ring supervisor at the ring supervisor. Upon failure of the network, the ring supervisor reconnects the ring to provide an alternative transmission path around the failure point. High speed operation is reconciled with... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20100246386 - Method and system for communicating data via a mesh network of interconnected femtocells: Aspects of a method and system for communicating data via a mesh network of interconnected femtocells are provided. In this regard, a plurality of femtocells and/or base stations may be interconnected to form a mesh network. A cellular enabled communication device may be enabled to communicate data to a first... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100246387 - Network convergence in response to a topology change: In response to a network topology change, packets are initially flooded on ports of a network device. In addition, a bit array is cleared in response to the topology change. Each bit in the bit array is associated with a particular forwarding entry on the network device. In connection with... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100246388 - Redundant host connection in a routed network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a management mechanism and a configuration mechanism. During operation, the management mechanism is configured to operate the switch in conjunction with the partner switch as a single logical switch. The configuration mechanism is configured to assign a virtual... Agent: Pvf -- Brocade Communications Systems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100246389 - Transmission system, repeater and receiver: It is provided a data transmission system comprising a transmitter, a repeater and a receiver. The transmitter and the repeater are coupled through a first transmission path and the receiver and the repeater are coupled through a second transmission path. The transmitter, the repeater and the receiver have virtual lanes.... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100246393 - Admission control for services: An admission control system is disclosed in combination with a network and a computing system in communication with the network. The computing system is configured to determine a class of service requirement from a service request. The computing system is furnished with topology information about the network, a portion of... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100246392 - Automatic switchover mechanism in a network device: A system comprises a plurality of processing modules, one of which is designated to be the primary processing module and the others are designated to be secondary processing modules. During operation, state is maintained in the primary processing module and at least one of the secondary processing modules. A switchover... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100246390 - Method and apparatus for streaming scalable multimedia data streams: A method and apparatus are described including receiving a coded packet of content associated with a layer, receiving feedback information regarding channel conditions and applying hybrid automatic repeat request to deliver the packet based on said feedback information. The method and apparatus wherein applying hybrid automatic repeat request layer-wise further... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100246391 - Systems and methods for reducing congestion in a wireless network: A system and method are described for reducing congestion in a wireless network. A wireless base station becomes congested when substantially all of the available base station airlink resources are being used during a period of time. It is useful, however, to distinguish between periods of congestion with few users... Agent: Eden Rock Communications, LLC

20100246394 - System and method for managing network resources and policies in a multicast environment: An approach is provided for managing network resources and policies. A network resource manager receives an allocation request, over a radio network, for one or more network resources for joining one of a plurality of multicast groups, the one mutlicast group being associated with a quality of service (QoS) level.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100246396 - Dynamic load balancing for layer-2 link aggregation: Load balancing for layer-2 link aggregation involves initial assignment of link aggregation keys (LAGKs) and reassignment of LAGKs when a load imbalance condition that merits action is discovered. Load conditions change dynamically and for this reason load balancing tends to also be dynamic. Load balancing is preferably performed when it... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20100246395 - Information processing device and method: An information processing device includes: an encoding section that encodes image data to generate a codestream, the image data being to be transmitted to another information processing device; a controlling section that controls whether or not main data of the codestream is to be transmitted, on the basis of whether... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100246400 - Communication device and method: Provided is a communication device and method that is capable of utilizing ECN functions effectively. The communication device includes: a first communication unit 11; a second communication unit 12; a first determination unit 13 that determines whether a PC 101 to which the first communication unit 11 is connected and... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100246399 - Multi-channel management and load balancing: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a protocol to allow for load balancing between multiple frequency channels in a wireless communications system.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246397 - Network having multiple qos levels: In a multi-QoS network, a scheduling mechanism, such as Weighted Fair Queueing, is configured to meet the multiple QoS guarantees. For each link with n classes and n fixed weights, the traffic is assigned to the various classes to meet end-to-end delay constraints.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Lazaroff

20100246398 - Tcp extension and variants for handling heterogeneous applications: An extension to TCP is generally provided that allows TCP to handle heterogeneous applications, especially those with delay and smoothness-sensitive contents, and wireless transmission media having noisy, fading radio channels. The TCP extension decouples reliability control from rate control, sacrificing reliability for delay control (transmission rate and retransmission decision) that... Agent: Ren-sheng InternationalIPManagement Ltd. Gene I. Su

20100246401 - Congestion management in a shared network: A shared channel used to communicate between a cable modem termination system and multiple cable modems is managed to prevent and/or reduce the impact of congestion. If the average channel utilization is above a near-congestion threshold, a cable modem in an extended high consumption state is assigned a reduced data... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412

20100246403 - Methods and systems for message transfer part (mtp) load sharing using mtp load sharing groups: Methods and systems for load sharing signaling messages at the MTP level are disclosed. When a signaling message is received, it is determined whether the signaling message includes a routing indication indicating route-on-point-code-subsystem-number. If the routing indicator indicates route-on-point-code-subsystem-number, it is determined whether the signaling message belongs to an MTP... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20100246402 - Network communication apparatus: A network communication apparatus transmitting a first acknowledgment from a higher-level layer to a transmission source of a predetermined number of first segments and a second segment from the higher-level layer to a transmission source of a second acknowledgment, includes: a first condition setting section in which a first condition... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100246404 - Transfer of network traffic for multi-homed devices: In an embodiment, a method is provided for transferring network traffic for multi-homed devices. In this method, capacity information is received from a network device. This capacity information identifies a network capacity of the network device. Upon detection of network traffic to exceed a threshold, an excess capacity of the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100246405 - Efficient location discovery: Techniques are generally described for determining locations of a plurality of communication devices in a network. In some examples, methods for determining locations of a plurality of communication devices in a network may comprises formulating the determination as a quantitative problem based at least in part on one or more... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100246406 - Route convergence based on ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance protocol: In an example embodiment, a method of route convergence is provided. In this method, a loss of connectivity is detected along a communication route by way of an Ethernet Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) protocol. Examples of Ethernet OAM protocols include Connectivity Fault Management protocol and Ethernet Local Management Interface... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100246409 - Disabled state and state signaling for link aggregation: A device enables a disabled timer state for a link aggregation group (LAG) link if a disabled timer condition is determined for the LAG link, and enables a disabled state for the LAG link if a disabled condition is determined for the LAG link in the disabled timer state.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100246407 - Runtime flow debugging a network device by examining packet counters at internal points: In one embodiment, the internal path traversed by packets between two user visible interface, selected by a user, is displayed. The path displayed includes internal interfaces traversed by the packets. First and second count values showing the packets traversing each displayed internal interface at the beginning and end of a... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20100246408 - System and method for signal failure detection in a ring bus system: A communication system, network node, and communication port architecture are provided for transporting data across a ring network. If a network node detects a signal failure, the communication port of the network node configures itself as timing master and communicates a shutdown command to the other network nodes. In addition,... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20100246410 - Detecting and mitigating data plane bridging loops: Example systems and methods associated with detecting bridging loops are described. One example apparatus includes a preliminary detection logic to detect a bridging loop in a switched network based on examining MAC moves reported by a switch in the switched network. The apparatus may also include a confirmation detection logic... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20100246412 - Ethernet oam fault propagation using y.1731/802.1ag protocol: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable medium including one or more of the following: receiving a first indication of the existence of a fault in a connection related to a service provided by the node on which the maintenance endpoint is configured; determining... Agent: Terry W. Kramer, Esq. Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20100246414 - Network retransmission protocols using a proxy node: One embodiment relates to a method for communicating over a transmission medium shared between a plurality of nodes including a source node, a proxy node, and other nodes. In the method, a transmission data unit is transmitted from the source node to the proxy node and to the other nodes.... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20100246415 - Network testing method and system: In order to preliminarily perform a load test or the like of an IP network, a test apparatus instructs a test packet transmitting device to transmit a test packet having a specified multicast address and instructs a test packet receiving device to receive the test packet of the multicast address.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100246411 - System and method for sending packets using another device's network address: When the network analyzer sees packets from the monitored communication device, it can send the results to the network monitor for analysis without having to be configured with a unique network address. The network analyzer sends an original packet using the network address of the communication device as the source... Agent: Avaya Inc. Margaret Carmichael, Docketing Specialist

20100246413 - Transmission line simulator: A method and apparatus to simulate a length of telecommunications line. One or more bi-directional constant input impedance low pass or pole/zero filters are coupled in series with an attenuator to simulate a length of telecommunications line. The one or more filters are used to approximate the transfer function of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100246416 - Systems and methods for remote testing of wireless lan access points: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for remote testing and troubleshooting of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) using one or more distributed WLAN sensors and one or more servers. Specifically, the invention describes a method to test WLAN access points (APs) for connectivity and performance in the field.... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20100246421 - Automated network condition identification: Performance data relating to each of multiple network devices distributed in a geographic region is analyzed. That data can include values for various parameters measured automatically by routine polling of subscriber devices and/or network elements serving those subscriber devices. Measured parameter values can then be stored in a database and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412

20100246418 - Device and method of collecting and distributing reporting service measurement data in a wireless communications system: A local radio network controller (RNC) includes one or more stage buffers, with each stage buffer including a database configured to receive and index service measurement data, and a plurality of service measurement data (SM) buffers configured to store the service measurement according to the index of the database, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100246420 - Enhanced channel detection: An apparatus for detecting the presence of a frequency channel is provided. The apparatus comprises an energy detection unit configured to measure receive energy over a first bandwidth and a second energy detection unit configured to measure receive energy over a second bandwidth. The apparatus further comprises a processor configured... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246423 - Fast selection of cooperative nodes: The present invention relates to a method, apparatuses, a system, and a computer program product for selecting at least one cooperative node from multiple cooperative nodes (21 to 23) for receiving a signal from a source node (10), wherein at least two stages of a backoff process are provided, in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100246431 - Link state detection method and system: A link state detection method is disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes: obtaining link state information from the lowest level SE to the mid-level SE; notifying to the mid-level SE the link state information from the lowest level SE to the mid-level SE; obtaining accessibility... Agent: Docket Clerk/htcl

20100246426 - Method allowing a monitoring system of the network of an operator to classify ip flows: during analysis by the monitoring system of an accounting element originating from a router, information relating to the source interface and destination interface contained in this accounting element is used in order to identify the source and destination sites and to classify this accounting element with respect to the correct... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100246429 - Method and apparatus for link adaptive multicast/broadcast transmission and reception: A method and apparatus for adaptively transmitting the same data, i.e., multicast/broadcast data, according to channel quality to a receiving group including one or more terminals that request the same service in a wireless network. A base station obtains feedback on channel quality indications (CQIs) from a plurality of terminals,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100246428 - Method and apparatus for performing data access according to protocol handling: A method for performing data access via software according to communication protocol handling includes: calculating a time slot period and an upper limit of a processing time for performing a predetermined data processing according to time slot information defined in a communication protocol, a critical period and a time slot... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100246427 - Method and apparatus for supporting communication in low snr scenario: Techniques for supporting communication for wireless devices in a wireless network are described. The wireless network may support a first physical channel having a first minimum SNR for reliable reception. Some wireless devices may require operation at a lower SNR. In an aspect, low SNR operation may be supported by... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246419 - Method and system for collecting locationing information in a wireless local area network: A method and system are provided for determining estimated location of a wireless communication device (WCD) operating in a network. The network includes a first AP that is currently associated with, a second AP and a third AP. The first AP transmits a first RSSI data request message to the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20100246432 - Method and system for detecting qos anomaly: A method for detecting QoS anomaly is provided. The method includes obtaining a QoS index of data stream transmission of a parent peer, and detecting QoS anomaly of the parent peer according to the QoS index and a corresponding QoS index threshold. A method for detecting factors causing QoS anomaly... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20100246417 - Method for selecting attachment points and relay node used in the method: A technique is disclosed, according to which communication can be achieved with high efficiency by selecting access points to be connected based on the quality of end-to-end communication between a mobile node and a correspondent node when there are a plurality of access points. According to this technique, a mobile... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100246424 - Network device: A network device may be provided with a PHY layer process unit configured to execute a process of a PHY layer, a determination unit configured to determine that a link state is a link up state or a link down state by utilizing information given from the PHY layer process... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20100246422 - Network device and method of measuring upstream bandwidth employed thereby: A network device measures upstream bandwidth of a communication network. The communication network includes a server and a plurality of communication nodes. The network device transmits a sequence of Internet control message protocol (ICMP) request datagrams corresponding to a sequence of time to live (TTL) increased from a first value... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20100246425 - Packet processing apparatus, interface unit and method thereof: A packet processing apparatus includes a plurality of communication connecting unit each connected with a communication partner apparatus using one of a work path and a protection path, connecting unit for connecting, using a data bus, the plurality of communication connecting unit with one another; determination unit for, when a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100246433 - Scanning neighboring base stations in wireless access system: Scanning neighboring base stations in a wireless access system is provided. In one embodiment, a method of scanning neighboring base stations for assessing channel quality includes receiving from a serving base station information associated with at least one neighboring base station, and transmitting a scanning request message from a mobile... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100246430 - Voice optimization in a network having voice over internet protocol communication devices: An apparatus and a method of optimizing voice quality on a network having end-points that are voice over Internet Protocol (IP) devices. Default parameters of the end-points are initialized. Network performance parameters are measured and evaluated to determine whether they signify that connection to the network is below a desired... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20100246434 - Network entry and device discovery for cognitive radio networks: A device (400) scans and classifies each channel within a spectrum of channels (215-270) as being occupied or unoccupied (255), and, if occupied, whether it is occupied by a primary user (240), a secondary user (230), or an unknown user (260). As a secondary device (400), transmissions are avoided on... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100246440 - Automatic configuration of the cell size parameter: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate automatically configuring a network configuration parameter (e.g., cell size parameter, . . . ) in a wireless communication environment. Size of an area served by a cell associated with a base station can be detected automatically by the base station. For example, size... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246439 - Communication of location information for an ip telephony communication device: Techniques for providing location information describing a communication device configured to exchange telephony information over a computer network. A switching device of the computer network receives a first message according to a node-to-node communication protocol, the first message indicating that the endpoint communication device includes a configuration for a mode... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100246442 - Distributed scheduling of quiet-period for in-service channel monitoring: In a distributed-control cognitive radio network, each secondary user (200) in a network broadcasts parameters (125) that indicate the minimum quiet-period sensing demand for regular quiet-periods that the device requires for reliable detection of a primary user (290). Each device (200) in the network adjusts its quiet-period sensing rate to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100246441 - Method and apparatus for monitoring packet service: The present invention provides a packet service electronic monitoring method in a wireless portable Internet system and an apparatus using the same. In the packet service electronic monitoring method, a packet service electronic monitoring start request is transmitted to a packet subscriber station (PSS) from a law enforcement agency and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100246435 - Method and apparatus for new cell discovery: To address the need for new techniques to improve the discovery of neighbor cells, methods such as those depicted in diagrams 10 or 20 may be employed. In one method, a network node sends (11) to a remote unit an indication of at least one timeslot during which NCL scanning... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Docket Administrator

20100246438 - Network node location discovery: Techniques are generally described for determining locations of a plurality of communication devices in a network. In some examples, methods for determining locations of a plurality of communication devices in a network may comprise one or more of solving an objective function to determine a first set of locations of... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100246437 - Network topology: A network including a hierarchical structure of nodes is described. The structure of nodes includes n layers including n−1 layers of switch nodes and 1 layer of computational nodes. Each layer in the structure can include mn-L nodes grouped into units, where m represents a number of nodes in a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100246436 - User-controlled network configuration for handling multiple classes of service: A process and system for user-controlled configuration of an Internet-protocol (IP) network wherein the user may supply input for generating a network classification profile (NCP), which includes a number of classes of service (COSs) for prioritizing network traffic. Network packets belonging to a COS may be classified according to a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20100246445 - Method for maintaining links in a mobile ad hoc network: The present disclosure relates to mobile ad hoc networks, and to ad hoc networks using aircraft in particular. A method of maintaining data links to and from a source node in an ad hoc mobile network is provided. The network comprises nodes including neighbour nodes corresponding to nodes within range... Agent: Boeing (tlg) C/o Toler Law Group

20100246444 - Method for registering in an ims domain a non-ims user device: A flexible technique for registering in an IMS domain (100) of a telecommunications network a non-IMS user device (110) of a user is proposed, wherein a registration control node (104) receives a notification of an event related to a network registration of a second user device (108) of the user... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100246443 - Providing logical networking functionality for managed computer networks: Techniques are described for providing logical networking functionality for managed computer networks, such as for virtual computer networks provided on behalf of users or other entities. In some situations, a user may configure or otherwise specify a network topology for a virtual computer network, such as a logical network topology... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20100246446 - Tree-based node insertion method and memory device: A tree-based node insertion method and a memory device are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The tree-based node insertion method includes: according to the key value of a node to be inserted, searching in a primary tree for the nearest node whose key value is smaller than and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100246447 - Method and device for processing data and communication system comprising such device: A method and a device for processing data by a network element is provided, said method including the steps of (i) the network element receives information about an entity; (ii) the network element determines whether information associated with said entity is available; and (iii) if information associated with said entity... Agent: Harrington & Smith

20100246448 - Automatic utilization of resources in a realtime conference: The disclosed architecture facilitates the association of resources (e.g., hardware software) with a meeting location such as a conference room or conference space. Additionally, the room and resources can be associated with a realtime conference or meeting at the meeting location. Still further, the resources can be automatically joined to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100246450 - Extensible realtime delegation for calls, conferences and collaboration: Architecture for enabling identification of a call party's representative during calls on behalf of the call party. The call representative is delegated to initiate or answer an IP call on behalf of the call party. An IP-telephony component initiates or answers the IP call by the call representative on behalf... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100246449 - Session replacement using replaced session attributes: Architecture for session management enabling the reusing of session attributes of a current session in creating a new session, for adding new participants to a call session. A telephony component manages IP-based call sessions. The telephony component can be an IP telephone or a personal computing device running an IP... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100246451 - Device and method for separation/conversion of multiband signal: Provided are a method and device for separating and converting multiband signals. The device includes a photoelectric converter for converting an externally received optical signal into an electrical signal, a first switch for separating the converted electrical signal into signals according to frequency bands, a first mobile communication band-pass amplifier... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100246453 - Full duplex network radio bridge with low latency and high throughput: A full duplex radio bridge using two transceivers coupled to a first packet network, one for transmitting data toward another radio bridge coupled to a second packet network, and the other for receiving data transmitted from the first packet network toward said second packet network by a transceiver of the... Agent: Ronald Craig Fish A Law Corporation

20100246452 - Methods and apparatus for perr-to-peer non-simultaneous communication: A method and apparatus for facilitating communication between a plurality of wireless devices is provided. The method may comprise establishing, by a first wireless device, a communication path with at least one of a plurality of wireless devices via a network, wherein the communication path provides for half duplexed direct... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246454 - Novel transmit/receive balun structure: A technique for efficient balun duplexing includes providing a switchless path through a balun. In a receive mode, a transmit path is blocked and signal is directed along a switchless receive path. In a transmit mode, a receive path is blocked and signal is directed along a switchless transmit path.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100246456 - Method and an apparatus for determining the radio frame structure of time division duplex system: A method for determining the radio frame structure of a Time Division Duplex system is disclosed, which comprises: configuring, by the network side, the radio frame structure used for service transmission as containing two half-frames each of 5 ms, wherein each half-frame consists of eight service time slots of 0.5... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100246455 - Phich resource signaling in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication terminal and method for determining a number of Physical Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) groups (N) in the downlink subframe based on a first parameter, a second parameter and a determined cyclic prefix (CP) duration, wherein the first parameter indicates a downlink system bandwidth in terms of... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100246457 - Pre-coding/pre-decoding method and apparatus for data transmission in mobile communication system: A pre-coding/decoding method and apparatus for data transmission between a transmitting end and a receiving end is provided. The pre-coding method for data transmission through Time Division Duplexing (TDD) in a mobile communication system includes estimating downlink channel state information based on an uplink sounding signal, and pre-coding a data... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100246458 - Controlling power in a spread spectrum system: A technique and system is disclosed for controlling power in a spread spectrum system. A fast slot of a frame is received where the frame is divided into a number of fast slots. The received power is measured on the fast slot. A second fast slot is transmitted at a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20100246459 - Method and system for reducing power consumption in a wireless transmitter: A system and method for reducing power consumption in a wireless transmitter is useful for conserving battery power in wireless communication devices. The method includes storing a voice data packet in a buffer operatively coupled to the wireless transmitter (step 310). A power supply of the wireless transmitter is then... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100246462 - Method for energy saving in a telecommunication system: The present invention relates to a method for energy saving in a telecommunication system with at least one first base station 24 for enabling communication within a first cell. A signal having a frame structure is transmitted in the first cell by the first base station 24. The structure of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100246464 - Power conservation through bi-directional association of multiple devices: A system comprises radio circuitry, an access point (AP) feature, and a station (STA) feature. The AP feature causes the radio circuitry to transmit data to a hardware device during a beacon interval. The AP feature is not used to receive data from the hardware device during the beacon interval... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100246461 - Power saving method for wireless access point: A power saving method for a wireless access point comprises the steps of detecting whether all wireless communication devices connected to the wireless access point are legacy apparatuses; and if affirmative, retaining one antenna for operation and disabling all other antennas.... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100246463 - Uplink transmission power control in multi-carrier communication systems: In a communication system wherein a User Equipment (UE) transmits at least two data channels in at least two respective component carriers, a method and apparatus for reducing a transmission power allocated to each of the least two data channels relative to each of a respective nominal transmission power, when... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100246465 - User equipment component carrier allocation: A method for configuring at least one component carrier (CC) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The method includes receiving a CC configuration using a signaling protocol, wherein the CC is assigned using a semi-static configuration. Also included is a user equipment (UE) comprising a processor configured to receive... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100246460 - Wireless access point methods and apparatus using dynamically-activated service intervals: Methods and apparatus for controlling a wireless access point (AP) (e.g. a battery-powered wireless AP) for reduced power consumption are provided. In one illustrative example, the AP is adapted to provide communication access for end stations in one or more activated service intervals of each superframe. During operation, the AP... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. LLC

20100246471 - Dynamic shared forward link channel for a wireless communication system: A dynamic shared forward link channel (or “data” channel) is used to send multicast data to a group of wireless devices, e.g., using a common long code mask for the data channel. Reference power control (PC) bits are also sent on the data channel and used for signal quality estimation.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246470 - Method of broadcasting data packets in a network of mobile nodes and associated terminal: Disclosed is a periodic broadcasting of data packets in an ad hoc network formed by a plurality of mobile nodes that can move along traffic lanes forming junctions and can be located. A data packet is broadcast by a broadcaster node elected from a set of candidate nodes at each... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100246469 - Methods and systems for adaptive broadcasting and multicasting in a wireless network: Systems and methods are provided for adaptively transmitting information to a plurality of nodes in a local area of a base station. The base station receives channel quality information from one or more of the nodes within the local area, selects a transmission rate for a downlink transmission corresponding to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246466 - Multiplexing and demultiplexing radio channels: In one embodiment, a method and apparatus of multiplexing and demultiplexing radio channels includes receiving data through at least one multicast media channel available for use in an Internet Protocol Interoperability and Communications System (IPICS) comprising multiple communication endpoints linkable to a Land Mobile Radio (LMR) in the IPICS; channel... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100246467 - Multiplexing and demultiplexing radio channels: Embodiments are directed to scheduling location update reports of access terminals to an access network within a wireless communications system. The access network acquires a defined location region within a wireless communications system, and determines a location of a given access terminal within the wireless communications system. The access network... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246468 - Regulating the scope of service geographically in wireless networks: In an embodiment, a network communication entity obtains a location associated with an access terminal that is attempting to participate in a communication service, determines whether the obtained location satisfies a relationship with a defined location region, the defined location region establishing a first level of service restriction for the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246475 - Frame structure for a multi-hop wireless system: A wireless network includes a base station which can serve terminals directly, or via multi-hop transmission paths via relay stations. The base station transmits a downlink sub-frame which includes a first set of frame control information and a second set of frame control information. The second set of frame control... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100246478 - Hybrid automatic repeat request method of a downlink tunnel: A hybrid automatic repeat request method of a downlink tunnel comprising the following steps: the base station transmits the tunnel data comprising the protocol data unit of multiple mobile stations to the access relay station via the tunnel link, and receives the feedback from the relay station until the access... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100246476 - Method for driving smart antennas in a communication network: h

20100246474 - Relay coded multi-user cooperative communications for uplink 4g wireless networks: Source nodes in an International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-advanced 4G network transmit data on uplink channels to a relay node and a BS using a channel code. The relay node decodes independently the data received from each source node, and applies network coding to data correctly decoded, and transmits the encoded... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20100246473 - Resource allocation for rateless transmissions: Embodiments of the invention describe a method for transmitting a message of a source entropy from a source node, via a set of relay nodes, to a destination node, the set of relay nodes includes a node and a next node connected by a wireless link, wherein the next node... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20100246477 - Retransmission method, wireless communication apparatus, and relay station: A retransmission method in a mobile communication system includes performing a first transmission of data from a first wireless communication apparatus to a second wireless communication apparatus through at least one relay station by wireless relaying; and performing retransmission processing of retransmitting the data through fewer relay stations than the... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center Fujitsu Management Services Of America, Inc.

20100246472 - System and method for proactive repeat transmission of data over an unreliable transmission medium: A system and method for proactive repeat transmission of data units sent using an unreliable transmission medium for the delivery of time sensitive data content predicts a future condition of a downlink data distribution channel using current channel estimation information. The predicted channel condition is used to determine which data... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20100246495 - Apparatus and method for resource allocation in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for providing a resource allocation of a Base Station (BS) in a mobile communication system includes, when a Mobile Station (MS) is located in a cell boundary region, locating a transmission frame region for the MS in a duty cycle reduction region.... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20100246484 - Communication management apparatus and location management apparatus: The present invention provides a new technique, according to which a mobile router can fulfill functions as a dynamic home agent, in a system where a plurality of mobile routers are in operation, under the management of a service provider belonging to the home agent. According to this technique, the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100246493 - Control apparatus, control method for controlling apparatus, and program: A control apparatus communicable with a plurality of controlled apparatuses includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a communication apparatus within a communication range of the controlled apparatus and information about other communication apparatuses within a communication range of the communication apparatus, and a selection unit configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100246485 - Infrastructure for location discovery: Techniques are generally described for determining locations of a plurality of communication devices in a network. In some examples, methods for creating a location discovery infrastructure (LDI) for estimating locations of one or more of a plurality of communication nodes may comprise one or more of determining a plurality of... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100246486 - Intelligent hotspot connection systems and methods: Intelligent hotspot connection systems and methods are provided. The intelligent hotspot connection system includes a storage unit, a wireless connection unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit includes a hotspot information database recording at least one property for each of a plurality of hotspots, and a hotspot preference database... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100246479 - Method and system for establishing and maintaining a high speed radio access bearer for foreground application: A method and system for establishing and maintaining a high speed tunnel between a mobile device and a network, the method determining whether a foreground application on the mobile device requires the high speed tunnel, and if the foreground application requires the high speed tunnel, closing all tunnels from the... Agent: Moffat-rim

20100246483 - Method and system for communication between a plurality of femtocells to mitigate interference between the femtocells: Aspects of a method and system for communication between a plurality of femtocells to mitigate interference between the femtocells are provided. In this regard, a first of a plurality of femtocells in a network may receive interference information from one or more other femtocells, one or more base stations, and/or... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100246482 - Method and system for dynamic adjustment of power and frequencies in a femtocell network: Aspects of a method and system for dynamic adjustment of power, antenna direction and frequencies in a femtocell network are provided. In this regard, a communication system may comprise a plurality of femtocells, one or more base stations, and a femtocell management entity that coordinates operation of the plurality of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100246490 - Method for handling corrupted signals in a wireless network: A method is provided for combining corrupted messages received in a wireless network which comprises the following steps: (a) receiving a first message transmitted from one of a plurality of communication devices, wherein that first message is received as a corrupted message; (b) following the receipt of the first corrupted... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20100246492 - Method for routing in a mobile ad hoc network: The present disclosure relates to mobile ad hoc networks that may include aircraft. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of providing routing data for use in routing a message from a source node to available destination nodes through a mobile ad hoc network. A list of neighbour nodes... Agent: Boeing (tlg) C/o Toler Law Group

20100246489 - Mimo ofdma with antenna selection and subband handoff: An access node wirelessly coupled to a plurality of access terminals, having a subband scheduler, a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplex elements, and a plurality of antennas. The subband scheduler receives precoded data, and schedules transmission of a preamble signal and a plurality of data streams. The plurality of... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20100246491 - Operating method and apparatus according to data duplicate retransmission in mobile communication system: An operating method and an apparatus according to data duplicate retransmission in a mobile communication system are provided. A method of a User Equipment (UE) according to data duplicate retransmission in a mobile communication system includes storing a Media Access Control Protocol Data Unit (MAC PDU) received from an Evolved... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100246487 - Radio base station apparatus and synchronization method thereof: In a radio base station apparatus that connects a radio control device and plural radio devices to each other through plural links and transmits and receives data by using a frame, a synchronization unit calculates a difference between a first reference counter and a second reference counter from first and... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center Fujitsu Management Services Of America, Inc.

