Multiplex communications inventions

20090262641 - Signaling method in an ofdm multiple access system: A method for reducing the peak-to-average ratio in an OFDM communication signal is provided. The method includes defining a constellation having a plurality of symbols, defining a symbol duration for the OFDM communication signal, and defining a plurality of time instants in the symbol duration. A plurality of tones are... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090262642 - Updating routing and outage information in a communications network: After power is restored to a node in a utility network, that node employs one or more of its neighboring nodes as proxies to route a message to a central control facility of the utility. The message contains information about the restored node, and possibly one or more of its... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090262643 - Method for implementing intersecting ring network with arbitrary topology, node and intersecting ring network: The present invention discloses a method for implementing an intersecting ring network with arbitrary topology, node and an intersecting ring network. The method includes: intersecting multiple Ethernet rings to form the intersecting ring network with arbitrary topology, each Ethernet ring in the intersecting ring network comprising a master node and... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090262644 - Intelligent traffic optimizer: Bandwidth is assigned to subscribers of a data network by applying logic of one or more network devices to sample bits of information communicated over a network communication medium to identify if there is a network congestion condition or an extremely lightly loaded condition. The maximum bandwidth assigned to a... Agent: Fsp LLC

20090262645 - Method and equipment for shaping transmission speed of data traffic flow: A method and apparatus for monitoring and limiting the transmission speed of a data traffic flow in a situation where the traffic flow also includes delay-critical traffic. With the sending of each protocol data unit it is determined whether the sending of the next protocol data unit should be delayed... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090262646 - Transport protocol for efficient aggregation of heterogeneous losssy paths: A transport protocol that achieves improved performance in an environment where paths are lossy and a plurality of paths are employed to transfer data, essentially in parallel, from a source to a destination. The protocol is implemented with the aid of an aggregate flow manager (AFM) at the source that... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20090262647 - Method and apparatus for communication data over a data network: A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) is modified to monitor when a line synchronizes (i.e. sets up a DSL connection) and to automatically generate a notification to be sent to a management device of the access network if the rate has changed from the last time the line synchronized.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090262648 - Method for transitioning between multiple reception levels: There is provided a method for enabling a user equipment (UE) to transition between a non-discontinuous reception (Non-DRX) level and at least one discontinuous reception (DRX) level. The UE in a DRX level wakes up periodically to monitor a scheduling channel. The method includes receiving a DRX indicator in a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090262649 - Bus guardian with improved channel monitoring: A device and method for detection of timing errors or failures of a communication controller (24) by a decentralized bus guardian (26) is provided. In a node (20) on a communication network (38), a communication controller (24), a bus guardian (26) and a bus driver (34) operate to receive and... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090262651 - Fault detection method, communication system and label switching router: A fault detection method, a communication system, and an LSR are provided herein to overcome the inability of performing BFD packet resolution fault detection for multiple nodes in the conventional art. The method includes: determining a hop count between a first node and a second node on an LSP, where... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090262650 - Method and apparatus for providing statistical event correlation in a network: A method and apparatus for providing event correlation in a network are disclosed. For example, the method extracts a plurality of events of interest from a database, and creates one or more event time series from the plurality of events of interest, wherein each of the one or more event... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090262652 - Method of evaluating the reliability of a route in a cooperative network: m

20090262657 - Data transfer path evaluation using filtering and change detection: If a condition in a data transfer path is modeled appropriately, then a filter-based approach can be used to provide an estimate of the condition. This permits accurate, real-time estimates of the condition with modest requirements for data processing and memory resources. Change detection can be implemented to control a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090262656 - Method for new resource to communicate and activate monitoring of best practice metrics and thresholds values: A method is provided for monitoring a resource by utilizing proxy metrics provided by a dependent resource. A primary resource is recognized by a dependent resource, where the dependent resource is dependent upon certain capabilities of the primary resource. Metrics of the primary resource upon which the dependent resource needs... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090262658 - Method of measuring receive power of cdma mobile communication system, and cdma mobile communication system: The receive power of uplink signals in a CDMA mobile communication system is measured by prohibiting a mobile station from transmitting an uplink signal including a frame over a first channel during a predetermined transmission prohibition period, and measuring a receive power of uplink signals at a base station transmitted... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20090262655 - Mobile communication system, mobile station, base station, and control channel allocation method: A disclosed mobile station includes a storage unit configured to establish a correspondence between an identifier for a downlink Layer-1 control channel associated with a downlink data channel and a physical channel parameter for an uplink Layer-1 control channel and to store the identifier and the physical channel parameter; and... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090262654 - Radio access network apparatus, mobile station and handover control method: A radio access network apparatus includes: a receiver unit 211 configured to obtain, from a mobile station, radio quality data that indicates a radio quality of a communication link between the mobile station and a base station; a command generating unit 261a configured to generate a measurement command for instructing... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090262653 - Wireless communication mobile station device, wireless communication base station device and cqi report method: Provided is a wireless communication mobile station device by which a throughput can be improved in multicarrier communication. In the device, a group control section (107) controls a subcarrier group, of which CQI is to be reported, among a plurality of subcarrier groups to periodically change, by following pattern information.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090262660 - Bgp route evaluation method and device therefor: The present invention provides a BGP route evaluation device and method. A message receiving section 101 receives a BGP Update message. A status detecting section 102 detects the active/inactive status of each BGP route on the basis of a pair of prefix and next hop registered in “Announce” and “Withdraw”... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090262659 - Speed and memory optimization of intrusion detection system (ids) and intrusion prevention system (ips) rule processing: In an intrusion detection/prevention system, network traffic is received and checked for a matching pattern. Upon identifying the matching pattern, the network traffic with the matching pattern is evaluated against rules that are represented by a rule tree. References to rule options are represented in the rule tree and are... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090262662 - Auto-configuration and discovery of portable telecommunication system: A portable telecommunications system (PTS), and discovery and update protocol provides an ad-hoc system in which PTS systems can detect one another over a wide area network (WAN). The system may be compact in a way that allows mobility and rapid deployment with minimal on-site configuration. PTS systems exchange multicast... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090262665 - Communication system using zigbee and method of controlling the same: Provided are a communication system using ZigBee to coordinate communication terminals, to transmit and receive data via a coordinator, and to perform a binding operation of setting channels and personal area network (PAN) identifications (IDs) of the communication terminals using only a remote controller when forming a ZigBee communication network... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090262661 - Data transmission device and method of controlling same, data receiving device and method of controlling same, data transfer system, data transmission device control program, data receiving device control program, and storage medium containing the program: A content transmission device (11) transmits communications data by infrared. The content transmission device (11) includes: a one-way communications section (48) for transmitting the communications data by one-way communications; a two-way communications section (49) for transmitting the communications data by two-way communications; and a control section (40) for selecting which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090262666 - Digital radio network, circuit of a node of a digital radio network, and method for setting up a digital radio network: A digital radio network, a circuit of a node of a digital radio network, and method for setting up a digital radio network is provided, wherein a transmission power of the first node is set for a radio link between a first node of the digital radio network and a... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090262664 - Method for identifying network similarity by matching neighborhood topology: A method of computing a measure of similarity between nodes of first and second networks is described. In particular, sets of pairwise scores are computed to find nodes in the individual networks that are good matches to one another. Thus, a pairwise score, referred to as Rij, is computed for... Agent: David H. Judson

20090262667 - System and method for enabling topology mapping and communication between devices in a network: Methods and systems are described for discovering network topology in a multimedia network. Further the invention describes methods and systems for establishing synchronization between multiple nodes in a multimedia network. Also, disclosed are message transmission systems and methodology using relative path addressing to guide and direct messages in a multimedia... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20090262663 - Wireless discovery of devices: A method for wireless discovery of devices is described. In an embodiment, a Wireless Personal Area Networking (WPAN) device advertises its presence to other WPAN devices by transmitting a beacon which includes its identity. The beacon may include a header and/or footer. This message is picked up by other WPAN... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090262668 - Immediate communication system: m