20100246497 - Selective combining method and apparatus in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for performing duplicate avoidance of broadcast data packets in a (UE). The includes receiving a broadcast data packet from a plurality of cells; storing, if a sequence number of the received broadcast data packet does not fall within a reception window, the broadcast data packet in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100246494 - System and method for communications using spatial multiplexing with incomplete channel information: A system and method for communications using spatial multiplexing with incomplete channel information are provided. A method for wireless communications includes receiving, at a controller, a reference signal transmitted by a communications device, computing channel statistics based on the received reference signal, computing a first beamforming vector and a second... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100246481 - System and method for selecting a number of spatial streams to be used for transmission based on probing of channels: Systems and methods are provided for determining a number of spatial channels to use to transmit a data packet from a source node to a destination node. This determination can be made based on a Probability of Channel non-Correlation (PCC) function that is generated and updated by the source node... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20100246480 - System and method for selecting a route based on link metrics incorporating channel bandwidth, spatial streams and/or guard interval in a multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) network: Systems and methods are provided for determining a link metric for a communication link along a path between a source node to a destination node is provided. A node can generate a link metric (LM) for the communication link between the particular node and next-hop node towards the destination node... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20100246496 - Wireless communication system having mimo communication capability and having multiple receiving antennas to be selected: Before start of streaming, a server apparatus obtains from client apparatuses their respective numbers of antenna combinations, determines a training time t1 according to the maximum of the numbers of antenna combinations, and notifies the client apparatuses of the training time t1. Each client apparatus determines a training time t2... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100246488 - Wwan to ethernet converter and communication system thereof: A wireless wide area network (WWAN) to Ethernet converter comprises a subscriber identity module (SIM) interface, for accessing data stored in a SIM card; a radio frequency (RF) circuit, for receiving in the WWAM an RF signal associated with the data stored in the SIM card and for converting between... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100246526 - Apparatus and method for allocating sounding sequences in a broadband wireless communication system: A method and apparatus enhances sounding performance for a broadband wireless communication system of a multi-cell environment. A grouping part groups a plurality of sounding sequences to a plurality of sequence groups. A first determiner determines a correlation between the sequence groups. A second determiner determines a least interference relation... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100246506 - Apparatus and methods of whitespace communication: The described apparatus and methods provide communication services utilizing a combination of non-white space (NWS) and white space (WS) networks. For example, in an aspect, the described apparatus and methods receive, at a first base station (BS) and on a licensed frequency, a communication request for network access from a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246502 - Combined device and service discovery technique in stations supporting tunneled direct link setup (tdls): A tunneled direct link set-up (TDLS) capable wireless network may comprise a router such as an access point (AP) and a plurality of stations (STA) including service consumer and service provider station. A service consumer station may generate and send a layer-2 query frame to the plurality of stations. A... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100246501 - Connection close for disjoint serving sectors: Systems and methodologies are described that that facilitate resource reclamation in a wireless communications system having a disjoint serving sector configuration. A mobile device can report activity on a communication link (e.g., forward link or reverse link) to a serving sector that provides a corresponding communication link. For instance, forward... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246500 - Ggsn proxy for one tunnel solution: A method for roaming of a wireless mobile communication unit, a service support node and a proxy gateway support node for roaming between Public Land Mobile Networks, as well as a mobile communication infrastructure network arranged to handle roaming between different PLMN areas, where the support node is located in... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100246508 - Low latency synchronization scheme for wireless ofdma systems: In advanced wireless OFDMA communication systems, hierarchical synchronization is adopted to synchronize between a base station (BS) and a mobile station (MS). In a hierarchical synchronization architecture, primary advanced preamble (PA-Preamble) is used for coarse time domain synchronization while cell ID is detected using several accumulated secondary advanced preambles (SA-Preambles).... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20100246522 - Management apparatus, control method, and program: The invention makes it possible to manage, even if some of wireless terminals leave a wireless communication network to be managed, the wireless terminals which have left. The invention provides a management apparatus which is connected to an AP and manages each wireless terminal communicating with the AP by using... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100246523 - Method and apparatus for correlating signalling in a communications network: A node in an IMS network receives circuit switched signalling relating to a communication session sent from a terminal over a circuit switched access network, and also receives packet switched signalling relating to the communication session sent from the terminal over a packet switched access network. The packet switched signalling... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100246516 - Method and apparatus for performing uplink transmit diversity: A method and apparatus for performing uplink (UL) transmit diversity implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes receiving a signal including precoding information. The precoding information is detected and applied to an UL transmission. The UL transmission is transmitted with the applied precoding information.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100246518 - Method and apparatus for transmitting control information via upper layer: Techniques for supporting communication for wireless devices in a wireless network are described. The wireless network may support transmission of control information on a first physical channel having a first minimum SNR for reliable reception. Some wireless devices may require operation at a lower SNR. In an aspect, low SNR... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246519 - Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system: A method of controlling an unsynchronized cellular wireless telecommunication system includes, for at least one user equipment served by a first cell, receiving signal strength measurements and, based on the signal strength measurements, determining whether the user equipment should be scheduled for a low interference time period during which neighbouring... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100246511 - Method of allocating resource area in wireless access system: A method of allocating a radio resource in a wireless access system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a control message associated with radio resource allocation for transmitting uplink data to the base station, wherein the control message comprises a first persistent uplink allocation information element comprising first resource allocation... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100246498 - Method of constructing resource allocation map for mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a method of constructing a resource allocation map in a mobile communication system. In a method of constructing a map in a hierarchial pattern method in a case where a localized resource block (localized RB) and a distributed resource block (distributed RB) need to be... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100246514 - Method of exchanging message and devices in wireless network: A method of exchanging messages at a device in a wireless network comprises transmitting a change request message for requesting a change of a beacon position among configuration parameters of the wireless network to a coordinator; and receiving a response message in response to the request message from the coordinator.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100246499 - Method to transmit downlink signaling message on cellular systems for packet transmission and method for receiving the message: Provided is a downlink control information transmitting and receiving method which can maximize the use of limited radio resources by effectively forming an uplink signaling message to be transmitted from a base station to a terminal and transmitting the formed uplink signaling message with a minimum amount of radio resources... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100246524 - Method, system and transmitter for adaptive coordinated transmission in wireless communications: Embodiments of the present invention include a method, system and transmitter for adaptive coordinated transmission in wireless communications. The method includes: determining more than one transmitter for performing coordinated transmission, configuring one of the more than one transmitter to be a serving transmitter with others of the more than one... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100246504 - Methods of transmitting and receiving data in mobile communication system and device supporting the same: A method and apparatus of transmitting and receiving data in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method of transmitting and receiving data in a mobile communication system comprises receiving control information related to transmission and reception from a transmitting side, determining at least one of power saving parameter information... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100246507 - Mobile communication device and mobile communication system: A base station includes a unit that, in response to a request from a terminal to activate an application, calculates the data communication speed based on a communication quality index received from the terminal; a unit that performs the statistical calculation of traffic sent to terminals; a unit that calculates... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100246510 - Mobile communication method, radio base station apparatus and mobile station: A radio base station apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes: an uplink resource assignor unit (13) configured to assign an uplink resource to a mobile station (01) in response to a random access signal which the mobile station (01) transmits by use of a random access preamble; a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100246512 - Mobile station, base station, uplink transmission method, and downlink transmission method: A mobile station includes a channel quality estimation unit configured to estimate downlink channel quality based on a reference signal from a base station and to output the estimated downlink channel quality as channel estimation information; an acknowledgement information determining unit configured to determine whether a downlink data channel from... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100246505 - Non-cyclic evolving-type user resource structure for ofdma based system with null guard tones: A non-cyclic evolving-type user resource structure applicable for use in the uplink and the downlink of an OFDMA system with large null guard tones (e.g., a 3GPP LTE system) is provided. In one example, the user resource structure combines the benefits of localized and distributed types of resource structures available... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100246520 - Outer loop power control for e-dch: The present invention relates to a method and an enhanced uplink (UL) telecommunication system for power control. The system comprises at least one first radio network controller (RNC) and at least one first and one second base station enabling wireless communication with at least one first user terminal. The first... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100246525 - Pilot scrambling enabling direct pilot sequence detection in initial acquisition in evolved utra: A communications network and method thereof include a base station controller configured to provide a repetition period of a primary synchronization channel to be equal to a predetermined integer value times a scrambling code length of the scrambling code of a common pilot channel. A user equipment in the network... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100246521 - Real-time service transmission method and resource allocation method: The invention discloses a method for real-time service transmission and a method for resource allocation, wherein, the method for resource allocation of real-time service transmission includes the following processing: through the resource allocation control channels, the base station allocates the semi-static service channel resources to the terminal to be used... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20100246503 - Reducing interference in a telecommunications network: Controlling interference in a telecommunications network, in which data are transmitted between mobile devices and base stations in resource blocks, includes, for each of the base stations: allocating resource blocks to one of multiple resource groups, the corresponding resource blocks of each base station being in the same resource group;... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20100246517 - Systems and methods for transmitting serving grants to a serving base station: The invention provides a method for transmitting a serving grant to a base station. In some embodiments the method includes: storing a serving grant in a storage unit, generating a layer two protocol data unit (L2 PDU); and transmitting the L2 PDU to the base station, wherein the step of... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20100246515 - Techniques for pilot stream remapping in ofdm wireless communication system: A method and base station apparatus for transmitting pilot data in a wireless communication system, and a method and mobile station apparatus for receiving pilot data in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for transmitting pilot data in a wireless communication system includes determining a pilot pattern in... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100246509 - Telecommunications system and method: Embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile node with roaming facilities as afforded by a 3GPP network, although the mobile node may have attached to a non-3GPP network, by arranging for the visited serving gateway node to connect to a home network of the mobile node, using for example... Agent: Thorne & Halajian, LLP

20100246513 - Timer handling in a transmitter in a telecommunication system for voice and data packet transmission: The invention relates to a wireless telecommunication system for voice and data packet transmission. The system comprises a transmitting unit for transmitting voice and data packets to a receiving unit. The transmitting unit comprises a first discard timer set for a first time period and arranged to start when a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100246528 - Method and apparatus for frequency offset compensation: Frequency offset compensating methods and apparatus are provided. A frequency offset of a terminal according to the pilots is estimated, and terminals are grouped according to the frequency offset of the terminals. The terminals in different frequency offset groups are dispatched and are scheduled to occupy the time frequency resources... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20100246527 - Methods and apparatus for generation and use of reference signals in a communications system: Apparatus and methods for generation and use of reference signals in a wireless communications system are described. A group-specific reference signal pattern may be generated for provision to a group of UEs or terminals in communication with an eNodeB or base station. The reference signal may be generated based on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246530 - Handover from circuit switched domain to circuit switched service over packet switched domain: A method for initiating handover of a circuit switched service using a circuit switched bearer of a mobile station from a circuit switched to a packet switched domain in a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network comprising a radio network and a core network, the radio network comprising a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100246531 - Method for transmitting signals: A signal receiving method includes allocating a communication resource corresponding to a mobile station over a plurality of frames, transmitting allocation information on the communication resource to the mobile station, and receiving a transmitted signal through the communication resource. Therefore, the resource allocated on the frequency axis is minimized by... Agent: Munck Carter LLP

20100246532 - Wireless communication method and system for implementing media independent handover between technologically diversified access networks: A wireless communication method and device may be used to perform a media independent handover between technologically diversified access networks. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured to communicate with a plurality of technologically diversified access networks, such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.X networks and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100246529 - Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication system: To reduce power consumption for scanning and maintain communication quality by reducing the time for scanning or connection when a wireless communication terminal switches between networks or base stations. A wireless communication terminal 1 enabling connection with a plurality of base stations disposed in different positions which includes a base... Agent: Richard L. Sampson Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20100246535 - Determining whether to switch between group calls based on priority within a wireless communications system: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to determining whether to switch between group calls based on priority within a wireless communications system. In an embodiment, an announce message is received at a given access terminal that announces a second group session when the given access terminal is participating in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246533 - Intersystem change involving mapping between different types of radio bearers: The present invention relates to a packet data core network node (10) supporting packet data communication in a first core network comprising first communication means (1) for control plane handling (11) and mobility management (12) and second communication means (2) for user plane management and means for communication with a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100246534 - Method and system for managing handoff in a radio access network: Disclosed is a method and device for managing handoff of an access terminal in a radio access network (RAN). An access terminal may detect a handoff trigger, determine whether there is an ongoing data transfer in progress, determine an amount remaining in the data transfer, compare the amount remaining to... Agent: Sprint

20100246536 - Method and system for enabling communication in a hybrid network: The invention provides a method and a system for enabling communication with a device (206) of a party operating in a hybrid network. The hybrid network combines an Internet-protocol based network (202) and a non-internet-protocol based network (203), wherein the device is an Internet-protocol based device (206). The method includes... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis

20100246538 - Adaptive frequency reuse method of radio resources management and allocation: A method for managing and allocating radio resources (RRMA method) of multiple radio resource types to subscriber stations is disclosed. The RRMA method includes bandwidth partitioning, into parts comprising “slots” with a given reuse pattern, a selection rule, to select a “cell, reuse pattern” pair serving each user, and an... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C. C/o Cpa Global

20100246540 - Method for channel switching and device for communication: A method for channel switching comprising the steps: establishing (10) an active communication in a channel ch(m), checking (11) if the communication at an actual timeslot t(n) is successful, if checking (11) if the communication at the actual timeslot t(n) is successful, keeping the communication using the channel ch(m) for... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100246537 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a dual-beacon mechanism for two device types: A system and method of wireless data communication over a network of devices and device types are disclosed. In one aspect, the beacons of a first device type are sent and received from devices of the first device type or a second device type, by a first device of the... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20100246539 - Transmission method for a wireless network and corresponding reception method: s

20100246547 - Antenna selecting apparatus and method in wireless communication system: Provided is a reception antenna selecting method of a receiver including a plurality of antennas in a wireless communication system. The reception antenna selecting method aligns amplified frames according to levels of received signals and performs CRC for each of the aligned frames.... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20100246548 - Base station, method for managing cell, method for detection signal, terminal and method for transmitting signal thereof: A base station according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a receiver receiving environment information of a first terminal from the first terminal positioned at a cell boundary and receiving usable resource information from a neighbor base station; a resource allocator allocating a resource to the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100246542 - Disparate radios in a wireless mesh network: A wireless mesh network that makes use of strategically placed nodes with radios having superior communication range through the use of high gain antennas, MIMO technology, high power transmitters, high sensitivity receivers, a combination thereof, etc. Besides the obvious effect of extending the physical coverage area of a network, the... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20100246550 - High performance wireless networks using distributed control and switch-stack paradigm: A design and proof of concept of a new type of WLAN, complete with simulation and results from the simulation has been described. Each AP Node is implemented as a self-contained embedded OS unit, with all algorithms resident in its Operating system. The normal day-to-day functioning of the AP node... Agent: Michael J. Cherskov

20100246544 - Indoor competitive survey of wireless networks: System(s) and method(s) are provided to collect network operation data within a confined indoor wireless environment for generation of competitive intelligence and strategic network planning. Scanner component(s) survey and compare signals transported in a set of electromagnetic frequency bands, and in accordance with a set of radio technologies associated with... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100246552 - Method and apparatus for delivering ipp2t (ip-push-to-talk) wireless lan mobile radio service: A wireless subscriber terminal (ST) for use with IP push-to-talk (IPP2T) service using a wireless local area network (WLAN) operating in a plurality of modes, including a mobile terminal having an ability to communicate over the air to a wireless Access Point (AP), the mobile terminal further programmable to use... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100246546 - Method of selecting antennas and transmitting data in multi-input multi-output wireless local area network environments: In a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless local area network (WLAN) system, a method is provided for selecting at least one antenna from a plurality of antennas and transmitting a data frame from a station to an access point via the selected antenna or antennas. A method for transmitting data from... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100246551 - Performance optimization for wireless networks with mixed modulation types: In one embodiment, different physical layer standards are segregated into different frequency channels. In one implementation, 802.11b traffic and 802.11g traffic are segregated into different frequency channels. A network management tool allows the user to specify channels to either, e.g., 802.11b-only, 802.11g-only, 802.11b preferred and 802.11g discouraged, or 802.11g preferred... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20100246545 - System and method for providing network mobility: An approach is provided for extending private enterprise networking to wireless interconnecting domains. A home agent maintains a first routing table for a first wireless router configured to route according to a first address space. The home agent also maintains a second routing table for a second wireless router configured... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100246543 - System and method of transmitting and receiving data frames: A method of transmitting a data frame is disclosed and may include transmitting a preamble, transmitting a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) header, and transmitting a plurality of MAC protocol data units (MPDUs). Each MPDU may be configured to reset a convolutional decoder state after each MPDU. The method may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246549 - System and methods for distributed medium access control and qos scheduling in mobile ad-hoc networks: A communication device and method are provided for communicating with a receiving device over a channel within a mobile ad-hoc network. The receiving device includes a clear-to-send (CTS) packet generating portion that can generate and a CTS packet based on a parameter of the channel and that can transmit the... Agent: The Johns Hopkins Universityapplied Physics Labora Office Of Patent Counsel

20100246541 - Method and system for adaptive modulations and signal field for closed loop multiple input multiple output (mimo) wireless local area network (wlan) system: Aspects of a method and system for an optional closed loop mechanism with adaptive modulations for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) WLAN system are provided. One aspect of the system may utilize properties of Eigenvalue analysis of MIMO systems to reduce the number of bits of binary information required... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100246553 - Wireless transmission device, wireless communication system and wireless transmission method: A wireless transmission device which communicates with a wireless reception device, includes: a reception quality setting unit which sets the reception quality of at least one code channel among a plurality of code channels to be multiplexed to be different from the reception quality of the other code channels; and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100246556 - Communication method and apparatus: In a wireless communication system, the communicating stations reduce their transmitting power level when they detect interference exceeding a certain level. Interference is detected by down-shifting the received signal to place the desired signal in the baseband, then sampling the down-shifted signal, first at a sampling frequency high enough to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100246554 - Device and method for reestablishing a wireless connection in a wireless network: A device and method enable reestablishing a wireless connection in a wireless network. The method includes detecting at a first wireless device that a previous wireless connection has been lost with a second wireless device that employs dynamic frequency selection (DFS) (step 505). A third wireless device is then identified... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20100246557 - Receiver apparatus and reception method: A receiver includes a sample and hold circuit that receives a signal (continuous time signal) that has been subject to frequency division multiplexing modulation, converts the signal to a discrete time signal, and outputs the discrete time signal, a discrete time filter that receives the signal output from the sample... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100246555 - Simple base station capable of coupling to a mobile communication network via a telephone cable: A simple base station for coupling to a mobile communication network via a telephone cable, includes an antenna module for receiving and transmitting a plurality of frequency signals; a transmission control module setting up a plurality communication channels respectively corresponding to the frequency signals; a converting module coupled electrically to... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100246558 - Narrowband transmissions using a plurality of antennas: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) transmissions using a plurality of antennas and/or transmit chains. Still other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100246561 - Method and apparatus for power control of sounding reference signal (srs) transmission: Methods and apparatus for sounding reference signal (SRS) power control for a wireless transmitter/receiver unit (WTRU) are disclosed. These methods and apparatus include methods and apparatus for carrier-specific and carrier-common SRS power control in WTRUs that utilize carrier aggregation techniques. These methods and apparatus also include methods and apparatus for... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100246560 - Method of communicating with user cooperation and terminal device of enabling the method: Proposed is a user cooperative terminal device. The user cooperative device includes: a signal detector to receive a signal transmitted from a source node and detect a received signal; and a message generator to cancel interference caused by a neighboring user in the received signal, using a neighboring user message,... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100246559 - Radio communication base station apparatus and radio communication mobile station apparatus: A radio communication base station device can efficiently obtain a multiuser diversity gain from frequency scheduling while reducing the amount of a reference signal occupying an uplink. In the device, a grouping section (109) divides a plurality of RBs (Resource Blocks) into a plurality of RB groups. An RB group... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100246562 - Radio communication system and mobile station device: A mobile station device transmits a random access preamble to a base station device and performs uplink timing alignment based on the synchronization timing deviation information included in a random access response which the base station device transmits in response to the transmitted random access preamble, wherein in an uplink... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100246563 - Wireless communication method and apparatus thereof: To provide a stable high speed wireless network, the relay process is solved at the lower layers (PHY layer, MAC layer) without depending on upper layers to reduce the load of the upper layers to the utmost. Discrimination is made between a packet of one's own station and a relay... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100246564 - Methods and systems for timing acquisition robust to channel fading: The embodiments provide mechanisms for synchronizing a receiver with OFDM pilots that are robust in the presence of channel fading conditions. In addition to using instantaneous channel estimate values to locate the first arriving path and last arriving path, the methods calculate time-domain averaged channel estimate values and use those... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246570 - Communications session preparation method and apparatus: Systems and methods for providing contextual information to one or more parties to a communications session are provided. More particularly, context information relevant to a party to a communications session is delivered to another party to the communications session as part of a communications message. In addition to information providing... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20100246572 - Method and apparatus for providing user access via multiple partner carriers for international calls: A method and apparatus for providing subscribers of a VoIP service provider to take advantage of wholesale arrangements made by the VoIP service provider with one or more international partner carrier network providers to one or more international countries are disclosed. Specifically, the present method enables a VoIP service provider... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100246566 - Serverless gateway infrastructure for voice or video: A system and method to provide voice or video over IP without a centralized control infrastructure is enabled by an overlay network of software devices. Such a device is comprised of VoIP server, PBX, PBX database, and a control module. The control module is used to store and retrieve items... Agent: Wei Kang Tsai

20100246565 - System and method for displaying a called party calendar on a voice over ip phone display: A system and method for displaying a contact's availability information on a display of a voice over internet protocol (IP) phone is disclosed. The method includes sending a request for a selected telephone contact's availability information from the IP phone to a web service calendar module operable on a web... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20100246567 - System and method for managing created location contexts in a location server: A system and method for creating a location uniform resource identifier (“URI”) for determining the location of a target device. A location request may be received for a target device. Location context information may be collected for the target device including starting information, validating information and policy information. This collected... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20100246571 - System and method for managing multiple concurrent communication sessions using a graphical call connection metaphor: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing a plurality of concurrent communication sessions via a graphical user interface (GUI). A system configured to practice the method presents a set of connected graphical elements representing a structure of the respective communication session via the GUI for... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP - Avaya Inc.

20100246574 - System and method for processing packet domain signal: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and a method for processing a packet domain service signal, which enable a terminal that does not support an access control protocol of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to access the IMS and acquire the services in the IMS. An AGCF... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100246573 - Telecommunication system with packet-switched-multimedia-session-to-circuit-switched-call transferral: Telecommunication systems with packet-switched multimedia terminals and nodes for packet-switched multimedia sessions and with servers for exchanging multimedia signaling information for the packet-switched multimedia sessions and with terminating units are provided with gateways for in response to transferral messages originating from the packet-switched multimedia terminals and arriving at the servers... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100246568 - Telephony system with intelligent endpoints or intelligent switches to reduce dependency of endpoints on application server: A system and a method are disclosed for reducing interaction between a server and an endpoint while executing features on an endpoint. The endpoint, and not the application server, includes part or all of the implementation of UT logic and feature logic. The endpoint therefore does not have to rely... Agent: Patent Law Works LLP/shoretel Inc.

20100246569 - Temporary connection number management system, terminal, temporary connection number management method, and temporary connection number management program: The present invention makes it possible to connect to and communicate with a connect destination by using a temporary number. In the present invention, a temporary number user terminal (100) registers a temporary number acquired from a SIP account server (300) in a SIP proxy server (400), and connects to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100246575 - Virtual pbx based on feature server modules: A virtual private branch exchange is formed by a plurality of interconnected feature server modules, each having an integral feature server that is configured and operates independently of the other feature server modules. Within a virtual private branch exchange, the feature server modules may be logically arranged in a hierarchy... Agent: Carlineo, Spicer & Kee, LLC

20100246577 - Method and apparatus for sending bfd packets, method and apparatus for detecting link faults: A method for sending a BFD packet includes: obtaining information about intermediate nodes to be passed by the BFD packet, where the information about the intermediate nodes uniquely corresponds to a link to be traveled by the BFD packet or a session on the link; setting the obtained information about... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100246576 - System and method for providing anonymity in a session initiated protocol network: A method for facilitating an anonymous communications session in a communications environment is provided that includes receiving, from a first endpoint, a request for a communication session involving a second endpoint. The method also includes identifying end user data associated with a first endpoint. The data associated with the first... Agent: Patent Capital Group

20100246578 - Data redistribution in data replication systems: A system includes one or more processors configured to redistribute one or more originator data subsets among a plurality of originator nodes and determine data redistribution information pertaining to redistribution of the one or more originator data subsets among the plurality of originator nodes. The system further includes a communication... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20100246579 - Discovering multicast routing capability of an access network: Whether an access network supports multicast-based IPTV services from an IPTV service provider is determined. A tone signal encoded with information for the IPTV service provider is used by a terminal to determine whether an access network supports multicast-based IPTV services. The tone signal is also used to determine whether... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100246580 - Multicast snooping on layer 2 virtual private network: A network system includes: a core switch; and an edge switch. The edge switch includes: a join message identification unit; and a marking unit. The join message identification unit identifies a join message from among MAC frames from the user network. The marking unit marks mark information to a header... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100246584 - Maintaining packet order using hash-based linked-list queues: Ordering logic ensures that data items being processed by a number of parallel processing units are unloaded from the processing units in the original per-flow order that the data items were loaded into the parallel processing units. The ordering logic includes a pointer memory, a tail vector, and a head... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100246581 - Method and apparatus for packet routing: Methods and apparatus for routing a packet in a network are described. The network has a topology characterized by a hierarchical structure of nodes including n layers. L represents a layer in the structure and is an integer with L=0 representing a lowest layer and L=n−1 representing a highest layer.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100246583 - Relay device, state informing method, and computer program: A relay device which forwards a packet received from a first device to a second device, the relay device includes a detection unit that detects that the relay device has been in a specified state, a generation unit that generates a packet that contains information for identifying the relay device... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100246582 - Subscriber access network achitecture: A subscriber network architecture includes a packet processing node that communicates with a network backbone and with a plurality of access nodes. The access nodes also communicate with a plurality of subscriber devices. The packet processing node controls Quality of Service (QoS) levels for the subscriber devices, routes user data... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412

20100246585 - Multiple channel digital subscriber line framer/deframer system and method: The framer, also referred to as the scrambler/Reed-Solomon encoder (SRS), is a part of the transmitter and accepts user and control data in the form of one or more logical channels, partitions this data into frames, adds error correction codes, randomizes the data through a scrambler, and multiplexes logical channels... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100246586 - Systems and methods for retransmitting packets over a network of communication channels: Systems and methods for transmitting packets over a network of communication channels are provide. A system according to the invention may include first and second nodes in communication with a coax backbone. The first node may further include a retransmission buffer. The system may also include a network access coordinator... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20100246587 - Multitopology routing method and system: Method and system for routing data streams in a meshed system, in which use is made of multitopology routers each provided with an intelligent module and wherein at least one step is implemented which takes account of the flow objectives associated with a data stream, the intelligent module associated with... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20100246588 - System architecture for very fast ethernet blade: The system of the present invention provides data transmission speeds at or in excess of 10 gigabits per second between one or more source devices and one or more destination devices. The system comprises a media access control (MAC) interface to facilitate receipt and transmission of packets over a physical... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/foundry/brocade

20100246589 - Systems and methods for accessing voice transmissions: Various systems and methods for intercepting transmissions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed that includes a media gateway communicably coupled to a soft switch and an acquisition facility. A first processor and a first computer readable medium are associated with the soft switch. The computer readable medium... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20100246590 - Dynamic assignment of data to switch-ingress buffers: Embodiments of a system that includes a switch and a buffer-management technique for storing signals in the system are described. In this system, data cells are dynamically assigned from a host buffer to at least a subset of switch-ingress buffers in the switch based at least in part on the... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle America, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100246591 - Enabling long-term communication idleness for energy efficiency: A network adapter comprises a controller to change to a first mode from a second mode based on a number of transmit packets, sizes of received packets, and intervals between arrivals of the received packets. In one embodiment, the network controller further comprises a memory to buffer received packets, where... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100246592 - Load balancing method for network intrusion detection: A load balancing method for network intrusion detection includes the following steps. Packets are received from a client. The data packets include a protocol type and a protocol property. An intrusion detection procedure is loaded on a receiving end. A corresponding request queue is set for each intrusion detection procedure.... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20100246594 - Flexibly integrating endpoint logic into varied platforms: In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to an integrated endpoint having a virtual port coupled between an upstream fabric and an integrated device fabric that includes a multi-function logic to handle various functions for one or more intellectual property (IP) blocks coupled to the integrated device fabric. The... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100246595 - Linking cross bar controller: A method for transferring data includes connecting N ports of a crossbar to N devices, respectively, where N is an integer greater than one. Inbound data is received at one of the N ports from a respective one of the N devices. Dedicated connections are provided between an input buffer... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20100246593 - Steering data communications packets for transparent bump-in-the-wire processing among multiple data processing applications: Steering data communications packets for transparent, bump-in-the-wire processing among multiple data processing applications in a link-level data communications switch, the switch including data communications ports, a port connected to a first data communications network and another port connected to a second data communications network, other ports connected to the data... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20100246596 - Control of packet buffer using token buckets with different token bucket sizes: Control of readout of packets from a packet buffer is disclosed in which equal numbers of tokens are removed and used from token buckets having different bucket sizes; tokens are generated at token rates for the token buckets, wherein each token rate is preset such that the larger the token... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100246597 - Method and apparatus for assigning identifiers to media services: A user assigns a major and minor channel number combination to a media service which does not have such a pre-existing combination, where such a media service is accessed by using such a channel combination without having to resort to the typical means of accessing the media service, such as... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100246598 - Performance customization system and process for optimizing xdsl performance: A system and process for customizing the performance of an xDSL communication system in which a transmitting modem and/or a receiving modem will negotiate a performance parameter for adjustment.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100246599 - Apparatus and method for bit remapping in a relay enhanced communication system: An apparatus and method for bit remapping at a relay node in a communication system. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor configured to remap an order of bits of a received signal from a source node to a different order of bits for a transmitted signal to a... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100246600 - Method and system for reducing header information in communication systems: Systems and methods for reducing overhead in a communication system are disclosed. Different frame types are aggregated into an enhanced aggregated frame in response to a determination that the different frames are suitable for transmission within a single reservation period.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100246601 - Method for adjusting signal speed, media gateway, and media gateway controller: The present invention relates to the communication filed and discloses a method for adjusting the signal speed, a media gateway (MG), and a media gateway controller (MGC). The method includes: receiving a command request that includes signal speed adjustment information from the MGC, and adjusting the signal speed according to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100246602 - Apparatus and method for remote communication and transmission protocols: A communication apparatus for remote communication may include a local communication proxy module configured to receive streams from a local communication application module. The streams may be in a form utilizing a first transmission protocol and destined to a remote destination. The local communication proxy module may be configured to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100246603 - Method and system for quality of service support for ethernet multiservice interworking over multiprotocol label switching: A method and system for maintaining quality of service parameters for transmissions as a native Ethernet service between a first network having a first communication protocol and a second network having a second communication protocol that is different from the first communication protocol. The interworking device includes a first network... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20100246604 - Method for multiplexing data information and control information in wireless communication system: A method for multiplexing a control information stream, and a data information stream comprised of systematic symbols and non-systematic symbols in a wireless mobile communication system is described. The multiplexing method includes mapping the data information stream to a resource area, so that the systematic bit symbols are not mapped... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100246605 - Enhanced visual experience for a participant in a streaming event: A method of presenting content from a remote device is provided. Limited bandwidth content, transmitted from a remote device, is received at a local device. The limited bandwidth content is superimposed on enhanced content retrieved by the local device. The limited bandwidth content overlaps with the enhanced content such that... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100246606 - Optimizing the transmit power spectrum density (psd) of a remotely deployed line to ensure spectral compatibility: An apparatus comprising a transmitter at a digital subscriber line (DSL) Cabinet configured to transmit a downstream signal in a subscriber line according to a power spectral density (PSD) configuration, wherein the PSD configuration comprises a cutoff frequency based on a required data-rate of the subscriber line. Also included is... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. C/o Conley Rose, P.C.