20090262669 - Network interface device with shared antenna: An improved network interface device includes at least two wireless network transceivers where the transceivers share at least one antenna. In one embodiment, one of the transceivers is a 2×2 MIMO WiFi N transceiver and the other of the transceivers is a 2×1 MIMO WiMAX transceiver. A priority selector and... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090262670 - Apparatus and method for adaptively changing uplink power control scheme according to mobile status in a tdd mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for changing an uplink power control scheme according to mobile status in a TDD mobile communication system are provided. The communication system comprises a Subscriber Station (SS) for transmitting a power control change request message to a Base Station (BS) to change the power control scheme,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090262671 - Apparatus and method for allocating uplink resources in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for allocating an uplink resource in a wireless communication system that uses a Half duplex-Frequency Division Duplex (H-FDD) scheme. The apparatus includes a controller and a message generator. The controller determines a resource allocation scheme enabling an F-FDD mobile station to allocate uplink bursts to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090262672 - Call processing method and apparatus for mobile terminal in data call mode: A call processing method and a mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal includes a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver including a first input terminal connected to a first incoming signal line and a second input terminal connected to a second incoming signal line, a first RF switch arranged on the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090262673 - Automated mode change for wireless devices during inactivity: Embodiments enable using the inactive time when a mobile device is not moving to change its mode to a new state or condition of performing as if it were an access point. The embodiments can include determining if a wireless device is stationary, changing an operating mode of the wireless... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090262674 - Communication system, terminal, communication method, and communication processing program: When a terminal that is going to perform communication is newly connected, a host terminal in a communication system determines whether a connection sequence can be performed while a time slot assigned to a terminal group or not. When this determination is not mete avoiding use of the time slot... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090262675 - Power management in wireless network: Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for power management in wireless networks are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090262676 - Communication system and method of operation therefor: A communication system comprises a set of user equipments which are arranged to simultaneously transmit a signal over an air interface to a base station. Each of the transmitted signals comprises a data stream encoded by a space time block code and transmitted on multiple antennas. Specifically, an Alamouti code... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090262677 - Multicast to unicast conversion system: A network device includes a first interface that receives multicast packets and a control module that determines that N of the multicast packets have a common multicast address. The network device also includes a packet aggregation module that uses the N of the multicast packets to form aggregate data. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20090262678 - Cooperative communications techniques: Techniques are disclosed involving communications between source and destination devices. Such communications may involve multiple cooperating devices that retransmit (e.g., simultaneously retransmit) transmissions sent by a source device. Thus, the delivery of transmissions from source devices to destination devices may involve two or more “hops” (e.g., a first “hop” comprising... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20090262679 - Broadcasting signal receiver and method for transmitting/receiving broadcasting signal: A broadcasting signal receiver and a method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal are disclosed. An identifier of a cell is set in the broadcasting signal and, if the cell is changed, channel information of the changed cell can be obtained from program table information having the channel information of the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090262680 - Communication device, method for transmitting an uplink transmission control message, method for receiving an uplink transmission control message: In an embodiment, a communication device is provided. The communication device may include a scheduling message generating circuit configured to generate a scheduling message such that the scheduling message includes a receiving scheduling information specifying when to receive an uplink transmission control message, the receiving scheduling information being defined depending... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090262684 - Method and apparatus for home node b registration using hnbap: Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first communication system comprised of a licensed wireless radio access network and a core network, and a second communication system comprising a plurality of user hosted access points and a network controller. In some embodiments, each access point operates... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090262685 - Method and apparatus for mobile ip route optimization: The current application concerns a method, mobile node, home agent and system for route optimisation between a mobile node and at least one correspondent node in a packet switched network, wherein a route via a first home agent is redirected via a second home agent. The mobile node sends an... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090262683 - Method and apparatus for setup and release of user equipment context identifiers in a home node b system: Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first communication system comprised of a licensed wireless radio access network and a core network, and a second communication system comprising a plurality of user hosted access points and a network controller. In some embodiments, each access point operates... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090262682 - Method and apparatus for transport of ranap messages over the iuh interface in a home node b system: Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first communication system comprised of a licensed wireless radio access network and a core network, and a second communication system comprising a plurality of user hosted access points and a network controller. In some embodiments, each access point operates... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090262681 - Method of performing random access procedure in wireless communication system: A method of performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a random access preamble, receiving a random access response from a network as a response to the random access preamble, transmitting a connection request message comprising information on a temporary identifier, and receiving a contention... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090262686 - Session management apparatus, communication system, and session clear-out method: Session management means holds session information concerning sessions for fixed terminals and sessions for mobile terminals including type information indicating a terminal type and status information indicating the status of communication. Session clear-out means disconnects a session the type information for which indicates a mobile terminal and in which communication... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090262687 - Wireless communications control method, wireless base station, and wireless terminal: The wireless base station sends control data relating to the processing, belonging to the upper layer (the second layer) of the first layer, to the wireless terminal through the downlink channel. Upon reception of the control data through the downlink data channel, the wireless terminal sends the response data, as... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090262694 - Apparatus and method for precoding by midamble in multiple input multiple output wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for performing codebook-based precoding in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. In a method for operating a Base Station (BS) in a MIMO wireless communication system, a reference signal including pilot signals, which are divided by a predefined number of bands... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090262690 - Efficient radio resource management in a mobile radio communication system: In a method for operating a radio communication system, network radio stations and subscriber stations communicate using a frequency band which is split into a plurality of subbands. A first network radio station receives from a second network radio station first information relating to transmission powers used by the second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090262696 - Mapping resource blocks into subchannels: According to an example embodiment, a method may include determining, by a first wireless node in a wireless network, a number N of resource blocks available for transmitting data within a cell, the N resource blocks each including V resource block orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, the V resource... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090262689 - Method and apparatus for allocating resources to a node in ad-hoc network: A method of allocating resources to a node in an ad-hoc network includes storing a basic frame structure including a predetermined number of time slots, in which time slots to be used by the node in the ad-hoc network are arranged at predetermined positions, determining a start time slot among... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090262693 - Method and apparatus for broadcast of system information transmission window: A method and an apparatus are provided for allocating sub-frames in a system information transmission window, allocating transmission sub-frames consecutively at the beginning of the system information transmission window, allocating non-transmission sub-frames at end of the system information transmission window, and transmitting the system information transmission window. A method and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090262692 - Method and system for variable-sized resource block allocation within ofdma communication systems: A system for variable-sized resource block allocation in a communication system is disclosed. A processor module is configured to construct one or more resource blocks, having one or more sizes, and to define a candidate resource block set, including one or more of the constructed resource blocks, and a coherence... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090262695 - Rank and pmi in download control signaling for uplink single-user mimo (ul su-mimo): A method of operating a user equipment device includes extracting at least one rank indicator (RI) from an uplink grant, and adapting a transmission rank in response to said RI. At least two transmit antennas are configured to transmit according to said transmission rank.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090262688 - Rate adaptation methods for wireless communication apparatus, and wireless communication apparatus for performing wireless communication with rate adaptation: A rate adaptation method for a wireless communication apparatus includes: determining whether to use a first mode or a second mode according to at least one estimation value, where the first mode and the second mode correspond to different values of an overall data rate of the wireless communication apparatus.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090262691 - Resource allocation apparatus and method for reducing overhead in mobile communication system: A resource allocation for reducing overhead in a mobile communication system is provided. An operating method of a base station for changing a fixed resource allocation to reduce overhead in a mobile communication system includes calculating a total amount of resources allocated to a corresponding subframe in a period of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090262697 - Resource allocation in a radio access network: In a radio access network, techniques for enabling the network to provide a service availability guarantee to a user of a premium service without requiring the network to identify a priority level of a connection with an access terminal associated with the premium service user prior to connection establishment.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090262698 - Wireless resource allocation method in wireless communication system and wireless base station in the same: A wireless base station monitors a state of reception in a common transmission region (channel) in a wireless frame common to a plurality of wireless terminals, and controls allocation of a transmission region in the wireless frame to be used for transmission by the wireless terminals on the basis of... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090262700 - Frequency domain direct sequence spread spectrum with flexible time frequency code: A spread spectrum radio frequency communication system includes a Forward Error Correction (FEC) algorithm to encode digital data to provide a plurality of symbol groups, the FEC algorithm using a Reed Solomon FEC code, an interleaving algorithm to map each one of the plurality of symbol groups into a corresponding... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20090262699 - Resource reservation for users in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to a method and scheduling apparatus for reserving radio resources in radio resource block units in a mobile communication system for a plurality of users. Further, another aspect of the invention is the indication of a radio resource reservation in radio resource block units in a mobile... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090262701 - Data transfer method and base station: The present invention relates to a data transfer method which transfers user data of a mobile station, which is stored in a buffer of the handover source base station, from a handover source base station to a handover target base station, when the mobile station performs a handover. The data... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090262702 - Method and apparatus for direct transfer of ranap messages in a home node b system: Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first communication system comprised of a licensed wireless radio access network and a core network, and a second communication system comprising a plurality of user hosted access points and a network controller. In some embodiments, each access point operates... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090262703 - Method and apparatus for encapsulation of ranap messages in a home node b system: Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first communication system comprised of a licensed wireless radio access network and a core network, and a second communication system comprising a plurality of user hosted access points and a network controller. In some embodiments, each access point operates... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090262704 - Method and apparatus for establishment of asynchronous transfer mode based bearer connection between a network controller and core network: Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first communication system comprised of a licensed wireless radio access network and a core network, and a second communication system comprising a plurality of user hosted access points and a network controller. In some embodiments, each access point operates... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090262706 - Method, system and device for converting session control signaling: A method, system, and device for converting session control signaling are provided. The method includes at least one of the following steps: a first adaptation unit converts a session control signaling message of a circuit switched (CS) session leg into a session control signaling message of an IP multimedia subsystem... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090262705 - System for handover in bwa communication system and method thereof: A handover method and system in a communication system. In the method, a serving Base Station (BS) broadcasts neighbor BS information including BS identifiers and preamble indices of a plurality of neighbor BSs, receives a handover request message from a Mobile Station (MS), the handover request message including a first... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090262707 - Method, network system and destination network for transmitting qos during a handover process between systems: A method for transmitting quality of service (QoS) during a handover process between systems and a network system and a destination network thereof are provided, which enable the QoS to be transmitted to a second access network during a handover process of a user equipment (UE) between systems. The method... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090262708 - Automatic reverse channel assignment in a two-way tdm communication system: To minimize overhead in the allocation of channels, forward and reverse link time slots are automatically assigned in pairs. In particular, rather than requiring a separate process for allocating reverse link channels for the sending of acknowledgment messages in response to receipt of a forward link packet, a different scenario... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090262711 - Method of scheduling an uplink packet transmission channel in a mobile communication system: A method of scheduling an uplink packet transmission channel in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method of scheduling includes determining a scope of user equipments (UEs) to be applied to a scheduling assignment for scheduling the uplink packet transmission channel, and transmitting the scheduling assignment to the user... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090262710 - Radio communication method and radio communication device: Provided is a radio communication method capable of optimally using the wide-band communication enabled time while maintaining power saving in an ad hoc network. According to this method, in the ad hoc network using the wide-band communication and a narrow-band communication, transmission and output of the narrow-band synchronization tone signal... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090262713 - Synchronization of timing advance and deviation: Apparatus and method for reducing the latency from timing deviation (TD) measurement to time advance (TA) adjustment. A deterministic procedure to coordinate time advance (TA) commands and timing deviation (TD) measurements is used so that failed transmissions or mobile terminals signal propagation changes can be recognized and corrected much more... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090262712 - Transmitting and receiving devices in cellular system: In a multi-carrier cellular system, a second synchronization code (a Walsh code or a GCL series code) mapped on a second synchronization channel is used as a signal for specifying in which cell of the base station a mobile station terminal device itself is. A signal transmitted from the base... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090262709 - Wireless communications systems and channel-switching method: A wireless communications system and channel-switching method are disclosed herein. A source device and multiple sink devices independently maintain respective counters which track data packet errors. Each device independently switches channels only after its counter reaches a channel-switching threshold. The new channel switched-to is either determined by an indexed ordering... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090262715 - Bridge device and method for bridging a wlan to a wwan: A bridge device for bridging a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a plurality of wireless wide area networks (WWANs) includes a first communication port, a second communication port, a third communication port, a first media controller, a second media controller, a third media controller and a bridge module. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090262716 - Communication system and communication apparatus: A communication system includes: a service terminal configured to have a wireless LAN access point capability and a proximity communication capability, the wireless LAN access point capability enabling the service terminal to act as a wireless LAN access point to be connected via a network to a service provider providing... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090262714 - Network gateway and network system for a vehicle: The present invention relates to the network gateway for a vehicle and network system in which the mobile device which supports the wireless LAN is able to use the Internet by using the telematics module of a vehicle. For this, the present invention includes an user interface in which a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090262717 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication control method, wireless communication device and wireless communication method, and computer program: A wireless communication device in a wireless network sets management information notification cycles at specified time intervals and transmits management information containing receive timing information showing its own position to start receiving information, receive window information, and receive cycle information. Another wireless communication device receiving that management information links it... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090262718 - Wireless local area network context control protocol: A Wireless LAN Context Control Protocol (WLCCP) is used to establish and manage a wireless network topology and securely manages the “operational context” for mobile stations in a campus network. The WLCCP registration protocol can automatically create and delete links in the network, securely distribute operational context, and reliably establish... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090262719 - Apparatuses and methods for beamforming in a multiple input multiple output (mimo) wireless communication system based on hybrid division duplex: Beamforming in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system is provided. An apparatus includes an estimator for estimating a channel matrix of at least one terminal compliant with a Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme; a processor for confirming information indicative of a channel matrix fed back from at... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090262720 - Method and apparatus for controlling a reverse traffic rate in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for controlling an uplink data rate in a mobile station of a mobile communication system. The apparatus includes a receiver for receiving control information based on uplink data transmitted in a first transmission interval, a controller for determining an adjusted data rate for uplink data to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090262721 - Method for combining multiple frames of data into a single medium access: A method of combining multiple frames of data into a single access to a shared communications medium improves network efficiency transmitting in a fashion compatible with legacy network equipment. An increase in the efficiency of use of a shared communications medium is realized by amortizing the overhead of fixed elements... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090262722 - Method to calculate transitive closure of multi-path directed network based on declarative metadata: A method for modeling the response of a system to an input signal, wherein metadata describing characteristics of individual system components is combined to identify how signals received at one system component cascade through the system.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090262727 - Communication system: A method of initiating a call from a device executing a client program via an access network is provided. The method comprises providing a network node with information associated with the device, receiving from the network node an indication of whether at least one access number for accessing the access... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090262725 - Distributed transcoding on ip phones with idle dsp channels: Idle DSP channels of an IP phone can be used to respond to a request to transcode a codec of an incoming call in a distributed IP phone system but only if sufficient idle channels remain available to the phone to handle basic call functions and a possible non-basic call... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090262730 - Intelligent network and method for providing voice telephony over atm and private address translation: An illustrative intelligent network and method for providing voice telephony over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (“ATM”) and private address translation are provided that can provide significant advantages. The method includes generating an input ATM setup message at the calling party CPE that includes a VToA designator and a called party phone... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090262728 - Method for routing of connections in a packet-switched communication network: The invention relates to a method for routing connections in a packet-switched communication network. Said method is characterized in that the communication network comprises a plurality of virtual local area networks, to each of which at least one network transition between the communication network and another network is allocated, while... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090262726 - Method, system and apparatus for accessing communication features: A method and apparatus for accessing communication features in a communication session between at least two communication devices is provided. A first communication path is established between the at least two communication devices via a first communication protocol, the first communication protocol associated with a first set of communication features.... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090262724 - Proxy server, communication system, communication method and program: Provided in a proxy server which enables a plurality of SIP servers to copy registration information after presenting, to an SIP server requesting SIP Digest authentication, properness of one who makes an access and of a REGISTER request to be transmitted. With a REGISTER request generation function provided in addition... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090262729 - System for effecting a telephone call over a computer network without alphanumeric keypad operation: A system for effecting a telephone call between telephonic devices is operative to use a computer network, without manual use of the alphanumeric keypads. A third party call control (3PCC) application program interface (API) provides the capability for users to use a web browser or other Internet capable software to... Agent: MoserIPLaw Group / Vonage

20090262723 - Systems and methods for accessing ip transmissions: Various systems and methods for intercepting transmissions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed that includes an internet protocol media gateway. The internet protocol media gateway is communicably coupled to a soft switch, an acquisition facility, and a communicator. The internet protocol media gateway is associated with a... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090262731 - Circulating switch: A circulating switch comprises switch modules of moderate capacities interconnected by a passive rotator. Data is sent from a one switch module to another switch module either directly, traversing the rotator once, or indirectly through at least one intermediate switch module where the rotator is traversed twice. A higher capacity... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090262737 - Communication apparatus, method and switch board for universal switching of multiple services: A communication apparatus, a method and a switch board for universal switching of multiple services. The communication apparatus includes a backplane board, a switch board, and a plurality of service boards. The switch board and the service boards are inserted into a switch board slot and a plurality of service... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090262732 - Data communications network: In a system comprising a first subsystem having a first plurality of nodes connected through an interconnect providing unreliably delivery (URD) of packets and a second subsystem having a second plurality of nodes connected through a packet-based interconnect offering reliable delivery of packets, a method of communicating comprising the step... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20090262733 - Dynamic call anchoring: A system for dynamically anchoring a call initiated by a mobile unit can include call anchor logic programmed with anchoring criteria to determine if a new outbound call being initiated from the mobile unit should be anchored at an anchor point located outside of a service provider network for the... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090262734 - Packet transfer controlling apparatus and packet transfer controlling method: A packet transfer controlling apparatus stores, for each of a plurality of comparators, a plurality of associations of a code and a classification to be compared by the comparator when specification of the code is accepted. Also, each selector sets information that belongs to a classification stored in association with... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090262735 - Packet transfer controlling apparatus and packet transfer controlling method: A packet transfer controlling apparatus includes a depth storage unit that stores a pattern and a depth in association with each other. When accepting a setting of the pattern, the apparatus searches the depth storage unit by using the accepted pattern to obtain the depth stored in association with the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090262736 - User equipment detach with multiple packet data network connectivity: A system is provided that includes a component configured to promote detachment of a user equipment (UE) from a plurality of packet data network (PDN) gateways by sending a message to each of the plurality of PDN gateways to which the UE has at least one active bearer. The message... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20090262738 - Method for promptly redialing a broadband access server: A method for promptly redialing a broadband access server is disclosed. The method includes: sending a PPPoE Active Discovery Terminate (PADT) packet to a BAS from a client computer upon the condition that the client computer has been abnormally disconnected from the broadband access server (BAS), sending a responsive PADT... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090262739 - Network device of processing packets efficiently and method thereof: A network device includes a first memory, a second memory, a receiver, a CPU, a transmitter, and a header cache controller (HCC). The HCC is coupled to the first memory and the second memory. The receiver, the CPU, and the transmitter access the first memory and the second memory via... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090262742 - System and method for traversing a nat device for peer-to-peer hybrid communications: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to traverse a NAT device using a stateless reflector.... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20090262740 - Transmission information transfer apparatus and method thereof: A transmission information transfer apparatus for realizing the MAC VLAN function with low latency includes: a VLAN table memory that manages a VID and a VLAN membership; a VLAN cache which is a cache memory that manages a VLAN Cache Index and VLAN membership in association with one another; an... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090262741 - Transparent provisioning of services over a network: An apparatus and method for enhancing the infrastructure of a network such as the Internet is disclosed. A packet interceptor/processor apparatus is coupled with the network so as to be able to intercept and process packets flowing over the network. Further, the apparatus provides external connectivity to other devices that... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090262743 - Methods and apparatus for evaluating the sequence of packets: Embodiments of the invention are directed to evaluating the sequence of packets in a received packet stream. In some embodiments, when a packet in the packet stream is received, its sequence number may be determined and compared to an expected sequence number indicative of the highest received sequence number in... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090262744 - Switching network: A large high capacity switch is provided for a communication network which is constructed from a network of smaller switches. Data is fragmented into fixed sized cells and the cells of a traffic flow are aggregated by grouping cells to form larger yet uniform units of information transfer. The groups... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090262745 - State-based filtering on a packet switch appliance: A packet switch appliance includes a plurality of ports. One of the plurality of ports is configured to operate as a network port connected to a packet-switching network. Another of the plurality of ports is configured to operate as a first instrument port connected to a network instrument. To filter... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090262746 - Router and routing method for portable internet service: The present invention relates to a router (for example, ACR) which provides a mobility function and a delivery function with a portable Internet core network while controlling RAS, which is a base station, as a basis network element of an access network in a portable Internet (for example, WiBro) service,... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090262749 - Establishing optimal latency in streaming data applications that use data packets: Embodiments for an apparatus and method are provided that can build latency in streaming applications that use data packets. In an embodiment, a system has an under-run forecasting mechanism, a statistics monitoring mechanism, and a playback queuing mechanism. The under-run forecasting mechanism determines an estimate of when a supply of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20090262748 - Relaying apparatus and packet relaying apparatus: Each transmission port module includes a plurality of queues in association with combinations of a priority and a VLAN number. An accumulated-amount storage unit stores a total size of packets accumulated in queues associated with the same priority. A threshold storage unit stores a threshold of a total packet accumulated... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090262747 - Relaying apparatus and packet relaying method: A packet storing unit stores relay instructions for received packets in different queues depending on priority and a VLAN number. DRR schedulers take out relay instructions from respective queues through a DRR technique. A priority control transmission scheduler transmits the packets to another apparatus according to the relay instructions in... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090262750 - Transmission information transfer apparatus and its method: A transmission information transfer apparatus includes: an FDB that manages IP addresses in association with a plurality of respective input/output sections; an IP packet recognition section that determines whether input transmission information includes an IP address indicating the destination of the input transmission information; an FDB reference section and output... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090262751 - Controlling network communications using selective jamming: In one aspect, a method includes monitoring a network including nodes, receiving a first signal from a first node and determining whether the first node is authorized to transmit the first signal. The first node is configured to cease transmission if the first node detects another node is also transmitting.... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090262752 - Method for transmitting packets in a wireless communication system and an apparatus using the same: A wireless communication apparatus includes a first interface, a packet memory, a shift register set, and a second interface. The first interface receives a plurality of packets and stores the plurality of packets in the packet memory. The addresses of the plurality of packets stored in the packet memory are... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090262753 - System and method of communication protocols in communication systems: Systems and methods for implementing and designing protocols in such communications systems which can be wireless or wired. The systems and methods can include fundamental changes in the traditional protocol design approaches with their constraints of one-to-one mapping in protocols. By doing so, embodiments of the present invention enable an... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090262754 - Transmission stream generating device for generating transmission stream which additional data is stuffed in a payload area of a packet, digital broadcast transmitting/receiving device for transmitting/receiving the transmission stream, and methods thereo: A transmission stream (TS) generating apparatus includes an adaptor which receives general data and generates a stream having a plurality of packets, and which provides adaptive field in some of the plurality of packets, and an inserter which inserts additional data into all the payload areas of some of the... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090262755 - Method and system of data packet transmission timing for controlling bandwidth: t

20090262756 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus according to the invention can be applied to constitute each of relay nodes in a novel wireless communication network, in which the number of relaying stages formed with the relay nodes can be freely set without restriction by the amount of communication information to be processed, and... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090262757 - Variable bit rate communication system: A method for communication over a communication channel includes processing input data, which is accepted at a first variable bit rate, so as to produce output data that is encoded with a Forward Error Correction (FEC) code and has a second bit rate that matches an available bit rate of... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20090262758 - Digital signal demultiplexing apparatus and digital signal multiplexing apparatus: A digital signal demultiplexing apparatus that can demultiplex and a digital signal multiplexing apparatus that can multiplex signals of channels having arbitrary frequency intervals and bandwidths are provided. The digital signal demultiplexing apparatus performs discrete Fourier transform on an input signal, output samples existing within frequency bands of each channel... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262759 - Communication: The present invention relates to communication, in particular to communication involving analogue-like signals that are multiplexed together. There is provided a method of communicating with a plurality of devices, each of which of which provides a signal whose amplitude varies in an analogue fashion, the method including the steps of:... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090257343 - Permuting slots to logical distributed resource units: Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, a method may comprise sending, by a sending wireless station in a wireless network, data to a receiving wireless station, the data being sent via at least one logical distributed resource unit (LDRU), the LDRU including slots included in at... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090257342 - Resource block based pilot pattern design for 1/2 - stream mimo ofdma systems: In OFDMA wireless communications systems, pilot pattern design is optimized based on predefined resource block size. The number of pilots and the spacing between pilots within a resource block is determined based on a set of system requirements. In one novel aspect, pilots are allocated within a resource block to... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20090257344 - All optical ofdm with integrated coupler based ifft/fft and pulse interleaving: A method and apparatus for all optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) employing Inverse Fast Fourier Transform/Fast Fourier Transform by integrated coupler interferometrically.... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (necl)

20090257345 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for providing self adapting transport of public switched telephone network (pstn) circuits over a wireless network: An adaptive telecommunications system for transporting communication traffic over a network comprising a means for transmitting communication traffic between a plurality of devices through a network, monitoring the communication traffic between the plurality of devices, and a adaptively changing the mode of operation either before and/or during a call, based... Agent: Venable LLP

20090257346 - Mobile network control apparatus and mobile network control method: A mobile network control apparatus capable of improving transmission efficiency without giving any processing loads to nodes of a mobile network. In mobile routers to which the present apparatus is applied, a tunnel failure detection unit detects a failure of packet tunneling executed using an interface of the mobile routers.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090257347 - Spatial clustering: A method for providing redundancy within a communication network, the method provides means for using the same IP address with a plurality of hosts located in different subnets, non-simultaneously, without requiring any additional programming for routers in the network.... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090257349 - Datagram relaying apparatus with load distributing function: A datagram relaying apparatus includes a plurality of protocol terminating units, and a destination determining processor. The destination determining processor includes a path selecting section which determines a transfer destination route for a stream of packets received from any of the protocol terminating units. The path selecting section determines whether... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090257348 - Redundant ethernet automatic protection switching access to virtual private lan services: Embodiments disclosed herein provide redundant connectivity between an Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) access network and a Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) network. A first VPLS node is provided to function as an EAPS controller node. A second VPLS node is provided to function as an EAPS partner node. The... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman, LLP

20090257350 - System and method for using network performance information to determine improved measures of path states: A method of determining the state of a path in a network includes measuring at a node of the network a rate of throughput over an interval for at least a portion of the path and determining at the node of the network a derivation associated with a characteristic of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090257351 - Methods and apparatus for communicating and/or using load information in support of decentralized traffic scheduling decisions: Methods and apparatus related to communicating and/or using load information in support of decentralized traffic scheduling decisions are described. Individual wireless terminals corresponding to a peer to peer connection which desire to communicate traffic signals make transmitter yielding and/or receiver yielding decisions on a traffic slot by traffic slot basis.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257352 - Apparatus and method for monitoring network: A network monitoring apparatus retrieves packets flowing on a path to be monitored on a network using a packet capturing unit. A packet analyzing unit analyzes the retrieved packets. Although the network monitoring apparatus discards some of the packets using a sampling unit, a sampling rate is determined by a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090257354 - Hardware time stamping and synchronized data transmission: Hardware time stamping and synchronized data transmission disclosed. In a method, a reference time stamp and a local time stamp are obtained. A synchronization offset is prepared based on the local time stamp and the reference time stamp. Instructions are received to send a plurality of data units at a... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20090257353 - Method of network management by assistance from terminal using control-plane signaling between terminal and network: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate network management and optimization. As described herein, a network and a device communicating with the network can exchange network management information, thereby supporting a Self Organized Network (SON) architecture for improved network management and optimization performance. A Non-Access Stratum (NAS) layer protocol and/or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257357 - Efficient determination of a link performance parameter: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for determining a link performance parameter, such as a supplemental channel characteristic of a wireless link. In one aspect, a base station receives packets from a client station. The base station determines a link performance parameter based... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090257356 - Enhanced channel quality indication reports: A method includes making measurements of a received channel, and transmitting a channel quality report that includes at least one resource block-specific report indicative of a value of a channel quality metric over a bandwidth x, and that further includes an additional report indicative of the value of the channel... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090257358 - Method and apparatus for carrier identity determination in multi-carrier communication systems: Systems and methods are described that facilitate the determination and request of resources a node may wish to reserve. The resources include a plurality of carriers that are shared with other nodes. In an approach, the node determines a condition related to the plurality of carriers; creates an ordering of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257360 - Method and system for monitoring and controlling a video signal network: The embodiments described herein provide a method for operating a video signal network. The method comprises: providing a video signal router having a plurality of input ports for receiving input video signals and a plurality of output ports for transmitting a plurality of output video signals and wherein the router... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090257361 - Methods and apparatus for determining communication link quality: Methods and apparatus for determining the quality of a communication link transmitting a specified packet type are disclosed. The methodology includes configuring first packets, which share transmission characteristics with a specific packet type, such as a Voice over IP packet, such that the first packets experience similar communication link treatment... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257355 - Network node power conservation apparatus, system, and method: A network node self-retirement apparatus, system, and method is provided. The system includes a first network node, a second network node, and a plurality of network nodes. The first network node is configured to monitor a power and traffic level of the first network node and determine an operational weight... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090257359 - System and method for tracking performance and service level agreement compliance for multipoint packet services: A system and method for measuring compliance with a service level agreement for communications. A threshold is set for a core information rate and a user network interface core information rate operable to avoid contention. Frame loss is measured on a core network and legs of the network. A determination... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090257362 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for managing radio resources: During a contention-free period, or silent measurement period, of a first wireless communications channel, signals received on a second wireless communications channel are analyzed. The results of the analysis are used to perform advanced radio resource management functions, such as frequency selection, load balancing, or power management. Each of a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090257363 - Method and system for intelligent networking trigger contention resolution in ip multimedia subsystem networks: A method of receiving a first InitialIN message, determining if the first InitialIN message is a mobile origination, determining if an mscAddress comprising the first InitialIN message is an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) MSC address, and establishing DMS IN services with an SCF/SCP and performing VCC anchoring for a DMS... Agent: Carmen Patti Law Group, LLC

20090257364 - Node discovery in physically segmented logical token network: Token authorized node discovery between a plurality of nodes in a downhole networking environment and respective applications for data processing and communication are described herein.... Agent: National Oilwell Varco Attention Victor Segura

20090257365 - Method of distributing files over network: The present invention discloses a method of distributing files over a network, which can attain a proper balance of transfer rates of active spanning trees used between a transmitting node and a receiving node and minimize the time taken for transferring a large file in a P2P (Peer-to-Peer) environment by... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090257366 - Frame structure for a wireless communication system: The frame structure is capable of adapting to a system that is evolving from supporting predominantly legacy terminals to one which will be supporting an increasing number of enhanced terminals. The coexistence of both legacy and enhanced terminals within the proposed frame structure will have minimal impact of the performance... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090257367 - Half duplex digital communications system and control means: A half duplex digital communications system and control means providing a data interface to a plurality of radio transceivers such as between a personal computer or other information processing device to one or more radio transmitter/receiver systems having a serial data interface in a manner that provides control of the... Agent: Air Force Research Laboratory Rij

20090257370 - Power management method: A power management method. The power management method for a wireless network having a plurality of stations (STAS) comprises receiving a data frame, detecting a destination STA in accordance with the data frame, and entering a low power state if not the destination STA for a first power-save (PS) duration... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090257369 - Radio terminal, radio base station, and radio communication system: A radio terminal includes: a controller configured to control switching between a wake-up state in which a radio interface is turned on and a sleep-state in which the radio interface if turned off; a battery configured to accumulate electric power to be supplied to the radio interface; a remaining battery... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090257368 - Radio terminal, radio communication system, and radio communication method: A radio terminal includes a radio interface configured to allow radio communication with a radio base station, and a controller configured to control switching between a wake-up state in which the radio interface is turned on and a sleep state in which the radio interface is turned off. The radio... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090257371 - Radio communication base station apparatus and transmission method in the radio communication base station apparatus: Provided is a base station capable of SFN transmission of multicast data by using an empty section of an allocated resource. In this base station, an arrangement unit (109) arranges unicast data, multicast data, control information for downlink line unicast data, control information for uplink line unicast data, and a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090257375 - Access gateway apparatus, base station apparatus, communication control system and communication control method: A communication control system capable of reducing the traffic amount, CPU's processing load and channel bands related to a location registering process. In this system, a paging part (303) of a base station apparatus (300) receives a call request message transmitted from an access gateway apparatus (200) and addressed to... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090257376 - Intelligent access point for delivering location based information: A method for delivering location based information in wireless zone is disclosed. All the location based information is stored in the access point itself thus eliminating the need for backend server. Access point has the intelligence to deliver information in customized to each requesting device's display capability. To provide seamless... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090257378 - Method and system for controlling a real-time communications service: A real-time media session is established between user equipment and a media communication server via a serving access network. According to the Invention, dummy data (e.g. a dummy message) is sent in order to maintain a dedicated channel during the inactive periods of a real-time media session or to trigger... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090257373 - Methods and apparatus for coverage verification in a wireless sensor network: Methods and apparatus are provided for improved coverage verification schemes in a wireless sensor network that do not require information about the location of sensor nodes in the wireless sensor network. Coverage holes are detected by a first node in a wireless sensor network by obtaining an estimate of a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Leiws, LLP