20100246607 - Time-division multiplexer and signal transmission apparatus: Each of n signal transition detection sections detects a transition of the signal level of at least one of a first input signal or a second input signal corresponding to the signal transition detection section. A time-division control section outputs a control pulse according to a system clock when a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100246608 - Jitter buffering control for controlling storage locations of a jitter buffer, and a method therefor: A jitter buffer control apparatus has a buffer for storing data included in an input packet transmitted from a telecommunications network, and a jitter buffer controller for controlling the buffer to store the input data into the buffer and take out the stored data from the buffer on the basis... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100238785 - Cancellation of crosstalk energy in communication loops: Systems and methods for reducing crosstalk are provided. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes applying a pilot signal to a disturber twisted pair and measuring near end crosstalk of a victim twisted pair. The coupling characteristics between the disturber and the victim twisted pair are determined.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100238786 - Rate matching device and method thereof, de-rate matching device and method thereof: A rate matching method and device wherein the number of times to output each bit included in input data is determined in parallel, and the data length of the input data is expanded or contracted, based on basic parameters for expanding or contracting the input data and the bit number... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100238787 - Detection of time-frequency hopping patterns: The present invention relates to a method for detecting a pilot pattern, comprising a pilot signal sp(t), in a received signal r(t) implemented in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. The method comprises the steps: computing a value of a log-likelihood function (τ0,ν0) for a hypotheses space specified by... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100238788 - Connection verification for mpls label switched paths and pseudowires: In one embodiment, a connection verification (CV) message is initiated from an initiating maintenance end point (MEP) for an MPLS LSP, the CV message carried in a packet having a time-to-live (TTL) value of 1. Each maintenance intermediate point (MIP) along the MPLS LSP receives the packet and decrements the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100238789 - Error recovery in an audio-video multipoint control component: Architecture for enabling a communications endpoint to quickly recover from a packet loss, reducing duration of a signal dropout. A communications component sends a downlink of dependency-structured signals, such as audio and/or video signals using compressed frames between key frames. A multipoint control component (MCC) is located between the communications... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100238792 - Information acquisition system, transmit apparatus, data obtaining apparatus, transmission method, and data obtaining method: A data obtaining apparatus includes an obtaining section configured to obtain data units from data transmitted from a transmit apparatus through a network, including a first data containing video or audio data and a second data containing quality influence information of the first data, a determination section configured to determine... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100238790 - Method for quick map recovery in case of error in moca: A method comprises receiving a predetermined length of information, the information including a first MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) being of variable length and including at least one Sub-MPDU; independently decoding the first Sub-MPDU and a plurality of additional portions of the received information, each portion having a length equal... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20100238793 - Methods and apparatus for re-establishing communication for wireless communication for a wireless communication device after a communication loss in a wireless communication network: In one illustrative example, a technique in a server to facilitate a re-establishing of communication over a data connection between an application server and a wireless communication device which communicates via a base station of a wireless communication network is described. In response to a communication loss between the wireless... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. LLC

20100238791 - Systems and methods for connectivity fault management extensions for automated activation of services through association of service related attributes: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) extensions to provide a CFM messaging mechanism for support of information exchange and the like, in addition to end-to-end connectivity and fault management. In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention utilizes CFM extensions to provide Pseudowire (PW)... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20100238794 - N+1 protection using a processor-based protection device: In an N+1 protection scheme for a router in a data or telecommunications network, a processor-based protection unit has a replica device handle, corresponding to each of the N working units, stored in the protection unit's local memory. Each replica device handle is an image of the connections provided by... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.C.

20100238795 - Restoring multi-segment pseudowires following failure of a switching pe device: In one embodiment, a protected switching provider edge (S-PE) and a backup S-PE may be operated, where the protected S-PE has at least one multi-segment pseudowire (MS-PW) and is between a first and second provider edge (PE) on the MS-PW. To protect the protected S-PE, the first and second PE... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100238797 - Adaptive subchannel disabling in beamformed wireless communication systems: Techniques are provided herein to adaptively and independently disable use of subchannels in transmission sent from a first wireless communication device to a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device receives transmission sent to it by the second wireless communication device. The transmissions occupy some or all of... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100238800 - Method and node device for fault detection and convergence in ethernet: A method can be used for fault detection and convergence in an Ethernet. A link fault is detected according to the Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) protocol. Network convergence is performed by using a Layer 2 network protection protocol according to the type of the Ethernet after the link fault... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100238799 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for handover failure recovery: An apparatus for facilitating handover failure recovery may include a handover management element configured to receive, at a target node, a handover request from a source node regarding the handover of communications with a mobile terminal. The handover request may include identity information indicative of the mobile terminal. The identity... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100238798 - System and method for maintaining a backup radio operating parameter list in a secondary use communication system: A radio communication system (100) provides a radio air interface at a master node (102) for subscriber units associated with the master node. Among the subscriber units are several slave nodes (104, 106). The communication system has the ability to operate as a secondary user in unused spectrum portions of... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20100238796 - Transparent failover support through pragmatically truncated progress engine and reversed complementary connection establishment in multifabric mpi implementation: A method, system, and computer program product containing instructions for establishing and maintaining multiple connections over different communication fabrics between two processes. The slowest, most reliable connection may be established first and then complemented by progressively faster connections between the same pair of processes. Each of these multiple connections is... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100238801 - Method and system for stale data detection based quality of service: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for controlling the quality of service for data communication. The method includes reviewing a timestamp of a data set, the timestamp having a time value. The time value may be the time the data set expires. Alternatively, the... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Mcandrews Held & Malloy

20100238802 - Method, system, program, and readable storage medium for providing service quality guarantee to network service: A method for guaranteeing a service quality of a network service is disclosed that includes the steps of storing a historical record of a network service quality, inputting an acceptable maximal service delay of the network service, inputting a desired control level between the service quality of the network service... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100238803 - Efficient flow control in a radio network controller (rnc): A mechanism is provided to resolve the Iub transport network congestion efficiently for HSDPA by dynamic adjustment of the transmit window of the RLC. The RLC protocol is extended with congestion control functionality. The Iub TN and Uu congestion detection method in the Node-B (120) signals the congestion to the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100238804 - Flow control for multi-hop networks: Solutions are provided that allow a network device to apply flow control on the MAC layer while taking into account the priority of the frame of traffic. This may be accomplished by generating a frame indicating that traffic flow should be paused, while utilizing a new opcode value, or alternatively... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP-brocade

20100238805 - Data transmission control methods and devices: A method of controlling a radio access network entity of a data unit communication network is described, said radio access network entity being involved in providing a transport service to a radio terminal of said data unit communication network, said transport service being characterized by a set of values associated... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100238806 - Electronic apparatus and method for detecting loop in electronic apparatus: [Solving Means] A control unit counts the number of broadcast packet supplied from a switching hub to a communication unit within a predetermined time period and determines whether the number of packets exceeds a threshold value (ST2, ST3). If the number of packets exceeds the threshold value, the control unit... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100238807 - Reducing channel overhead in a wireless coexistence network: A system composed of a device configured to communicate, using a first wireless protocol, with a node. The system also comprises a processor coupled to the device and configured to determine whether the node operates in a coexistence mode. If the processor determines that the node operates in a coexistence... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100238808 - Connectivity fault management (cfm) auto-provisioning using virtual private lan service (vpls) auto-discovery: Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) auto-provisioning using Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) auto-discovery is described. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises VPLS logic and configuration logic. The VPLS logic is operable at least to receive and send configuration information for a VPLS instance, where the configuration information comprises: a first value... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20100238809 - Communication apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium: A communication apparatus capable of efficiently collecting information useful for failure analysis. In the communication apparatus, a packet acquisition unit starts acquiring packets when receiving, from an application unit via a network, an instruction to start packet acquisition, and completes acquiring packets upon receipt of an instruction to complete the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20100238810 - Methodology for measurements and analysis of protocol conformance, performance and scalability of stateful border gateways: Testing of Internet-Protocol packet network perimeter protection devices, e.g., Border Gateways such as Session Border Controllers, including dynamic pinhole capable firewalls are discussed. Analysis and testing of these network perimeter protection devices is performed to evaluate the ability of such device to perform at carrier class levels while being subjected... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100238811 - Method and arrangement for assuring prefix consistency among multiple mobile routers: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement in communication systems utilising network mobility (NEMO). In moving networks comprising a plurality of mobile routers, MRs, it needs to be assured that two or more MRs sharing the same prefix, belong to the same moving network. The method according... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100238812 - Operating mpls label switched paths and mpls pseudowire in loopback mode: In one embodiment, an initiating maintenance end point (MEP) may transmit a lock message to lock a circuit traversing one or more maintenance intermediate points (MIPs) between the initiating MEP and an end MEP. The initiating MEP may then transmit an in-band packet containing a loopback request to a particular... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100238829 - Apparatus and method for dual-cell high-speed uplink packet access: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a plurality of uplink carriers are utilized in a cellular communications system. In an aspect of the disclosure, a wireless terminal configured for use in a cellular network transmits an uplink with a plurality... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238826 - Association and resource partitioning in a wireless network with relays: Techniques for performing association and resource partitioning in a wireless network with relays are described. In an aspect, resource partitioning may be performed to allocate available resources to nodes and access/backhaul links of relays. In one design, a node computes local metrics for a plurality of possible actions related to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238827 - Association with leakage-based metrics in a wireless network: Techniques for performing association with leakage-based metrics in a wireless network are described. Association may be performed to select a serving node (e.g., a base station or a relay) for a station (e.g., a UE or a relay). In one design, at least one metric may be determined for at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238824 - Feedback mechanisms for beamforming operation: A method for generating feedback data is described. A downlink message is received from a base station. It is determined whether full channel reciprocity or partial channel reciprocity is enabled at a transmitter. A mode for feedback data generation is determined. Feedback data is generated using the determined mode. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238822 - Image processing device, image processing method, information processing device, and information processing method: An image processing device includes: a holder configured to hold a reference picture necessary for decoding of an access unit as a processing subject in decoding of a stream composed of access units including a header; an analyzer configured to analyze the stream to thereby detect the header for each... Agent: Frommer Lawrence &haug LLP

20100238825 - Loop power controls for multi-carrier high-speed uplink packet access: A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes applying independent power controls to two or more carriers from a set of high speed packet access signals. The method includes monitoring power across the two or more carriers to determine power levels for the set of high speed packet... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238823 - Method and apparatus for handling inconsistent control information in a wireless communication system: Techniques for handling inconsistent control information in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, inconsistent control information is handled in different manners for the downlink and uplink. In one design, a user equipment (UE) receives a first grant with first control information for a first data transmission and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238830 - Method and apparatus for transmitting a power headroom report of a ue in a wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus are provided for transmitting a Power Headroom Report (PHR) to base station by a User Equipment (UE), wherein the UE determines whether a received an uplink resource is a first uplink resource allocated for a new transmission after a Medium Access Control (MAC) reset, and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100238817 - Method for frequency planning of a cellular radio system with irc: In a method and a device for frequency planning of a cellular radio system with IRC. a cost function is provided that takes the IRC capabilities of the cellular system into account. Using the method and the device the frequency optimization can be made to take into account systems employing... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100238814 - Methods and apparatus to characterize and predict network health status: Methods and apparatus to characterize and predict network health status are presented. A particular method of characterizing and predicting a health status of a network node includes receiving a plurality of report values associated with the network node, where each report value is one of alert and normal, and where... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20100238815 - Network status detection: A network status is determined based on channel data specifying at least one channel characteristic of a communications channel. Changes in various channel characteristics are indicative of changes in a status of a distributed network. Therefore, these channel characteristics can be monitored over time to identify changes to the status... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100238833 - Ofdma with adaptive subcarrier-cluster configuration and selective loading: A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating at least one coherence cluster to a second subscriber.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100238813 - Q-in-q ethernet rings: A resilient virtual Ethernet ring has nodes interconnected by working and protection paths. Each node has a set of VLAN IDs (VIDs) for tagging traffic entering the ring by identifying the ingress node and whether the traffic is on the working or protection path. MAC addresses are learned in one... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20100238831 - Rach-related system resource optimization method and apparatus for wireless communication system: A RACH-related system resource optimization method and apparatus is provided for a wireless communication system. Specifically, a method is provided in a user equipment for optimizing a system resource related to a random access channel in a wireless communication system. A downlink channel condition and a transmission capability for performing... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100238819 - Relaying method, transmitter, receiver and relay: A relaying method includes a request packet generation operation generates a request packet for requesting a connectivity check for all communication routes between said receiver and said transmitter, a request packet transmission operation transmits a generated request packet to a relay, a route information addition operation adds information representing the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100238820 - System analysis method, system analysis apparatus, and computer readable storage medium storing system analysis program: An apparatus for analyzing system identifies plural combinations of downlink packet and uplink packet immediately following the downlink packet under predetermined condition, the uplink packet having a predetermined threshold value or more difference time from the received time of the downlink packet to the received time of the uplink packet.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100238821 - System and method for dynamic cell selection and resource mapping for comp joint transmission: A wireless communication system includes a number of base stations capable of communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations. The base station coordinates transmission of resource blocks with a transmission of resource blocks from a second base station. The resource blocks include at least one reference signal (RS) patterns. In... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100238828 - System and method for estimation of round trip times within a tcp based data network: A system and method for estimation of round trip times (RTTs) within a TCP based data network is described. The system provides for a passive monitoring of the network round-trip latency by simply observing existing TCP connections in operation. In this way, it is possible to measure RTT out to... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100238816 - Terminal device and relay node selection method of terminal device: A terminal device and a relay node selection method of the terminal device are described. The terminal device may sequentially compare a threshold value and an output signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a plurality of relay nodes based on a set test order, and select a relay node having... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100238832 - Uplink transmit power control: Control of uplink transmit power for a first mobile station operating with scheduled uplink data transmissions. A change in uplink scheduled status for the first mobile station is detected (301). Filtering of uplink interference measurements for the first mobile station is adapted (302) to account for the detected change in... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100238818 - Wireless communication mobile station apparatus and communication quality information generating method: A wireless communication mobile station apparatus wherein the accuracy of measuring the communication quality can be improved. In this apparatus, a desired signal power measuring part (212) uses a reference signal received from a local-cell reference signal processing part (211) to measure the power of a desired signal addressed to... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100238835 - Method for characterizing a communication link in a communication network: w

20100238834 - System and method of voice over internet protocol communication: Systems and methods of Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) communication are provided. A particular system includes a VoIP endpoint. The VoIP endpoint is adapted to monitor a packet loss measure between the VoIP endpoint and a second VoIP endpoint during a VoIP communication using a first CODEC. The VoIP endpoint... Agent: Toler Law Group

20100238838 - multi-tier wireless home mesh network with a secure network discovery protocol: An apparatus and method for a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The method may include formation of an infrastructure-less wireless home mesh networking environment comprising a collection of nodes that operate as a decentralized, ad hoc wireless network with multiple sub-networks or tiers that are responsible for different... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100238839 - Method and apparatus for sip message prioritization: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing SIP message prioritization between network elements along at least a portion of an end-to-end path between a SIP client and a SIP server. The method includes determining a SIP message prioritization policy and distributing the SIP message prioritization policy toward a... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20100238836 - Method and system for timely delivery of multimedia content via a femtocell: Aspects of a method and system for timely delivery of multimedia content via a femtocell are provided. In this regard, a femtocell may receive data via an upstream path and transmit data via a downstream path. One of the upstream path and downstream path may comprise a cellular path and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100238837 - Method, apparatus and system for virtual network configuration and partition handover: A method, apparatus and system for virtual network configuration and partition handover are provided. The virtual network configuration method includes the following steps: The serving edge device obtains a target virtual network identifier and a corresponding interface identifier, uses the target virtual network identifier and the corresponding interface identifier to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100238841 - Method and device for holding calls: In a method for holding calls, a first UE performs a first call with a second UE through a first CS access call leg. A signaling endpoint of the first CS access call leg is an ICCF and the first CS access call leg supports a first media type. An... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100238840 - Mobile cloud architecture based on open wireless architecture (owa) platform: A simplified future mobile terminal system converging multiple wireless transmission technologies by utilizing a cost-effective and spectrum-efficient mobile cloud solution based on the innovative virtual mobile server system of the open wireless architecture (OWA) platform.... Agent: Wei Lu

20100238842 - Phone conferencing architecture with optimized services management: Architecture that employs a cost-effective mechanism to only engage the services as needed, and then release these services in a managed way. This reduces the runtime cost so that users can have more conferences for the same amount of hardware purchased for such purposes at a minimum cost. The architecture... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100238843 - Transformer-based cmos oscillators: Techniques for providing transformer-based CMOS oscillators capable of operation with low voltage power supplies. In an exemplary embodiment, an LC tank is provided at the drains of a transistor pair, and the inductance of the LC tank is mutually magnetically coupled to an inductance between the gates of the transistor... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238844 - Multiband wireless communication method and multiband wireless communication apparatus: A multiband wireless communication method for performing a reception operation in a second frequency band while performing a transmission operation in a first frequency band selectively changes a gain characteristic of a power amplifier (1 or 2) for performing the transmission operation so that gain is lowered in the second... Agent: Hogan Lovells US LLP

20100238847 - Method and apparatus for data transmission in a time division duplexing system: A method for data transmission in a TDD system is disclosed. The method includes: configuring, by a base station, a length respectively for a Downlink Pilot Slot (DwPTS) and an Uplink Pilot Slot (UpPTS) within a special field of a radio half-frame based on a current coverage area taking one... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100238845 - Relay operation in a wireless communication system: A method in a relay node operating in a time division duplex system wherein the relay node transmits downlink pilot timeslot information to a user terminal in a first temporal region of a special sub-frame, communicates with a base station during a second temporal region of the special sub-frame, the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100238846 - Wireless communication system based on code spreading-orthogonal frequency division multiple access and smart antenna: A time division duplex wireless communication system based on Code Spreading-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (CS-OFDMA) and a smart antenna includes: an antenna array and multichannel transceiver, a space processor, a demodulator, an L2 processor and a modulator. The CS-OFDMA system provided by the present invention combines synchronous CDMA technique... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20100238848 - Class-b transmitter and replica transmitter for gigabit ethernet applications: A method and apparatus for a Gigabit Ethernet transceiver that has a Class-B amplifier in a main transmitter for higher efficiency and power handling capabilities. The output current of the main transmitter is produced by a reference voltage applied across a resistor, where the reference voltage generator, resistor and amplifier... Agent: Munck Carter/nsc

20100238849 - Transmitter with replaceable power amplifier: A transmitter includes an up-converter and a modular receptable. The up-converter is coupled to convert an input signal into a Radio Frequency (RF) signal having an output frequency, and is configurable to adjust the output frequency over a frequency range containing multiple sub-bands. The modular receptacle includes a first interconnection... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20100238850 - Ap to legacy station sdma protocol: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a protocol for SDMA communication between an access point and multiple wireless apparatuses, such as single antenna stations.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238852 - Digital broadcasting system and broadcasting receiver: In a digital broadcasting system including a plurality of service providing means each for providing a broadcasting service sent from a broadcasting network, a broadcasting facility P which is provided for each of the service providing means, and a broadcasting receiver 10 for receiving a broadcasting service which the broadcasting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100238851 - Optimal beam scheduling for multicasting in wireless networks: Systems and methods are disclosed to partition a multicast group into a plurality of partitions where each partition has a mutually exclusive subset of users or clients; scheduling beam transmission with switched beamforming antennas; and performing the multicast transmission in accordance with the beam scheduling.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20100238853 - Communication systems: A path selection method for use in a communication system, the system comprising at least three communication apparatuses, a particular one of said apparatuses being operable to transmit and/or receive a communication signal along at least two different communication paths, each said path being either a single-link path extending from... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100238855 - Relay device and relay method: A relay device can perform high-quality communication even in a wireless mesh network where relay devices are densely arranged and interference of wireless packets is caused. The relay device includes: a representative node determining unit (605) which determines the channel used in its own cluster for intra-cluster communication to be... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100238854 - Signaling mechanisms for network-relay interface with reduced overhead: Relay reporting in a wireless network is implemented by efficiently allocating radio resources based on the nature or criticality of the type of relay report. According to an embodiment, a method of communicating with a relay located in a wireless network includes instructing the relay when to transmit reports based... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100238856 - Method for fade mitigation in a satellite communication network: In a satellite communication network, comprised of a central hub and a plurality of remote terminals, a multi-layered return channel (inbound) bandwidth design, for at least the purpose of mitigating rain fade effects. In addition, an allocation algorithm for allocating timeslots against capacity requests from remote terminals over a multi-layered... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100238857 - Carrier timing for wireless communications systems: Synchronization of uplink carriers for transmission is disclosed in accordance with different aspects. The uplink carriers that transmit information are configured such that at least one of the uplink carriers is an anchor carrier. When a plurality of carriers are thus configured for the uplink, they are synchronized such that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238865 - Data burst communication techniques for mobile communication devices operating in packet data sessions: In one illustrative example, a mobile communication device receives and decodes a plurality of packet data bursts over a packet data channel of a serving cell. While receiving and decoding the packet data bursts, the mobile communication device also receives and decodes a plurality of broadcast data bursts over a... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. LLC

20100238863 - Method and apparatus for power headroom reporting: A method for performing Power Headroom Reporting (PHR) in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The wireless communication system supports Carrier Aggregation (CA), which enables the UE to perform transmission through multiple carriers. The method includes steps of configuring a plurality of uplink carriers, and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100238858 - Method for controlling access of terminal to home (e)nodeb: A method for controlling access of a terminal to a Home (e)NodeB by a network entity, the terminal accessed to the Home (e)NodeB operated in a closed access mode or a hybrid access mode by using a specific closed subscriber group (CSG) ID, the method comprises: recognizing by the network... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100238866 - Method for routing ad-hoc signals: An ad-hoc network is a typically a dynamic collection of nodes capable of communicating therebetween without the aid of pre-established infrastructure. Ad-hoc networks differ from traditional networks in that the topology of interconnections between nodes is inherently dynamic and not fixed. Generally, the routing protocols belong to two groups: proactive... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis

20100238867 - Method, apparatus and system for registering in universal service interface system: A method, an apparatus, and a system for registering in a USI system are disclosed herein. The method includes: an H-USI system receives a USI registration request message that carries an identifier of a terminal from a V-USI system; and the H-USI system interacts with an H-AAA server according to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100238864 - Mobile terminal, network node, and packet transfer management node: A technique is disclosed, according to which a race condition between a PMIPv6 binding by a PBU message of PMIPv6 and a CMIPv6 binding by a BU message of CMIPv6 can be resolved. MN 200 has a plurality of radio communication interfaces, and a first interface is connected to MAG... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100238860 - Network system, wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and computer program product: In a network system provided with a plurality of wireless networks each having an access point and one or more wireless communication devices wirelessly connectable to the access point, and a predetermined network adapted to connect the access points of the plurality of wireless networks to each other, a predetermined... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20100238861 - Radio communication terminal: A radio communication terminal includes a link-usage level calculating section that calculates usage level of a radio link, and a data reception continuation/suspension determining section that determines continuation of data reception or suspension of data reception according to the level of usage calculated by the link-usage level calculating section. The... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100238862 - Real-time network node location system and method: A real-time location system and method for a wireless network includes, in one embodiment: (a) obtaining received signal-strength indicator measurements between stationary routers and mobile devices; (b) determining the relative angles of mobile devices from stationary routers using directional antenna systems; and (c) using signal strength and angle information to... Agent: Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20100238859 - Reducing access channel delay in a wireless communication system: A system and method for reducing access channel delay in a wireless communication system includes a step 601 of sending an initial access request response that includes identifiers of any initial access requests, including an indicator that indicates whether any more responses with identifiers are going to be sent within... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100238893 - method for registering a mobile terminal in a mobile radio communication system: The present invention relates to a method for registering a mobile terminal in a mobile radio communication system. The mobile radio communication system comprises at least one mobile radio communication core network and at least one IMS core network. The mobile terminal is located within a radio access network associated... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100238884 - Adaptive association and joint association and resource partitioning in a wireless communication network: Techniques for supporting communication in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, association and resource partitioning may be performed jointly to select serving base stations for user equipments (UEs) and to allocate available resources to base stations. In another aspect, adaptive association may be performed to select serving base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238883 - Adaptive resource partitioning in a wireless communication network: Techniques for performing adaptive resource partitioning are described. In one design, a node computes local metrics for different possible actions related to resource partitioning to allocate available resources to a set of nodes that includes the node. Each possible action is associated with a set of resource usage profiles for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238889 - Apparatus and method for reducing inter-cell interference in multiple input multiple output system: An apparatus and method for operating a Codebook Subset Pattern (CSP) of a Base Station (BS) in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system are provided. The method includes determining whether there is a CSP-updated BS among the BS and adjacent BSs, exchanging the updated CSP between cells if it... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100238870 - Communication system: A communications system is described in which user devices are allocated sub-carriers on which to transmit uplink data to a base station. ACK/NACK messages for the data transmitted on the uplink are then transmitted by the base station on sub-carriers that depend on the sub-carriers used to carry the uplink... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100238881 - Configuration and scheduling of asymmetric carriers on the uplink: Systems and methods to configure and schedule asymmetric carriers on an uplink between communication devices are described herein. An access node is provided to reserve a common-channel-free carrier for communication with an access terminal. The access node may reserve the carrier for communication with the access terminal based on path... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238887 - Localized forwarding: Systems and methods for call localization are provided. The call localization can be provided in a radio access network by detecting a call flow between mobile node such as user equipment (UE) served by the same radio access network device. For example, a gateway can detect a call localization opportunity... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20100238868 - Method and system for dynamic spectrum allocation, and computer program product therefor: A communication network such as a cellular network or a WLAN includes a set of user terminals. Within the communication network, a system dynamically controls spectrum usage. The system includes a functionality sensor for sensing spectrum usage within the area covered by the communication network, and a policy server for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20100238877 - Method and system for mapping pilot signals in multi-stream transmissions: A base station is provided. The base station comprises a downlink transmit path comprising circuitry configured to transmit a plurality of reference signals in two or more subframes. Each subframe comprises one or more resource blocks. Each resource block comprises S OFDM symbols. Each of the S OFDM symbols comprises... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100238876 - Method for radio resource control and base station using the same: A method for radio resource control is carried out in a radio communications system including multiple base stations. In this method, a radio resource that can be used by the base stations is divided into multiple first radio resources on the frequency axis. Then one or more of the first... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100238872 - Method for transmitting response message of random access in cellular system and method of random access using the same: Provided is an asynchronous random access method in a packet-based cellular system, which includes the steps of: receiving a preamble from a mobile station; checking the received preamble to see whether the mobile station includes a mobile station identifier assigned by the base station; when the mobile station does not... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100238875 - Method for transmitting voip packet: A method for transmitting a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) packet includes allocating a radio resource for VoIP packet transmission to a user, transitioning a VoIP service from a talk period, in which the VoIP packet is transmitted using the radio resource, to a silence period in which the VoIP... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100238879 - Method of exchanging messages for transmission power control between devices in a wireless network, and devices for the same: A method of exchanging messages for link recommendation in a receiving device of a wireless network comprises receiving a first data packet from a transmitting device; and transmitting link recommendation information to the transmitting device, the link recommendation information including transmit power control (TPC) information for controlling transmission power to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100238880 - Method of managing discontinuous reception functionality for multiple component carriers and related communication device: A method of managing discontinuous reception (DRX) functionality in multiple component carriers for a mobile device of a wireless communication system, which includes jointly or separately managing DRX functionality of a plurality of component carriers.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100238871 - Pinning and cascading avoidance in dynamic channel assignment for wireless lans: Techniques are provided to determine channel assignments for wireless access point (AP) devices in a wireless local area network (WLAN). From each of a plurality of AP devices operating at least one of a plurality of channels in the WLAN, wireless activity data is received that represents activity in each... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100238869 - Radio coverage enhancement: The invention provides an increase in the radio coverage area (10) of a base transceiver station (100) having access to multiple transceivers (102, 104, 106, 108) by dedicating at least one of the transceivers (102) for BCCH data. This BCCH transceiver (102) is connected to an antenna arrangement (120) 5... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100238885 - Resource partitioning for uplink in a wireless communication network: Techniques for performing resource partitioning are described. In an aspect, adaptive resource partitioning may be performed to dynamically allocate available resources for the uplink to nodes, e.g., base stations. Each node may be assigned a list of target interference-over-thermal (IoT) levels for the available resources by the adaptive resource partitioning.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238882 - Scheduling information for wireless communications: Systems and methods for communicating over multiple carriers are described herein. A predetermined event triggers the generation of scheduling information for two or more of the carriers. The predetermined event may comprise expiration of a timer set for at least one of the two or more carriers, storing data in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238895 - Scheduling method, wireless base station, and wireless terminal: A wireless base station for performing wireless communication with a wireless terminal using a frequency bandwidth different from another adjacent wireless base station in a first time period and performing wireless communication with a wireless terminal using a frequency bandwidth shared with another adjacent wireless base station in a second... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100238886 - Single channelization code harq feedback for dc-hsdpa +mimo: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a single channelization code may be utilized on an uplink channel for providing a HARQ ACK/NACK response corresponding to DC-HSDPA+MIMO. Here, the set of channelization codes includes four codeword groups, each codeword group corresponding... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238894 - Spectrum sharing enabled by strong interfering pulse handling: Interference between a communication system operating in a frequency area and another system sending out pulses affecting the frequency area can be handled by means of a communication unit (RBS 1. MT1) for use in a cellular communications system, said communications unit comprising detecting means (10, 20) for determining the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100238874 - System and method of providing denial service protection in a telecommunication system: A system, method, and node for protecting a telecommunication system against a mobile and multi-homed attacker, MMA (10). The telecommunication system includes one or more correspondent nodes, CN, (102, 104) for transferring data packets. A mobile and multi-homed network node, MMN, (108) associated with the MMA communicates and receives data... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20100238891 - Systems and methods for allocating and transmitting uplink data block transmissions: Systems and methods for allocating and transmitting uplink data block transmissions with piggy-backed ACK/NACK bitmap field are provided. The systems and methods involve using a request for a DBCCI (Data Block Combined with Control Information) to allocate a timeslot for data transmission. A UADB (uplink allocation for data block) is... Agent: Rim