20090257372 - Methods and apparatus for improved decoding of hybrid automatic repeat request transmissions: A method for improved decoding of hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) transmissions may include attempting to verify a physical layer (PHY) cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for a candidate H-ARQ encoder packet. If the PHY CRC is not verified, medium access control layer protocol data units (MPDUs) may be identified in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257374 - Mobile multimedia terminal for a calm system and a method for offering continuous multimedia communications: A mobile multimedia terminal for a CALM (Continuous Air interface for Long and Medium range) system includes, a wireless multimedia communications transceiver for transmitting and receiving signals over at least two wireless media; a communications link determination and management unit for acquiring interface IDs of the wireless media over which... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090257377 - Reducing buffer size for repeat transmission protocols: A wireless communication device includes a receive buffer and control logic coupled to the receive buffer. The control logic implements an algorithm to selectively drop data blocks in the receive buffer once a predetermined fill threshold for the receive buffer is reached. The receive buffer is sized so that a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090257380 - Channel assignment protocol: In an example embodiment, a topology based channel assignment method for mitigating contention between overlapping radio coverage areas in a wireless “mesh” network topology. A central controller compiles radio overlap information and executes a Tiered Graph Coloring Algorithm, which is used to mitigate contention between overlapping radio coverage areas. In... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090257394 - Communicating control information in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to communicating control information in a mobile communication system, wherein the control information of a mobile terminal for scheduling an uplink channel may be notified to a network more quickly with less power. The present invention comprises transmitting a data block on a first physical channel,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090257395 - Cqich allocation request header for communicating feedback information: A method of communicating feedback information between a mobile station and a base station comprises determining a need to request bandwidth allocation; providing information to a base station according to the determining, wherein the information indicates bandwidth allocation for a fast feedback channel; and performing communication with the base station... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090257387 - Fast carrier allocation in multi-carrier systems: Providing for fast allocation of additional carriers in multi-carrier wireless communication systems is described herein. By way of example, high layer protocols can be employed to allocate additional carriers to UEs in a wireless network. Additionally, management of the additional carriers can be accomplished via high speed lower layer signaling... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257383 - Feedback method for performing a feedback by using a codebook in mimo system: A feedback method for performing a feedback by using a codebook in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system includes receiving, by the mobile station, a MIMO mode type information, generating feedback information by using the codebook selected according to the MIMO mode type information, and transmitting the feedback information to... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090257385 - Filtering semi-persistent scheduling false alarms: A scheduled data communication system of an access node and terminal supports recurring communications of small data amounts such as Voice over IP (VoIP). In order to make error checking more robust in a random access response (RAR), such as for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) for VoIP, a portion of a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257389 - Method and apparatus for efficient scheduling in broadband wireless access networks: The various inventive embodiments relate to arrangement of information elements (IEs) for persistent and/or dynamic allocations in a wireless broadband network and include optimization techniques to eliminate the repetitive information fields from the downlink (DL)-Persistent-IEs, uplink (UL)-Persistent-IEs, DL-IEs, and UL-IEs. Elimination of repetitive information fields reduces MAP overhead. In addition... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090257386 - Method and device for managing allocation of data transmission paths in a meshed communications network, corresponding computer program product and storage means: A method for managing allocation of paths for transmission, in packets of symbols, of at least a first data content, each content being transmitted from a source node up to a destination node in a meshed communications network comprising a plurality of nodes, each destination node receiving a plurality of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090257384 - Method for mode adaptation in mimo system: A mode adaptation method for performing mode switching between a single-user MIMO (SU-MIMO) mode and a multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) mode includes reporting, by a base station, a MIMO feedback mode to a mobile station, receiving a feedback information determined on the basis of the MIMO feedback mode from the mobile... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090257382 - Method, apparatus and computer program for permutation and subchannelization: M physical resource blocks PRBs are allocated for localized resource allocation LRA and N-M PRBs are allocated for distributed resource allocation DRA. Each PRB has U subcarriers. Subcarriers of the N PRBs are permuted to result in N subchannels. Serially for each mth one of the M PRBs allocated for... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090257379 - Methods and apparatus for network capacity enhancement for wireless device coexistence: Methods and apparatus for enhancing network capacity in a network comprising multiple wireless communication that overlap at least partly in frequency spectrum. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a portable device such as a laptop or smartphone having both a WLAN (e.g., Wi-Fi) interface and a PAN (e.g., Bluetooth) interface... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates Robert F. Gazdzinski

20090257381 - Radio communication base station apparatus and radio communication method used for multi-carrier communication: Provided is a base station capable of suppressing increase of overhead of allocation result report in frequency scheduling in multi-carrier communication and obtaining a sufficient frequency diversity effect. In the base station, encoding units (101-1 to 101-n) encode data (#1 to #n) to mobile stations (#1 to #n), modulation units... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090257392 - System and method for efficiently packing two-dimensional data bursts in a downlink of a wireless communications system: A system and method for packing two-dimensional data bursts in a downlink of a wireless communications system is provided. A method includes allocating resource units to users in the wireless communications system, and packing allocated resource units into rectangular bursts for transmission. The allocating is based on delay characteristics of... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090257390 - System and method to enable uplink control for restricted association networks: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate resource management in a wireless communication system. Various techniques described herein can enable a network cell in a wireless communication system (e.g. a macro cell) to mitigate the effects of interference on other surrounding network cells (e.g., femto cells embedded within the coverage... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257388 - Systems and methods to define control channels using reserved resource blocks: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate defining new control channels in legacy wireless networks. Control data resources for new systems can be defined over resources reserved for general data communications in the legacy wireless network specification. In this regard, legacy devices can still be supported by devices implementing new... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257393 - Techniques to manage channel prediction: A system, apparatus, method and article to manage channel prediction for a wireless communication system are described. The apparatus may include a media access control processor to perform channel prediction, and a transceiver to communicate information using the channel prediction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090257391 - Transmitting/receiving system and method of processing data in the transmitting/receiving system: A transmitting/receiving system and a data processing method of the same are disclosed herein. The receiving system may include a receiving unit, a signaling decoder, and an FIC handler. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data configuring a data group. Herein, a transmission frame consists of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090257396 - System and method of adaptive frequency hopping with look ahead interference prediction: A novel and useful adaptive frequency hopping scheme for wireless devices and networks operating in a congested environment of similar devices, where capacity maximization is desired. The hopping sequence of each wireless link is dynamically adapted such that the impact of the surrounding interference is minimized and the interference induced... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090257401 - Communication system, mobile router and home agent: The present invention provides a new technique, according to which inefficient and redundant routing can be eliminated, which may occur when the fast handover is applied to network mobility and which may cause delay. According to this technique, a mobile router (MR) 210 makes the mobile node grasp the care-of... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090257404 - Generating a public long code mask in a mobile communications system: A method of generating a public long code mask (PLCM) in a mobile station in a wireless mobile communication network is provided. The method comprises receiving a message in the mobile station from a base station when the mobile terminal is handed off, the message comprising a first field including... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090257402 - Intra-system handoff method: The present invention provides an intra-system handoff method, comprising the following steps: S302, when deciding a handoff of UE to a target base station, a source base station issues a handoff request to the target base station; S304, in response to the handoff request from the source base station, the... Agent: Christopher P. Maiorana, P.C.

20090257399 - Method and apparatus for handling handover procedure: The present invention provides a method for handling a handover procedure for a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The method includes steps of indicating occurrence of a handover procedure to a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer of the UE... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090257400 - Method and apparatus for handover between a network supporting proxy mobile ip and a network supporting mobile ip: A method and an apparatus for supporting handover between a first network supporting proxy mobile Internet Protocol (IP) (PMIP) and a second network supporting mobile IP (MIP) are disclosed. A PMIP entity in the first network may perform home agent (HA) discovery such that the PMIP entity may select an... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090257397 - Method for proactive coordinator appropriation for wireless personal area network: Provided is a method for switching a piconet device to a coordinator in a piconet. The method receives the latest order of precedence as the next PNC information from the current PNC. Thereafter, the method detects a P-CTA allocated to devices of the piconet using a beacon of a superframe... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090257403 - Method of communicating in wireless network: The present invention relates to a handover method that a current coordinator transfers a coordinating function of controlling a network to a different device configuring the network. The present invention relates to a method of selecting an optimal device as a coordinator in selecting the different device using priority information... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090257398 - Radio communication system and communication method: A radio communication system includes a plurality of base stations with supporting a plurality of radio access schemes. Two or more base stations support a predetermined radio access scheme in common. A mobile station makes initial connection to one of the two or more base stations according to the predetermined... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090257405 - Method and apparatus for carrier selection in multi-carrier communication systems: Systems and methods are described that facilitate the determination and request of resources a node may wish to reserve. The resources include a plurality of carriers that are shared with other nodes. In an approach, the node determines a condition related to a plurality of resources; identify a desired amount... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257411 - Data generation apparatus, data generation method, base station, mobile station, synchronization detection method, sector identification method, information detection method and mobile communication system: To reduce the process of a cell search including sector identification without increasing loads on a transmission/reception apparatus. A synchronization channel (SCH) included on downlink in a multicarrier mobile communication system is multiplied by a sector specific code and a cell specific code (step S1), assigned to subcarriers on the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090257409 - Method for generating downlink frame, and method for searching cell: The present invention relates to a method for generating a downlink frame including generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information, generating a first scrambling sequence determined by the first synchronization signal, generating a second scrambling sequence determined by the first short sequence, scrambling... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090257410 - Method for superframe management and coordinator thereof: A method and a coordinator of superframe management are disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a coordinator, a GTS request from a node; determining the type of the node; allocating GTS in an active period based on GTS characteristics carried in the GTS request when the node is determined as... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090257408 - Method for transmission time interval bundling in the uplink: A method and apparatus for supporting uplink Transmission Time Interval (TTI) bundling in Long Term Evolution (LTE) is provided. Described are related method and apparatus for signaling, activation/deactivation and wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) behavior.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090257407 - Preamble retransmission method in mobile communications system: A preamble retransmission method in an Evolved Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) system is provided by which a terminal transmits a Radio Access Channel (RACH) preamble to a base station, the base station compares the received RACH preamble with preset specific criteria and requests retransmission for the RACH preamble to the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090257406 - Reduction of transmission overhead in a wireless communication system: Methods and apparatuses for reducing the overhead associated with transmitting MAPs are provided by grouping client stations in different constellations into one of two or more groups/allocations based partially upon their respective channel conditions. As a result of grouping, client stations within each group/allocation share a single resource allocation and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090257416 - Access point: An access point has a connection to a wide area network, and is configured to allow a device to connect thereto, and includes an Application Programming Interface for allowing a remote application to connect to the access point over the wide area network, and to obtain information relating to the... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090257417 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating radio control system operation with an ics-capable wireless device: An apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating communication operations with a wireless device that is ICS or DTM capable. Signaling protocols and apparatus are provided for operation of the wireless device when an ICS with the wireless device is ongoing, and the device leaves an area that provides for... Agent: Docket Clerk Kelly-krause

20090257418 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating radio control system operation with an ics-capable wireless device: An apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating communication operations with a wireless device that is ICS or DTM capable. A message generator is provided, configured to generate a network-terminated message, the network-terminated message including a media feature tag that identifies support of ICS. When transmitted to a network node,... Agent: Docket Clerk Kelly-krause

20090257414 - Heterogeneous mac protocol for multiple base stations in wireless networks: This disclosure describes a new Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol that combines contention-free and contention-based MAC protocols into a heterogeneous MAC protocol used for forwarding VoIP traffic in VoIP systems on wireless networks using multiple base stations which addresses the need to transport high bit-rate data to multiple users over... Agent: The Law Offices Of Dennis L. Cook, PLLC

20090257415 - Heterogeneous mac protocol for multiple base stations in wireless networks: This disclosure describes a new interference avoidance Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol that combines contention-free and contention-based MAC protocols into a heterogeneous MAC protocol used for forwarding VoIP traffic in VoIP systems on wireless networks using multiple base stations which addresses additional interference elimination and the need to transport high... Agent: The Law Offices Of Dennis L. Cook, PLLC

20090257413 - Method and system for facilitating channel measurements in a communication network: A method and system for facilitating channel measurements in a communication network is disclosed. The method includes contending for a control channel to reserve a logical subchannel of a data channel. The control channel operates in a first frequency band and the data channel operates in a second frequency band.... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090257419 - 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