20100238888 - Systems, apparatus and methods for interference management in wireless networks: Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided. In some embodiments, a method for facilitating interference management in an unplanned wireless communication system is provided. The method can include a non-serving base station synchronizing a non-serving base station downlink subframe to a serving base station downlink subframe, wherein the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238890 - Time synchronization for distributed mobile ad hoc networks: Time synchronization among nodes in a wireless mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is obtained using a cross layer approach. Each node maintains a routing table that contains entries corresponding to other nodes of the network that are one or more hops away from the node, and topology messages are exchanged... Agent: Bae Systems

20100238878 - Transmission frame and resource allocation method for communication system including base stations: Communication apparatuses and a transmission frame having a downlink subframe are provided. The downlink subframe of the transmission frame may include a downlink coordination zone where a plurality of femto base stations may perform the downlink communication with at least one terminal among a plurality of terminals using a different... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100238892 - Uplink power control method in a telecommunications network system that supports both common and separate tpc commands: A transmit power control (TPC) method and a user equipment (UE) of a telecommunications network utilizing the TPC method. The UE receives TPC commands intended for traffic and control channels. The TPC commands are separately identified by logical or physical resources associated with the channels. When the traffic and control... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100238873 - Wireless transmission apparatus, wireless reception apparatus, and wireless communication method: A wireless base station apparatus notifies a mobile wireless terminal apparatus of a channel to be used to transmit a response signal of channel assignment by a mapping pattern of channel assignment information transmitted on a plurality of bands.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20100238896 - On-hand reverse-link pilot transmission: Pilots are transmitted on demand on a reverse link and used for channel estimation and data transmission on a forward link. A base station selects at least one terminal for on-demand pilot transmission on the reverse link. Each selected terminal is a candidate for receiving data transmission on the forward... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238902 - Channel structures for a quasi-orthogonal multiple-access communication system: A channel structure has at least two channel sets. Each channel set contains multiple channels and is associated with a specific mapping of the channels to the system resources available for data transmission. Each channel set may be defined based on a channel tree having a hierarchical structure. To achieve... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238898 - Methods and apparatus for extending the resource retain time in a handover: A mobile station may send a first handover indication message to a serving base station. The first handover indication message may include a first resource retain time. The mobile station may start a resource retaining timer using the first resource retain time. The mobile station may perform handover procedures. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238897 - Mobile wireless communication system and method of carrying out handover in the system: When a strength of an electric field for receiving wireless in downlink is equal to or smaller than a predetermined strength, the mobile communication terminal device 105 transmits a retrieval request to the retrieval server 102 through the first wireless station 103 to cause the retrieval server to start selecting... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100238899 - System and method of automatically optimizing an operational radio access network: Systems and methods of automatically optimizing an operational radio access network are provided. Objective and operational cost functions for the radio access network are generated, and a deviation between the generated cost functions is determined. At least one aspect of the radio access network is adjusted in order to minimize... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP

20100238901 - Systems, apparatus and methods for interference management in wireless networks: Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided. In some embodiments, a method for facilitating interference management in an unplanned wireless communication system is provided. The method can include a non-serving base station obtaining information about a user equipment served by a serving base station; and determining signal information... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238900 - Wireless handover optimization: Aspects of the present invention relate to improved systems and methods for handing over a UE from a source node to a target node. In some embodiments, the target node receives UL and DL count information directly from the UE being handed over, rather than from the source node or... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20100238903 - Inter-enode b handover procedure: Methodologies are described that facilitate inter-eNode B handover. In various embodiments, logical protocol termination can be implemented between the user equipment and the target eNode B for inter-eNode B handover signaling. The provided handover forwarding and encapsulation mechanisms enable improved inter-operability between eNode Bs implementing different protocol versions or from... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238904 - Mobility in multi-carrier high speed packet access: A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes generating two or more uplink carrier signals across a wireless network and generating at least one active signal set for the wireless network. The method also includes generating one or more secondary active signal sets in accordance with the two... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238905 - Wireless communication system, base station, radio resource management method, and control program of base station: To provide appropriate communication quality inside a building regardless of the building penetration loss of the building in which a femto base station is installed while suppressing the interference caused by radio waves leaked outside the building, a femto base station 4 receives a radio signal that passes through a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100238909 - Apparatus and method for allocating radio network temporary identifier for random access in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for allocating Radio Network Temporary Identifiers (RNTIs) for random access in a mobile communication system are provided. An Evolved Node B (ENB) determines the number of RNTIs allocated to at least one User Equipment (UE) that transmitted a random access preamble, determines an average number of... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100238908 - Method of managing timing alignment functionality for multiple component carriers and related communication device: A method of managing timing alignment (TA) functionality in multiple component carriers for a communication device of a wireless communication system, which includes separately managing TA functionality of a plurality of component carriers or jointly managing TA functionality of component carriers belonging to the same cell.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100238907 - Scheduling method for a given transmission time slot: the steps b to f being repeated until the first list is empty, and, when the first list is empty, there follows a step of commanding transmission during the given time slot, to the terminal or terminals from the second list, of the respective data packet or packets waiting to... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20100238910 - Systems and methods for allocating and transmitting uplink data block transmissions with piggy-backed ack/nack bitmap: Systems and methods for allocating and transmitting uplink data block transmissions with piggy-backed ACK/NACK bitmap field are provided. In a specific example, a mobile station receives a request for a data block combined with control information (DBCCI). The mobile station responds by transmitting a DBCCI using at least one timeslot... Agent: Rim

20100238906 - Transmission timing control system and method thereof, and base station using the same and mobile station: An adaptive transmission timing control system is provided in which a base station can correctly instruct a mobile station of a timing control signal indicating the amount of variation in transmission timing and a multipath situation can be estimated in the base station with accuracy. When control information for controlling... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100238911 - Apparatus and methods for addressable communication using voice-grade radios: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for conducting directed communication using voice-grade radios. The methods and apparatus can be used to form a packet-switched wireless network using legacy analog transceivers, providing, e.g., both data and voice-over-Internet Protocol communication.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20100238912 - Signaling methods for mmse precoding with eigenmode selection: Different methods of signaling between an access point and user terminals in a multiuser wireless system for performing a minimum mean square error (MMSE) precoding at the access point preceded with eigenmode selection are provided. For one embodiment of the present disclosure, a compact feedback may be utilized between a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100238914 - Adaptive coding and modulation with mimo wireless and wired communication: A system and method for processing Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Wireless and Wired Communication. The ACM and MIMO system is connected with Infrared and with Radio Frequency Identification systems and sensors as well as with wired Fiber Optic Communication (FOC) and wireless cellular... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20100238913 - Adaptive precoding codebooks for wireless communications: Adaptive precoding codebooks are described. In one embodiment, the method of wireless communication includes reading at least a rank-2 baseline codebook having codewords representing precoding matrices. An adaptive codebook is generated by multiplying a first column of the codeword with a first transform matrix calculated from a channel correlation matrix,... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100238915 - Radio telecommunications system and method of operating the same with polling: An apparatus or method for transmitting data blocks on a communications channel having a radio link between two stations including a user equipment comprises receiving first data blocks from the user equipment, and transmitting second data blocks to the user equipment. A polling interval is dynamically set for the transmission... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100238916 - Method for improving the data rate of mobile/handheld data and the quality of channel estimation in an atsc-m/h transport data stream: A method for improving the data rate of data for M/H receivers and for improving the quality of channel estimation in an ATSC-M/H transport data stream marks the transport data packets determined for the transmission of data for M/H receivers in N (e.g., 38) consecutively transmitted transport data packets in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100238917 - Clock synchronization: In an example embodiment, a method for synchronizing clocks between a plurality of clocked devices where one of the plurality of clocked devices is not directly synchronized with another of the plurality of clocked devices. Clock offset and a clock drift between a first clock associated with a first device... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20100238918 - Method and device for transmitting data using dsl technology: The invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting data, wherein when transmitting data with DSL technology transmission rates are compared.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100238919 - System and method for telecommunication with a web-based network, such as a social network: A system and method is described for establishing a communications session between a telecommunications device and one or more registered users on web-based networks, such as social networks. Further details and features are described herein.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100238920 - Communication apparatus for providing services to a communication device through a private base station: A communication apparatus provides services to a communication device. The communication apparatus comprises a private base station, such as a Home Node B, for communicating with a communication device authorised to use the private base station and a gateway, such as a Home Node B gateway, communicatively coupled to the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100238921 - Communication apparatus, its operating method, and operating program: An object of the present invention is to provide a communication apparatus capable of connecting required modules for use in protocol processing depending on a packet to be processed without previous setting of the execution order of the modules so as to perform packet processing. A communication apparatus retains meta-information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100238922 - Method, device and system for multi field classification in a data communications network: The present invention pertains to a method for performing specific data forwarding actions depending on the nature of data traffic comprising data packets, which method comprises the steps of: —receiving incoming data traffic of a specific nature, belonging to at least a specific class among a number of pre-defined classes,... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20100238923 - Tunneling method of mobile terminal for supporting ip mobility: A tunneling method for a mobile terminal is provided. In the tunneling method, a first device driver connected to a visit network senses a packet tunneled to an interface connected to the visit network, and the first device driver decapsulates a packet without transmitting the packet to a first IP... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100238927 - Method and system for intelligently forwarding multicast packets: A routing system utilizes a layer 2 switch interconnecting several routers to intelligently forward multicast packets throughout an interne exchange carrying multicast content. The layer 2 switch performs protocol snooping to extract a lookup key that is based on network layer protocol information. The lookup key is uniquely formulated to... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP-brocade

20100238925 - Multicast communication apparatus and method for receiving and forwarding data via a network among a plurality of nodes: A multicast communication apparatus for receiving and forwarding data via a network among a plurality of nodes. The apparatus has: a receiving section that receives the data from a source node; a routing table that stores route information of the data including the source node and a destination node of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100238926 - Network interface control apparatus and control method: In controlling a mode of a network interface which is operable in operation modes including: a promiscuous mode for receiving all packets, a filter mode for selecting a packet to be received using part of a network address, and an ordinary reception mode for receiving broadcast packets, multicast packets and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100238924 - Switched unicast in an internet protocol television environment: In one embodiment, a processing device is coupled between at least one content source and at least one subscriber device within an Internet Protocol television (IPTV) system in order to receive a plurality of service flows from the at least one content source and to process multicast service flow requests... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100238928 - method of routing an sip message in the event of unavailability of intermediate nodes: Method of routing in a telecommunications network an SIP message intended to be routed through intermediate entities constituting nodes of a signaling path. According to the invention, said method comprises a step of bypassing an intermediate entity able to be bypassed if unavailable. Application to the IMS architecture.... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100238933 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus includes a signal termination unit that includes a point data management unit and performs reception processing by receiving a signal including an address code for identifying a plurality of remote signaling points, and a plurality of call processing units that perform call processing for the plurality of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100238934 - Efficient discovery and verification of paths through a meshed overlay network: The present invention provides an efficient system and method for routing information through a dynamic network. The system includes at least one ingress point and one egress point. The ingress and egress point cooperate to form a virtual circuit for routing packets to destination subnets directly reachable by the egress... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20100238932 - Method and apparatus for enhanced packet aggregation: Systems and methods for reducing the latency and for increasing throughput for MoCA devices that are connected via a coax network are provided. One method according to the invention includes, in a network having a plurality of network modules, each of the plurality of network modules being connected to a... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20100238929 - Method for classifying network packet: A method for classifying a network packet includes the steps of: receiving a network packet which includes a plurality of specific data; providing a basic rule table which includes a plurality of basic rules corresponding to the plurality of specific data; providing a composite rule table which includes a plurality... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100238935 - Method for routing ad-hoc signals: An ad-hoc network is a typically a dynamic collection of nodes capable of communicating therebetween without the aid of pre-established infrastructure. Ad-hoc networks differ from traditional networks in that the topology of interconnections between nodes is inherently dynamic and not fixed. Generally, the routing protocols belong to two groups: proactive... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis

20100238930 - Router and method of forwarding ipv6 packets: A method of a router to process IPv6 packets includes: receiving a packet and determining whether the packet is IPv6 packet; determining the source of the IPv6 packet according to the control information of the IPv6 packet if the packet is IPv6 packet; modifying the control information of the IPv6... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20100238931 - Technique for handling residual space in packet data transmissions: The invention relates to techniques for handling residual space occurring in packet-based data transmissions, wherein according to one embodiment of a method for controlling a packet-based data transmission, in case an amount of residual space in the packet (300) is below a predefined threshold value, a last one of one... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100238936 - Data processing apparatus and redundancy switching method: A data processing apparatus includes a first frame processing unit that fragments a first input frame and identifies a head of the first input frame and outputs first head position information; a second frame processing unit that fragments a second input frame which is a redundant frame of the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100238937 - High speed packet fifo input buffers for switch fabric with speedup and retransmit: Described embodiments provide a first-in, first-out (FIFO) buffer for packet switching in a crossbar switch with a speedup factor of m. The FIFO buffer comprises a plurality of registers configured to receive N-bit portions of data in packets and a plurality of one-port memories, each having width W segmented into... Agent: Ip Legal Services

20100238938 - High speed packet fifo output buffers for switch fabric with speedup: Described embodiments provide a first-in, first-out (FIFO) buffer for packet switching in a crossbar switch with a speedup factor of m. The FIFO buffer comprises a first logic module that receives m N-bit data portions from a switch fabric, the m N-bit data portions comprising one or more N-bit data... Agent: Ip Legal Services

20100238940 - Ascertaining presence in wireless networks: One of many aspects of the invention relates to an ad hoc network in which inbound messages are communicated from an originating node to a gateway node via a plurality of intermediate nodes. In this respect, a method performed by an intermediate node in communicating the inbound message to the... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20100238939 - Intermediate node device, method of controlling intermediate node device, and network system: An intermediate node device, a method of controlling an intermediate node device, and a network system are provided. The intermediate node device may receive a data packet from an upper intermediate node device and generate a first acknowledgement (ACK) message and a second ACK message with respect to the received... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100238941 - Packet transmission apparatus, line interface unit, and control method for packet transmission apparatus: A packet transmission apparatus includes: a plurality of communication ports; a switch for switching packets; a storage unit which stores a plurality of queues for respectively holding packets to be output from the plurality of communication ports; and a stop signal generating unit. The stop signal generating unit generates a... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center Fujitsu Management Services Of America, Inc.

20100238943 - Communication channel switch: The URLs and priority levels of a plurality of frequently accessed sites are stored beforehand in a user registration table in a communication channel switch. The communication channel switch stores the start time and end time of the latest access and the elapsed time at the site, in an access... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100238942 - Lookup engine with programmable memory topology: An architecture for a specialized electronic computer for high-speed data lookup employs a set of tiles each with independent processors and lookup memory portions. The tiles may be programmed to interconnect to form different memory topologies optimized for the particular task.... Agent: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

20100238945 - Method and system for migrating content on a network: A method and system for migrating content on a network. In one method embodiment, the present invention accesses a directory having a network address. A business rule is created and a directory is scripted based on the business rule. Next, a content switch automatically directs future access to the directory... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100238944 - System having a plurality of nodes connected in multi-dimensional matrix, method of controlling system and apparatus: A system has a plurality of nodes connected in a multi-dimensional matrix and having node addresses, respectively, each of the nodes having a processor, and a router for transmitting a request packet to a node adjacent to its own node located in n+1th dimension when the address of nth dimension... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100238946 - Apparatus for processing packets and system for using the same: An apparatus processes a packet and classifies the packet as a processed fast path packet or a slow path packet, wherein the processed fast path packet is forwarded to a fast path forwarding queue directly or is forwarded to a fast path output queue through a packet direct memory access... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100238947 - Data transfer system and method: A transmission source bridge collects packets sent from nodes connected to a serial bus in accordance the IEEE1394 Standards, into one packet in an order they are to be transmitted and then sends them onto an ATM network, so that a transmission destination bridge receives this packet and divides it... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100238948 - Packet switching system and method: A packet switching system capable of ensuring the sequence and continuity of packets and further compensating for delays in transmission is disclosed. Each of two redundant switch sections has a high-priority queue and a low-priority queue for each of output ports. A high-priority output selector selects one of two high-priority... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100238949 - Fast and fair arbitration on a data link: Embodiments of a circuit, a buffered crosspoint switch that includes the circuit and a computer system that includes the switch are described. In this circuit and switch, deep crosspoint buffers are replaced with smaller distributed buffers. This modification reduces the cost of the switch and improves the scaling properties of... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle America, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100238950 - Use of group poll scheduling for broadband communication systems: A group poll mechanism (GPM) that schedules upstream bandwidth for cable modems by pointing a request opportunity normally reserved for a single service flow to more than one service flow. Essentially, instead of using the seldom-used poll requests one per service flow, this same request opportunity is pointed to multiple... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100238951 - Video signal transmission device, video signal reception device, and video signal transmission system: A video transmission device 10 has: a packer 11 which receives a video signal, a sync signal, and a data-enable signal, and generates a plurality of packet signals by packetizing the video signal and the sync signal based on the data-enable signal and according to the number of bytes of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100238953 - Allocation of overhead bandwidth to set-top box: A method includes receiving a channel change request from a set-top box (STB) coupled to a packet-based network, where the STB is located at a subscriber premises. The channel change request includes a value identifying one or more of a number of STBs and a number of display devices that... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20100238952 - Broadband network terminal and method for dynamically allocating network access resources: A broadband network terminal receives user connection requests, and calculates an average value of network access resources according to original users and at least one newly-added user. The broadband network terminal determines whether the network access resources utilized by each original user exceed the average value, determines whether the network... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20100238954 - Transmitting apparatus: A transmitting apparatus includes a detecting unit that detects deviation and balance relative to a specified bit rate of a frame signal input at a constant bit rate; a dividing unit that reads at constant intervals from a buffer storing the frame signal and outputs a signal divided into a... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center Fujitsu Management Services Of America, Inc.

20100238955 - Method and device for communicating using human body: A communication device and method is provided. The communication method using a human body includes modulating data, generating a first timing signal by using the modulated data, generating a wideband pulse with a short time interval on the basis of the first timing signal, and transmitting the wideband pulse through... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100238956 - Methods and systems for distributed synchronization: The invention provides a set of methods and systems for obtaining a synchronized signal in a distributed fashion. The methods and systems described herein allow a node to obtain a periodic signal that would be synchronized with the periodic signal obtained at another node when both nodes follow the same... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20100232285 - Method and apparatus for allocating backhaul transmission resource in wireless communication system based on relay: In a relay based wireless communication system, a method for transmitting an uplink backhaul of a relay node includes obtaining scheduling information for an uplink backhaul sub-frame through a downlink backhaul control channel from a base station, and performing a rate matching and mapping of data by regarding at least... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100232284 - Radio transmitting apparatus and radio transmitting method: A radio transmitting apparatus and a radio transmitting method wherein the throughput is improved and a fast initial access processing including an RA burst is accomplished. According to these apparatus and method, a signature table storing part (101) has a plurality of signature groups generated from a plurality of different... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100232286 - Failure recovery method, computer system, and storage medium recorded failure recovery program for a stream data processing system: Provided is a failure recovery method for switching to a standby system if a failure occurs in an active system, which allows reduction of loads on the standby system and a network. A computer system, which receives data to which timestamp information is appended in a chronological order and processes... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100232287 - Method and network device for realizing shared mesh protection: A method and a network device for realizing shared mesh protection are provided. The method includes the following steps. If a status change of a working label switching path (LSP) is detected, routing information and bandwidth information about the working LSP are notified to every node on a protection LSP... Agent: Huawei/bhgl

20100232289 - Automatic network connection device and method thereof: An automatic network connection device includes a first connection port, a second connection port, a first network connection unit, a second network connection unit, a control unit, and a switching unit. When the first network connection unit operates normally, the switching unit electrically connects the first network connection unit to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100232288 - Takeover of a failed node of a cluster storage system on a per aggregate basis: A cluster comprises a plurality of nodes that access a shared storage, each node having two or more partner nodes. A primary node may own a plurality of aggregate sub-sets in the shared storage. Upon failure of the primary node, each partner node may take over ownership of an aggregate... Agent: Stattler-suh PC

20100232291 - Data transmission device: In a data transmission device and method provided with e.g. duplexed switches outputting frames in the order of input for continuing the communication without instantaneous interruptions even though one of the switches are faulted, input interfaces generate frames in which every time data is inputted, input order information indicating the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100232290 - Methods and systems for managing network traffic within a virtual network system: Methods, systems and computer readable mediums storing computer executable programs for managing network traffic within a virtual network system. A virtual network system defined within a physical network device is identified. A first virtual network device defined within the virtual network system is identified. A virtual network appliance within the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100232292 - Method for variably controlling bit rate of video data through end-to-end channel status sensing in a wibro network: A method for variably controlling a bit rate of video data through end-to-end channel status sensing in a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) network is provided. The method includes classifying wireless channel statuses of a transmission side and a reception side into normal and abnormal statuses during video data transmission; variably controlling... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20100232294 - Early generation of acknowledgements for flow control: One or more flow control modules, implemented on various types of network topologies, provide a number of functionalities for controlling the flow of IP packets (such as TCP/IP packets) over a network connection. The flow control modules may be implemented within a sender and/or receiver or may be deployed into... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100232293 - Uplink congestion detection and control between nodes in a radio access network: Congestion in a radio access network (RAN) associated with transporting uplink information originating from one or more mobile terminals is detected. That detected RAN congestion is reduced using any suitable technique (several examples are described) and may be implemented in one or more nodes in the RAN. One advantageous (but... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100232295 - Aircraft data link network routing: A method includes selecting a first communications network from a plurality of communications networks based on one or more aircraft state inputs. The one or more aircraft state inputs include at least one of a flight phase, a flight event, an aircraft position, an aircraft trajectory, an aircraft state, and... Agent: Honeywell/fogg Patent Services

20100232297 - Method and arrangement for adapting transmission of encoded media: The present invention is to select an adaptation scheme for the transmission of the encoded media that results in a satisfactory performance of the transmitted encoded media. A difference from the prior art is that each adaptation scheme defines a set of different transmission formats, wherein each transmission formats is... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100232296 - Mobile communication system: A mobile communication system in accordance with the present invention is a system in which a mobile communication terminal 200 communicates with a plurality of mobile communication base stations 100 simultaneously using a multi-carrier radio communication scheme. It includes an upstream channel quality measuring section 108 for measuring the channel... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100232298 - Multi-station physical layer communication over tp cable: Wired data telecommunications networks can make advantageous use of a communications capability between and among more than two network devices. Such capabilities may be utilized in providing redundancy of data and/or inline power capabilities from a pair of network devices to a third network device receiving the redundant capability. Impedance... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20100232300 - Routing control device, routing control method, and storage medium storing routing control program: A routing control device includes a plurality of communication interfaces and a processing unit. The processing unit determines whether each of the plurality of communication interfaces has a fault, sets, in routing control information to perform an advertisement, an address of a communication interface of the plurality of communication interfaces... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center Fujitsu Management Services Of America, Inc.

20100232299 - Simulation of communication networks: A computer-implemented method may include receiving transition information indicative of transition rates associated with a plurality of communication links in a network, wherein the network includes a plurality of nodes, the plurality of communication links, and a communication path between a first node and a second node of the plurality... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100232307 - Apparatus and method for semi distributed resource allocation in a cognitive radio wireless communication system: An apparatus and operation method of a Base Station (BS) for allocating a radio resource in a Cognitive Radio (CR) wireless communication system includes, when a licensed system is activated, determining whether each of User Terminals (UTs) located in a cell satisfies Quality of Service (QoS). If all of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100232303 - Base station and method: A base station (eNodeB) performing a radio communication with a user equipment (UE) includes: a transmission format determining unit (16) configured to determine a transmission format of a downlink data channel not to be associated by a control channel, based on a downlink reception signal quality measured by the user... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100232302 - Channel quality reporting method, scheduling method, and communication system, terminal and base station: A method of reporting channel quality indication according to the present invention is a method in which each terminal in a communication system monitors quality of a complete system frequency range. When a frequency band of better quality than a frequency band being currently used for data communication and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100232305 - Communication parameter setting method, communicating apparatus, and managing apparatus for managing communication parameters: When a plurality of managing apparatuses which manage communication parameters exists, there is a case where the wrong communication parameters are set into a communicating apparatus. When the communication parameters are set between the managing apparatus which manages the communication parameters and the communicating apparatus, if a plurality of managing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100232311 - Concurrent transmission of ack/nack, cqi and cqi from user equipment: A wireless communications method is provided. The method includes providing a multi-codeword transmission that includes ACK/NACK and discontinuous transmission (DTX) information. The method also includes ordering reference signal (RS) symbols in proximity to at least one other reference signal symbol to facilitate signaling of additional states and enabling spreading gain... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232313 - Detection of encrypted packet streams using feedback probing: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for detecting encrypted Internet Protocol packet streams. A probe stream having a known observable parameter is generated. The observable parameter exhibits a known characteristic of a known type of data encrypted within a stream of packets. The probe stream is communicated to a network... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20100232310 - Frame based, on-demand spectrum contention methodology: A frame-based, on-demand spectrum contention protocol provides a fine grain allocation of a shared spectrum resource in a cognitive radio network. Each frame of a plurality of synchronized superframes is allocated independently based on contention criteria. As demands for increased spectrum resources are realized, targeted protocol is followed resulting in... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100232312 - 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

20100232315 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100232309 - Methods and systems for dynamic call blocking in wimax idle mode: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure present methods and apparatuses that enable a mobile station (MS) to selectively reject downlink (DL) data during idle mode. The MS may determine whether to reject the pending DL data based on information about the data. This information may be provided by a base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232306 - Methods for supporting ipv6 using bridge extension in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a method for supporting Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in a wireless communication system. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a wireless communication system consists of an access router, a bridge, and a base station. The access router allocates a common network... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100232301 - Mobile communication terminal, communication system, communication method and control program: A mobile communication terminal 10 receives “HCS_PRIO” of a notice data (System Information Block Type 3) of a base station 1 or 3, and determines whether the terminal 10 is present “indoor” and is in “a stationary state or a state moving at a low speed” based on the receiving... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100232304 - Mode switching of a data communications link: A method and apparatus for determining a time-out period used for switching between a first operational mode and a second operational mode of a data communications link, comprising detecting a signal used to request switching from the first operational mode to the second operational mode; measuring the duration of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100232314 - Non-intrusive monitoring of quality levels for voice communications over a packet-based network: Provided is a method and apparatus for objectively and non-intrusively measuring voice quality on live calls without disrupting the call session or the network. A communication system includes plural communities each including a switch that controls access to a packet-based data network for call sessions. Each of the communities is... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100232308 - Radio communication system, base station, mobile station, timing control determining method, and program: An uplink timing control device and method which make no excessive resource request for timing update when performing an uplink timing control even to a mobile station which performs no uplink signal transmission are provided. A system is characterized by comprising a mobile station ranking section for performing the prioritization... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100232321 - Controlling visibility of a wireless device in discoverable mode: A wireless device in a discoverable mode controls its visibility by determining whether to ignore or respond to an inquiry, received from an inquiring device, based at least in part on one or more properties of the inquiring device.... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20100232316 - Forced medium access control (mac) learning in bridged ethernet networks: A system, method, and Ethernet bridge utilizing forced MAC learning to set up a path from an originating node, PON (23) to one or more terminating nodes, PTN (12) through intermediate bridge nodes (14, 21). In the point-to-point case, a Previous Hop Bridge (PHB) list defines the links in the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100232317 - Method and apparatus for a wireless home mesh network with network topology visualizer: An apparatus and method for a wireless home mesh network with a network topology visualizer is described. In one embodiment, the method may include displaying the network topology of a wireless home mesh network. The mobile nodes and stationary nodes of the wireless home mesh network may wirelessly communicate to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100232318 - Random access channel (rach) optimization for a self-organizing network (son): Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate optimizing parameters for random access in a wireless communication environment. A network manager can select centrally optimized parameters for random access that mitigate interference among RACH attempts and/or mitigate uplink interference due to RACH in a SON. Moreover, a base station can select... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232319 - Recording medium having communication program recorded therein, relay node and communication method: A recording medium, relay node and method are provided. The recording medium having recorded therein a communication program causing non-real time communication to be executed by first and second node groups in a network for conducting real time communication between the nodes through relay devices connecting the first and second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100232320 - Wireless data communications network system for tracking container: A wireless data communications network system for establishing communication between a server and a plurality of containers that are loaded onto a cargo vessel. The system includes a data communications device configured to establish and manage a pre-configured wireless data communications network and to communicate with the server through a... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20100232323 - 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

20100232322 - Node, network system, frame transfer method, and frame transfer program: For eliminating a reduction in throughput in a network as a whole according to optimum path transfer technique which is the expansion of spanning tree protocol, a frame switching unit of the network has an STP control unit for, when a port state of a spanning tree is changed, notifying... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100232324 - Full-duplex wireless communications: Full-duplex wireless communication is described. In an embodiment, a transceiver device having a transmitter circuit and a receiver circuit receives a data packet sent over a shared communication medium. In the embodiment, the transceiver reads the header of the data packet and starts transmitting an output signal on the same... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100232325 - Video over cable modem: Disclosed is a system including a plurality of modulators for receiving at least one of first data signals from a termination and for receiving at least one of second data signals from other than the termination and for combining the at least one of first data signals and the at... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100232326 - Mobile ad-hoc network having interference mitigation and related methods: A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) may include mobile nodes establishing wireless communications links therebetween. The mobile nodes may communicate based upon an avalanche or relay communications protocol. Each mobile node may comprise a wireless transceiver, and a decorrelation filter cooperating therewith for reducing interference from other mobile nodes. For example,... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20100232331 - Method and apparatus for controlling sleep mode operation in a communication system: A method and apparatus for controlling a sleep mode operation of a Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system, in which the sleep mode operates according to a sleep cycle including a listening window corresponding to an awake mode and a sleep window corresponding to a sleep state. The method... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100232327 - Method for handover procedure of user terminal during power saving operation in cellular system: Provided is a handover method for user terminals operating in a power-saving mode while minimizing time delay in a packet-based cellular system. The handover method includes the steps of: deciding whether to perform handover based on information transmitted from a source base station; transmitting an uplink synchronization acquisition request to... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100232329 - Method of operating a sleep mode in a wireless communication system: A sleep mode operating method in a wireless communication system is disclosed. In a sleep mode operating method in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention, a user equipment receives a sleep response (MOB_SLP-RSP) message including a sleep cycle and a listening window from a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100232332 - Methods and apparatus for reducing power consumption during network scanning operations with adverse battery conditions: In a mobile communication device, a scanning operation is performed with use of a wireless transceiver to identify one or more available wireless communication networks in a given geographic area. Each time the scanning operation fails to result in identifying a wireless network to be available for connection with the... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. LLC