20090257412 - System and method for generic access network registration by a mobile station during network congestion: Systems and methods for providing mobile stations (“MS”) registration to a generic access network (“GAN”) via a wireless LAN interface are disclosed. The MS may receive a rejection message from a GAN controller with a “network congestion” indication set. The MS may also receive a “connection status” information element as... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090257420 - Process control system with enhanced communication throughput using frequency agility: A process control system having wireless nodes (field devices, routers, wireless gateways, etc.) communicating with enhanced throughput using frequency hopping. The frequency channel using which each node transmits is determined by frequency agility/frequency hopping technique. Multiple nodes then transmit the packets in their respective channels, but in overlapping duration. In... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090257423 - System and method for channel status information feedback in a wireless communications system: A system and method for channel status information feedback in a wireless communications system is provided. A method includes receiving a transmission containing feedback information from a mobile station (MS) having N total antennas, M receive/transmit antennas, N−M receive-only antennas, wherein N and M are integers and N>M, decoding the... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090257422 - Time slot synchronized, flexible bandwidth communication system: One or more frame slots to each transceiver are allocated for communication within each message cycle. The number of frame slots allocated can be dynamically adjusted to accommodate variable traffic loads per transceiver, and an offset of the frame slots within the message cycle is preferably predefined to provide a... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20090257424 - Transmission method, system, transmitter, receiver and method for realizing information transmission: A transmission method includes: confirming a reference time; according to the bit property of the data to be transmitted and the reference time, inserting the time slice signal into a special time position of a data frame; transmitting the data frame in which the time slice signal has been inserted... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090257421 - Wireless communication system, mobile station device, and random access method: A wireless communication system includes a base station device and a mobile station device that tries a random access to the base station device. The mobile station device determines an upper limit of a random backoff time representing an interval from when the random access fails to when another random... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090257427 - Data generation apparatus, data generation method, base station, mobile station, synchronization detection method, sector identification method, information detection method and mobile communication system: To reduce the process of a cell search including sector identification without increasing loads on a transmission/reception apparatus. A synchronization channel (SCH) included on downlink in a multicarrier mobile communication system is multiplied by a sector specific code and a cell specific code (step S1), assigned to subcarriers on the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090257426 - Inserting time of departure information in frames to support multi-channel location techniques: A device whose location is to be determined (target device) generates a plurality of frames (messages) and time of departure (TOD) timestamp information indicating when the target device transmits the plurality of frames in a sequence or burst. The target device transmits the plurality of frames and the TOD information,... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090257425 - Synchronizing dhcp and mobile ip messaging: Synchronizing mobility messaging includes receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) address at a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. The IP address is sent by a home agent of a mobile client, where the home agent has a mobility binding for the mobile client. A DHCP request requesting an IP address... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090257430 - Method and system for preventing data loss in a real-time computer system: A method and system are provided for preventing data loss in a VoIP system. In particular, during a VoIP call, it is determined whether incoming ringing on a POTS line causes an unacceptable level of signal loss or errors. If so, for subsequent VoIP calls, the CO handling calls to... Agent: Conexant, Inc

20090257429 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for processing call originations by a femtocell system: A system, method, and computer readable medium for processing a call setup in a network system are provided. A femtocell system receives a call origination from a user equipment located within a service area of the femtocell system and performs a service connection with the user equipment. The femtocell system... Agent: Rg & Associates

20090257428 - Voip-based invocation of pstn-based ain/in services: A method may include receiving an Advanced Intelligent Network/Intelligent Network (AIN/IN) service request from a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) subscriber, generating an IP-based message for invoking the AIN/IN service based on the AIN/IN service request, routing the IP-based message to an AIN/IN service control device via an IP signaling... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090257431 - Global broadcast communication system: A global broadcast communication network system having a plurality of subnets. The system may incorporate a building and automation control network (BACnet) protocol. Each subnet may have a one active BACnet broadcast management device (BBMD) for broadcasting messages to other subnets. Also, there may be BIP (BACnet over IP) devices,... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090257432 - Terminal: Provides a terminal for performing multiple access transmission suitable to a transmission path having varied characteristics. The terminal (100) includes a transmission/reception section (201), a control unit (204), a transfer management section (206), and an external interface section (203). The terminal (100) refers to an IGMP (MLD) message received by... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090257433 - Apparatus, method, system and program for communication: Embodiments provide an apparatus, method, and storage medium wherein a communication identifier of a session or part of a session is provided in a package or added to a message. An apparatus may check, based on the communication identifier of package or the received communication identifier, whether or not a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090257434 - Packet access control method, forwarding engine, and communication apparatus: A packet access control method includes: setting a first bandwidth parameter, and judging whether a received packet needs to be forwarded according to information on the received packet; querying the ACL according to the information on the packet if the packet does not need to be forwarded; performing a corresponding... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090257435 - Modification of live streams: Mechanisms are provided for generating and modifying live media streams. A device establishes a session and requests a media stream from a content server. The content server provides the media stream to the device. The content server also obtains an insertion stream for inclusion in the media stream. Packets are... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090257436 - Method, system and access device for implementing service configuration: An access device, a system and a method for implementing service configuration are disclosed. The method includes: identifying, by an access device AN, an operation mode of a CPE according to a result of a handshake negotiation performed between the line port of the access device CN and the CPE,... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090257437 - Identity-based networking: A technique for identity based networking is disclosed. A system according to the technique can include a WAN, a first VLAN, a second VLAN, and a network database. The first VLAN and second VLAN can be coupled to the WAN. The network database can include VLAN information. In operation, a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090257439 - Method and device for advertising routing information and method and system for implementing packet routing: The present disclosure discloses a method and device for advertising routing information and a method and system for implementing packet routing. The method for advertising routing information includes a routing information advertising device that obtains its address information; the routing information advertising device adds the address information to routing information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090257438 - Method and system for transport of structure aware tdm traffic over packet networks: A communications network gateway receives a stream of information formatted to be compatible with a synchronous structured network. The frames from the synchronous structured network are extracted and modified for transmission over a packet network in a manner that optimizes bandwidth utilization of the overall communications network.... Agent: Winstead PC

20090257440 - Method, system and router for communication between ip devices: A method for communication between IP devices is provided. The method includes: receiving a dynamic routing protocol control packet sent by each of actual physical routers in a virtual router; obtaining a virtual IP address according to the dynamic routing protocol control packet; and using the virtual IP address as... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090257441 - Packet forwarding apparatus and method for discarding packets: The packet forwarding apparatus of the present invention includes a packet buffer for temporarily storing packets to be forwarded, a timer for measuring the time of every predetermined unit period, a plurality of first queues corresponding to each of a plurality of address groups that form the packet buffer, a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090257442 - Distributed router application serialization: A router, which may be a wireless gateway, for routing messages between communications networks, including a persistent storage, and a transport interface for sending outgoing messages to communications devices associated with a first communications network, and receiving incoming messages from the communications devices, and having a storage for storing pending... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20090257443 - Ofdm communication system and method having a reduced peak-to-average power ratio: An OFDM system embeds sequence information in the transmitted signal that reduces peak average power ratio (PAP) with minimal impact on the overall system efficiency. A marker is embedded onto the transmitted information that is used to identify the combining (inversion) sequence at the receiver. In one embodiment, selected tones... Agent: S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20090257444 - Slave assembly for determining source of data received over a two-wire master-slave communications bus: A method of determining a source of data received over a two-wire master-slave communication bus includes monitoring with a slave assembly a plurality of clock signals each generated by a master device and determining the source of data received over the two-wire master-slave communication bus based on the monitored clock... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20090257445 - Pld architecture optimized for 10g ethernet physical layer solution: An integrated circuit (e.g., a programmable integrated circuit such as a programmable microcontroller, a programmable logic device, etc.) includes programmable circuitry and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) transceiver circuitry. The programmable circuitry and the transceiver circuitry may be configured to implement the physical (PHY) layer of the 10GbE networking specification.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090257446 - Admission control utilizing backup links in an ethernet-based access network: An admission control process in an Ethernet-based access network having both active links and idle backup links. When a service request is received in an access node, the process searches for a path of links to an access edge node with sufficient bandwidth to serve the service request. Active links... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090257447 - Bit rate control: Mechanisms are provided to smooth bandwidth usage rates associated with a media stream. A content server analyzes a buffered media stream to determine timing and sequence number information. Packets designated for transmission at a bandwidth usage peak are transmitted earlier in time, with earlier packets shifted even earlier as sequence... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090257448 - Layered multicast and fair bandwidth allocation and packet prioritization: Embodiments include an overlay multicast network. The overlay multicast network may provide a set of features to ensure reliable and timely arrival of multicast data. The embodiments include a congestion control system that may prioritize designated layers of data within a data stream over other layers of the same data... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090257449 - Methods of reliably sending control signal: Downlink PDCCH is communicated in a manner that mitigates a UE from decoding the PDCCH on multiple aggregation levels. Ambiguous payload sizes are identified and modified through zero padding with one or more bits based on the payload size. Aggregation level scrambling sequences can be generated such that a receiving... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257450 - Multi-stream communication processing: The processing of multi-streaming communication includes an association between a sender and a receiver established over a communications network. The processing also includes identifying each of more than one independent multi-streamed messages transferred over the association. Each of the multi-streamed messages are separated at the receiver, and each separated message... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090257452 - Method and apparatus for providing and receiving three-dimensional digital contents: Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing three-dimensional (3D) digital content by using a conventional system for providing two-dimensional (2D) digital content. The method includes generating an elementary stream (ES) regarding first data of 2D digital content, generating an ES regarding second data of 3D digital content, packetizing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090257451 - Method and apparatus to align and standardize packet based parallel interfaces: A packet alignment system for pre-processing/aligning incoming packets may comprise one or more registers for receiving control signals and data signals. An aligner may cyclically shift said data signals to form a plurality of shifted data words. A plurality of pipe registers may collect and generate an adjusted control signal... Agent: Lsi Corporation C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090257454 - Ofdm transmitter with adaptive bit interleaver for adaptive bit loading and method for ofdm communications: A multi-antenna transmitter includes an adaptive bit interleaver for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications. The adaptive bit interleaver permutes a variable number of coded bits per OFDM symbol (Ncbps). The variable number of coded bits is calculated based on individual subcarrier modulation assignments for orthogonal subcarriers. The interleaver matrix... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090257453 - Transmission apparatus and receiving apparatus: m

20090257458 - Clock synchronization system: A clock synchronization system includes a master node; a PSN (Packet Switched Network); and a slave node configured to synchronize a recovery clock signal in the slave node with a clock signal in the master node by using packets periodically received from the master node through the PSN. The slave... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090257456 - Coordinated timing network having servers of different capabilities: Communication and processing within a timing network that supports servers having different capabilities are facilitated. Individual servers of the network are dynamically updated without disrupting the operational characteristics of the timing network. New capabilities are not utilized between two servers until it is known that both servers are capable of... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090257455 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing timing of signal packets: In some communications systems, unsynchronized near-end and far-end packets of communications signals can reduce or impair performance of processing of packets, such as to the case of Coded Domain Media Quality Enhancement. Therefore, a system may synchronize the incoming signals to enhance quality. A relative delay determination module according to... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090257457 - Method and system for mac and phy synchronization for energy efficient networking: Aspects of a method and system for MAC and PHY synchronization for energy efficient networking are provided. In this regard, an interface that enables communication between a MAC controller and a PHY device may be configured to operate in an energy saving mode. While the interface is operating in an... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090257459 - System, apparatus, and method for increasing resiliency in communications: A transmitting system inserts runt abort packets in an outgoing data stream during idle time inter-frame time fill. The runt abort packets cause the receiving system to synchronize itself to the transmitting system so that even if an error during inter-frame time fill causes the receiving system to go into... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090252028 - Apparatus and method for controlling ranging of mobile terminals in wireless communication system: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for controlling ranging in a wireless communication system. The apparatus according to the present invention comprises a Radio Frequency (RF) module converting RF band signals received via antenna to low-frequency band signal; a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) module converting the low-frequency band signal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090252026 - Timing and frequency acquisition for mediaflo systems: An apparatus, logic, and method of performing timing and frequency estimation in a MediaFLO™ mobile multimedia multicast system comprising a receiver and a transmitter, wherein the method comprises receiving a wireless data stream comprising a MediaFLO™ mobile multimedia multicast system superframe comprising Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; estimating a... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090252027 - Wic and lic estimation in mediaflo systems: An apparatus and method for WIC/LIC estimation without channel mode construction in a MediaFLO™ system comprising a receiver, a transmitter and transmission channel, wherein the method comprises receiving a signal comprising a MediaFLO™ mobile multimedia multicast system superframe comprising WIC/LIC symbols; setting a first sparseness index value of the digital... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090252029 - Method, detection device and server device for evaluation of an incoming communication to a communication device: A method, a detection device and a server device for evaluation of a communication arriving via a connecting line at the communication device are provided. Communication information which can be read or determined from the incoming communication is detected by the detection device which is coupled between the connecting line... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC (sen)

20090252031 - Methods and apparatus for performing protocol data unit header re-synchronization in a communication system: A method for performing protocol data unit (PDU) header re-synchronization in a communication system includes: when a header check sequence (HCS) fail occurs, detecting whether there exists a valid HCS in a first portion of first data by utilizing at least one detection window, where the first data is derived... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090252030 - Reducing traffic loss in an eaps system: A ring network with an automatic protection switching domain includes a control VLAN and at least one data VLAN. A master node in the ring is connected to at least one transit node. Each node in the ring network is linked to an adjacent node by a primary port or... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman, LLP

20090252032 - Wireless sensor network gateway unit with failed link auto-redirecting capability: A wireless sensor network gateway unit is proposed, which is designed for integration to a wireless sensor network (WSN) for providing a gateway function with a failed link auto-redirecting capability for the wireless sensor network. The proposed WSN gateway unit is characterized by the provision of an failed link auto-redirecting... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090252033 - System and method of distributing media content: Systems and methods to distribute media content are provided. A particular method includes receiving first link weighting factors and second link weighting factors at a router of a node of a multicast network and determining a primary path to a next hop node based on the first link weighting factors.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090252034 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing quality of service brokering in a network: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing quality of service brokering in a network. Methods include receiving a data packet at a router in an Internet protocol (IP) network. The data packet includes a data packet QoS class and a data packet destination. A storage... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090252035 - Packet relaying apparatus and packet relaying method: A packet relaying apparatus includes queues holding packet information, and queue control units controlling dequeueing. The dequeueing means transmission of packet information from a queue of a previous stage to a queue of a next stage. The packet relaying apparatus further includes a packet information control unit that, on receiving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090252036 - Multinode symmetric load sharing: In one embodiment, a load-balancing algorithm ensures that both network nodes at endpoints of a group of physical links aggregated into a logical channel are using the same load-sharing algorithm and also ensures that the load-sharing algorithm is normalized so that the same flow traverses the same physical link in... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20090252038 - Fibre channel over ethernet: The present invention provides methods and devices for implementing a Low Latency Ethernet (“LLE”) solution, also referred to herein as a Data Center Ethernet (“DCE”) solution, which simplifies the connectivity of data centers and provides a high bandwidth, low latency network for carrying Ethernet and storage traffic. Some aspects of... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090252037 - Quality of service for iscsi: A system adapted to provide quality of service (QoS) for an iSCSI environment including one or more initiators and one or more targets. Each initiator includes an iSCSI initiator and a TCP layer. The iSCSI initiator includes a QoS shaper for shaping one or more iSCSI PDUs according to QoS... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman Intellectual Property Law Dept.

20090252039 - Least cost routing: A system includes a communications device configured to selectively allow communications in a plurality of communications protocols, and a router configured to receive a communications request from a user. The router may determine a preferred communications protocol from the plurality of communications protocols, based on at least a portion of... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090252042 - Low power multiple channel mixing architecture for detecting wake-up signals and related falsing protection algorithm: A low power multiple channel receiver mixing architecture for detecting wake-up signals over multiple communication channles in sniff processing performed in an implantable medical device (IMD). The architecture includes a direct conversion real receiver configured to scan a selected center channel and a Weaver receiver configured in parallel to the... Agent: Medtronic, Inc.

20090252040 - Method and system for telecommunications using layer 3 packets obtained from a sequence of layer 2 radio link control layer data frames: A telecommunications system includes a first node. The system includes a base station that communicates with the first node. The system includes a radio network controller in communication with the base station. The system includes a computer in communication with the radio network controller that reassembles a sequence of layer... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090252041 - Optimized statistics processing in integrated dpi service-oriented router deployments: A method of processing statistics in integrated deep packet inspection routers, including one or more of the following: getting a first entity, determining that an application statistic has changed for the first entity, getting application statistics for a first application of the first entity, determining that the application statistics for... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090252043 - Remote testing and monitoring to a cell site in a cellular communication network: Systems and methods provide remote performance monitoring and testing to a cell site in a cellular communications network. The systems and methods include a network management center having remote monitoring and testing capabilities utilizing an intelligent customer service unit that traps and makes available alarm information on the transport link.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090252044 - Reliable isp access cloud state detection method and apparatus: A Multi-Homing System is equipped with an Adaptive ISP Access Cloud State Detection apparatus (ACSD) that improves the reliability of the availability of digital connections (links) between computer sites, such as a Computer Premises Network and the Internet, in which such connections are made by connecting through a multiplicity of... Agent: George M Steres

20090252045 - Network system: A network system for judging abnormality of a self node with high precision on the basis of information from other nodes connected to a network is provided. In each node, a frequency at which data frames to be transmitted/received among nodes cannot be received is counted every communication partner node... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090252046 - Arrangements for networks: A system for analyzing a network including a plurality of nodes associated and/or connected together by links. The system includes a processor coupled to a data memory. The processor is configured to access a first representation of the network and associated link weight measures w in the memory. Moreover, the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090252051 - Apparatus and method for efficient resource allocation using cognitive radio communication in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (ofdma)-based moving networks: An apparatus and a method for efficient resource allocation using a cognitive radio communication in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)-based moving networks are provided. The method includes determining a minimum transmit power value of the MRS, which enables the internal terminal to have a receive Signal to Interference and... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090252047 - Detection of an unresponsive application in a high availability system: A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product for determining if an application has become unresponsive. Network traffic at a receiver node is monitored. The receiver node is determined to have generated a window probe response indicating a predetermined window size. A threshold associated with the window size... Agent: Fleit Kian Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090252052 - Flexible power offset assignments for acquisition indicator channels: A method for wireless communications is provided. a method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes generating at least one adjustable power parameter for an acquisition indicator channel (AICH) and generating at least one adjustable power parameter for an extended acquisition indicator channel (E-AICH). The method also includes generating... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252053 - Method and apparatus for estimating link quality: A driver for an IEEE 802.11 wireless network node determines a metric for link quality between the node and a remote node. The nodes communicate using a handshake protocol in which the first node expects to receive an acknowledgement (ACK) of receipt of a data packet from the remote node.... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20090252048 - Method and devices for determining available frequency ranges: A method of determining available frequency ranges for at least one communication device is provided. The method comprises providing a downlink transmission time interval, determining available frequency ranges within a plurality of frequency ranges after the downlink transmission time interval, and providing an uplink transmission time interval after the determining... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090252049 - Method and devices for specifying the quality of service in a transmission of data packets: A method for specifying the quality of service in a transmission of data packets between a service entity (AF1) and a user equipment over a mobile network is described. The mobile network comprises a core network node (SGSN1) and an access node (NB1, RNC1) which are adapted to control the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090252054 - Reduced power transmission: Reduced power transmission is described. In embodiments, networked devices communicate via a network connection. A characteristic of the network connection between the networked devices can be determined, and an output amplitude of a signal that is indicative of the communications between the network devices can be adjusted based on the... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090252050 - Transient analysis of packet queuing loss in a broadcast network: A receiver monitoring the transmissions of a packet processing device such as a wireless access point analyzes the monitored transmissions to estimate the probability of packet loss due to buffer overflow in the processing device. The loss probability can be estimated for individual packets to follow rapid changes in communication... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Inc.

20090252055 - Packet forwarding device: A packet forwarding device changes packet transfer performance according to a packet load, and ensures communication quality of an important packet while transfer performance is made minimum to suppress power consumption. The packet forwarding device includes a measuring section to measure the packet load for each packet importance degree, an... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090252059 - Determination of a list of preferred mobile access networks: Telecommunications system including a network selection manager and a mobile node. The network selection manager is operable to determine a list of preferred mobile access networks to which the mobile node may be attached during an inactive state and to communicate the list of preferred mobile access networks to the... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20090252060 - Determining presence of radio frequency communication device: A RF data communication device operates in at least two states. In a first state, the device transmits a response to an RF transmission if specific data therein represents an inquiry as to the presence of one or more RF data communication devices and if specific data therein corresponds to... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090252056 - Explicit logging of network user node/target node coupling: An Edge switch. The edge switch includes a first module configured to receive multiple coupling signals from at least one user node. a second module, and a log. For each coupling signal, the coupling signal indicates coupling one of the at least one user nodes to one of at least... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090252058 - Multi-protocol label switching multi-topology support: A network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a packet, determining whether the packet comprises a topology label, and adding the topology label to the packet if the packet does not comprise the topology label. Included is a method comprising routing a plurality... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090252057 - Wireless service processor connections: A method and system for replacing physical connections within a large enterprise system with wireless connections. A first wireless transceiver is associated with a node, wherein the node comprises one or more system service processors. A second wireless transceiver is associated with a main system service processor. System service processors... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090252063 - Method & system for configuring a network communications device: A method and system for auto-provisioning communications devices, the system includes a network appliance associated with a software and/or hardware module with instructions for managing the automatic configuration of communications devices.... Agent: Aastra/groover & Associates

20090252061 - Methods and apparatus to implement a partial mesh virtual private local area network service: Methods and apparatus to implement a partial mesh virtual private local area network service are disclosed. An example method to implement a partial mesh virtual private local area network service (VPLS) network disclosed herein comprises identifying a desired partial mesh topology of connections for interconnecting a plurality of provider edge... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090252062 - Methods for automatically configuring devices in telecommunication networks and devices for use with such methods: A method for automatically configuring a device by means of an automatic configuration means adapted for automatically configuring the device by means of a remote management protocol (RMP), comprising setting up an RMP session between the device and the automatic configuration means is disclosed, wherein when during the RMP session... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090252065 - Multi-hop network topology system and method: A wireless communication system and method for a network having a tree topology. An initial path from a base station to an end relay node is selected. The path selection includes an active communication path and a redundant communication path. The path selection is based on at least one policy... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090252064 - Seamless tree creation and movement: In an example embodiment, a beacon is sent on all available interfaces of a device comprising data indicating the operating parameters of all interfaces of the device. A beacon containing data about the configuration of a first interface and a second interface is sent on both the first interface and... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090252066 - Systems and methods for providing variable protection: The systems and methods maintain varying protection levels of related objects, such as when nodes of a data structure are protected at the same or greater protection level as their children nodes. In one embodiment, the nodes store data to track protection levels of their children nodes.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090252067 - Emergency call methodology for voip communications: A method for determining the location of a VoIP caller includes receiving an emergency call from a VoIP phone from the internet via a VoIP enabling device. A device identifier of the VoIP enabling device through which the call from the VoIP device originated is received. The device identifier is... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20090252068 - Detection of data received by a master device in a single-wire communication protocol: A method of determining, by a first device capable of transmitting a two-state signal over a single-wire connection to a second device, the binary state of data transmitted by the second device over said connection, the state being determined according to the slope of a rising edge of the two-state... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090252069 - Point-to-multipoint network system: A point-to-multipoint network system using an in-house telephone line includes a master modem and a plurality of slave modems. The master modem is configured to allocate at least of a plurality of downstream bandwidths (hereinafter, referred to as a first bandwidth) and configured to allocate at least of a plurality... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20090252070 - Airlink management in a wireless broadcast system: A wireless broadcast system that collects content for distribution over a wireless communication network. Multiple independent content streams can be coarsely interleaved by collecting multiple small segments of content of each stream and rearranging them into larger segments, that are interleaved into an aggregate content stream that is broadcast as... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090252073 - Apparatus and method for operating hierarchical cell in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for operating a hierarchical cell in a wireless communication system are provided. A femto BS transitions into a sleep mode if there is no accessed MS for a predefined time. The femto BS transmits a FEMTO-ADV message in the sleep mode to notify of the presence... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090252072 - Method and apparatus for maintaining long-lived connections between a mobile client and a server: A method and apparatus according to the present invention enables a mobile terminal in a mobile communication network to end a packet data session to save battery power while maintaining a long-lived TCP connection with a server in an external packet data network. The method comprises receiving a keep alive... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090252071 - Method and deevice for network messaging: Methods and devices for responding to network messages based on a status of one or more parameters of a device are disclosed. In one embodiment, these methods allow efficient energy management of a network device by monitoring the power levels associated with the device. In particular, if the battery power... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090252077 - Method and apparatus for using mbsfn subframes to send unicast information: Techniques for sending information in a wireless network are described. The network may support (i) regular subframes used to send unicast information and (ii) multicast/broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframes used to send broadcast information and having lower overhead than the regular subframes. In an aspect, MBSFN subframes may be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252074 - Method for determining successful receipt at a mobile terminal: Transmissions sent on a multicast broadcast multimedia service control channel (MCCH) to a mobile terminal are determined to be successfully received by signalling the expected number of messages within the transmission; and terminating receipt of the MCCH only when the number of messages received is equal to the number of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090252076 - Switching carriers to join a multicast session within a wireless communications network: Embodiments are directed to supporting a multicast session in a wireless communications network are provided. A request to register for an announced multicast session (e.g., a push to talk (PTT) session) is sent from an access terminal to an access network. The access terminal has a traffic channel on a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252075 - Transmission of overhead channels with timing offset and blanking: Techniques for mitigating interference in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, interference on overhead channels may be mitigated by (i) sending the overhead channels from different base stations in non-overlapping time intervals and (ii) having each interfering base station reduce its transmit power during time intervals in which... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252083 - Apparatus and method for supporting different system in a broadband wireless communication system using multi-hop relay scheme: An apparatus and method for supporting a different system in a broadband wireless communication system using a multi-hop relay scheme are provided. A DownLink/UpLink (DL/UL) frame of a Base Station (BS) includes a legacy access zone for communicating with a legacy Mobile Station (MS), a relay zone for communicating with... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090252082 - Apparatus and method for supporting heterogeneous systems in multi-hop relay broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for supporting heterogeneous systems in a multi-hop relay wireless communication system are provided. In a method of transmitting and receiving a DownLink (DL) frame of a Base Station (BS) in a multi-hop relay wireless communication system employing heterogeneous systems, the DL frame of the BS includes... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090252081 - Apparatus and method for supporting various systems in a multihop relay broadband wireless communication system: A mobile station compliant with a legacy system and a mobile station compliant with a new system are both supported in a multihop relay broadband wireless communication system. A DownLink (DL) period of the Base Station (BS) includes a legacy zone for communicating with entities of a legacy system and... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090252079 - Methods and systems for wireless networks with relays: Methods and systems are provided for use with wireless networks having one or more cell in which each cell includes a base station (BS), at least one relay station (RS) and at least one mobile station (MS). The at least one relay station can be used as an intermediate station... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090252078 - Relay station and method of operating relay station in multi-hop communication system: A replay station and a method of operating the relay station in a multi-hop communication system are provided. A method of operating a relay station of a multi-hop communication system includes monitoring a delay of the relay station, determining whether the monitored delay exceeds a predetermined threshold, and controlling the... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090252080 - Relaying apparatus and method in wireless communication system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for providing a relay service in a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes a modulator, an encoder, and a transmission unit. The modulator modulates a transmission signal according to a modulation degree. The encoder encodes a modulation symbol provided from the modulator using... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090252090 - Apparatus and method of 3g mobile communication capable of implementing a multi-channel protocol: This invention discloses an apparatus and a method of 3G mobile communication capable of implementing a multi-channel protocol. The 3G mobile communication apparatus includes: an application layer, for providing applications to transmit voice data; a multi-channel processing layer, for simulating at least one physical communication port of the 3G mobile... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090252086 - Front-end gateway unit for remote ecological environment monitoring system: A front-end gateway unit is designed for integration to a remote ecological environment monitoring system that is equipped with a wireless sensor network (WSN) system installed at a remote site, such as a farmland or a garden, for the purpose of allowing the WSN system to exchange data with a... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090252084 - Method and apparatus for broadcasting push-to-talk group sessions: The present invention relates to a method of communicating a push-to data packet within a communications system, where the push-to packet originates from a push-to client participating in a push-to user group comprising at least two push-to clients. The method comprises receiving the push-to data packet from a push-to server... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090252088 - Method for routing via access terminals: An access-terminal routing methodology is provided that may be used to enable a wireless, meshed backhaul between base stations using existing wireless-access resources (time, bandwidth, code-space, power), protocols, and base station infrastructure. Accordingly, the invention provides a means to extend the coverage of existing networks by adding standalone base stations... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc., Docket Adnimistrator