20100232328 - Methods and systems for mob_ho-ind message enhancement: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for efficient reactivation of a previously exited sleep mode. The proposed method may send a request for reactivation of the sleep mode along with the handover cancellation message to the serving base station. For certain embodiments, the request may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232330 - Methods and systems for split timer l3 p2p communications: Methods and apparatus for reducing power consumption of a mobile station (MS) during layer 3 (L3) peer-to-peer (P2P) communications employing a request/response message pair are provided. To save power, the MS may enter a power saving mode after transmitting a request message and initiating a timeout timer for the message... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232338 - Apparatus and method for providing venuecast services on a next generation forward link only (flo) network: An apparatus and method for providing a coding scheme for interference cancellation in a broadcasting network comprising splitting a plurality of data packets into a plurality of M blocks, wherein each of the plurality of M blocks comprises a plurality of L packets; adding an outer code to each of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232334 - Base station and method of avoiding flood of join messages for ip multicast group in portable internet network: Provided is a base station (BS) and method of avoiding a flood of join messages for an Internet protocol (IP) multicast group in a portable Internet network, and more particularly, to a BS and method of transmitting join messages for an Internet IP multicast group to an access router or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100232339 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving feedback information in a communication system including user terminals with different numbers of antennas: A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting feedback information by each of user terminals in a communication system including the user terminals with different numbers of antennas. A multicast data packet is received from a base station through a downlink multicast transmission channel. If the multicast data packet has... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100232341 - Method of processing traffic information and digital broadcast system: A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system and a method for processing data are disclosed. The method for processing data may enhance the receiving performance of the receiving system by performing additional coding and multiplexing processes on the traffic information data and transmitting the processed data. Thus, robustness is provided to the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100232340 - Method of transmitting mbms data in an e-utran-system: In an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) system Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) data is transmitted as layered data together with control information comprising information enabling a User Equipment to reconstruct the layered MBMS data.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100232336 - Systems and methods for selecting antennas for coordinated multipoint transmission: A method of transmitting data from multiple base stations to a user equipment (UE) with possibly different numbers of antennas selected at the individual cooperating base stations is described. Also described is a method of transmitting data from a UE to multiple base stations with possibly different numbers of antennas... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20100232333 - Transmission device and transmission method: A disclosed OFDM-based transmission device includes a unicast channel generating unit configured to generate a unicast channel; an MBMS channel generating unit configured to generate an MBMS channel; a multiplexing unit configured to time-division-multiplex the unicast channel and the MBMS channel in the same frequency band; and a transmitting unit... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100232335 - Uplink access method of mobile communication system: In a wireless mobile communications system, a network transmits a response request message with respect to a particular point-to-multipoint service to a terminal, and then the terminal transmits a response message to the network using an allocated uplink access preamble included in the response request message, thereby effectively performing a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100232337 - Wireless access point beacon messaging: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to wireless communication of messages between a wireless access point and one or more mobile stations. Example embodiments may comprise wireless communication of messages of variable length partitioned among one or more beacon signals transmitted from the wireless access point.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232348 - Method and apparatus for sending, forwarding, and processing data: A method for sending data includes obtaining data packets to be sent and modulating, by each transmit diversity branch, the data packets by using modulation mode corresponding to the each transmit diversity branch, and sending the modulated data packets. The modulation modes form a preset optimized combination of modulation modes.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100232342 - Node discovery method and mobile node, relay node, home agent which is used by the method: There is disclosed a technique which provides a node discovery method and others capable of detecting a TA allowing a quasi-optimized data route for the achievement of a quasi-optimized data route while guarding the location privacy of an MN. This technique comprises a step in which a mobile node 101... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100232343 - Relay device and relay method: A relay device (40) comprises: an NW interface (408) for making a connection with a switching source terminal (20) that is receiving media data transmitted from a media server (10) and with a switching destination terminal (30); an information storage (403) for storing a media data processing capacity of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100232346 - Relay reception synchronization system and method: A method for informing a relay node when to receive data. The method includes the relay node being informed of a fixed point in a subframe of data when an access node will begin transmitting relevant data over a physical downlink shared channel. The method further includes the relay node... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100232347 - Resource assignments for relay system and method: A method for allocating uplink resources to a relay node. The method includes an access node allocating a plurality of disparate uplink resources to the relay node in a single downlink transmission to the relay node.... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100232344 - Scheduling apparatus and method of relay-based network: Disclosed are a scheduling method and apparatus for a relay-based network. The scheduling apparatus may assign a plurality of sub channels to links, with respect to each of a first sub frame and a second sub frame included in s downlink sub frame. The scheduling apparatus may perform scheduling in... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100232345 - System and method for smart relay operation in a wireless communications system: A system and method for smart relay operation in a wireless communications system is provided. A method for smart relay operations includes receiving, at a smart relay, a transmission from a communications device, the transmission destined for a controller, decoding the transmission, computing a response based on the decoding, and... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100232349 - Optimizing voip for satellite connection: A method and system for reducing the total bandwidth and number of packets utilized to transmit a voice transmission over a satellite connection is provided. RTP allows packets to store different sizes of an audio signal, including 40 and 60 millisecond. By increasing the amount of an audio signal that... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100232350 - Interference removal: Apparatus for a satellite communication system, comprising: a processor arrangement to monitor a plurality of frequency channels demultiplexed from a signal comprising one or more carriers, identify at least one frequency channel of the plurality of frequency channels comprising interference and remove the at least one identified frequency channel before... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100232351 - Utilizing sbas signals to improve gnss receiver performance: The present invention provides methods of improving GNSS receivers' satellite signal acquisition and TIFF performances by taking advantage of SBAS signals. Due to a SBAS satellite's geostationary position and typically strong signal, the SBAS satellite signal can be acquired more quickly than a GPS satellite signal. Once a SBAS satellite... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20100232355 - Asymmetric broadband data network: An asymmetric wireless network (100) includes a first base station (104) including a RF transceiver (208) having a first transmission range, a first transmit data rate, and a first coverage area. The wireless network also includes a second base station (106) comprising a RF transmitter (210) having a second transmission... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Fox Rothschild, LLP

20100232357 - Communication system, communication device, and communication method: A communication system which communicates data through communication between a first communication device and a second communication device having common network identification information, wherein a first communication device includes a first communication unit which communicates data to and from other communication device having the common network identification information, a first... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20100232359 - Frame based, on-demand spectrum contention data frame acquisition: A frame-based, on-demand spectrum contention protocol provides a fine grain allocation of a shared spectrum resource in a cognitive radio network. Each frame of a plurality of synchronized superframes is allocated independently based on contention criteria. As demands for increased spectrum resources are realized, targeted requests are issued to base... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100232361 - Frame based, on-demand spectrum contention destination resolution: A frame-based, on-demand spectrum contention protocol provides a fine grain allocation of a shared spectrum resource in a cognitive radio network. Each frame of a plurality of synchronized superframes is allocated independently based on contention criteria. As demands for increased spectrum resources are realized targeted requests are issued to base... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100232358 - Frame based, on-demand spectrum contention protocol vector messaging: A frame-based, on-demand spectrum contention protocol provides a fine grain allocation of a shared spectrum resource in a cognitive radio network. Each frame of a plurality of synchronized superframes is allocated independently based on contention criteria. As demands for increased spectrum resources are realized, targeted requests are issued to base... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100232360 - Frame-based, on-demand spectrum contention source resolution: A frame-based, on-demand spectrum contention protocol provides a fine grain allocation of a shared spectrum resource in a cognitive radio network. Each frame of a plurality of synchronized superframes is allocated independently based on contention criteria. As demands for increased spectrum resources are realized targeted requests are issued to base... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100232356 - Layer two segmentation techniques for high data rate transmissions: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided to enable a reduction in processing power while handling high data rates. An apparatus includes a processing system configured to service a MAC PDU. Here, the MAC PDU includes a MAC header and at least one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232362 - Method and apparatus for providing position related data: Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose a method for providing positioning assistance data and other supporting information for positioning methods in a wireless communication system utilizing the long term evolution (LTE) standard. The positioning assistance data may be sent in a packet to a radio network node. The radio... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232363 - Method of handling packet error in a wireless communication system and related communication device: A method of handling packet error for a communication device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a payload from a received protocol data unit (PDU) and verifying the payload according to a predetermined payload format.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100232364 - Method of handling random access procedure and related communication device: A method of handling a random access procedure for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method of handling the random access procedure comprises the steps of applying a backoff parameter value associated with the random access procedure according to an operation mode of the mobile... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100232353 - New architectural model for lte (long term evolution) epc (evolved packet core) deployment: A system and methodology that provides a new a deployment model for a seamless migration to LTE (long term evolution)/EPC (Evolved packet core) is disclosed. In addition, an intelligent edge gateway (IEG) that can support future distributed architecture and a converged network for service providers is provided. Specifically, the model... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100232354 - Node query in ad hoc home mesh network: An embodiment is a technique to collect network and device information. A request for local information is responded to. The request is sent by a remote node in an ad hoc home mesh network. A first node listed in a local route table is queried for node information of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100232352 - Precoding technique for multiuser mimo based on eigenmode selection and mmse: The present disclosure proposes a method for preceding of a transmission signal at an access point of a multiuser system based on eigenmode selection and minimum mean square error (MMSE) processing. The most reliable eigenmodes of every multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel in the system can be selected at each user... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232377 - method for packet data session release in ultra mobile broadband access network: A packet data session release method for ultra mobile broadband access network is disclosed, and which includes: S402, when releasing the packet data session, an access gateway sends a proxy mobile IP registration revocation message to the data attachment point of the ultra mobile broadband access network and the evolved... Agent: Patentventures (zte) Client: Zte

20100232374 - Base station and mobile station: One aspect of the present invention relates to a base station wherein either resource blocks resulting from division of a system bandwidth into blocks of consecutive frequency subcarriers or distributed type resource blocks consisting of frequency subcarriers discretely distributed within the system bandwidth and resulting from segmentation of the resource... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100232366 - Base station apparatus and packet scheduling method: The object can be achieved by providing a base station apparatus with: priority calculation means configured to calculate priority of a user in packet scheduling; priority correction means configured to correct priority calculated by the priority calculation means according to a discontinuous reception state; and a scheduler configured to determine... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100232384 - Channel estimation based upon user specific and common reference signals: Systems and methods are disclosed to facilitate wireless communications. The systems and methods include generating one or more user specific reference signals (UE-RS) and one or more common reference signals (CRS) at a transmitting node; transmitting the UE-RS and the CRS to a user (UE) using a transmission scheme in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232365 - Cognitive radio system and method: A cognitive radio system and method for clear and idle channel survey in Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) are disclosed. Through computing average value of Received-Signal-Strength-Indicator (RSSI_AVG) in each channel, clear channels without interference from other RF devices can be distinguished in the present system and method. Based on an... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100232367 - Communication apparatus, radio communication system and radio communication method: A communication apparatus for use in a radio communication system having plural communication channels on a frequency domain. The communication apparatus includes an ACK/NACK generating unit that generates an ACK or a NACK based on a result of decoding of a received signal; a quality-information organizing unit that accumulates a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100232372 - Distributed assignment of frequency channels to transceivers over dynamic spectrum: The invention relates to systems and methods of operating a wireless network including allocating and assigning frequency channels using a dynamic and distributed process. For example, a network node in an ad hoc wireless network will assign frequency channels to one or more of its transceivers based on at least... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20100232381 - Frame-based, on-demand spectrum contention protocol specifications: A frame-based, on-demand spectrum contention protocol provides a fine grain allocation of a shared spectrum resource in a cognitive radio network. Each frame of a plurality of synchronized superframes is allocated independently based on contention criteria. As demands for increased spectrum resources are realized, targeted requests are issued to base... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100232379 - Interference randomization of control channel elements: A method and a radio base station for interleaving control channel data to be transmitted in a telecommunications system are described. The method comprises grouping the control channel elements CCE1-CCEn into a first order of control channel symbol groups, determining a number of available symbol group positions of control channel... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100232383 - Method and apparatus for allocating channel bandwidth in wireless internet protocol television systems: A method and apparatus for allocating channel bandwidths in a wireless IPTV system is provided. The method includes measuring, if an additional service offering request is received in a saturation channel state, remaining execution times until a service of each terminal that is currently receiving a service is terminated, and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100232382 - Method and apparatus for selecting and reselecting an uplink primary carrier: A method and apparatus are described for using an uplink (UL) primary carrier for long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) to support hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, a channel quality indicator (CQI), a scheduling request (SR), power headroom, and at least one buffer status report in the context of asymmetrical deployment... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100232385 - Method and apparatus of handling uplink information under carrier aggregation in a wireless communication system: A method of handling uplink information under carrier aggregation for a MAC layer of a UE in a wireless communication system includes receiving uplink data from a higher layer of the UE, triggering a request for requesting UL-SCH resource on at least one of a plurality of component carriers according... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100232376 - Method and related communication device for radio link control reconfiguration in a wireless communications system: A method of RLC reconfiguration for a communication device of a wireless communication system includes receiving a dedicated signaling including a reconfiguration value corresponding to a RLC-related parameter when the RLC-related parameter is in-use, and not immediately starting to use the reconfiguration value on the in-use RLC-related parameter when the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100232386 - Method for allowing a uicc to manage the pdp context paramethers: m

20100232368 - Method for multiple registration of a multimodal communication terminal: For multiple registration of a multimodal communication terminal (MKE) via at least one access network in an IMS-based service communication system in a mobile and/or convergent communication system, where the multimodal communication terminal (MKE) is registered for at least one communication service via a first access network (WIAN) in at... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100232387 - Method for optimizing the triggering of the transmission of buffer status reporting (bsr) information: The invention concerns a method for optimizing the transmission of Buffer Status Reporting (BSR) information from a User Equipment (UE) to a Base Station (BS) in a wireless telecommunication network wherein the transmission of Buffer Status Reporting information is triggered if new uplink data arrive in the UE transmission buffer... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100232369 - Multi-channel single radio communication in home mesh network: An embodiment is a technique to use a single radio for multi-channel wireless communication. A local device having a local channel table operates on a common channel in a multi-channel wireless network having a plurality of network devices to perform management, control, and discovery functions using a single radio. A... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100232371 - Quality of service service scheduling for home mesh network: An embodiment is a technique to perform packet scheduling for QoS. A plurality of buffers is visited in a variable round robin manner. The buffers store packets having packet types associated with priority levels and having buffer types according to the packet types. The packets are generated for transmission from... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100232370 - Quality of service traffic recognition and packet classification home mesh network: An embodiment is a technique to perform network-based traffic recognition and packet classification. A port identifier in a transport layer header of a packet having a packet type associated with a priority level is extracted. The packet is transmitted from or to an application according to a network protocol in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100232378 - Radio communication base station device, radio communication terminal device, and response signal allocation method: It is possible to provide a radio communication base station device, a radio communication terminal device, and a response signal allocation method which perform D-ACK and P-ACK resource allocation while maintaining a high use efficiency of the upstream line control channel of PUCCH or the like. When a plurality of... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100232388 - Radio communication mobile station device and response signal spread sequence control method: Provided is a radio communication mobile station device which can reduce the number of blind decoding processes at a mobile station without increasing the overhead by report information. The device includes: a judgment unit (210) which judges a particular PUCCH to which a response signal corresponding to the downstream line... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100232373 - Resource allocation in wireless communication systems: A wireless communication terminal including a controller coupled to a wireless transceiver wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a first control message on an anchor carrier, the first control message including a resource assignment for the anchor carrier. The transceiver is also configured to receive a second control message... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100232380 - System and method for utilizing spectrum operation modes in dynamic spectrum access systems: A system and method for enabling primary and secondary user coexistence for a wireless system includes performing spectrum sensing in a channel to determine primary user usage in a first mode of operation. It is determined whether the primary user usage includes a pattern of usage. If a pattern of... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20100232375 - Wireless transmission apparatus, wireless reception apparatus, and transmission method: A wireless base station apparatus assigns channels to a narrowband mobile wireless terminal apparatus of type x (Rel-8 LTE) within the range of one component as its standard and assigns, to a broadband mobile wireless terminal apparatus of type y (LTE-A), channels not only within the range of one component... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20100232390 - Load balancing multiple among multiple carriers in a sector: A method of operating a communication system is disclosed. A first set of wireless devices is communicated with using a first frequency range. A second set of wireless devices is communicated with using a second frequency range. A first air-interface utilization associated with the first frequency range is determined. The... Agent: O'brien Jones PLLC (w/clearwire)

20100232389 - Method and system for high speed intra-domain mobility management using dual interfaces in wireless lan/man: The present invention relates to a fast intra-domain mobility management method and system. The fast intra-domain mobility management method and system are configured to enable handover stably and intelligently with respect to complicated electric wave characteristics in such a manner that in order to provide an efficient inter-AP handover function... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20100232391 - Method and system for intra e-utran handover: The invention regards a handover method for a data packet based wireless mobile communications network. The network comprises a core network (CN) and a radio area network (RAN). The core network (CN) comprises a control plane node (MME) intercommunicating with a user plane node (UPE). The radio area network comprises... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100232392 - Method for performing a handover from a wcdma system to a cdma system in a multi-mode mobile communication terminal: A method of performing a handover from a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system to a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system in a multi-mode terminal having a WCDMA module and a CDMA module includes determining whether a handover to the CDMA system is necessary during a call through... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100232393 - Method, device and system for implementing optimized inter-rat handover: A method, device and system for implementing optimized inter-RAT handover are disclosed. When a user equipment or a source network prepares for a handover to a target network, a corresponding target network ID is obtained from a configured mapping between cell IDs and target IDs according to a received cell... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20100232394 - Mobile control device and handover control method: The present invention is a handover control method in a mobile communication system that performs handover control by switching base stations that communicate with a mobile terminal as the mobile terminal moves. In this handover control method, a mobile control device selects one or more handover base station candidates based... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100232395 - Fft/ifft clock adjustment: A receiver for processing a signal in which data symbols are each represented by the energy at each of a plurality of carrier frequencies, the receiver comprising: an analogue to digital converter for periodically sampling the signal and generating a corresponding digital sample; a Fourier transform unit having a plurality... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20100232397 - Method and apparatus for improved cell acquisition with reduced frequency error impact: A method and apparatus for improved initial cell acquisition with reduced frequency error impact. The method determines the slot timing of a transmission, identifies the primary scrambling code and frame timing using the common pilot channel, and provides a path profile using a pseudorandom noise (PN) search. An apparatus using... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100232396 - Quality of service architecture for home mesh network: An embodiment is a technique to perform QoS. An interface between an upper layer and a lower layer in a multi-hop mesh network receives and transmits packets from and to a local node and a remote node. A classifier classifies the received packets into a plurality of packet types having... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100232398 - Resource allocation method, map configuration method, and resource allocation information transmission method in mobile communication system: When characters are allocated to a keyboard, a plurality of consonants are divided into a plurality of groups according to pronunciation position in the oral cavity, and the groups are allocated to corresponding columns on the keyboard of 3 rows and 10 columns. A plurality of vowels are allocated to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100232399 - Wireless communication system, control center, and base station: The base station includes a notification module configured to notify a control center of output power data, a measurement module configured to measure a reception quality of each time slot from received radio signals of control data transmitted from other base stations via a control channel, and a transmission module... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100232400 - Virtualizing single radio for multiple wireless interfaces in home mesh network: An embodiment is a technique to virtualize a single physical radio for multiple wireless interfaces. A physical wireless network interface is configured into a first virtual access point (VAP) and a second VAP on a device using a single radio transceiver in a home mesh network. The first and second... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100232403 - Apparatus and method for managing emergency calls: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network element operably couplable to an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem network where the network element has a controller to receive an SIP request associated with a call, determine whether the SIP request comprises an identifier associated... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100232407 - Gateway relocation in communication networks: Systems and methods that provide a mechanism to relocate functions from one gateway to another gateway in a wireless communication network are disclosed. The gateway can implement an access service network (ASN) gateway in a WiMAX based network with a number of functionalities co-located on the gateway such as an... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20100232402 - Handling multiple user interfaces in an ip multimedia subsystem: A method of operating an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network having a plurality of user interfaces. A terminal agent is interposed between a plurality of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) User Agents and a Serving Call/Session Control Function (S-CSCF) of the IMS network. The terminal agent registers its contact address... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100232405 - Information collection system, information registration server, information collection method, and mobile terminal device: A public wireless LAN accessible area collection system includes a mobile terminal device having GPS means, wireless LAN communication means, and data communication means and a server which has storage means and accessible area map generation means and performs data communication with the mobile terminal device. When the wireless LAN... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100232409 - Method and system for connecting mobile communication terminal with access point: Disclosed is a method for connecting a mobile communication terminal with an access point located in a local area providing a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) service in which a server managing the access point compares Media Access Control (MAC) information of the mobile communication terminal or MAC information of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100232408 - Method of connecting wireless communication devices and wireless communication device using the same: A wireless communication device and method for same, including: a first communication unit configured to use a non-IP-based wireless communication protocol, a second communication unit configured to use an IP-based wireless communication protocol, and a controller configured to: search for a wireless device for communication, the wireless communication device configured... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100232410 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100232412 - Mobile virtual lan: A communication system in which multiple protocols and proxy services are executed by an access point. In one embodiment of the invention, GVRP and GMRP registrations are combined in a single packet when a wireless device roams to a different VLAN. In addition, outbound GVRP and GMRP multicast messages are... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100232404 - Scalable disruptive-resistant communication method: A method for transmitting data in vehicular network comprising determining a communication window between at least two nodes, grouping a plurality of fragments of content together into an aggregate fragment block, forwarding the aggregate fragment block to a target node and assembling the plurality of fragments into the content. The... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20100232411 - Signaling format for wlans: A method for wireless communication begins by determining whether legacy devices are within a proximal region of the wireless communication. The method continues, when at least one legacy device is within the proximal region, formatting a frame to include: a legacy preamble; a signal field; an extended preamble; at least... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100232406 - Using wlan for media transport in cellular mobile networks: The invention relates to a method of operating a telecommunication network for setting up a call between a first and a second WLAN-enabled mobile terminal. The telecommunication network comprising a first switching node, a second switching node, a gateway switching node, a first WLAN AP serving said first WLAN-enabled mobile... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100232401 - Wireless local area network scan based on location: A system, apparatus and methods are described that define the frequency in which a scan for a wireless local area network access point (140) is performed. In one embodiment, a scan is performed when a change in the geographic location of a mobile wireless device (115) is identified.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100232413 - Processing of multi-carrier signals before power amplifier amplification: Embodiments for methods and apparatuses for processing a multi-carrier signal are disclosed. One method includes shaping a frequency spectrum of a multi-carrier transmit signal wherein an amplitude of a plurality of subcarriers of the multi-carrier transmit signal is increased relative to at least one other subcarrier of the multi-carrier transmit... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20100232414 - Method for sharing wireless channel resource in communication system: A method for sharing a channel in a communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving scheduling information including information about a channel time reserved by other user devices, and transmitting data through the reserved channel time if a result of performing scanning in the reserved channel time indicates that... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100232415 - Control device, terminal device, and communication system and communication method, using the same: A terminal device (102), used in communication system conducting communication by periodically switching frequency channels in a predefined sequence, communicating with a control device using a predefined channel, including: an antenna; a reception section receiving, from the control device (101), via the antenna, data and a beacon containing control information... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100232416 - Method and system for multi-layer network routing: Each node of a telecommunications network determines a connection type attributes available for each signal type supported by the node. Each signal type represents a different connection routing layer within the telecommunications network. Adaptation costs involved in traversing from one connection routing layer to another connection routing layer in the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100232421 - Audio/video communications system: An audio/video communication system is provided which includes: a web server providing a user system with a phone icon or button indicating a call receiver and transmitting a phone identifier LN for identifying the receiver allocated to the phone button when a user clicks the icon or button; and a... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20100232420 - Communication apparatus and related method: A communication apparatus includes a network interface, a voice processor, a data bus and a microprocessor. The voice processor includes a judging module and a voice codec module coupled with the judging module. The judging module is coupled with the network interface. The microprocessor is coupled with the voice-processor through... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100232422 - Grouping of user identities in an ip multimedia subsystem: The present invention is aimed to provide a more flexible data structure where any IMPU, even those of the SIP URI type, may be shared by more than one IRS in order to simplify the registration of an IMPU for users of a Fixed-Mobile Convergent network. To this end, there... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100232423 - Ip phone system and ip phone terminal registration method: A registration method of a voice terminal in a call connecting apparatus, wherein; when a registration request of said voice terminal including a first distinguishing information is received, said call connecting apparatus refers to a storage unit which stores distinguishing information and telephone number of said voice terminal; said call... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100232418 - Method and apparatus for one number mapping directory presence service: A method includes associating an e-mail address with a plurality of telephone numbers; associating one of the telephone numbers with a one number service (108); allowing telephone calls to the one of the telephone numbers by selecting the e-mail address. In some embodiments, the allowing telephone calls comprises calling a... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100232424 - Method of and system for providing quality of service in ip telephony: A method and system for providing quality of service in an IP telephony session between a calling party and a called party establishes a high quality of service ATM virtual circuit for the session between first and second devices, each of the devices having ATM capability and IP capability. The... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100232417 - Moving service control within a mobile telephony service provider network from a channel access domain to an ip domain: A telecommunication call attempt involving a mobile phone number can be identified at a mobile telephony service provider network. Call control for the call can be moved from a circuit switched, channel access domain to an IP domain by moving control form a mobile switching controller (MSC) component to a... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. - IBM Cha

20100232419 - Providing fibre channel services and forwarding fibre channel over ethernet frames: In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a first interface configured to be communicatively coupled, via a network, to a second interface and a fibre channel services module. The first interface may be configured to receive a fibre channel service from the fibre channel services module, establish communication with the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100232425 - Method and apparatus for improving data transmission in router fabric cards through pseudo-synchronous data switching: In a data packet router, a router fabric card for routing data packets is provided. The router fabric card comprises a plurality of ingress/egress ports, the ports connected through a switching facility for switching connection states of the port paths between individual ingress paths and individual egress paths on the... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20100232427 - Communications apparatus: A communications apparatus, enabling an efficient data transfer without an environmental restriction, notifies a transmission-side apparatus (200) connected via a network (300) of data amount in a window size, and receives data as large as the window size, the data which is transmitted from the transmission-side apparatus (200). The communications... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100232426 - Hyper-cube flow forwarding in packet networks: A method of forwarding a series of data packets in a data flow in a network, wherein the data packets having N predetermined parameters where N>1 and ranges of values of the N parameters defining an N-dimensional parameter space, and wherein the data flow is one selected from a series... Agent: Venable LLP

20100232428 - Packet switching equipment and switching control method: A packet switching equipment and a switch control system employing the same performs operation of the switch core portion independent of content of decision of an arbiter portion and overall equipment can be constructed with simple control structure. The packet switching equipment includes input buffer portions temporarily storing packets arriving... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100232430 - System and method for transmitting real-time-critical and non-real-time-critical data in a distributed industrial automation system: A system and a method provide a real-time-critical communication and a non-real-time-critical communication in a switched data network consisting of users and switching units, for example a distributed automation system, by a cyclic operation. In a transmission cycle, there exists for all users and switching units of the switched data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100232429 - Systems and methods for communicating a lossy protocol via a lossless protocol: The present invention is generally directed towards a remote access architecture for providing peer-to-peer communications and remote access connectivity. In one embodiment, the remote access architecture of the present provides a method for establishing a direct connection between peer computing devices via a third computing device, such as a gateway.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100232431 - Internet protocol broadcasting: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for improving utilization of a communications system through various atom-based techniques for enhancing the viewing experience for Internet protocol content. Some embodiments exploit atom-based processing to determine which content atoms to broadcast (e.g., multicast) over which channels to which subscribers. Other embodiments make atom-based... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20100232432 - Extended saf packet to support voluminous media data: Provided are an extended Simple Aggregation Format (SAF) packet to support voluminous media data and a method of generating the extended SAF packet. The extended SAF packet includes an SAF access unit including an SAF fragment unit obtained by dividing the voluminous media data into a data size suitable for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100232435 - Logically partitioned networking devices: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with logically partitioned networking devices are described herein. One example method includes receiving a message from a common interface. The message comprises a logical partition header (LPH) and a network segmentation header (NSH). The LPH may be associated with a logical partition of a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20100232433 - Methods and systems for resolving a first node identifier in a first identifier domain space to a second node identifier in a second identifier domain space: Methods and systems are described for resolving a first node identifier in a first identifier domain space to a second node identifier in a second identifier domain space. In one aspect, a first node identifier from a first identifier domain space is identified. The first node identifier is included in... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20100232434 - Programmable hash-tuple generation with parallel rule implementation independence: Techniques have been developed to facilitate concurrent evaluation of hash rule entries in ways that allow an implementation to maintain a deterministic resultant hash irrespective of variations in the allocation of particular rules to particular storage banks or evaluation logic, such as may occur with rule set revisions. Similarly, uniform... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP (115)

20100232436 - A multi-hop communication method, a multi-hop communication terminal and communication program: The degradation of the communication characteristics and the throughput of the entire network can be improved. The failures of sending and receiving are reduced and the transmission time is reduced. In a multi-hop communication method how the source terminal 11 transmits and receives the packets with destination terminal 12 through... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20100232438 - Method and node for employing network connections over a connectionless transport layer protocol: A method of establishing a network connection between two nodes of a communication network via a connectionless transport layer communication protocol is presented. In the method, a plurality of data packets is exchanged between a first node and a second node. Each of the data packets comprises a header and... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20100232437 - Method and node for transmitting data over a communication network using negative acknowledgment: A method of transmitting data over a communication network using negative acknowledgment is presented. In the method, a stream of data packets is transmitted from a first node of the network to a second node of the network. All but at least two of the stream of data packets is... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20100232442 - Communication apparatus and method: A communication apparatus, being connected with a wide-area network enabling to execute a band assurance session and an in-site network, for relaying communication between the wide-area network and the in-site network, comprises a communication terminal management means for registering and managing the communication terminal, upon receipt of a first registration... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100232439 - Mediated network address translation traversal: A method of establishing a connection traversing at least one network address translation (NAT) gateway is presented. In the method, a bind request is sent from a source device to a mediation element via a NAT gateway. A bind response associated with the bind request is received. A connection request... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20100232443 - Method and apparatus for managing, configuring, and controlling an i/o virtualization device through a network switch: An apparatus and method bridges frames between entities running on the same server. The server has a physical network interface that supports I/O virtualization. The physical network interface has an IOV device with a bridging function capable of bridging frames between entities running on the server. A network switch has... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20100232440 - Providing scsi acceleration as a service in the san: Techniques are disclosed for abstracting write acceleration techniques and tape acceleration techniques away from transport providers (e.g., away from an FC or FCIP interlink between two storage area networks) and allowing acceleration to be provided as a service by nodes within the storage area network (SAN). Doing so allows the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20100232441 - Quality of service management for home-to-home connections: In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method of establishing end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) is provided, the method comprising: receiving minimum QoS requirements for a connection between a local device in a local network and a remote device in a remote network; requesting that a QoS connection... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/ Sisa

20100232444 - Frame transfer method and frame transfer device: Disclosed herewith is a network that can connect as many VPNs as possible to itself. In order to realize such a network, in the frame transfer method of the present invention, which enables a transfer path to be formed between nodes in the network so as to transfer frames, a... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20100232445 - Routing protocols with predicted outage notification: A method for the efficient routing of data packets across a plurality of routers when a link is unavailable which includes connecting a plurality of nodes in a network using a plurality of routers having a plurality of links between the routers, informing the routers in the network when one... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20100232447 - Quality of service queue management in home mesh network: An embodiment is a technique to perform queue management. A packet is received from an upper layer or a classifier in a multi-hop mesh network. The packet has a packet type classified by the classifier. The received packet is enqueued into one of a plurality of buffers organized according to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100232446 - Queue sharing with fair rate guarantee: In one embodiment, separate rate meters are maintained for each flow enqueued an increased at a target rate while a packet from the flow occupies the head of a shared transmit queue. The meter value is decreased by the packet length when a packet in enqueued or dropped. The next... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20100232448 - Scalable interface for connecting multiple computer systems which performs parallel mpi header matching: An interface device for a compute node in a computer cluster which performs Message Passing Interface (MPI) header matching using parallel matching units. The interface device comprises a memory that stores posted receive queues and unexpected queues. The posted receive queues store receive requests from a process executing on the... Agent: Mhkkg/oracle (sun)

20100232449 - Method and apparatus for scheduling packets and/or cells: A system and method of switching data using a switch device that includes a plurality of input ports, a plurality of switch units, and a plurality of output ports. Each input port storing data to be sent may generate a request to output data to each of the output ports... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20100232450 - Method and apparatus for providing virtual ports with attached virtual devices in a storage area network: Systems particularly a virtualization switch or a storage device, which include virtual ports connected to virtual devices with virtual worldwide names and virtual LUNs. Because Fibre Channel environment hosts can track worldwide names from one port to another and allow continuity in that regard, the virtual worldwide names are provided... Agent: Wong Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20100232451 - Method for maintaining vital guideway operation in high-demand areas: A method for reducing delays in the receipt of high priority information in a transportation system is disclosed.... Agent: Lockheed Martin C/o Demont & Breyer, LLC

20100232452 - Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system: A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100232453 - Information processing apparatus and multiplexing method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an output rate adjustment module which sets an output rate adjustment stream data, an output rate adjustment start time and an output rate adjustment end time. The output rate adjustment module calculates an output data amount of the output rate adjustment... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100232454 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus includes a transmitter device and a receiver device connected to the transmitter device through a communication line. The transmitter device generates a multiplexed binary signal by adding together N types of binary signals having the same amplitude at a low level and different amplitudes at a high... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100232455 - Packet communication apparatus and method for packet communication: A packet communication apparatus that carries out packet communication with a second packet communication apparatus via a logical connection through header processing of compressing or decompressing a packet header, the apparatus managing a first state machine of a first header processing state concerning a first packet flow of the connection... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100232456 - Method of processing traffic information and digital broadcast system: A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system and a method for processing data are disclosed. The method for processing data may enhance the receiving performance of the receiving system by performing additional coding and multiplexing processes on the traffic information data and transmitting the processed data. Thus, robustness is provided to the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100226241 - Cross-talk processing in serial link buses: A system and method for cross talk compensation in serial link busses, the method comprising: evaluating if a positive potential or a negative potential is being received by a receiver of a victim from an aggressor is dominant; measuring the distance between an incident signal and a decision threshold to... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20100226242 - Method and system for supporting scalable bandwidth: Methods and systems for supporting scalable bandwidth in radio telecommunications networks are provided. When signals are transmitted to user equipments using a transmitter of a radio telecommunication network, the signals are frequency multiplexed, each signal lying within a frequency band having an equal or narrower bandwidth than a reception bandwidth... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226243 - Method and apparatus for multicast transmission in wireless network: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for multicast transmission of a transmitting station in a wireless network. The method according to the present invention transmits a plurality of data packets to a plurality of receiving stations, receives information on loss of the plurality of the data packets from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100226244 - Network system: Provided is a multicast path management method for a connectionless communication. Also provided is a path protection function which is effective when a path has failed. A network is formed by a trunk and a branch path. The multicast path is managed by end-to-end and when a failure has occurred,... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20100226245 - Method and apparatus for protection switching in ring network: A method and apparatus for protection switching in a ring network are provided. A method for protection switching in a ring network, which includes a first ring network having first and second connection nodes and a second ring network connected with the first ring network through the first and second... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100226246 - Pseudowire tunnel redundancy: The invention is directed to providing pseudowire tunnel redundancy for VPLS and VLL services in the form of automatic protection switching of the service from a primary pseudowire tunnel to a backup pseudowire tunnel upon detection of a failure affecting the primary pseudowire tunnel. Embodiments of the invention monitor event... Agent: Terry W. Kramer, Esq. Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20100226247 - Systems and methods for providing virtual fair queuing of network traffic: Systems and methods for dynamically controlling bandwidth of connections are described. In some embodiments, a proxy for one or more connections may allocate, distribute, or generate indications of network congestion via one or more connections in order to induce the senders of the connections to reduce their rates of transmission.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100226249 - Access control for packet-oriented networks: The invention relates to a method for access control to a packet-oriented network. An admissibility check for a group of packets is carried out by means of a threshold value for the traffic volume between the network input node and the network output node for the flow. The transmission of... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100226248 - Changes to access procedure for asc 0 for umts: According to one aspect, a method that includes some of the teachings of the present subject technology reduces congestion in a communications network. The method includes, inter alia, letting a persistence value be a function of N, even when ASC=0, and also a function of a constant the emergency services... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100226250 - Systems and methods for providing quality of service precedence in tcp congestion control: Systems and methods for dynamically controlling bandwidth of connections are described. In some embodiments, a proxy for one or more connections may allocate, distribute, or generate indications of network congestion via one or more connections in order to induce the senders of the connections to reduce their rates of transmission.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100226251 - Router and packet routing program: An attraction acquisition unit of a first router acquires attraction values of third and fourth routers. When many packets the destination of which is a second router (identifier “A”) are then inputted to the first router, a traffic control unit distributes the many packets among communication interfaces so that a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100226252 - Invoking data service priority during network congestion: A method for requesting and providing on-demand priority to internet protocol (IP) flows is disclosed. A request to invoke transmission priority is received. Whether to mark a priority invocation packet for an IP flow with a priority Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) marking is determined The priority invocation packet is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100226253 - System and method for tracking a line rate utilization: A system and method for tracking a line rate utilization. An effective throughput is measured for a data stream during a time period. A number of frames in the data stream is counted during the time period. A line rate utilization is determined for the data stream utilizing the number... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100226254 - Customer premise equipment with access to free market based pricing for bandwidth on a communications network: A system and method for providing a user of communications services with free market based pricing may include providing for communications over one of multiple network paths serviced by multiple respective communications service providers via at least one communications network. One of the network paths over which to communicate based... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100226257 - Auto-compression for media over ip: The present invention allows communicating devices to control the amount of compression used in packet sessions for transmitting streaming media to and from each other. When a communicating device detects a decrease in performance or quality of service indicative of a limited bandwidth condition, the amount of compression for the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20100226255 - Entropic based activity passive detection and monitoring system: The present invention relates generally to computer systems in the field of signals intelligence, and more particularly, to entropic activity detection and monitoring computer systems for collecting and analyzing data packets wirelessly transmitted from a wireless transmitter by applying information theoretic metrics (Tsallis entropy).... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20100226256 - Proxy mobile ip routing: A method and apparatus for routing communications traffic in a Proxy Mobile IP communications network. A Mobile Node is attached to a first Proxy Mobile Agent, and an optimized route is established between the Mobile Node and a Corresponding Node via the first Proxy Mobile Agent. When the Mobile Node... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100226258 - Wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and computer program: An own-group storage area in which beacon information concerning a group of the own device is stored and an other-groups storage area in which beacon information concerning other groups different from the group of the own device is stored are allocated to a memory area of a wireless communication device... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100226259 - Intelligent router for wireless sensor network: Routing packets in a wireless security system. The system includes a network hub that wirelessly sends and receives packets, at least one sensor that wirelessly sends and receives packets to and from the network hub, and a packet router that monitors the packet communications between the network hub and the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20100226260 - Spanning tree ring protocol: A plurality of network devices such as routers are included in an instance of a spanning tree. The network device creates a ring context on a port that it identifies as both a blocking port and configured to run a spanning tree protocol. The ring context can be comprised of... Agent: Robert Schuler

20100226269 - 12method and system for reducing feedback information in multicarrier-based communication systems based on tiers: Systems and methods for decreasing the amount of information sent on a feedback channel are disclosed. A hierarchical tree structure may be used to reduce the amount of information sent on the feedback channel. Spectral binning may also be used in conjunction with the hierarchical tree structure.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100226262 - Adaptive joint source and channel coding scheme for h.264 video multicasting over wireless networks: A method and apparatus for estimating packet loss rate are described including calculating a real packet loss rate in a time slot at the end of the time slot, estimating average packet loss rate for a subsequent time slot, estimating variance of packet loss rate for the subsequent time slot... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100226275 - Flow based fair scheduling in multi-hop wireless networks: Embodiments describe flow based fair scheduling in a wireless multi-hop network. The scheduling can be rate controlled multi-hop scheduling or power controlled multi-hop scheduling. The scheduling chosen is intended to provide maxmin fairness over all flows within the wireless network.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100226276 - Flow based fair scheduling in multi-hop wireless networks: Embodiments describe flow based fair scheduling in a wireless multi-hop network. The scheduling can be rate controlled multi-hop scheduling or power controlled multi-hop scheduling. The scheduling chosen is intended to provide maxmin fairness over all flows within the wireless network.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100226274 - Method and apparatus for interrupting a transmission of a multicast signal: A method and apparatus for interrupting a transmission of a multicast signal includes a common channel selector (106) coupled to a receiver (102) to receive common channel information (116) therefrom. A repetition value calculator (108) receives measurement occasion information (118) from the common channel selector (106) to calculate a repetition... Agent: Motorola Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20100226267 - Method and system for determining access during inter-technologies handoff: A system and method for determining an initial mean open loop power level of a pilot channel of a reverse traffic channel for a mobile terminal. The initial open loop power level enables handoff of an active call from a first access network to a second access network. A handoff... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20100226277 - Method and system of monitoring the receipt of multicast traffic: A method and system for monitoring data packet traffic in a multicast network comprising determining a first packet count received at a receiver router, representing a quantity of data packets associated with a multicast group and source at a first time, determining a second packet count received at that receiver... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20100226261 - Method and system to prevent spam over internet telephony: A method and system of preventing SPAM over Internet telephony (SPIT) is provided, including the establishment of calling rate limits for VoIP Challenge for callers, and SPIT ratings included with call initiation manual input messages to warn the callee if the call is at high risk of being SPIT. The... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20100226263 - Method for supporting quality of multimedia broadcast multicast service (mbms) in mobile communications system and terminal thereof: In a wireless mobile communications system, a method of supporting quality of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) while using minimum possible radio resource(s) of a cell. A method of providing a multimedia multicast broadcast service (MBMS) in a wireless communications system that may include: transmitting a feedback configuration parameter to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100226265 - Method of concurrent multipath transfer based on relational paths: A method of Concurrent Multipath Transfer which is based on the relational paths, characterized in that for a packet lost in a path, it allows other packets sent from the path and/or other paths to point out the lost packet through a gap report. According to the present invention, any... Agent: Hammer & Associates, P.C.

20100226270 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226271 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226272 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226273 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226268 - Slot based persistent allocation scheme: There is provided a method for allocating a mobile station to an available resource slot of a plurality of resource slots within a stream of data frames, the stream of data frames broadcasted to the mobile station by a base station. The method includes scanning resource slots to identify an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100226264 - System and method for robust cell detection: A wireless communication receiver performs robust cell searching, excluding interference due to UL transmissions from other UE, by qualifying the output of a matched filter with a metric indicative of the momentary signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The momentary SNR metric is derived over the same amount of samples as the length... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100226266 - Wireless network communications system: Disclosed are a method, system and protocol for processing a Transmission within a wireless network, the network including at least one device that transmits the Transmission and at least one device that receives the Transmission. The method provides for receiving the Transmission at the device that receives the Transmission; determining... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100226278 - Method and monitoring component for network traffic monitoring: A technique for traffic monitoring in a network comprising monitoring components and a management center (MC) is described. A method implementation comprises the steps of selecting a first set of local identifiers from a larger second set of local identifiers, wherein the local identifiers are capable of providing a unique... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100226283 - Method and apparatus for use in a communications network: A method and apparatus for use in a communications network in which a Mobile Node accesses the communications network via a proxy node. The proxy node is arranged to handle mobility signalling on behalf of the Mobile Node. At a mobility anchor function, such as a Local Mobility Anchor, a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100226280 - Remote secure router configuration: Systems and methods for securing a data communication network are described herein. An illustrative system includes a first router and an external storage device. The external storage device contains data that configures the first router. The external storage device is remotely coupled to the first router to configure the first... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20100226279 - System and method for effectively populating a mesh network model: A system and method for populating a mesh network model includes peer devices that are configured to transmit peer device signals by utilizing a wireless broadcasting procedure. Mobile devices wirelessly detect the peer device signals to produce wireless scan data corresponding to the peer devices. A location server may then... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20100226282 - System and method for exporting structured data in a network environment: An apparatus is provided in one example embodiment and includes a network element configured to receive a plurality of packets. The network element is configured to couple to a module, the module being configured to generate a data record that is based on information associated with the packets and capable... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100226281 - Trunking with port aggregation for fabric ports in a fibre channel fabric and attached devices: Trunking with port aggregation for fabric ports in a Fibre Channel (FC) fabric and attached devices is described. In some examples, a method of establishing a connection between a node and the FC fabric includes: negotiating a first link between a first trunking node port in the node with a... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100226284 - Wireless social networking: A first device may communicate by joining a wireless mesh network that includes at least one wireless device configured to operate a wireless routing protocol, discovering a group of other wireless devices configured to participate in the wireless mesh network, and accessing an interest metric for a second wireless device... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100226285 - Network design method: A network design method for Ethernet-type networks exhibiting capacities sufficient for operation during normal periods as well those as periods when a single node or link has failed.... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (alu)

20100226286 - Method, gatew and system for providing a push-to-x service to a user of a data terminal: A method of providing a push-to-x service to a user of a data terminal which is connected to a packet-switched network includes, at a gateway interfacing the packet-switched network and the framework supporting the push-to-x service: receiving from the data terminal a request for accessing the push-to-x service; checking a... Agent: Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner

20100226289 - Floor control in telecommunications conference calls: A method of enabling a user terminal to participate in floor control operations in a telecommunications conference operating a Binary Floor Control Protocol, BFCP. The method includes sending a first message from the user terminal to a gateway node. The first message includes information relating to floor control operations in... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100226288 - Method and apparatus for group media consumption: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top box comprising a controller to send an invite for participation in a media conference to at least one media device, the media conference comprising a presentation of a media program supplied by an interactive television... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Gmg Attn: Patent Docketing

20100226287 - Method, system and apparatus for participant verification in a multi-party call environment: According to embodiments of the present invention, there are provided a method, system and apparatus for participant verification in a multi-party call environment. A method for verifying a participant in a multi-party call environment comprises receiving an indication of the user's desire to join the multi-party call. The method further... Agent: Sean Murray

20100226290 - Method for communicating data between mobile station and base station, and mobile communication terminal thereof: A method for transmitting and receiving data by a mobile station (MS), a method for transmitting and receiving data by a base station (BS), and a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method for transmitting and receiving data by an MS includes generating an uplink subframe by placing an uplink... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100226293 - Interference alignment scheme for use in communication network: A communication network applying an interference alignment scheme with a low or reduced complexity is provided. The communication network may include a plurality of transmit nodes and a plurality of receive nodes. A plurality of combinations of transmit-receive pairs may exist between the plurality of transmit nodes and the plurality... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100226291 - Multi-channel radio frequency front end circuit: A front end circuit for coupling a plurality of antennas to a multi-channel time domain duplex RF transceiver is disclosed. The front end circuit has a first transmit port, a first receive chain primary port, a first receive chain secondary ports, and a first antenna port connectible to a first... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20100226292 - Multi-channel radio frequency front end circuit with full receive diversity for multi-path mitigation: A front end circuit for coupling a plurality of antennas to a multi-channel time domain duplex RF transceiver is disclosed. The front end circuit has a first transmit port, a first receive chain primary port, a first receive chain secondary ports, and a first antenna port connectible to a first... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20100226294 - Full duplex network radio bridge with low latency and high throughput: A full duplex radio bridge using two transceivers coupled to a first packet network, one for transmitting data toward another radio bridge coupled to a second packet network, and the other for receiving data transmitted from the first packet network toward said second packet network by a transceiver of the... Agent: Ronald Craig Fish, A Law Corporation

20100226295 - Method, device, and terminal for physical layer random access in wideband tdd mobile communication system: A method for physical layer random access in wideband TDD mobile communication system is disclosed, and the method comprises: receiving the system broadcast message of the cell, obtaining the configuration information of the frequency band in frequency domain in the UpPTS time slot of the cell; and the terminal sends... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100226296 - Range extension for time division duplex systems: A method of scheduling time division duplex frames at a base station in a time division duplex system is provided. The method includes determining if the round-trip propagation delay between the base station and a communicatively coupled subscriber station is greater than the difference between the base station turn-around time... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20100226300 - Beacon frame: A beacon frame (5) for transmission during a beacon period for a wireless device to maintain synchronization with other wireless devices of a community in a wireless communications network, the frame (5) comprising: a header (8) containing routing information for the frame (5); beacon parameters (9) to indicate signaling methods... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20100226297 - Power management in wireless communication systems: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the invocation of active states and power conservation states in accordance with the standard or diluted beacon periods defined in beacon frames. Active periods, or “awake windows,” may be defined by additional information (e.g., information elements) that is included in the beacon.... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20100226298 - System and method of power management for a device with multiple network interfaces: An embodiment method for managing power of user device having a plurality of interfaces includes mapping centralized reachability states to physical power states of the interface and controlling the physical power states based on the mapping. Controlling includes transmitting a signal to the user device.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100226299 - Wireless communication method for wireless lan system, wireless communication device and wireless terminal: In a wireless communication method of a wireless communication device to which a power management mode of a wireless LAN is applied and to which a parent device communicates, the method includes updating a listen interval of receiving a beacon signal from a parent device to be shorter than a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226301 - Feedback technique for a hierarchically organized broadcast/multicast service area: The disclosure relates to a technique for determining for a broadcast or multicast session the availability of resources in a hierarchically organized content distribution network. The network includes on a lower hierarchy level a plurality of service area portions such as individual radio cells. In one embodiment, an availability request... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100226303 - Method for transmitting multiple streams in wireless broadcast networks: Accordingly, a method and apparatus are provided to convert received content into a first stream and a second stream, to transmit said first stream using a first tone and to transmit said second stream using an orthogonal scheme. A layering scheme is used to transmit the base stream covering a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100226302 - Method of operation in a wireless communication system: A method of operation (300) of a wireless communication system (100) includes: a client node sending (301) to the infrastructure node a message indicating that it intends to enter an unassociated state and a message requesting (303) the infrastructure node to store for the client node data of at least... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20100226305 - Communication system including relay station and data frame for the communication system: Provided is a communication method and a data frame for a communication system having a relay station. An uplink sub-frame of the data frame may include a first uplink relay sub-frame which corresponds to a time frame where relay stations selected among a plurality of relay stations simultaneously transmit uplink... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100226306 - Radio communication terminal and radio communication system: A radio communication terminal and a radio communication system which can avoid an obstacle that is caused by a malicious wormhole while using a harmless wormhole. There are provided: a radio communication terminal in which a relay route about a certain node is stored as a backup route about the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100226304 - Wireless communication system: Disclosed is a wireless communication method for executing transmission and reception of a radio signal among communication terminals via a plurality of base stations connected to an IP (Internet Protocol) network. One of the base stations performs AD conversion on a radio signal received via an antenna from one of... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20100226307 - Routing of downlink channels in a communications satellite: For selectively routing downlink frequency channels to downlink beams of a communications satellite, the inherent routing functionality of a normal bandwidth multiport amplifier (MPA) is exploited in conjunction with the grouped channel filter characteristics of an output multiplexer (OMUX). In this arrangement the guard bands inherent in the OMUX mitigate... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100226308 - node- arbitrated media access control protocol for ad hoc broadcast networks carrying ephemeral information: Techniques for organizing nodes of an ad hoc broadcast network into sets and employing the sets to arbitrate access by the nodes to a shared communications medium. Each node has a copy of a signal library and the node indicates its membership in the set by associating itself with a... Agent: Gordon E Nelson Patent Attorney, PC

20100226312 - Apparatus and method for transmitting coexistence beacon protocol packet in cognitive radio wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for transmitting a Coexistence Beacon Protocol (CBP) packet in a Cognitive Radio (CR) wireless communication system are provided. In the method for transmitting CBP packet in a transmitter that operates in a scalable Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) mode, a priority is given to... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100226309 - Beaconing mode for wireless communication: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to facilitating apparatus interaction. In at least one example embodiment of the present invention, apparatuses may comprise both triggered communication activities and automated communication activities. Triggered communication activities may correspond to, for example, user and/or application instigated actions in a wireless apparatus. Automated... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20100226311 - Efficient paging operation for femtocell deployment: Efficient paging operation for femtocell deployment is generally presented. In this regard, a paging controller is introduced including a wired backbone interface to communicate with a plurality of macro base stations and a plurality of femto base stations, and control logic, the control logic to generate a page for a... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100226310 - Interface selection in a moving network: A method of establishing a traffic route for a mobile network node attached to a mobile router, where the mobile router has a plurality of upstream interfaces available to it. The method comprises sending from the mobile router to the mobile node, identifiers of the interfaces and of their properties,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100226314 - Method for user equipment performing direct communications via hnb access systems: A method for User Equipments performing direct communication via HNB access system, the method comprising steps of: Initiating, by a first UE having a unique identifier GII in a closed subscriber group (CSG), a call request to a second UE in the same CSG to inform the HNB access system... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100226313 - Proxy binding management in mobile ip networks: There is provided a method of managing binding information, on behalf of a Mobile Node, at a Home Agent in a Mobile IP network. A record of Correspondent Binding Recept ion and Correspondent Binding Registration is maintained at the Home Agent. The Correspondent Binding Reception record comprises a Home Address... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100226315 - Scalable header extension: Systems and methods for extending header fields are disclosed. The header field may be extended without changing the current size of the header. Reserve bits may be used to indicate the use of an extended header and the extended header may be store in a variety of locations within the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100226316 - System and method for prioritization of retransmission of protocol data units to assist radio-link-control retransmission: A medium access control (MAC) architecture reduces transmission latency for data block retransmissions. A plurality of data blocks are received and temporarily stored in a first memory (e.g., queue, buffer). The plurality of data blocks are then transmitted. A determination is made as to whether each of the transmitted data... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100226321 - Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, and communication method: A base station apparatus includes a wireless receiving unit wirelessly receiving identification information on a terminal apparatus located in the vicinity of the base station apparatus; a storage unit storing the identification information received by the wireless receiving unit; a request receiving unit receiving, from a communication apparatus, a start... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100226329 - Burst size signaling and partition rule: A wireless network includes base stations and mobile stations. The base stations determine burst sizes and partitions, and signal this information to the mobile stations.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20100226336 - Clientless mobile subscribers with seamless roaming over scalable wide area wireless networks: System and method for seamless roaming over scalable wide area Wireless LAN networks (WAWLAN) with clientless mobile subscribers. A preferred embodiment comprises a wireless gateway (WG) coupled to one or more access points in a wireless network to form a wireless cluster (WC), a network access gateway (NAG) coupled to... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100226335 - Flow based fair scheduling in multi-hop wireless networks: Embodiments describe flow based fair scheduling in a wireless multi-hop network. The scheduling can be rate controlled multi-hop scheduling or power controlled multi-hop scheduling. The scheduling chosen is intended to provide maxmin fairness over all flows within the wireless network.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100226323 - Method and apparatus for allocating resource: The present invention relates to a resource allocation method and a resource allocation apparatus. When the resource allocation apparatus according to the present invention receives information of a plurality of bands selected from a plurality of mobile stations operating in a band adaptive modulation and coding mode, depending on the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100226317 - Method and apparatus for timeslot swapping: All or a portion of a timeslot of a slotted communication system may be dynamically designated for transmitting or for receiving. For example, a timeslot originally designated for receiving information at a wireless node may be temporarily designated for transmitting information from the wireless node. Such a designation may be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100226331 - Method and apparatus for two-way broadcasting: A method for transmitting and receiving broadcast signals in a radio broadcasting communication system is provided together with an associated apparatus. The transmitting method includes creating a frame having a preamble slot, a data slot and a control slot, and sending the created frame. The control slot has information for... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100226327 - Method and apparatus for uplink transmissions and cqi reports with carrier aggregation: A mobile station capable of communicating via an uplink transmission to at least one base station in a Multiple Input Multiple Output wireless network is configured to transmit multiple channel quality index (CQI) reports corresponding to multiple downlink component carriers. The mobile station includes at least one transmit antenna and... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100226332 - Method and system for setting up a bearer: Method and system for setting up a bearer are disclosed. The bearer setup method includes these steps: a packet data network gateway (PGW) obtains first quality of service (QoS) information and a first bearer identifier (ID), and sets up a bearer between the PGW and a radio access network (RAN)... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100226330 - Method for a radio frequency (rf) sampling apparatus with arrays of time interleaved samplers and scenario based dynamic resource allocation: A method and apparatus for dynamic resource allocation of an RF sampling system based on a signal quality measurement determined by generating a plurality of time-interleaved samples from a received radio frequency (RF) signal and combining the plurality of time-interleaved samples to generate the signal quality.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100226325 - Method for transmitting data of common control channel: Disclosed is a radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and a terminal, and more particularly, to a method for exchanging data blocks by a base station and a terminal in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, in which a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100226326 - Method for transmitting uplink control signal: A method for transmitting an uplink control signal includes receiving scheduling information for transmission of the uplink control signal, and transmitting the uplink control signal according to the scheduling information. Various control signals can be transmitted without interference with other control signals while maintaining a single carrier property.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100226324 - Method of transmitting control signals in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a control signal includes transmitting a random access preamble on a random access channel (RACH) resource in a subframe, wherein the RACH resource includes a preamble period which is a time for transmitting the random access preamble and a cyclic prefix (CP) period which is a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100226334 - Physical layer structures and initial access schemes in an unsynchronized communication network: Physical layer structures and related access schemes for unsynchronized communication networks are provided. Access channel information, preferably including a common synchronization code associated with all transceiver stations in a communication network and a cell-specific synchronization code uniquely associated with one of the transceiver stations, is modulated onto at least one... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100226318 - Radio communication base station device and control channel arranging method: Provided is a base station which can prevent deterioration of data channel application control accuracy due to influence of transmission power control to a control channel. In the base station, each encoding section (11) performs encoding processing to an SCCH (Shared Control Channel) of each mobile station, each modulating section... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100226319 - Radio communication terminal, method for selecting communication channel and computer-readable storage medium: A radio communication terminal includes a communication unit, a channel investigating unit and a channel setting unit. The communication unit communicates using at least one channel in a first frequency band. The channel investigating unit investigates all channels in the first frequency band, detects an available channel in the all... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226328 - Resource negotiation with variable-delay control information exchange: According to certain aspects of the present disclosure, a scheme is provided which may help ensure a consensus on a delay threshold to be used between base stations that share resource negotiation information.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100226333 - System and method for providing services using the same frequency in a wireless communication system: Method and apparatus for performing communication between a Base Station (BS) and a Mobile Station (MS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system. A method includes determining, by the BS, a Pseudo Random Bit Sequence Identifier (PRBS_ID) for renumbering subchannels in a predetermined Partial Usage of SubChannels (PUSC) zone... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100226322 - Transmission of preamble code for mobile wimax systems: Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for transmission of timing and synchronization information for mobile WiMAX systems are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100226320 - Wireless transmission apparatus, wireless reception apparatus, and transmission method: A wireless se station notifies a mobile wireless terminal of type y of LTE-A of the assignment information of a representative channel (PDSCH) via a PDCCH, as in a mobile wireless terminal of type x of Rel-8 LTE, and notifies the terminal of the remaining assigned channels (PDSCHs) via a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20100226337 - Method and apparatus for cell/sector coverage of a public channel through multiple antennas: A method for cell/sector coverage of a public channel through multiple antennas includes: dividing the physical resource for transmitting public channel signals in a frame into N physical resource blocks; generating N weighting vectors, where: each weighting vector comprises M weighting coefficients, M is equal to the number of antennas,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100226338 - Communication method, communication system, home agent, mobile node, and communication node: A new technique is disclosed, by which it is possible to prevent the occurrence of unnecessary traffic from a mobile node when a path is switched over by path selecting policy of a home agent itself or a correspondent node itself. According to this technique, in a communication system where... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100226340 - Controlling interference in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for controlling interference in a wireless communication system includes a first step of performing 500 a handoff measurement of a signal parameter for a current site and for nearby sites, and performing 502 a comparison of the signal parameters to select the nearby site having the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100226339 - Performance management of mobile intelligent roaming using mobility detail records: Techniques are provided herein to improve the manageability of handover performance of multi-mode wireless client devices when roaming between a wireless local area network (WLAN) and at least one other network. Signals are received at a plurality of WLAN access points from multi-mode wireless client devices. The WLAN access points... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100226341 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226342 - Distributed ad hoc network protocol using synchronous shared beacon signaling: A method for forming a protocol structure for use in an ad hoc, distributed, scaleable wireless sensor node network which enables nodes to join the network autonomously without there being a designated, permanent central time reference and for enabling such nodes to synchronize timing with each other and with other... Agent: Peter E. Rosden