20090252089 - Packet receiving and transmitting method: An embodiment of the invention provides a method of receiving packets from a transmitting station at a receiving station in a mobile communication system. The packet receiving method includes receiving a radio resource including a data packet and a packet indicator related to the data packet, identifying the packet indicator,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090252085 - Robust wireless communication system and components thereof: A wireless communication system includes an access point and first and second stations. The first station transmits a first message that includes an address of a second station as a destination address and an address of the first station as a source address. The access point forwards the message including... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090252091 - System and method for multi-stage zero forcing beamforming in a wireless communications system: A system and method for multi-stage zero forcing beamforming in a wireless communications system is provided. A method includes receiving feedback information from each mobile station (MS) in a first plurality of mobile stations (MSs), selecting a first MS from the first plurality of MSs, and broadcasting information related to... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090252087 - Wireless-linked remote ecological environment monitoring system: A wireless-linked remote ecological environment monitoring system is proposed, which is characterized by the use of a sensor network such as WSN (wireless sensor network) installed at the remote site for collecting ecological data, and the use of a public wireless communication system such as GSM (Global System for Mobile... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090252096 - Apparatus and method for dynamic frequency selection in wireless networks: A wireless endpoint is a Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) endpoint, such as a base station (BS) or customer premise equipment (CPE). The WRAN endpoint can transmit an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal comprising 2048 subcarriers in a channel. The 2048 subcarriers are divided into 16 subcarrier sets, or... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090252097 - Band steering for multi-band wireless clients: Band steering for multi-band wireless clients. In a wireless digital network having at least one central controller and a plurality of access nodes connected to the central controller, and wherein some of the access nodes support a preferred wireless band and at least one non-preferred wireless band, the central controller... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090252108 - Base station, wireless control apparatus, and wireless apparatus: In a base station that performs internal data transfer based on the CPRI, a dividing part divides the data to be transferred into division data. A transfer part transfers the division data by using a plurality of CPRI links. A receiving part receives the division data transferred by the CPRI... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090252095 - 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: Troxell Law Office, PLLC

20090252098 - Communication device and method using cooperative transmission and network coding transmission scheme: A communication device and method using a cooperative transmission and network coding transmission scheme are provided. A mobile station (MS) includes a data receiving unit to receive network coding data transmitted from at least one relay station (RS) and downlink data transmitted from a base station (BS), and a data... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090252093 - Communication resource management: The invention involves management of communication resources (40, 45) in a network (1) utilizing multi-node-adapted resources (40) for transmission of multi-node-associated information and single-node-adapted resources (45) for transmission of single-node-associated information. A default resource allocation (60) specifying, for all transmitter nodes (10, 15) in the network (1), when the respective... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090252099 - Interference management in a wireless communication system using frequency selective transmission: Interference that occurs during wireless communication may be managed by determination of a selected transmit waveform exhibiting a preferred channel quality. A method, apparatus and medium of communication determine a transmit waveform from among a plurality of allocated waveforms of an unplanned access point to an associated access terminal. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252103 - Method and apparatus for performing routing area updates: Various embodiments are described for potentially reducing the impact of routing area updates on wireless system capacity. Logic flow diagram 10, in FIG. 1, depicts such functionality. In some embodiments, it is determined (12) whether a remote unit is within an edge portion of a routing area, while in other... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090252101 - Method and system of radio resource allocation for mobile mimo-ofdma: This patent discloses a method and a system of radio resource allocation for a mobile MIMO-OFDMA system, the method comprising the steps of: generating a diagonal matrix according to a channel matrix; determining a sum capacity function associated with the diagonal matrix, a plurality of transmission powers, and a plurality... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090252094 - Method for allocating wireless communication resources in distributed antenna system: A method for allocating wireless communication resources in a distributed antenna system, in which the reuse factor of the wireless communication resource is further reduced and the utilization efficiency of the wireless communication resources is improved. In a group of service areas joining as a node in the system, the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090252105 - Method for selecting transport format combination guaranteed qos in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to selecting a transport format combination (TFC) such that a quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed in a mobile communication system of a certain level even for a service having a low priority. The present invention selects a transport format combination such that not only a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090252106 - Method for selecting transport format combination guaranteed qos in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to selecting a transport format combination (TFC) such that a quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed in a mobile communication system of a certain level even for a service having a low priority. The present invention selects a transport format combination such that not only a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090252107 - Method for selecting transport format combination guaranteed qos in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to selecting a transport format combination (TFC) such that a quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed in a mobile communication system of a certain level even for a service having a low priority. The present invention selects a transport format combination such that not only a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090252100 - Methods and apparatus for reverse link acknowledgement in a wireless local area network (wlan): Methods and apparatus for reverse link acknowledgement in a wireless local area network. A method includes receiving, at a first node, a data communication over a common channel, the data communication being decodable by other nodes. The method also includes determining transmission resources from the data communication, wherein the transmission... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252102 - Methods and systems for a mobile, broadband, routable internet: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for forming a mobile ad hoc network having a plurality of wireless communication links connecting a plurality of wireless mobile nodes. The present invention may apply a dynamic spectrum awareness algorithm to facilitate effective utilization of the available communications spectrum... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20090252104 - Physical layer frame format design for wideband wireless communications systems: Systems and methods are provided for processing a payload portion of a received signal in a single carrier mode or a multiple carrier mode using a wireless channel receiver based on a portion of the received signal, where a signaling portion of the received signal is a single carrier signal.... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090252092 - Wireless communication method, communication terminal apparatus, and wireless communication system: A communication terminal apparatus and the like wherein even under an environment that the propagation path characteristic is different for each of frequency bands of OFDM signals, the error rates of all the frequency bands are reduced to improve the communication rate. In this apparatus, a connection destination deciding part... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090252111 - Apparatus and method for channel resource description: An apparatus and method for describing channel resources comprising allocating channel resources for a plurality of tiles; and determining a description of the channel resources allocated for a tile of the plurality of tiles by performing one or more of the following steps: a) comparing the size of the tile... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252110 - Method and appartus for extended reverse direction grant in a wireless local area network (wlan): Methods and apparatus for extended reverse direction grant in a WLAN. In an aspect, a method includes transmitting data within a transmit interval to a plurality of the nodes, wherein the data comprises a first indicator. The method also includes receiving, in response to the first indicator, a data transmission... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252109 - Method for demodulating broadcast channel by using synchronization channel at ofdm system with transmit diversity and transmitting/receiving device therefor: The present invention relates to a method for demodulating a BCH by using an SCH in an OFDM system with transmit diversity, and a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus using the same. For this purpose, the present invention provides a transmit diversity transmission method for a transmitting apparatus of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090252112 - Radio communication method and a base station and user terminal thereof: In a radio communication system, each of user terminals together with transmitting a data signal to a base station using different data transmission band frequencies that are assigned by a base station, performs time-division multiplexing of a pilot signal with the data signal and transmit the resulting signal to the... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090252118 - Handoff between packet-switched network and circuit-switched network: Techniques for supporting handoff of terminals between a packet-switched network and a circuit-switched network are described. In an aspect, handoff between packet-switched and circuit-switched networks may be facilitated by a designated network entity in the packet-switched network. The designated network entity may interface with both the packet-switched network and the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252115 - Handoff preparation method in a radio communication system: In a wireless communication system, signals within a connection on a wireless interface are transmitted exclusively in a packet-switched manner between a user station and an access device located on the network. The user station signals a need to measure signals to the access device, the access device sends measurement... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090252114 - Method and system for supporting seamless handover of mobile node using mobile stream control transmission protocol: A method and system for supporting a seamless handover of a mobile node using a mobile Stream Control Transmission Protocol (mSCTP) to support the mobility of the mobile node are provided. In the method and system, a change in data link layer information, which occurs when the mobile node moves... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090252120 - Method of communication supporting media independent handover: The present invention relates to performing handover of a mobile terminal to a network. Preferably, the present invention generates a first heterogeneous protocol message from a heterogeneous network handover module to a medium access control (MAC) of the mobile terminal, wherein the heterogeneous network handover module is configured to provide... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090252121 - Method, system and device for transmitting a media independent handover message: A method for transmitting a media independent handover (MIH) message includes the following steps: The MIH message is divided into segments and the segments are encapsulated into transmission control protocol (TCP) segments; the TCP segments are then encapsulated into Internet protocol (IP) data packets; the IP data packets is transmitted... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090252117 - Modular cell phone for fixed mobile convergence: A communication system including a communication system, including a modular cell phone, including a baseband modem for connecting to a core mobile network via a cellular network, and a connector for physically connecting the modular cell phone to a port of a mobile electronic device, and a mobile electronic device,... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20090252116 - Multiple action times in mobile wimax fast handover: A base station and a method for handover of a mobile station from a serving base station to a target base station of a mobile telecommunication network. Invitations may be sent from a base station to the mobile station, and the invitations may be invitations to send a request for... Agent: King & Spalding

20090252119 - Procedure for non synchronized radio access (nsra) resource assignment: A procedure for RACH initial access in a mobile terminal is provided such that necessary information is conveyed the for the initial access procedure with less overhead. The method allow an accurate choice of the uplink transport format by allowing the mobile terminal to determine by itself whether a certain... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090252113 - Radio communication system, base station, mobile device, and handover control server: A handover control server calculates a weight function of each peripheral cell of a cell to which a mobile device is currently connected, and notifies a cell list to the mobile device. The mobile device measures wireless-line qualities of peripheral cells registered in the cell list and the currently connected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090252122 - Method for reducing interference: This invention relates to wireless communication systems, specifically to methods for reducing interference. The invention allows a mobile station to determine if certain transmissions of the mobile station cause interference to reception by a second receiver in the mobile station, and indicate to the network that a change in a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090252123 - Apparatus and methods for determination of gain factors for wireless communication transmission power: Apparatus and methods for wireless communication transmission power control are provided. Determination of gain factors and adjustments for physical channel reconfiguration in the context of transmission power control are addressed. Preferably, implementation is in conjunction with communication systems in which wireless communications are conducted between wireless transmit receive units (WTRUs)... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090252125 - Method and procedures for unsynchronized, synchronized, and synchronization stand by communications in e-utra systems: An improved method of processing random access procedures, wherein the network receives at least one access burst to allow a network to estimate uplink received timing, the access burst containing at least a preamble, and transmits information for responding to the at least one access burst, while the mobile terminal... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090252124 - Method for requesting resource and scheduling for uplink traffic in mobile communication and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a resource request and a packet scheduling method for uplink traffic in a mobile communication system. For efficient scheduling of the uplink traffic, a base station and user equipment (UE) determines a scheduling method according to characteristics of the traffic when performing negotiation therebetween. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090252130 - Apparatus and methods for establishing client-host associations within a wireless network: In embodiments, a one-to-one association is established between a client and a host in a wireless network, such as a wireless local area network or a wireless personal communication network. The client may be a display device. The host may be a cellular telephone. Active association corresponds to the host... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252127 - Building wireless routing structures using out of band signaling: In an example embodiment, an access point (AP) uses out-of-band signaling on a single non-DFS (Dynamic Frequency Selection) frequency band radio in an N-radio system to synchronize information with neighboring APs and to learn about their radio interfaces. This enables the AP to be able to acquire information about neighbor... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090252135 - Efficient power management in wireless local area networks: A method of providing power management in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is presented. The method includes receiving a Traffic Indication Map (TIM) at a station, indicating the presence of buffered frames, associated with any AC, for the station at an Access Point (AP). The method further includes sending,... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esp. Chapin & Huang, L.L.C.