20100226343 - Method and system for shared communication medium in wireless communication systems: Performing distributed contention-free communication channel reservation for wireless communication, is disclosed. One implementation involves providing access to a shared communication channel in a wireless network including multiple wireless stations, by performing distributed channel time reservation for contention-free access to a shared wireless channel by each wireless station, based on a... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100226347 - Authorizing access to telecommunications networks for mobile devices, such as mobile devices accessing networks via non-traditional entry points: A system and method for authorizing mobile devices to carrier networks via non-traditional entry points is described. In some examples, the system reviews a registration message sent during establishment of a communication session between the mobile device and the carrier's network to determine the type of access network used by... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100226345 - Encoded information reading terminal operating in infrastructure mode and ad-hoc mode: An encoded information reading (EIR) terminal can comprise a central processing unit (CPU), a memory communicatively coupled to the CPU, an EIR device, and a wireless communication interface communicatively coupled to the CPU. The EIR device can be selected from the group consisting of a bar code reading device, an... Agent: Honeywell/marjama Patent Services

20100226344 - Method and system for scheduling multiple concurrent transmissions during a contention access period in a wireless communications network: Aspects of a method and system for scheduling multiple concurrent transmissions during a contention access period in a wireless communications network are presented. Aspects of the system comprise communicating devices (DEVs) within a piconet that are operable to derive a neighborhood map of a piconet. The neighborhood map information may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100226351 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226352 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226353 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226350 - System and method for communicationg using internet protocol: Disclosed is a system and a method for communication using different IPs, i.e. a mobile IP supporting mobility and a simple IP, according to the service by a UE. The method includes network initiated IP allocation (i.e. the network allocates different IPs to the UE) and UE initiated IP allocation... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100226346 - System and method for selectively provisioning telecommunications services between an access point and a telecommunications network using a subscriber identifier: A method and system for selectively provisioning services between an access point, which supports telecommunications services over an IP network, and a carrier network includes a network connection and a telephone connector. At least one detection component detects whether a landline telephone is plugged in to the telephone connector. The... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100226348 - Uwb coexistence scheme: Roughly described, a first radio is configured to operate according to a first protocol and configured to use a coexistence signaling scheme with a second radio configured to operate according to a second protocol, wherein the coexistence signaling scheme is configured to allow a radio configured to operate according to... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20100226349 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus has a transmission unit that transmits a transmit signal in a condition where either acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement is set therein, a reception unit that receives a response signal in response to the transmission signal, a counter that counts the number of times the reception unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100226355 - Low-voltage control high-frequency switch and composite high-frequency component: In a first high frequency switch, a current path and a current path are connected in parallel. When a positive voltage is applied to a control terminal, a current flows through a path passing through (Vc2)→(DL)→(DSL1)→(DDI)→(GSL2)→(DL) and a path passing through (Vc2)→(DR)→(DD2)→(DL). In a second high frequency switch, a current... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20100226354 - Multiple antenna multiplexers, demultiplexers and antenna assemblies: Exemplary embodiments are provided of apparatus and methods relating to antenna multiplexers and demultiplexers are disclosed. In exemplary embodiments, antenna multiplexers include two or more inputs for receiving a corresponding number of signals from multiple antennas. The antennas may include world cell antennas, AM/FM antennas, SDARS antennas, GPS antennas, and/or... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20100226357 - Differential codebook for a wireless network, mimo beamforming system using same, and method of reducing a quantization error in a mimo beamforming system for a wireless network using same: A differential codebook for a wireless network includes a plurality of codewords and [e1 . . . eNs] G as a center location of the plurality of codewords, where ek represents a column vector comprising a plurality of rows including a k-th row and in which an entry on the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100226356 - Method for iterative interference cancellation for co-channel multi-carrier and narrowband systems: In a co-channel deployment of narrowband and multi-carrier technologies (e.g., a femtocell and a macrocell), a method provides cancelling of interference which treats the co-channel signals as desired signals and enhances each of them iteratively. At each iteration, each signal is demodulated and regenerated based on symbol decisions already made... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100226360 - Coarse timing synchronization acquisition method in a mobile communication system: A coarse timing synchronization acquisition method in a mobile communication system is applied to the timing synchronization acquisition of a mobile communication system that transmits the same signal blocks repeatedly, which comprises: starting from the beginning time instant of timing synchronization acquisition, iteratively calculating the delay correlation accumulation (DCA) values... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm, LLC- China Pat

20100226358 - Method and systems for synchronizing overlapping wireless systems: Methods and devices for synchronizing various independent wireless systems are disclosed. For example, an exemplary first base-station (120) capable of communicating with a first set of remote customer devices using a first wireless protocol and a first spectrum is configured to co-exist with a remote base-station capable of communicating with... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100226359 - Synchronization of broadcast-only wireless networks: Time synchronization for nodes of a broadcast-only network is provided by combining two methods. The first method provides relative synchronization of communication frames of node broadcasts, so that all nodes have frames with aligned start and end times. The second method associates a network time with each frame at each... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20100226363 - Alternate routing of voice communication in a packet-based network: A method for performing alternate and therefore least cost routing in distributed H.323 Voice over IP (VoIP) networks is provided. With this method, the VoIP network consists of a hierarchy of gatekeeper (GK) functions to provide alternate routing, network element redundancy, and scalability. The alternate routing function is performed by... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20100226362 - Intelligent call mapping and routing for low cost global calling on mobile devices including smartphones: A method for providing international telephone call service to a calling party using a PSTN enabled communication device includes dialing the destination telephone number and establishing a connection between a software application installed on the communication device and an application server, authenticating the calling party using the user ID and... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20100226361 - Multi-vendor ims architecture: In an internet protocol multimedia subsystem architecture including multiple home subscriber servers, an apparatus (home subscriber server proxy) is interposed between a call session controlling function and/or an application server and the multiple home subscriber servers for adapting signaling messages exchanged between the call session controlling function (and/or the application... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100226364 - System and method for device registration replication in a communication network: A system for device registration replication in a packet-based network includes a first call manager and a second call manager that are coupled to the packet-based network. The first and second call managers each control one or more devices and store composite registration information associated with the devices. The first... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100226365 - Voice over internet protocol marker insertion: A watermark is inserted or overwritten into a packetized voice stream in a VoIP environment to characterize the voice data stream for various functions, such as providing certain in-band audible information or markers for detection. A visual type of marker can be inserted to measure delay for various applications, such... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100226367 - Cookie invalidation or expiration by a switch: A switch may be used to force the expiration of a cookie on a user's system by inserting an expiration field into the cookie contained in a network response packet. Additionally, a mechanism is provided to delete or damage a cookie contained in a network request packet, so that server... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP-brocade

20100226366 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: The present invention discloses a receiving system and a method of processing data to receiving and processing mobile service data. The receiving system may include a signal receiving unit, a demodulating unit, a data processor, and a middleware engine. The signal receiving unit receives a broadcasting signal, which includes IP... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100226368 - Transport multiplexer - mechanisms to force ethernet traffic from one domain to be switched in a different (external) domain: A network comprising a switch configured to switch traffic between a plurality of external interfaces via a plurality of virtual interfaces associated with the external interfaces, wherein the traffic comprises a plurality of external virtual local area network (VLAN) identifiers (VIDs) associated with the external interfaces to select the virtual... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. C/o Conley Rose, P.C.

20100226370 - Network system: When label switching is performed on a conventional MPLS packet, a bit error may occur in an MPLS label header of the MPLS packet and user data may misdelivered. To avoid such misdelivery of the user data, an HEC function is attached to the MPLS label header.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100226369 - Network system having an extensible forwarding plane: A platform for seamlessly hosts a plurality of disparate types of packet processing applications. One or more applications are loaded onto a service card on the platform. A programmable path structure is included that maps a logical path for processing of the packets through one or more of the plurality... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (alu)

20100226371 - Node apparatus: To satisfy a quality required for each traffic and perform switching for a packet segmented into cells without packet reassembly, there is provided a node apparatus including a header processing section (2) for determining an output destination of an incoming packet and a quality class from the header information of... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100226372 - Packet communication system and packet communication method, and node and user device: A node compares an address resolution result corresponding to first packet data that is sent by the user device for accessing a first content server and an address resolution result corresponding to second packet data having the sender of the first packet data as the local node. When the addresses... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100226373 - Tracking fragmented data flows: A device may receive a fragment of a fragmented data unit, determine a flow identifier that identifies a data flow with which the fragment is associated, and create a flow entry, based on the flow identifier, to store information associated with the data flow. The device may also determine a... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100226374 - Hierarchical flooding among peering overlay networks: In a tiered system of networks capable of processing distributed hash table (DHT) Put and Get messages, if a sending network of a Put or Get is at a tier below a subject tier at which a subject network receiving the message is located, the message is forwarded to networks... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100226375 - Lan emulation over infiniband fabric apparatus, systems, and methods: A method and device for local area network (LAN) emulation over an Infiniband (IB) fabric. An IB LAN driver at a first node on an IB fabric receives the port and associated local identifier (LID) of one or more remote peer nodes on the IB fabric. An IEEE 802.3 Ethernet... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20100226376 - Method and apparatus for transporting ethernet services: Frames of customer traffic may be encapsulated by adding Mac-in-Mac (MiM) encapsulation fields for transportation of the frames over a portion of provider network. The MiM encapsulated traffic may be further encapsulated using VPLS by adding VPLS encapsulation fields for transportation of the frames over another portion of the provider... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20100226378 - Communication control device and communication control method: In a communication system of a subscriber extension line system, there is provided a communication controller whereby the load of an unnecessary process to be applied on a communication controller relating to a destination of a mobile telephone is eliminated and the processing efficiency for communication control is enhanced. In... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100226377 - Communication system, node, terminal and communication method and program: It is possible to increase the communication system transmission capacity flexibly and at low cost in accordance with a communication system traffic amount. A terminal connected to a plurality of networks distributes a plurality of frame segments generated by dividing a single frame to the plurality of networks connected to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100226379 - Policy control method and system for layer two devices: A policy control method for layer two devices is disclosed. Said method includes: after the Resource and Admission Control Subsystem (RACS) generates the policy of layer two device, said policy of layer two device is sent down to the IP border point; said IP border point notifies said policy of... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm, LLC- China Pat

20100226383 - Inline intrusion detection: A method for inline intrusion detection includes receiving a packet at a network gateway, storing the packet, and assigning an identifier to the packet. The method also includes transmitting a copy of the packet and the identifier from the network gateway to an intrusion detection system and analyzing the copy... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100226382 - Ldp igp synchronization for broadcast networks: A network element that has a broadcast interface to a broadcast network becoming operational determines whether at least one alternate path exists to the broadcast network. The broadcast interface is to carry traffic on a label switched path. If an alternate path exists, the broadcast interface will not be advertised... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100226381 - Routing frames in a trill network using service vlan identifiers: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for routing frames in a TRILL network using service VLAN identifiers by: receiving a frame from an ingress bridge node for transmission through the TRILL network to a destination node that connects to the TRILL network through an egress node, the received frame including... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20100226380 - Transmission line adapter and system: A data transmission system forming a network including transmission line sections comprising traditional infrastructure such as AC power line (mains), twisted-pair (e.g. CAT-5) and coaxial cable wiring interconnected with a novel adapter to form a data system also providing data transfer over an extended length and diversity of connected equipment.... Agent: Joanne M. Martin

20100226384 - Method for reliable transport in data networks: Rapid and reliable network data delivery uses state sharing to combine multiple flows into one meta-flow at an intermediate network stack meta-layer, or shim layer. Copies of all packets of the meta-flow are buffered using a common wait queue having an associated retransmit timer, or set of timers. The timers... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20100226385 - Lcr switch with header compression: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: maintaining a line card activity number at each line card in the node; receiving a first packet belonging to a flow; storing, at each line card, a flow record in a line... Agent: Terry W. Kramer, Esq. Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20100226386 - Method, integrated circuit, and communication unit for scheduling a processing of packet stream channels: A method for scheduling a processing of packet stream channels comprises: determining whether at least one packet stream channel comprises a frame ready for processing; if at least one packet stream channel comprises a frame ready for processing, identifying a frame ready for processing having a highest priority; and scheduling... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20100226387 - Apparatus and method for implementing a suspend mode in an ethernet-based communications system: The present invention describes a communications system having a first link partner and a second link partner that are connected by a communications link having at least four pairs of conductors. According to IEEE Standard 802.3 (e.g. Ethernet) for 1000Base-T, a data link is maintained (in a period absent data... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100226388 - Integrated network chip and electronic device: An integrated network chip and an electronic device using the chip are illustrated. The integrated network chip includes at least a first access interface, at least a second access interface, a power management unit (PMU) and an interface bridge. The first access interface and second access interface respectively provides the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100226389 - Method and apparatus for updating system information in broadband wireless communication system: A method for updating system information in a terminal in which data is transmitted by means of superframes, includes: receiving system information, scheduling periodicity information of the system information and changing information indicating changing status of the system information transmitted by means of a superframe header (SFH) from a base... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100226390 - Dynamically and fairly allocating rf channel bandwidth in a wideband cable system: In one example, a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) determines target Radio Frequency (RF) bandwidth amounts for Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS) bonding groups according to the DOCSIS priority of active flows within the bonding groups. The CMTS then tunes bandwidth allocation amongst the DOCSIS bonding groups according... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100226391 - Power line communication apparatus and data relay method: The PLC 20 adaptor corresponding to a power line communication apparatus has four PLC bridges 30A to 30D, each of which is correspondingly connected to Ethernet communication connectors 26A to 26D, operation mode setting switches 27A to 27D, display units 28A to 28D. Each PLC bridge 30A to 30D includes... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100226392 - Dtv transmitting system and method of processing data in dtv transmitting system: A DTV transmitting system includes two pre-processors. The first pre-processor codes high-priority enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expands the FEC-coded data. The second pre-processor codes low-priority enhanced data for FEC and expands the FEC-coded low-priority enhanced data. The DTV transmitting system further includes a data formatter generating... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100226393 - Communication system and communication apparatus: Data communication sub-slots of a cycle in a time division mode are allocated to communication apparatuses; a maintenance communication sub-slot is allocated to the communication apparatus operating as a master communication apparatus; the communication apparatuses perform data communication with the use of the data communication sub-slots allocated thereto; and the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100226394 - Device to transmit pulses over a packet-switched network: According to the invention it also comprises the means to produce pulses synchronous with pulses and in that said pulses are separated by a fixed whole number p of pulses, where the number p is a number strictly greater than 1 and where the number m is a whole number... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100220584 - Systems and methods for automatically generating system restoration order for network recovery: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for automatically generating a system restoration order for network recovery. A set of managed machines, such as personal computers or servers, can be managed by a network management platform communicating with the machines via a secure channel. The network management platform can access a... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20100220585 - Systems and methods for seamless communications recovery and backup: A recovery network may provide communication recovery and backup services to an organization. The recovery network may be communicatively coupled to the existing communication infrastructure of an organization via one or more alternative communication paths. The alternative communication paths may couple the recovery network to the organization independently of a... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20100220586 - Route reflector for a communication system: A method, system and apparatus for routing of data transmitted from a mobile electronic device to a first host of a plurality of hosts in a communication network using a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is provided. It is determined that the first host has failed via receipt of BGP rerouted... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20100220589 - Method, apparatus, and system for processing buffered data: A method, an apparatus, and a system for processing buffered data are disclosed. The method includes: packing data packets in a same queue; splitting the packed data packet into multiple data cells according to a predetermined cell size; and storing the split data cells in multiple memories. The preceding method,... Agent: Docket Clerk/htcl

20100220587 - System and method providing overload control in next generation networks: A system, method and node for overload control in a network. The method includes the steps of receiving an incoming offer by a node, filtering the offer by an in-throttle to determine if the offer is permitted to be processed by the node prior to processing by the node, processing... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100220590 - Systems and methods for dropping data using a drop profile: A system selectively drops data from queues. The system includes a drop table that stores drop probabilities. The system selects one of the queues to examine and generates an index into the drop table to identify one of the drop probabilities for the examined queue. The system then determines whether... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100220588 - Systems and methods of providing proxy-based quality of service: Systems and methods for dynamically controlling bandwidth of connections are described. In some embodiments, a proxy for one or more connections may allocate, distribute, or generate indications of network congestion via one or more connections in order to induce the senders of the connections to reduce their rates of transmission.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100220591 - Bias correction for scrubbing providers: A decision about provider quality based on a quality metric observed says little about the quality of the provider. Further, the decision may be biased by a variation in customer contributions to the quality metric observed or by a variation in a number of completed calls received by a provider.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100220592 - Layered internet video engineering: Embodiments are described herein such as a method for providing media-aware congestion control for the transmission of video streams, the method comprising: estimating congestion price information for one or more network nodes; responding to the congestion price information by calculating optimal rates for one or more end hosts; adapting the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20100220593 - Communication terminal device and communication control method: Each of PLC modems 11 through 14 that perform communication using a PLC network 1 manages a priority management table that contains, for each of a plurality of data exchanged using a common transmission line, (i) a main priority (original), (ii) a main priority (changed), and (iii) a sub-priority. For... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100220595 - Distributed congestion avoidance in a network switching system: According to an example embodiment, a total offered traffic load for a shared resource within a network switching system may be determined, the total offered traffic load may include, for example, a sum of offered traffic loads from one or more active virtual output queues (VOQs) of the network switching... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20100220594 - Efficient flow control in a radio network controller (rnc): In one aspect, a mechanism is provided to resolve the Iub transport network congestion in the uplink direction by using the transmission window of the RLC to control the transfer rate of the flow. The RNC (110) detects the Iub TN congestion for the flow in the uplink. The EUL... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100220596 - System and method for optimizing the routing of multimedia content: A system for optimizing the routing of data to a subscriber's device. The novel system includes a first sub-system for obtaining records on when each of a plurality of routing methods was available to the device during a predetermined period of time and a second sub-system for recommending a time... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20100220597 - Time division duplexing (tdd) configuration for access point base stations: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate establishing synchronization and/or mitigating interference with a time division duplexing (TDD) access point base station in a wireless communication environment. For example, a TDD configuration can be selected for the access point base station based upon received information to control interference. By way... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100220598 - Atm cell transfer apparatus with hardware structure for oam cell generation: An ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) cell transfer apparatus includes an input interface, a switch block, and an OAM cell processing hardware block having a memory unit. The input interface receives an SDH/SONET signal on each of a plurality of first transfer paths to output an input OAM cell corresponding to... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100220599 - Method and apparatus for sending and receiving ethernet physical-layer oam overhead: A method and an apparatus for sending an Ethernet physical-layer OAM overhead, and a method and an apparatus for receiving an Ethernet physical-layer OAM overhead are disclosed herein. A method for sending an Ethernet physical-layer OAM overhead includes: adjusting the order of sending a payload block and part of Inter-Packet... Agent: Huawei/bhgl

20100220600 - Switching system: An Ethernet access connection (102) connects a user access point (10) to an access node (12) in the network. The access connection comprises a passive coupler (20), by means of which a further access connection (104) can be provided between the user access point (10) and a second access node... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100220601 - Method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions in spatial division multiple access network systems: An apparatus for communications including a processing system configured to generate a plurality of spatial streams for communicating with a plurality of nodes, the processing system being further capable of determining an allocation of the spatial streams to each of the nodes based on at least one metric for each... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100220602 - Method and system for self-terminating a media service due to an out-of-coverage condition: A method and mobile device that self-terminates a media service if an out-of-coverage condition is detected. The media service operates on top of a connectionless peer-to-peer packet-based transport protocol. The out-of-coverage condition may relate to the mobile device itself or to a remote mobile device engaged in the media service.... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20100220619 - Abnormal traffic detection apparatus, abnormal traffic detection method and abnormal traffic detection program: An abnormal traffic detection apparatus for detecting an abnormal traffic toward a communication apparatus by using information on traffics passing through a switch, comprising destination IP address counting units (C1 to C4) configured to store amount information on amount of traffics as an amount information table corresponding to each communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100220622 - Adaptive network with automatic scaling: A method for automatic scaling the processing capacity and bandwidth capacity of a network includes providing a network comprising a plurality of traffic processing units and a plurality of network links. Next, providing monitoring means for monitoring processing capacity demand and bandwidth capacity demand of the network. Next, providing managing... Agent: Akc Patents

20100220617 - Apparatus and method for detecting channel quality indicator information in wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for a base station or a sector to efficiently detect Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) information transmitted from a terminal in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of a base station for detecting CQI information in a wireless communication system includes determining a part... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100220607 - Broadband wireless communication resource assigning method, base station apparatus and terminal apparatus: A first problem is to reduce an enormous uplink throughput of a base station that feedback information needs so as to improve an uplink throughput of useful user data. A second problem is to carry out a frequency segment assignment to guarantee a number of communication times and a communication... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100220605 - Communication apparatus and communication layer role deciding method: When setting a communication parameter, apparatuses decide on each other's roles for setting the communication parameter. When constructing a new network after the communication parameter is set, the roles of individual communication layers (e.g., a physical layer, IP layer, transport layer, and application layer) are decided on to correspond to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100220627 - Enhanced encapsulation mechanism using gre protocol: Wireless gateway nodes are enabled to support mobile node services, such as content based billing, when a data treatment server is present in the system. Using one of a defined Content Flow Label (CFL), an Application Program Interface (API), and a compression protocol header, content based billing is provided such... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100220629 - Estimating available bandwidth and enhancing narrow link bandwidth estimations in telecommunications networks using existing user traffic: Without using additional probing packets, estimates of the narrow link bandwidth and available bandwidth of a network path are computed based on existing traffic. The network can be of different types such as a wireless battlefield network context or a wired or wireless commercial network environment. “Fast packets”, i.e. those... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100220625 - Heuristic determination of network interface transmission mode: A method for measuring and determining the duplex modes of a network interface. The method assumes the network interface to be operating in a half-duplex mode until the bandwidth utilization reaches a threshold. When the threshold is reached, the method checks the traffic collision in the interface. If there is... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20100220615 - Jitter-based media layer adaptation in real-time communication systems: It is a basic idea to determine the characteristics of a jitter profile measured over a plurality of packets, and classify the jitter profile based on the determined characteristics as well as information representative of the particular access used for communication between the sender and the receiver. The classified jitter... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100220610 - Mac slot alignment among multiple wireless stations: A device in a wireless network receives signals and determines media access control (MAC) slot boundaries of the received signals. The MAC slot boundaries are averaged in time, and a local slot boundary is modified in response thereto. The local MAC slot boundary is modified by less than ten percent... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20100220623 - Method and apparatus for extending coverage for ul transmission over e-dch in idle mode and cell_fach state: A method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink (UL) transmission over an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) includes determining whether to activate transmission time interval (TTI) bundling based upon a condition. An indication of the use of TTI bundling based upon the determination is transmitted. The UL transmission is transmitted.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100220628 - Method and apparatus for realizing a test: A method for realizing a test is provided. The method includes receiving a test signaling and a planning parameter of an internet protocol (IP) bearer network; initiating a test service on the IP bearer network according to the test signaling and the planning parameter of the IP bearer network; and... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100220604 - Method and arrangement for establishing a communication session for multimedia: A method and arrangement for establishing a packet-switched multimedia session for a mobile terminal connected to a mobile access network. A first Radio Access Bearer RAB is obtained, and the multimedia session is started by communicating media over the first RAB. Simultaneously with the media communication, a quality of communicated... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100220608 - Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a multi-antenna radio communication system, in particular to methods and arrangements for improved multiple HARQ transmission in such systems. While HARQ transmission schemes, as known in the art, only can consider the fact whether or not a transmission attempt has been... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100220618 - Method for transmitting channel information and mobile communication terminal: A method for transmitting channel information and a mobile communication terminal are disclosed. The method for transmitting channel information includes requesting, by a mobile station (MS) through a random access channel (RACH), a base station (BS) to allocate a resource for transmitting channel information, if it is determined that transmission... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100220614 - Method of performing channel sounding in frequency duplex system: A method of performing channel sounding in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system in which an uplink frame and a downlink frame use different frequency bands includes dividing a transmission bandwidth with respect to the uplink frame into a plurality of sounding zones, allocating at least one of the plurality... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100220624 - Method, apparatus and system for transmitting information: A method for transmitting information includes a NodeB receiving information reported by a User Equipment (UE) through an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) transmission channel, and determining the UE corresponding to the received information according to UE ID information carried in the received information. A system and NodeB for transmitting information... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. Ipr & Standards Department

20100220626 - Methods and apparatus for communicating transmission backlog information: Methods and apparatus for communicating transmission backlog information are described. Reporting control factors are utilized to expand reporting possibilities for a fixed bit size request report. At least one report control factor is determined as a function of channel quality information, power information, device capability information, and/or quality of service... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100220606 - Mobile station, fixed station, and radio communication system: A UL-DPCCH processing unit sets up a transmission mode of a channel for transmit power control according to a transmission (or reception) status of a channel exclusively used for a packet, which is monitored by a transmission and reception channel monitoring unit, and the channel for transmit power control is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100220603 - Multipath searcher results sorting method: A method and apparatus for identifying valid multipath energy peaks are described including locating an energy peak in a profile of energy peaks, categorizing the located energy peak based on a plurality of thresholds and processing energy peaks in at least one of the categories of located energy peaks. The... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100220613 - Network node optimization with triggered expressions: Method for providing a service in a communication network (1), and service node (10) arranged to execute that service. The service node (10) is arranged to receive and evaluate a request from the service, the request comprising an expression having multiple elements. Each element relates to data originating from one... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100220616 - Optimizing network connections: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for optimizing network connections by a computing device. One or more network connections between a source and a destination may be monitored for one or more values of one or more connection parameters. Thereafter, one or more values of the connection parameters... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20100220611 - Packet fragment reassembly: An apparatus for packet fragment reassembly includes a memory and a fragment processing block coupled to the memory. The memory caches information contained in the headers of a plurality of packet fragments, wherein the plurality of packet fragments are identified as belonging to a particular packet. The fragment processing block... Agent: O2micro Inc C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20100220612 - Quality measuring system, quality measuring apparatus, quality measuring method, and program: An exemplary object of the present invention lies in a point of providing a technology capable of measuring a transmission quality of an Ethernet network in order to utilize Ethernet as carrier-grade communication. The present invention includes an error bit number measurer for measuring the number of error bits that... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100220609 - System and method for reducing call latency in monitored calls: A service management platform for processing packet switched communications is provided. The service management platform has a component for handling voice calls. The component for handling voice calls comprises a first input/output for sending and receiving data packets associated with a first leg of a call, a second input/output for... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20100220621 - Techniques for supporting low duty cycle mode of base station: A Mobile Station (MS) apparatus and method, to search for a Base Station (BS) in a Low Duty Cycle (LDC) mode in a wireless communication system, and a network entity apparatus and method, assist or support the MS, are provided. The method for the MS to search for the BS... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100220620 - Vrrp and learning bridge cpe: The present invention describes an access node for communication in a telecommunication network comprising: an input/output unit adapted for receiving a first information message, wherein the first information message comprises a logical address associated with a virtual network node, a processing unit for extracting the logical address of the virtual... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100220631 - Method for bring-up of voice over internet protocol telephones: A system and method for implementing telephony devices in a distributed network environment is disclosed. The present invention provides for voice transmissions to be given a dedicated virtual local area network (“VLAN”) for packet transmission and reception to prevent poor quality of service. Non-voice data packets are transmitted on a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100220630 - Self-configuring, self-optimizing wireless local area network system: A system and associated method provides for a wireless local area network (WLAN) that permits mobile units to communicate with an external, wired network. Nodes in the WLAN include multiple components, such as a base module, antenna module, and one or more wireless modules. Indeed, this system can employ two... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20100220632 - Access point and node for controlling routing in a hybrid network: An access point (30) for controlling routing in a hybrid network includes a topology table including routes to nodes registered on request with the access point and routes to nodes that have responded to an advertisement message broadcast by this access point (30) only to nodes having a predetermined status... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100220633 - Method for establishing a loop-free tree structure in a data transmission network and associated network element: The invention relates to, among other things, a method during which a network element (58, 60) of a data transmission network (50) is automatically integrated into a method for establishing a loop-free tree structure or is automatically removed from such a method. By taking preset criteria into account, it is... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100220635 - Systems and methods for facilitating conference calls using multiple media streams: Systems and methods are described that facilitate a conference call between a plurality of communication devices. The method may comprise: providing a first primary communication device; providing a second primary communication device; providing a conference call controller; providing a first alternate communication device; establishing a first control link between the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20100220634 - Systems and methods for facilitating conference calls using security tokens: Systems and methods are described that for authenticating participants in a conference call. One method may include: providing a first primary communication device having a first security token generator configured to generate first security tokens; providing a second primary communication device; providing a conference call controller configured to receive and... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20100220637 - Mobile wireless communications device including a differential output lna connected to multiple receive signal chains: A mobile wireless communications device may include an antenna, a wireless radio frequency (RF) receiver, a wireless RF transmitter, and a duplexer connecting the wireless RF receiver and the wireless RF transmitter to the antenna. More particularly, the wireless RF receiver may include a low noise amplifier (LNA) connected to... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist - Rim

20100220636 - Mobile wireless communications device including a power divider connecting an lna to multiple receive signal chains: A mobile wireless communications device may include an antenna, a wireless radio frequency (RF) receiver, a wireless RF transmitter, and a duplexer connecting the wireless RF receiver and the wireless RF transmitter to the antenna. More particularly, the wireless RF receiver may include a low noise amplifier (LNA) connected to... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist - Rim

20100220638 - Mac-hs processing in an hsdpa-compatible receiver in a 3g wireless network: In one embodiment, a method for processing a series of MAC-hs protocol data units (PDUs) in an HSDPA-compatible (high-speed downlink packet access) receiver in a 3G wireless communication network, the method including: (a) receiving a MAC-hs PDU having: (i) a queue identification (QID), (ii) a transmission sequence number (TSN), and... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.C.

20100220639 - Wireless communication apparatus, a method of wireless communication, and a program for wireless communication: In wireless communication with another communication apparatus in a predetermined wireless network, overhead information defined in a media access control layer is divided into a header of information necessary for the common access control and a header of information necessary for each payload. Address information is added to the header... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100220641 - Method for operating control sleep mode in a communication system: A method for controlling a sleep mode operation by a Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system. The MS includes transitioning to an awake state in a listening interval of the sleep mode; performing any one of a first operation, a second operation and a third operation in the awake... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100220640 - Method, apparatus and system for battery resource management via traffic steering: Battery resources in a wireless device are managed in the present specification by traffic steering. A wireless device is configured to request content from an intermediation server, which is configured to analyze the requested content and send an indication to the wireless device as to which bearer path is to... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20100220643 - Method and apparatus for providing distributed scheduling: An approach is provided for distributing scheduling information within a wireless network. A multicast group is configured to include one or more neighboring nodes of a meshed wireless network. A multicast link identifier to each link to the neighboring nodes. Scheduling information is generated for distribution to the multicast group... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100220642 - Method and system for peer-to-peer cellular communications: Aspects of a method and system for peer-to-peer cellular communications are provided in which one or more cellular communication channels may be established between a femtocell and a plurality of communication devices. The femtocell may control routing of data between the plurality of communication devices via the one or more... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100220645 - Method for communicating with relay station: A method for communicating with a relay station is disclosed. The method for communicating with a relay station comprises transmitting resource allocation information of downlink traffic and uplink traffic from a base station to the relay; and transmitting the downlink traffic to the relay by encapsulating the downlink traffic in... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100220644 - Network coding relay operations: A method for network coding of packets between End Nodes (ENs) and a Relay Node (RN) in wireless communications can be performed at the RN. This method may include: receiving a new packet at the RN from one of the ENs; determining the source node of the new packet at... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100220646 - Compensation apparatus: There is provided an apparatus for a satellite communication system comprising: a processor to determine at least one out of a phase offset for a frequency channel of a plurality of frequency channels demultiplexed from a carrier to compensate for group delay variation within the carrier and a gain offset... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100220652 - Base station apparatus and communication control method: A base station apparatus to be used for a mobile communication system capable of providing communications using plural frequency carriers is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a frequency carrier selection unit selecting one of a first frequency carrier and a second frequency carrier as a frequency carrier to be... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100220662 - Bearer processing method and mobile management device: A bearer processing method and a network device are provided. The method includes: determining whether a corresponding user equipment (UE) exists, if user subscription data recorded in a mobile management device is changed; and initiating a bearer modification or deletion process by the mobile management device according to the determining... Agent: Huawei/bhgl

20100220650 - Coexistence of data streams: A system for transmitting data from two or more data streams on a communication channel between two or more devices. Roughly described, the data from each data stream is transmitted on the channel in the form of data packets, at least one data packet of one or more of the... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20100220655 - Method and a mobile phone terminal enabling to merge telephony services over heterogeneous networks: and analyzing communication events arriving via the circuit switched network (3) and communication events arriving the via the packet switched data network (4), and then routing each communication event to a voice application, either directly or via said means for storing, in order to store it temporarily, so that all... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100220651 - Method and apparatus for broadcasting and receiving system information in ofdma systems: A method for broadcasting system information via a broadcast channel (BCH) in an OFDMA system is provided. The BCH comprises one or more two-dimensional resource blocks. A plurality of pilot tones and a plurality of data tones are positioned within each resource block. The system information is mapped onto the... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20100220657 - Method and arrangement relating to communications network: The present invention relates to a method and arrangements in a communications system enabled for transmission of several data streams to or from different receivers (120a-120c, 400) using a shared physical channel. The method comprises the step of masking control channel with different sequences corresponding to a receiver identity with... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100220648 - Method and device for controlling data flows at communication terminals: The present invention involves traffic management in a communication system (1) comprising multiple communication terminal (10, 200) that each has data flows presented in transmit buffers (14, 220). The terminals (10, 200) utilize a default priority scheme for selecting data from the buffers (14, 220) to transmit at transmission occasions... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100220647 - Method of operating a communication device and system,a communication device and a system including the communication device: A communication system, such as UMTS, comprises a scheduler (12) in a first station (PS) which is able to control a user equipment (UE1, UE2). The scheduler when operating in a data transmission mode, such as HSUPA (High-Speed Uplink Packet Access) controls the user equipment with combinations of absolute grants... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100220659 - Method, device and system for differentiating operators in one network: Methods, devices and apparatus are provided for differentiating operators in a wireless communications network. Information about the frequency occupied by the air interface resource of a service is received, and corresponding operator information is provided from the configured mapping relation between frequency information and operator information according to the received... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. Ipr & Standards Department

20100220653 - Multi-path routing method in wireless sensor network: A multi-path routing method is provided a multi-path routing method for selecting appropriate multiple paths when information sensed from a source node is transmitted to a sink node in wireless sensor networks. The source node for transmitting the sensed information first transmits a Hello message to the sink node to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100220658 - Ordered and duplicate-free delivery of wireless data frames: Techniques for ordered and duplicate-free delivery of wireless data frames are provided. A source address, a destination address, and a message sequence number are acquired from a wireless data frame. The message sequence number is compared against a last-received message sequence number, and a last-delivered message sequence number. The destination... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100220661 - Packet concatenation in wireless networks: A wireless network includes a transmitting device and a plurality of receiving devices. The transmitting device is configured to receive a plurality of data packets, including a first data packet and a second data packet, prepare a preamble, prepare a signal field for each of the plurality of data packets,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100220649 - Path connection: If a packet received from a communication terminal is larger in size than a maximum transmission unit used between a wireless base station and a gateway apparatus and also if it cannot be fragmented, an echo request packet of a size not larger than the maximum transmission unit is generated... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100220656 - Service redundancy in wireless networks: This disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for providing service redundancy among devices in a communication network. The devices can be, for example, a mobility management entity (MME), a serving gateway (SGW), a PDN gateway (P-GW), a call session control function (CSCF), a SGSN, a GGSN, or any other... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20100220654 - Video transmission over sdma: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to communication, and more specifically, to techniques for transmitting data in parallel, such as spatial division multiple access (SDMA) techniques.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100220660 - Wireless datagram transaction protocol system: Systems are provided for sequencing, delivery acknowledgement, and throttling of data packets over a network layer, such as UDP and SMS. To support devices with limited battery resources, the invention incorporates asymmetric retry logic and/or acknowledgements with overlapping ranges, to minimize the transmissions required for the device. The sender of... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20100220664 - Apparatus, methods, and computer program products providing limited use of zadoff-chu sequences in pilot or preamble signals: In one, non-limiting exemplary embodiment, a method includes: obtaining a timing uncertainty window parameter; and selecting, using the obtained timing uncertainty window parameter, a preamble sequence including a cyclic shift of a Zadoff-Chu root sequence, wherein the cyclic shift is an allowed cyclic shift from a group of allowed cyclic... Agent: Harrington & Smith

20100220668 - Base station device, mobile station device, mobile station identifier allocation method, program, and recording medium: It is possible to effectively control information on allocation of a radio resource for each mobile station, improve the frequency use efficiency of the entire communication system, and effectively execute base station/mobile station control. A mobile station holds a Chunk Table (TB) in advance (S1) and successively receives SCSCH of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100220663 - Communications system and method: A disclosed radio communications apparatus adaptively controls a modulation method and coding rate (MCS) of a data channel in accordance with received channel quality information (CQI). This apparatus includes a first data table indicating a first corresponding relationship of the MCS with respect to the CQI; a second data table... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100220681 - Control channel information transmission method, and base station and terminal using the same method: A method for transmitting a control channel information to perform an adaptive coding and modulation comprising performing error correction coding at a predetermined coding rate for the control channel information; modulating according to a predetermined modulation scheme and transmitting the error correction coded control channel information; and further, prior to... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100220674 - Method and apparatus for communicating carrier configuration in multi-carrier ofdm systems: A message contains global carrier configuration is provided in a wireless multi-carrier orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. The global carrier configuration contains global carrier configuration information such as the center frequencies for multiple available RF carriers of different base stations in the OFDM network. In one embodiment, the global... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20100220677 - Method and device for transmitting voice in wireless system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for transmitting voice in a wireless system. The method includes: identifying, by a transmitter, each original voice encoding packet needed to be sent out with a number indicating playback order, and performing channel encoding on each identified original voice encoding... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100220672 - Method for assigning signature sequences for e-hich channel: The present disclosure discloses a method for assigning signature sequences for E-HICH channel which may avoid the unbalanced situation brought about by the codeword assignment, wherein the use of UE signature sequences on E-HICH channel is equalized, so as to drive the average detection performance toward equity for different UEs... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100220670 - Method for scheduling to reduce inter-cell interference for voice communication in ofdma: A method schedules voice communication in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA) network of base stations serving sets of mobile stations in cells. The method uses statistical characteristics of voice communications by adjusting scheduling periods accordingly to measurement reports provided by the mobile stations. The base stations generally use... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20100220671 - Method for transmission of data and method for corresponding reception: m

20100220665 - Method for verifications and fast qos establishment: A wireless communication system is provided for rapidly establishing the QoS resource on different communication networks. In this system, the NAP (104) evaluates a network resource used by the MT (106), and generates the QoS history information unit indicating the evaluation result. The AAA (140) authenticates the QoS history information... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100220669 - Method of allocating resources in a wireless network: A method of allocating channel resources in a wireless network is disclosed. The method of allocating instant channel resources in a wireless network includes receiving channel resource scheduling information of a specific superframe from a coordinator of the wireless network, requesting the coordinator to allocate instant channel resources for an... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100220675 - Method of transmitting feedback message in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a feedback message in wireless communication system is provided. The method includes selecting N best subbands of M subbands according to CQI, where both M and N are a natural number and M is larger than N, generating multiple input multiple output (MIMO) information comprising N... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100220679 - Methods and apparatuses for scheduling uplink request spatial division multiple access (rsdma) messages in an sdma capable wireless lan: An apparatus for wireless communications, including a processing system configured to receive requests for a spatial division multiplexed transmission from a plurality of nodes over a multiple access medium; and initiate the spatial division multiplexed transmission based on a metric related to one or more of the nodes, is disclosed.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100220673 - Mobile station and method for dynamically adapting a grant interval during voip communications in a broadband wireless network: Embodiments of a mobile station and methods for dynamically adapting a grant interval during Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications in a broadband wireless network are generally described herein. The mobile station may detect a voice-state transition and may provide an indication to a base station to change a grant interval based... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20100220680 - Paging heuristics in packet based networks: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for paging devices in a communication network. A network device providing mobility management through control messaging can be assigned a number of cell sites in a tracking area. The network device such as a mobility management entity (MME) can use a criteria or... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20100220678 - Piggybacking information in transmit opportunities: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for aggregating certain frame types in uplink and/or downlink transmit opportunities. Such techniques may improve wireless communications system performance by reducing the overall number of transmit opportunities required.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100220676 - Radio resource management: A wireless communication unit (101) for a radio communication system comprises a device token controller (403) which receives at least a first geographical radio resource token allocated to the wireless communication unit (101) by a radio resource token controller (117) of a network of the radio communication system. The first... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100220666 - Radio transmitting apparatus and radio transmitting method: A radio transmitting apparatus and a radio transmitting method wherein the increase of the guard time in a random access region is reduced to secure the data transmitting region of an upstream line. In this apparatus, when a received signal power estimated by a received signal power estimating part (205)... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100220667 - Routing media streams from packet switched network to circuit switched network: A method, apparatus and computer program in a telecommunication network (111, 112, 121) for routing a media stream from an IMS domain to an MSC (107, 107a) associated with a mobile station in a circuit switched domain of a PLMN (109), wherein a service control node (111, 112, 121) receives... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100220684 - Hybrid orthogonal frequency division multiple access wtru and method: A hybrid orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and method. A WTRU includes a transmitter and a receiver. The receiver processes received data to recover data mapped to the subcarriers using OFDMA. The receiver recovers first input data by separating user data from multi-user spread data... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100220686 - Method and apparatus for cognitive radio policy change: A method of operation of a cognitive radio in a hierarchical group of cognitive radios, the hierarchy of cognitive radios including at least one master cognitive radio that has a higher position in the hierarchy than another of the cognitive radios in the group, consistent with the present invention, involves... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20100220682 - Method for optimizing performance in multi-cell ofdma networks: A method optimizes a performance of a multi-cell orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) network that includes a set of base stations (BSs) located in a cell, and each BS transmits data on downlink channels to a set of mobile stations (MSs) in the cell. Each BS acquires channel state information... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20100220683 - Methods and systems for resource allocation: Various methods and systems are provided for allocating time-frequency resources for downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) communications between base stations and mobile stations. Different forms of resource allocation messages including combinations of bitmaps and bitfields provide additional information about the resources and/or how they are assigned. In some implementations the... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20100220685 - Pilot arrangement method in mobile radio communication system and transmitter/receiver adopting same: A pilot arrangement method in a mobile communication system in which a working frequency band is divided into a plurality of predetermined bands, and time division multiplexing is performed, the method comprising, inserting a known pilot symbol into the plurality of predetermined frequency bands at a predetermined reference interval; and... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100220688 - Distributed infrastructure for wireless data communications: A mobile user terminal 402 accesses a packet data network 450 through one or more of several network access points 404-412. One or more control points 432-440 determines which network access point or points the user terminal is to access. Control may be retained in the current control point, or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100220689 - Resource release control method, communication system and device: A resource release control method, a communication system, and a device are configured to delete a bearer context on an original-side heterogeneous-system management network element (NE) even if a target-side management NE does not support interaction with a serving gateway (S-GW) and does not support an idle mode signaling reduction... Agent: Huawei/bhgl

20100220687 - Spectrum management across diverse radio access technologies: A network management node may manage a network of base stations and wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) that operate using diverse radio access technologies. The network management node may communicate with other network management nodes to manage spectrum usage across their respective managed networks. The network management node may acts as... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100220690 - Direct link establishment for wireless networks: Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to improve establishing direct links in the Contention Based Period (CPB) of the MAC superframe. Embodiments of the invention enable scheduled and unscheduled data delivery modes (DDM) for a Contention Based Period. Embodiments of the invention reuse capabilities of the private... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20100220695 - Method and apparatus for generating and transmitting code sequence in a wireless communication system: A method of generating a code sequence in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes recognizing a desired length of the code sequence, generating a code sequence having a length different from the desired length, and modifying the length of the generated code sequence to equal... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100220691 - Method and apparatus for transmitting broadcasting information: In a method of transmitting broadcasting information, the broadcasting information is classified into fixed broadcasting information for transmitting to a fixed position of a super-frame and variable broadcasting information to be variably transmitted in the form of a broadcasting message. The fixed broadcasting information may be classified into primary broadcasting... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100220696 - Method and system for managing communication in an ofdma system: The present invention provides method and system for managing communication in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system using segments in an OFDMA frame. The method includes setting at least a first segment in the OFDMA frame as a high power segment for a plurality of base station in... Agent: Timberline Patent Law Group

20100220692 - Method and system for network synchronization via a femtocell: Aspects of a method and system for communication are provided. In this regard, a femtocell may receive messages from a plurality of different sources comprising one or more other femtocells, one or more cellular enabled communication devices, and one or more non-cellular network nodes. The femtocell may select, based on... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100220694 - Ranging method and apparatus in wireless communication system: The present invention provides a ranging method and apparatus, a frame structure includes one or more downlink service time slots, a guard interval between downlink sub-frame and uplink sub-frame and one or more uplink service time slots, and the method includes calculating start time of the first uplink service time... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20100220693 - Voice-data integrated multiaccess by self-reservation and stabilized aloha contention: A multiple access communication protocol that includes an uplink and a downlink channel is disclosed. The uplink channel has a plurality of frames, such that each frame has a first selectable number of minislots and a second selectable number of slots. A reservation request of a first type is sent... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100220701 - Client/bridge and method and system for using same: The transmission of data is accomplished across a network having wireless and wired interfaces. Data is transferred through a wireless interface from an Access Point to a Client/Bridge and then to one of a Intelligent Electrical Device (IED) connected to the Client/Bridge through a wired connection. Data is transferred from... Agent: Kimberley G. Nobles Crowell & Moring LLP

20100220704 - Extended call handling functionality using multi-network simulcasting: A method and apparatus supporting the handling of calls using simulcasting of multimedia information via a broadband access gateway are disclosed. A broadband access gateway supporting both a personal area network and a broadband network may receive multimedia information simultaneously exchanged by an associated access device via a wide area... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100220702 - Low power control for wireless lan communication: A wireless networking device includes a transceiver that transmits and receives communications over a wireless local area network (WLAN), and a processor cooperatively operable with the transceiver. The processor transmits over the transceiver one WLAN frame of a file transfer to a receiving networking device and then transitioning from transmit... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100220699 - Medium reservation protocol for directional wireless networks: Two wireless communications devices in a wireless network may reserve a period of time for directional data communications between themselves during a Contention Access Period. The technique may include transmitting Clear-to-Send messages to each other, and to any other devices with which either has established a directional link, to prevent... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100220697 - Method and apparatus for multi-mode conversations in wireless networks: The present invention proposes a method for performing multi-mode conversations for mobile terminals, comprising the steps of: 1)detecting whether there is Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) available nearby; 2)accessing a network device for correlative location information of another mobile terminal which it intends to communicate with when there is a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100220703 - Method and system for controlling call admission in ims: A method and a system for controlling call admission for parallel ringing processes to a realm in an IMS is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a call control message to a called party, determining whether the called party has parallel ringing enabled, if positive, generating a plurality of parallel call... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20100220705 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100220700 - System and method for provisioning telecommunications services between an access point and a telecommunications network and providing a missing information notification: A method and system for selectively provisioning connections between an access point, which supports telecommunications services over an IP network, and a carrier network includes a network connection and a telephone connector suitable for connecting to a landline telephone, a cordless telephone, or a mobile device. The access point sends... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100220698 - Wireless lan communication system: A wireless LAN terminal (AP) transmits a data frame to a counter wireless LAN terminal (STA-j), and receives an ACK frame from STA-j. AP measures a response time from the transmission of the data frame to reception of the ACK frame, and measures a transmission interval time from the previous... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100220706 - Apparatus, module, and method for implementing communications functions: A system acquisition module and corresponding method for facilitating PN code searching which has a PN sequence generator configurable to generate a plurality of PN sequences. The module and method also includes computational units configurable to correlate each received signal sample of a plurality of received signal samples with a... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20100220708 - Hierarchical coding with multiple antennas in a wireless communication system: Techniques are provided for performing hierarchical coding in a multi-antenna communication system (e.g., a SIMO, MISO, or MIMO system). At a transmitter, a base stream and an enhancement stream are coded and modulated separately to obtain first and second data symbol streams, respectively. The first data symbol stream is processed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100220707 - Method for detecting hidden nodes in cognitive radio networks: The invention and method provides a concise model for signaling over control channel of cognitive radio. The model is analyzed and simulated for optimum parameters of wireless network. The optimized network parameters facilitate improvement of channel usage for cognitive wireless network leading to bandwidth efficiency.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20100220709 - Sequence number update: The invention relates to a method and device in a communications network when a User Equipment, UE, needs to update a next expected Transmission Sequence Number, TSN, continuously in order to avoid discarding successive transmissions. The method comprises: resetting a next expected TSN value in said network and UE to... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100220711 - Base station apparatus and transmission control method: A base station apparatus for communicating with a mobile station includes an out-of-synchronization determining unit configured to determine out-of-synchronization with the mobile station in downlink based on an uplink signal transmitted from the mobile station.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100220712 - Method for improving synchronization precision of data transmission and system thereof: A method for improving synchro precision of data transmission and system thereof are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: RRU receives a data frame and buffers; frame-parses to a wireless frame impulse signal and a carrier wave data signal of the data frame, setting the maximum time-lapse compensating time;... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20100220710 - Multicarrier transmitting apparatus: A multicarrier transmitting apparatus capable of providing a fast cell search. A base station apparatus (100), which serves as a multicarrier transmitting apparatus for transmitting frames each including, as synchronization channel sequences, first synchronization sequences (P-SCH sequence) used for timing determinations and second synchronization sequences (S-SCH sequence) different from the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100220713 - Random access preamble collision detection: A method (500) for a user terminal (120, 130) in a cellular system (100). The user terminal (120, 130) applies (505) a timing advance to transmissions to a controlling node (140). The user terminal (120, 130) requests (510) communication with the controlling node (140) by a special message (MSG 1),... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100220719 - Call processing method, system and equipment of same number service: A call processing method, a call processing system and call processing equipment of a same number service are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a call which is initiated by a calling client and carries an initial called number, and sending a message of the called number with a same number... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100220717 - Method and apparatus for controlling rate of voice service in a mobile communication system supporting voice service via packet network: A method for controlling a rate of a voice service in a mobile communication system supporting the voice service via a packet network. The method includes the steps of receiving a control message at a terminal from a radio network controller (RNC); if the control message indicates control of a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20100220714 - Method and system for managing internal and external calls for a group of communication clients sharing a common customer identifier: A method and network element for implementing a virtual PBX feature for a customer associated with a plurality of endpoints. The method comprises receiving information regarding a call. Based on the information regarding the call, it is determined if the call is an external inbound call or an internal call... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20100220718 - Method for detecting calls and corresponding units: A method for detecting calls is disclosed. A call request initiated by a calling terminal device is received by an access unit of a called terminal device of a data packet transmission network. An invite message is sent from the access unit to the called terminal device. A 200-OK message... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100220716 - Methods for enhancing sdp preconditions signalling for ip multimedia sessions: This application describes how Session Description Protocol (SDP) preconditions signaling can be enhanced to support lead role negotiation, precondition capability exchange, premature precondition attempts and concatenated preconditions processing. The application describes the use of send and receive tags in an SDP message for a given media line. In a given... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100220715 - Technique for providing translation between the packet environment and the pstn environment: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls received in a Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) network (12) maintained by a provider of HFC VoIP telephony services are advantageously translated into a Time-Division Multiplex (TDM) format by an Internet Protocol Device Terminal (IPDT) (26) in the HFC network. Once translated into a TDM... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100220720 - Digital broadcasting signal transmitting method and device, recording medium thereof, and receiving device thereof: In a digital broadcasting signal transmission system, a transmission frame includes a frame body and a frame header, and the frame body is divided into a plurality of sub-bands in the frequency domain and is divided into a plurality of symbols in the time domain. The frame header is provided... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100220721 - Method and apparatus for packet traversal of a network address translation device: A characterization method for a network address translation (NAT) device by an internal computer behind the NAT device includes creating a plurality of sockets; binding the plurality of sockets, respectively, to a plurality of ports; transmitting a plurality of STUN requests in user datagram protocol (UDP) packets to a plurality... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100220723 - Method for providing scalable multicast service in a virtual private lan service: Multicast capability in a virtual private LAN service (VPLS) is provided in a provider IP/MPLS infrastructure without headend replications by encapsulating a customer data packet to use an established multicast protocol, such as IP multicast. In one example, the customer data packet is encapsulated by an IP header having an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/foundry/brocade

20100220722 - Point-to-multipoint (p2mp) network resource management: Techniques for managing resources in a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) network are disclosed. In some examples, a root station is adapted to transmit and receive network packets and leaf stations are adapted to transmit and receive the network packets from the root station. An electrical control system can be adapted to reduce... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20100220725 - High rate ofdm communications using bit allocation tables: Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20100220724 - Metro ethernet service enhancements: Numerous enhancements to metro Ethernet network (MEN) services include an enhancement of the overall MEN Quality of Service (QoS) architecture, an enhancement to classification at the provider edge, the use of Ethernet QoS classes, enhancements to policing and marking at ingress provider edge equipment, the provision of traffic management functions... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20100220727 - Packet processing in a multiple processor system: Packet processing is provided in a multiple processor system including a first processor to processing a packet and to create a tag associated with the packet. The tag includes information about the processing of the packet. A second processor receives the packet subsequent to the first processor and processes the... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100220726 - Source specific multicast layer 2 networking device and method: Bridge domain communication methods and devices are presented for efficiently communicating information in a bridge domain based upon group indications and source indications. Packets with a source and destination indication are received. A bridge domain communication process is performed at the bridge level wherein a packet is selected for forwarding... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100220728 - System and method for achieving accelerated throughput: Systems and methods for transporting data between two endpoints over an encoded channel are disclosed. Data transmission units (data units) from the source network are received at an encoding component logically located between the endpoints. These first data units are subdivided into second data units and are transmitted to the... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20100220729 - System and method for identifying upper layer protocol message boundaries: Systems and methods that identify the Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) message boundaries are provided. In one example, a method that identifies ULP message boundaries is provided. The method may include one or more of the following steps: attaching a framing header of a frame to a data payload to form... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100220730 - Efficient pruning of virtual services in bridged computer networks: In one embodiment, a bridge in a computer network may execute a spanning tree protocol (STP) for network topology and a registration protocol for traffic control of virtual connections (e.g., EVCs) at the bridge. For any gateway ports of the bridge inter-connected with a provider network, the bridge may generate... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100220731 - Method and system for supporting a plurality of providers via a single femtocell: Aspects of a method and system for supporting a plurality of providers via a single femtocell are provided. In this regard, a femtocell may determine characteristics of one or more VLANs to which it is virtually communicatively coupled via a non-cellular connection and via a cellular connection. Based on the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100220732 - Service processing switch: Methods and systems for providing IP services in an integrated fashion are provided. According to one embodiment, a system includes a switch fabric and a line interface/network module, multiple virtual routing engines (VREs) and a virtual services engine (VSE) coupled with the switch fabric. The line interface/network module receives packets,... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20100220733 - Communication structure for solar inverters: There is described a communication structure for at least two solar inverters, having a transmission medium by means of which each of the at least two solar inverters is connected to a communication network with a first group of the solar inverters each being connected via an LAN interface to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100220734 - Multifabric communication using a backbone fabric: A Fibre Channel router used to join fabrics. EX_ports are used to connect to the fabrics. The EX_port joins the fabric but the router will not merge into the fabric. Ports in the Fibre Channel router can be in a fabric, but other ports can be connected to other fabrics.... Agent: Wong Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20100220736 - Advertising alternate paths at border gateway protocol route reflectors: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving routing information at an alternate route reflector in a network, identifying at the alternate route reflector, an alternate path different from a primary path selected and advertised at a primary route reflector in the network, and advertising at the alternate route reflector, the... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20100220738 - Apparatus and method for route optimization for proxy mobile internet protocol version six local routing: An apparatus comprising a first mobile access gateway (MAG) associated with a mobile node (MN) and configured to send a proxy binding update (PBU) to a second MAG associated with a correspondent node (CN). An apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising promoting transmission of... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. C/o Conley Rose, P.C.

20100220739 - Carrier network connection device and carrier network: A network connection device connecting a pseudo wire of a layer 2 and a pseudo wire formed of a layer 3, comprising: a switching unit operating as an edge switch of a layer 2 network forming a first pseudo wire; a routing unit operating as an edge router of a... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20100220741 - Heterogeneous media packet bridging: Methods and systems for bridging Ethernet frames transmitted over heterogeneous media channels are provided. According to one embodiment, multiple Ethernet frames encapsulated within multiple in-bound media transmissions having different media formats are received via a first set of multiple network interfaces of a network-computing device. The multiple in-bound media transmissions... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20100220740 - Method, system, and program for forwarding messages between nodes: Provided are a method, system, and program for forwarding a message from a transmitting node. A first message is received encoded using a first communication protocol from the transmitting node, wherein the first message includes a direct reference to a memory location in one node. A determination is made as... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20100220737 - Multiple spanning tree extensions for trunk ports carrying more than 4k virtual services: In one embodiment, bridges in a computer network maintain a per-port mapping table for each of its ports, where each mapping table maps, for each virtual connection (of more than 4K) at a respective port, i) frame encapsulation fields that uniquely identify a particular virtual connection at the respective port... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100220735 - Storage unit for communication system node, method for data storage and communication system node: The present invention relates to a data storage unit for a communication system node, a method for data storage and a communication system node. More particularly it relates to storing buffering data and control data in a unit located outside of a Communication Controller on system or host-controller level, wherein... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100220742 - System and method for router queue and congestion management: In a multi-QOS level queuing structure, packet payload pointers are stored in multiple queues and packet payloads in a common memory pool. Algorithms control the drop probability of packets entering the queuing structure. Instantaneous drop probabilities are obtained by comparing measured instantaneous queue size with calculated minimum and maximum queue... Agent: Pvf -- Brocade Communications Systems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100220743 - Buffer management method and packet communication apparatus: A packet communication apparatus includes a frame buffer of a linked list method and holds chain information and buffer size information, for structuring a linked list buffer for each user flow, in two areas consisting of an operation area and an update area. While usually in service, the buffer is... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100220744 - Intelligent start coupler for time triggered communication protocol and method for communicating between nodes within a network using a time trigger protocol: This invention relates to a star coupler connected to a plurality of nodes within a network using a time triggered protocol on a time slot basis. The invention further relates to a network including a cluster having at least one node. Further, the invention relates to a method for communication... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100220745 - Aggregated network communication bandwidth management information display system: An aggregated network communication bandwidth management information display system that functions as a high-level information display system interfacing with a plurality of service-specific bandwidth reservation and session management systems so as to provide an integrated “view” of the enterprise network's operation is described. The system includes at least a display... Agent: Avistar Communications Corporation

20100220746 - Method for inverse multiplexing: A method for multiplexing digital data, wherein a packet of digital data is simultaneously sent from front to rear and from rear to front. Additionally, a method for multiplexing digital data, wherein a packet of digital data is simultaneously sent from the beginning of the packet towards the end and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100220747 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing nodes: During each node's awake period, each node multicasts the relative time or slot of their next awake period (beaconing interval) to all neighboring nodes. This enables each node to intelligently and independently schedule the time slot of its next transmission based on the beaconing intervals of the nodes it has... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100220749 - Method and arrangement for local sychronization in master-slave distributed communication systems: A communication system which consists of several modules—operating in parallel on segments of a packet—to increase speed and handling capacity. One module acts as master, the others are slave modules controlled by control signals derived by the master module. It is important that in each module the data segment and... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20100220748 - Slave device, time synchronization method in slave device, master device, and electronic equipment system: A slave device includes: a clock unit that is configured by a counter so as to output time information; a clock generation unit that generates clocks for counting up the counter; a message receiving unit that receives messages sent from a master device; a message sending unit that sends messages... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.