20090252138 - Estimation of speed and direction of travel in a wlan positioning system using multiple position estimations: A method for estimating the speed and bearing of a Wi-Fi enabled device using WLAN radio signals in a WLAN based location service is provided. A method used to estimate a speed of travel of a Wi-Fi enabled device comprises the Wi-Fi enabled device receiving signals transmitted by Wi-Fi access... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090252129 - Known station hidden network discovery: A method includes storing a table that contains identifications of certain ones of network devices and, when operating a wireless network access node in a hidden mode of operation, transmitting a probe response only to a probe request that is received from a network device having an identification stored in... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090252134 - Methods and systems for a mobile, broadband, routable internet: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile broadband routable internet (MBRI) providing for carrier-grade, networked, broadband, IP-routable communication among a plurality of mobile devices, where the mobile devices may represent a plurality of nodes that are linked together through a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET).... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20090252133 - Mobile communication system and access gateway having plural user plane agws: In a mobile communication system including an access gateway (AGW) comprising a C-AGW for handling control messages and a plurality of U-AGWs for forwarding data packets, the C-AGW is provided with a management table indicating an address of U-AGW to be an endpoint of tunnel, in association with each of... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090252128 - Multi-transceiver wireless communication device and methods for operating during device discovery and connection establishment: Embodiments of a multi-transceiver wireless communication device and methods for operating during device discovery and connection establishment are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the multi-transceiver wireless communication device includes a broadband wireless access network (BWAN) transceiver and a short-range frequency-hopping (SRFH) transceiver. The SRFH transceiver transmits a non-continuous sequence... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090252131 - Radio terminal and base station search method by means of radio terminal: Provided is a base station search method by means of a radio terminal that includes an out-of-zone power saving base station search control function that, by setting a timer, sequentially extends an interval of a base station search during which the radio terminal returns to a communication zone after moving... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090252137 - Scanning for network connections with variable scan rate: A wireless communication terminal includes a radio frequency (RF) transceiver and a baseband processing circuit, which is arranged to detect an indication of a rate of movement of the terminal. The baseband processing circuit is coupled to cause the RF transceiver to scan periodically for access points that are available... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20090252126 - Selecting portals to service network transmissions: A system, apparatus, and method to dynamically select and establish connections with portals of a mesh network are described herein.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090252132 - Selective bearer establishment in e-utran/eps: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate selectively and simultaneously establishing multiple bearers in wireless communication networks. A core network entity in a wireless network can transmit a bearer establishment request to an access point comprising a list of bearers to establish with a related mobile device. The bearer establishment... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252136 - System and method for efficiently routing information: A hierarchical communication system is described in which two wireless local area networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed to link inherently portable or mobile computer devices. A series of radio base stations make up a infrastructure network. The infrastructure network and at least one portable computer device make up... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090252141 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving high speed data using code division multiple access channels: The present invention describes a spread spectrum communication system wherein the frequency of carriers and the code channels of the carriers or both for transmission to a given remote station user vary in time. This provides for a direct sequence spectrum communications system which changes frequency or code channel according... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252139 - Radio-access method for mobile-radio networks, related networks and computer program product: A mobile-radio network includes radio base stations providing radio coverage to the users of the network via antenna elements, wherein the antenna elements are equipped with at least one first communication channel and at least one second communication channel. The first communication channel provides a first layer of individual microcell... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090252140 - Wireless communication system, terminal station, and wireless communication method: The invention includes a wireless communication system including a control station which transmits a wireless signal by one of a plurality of schemes, and a terminal station which receives the transmitted wireless signal using a plurality of directional antennas by one of a plurality of schemes. The control station repeatedly... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090252142 - Communication system, communication apparatus, and data transmission method: More than one communication device that is to simultaneously transmit identical data through multiple data transmissions using different radio wave multiplex types is determined based on the link qualities of a plurality of communication devices. Then the multiple data transmissions are made by transmitting the identical data with synchronized timings... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090252143 - Methods and apparatus for delayed block acknowledgement in a wireless local area network (wlan): Methods and apparatus for delayed block acknowledgments in a WLAN. In an aspect, a method is provided for communication with one or more nodes. The method includes transmitting to the one or more nodes a block comprising data and a first bit indicating no acknowledgements for the data are to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252144 - System and method for asynchronous wireless collision detection with acknowledgment for ad hoc wireless networks: The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for asynchronous busy-tone multiple access with acknowledgement for ad hoc wireless networks. In one example, the method includes emitting a tone after determining that a transmission is incoming from a sending node. An initial portion of a packet comprising the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090252145 - Method and apparatus for scheduling in a wireless network: Techniques for scheduling flows and links for transmission are described. Each link is an oriented source-destination pair and carries one or more flows. Each flow may be associated with throughput, delay, feedback (e.g., acknowledgments (ACKs)) and/or other requirements. A serving interval is determined for each flow based on the requirements... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252146 - Continuous network coding in wireless relay networks: Described is continuous network coding, in which a relay sends probability data comprising a continuous number for use as parity data. The node receives streams of bits sent from sources towards a destination, and computes the probability data based on current noise data and/or fading data. A selected set of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090252147 - Storage server implemented by internet small computer systems interface in linux system: A storage server implemented by an internet small computer systems interface (iSCSI) in a Linux system includes a network subsystem and a small computer systems interface (SCSI) subsystem, and an iSCSI module and a SCSI module are respectively embedded in the network subsystem and SCSI subsystem. When receiving a link... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090252148 - Use of dpi to extract and forward application characteristics: Various exemplary embodiments are a method and related device and computer-readable medium including one or more of the following: receiving a packet sent from the source node to the destination node; associating the packet with an active flow by accessing information in the packet; performing deep packet inspection (DPI) to... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090252158 - Application server allowing the distribution of a call intended for a terminal connected to a gateway to all terminals connected to this gateway: r

20090252151 - Method and network elements for content duplication in packet networks: There is provided method for duplicating communications content in a telecommunications network, wherein the content is transported in a layered communications protocol comprising at least one protocol layer. The method comprises receiving first data identifying the content to be duplicated, receiving second data identifying a lowest protocol layers to be... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090252149 - Method for processing bearer control: A method for bearer control includes: a first control entity routes a call which is routed from a TDM bearer based network domain or originated by an intra-office POTS subscriber, into an IP bearer based network domain; a second control entity receives the call which is routed back from said... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090252153 - Method for providing early-media service based on session initiation protocol: The present invention relates to a method of providing an early media service based on a session initiation protocol (SIP), wherein early media of a multimedia form can be provided under SIP-based B2BUA mode operation. According to the present invention, in a case where early media are provided to an... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090252157 - Method of setting up a call in an internet protocol multimedia subsystem network: The present invention is directed to a method of setting up a call from an originating user in an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) network. The originating user provides a signalling message containing an originating identifier of the user to a first node of the network. According to the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090252152 - Method of voip number portability using wireless device: A method of processing a number portability call, the method including: transmitting a call request message to a donor network server based on dialed number information of a called terminal; receiving a response message according to number portability of the called terminal from the donor network server, in correspondence to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090252155 - Redundant gateway system: First and second gateway devices perform TDM conversion on data from multiple packets supplied from the packet networks to generate TDM signals. A TDM exchange unit switches to the first gateway device from the second gateway device to supply the TDM network with only the TDM signal generated by the... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090252159 - System and method for processing telephony sessions: In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions... Agent: Schox PLC

20090252150 - System and method for secure transaction routing on demand: A secure transaction routing system, which includes a transaction terminal for generating a routing type based on a message received from a transaction instrument, is provided. Many host servers that link to the transaction terminal through one or more communication gateways are also included. The communication gateways route a call... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc.

20090252154 - System for integrating and transmitting network phone signals and method applied therein: A system for integrating and transmitting network phone signals and a method applied therein. The system and method provide a medium server device applicable between network phone client ends and network phone message exchange system, the medium server device enabling the network phone client ends and the network phone message... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090252156 - Voice over internet protocol switch devices: A VOIP switch device has a first terminal (1) for connection to a conventional telephone line, a second terminal (2) for connection to a VOIP line, a third terminal (3) for connection to a subscriber's telephone, a first switch capable of occupying a first condition in which the first and... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090252160 - Programmable management io pads for an integrated circuit: A multi-port SERDES transceiver includes multiple parallel and serial ports, and the flexibility to connect any one of the parallel or serial ports to another parallel or serial port. The ports include programmable pads that are capable of supporting multiple different data protocols, timing protocols, electrical specifications, and input-output functions.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090252161 - Method and systems for routing a data packet based on geospatial information: Methods and systems are described for routing a data packet based on geospatial information. In one aspect, a data packet is received, at a receiving network node. The data packet was transmitted by a source host for transmitting to a destination host. Further, a level of trust for a portion... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090252162 - Transmission apparatus, transmission method, and program: Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus including a receiving unit configured to receive ACK packets transmitted from a reception apparatus in response to transmission data items, an ACK storing unit configured to store a latest ACK packet which is last received among the ACK packets, and a TCP/IP processing unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090252163 - Grammar and ontology for multicast communication: A formal language for specifying and implementing multicast communication, named MSIL, comprises a set of constructs that are specific to multicast communication. The language provides semantic structures for repetitive, conditional, sequential, and parallel execution. It supports message passing, is extendible and domain independent. The language is flexible enough to be... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090252164 - Layered multicast and fair bandwidth allocation and packet prioritization: Embodiments include an overlay multicast network. The overlay multicast network may provide a set of features to ensure reliable and timely arrival of multicast data. The embodiments include a congestion control system that may prioritize designated layers of data within a data stream over other layers of the same data... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090252165 - Method and system for determining the existence of broadcast and multicast frames buffered in an access point: A method and a system for determining the existence of broadcast/multicast frames buffered in an access point (AP) are used to avoid wakening a station (STA) unnecessarily. The method includes: when receiving broadcast/multicast frames sent from a service network and/or multicast group, an AP sets a broadcast/multicast indication bit that... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090252166 - Network elements interconnection: A method for enabling network elements (NEs) operating at a bit rate R1 to communicate with NEs operating at a bit rate R2 is described. A ratio of R2 to R1 is represented by a ratio M:N, M and N are positive integers, and M>N. The method includes providing a... Agent: Doron Handelman

20090252167 - Queue processing method: A method of processing data packets, each data packet being associated with one of a plurality of entities. The method comprises storing a data packet associated with a respective one of said plurality of entities in a buffer, storing state parameter data associated with said stored data packet, the state... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090252168 - Multi-plane cell switch fabric system: A multi-plane cell switch fabric system prevents a decrease of the effective switching capacity when switching the variable-length packets. Distribution units classify input variable-length packets for each address, arranges the packets by a first division length unit, divides the packets into fixed-length cell payloads by a second division length unit... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090252169 - System for supporting communications among atm devices, device for supporting data transmission, method for sending data, and computer program product: A first communication device receives an ATM cell bound for a second ATM device from a first ATM device via an ATM interface, and then the first communication device sends a data frame including the ATM cell to the second ATM device via wide area Ethernet. In addition, the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090252170 - Method and device of link aggregation and method and system for transceiving mac frames: A method and a device of link aggregation and a method and a system for transceiving MAC frames are provided. The method includes: transmitting, by systems at two ends of a link, information of virtual local area networks (VLANs) of a port in a local end system to an opposite... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090252171 - Express virtual channels in a packet switched on-chip interconnection network: A method, router node, and set of instructions for using express virtual channels in a component network on a chip are disclosed. An input link 302 may receive an express flow control unit from a source node 102 in a packet-switched network via an express virtual channel 110. An output... Agent: Prass LLP

20090252174 - message identification method and a relay node used by the method: A technology providing a message identification method that can accurately identify a message for reserving the resources of a new path when a path change occurs in a network and the like is disclosed. According to the technology, a step of a relay node 102 that has detected a change... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090252173 - Method for improving efficiency of redundancy protocols: A method for improving efficiency of redundancy protocols used in a network is provided. The network comprises a first router running a program instance of a router redundancy protocol in a master state at a first interface and a dynamic protocol at a second interface, and a second router running... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090252172 - System and method for scheduling reservation requests for a communication network: A process for scheduling reservation requests among a plurality of nodes on a network, includes examining a level of network communication activity of a first node to determine whether the first node is active; allocating a reservation request to the first node, but only if the first node is determined... Agent: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

20090252175 - System, method and program for distributed event detection: A distributed event detection system for detecting a complex event by a distributed detection process, includes a plurality of broker nodes for routing events and a route node for distributing the complex event, wherein the route node comprises a detection formula decomposing unit which decomposes a complex event detection formula... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090252177 - Edge side assembler: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for enabling a virtual personalized network. Communications are established with a personal digital gateway to control access, sharing, security, and/or management of up-to-date personalized data exchanged between or among a plurality of associated communications devices and/or communications networks. The associated communications devices are owned,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090252176 - Gateway device: Provided is a gateway device for interconnecting an IEEE1394 network and an IP network, which automatically detects and operates an AV device connected to the IEEE1394 network from a player device connected to the IP network, thereby enabling the player device to watch and hear contents stored in the AV... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090252178 - Method, apparatus and computer program for self-adjusting spectrum sensing for cognitive radio: A cognitive radio determines a frequency channel of a spectrum, determines from a locally stored association of individual channels to either of at least two categories (e.g., in use and backup, other is a third category) a selected category for the determined frequency channel. From the selected category is determined... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090252179 - Encapsulating large ethernet frames: A method comprising receiving a data frame, encapsulating the received data frame into a reflected frame message (RFM) encapsulated frame, and if the received data frame causes the RFM encapsulated frame to exceed a maximum service data unit size, either the data frame is truncated or the data frame is... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090252180 - Device, system and method for data transfer optimization: Devices, systems and methods for data transfer optimization. A computing platform may, for example, modify a first property of a communication network in relation to an analysis of a second property of said communication network and a property of a data item. For example, a processor or a modem may... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090252182 - Determinative segmentation resegmentation and padding in radio link control (rlc) service data units (sdu): A transmission entity (e.g., user equipment (UE)) is expected to reduce the segmentation of Radio Link Control (RLC) Service Data Units (SDUs) while also minimizing padding. Signaling or provisioning of a constraint value such as a maximum padding amount or minimum segmentation size is employed in a determinative way in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated Patent Department/central Administration

20090252181 - Discovery for fibre channel over ethernet devices: Techniques are provided for performing discovery in a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network. An FCoE Node (ENode) discovers the FCoE Forwarders (FCFs) connected to its network segment by transmitting a solicitation message to the multicast MAC address “All-FCF-MACs”. All FCFs receive packets with this multicast MAC address including the... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP