Multiplex communications inventions

20080107011 - System, apparatus, and method for processing a received orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for processing a received OFDM signal are provided. The system comprises a tuner and a signal processing unit. The tuner is configured to receive an OFDM signal. A signal processing unit is configured to search for a possible frequency of a symbol in the received OFDM... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080107012 - Transmission method and related device: A method for transmitting a signal carrying information elements over a plurality of frequency subcarriers simultaneously. The method comprises: identifying a set of at least one frequency subcarrier of the plurality particularly subjected to attenuation; and transmitting the signal simultaneously over said plurality of frequency subcarriers by assigning respective information... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080107013 - Signature generation using coded waveforms: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless networks such as relay networks or multi-hop networks, and also relating to transmitting a signal using coding schemes and multiple frequencies. According to an example embodiment, a different wireless signature may be assigned to one or more nodes in a wireless network,... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080107015 - Apparatus for and method of preventing device address from conflicting in wimedia mac: An apparatus for preventing a device address from conflicting in a WiMedia media access control (MAC), the apparatus including: a device address conflict determination unit which determines whether a conflict between a device address of the apparatus and alien device addresses included in a received alien beacon occurs; a device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080107014 - Distributed wireless system with centralized control of resources: The present invention provides a distributed wireless system with centralized control of resources, comprising: a plurality of communication processing devices connected to each other, each communication processing device performing the channel processing task of cells which it is responsible for, including processing an uplink wireless signal into an uplink data... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080107016 - High-frequency uninterruptible signal and power bypass: High frequency signals and power carried in a main cable delivering the same to a device are insured continuance flow within the main cable through use of a shorting bypass bar assembly in the device that is activated to electrically connect input and output ports of the device whenever the... Agent: Kenneth Watov, Esq. Watov & Kipnes, P.c.

20080107018 - Method and apparatus for computing alternate multicast/broadcast paths in a routed network: Alternate multicast/broadcast paths may be calculated in a routed network to enable broadcast/multicast traffic to be transmitted around a local failure in the routed network until the routing system reconverges on a new network topography. According to an embodiment of the invention, the nodes on a multicast tree or a... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20080107017 - System and method of distributing digital content: A method is disclosed that includes receiving a data packet at a first video distribution hub via a first link. The method also includes determining whether a second link has failed, wherein the first video distribution hub communicates with a second video distribution hub via a primary network path that... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080107019 - Apparatus and method for measuring neighbor cell signal in portable terminal: Provided is a method for measuring a neighbor cell signal in a portable terminal includes acquiring a minimum required quality level value and a threshold for an intra-frequency measurement from received system information; calculating a measured cell quality value after the acquiring step; and commencing a neighbor cell signal measurement... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080107020 - Highly-scalable hardware-based traffic management within a network processor integrated circuit: A technique for managing traffic within a network processor integrated circuit (IC) involves establishing multiple queue groups, associating a different hardware counter with each queue group, and then using the hardware counters to support rate shaping and scheduling of all of the queues in the queue groups. For example, 512... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20080107021 - Parallel wrapped wave-front arbiter: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that schedules the transfer of cells in a switch. The system starts by receiving a set of cells to be transferred from a set of inputs of the switch to a set of outputs of the switch. The system includes S subschedulers,... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080107022 - Generating traffic from a predetermined amount of processed traffic: There are disclosed methods, computer readable media, and apparatus for generation of processed traffic. Traffic, including plural data units for transmission to a first endpoint, may be provided. The provided traffic may be processed and held until a predefined amount of processed traffic has accumulated. The held traffic may then... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080107023 - Method for detecting a digital interface and a image display device adopting the same: A method for detecting a digital interface connected to an external device, and an image display device adopting the same are provided. The method for detecting a digital interface includes generating and displaying a menu for selecting a method for detecting a connection to an external device through a digital... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080107030 - Apparatus and method for controlling data transfer rate on reverse link in mobile communication system: A mobile communication system is provided. A base station includes: a measuring unit for measuring loads of all mobile stations existing within a sector; a first computation unit for computing a sector load by using a Rise Over Thermal (ROT) of the sector; a second computation unit for computing an... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080107025 - Apparatus for detecting data looping phenomenon and method used by the same: Provided is a switching device for detecting and removing a looping phenomenon in a data communication network and a method using the switching device. The method includes: detecting a frame checksum value; counting the number of times of a checksum value corresponding to the frame checksum value is received; and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080107029 - Embedded self-checking asynchronous pipelined enforcement (escape): A network comprises a plurality of nodes; a plurality of bi-directional point-to-point communication links, wherein a priority-based arbitration scheme is used to communicate over each of the plurality of point-to-point links; and a hub that is communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of nodes via the plurality of point-to-point... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080107027 - Engineered paths in a link state protocol controlled ethernet network: Traffic Engineered (TE) paths may be created over a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network by causing explicit paths to be installed by network elements on the link state protocol controlled Ethernet network and used to forward traffic on the network. The network elements exchange routing information using link state... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20080107024 - Method for acknowledgement of messages in a star network: A method of communicating node status in a star network comprising a hub and a plurality of nodes comprises sending a first message to the hub from a first node included in the plurality of nodes; forwarding the first message from the hub to at least one second node included... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080107026 - Method for modifying mss: The invention refers to a method for optimising the data communication in a network comprising a wireless radio network using connection oriented protocol (TCP) over internet protocol (IP). The network comprises a router (SGSN) intervening the connection oriented setup between a host (SERVER) and a client (MS), and changing the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080107028 - Method and system for improving qos of access terminal interactive data: A method for improving user-interactive data QoS and system thereof, the method comprises: Adjusting the transmission rate of each user, by means of the corresponding reverse inter-user QoS parameters attribute such as reverse probability transfer matrix and/or maximum rate limit or the like, which are set for the users with... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080107031 - Real-time video packet monitoring and processing for enhanced quality of service: In one embodiment, a dynamic rate control scheme controls transmission rates and adaptively filters out video packets when a packet queue is full. This allows video streams to be more efficiently transmitted through low bandwidth and dynamically changing links.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080107032 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a distributed hardware platform interface (hpi) architecture: Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a distributed hardware platform interface (HPI) architecture are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a system for providing distributed operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) functionality in a multi-shelf processing environment. The system includes a first shelf that... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080107033 - Radio communication network capable of radio communication with reduced overhead: In a radio communication system, a relay route is established with a plurality of wireless devices constructing an MPR set for a wireless device as a root node by transmission and reception of a Hello packet. A wireless device other than that constructing the MPR set transmits neighboring wireless device... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080107034 - Route optimization for on-demand routing protocols for mesh networks: Various embodiments implement a set of low overhead mechanisms to enable on-demand routing protocols. The on-demand protocols use route accumulation during discovery floods to discover when better paths have become available even if the paths that the protocols are currently using are not broken. In other words, the mechanisms (or... Agent: Walstein Bennett Smith Iii

20080107036 - Communication relay device, communication relay method, and computer product: An evaluation criterion that evaluates a comparison result of a bandwidth before a bandwidth limitation and a bandwidth after the bandwidth limitation is selected and set in advance in a layer 2 (L2) switch device according to the present invention. An input packet is subjected to the bandwidth limitation and... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080107035 - Interference measuring and mapping method and apparatus for wireless networks using relay stations: Interference levels occurring at one or more stations in a wireless network, where each of said one or more stations is a base station or a relay station. The measured interference levels are mapped by building a first matrix including noise plus interference occurring at each of the one or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107037 - Management of incoming information: A method and system is provided for determining reliability of data from a network or federated device. In one example, data from different devices in the network are compared and a relationship between the devices is determined. The reliability may be based on the relationship of the devices and/or similarity... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080107038 - Apparatus, method and program product to generate and use crc in communications network: The CRC for the CPS Header of an ATM AAL2 cell is generated by a CRC generator which uses the 8 bits of the CID field to generate partial 5 bits CRCs which are loaded in a first table. The 6 bits LI field and 5 bits UUI field are... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080107039 - Method and apparatus for estimating dominance norms of a plurality of signals: A method and apparatus for estimating dominance norms of a plurality of signals transmitted over networks are disclosed. For example, the present invention discloses a method and apparatus for estimating dominance norms of a plurality of signals using Max-stable distributions.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080107040 - Transmitting apparatus, transmitting method, program, and communications system: There is provided a transmitting apparatus for transmitting data, which includes: compressing means compressing data to be transmitted; packetizing means packetizing the data compressed by the compressing means; a buffer for accumulating the data which are packetized; transmitting means transmitting the data accumulated in the buffer; clearing means clearing the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080107041 - Bit-field-encoded resource record for determining a transmission path in a communications network: Method and apparatus for tracking, recording and distributing link state characteristics over communications networks. The invention allows network operators to efficiently define, track, store and disseminate link state characteristics using a bit-field-encoded resource record that is capable of representing many more link state characteristics than the bit-mask-encoded records used in... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080107042 - System and method for configuring a computing device: Described is system and method for configuring a computing device. A device identifier of the device is obtained. A first configuration value for the device is determined as a function of the device identifier. A configuration data file is generated as a function of the first configuration value. The configuration... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080107043 - Distributed storage of routing information in a link state protocol controlled network: A distributed hash table is implemented to store routing information on a network. Node IDs exchanged in connection with implementation of a link state routing protocol are used as keys in the distributed hash table, and routes are stored at one or more nodes on the network. When a route... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20080107044 - Methods and apparatus for network communication via barrage relay onto an independent medium allocation: Systems and methods are presented for conducting a relayed communication involving a source node, a plurality of intermediate nodes, and at least one destination node, involving at the source node transmitting a signal associated with the relayed communication on a first medium allocation, at each one of the plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080107045 - Queuing voip messages: Methods and arrangements to play Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) messages are contemplated. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to play VoIP messages by receiving overlapping VoIP messages from a VoIP conference, placing at least one of the overlapping VoIP messages in a queue, and playing the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080107046 - Analog signal path modeling for self-interference cancellation: Described herein is a device that includes at least one radio frequency transmitter; at least one radio frequency receiver; a copy block configurable to output a digital representation of a currently transmitted signal and a model having a representation of at least analog circuitry of the at least one radio... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080107047 - Systems and methods of supporting multiple wireless communication technologies: Systems and methods for supporting multiple wireless communications technologies are provided. When a first and second base station operate according to different wireless communication technologies on the same carrier frequency in different cells or on different carrier frequencies in the same cell the frame structure of each base station is... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20080107048 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a time division duplexed (tdd) communication system: Techniques to process data for transmission in a time division duplexed (TDD) communication system. In one aspect, the frequency response of a forward link is estimated at a base station based on reverse link transmissions (e.g., pilots) from a terminal. Prior to a data transmission on the forward link, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080107049 - System and method for wireless communication in a time division duplexing region: A method and system for using half-duplex base stations and half-duplex nodes in a Frequency Division Duplexing region to provide wireless connectivity between the half-duplex base stations and customers in multiple sectors of a cell. The method and system can use two physical channels to form two logical channels. Each... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080107050 - Non-destructive media access resolution for asynchronous traffic in a half-duplex braided-ring: A half-duplex communication network comprises a plurality of communication links, each link being configured a priori to communicate in one direction; and a plurality of nodes, each node coupled to a first and second direct neighbor nodes and a first and second skip neighbor nodes via the plurality of communication... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080107052 - Client mobility in a wireless network: An apparatus and method of a router within a wireless network providing mobility of a client device is disclosed. The method includes defining a routing table of the router, wherein the routing table provides next hop information towards the client device. Entries to the routing table are created, wherein the... Agent: Tropos Networks Patent Dept

20080107054 - Harq data reception in multiradio device: A HARQ data reception scheme for a multiradio communication device is disclosed. The communication device operates multiple radio connections and monitors interference level caused to a target radio connection by at least one other radio connection operated in the communication device. A data packet and at least one retransmission data... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080107053 - Method and apparatus for reordering received packets in mobile telecommunication system: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for reordering received packets in a mobile telecommunication system supporting HARQ so that the problem of order change is solved. The method includes receiving from a receiving-side HARQ entity an input of a packet and processing time spent by the packet going through... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080107051 - System and method for operating a portable electronic device: A method of establishing a communication connection of a wireless communication device operable in a wireless local area network and a cellular phone network is provided. A wireless communication device, having access to the wireless local area network and the cellular phone network, is also provided. A user preference parameter... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080107055 - Performing presence service in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to perform presence service in a wireless communication system that is available to a mobile device.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080107056 - Hybrid power-saving mechanism for voip services: An embodiment of the invention is a technique for power saving in mobile communication. At least one of a base station (BS) and a mobile station (MS) is initialized for power saving using a downlink (DL) status and an uplink (UL) status associated with the BS and the MS, respectively,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080107059 - Communication service continuation system, communication service continuation method, and program thereof: In a mobile terminal in which a communication service is being executed, communication networks can be switched without causing a loss of communication data while maintaining the execution of the communication service. In a server which provides a communication service via communication networks provided in parallel and a mobile terminal... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080107057 - Methods and apparatus for communication of notifications: Methods and apparatus for communication of notifications are disclosed. A disclosed method for communicating notifications from a server to a device includes sending a primary message including data indicating notification status information; and sending notification messages apart from the primary message addressed to specific groups of devices. Similarly, another disclosed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080107060 - Relay device, wireless communication system and multicast relay method: The present invention relates to a relay device realizing multicast communications efficient and effective in mobile communications. The relay device transmitting a multicast user data packet containing a content to a plurality of base stations comprises a storing unit storing, in a storing unit, information about a multicast group, information... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080107058 - Method, system and apparatus for acquiring multicast program address: A method for user equipment acquiring a multicast program address includes: receiving, via a Short Massage Service Center (SMSC), an updating program bookmark message containing a multicast program address from an Over The Air (OTA); acquiring the multicast program address from the updating program bookmark message. The present invention also... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080107063 - Bandwidth reuse in a multi-hop mobile relay system: A multi-hop mobile relay system including a base station, a first relay station, a second relay station, and a mobile station, in which a data flow is transmitted from the base station to the first relay station using a first bandwidth, the data flow is transmitted from the first relay... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107061 - Communicating packets in a wireless multi-user multi-hop relay networks: A method communicates packets in a relay network. Multiple packets are communicated between a set of mobile stations and a relay station using a set of connections. There is one connection between each mobile station and the relay station. The multiple packets are aggregated on single connection between the relay... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080107062 - Frame structure for a relay station operating in mobile networks: A frame structure for a relay station operating in an OFDMA network includes a downlink sub-frame having a first allocated time zone dedicated for transmission between a base station in the network and the relay station, a second allocated time zone dedicated for transmission between the base station and a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107064 - Media access server for satellite-based cellular networks: A system and method for processing media control traffic between a mobile switching center and plurality of remotely located media devices is described. The media devices are infrastructure components of a wireless network. The media control traffic includes a satellite link in the path between the mobile switching center and... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080107065 - Address spoofing prevention: The present invention relates to a method for securing a radio communication link establishment in a radio communication network comprising a local network and a secured network. The local network comprises at least a first terminal and a second terminal and at least the first terminal is capable of communicating... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080107067 - Method for allocating ip address to mobile station in mobile communication system: Provided is a method for allocating an Internet protocol (IP) address to a mobile station in a mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving an “Activate Packet Data Protocol (PDP) request” message including router solicitation from the mobile station; b) acquiring a global IP address of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080107068 - Communication control apparatus, firewall apparatus, and data communication method: A communication control system 1 according to the present invention is provided with a home agent apparatus 10, a plurality of firewall devices 20-40, and a mobile station 50. When the mobile station 50 is connected, for example, to the firewall device 20, the firewall device 20 receives identification information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080107066 - Performing presence service in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to perform presence service in a wireless communication system that is available to a mobile device.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080107071 - Channel selection in a wireless network: In order to achieve improved performance for users on a wireless network, it is desirable to reduce interference between wireless access points (APs or WAPs) by selectively assigning different channels to the radios of the APs in a-neighborhood. This may be performed by process whereby a central controller automatically assigns... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080107072 - Determining transmitting stations in an ofdma network: Preamble modulation codes in an OFDMA network are assigned to one of at least two groups, one of the groups indicating that codes assigned to the group are for base stations in the network and a different one of the groups indicating that codes assigned to the group are for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107069 - Joint channel assignment and routing in wireless networks: In a described implementation, a channel cost metric (CCM) is determined in a wireless network environment. The CCM may be determined responsive to an expected transmission time (ETT) and a frequency of air time (FAT), which reflects a channel utilization. In an example implementation, a channel assignment and/or a routing... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080107070 - Method to loadbalance among mobile ipv6 home agents: The invention relates to load balancing the binding creation on a home agent with a mobile node in an IPV6 network. A home agent serving a prefix learns about load on other home agents and when a home agent address discovery request from a mobile is received by a home... Agent: Craig E. Shinners Law Office Of Craig E. Shinners

20080107073 - Communication systems: A transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system is provided. The system includes a source apparatus, a destination apparatus and one or more intermediate apparatuses. The system has access to a time-frequency format for use in assigning available transmission frequency bandwidth during a discrete transmission interval, said... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080107074 - System and method for dynamic frequency allocation for packet switched services: A system, method and computer program for dynamic frequency allocation for packet switched services in which radio channels used for packet switched services may be dynamically allocated to meet quality of service (QoS) requirements utilizing a dynamic frequency and channel allocation system. The achievable throughput is estimated in the available... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080107078 - Determining transmitting stations in an ofdma network: Preamble modulation codes in an OFDMA network are assigned to one of at least two groups, one of the groups indicating that codes assigned to the group are for base stations in the network and a different one of the groups indicating that codes assigned to the group are for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107079 - Enhanced data transport system and method for mobile terminal: An enhanced data transport system and method for a mobile terminal are provided that may improve transmission rates. A data transport system for a mobile terminal includes a radio frequency unit, a data processing unit, a memory unit, and a control unit. The radio frequency unit establishes a radio frequency... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080107082 - Mobile communication apparatus: The present invention provides a mobile communications apparatus, which optimizes handover timing and avoids communications interruptions with a base station. A handover timing calculating function 23, which computes a handover timing, is provided in either a mobile station 10 or base station A (20-A) or B (20-B). The handover timing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107076 - Optimizing topology learning in a multihop network: In a multihop network having a first type of node, a second type of node and a third type of node, techniques are provided for optimizing topology learning in the multihop network which can reduce the amount of control traffic that occurs due to frequent topology changes. For example, each... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080107077 - Subnet mobility supporting wireless handoff: A handoff technique involves receiving communications in a format associated with a first radio technology, translating the communications to a format associated with a second radio technology, and tunneling the communications from a mobile device to a switch that hosts a virtual LAN (VLAN) associated with the mobile device, and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080107075 - System and method to facilitate path selection in a multihop network: A system and method to facilitate path selection in a multihop network includes receiving by a base station a path metric associated with each of a plurality of stations neighboring to a subscriber station; comparing each of the path metrics with a current path metric; and transmitting a path selection... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080107081 - Handover control apparatus, relay router, gateway apparatus, access router, base station, mobile communication system, and handover control method: A mobile communication system 100 according to the present invention comprises handover control apparatus 1 and radio terminal unit 10. The handover control apparatus 1 controls handover of a radio terminal unit 10 between access routers 31-34 provided in respective base stations 21-24 for radio communication with the radio terminal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080107083 - Method and apparatus for network initiated data services: Techniques are provided for conserving network resources in a network that initiates data services by communicating push data to a dormant terminal. Selected network resources associated with the dormant terminal are released, and maintained information for reaching the dormant terminal is updated when the point of network attachment of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080107080 - System and method of fast channel scanning and ip address acquisition for fast handoff in ip networks: A communication system is provided. The system comprises: a set of access points (APs) under tracking; and a table comprising a set of pairs comprising AP_ID, and channel frequency. The channel frequency is associated with an AP among the set of APs identified by AP_ID and the AP is tracked.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080107084 - Quality of service mechanism: A system comprises a subscriber station and a network, the network comprising an access service network and connectivity service network. In an improved communication method an access service network a quality of service profile for a subscriber is received by an anchor gateway of the subscriber. On the basis of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080107085 - Apparatus and method for determining transmission mode in wireless communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for determining a transmission mode for a base station in a wireless mobile communication system. The method includes measuring a state of a channel with a mobile station, determining whether channel states between the mobile station and a predetermined number of other mobile stations... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080107086 - Method and apparatus for fast cell search: A method and apparatus for transmitting a primary and secondary synchronization channel is provided herein. During operation a transmitter will transmit a primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) in a subframe and a secondary synchronization channel (S-SCH) in the subframe. The S-SCH is modulated by a complex exponential wave and scrambled with... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080107087 - Method and apparatus for cdma control segment hopping in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for hopping of a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) control segment that carries control information in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) packet data mobile communication system are provided, in which a number of CDMA control segment hopping zones, each CDMA control segment hopping zone... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080107088 - Method and apparatus for compensating code channel power in a transmitter: It has now been found that in some transmitter implementations which transmit multiple code channels, for example CDMA transmitters, the observed power for each code channel at the output relative to the other code channels is dependent upon the total transmit power due to non-linearities in the transmitter. Methods and... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080107091 - Broadcast efficiency in a multihop network: Techniques are provided for improving broadcast efficiency in a multihop network having a base station which transmits a downlink signal, at least one relay station and at least one node associated with the relay station. The relay station relays or retransmits the downlink signal it receives from the base station... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080107089 - Method and arrangement in wireless ad hoc or multihop networks: The present invention relates to the use of beaconing or “hello” messages in wireless multihop or ad hoc communication networks. In the method according to the present invention beacon messages (HELLO messages) are transmitted between a plurality of radio nodes (205, 215) in an ad hoc or multihop network. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080107090 - Radio frequency firewall coordination: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, responsive to a triggering event, one or more radio frequency (RF) firewall transceivers that neighbor a data wireless access point to which a given wireless client is communicating; configuring one or more of the identified neighboring RF firewall transceivers to detect RF frames... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080107092 - Universal services interface for wireless broadband networks: Embodiment of the invention relate to a new type of service interface network node which enables a service provider of a broadband wireless access (BWA) network to provide relevant information to application service provider (ASPs) in a public Internet and in turn allows ASPs to provide value add services or... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080107093 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving multiple radio signals over a single antenna: An apparatus for transmitting and receiving multiple radio frequencies simultaneously over a single antenna is provided. The apparatus comprises a transmitter signal combining apparatus configured to communicatively couple with a plurality of transmitters, wherein the transmitter signal combining apparatus is configured to output a transmission signal based on any signals... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080107095 - Method and apparatus for a communication system operating in a licensed rf and an unlicensed rf band: The present invention relates generally to wireless communications, and more particularly to a communication system operating in a licensed RF band and an unlicensed RF band. The method comprises exchanging (302) traffic information (410) between a base station (102) and a mobile station (105, 107) on at least one radio... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080107094 - System and method for integrating call control and data network access components: A system and method for integrating the call control signaling pathway with data network access components. A call control server agent is resident on a network device that provides a first interface from an access network to a packet-switched data network. The call control server agent receives data session initiation... Agent: 3com Corporation

20080107096 - User locating system, method and server in packet-based netwok: A user locating system, method and server in a Packet-based network. A plurality of management regions divided by terrains are included, and each of the management regions includes: an address management server adapted to collect and bind communication addresses and user identifiers of all network users in the management region,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080107097 - Allocation of frequency bands to radio communication systems: To allocate frequency bands to respective radio communication systems, allocation of a frequency band to each radio communication system is modeled by at least one three-dimensional block as a function of a frequency bandwidth and a coverage area of the radio communication system so as to determine at least one... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080107098 - Multislot-mode automatic frequency correction apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments herein may sense a measure of signal quality at a sub-channel associated with each of a set of allocated timeslots as frames associated with a data block are received at a wireless, packet-switched receiver. For each received frame, a selected allocated timeslot may be chosen from the set of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080107099 - System and method for adapting a transport stream for transmission: An ASI transport stream is processed in a way that allows the use of an RF wireless link to connect a distribution network to a transmitter in a single-frequency network. Null packets are disguised by changing the PID value of each null packet to a PID value that has been... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP

20080107100 - Method and apparatus for delivering relevant content: A method and apparatus for providing a relevant content delivery service on networks such as packet networks, e.g., Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. For example, the present method receives a request to initiate a call from a calling party to a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080107101 - Multi-dialing-number voip phone call connection method: A multi-dialing-number VOIP phone call connection method, comprising the following steps: Firstly, registering by a first calling party with at least two proxy servers utilizing a network address, thus obtaining at least two dialing numbers; issuing by the calling party a calling invitation to the proxy server by making use... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080107102 - Phonecasting systems and methods: Multimedia files, such as audio programming, are currently available to Internet users through a combination of their personal computer, an optional portable digital audio player, and an Internet connection. Many audio programs are now currently distributed over the Internet in a syndicated form known as a “podcast”, allowing users to... Agent: Krueger Iselin LLP (3001)

20080107103 - Non-blocking multicast switching network: l

20080107104 - Generic packet generation: There are disclosed processes and systems relating to simulated real-time packet generation to test a communications network. A first packet stream is defined and transmitted. Each packet in the first packet stream is composed from a first background data field and one or more user defined fields that overlay the... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080107107 - Icmp with ip routing instance information: A method and system for providing routing instance information are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a trace packet at a network device, generating an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet in response to the trace packet, and transmitting the ICMP packet. The ICMP packet includes routing instance... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080107105 - System and method for communicating on a richly connected multi-processor computer system using a pool of buffers for dynamic association with a virtual channel: Systems and methods for communicating on a richly-connected multiprocessor computer system using a pool of buffers for dynamic association with a virtual channel. Packets are communicated in a multiprocessor computer system having a large plurality of processing nodes interconnected by a defined interconnection topology, in which a communication from a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080107106 - System and method for preventing deadlock in richly-connected multi-processor computer system using dynamic assignment of virtual channels: Systems and methods for preventing deadlock in richly-connected multiprocessor computer system using dynamic assignment of virtual channels. Deadlock is prevented in a multiprocessor computer system having a large plurality of processing nodes interconnected by a defined interconnection topology. Each link in the interconnection topology is associated with a set of... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080107108 - System and method for enabling fast switching between psse channels: A system and method for replacing existing media streams of a streaming session with alternative media streams, without tearing down the RTSP session and providing only a minimal delay. In various embodiments of the present invention, the client indicates to the server that it wishes to replace a media stream... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080107109 - Method and apparatus for managing multicast traffic in a network at the data link or level 2 layer: A method using a network bridge to manage multicast transmission is provided. The method begins by receiving a packet from a first source station having a first source address over a data network. The packet includes a first multicast destination address. A table is accessed using the multicast destination address... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080107110 - Relay device, wireless communication system and multicast relay method: The present invention relates to a relay device realizing multicast communications efficient and effective in mobile communications. The relay device transmitting a user data packet, containing a content, in which to set a multicast address associated with the content, to a plurality of base stations belonging to a same zone... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080107111 - Method and system for controlling flow in an asymmetric communication channel: A system for controlling transmission of data over a network. In response to receiving a content request from a client device coupled to the network, an initial data packet is sent to the client device. In response to receiving a feedback packet from the client device, transmission of the content... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080107112 - Network device and packet forwarding method thereof: A network device connected to a client includes a table-creation module, a transceiving module, a detecting module, and a translation module. The table-creation module creates an internal table and at least one external table, listing a plurality of real network parameters of the network device, and a plurality of virtual... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080107113 - Set/reset mechanism: Included are embodiments for resetting a signal. At least one embodiment of a method includes sending a first packet, the first packet including a first legacy physical layer header, the first legacy physical layer header including a first duration indication configured to indicate a predetermined duration, the predetermined duration being... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080107114 - Method and apparatus for forwarding service in a data communication device: The present invention provides a method and forwarding apparatus for forwarding a service in a data communication device. The apparatus includes a storage unit for storing a Route Prefix, private data of the Route Prefix and a corresponding Next Hop Array; and a forwarding unit for forwarding a service in... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080107115 - Method, device and system for message transmission: The present invention discloses a message transmission method, a message transmission device, and a message transmission system. In an embodiment of the present invention, a message transmission device is provided. When a message is transmitted to the device, the device is responsible for message parsing, routing, and sending. In the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080107116 - Large scale multi-processor system with a link-level interconnect providing in-order packet delivery: A large-scale multiprocessor system with a link-level interconnect that provides in-order packet delivery. The method comprises transmitting, over a link in the defined interconnection topology, a sequence of packets in a defined order from a first node to a second node. The second node is an intermediate node in a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080107117 - Efficient processing of connection control messages in managing virtual circuits using signaling protocols: To send a connection control message associated with a first set of attributes, only a difference of the first set of attributes from a second set of attributes associated with an already active virtual circuit (to a common destination) may be sent (contained in the connection control message). The devices... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080107119 - Method and system for guaranteeing qos between different radio networks: A method and system for guaranteeing QoS between different radio networks is disclosed. The radio networks comprise a first network and a second network. The first network, operating in Diff-serv mode, comprises a user equipment (UE). The second network comprises an AAA server, a TTG, and a GGSN. In the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080107118 - Weighted fair queue serving plural output ports: A data communication apparatus includes a plurality of output ports and a scheduler for assigning priorities for outbound data frames. The scheduler includes one or more scheduling queues. Each scheduling queue indicates an order in which data flows are to be serviced. At least one scheduling queue has a respective... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law

20080107120 - Switch fabric access scheduler: A switch fabric access scheduler is disclosed. An indication is received that a link included in a plurality of links to the switch fabric is next in order to be serviced by a queue scheduling process common to the plurality of links. The queue scheduling process common to the plurality... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080107122 - Method and computer program product for a new node joining a peer to peer network and computer readable medium and the network thereof: A peer to peer network, a method, a computer program product for a new node joining the network and a computer readable medium are disclosed. The peer to peer network comprises a plurality of nodes and a new node. Each of the nodes has its own partner list. Each of... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080107123 - Methods and mobile routers in a communications system for routing a data packet: The present invention relates to moving networks in communication systems. An object of the invention is to provide moving network nodes (205, 206) in a moving network (201) with the ability to simultaneously access several external access networks (211, 212, 213) accessible by different mobile routers (204, 207) such that... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080107121 - Network roaming and reporting system of physiological parameters and method thereof: The present invention discloses a network roaming and reporting system of physiological parameters and its method. The system includes at least one wireless transmission module, at least two gateways, an Internet and a server. The wireless transmission module is connected to a portable measuring instrument for receiving a user's physiological... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080107124 - System and method for supporting mobility and multipath packet delivery in ip communications and computer networks across nat and firewall boxes: The present invention generally relates to a system and method for supporting (1) mobility in IP (Internet Protocol) networks and (2) multipath packet delivery when the communication paths between a group of senders and a group of receivers traverse one or more NAT and Firewall IP boxes. While at first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080107125 - Mac address scalability in interconnected rings: A method for communication is used in a communication network that includes multiple ring nodes arranged in at least first and second ring networks, which are connected by one or more of the ring nodes serving as interconnect nodes. A data packet is accepted from a source user node served... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080107126 - Network configuring method, network system and relay apparatus: A relay apparatus for performing relay possessing is disclosed. The relay apparatus includes a first logical relay unit; a second logical relay unit; a sending unit configured to add a packet header including a first protocol identifier or a second protocol identifier registered in a protocol assignment unit to a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080107127 - Aggregation of inter-domain resource signaling: A method for aggregating or combining signaling messages for the adaptation of resource reservations required for route modifications is provided. According to the method, a modification of an inter-domain route requiring an adaptation of resource reservations is disclosed to a first routing domain. The first routing domain communicates the modification... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080107128 - Network access mechanism and method: A communications system includes a network that is coupled to a number of terminals, at least some of which are capable of audio or other forms of real-time interactive data communications over the network. Each of the terminals includes a network adapter that is capable of detecting a collision with... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080107129 - Fixed bit rate wireless communications apparatus and method: A wireless communication system transmits and receives electronic voice signals between a wireless communication device and a wireless networking device at a call bitrate stored in the wireless communication device. By using the call bitrate when transmitting and receiving call signals, the wireless communication system is able to eliminate delays... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080107130 - Session initiation protocol (sip) message incorporating a multi-purpose internet mail extension (mime) media type for describing the content and format of information included in the sip message: A system and method for processing a plurality of requests for multi-media services received at a call control element (CCE) defined on the system from a plurality of IP-communication devices. The system includes at least one Network Routing Element (NRE), a Service Broker (SB), a media sever, a plurality of... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080107131 - Method and system for initialization configuration of managed device: A method for initialization configuration of a managed device, includes: predefining and storing initial configuration information of the managed device; detecting a message requesting for IP address assignment broadcasted from the managed device; searching in the initial configuration information for the message requesting for IP address assignment, to obtain an... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080107132 - Method and apparatus for transmitting overhead information: A method provided by the present invention for transmitting overhead information, includes dividing and reforming overhead information into at least two overhead parts, inserting the at least two overhead parts into overhead bytes of at least two corresponding data frames, and transmitting the at least two overhead parts via the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080107133 - Method and apparatus for transcrypting or transcoding content for a terminal within a vehicle: A system 10 for distributing content includes a content provider 12 that provides content through various devices including a satellite 26 or a terrestrial-based system 38. The content provider 12 provides content to a content distribution system 70 within a vehicle 60. The method associated with the system includes generating... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080107134 - Multiple access apparatus and method using power line: A comprisal includes an external power line model 1, a power distribution board 2 and an indoor power line model 3 which is connected to a power line by way of a capacitor for shutting off a sine wave of a power signal of a low frequency; a terminal station... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080107135 - Radio data transmission method employing several different pilot patterns, corresponding base station, mobile, system and reception method: A method and apparatus are provided for the transmission of radio data between at least two transmitters and one receiver, said method employing at least one multi-carrier data transmission signal. The aforementioned multi-carrier signal is formed by a temporal succession of symbols comprising: (i) informative data elements, and (ii) reference... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080107136 - Method and apparatus for constituting transport network based on integrated synch and asynch frame: Provided is a method for forming a customized-quality integrated transport network based on synch and asynch frames, and a transport network forming apparatus thereof. The method of the present invention includes: a) synchronizing a transmission bit rate in a network; b) when the transmission bit rate is synchronized in the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080107137 - Data receiving device, data reproduction method, and computer product: In a receiving device, time information is separated from received multimedia data, a first difference is calculated between two consecutive pieces of time information, and a second difference is calculated between reception timings of the two consecutive time information. Jitter is calculated from the first difference and the second difference,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080107138 - Method and apparatus for recognizing n channels according to n multi-channel signals: An apparatus and method for a receiver to recognize channel numbers, skew delays, and polarities of N channels by extracting the properties of the transmitted signals are provided. Each of the N signals comprises a plurality of digital symbols with certain characteristics known to the receiver. The apparatus comprises a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080101210 - Method and apparatus for characterizing modulation schemes in an hfc network: The available modulation schemes of a network are analyzed to determine which ones contain excessive phase noise or narrowband interference. A network element is selected and assigned to a test channel at a first modulation scheme at a predetermined power level to achieve a predetermined PER. The network element transmits... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080101211 - Method of assigning uplink acknowledgement channels in scheduled packet data systems: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for assigning uplink acknowledgement channels in scheduled packet data systems is provided. The method includes providing at least one message indicating that at least one packet is scheduled to be provided to at least one mobile unit over a downlink. The message... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080101212 - Method and apparatus for spur cancellation in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system: A communication device is provided that is capable of operating in an OFDM or communication system and that provides for cancellation of in-band spurs. The communication device identifies a bin of multiple bins associated with an output of an inverse transformer and comprising a spur and estimates one or more... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101214 - Pilot signal transmission method and mobile communication system: A method of transmitting pilot signals for channel compensation in a mobile communication system based on DFT-spread-OFDM is disclosed. In the disclosed method, a first pilot signal and a second pilot signal are time-division multiplexed together with a data signal of a user into a time-division multiplexed signal which data... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080101213 - Techniques to reduce overhead in ofdma based wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising reducing overhead in OFDMA based Wireless Networks by determining the highest CIDs to be transmitted in a particular DL/UL MAP and determining the number of leading zero bits of the highest CID and removing the leading zero bits from each... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080101215 - Ofdm receiver and doppler frequency estimating circuit: A radiofrequency signal is converted to an intermediate frequency signal by a tuner, which is amplified by a variable gain amplifier. The so-amplified signal is converted into a digital signal by an ADC, which is supplied to an FFT, where it is separated into signals set every carrier, followed by... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080101216 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplex (ofdm) signal equalizier: An equalizer equalizes a received orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signal which includes periodic pilot symbols. The equalizer includes a channel estimation unit which estimates a frequency response the received OFDM signal, and an equalization circuit which equalizes the received OFDM signal in accordance with the frequency response estimated by... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080101217 - Method, system, and computer program product for avoiding data loss during network port recovery processes: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed in a data processing system for avoiding data loss during network port recovery. A first network port is linked to a second network port via a network. The second network port transmits data to the first network port via the network.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101218 - Method and device for implementing active/standby gateway device in a network: A method and device for implementing active and standby gateway devices in a network are provided. The method includes: determining, by a device connected to at least two gateway devices, status of the gateway devices; notifying, by the device, the gateway devices of information of determined active or standby status;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080101219 - Ring rapid multiple spanning tree protocol system and method: In an embodiment, a method is disclosed for operating a network having a group of bridges connected together to form a ring, each bridge having two ports assigned to the ring to form a group of ring ports. The claimed embodiment includes forwarding information through the ring according to one... Agent: Craig A. Hoersten Intellectual Property Department

20080101220 - Header suppression/compression apparatus and method for providing multicast and broadcast service (mbs) in broadband wireless access system: Header suppression/compression apparatus and method for providing Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method includes checking an overhead ratio of a packet based on the MBS channels; when the overhead ratio of the packet is greater than a threshold, compressing a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080101226 - Buffer management in a network device: Buffer management in a network device. A new data packet is received at a packet buffer queue of the network switch, wherein the new data packet is a portion of a burst block. If the packet buffer queue is full, a data packet from within the packet buffer queue that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101222 - Lightweight, time/space efficient packet filtering: Variable-length tuples are used in packet filter rules to optimize time and/or space efficiency in a packet filtering system. The variable-length tuples only store the parameters necessary to implement a rule, and desirably omit any unnecessary parameters. An index field may also be provided in each rule to identify the... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080101223 - Method and apparatus for providing network based end-device protection: A method and apparatus for providing network based end-device protection on networks are disclosed. For example, the present method receives one or more packets, wherein the one or more packets are destined to a protected end-device (or the one or more packets are received from the protected end-device). The method... Agent: Mr. John Etchells At&t Enterprise Services, Inc.

20080101221 - Method and system for communication session under conditions of bandwidth starvation: A real-time communication device with an asymmetric mode is disclosed. During a real-time communication session, a communication application executing on the communication device detects an upstream communication channel having insufficient bandwidth to support real-time communications in an upstream direction. Consequently, the communication application enters into an asymmetric mode. In asymmetric... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080101224 - Priority call routing: A method includes receiving a priority message in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and identifying, via the IMS, resource availability through a first network and a second network. The method further includes routing, via the IMS, the priority message through one of the first network or the second network... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080101225 - Systems and methods for capturing network packets: In one embodiment a method for capturing network packets includes transmitting packets from and receiving packets with a network switch, and copying transmitted and received packets to a packet repository within memory of the network switch such that the packets are stored on the switch and available for later retrieval.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101228 - Mmpp analysis of network traffic using a transition window: Data communication in network traffic is modeled in real time and is analyzed using a 2-state Markov modified Poissen process (MMPP). The traffic inter-arrival times for bursty and idle states define a transition window [λ1max, λ2min] represented by the boundary values λ1max for the inter-arrival time for bursty traffic, and... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080101227 - Qos routing method and qos routing apparatus: A QoS routing apparatus as a node of a logical network to transmit data communicated between user's terminals comprises a relay unit discriminating whether or not flows of received data are measurement flows and transmitting said received data, a quality measurement unit measuring communication quality of links connected the own... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080101229 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for grooming traffic on a shared network facility based on a peak utilization analysis of the shared network facility: A communication network is operated by monitoring a bandwidth utilization of a shared network resource, performing a statistical analysis to determine a mean utilization peak and/or a utilization peak coefficient of variance, monitoring a bandwidth utilization of lines, ports, and/or channels associated with the shared network resource, performing a statistical... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080101232 - Analysis and selection of optimal function implementations in massively parallel computer: An apparatus, program product and method optimize the operation of a parallel computer system by, in part, collecting performance data for a set of implementations of a function capable of being executed on the parallel computer system based upon the execution of the set of implementations under varying input parameters... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080101235 - Automatic termination path configuration: There is provided herein a system and method for automatic configuration of data routings for use with electronic data such as phone calls, faxes, etc. In the preferred embodiment, when more than one carrier might potentially terminate the transmission, the carriers are ordered based on some screening criterion (e.g., transmission... Agent: Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens

20080101234 - Identification of potential network threats using a distributed threshold random walk: In general, the invention is directed to techniques of identifying an infected network device in a computer network where traffic to and from the infected network device is not necessarily routed through a single point on the computer network. For example, individual line cards in network devices count incoming network... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20080101230 - Managing power consumption in a nic team: The present disclosure provides an information handling system which includes a team of network interface controllers (NIC), each controller operable to receive network traffic load. The system also includes logic configured to direct the network traffic load to at least one NIC in the team based on the network traffic... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080101233 - Method and apparatus for load balancing internet traffic: A load balancer is provided wherein packets are transmitted to a burst distributor and a hash splitter. The burst distributor consults a flow table to make a determination as to which forwarding engine will receive the packet, and if the flow table is full, returns an invalid forwarding engine. A... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080101236 - Storage system and communication bandwidth control method: The present invention provides a method for controlling a communication bandwidth between a network switch having a plurality of ports for forming a network, and a storage apparatus having ports respectively connected to at least two of the ports, the method including: transferring one or more data frames to the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080101231 - Wi-fi quality of service signaling: The transmission of signaling frames in a QoS system may be prioritized over the transmission of content frames carrying time-sensitive information. The signaling frames and the content frames may belong to a single communication session. Alternatively, the signaling frames may belong to a different communication session than the content frames.... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080101237 - Communication device: A communication device includes a congestion detecting part configured to detect congestion of traffic; and a message generation part configured to generate and send a MTU decreasing message, in a case where congestion is detected by the congestion detecting part and a packet having a MTU equal to or greater... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080101239 - Fairness of capacity allocation for an mpls-based vpn: A method and system for providing fairness of capacity allocation in a network is presented. The method includes intercepting RSVP messages at a PE router, counting capacity requests for reservable classes of service for each VPN on each LSP, and rejecting requests when a VPN has inadequate capacity on the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080101238 - Integrated circuit including data synchronization apparatus and method: A synchronization apparatus for data synchronization and method for data synchronization is disclosed. One embodiment provides clock signals which are phase-shifted relative to one another are used for synchronizing data packets in a serial-to-parallel conversion device in a write path and equally for synchronizing data packets in a parallel-to-serial conversion... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080101240 - Apparatus and methods for authenticating voice and data devices on the same port: In one embodiment, a method is disclosed. A first non-domain packet that does not specify a domain is received from a first device. A first authentication packet is sent to the first device to thereby attempt a first authentication process for allowing the first device to access a network via... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080101241 - Ethernet oam at intermediate nodes in a pbt network: OAM may be implemented at an intermediate node on a PBT trunk in an Ethernet network by causing OAM frames to be addressed to the PBT trunk endpoint but causing the OAM frames to carry an indicia (Ether-type, OpCode, TLV value or combination of these and other fields) that the... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20080101243 - Communication apparatus, communication system and communication method: A communication apparatus wherein the function arrangement of each device is revised, thereby preventing an increase in traffic of a public network and further suppressing an increase in communication cost of the public network. In this apparatus, a control part (101), when notified of a duplication of MBMS data by... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080101244 - Data routing method and apparatus: A data routing method and system, the data routing method including: locating a destination node using a destination locating packet; establishing a preliminary route including anchor nodes based on a route where the destination locating packet is transmitted to the destination node; determining a link cost between neighbor nodes of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080101242 - Intelligent network planning and provisioning tool: An intelligent network planning and provisioning tool is provided. The intelligent network planning and provisioning tool includes a forecaster coupled to a network control plane. The forecaster receives an estimate of initial network resources from a user and generates a set of link costs and constraints for use by the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080101245 - Method for selecting useful routes in a router for even traffic distribution in a communication network: Connectionless Internet protocols make use of the principle of routes. The routes implicity lay-down which path the data packets of a communication relation flow will take through the network. When a data packet of a so far unknown flow occurs for the first time, the router selects a route which... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080101246 - Method and apparatus for packet reception and transmission in a wireless communications system: A packet transmission method for a transmitter in a wireless communications system, for enhancing transmission efficiency when sporadic data transmission is needed, is disclosed. The packet transmission method includes initiating an HARQ procedure, triggering a transmission of a packet, and sending the packet repetitively until a predefined number of ACKs... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080101247 - Monitoring internet protocol (ip) telephony signaling links: In one embodiment, a method includes, at an endpoint, receiving signaling packets from a network coupled to the network. The method also includes, at the endpoint, detecting faults in the signaling packets received at the interface. The method also includes, from the endpoint, reporting the faults to a call agent... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080101248 - Methods, systems and computer program products for selective network management in a network having multiple active routes to a common destination that are keyed by different combinations of parameters: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for selective network management in a network having multiple active routes to a common destination that are keyed by different combinations of parameters. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for controlling distribution... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080101249 - Apparatus for measuring transmission delay: A transmission delay measuring circuit may include a first transmission path, a second transmission path, an inversion circuit, a first multiplexer, and an output terminal. The second transmission path may have the same structure as the structure of the first transmission path and may receive the output of the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080101255 - Automatic tracking of network paramenters in the event of changes in the traffic load: In one aspect method and device for tracking network parameters of a communications network, which is formed by links, with access controls for the purpose of limiting the traffic load are provided. The traffic matrix of the network is regularly determined and probabilities of the blocking of traffic are determined... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101254 - Instrumentation of mpeg-2 transport streams for testing network performance: A method and apparatus for testing and measuring the performance of a network for delivering multimedia is disclosed. A multimedia source is divided into data packets according to a packetizing standard. Each data packet includes a header and a payload containing a portion of the multimedia. N data packets (N>0)... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080101253 - Methods and apparatus for round trip time measurements: In a method for measuring round trip time (RTT), an RTT measurement packet is transmitted to a destination node. The RTT from transmission of the RTT measurement packet to reception of a response from the destination node is measured to determine if the RTT is greater than a predetermined time... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080101250 - Network path identification: A method is implemented in a network that comprises a plurality of ports and an indicator associated with each port The method comprises forming a frame The frame passes through the network. The frame causes indicators of multiple ports to illuminate to provide an indication of a path through the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101252 - Providing ad-hoc interoperability among network nodes: A method of providing interoperability among communications network nodes. Interoperability types, including a basic type of interoperability, are defined. For each interoperability type, a support capability is defined for implementation on a node without modification to the node application layer. On each node is provided at least the basic interoperability... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080101251 - System, apparatus and method for mixed mode communication on a single network: Provided is a system, apparatus, and method for evaluating a variety of protocols on a computer network which includes a plurality of network devices. The network devices are adapted to communicate messages on the computer network using their respective protocols. The present invention system, apparatus and method are associated with... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20080101257 - Apparatus, and associated method, for selecting quality of service-related information in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for reporting QoS information associated with a reverse link communication service effectuated in a radio communication system, such as a CDMA2000 cellular communication system. The mobile station includes a service quality level selector that selects a selected service quality level, such as a communication rate,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080101256 - System and method for selecting fibre channel switched fabric frame paths: A system and method for measuring data transmission activity through a port of a switch device interconnecting nodes of a storage area network, the port transmitting data as words of predetermined length, one data word indicating idle port activity. The method includes steps of counting a number of transmitted words... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy, & Presser, P.C.

20080101258 - Method for configuring network connections utilizing a graphical user interface showing network topology: A method for easily configuring a network, network connections, and electronic devices in the network is disclosed. A user interface conveniently displays the current network configuration in a topological diagram. Each device in the network is displayed as an icon. Connections between the devices are also shown in the user... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080101259 - Constructing a transition route in a data communication network: A method is described of constructing a transition route in a data communication network having as components nodes and links. Upon receipt of a transition notification identifying a first component a non-neighboring node constructs a transition route around the first component. In an embodiment, a node performs detecting the first... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080101260 - Parent terminal selection method and terminal having parent terminal selection function for use in star-type connection ad hoc wireless network: A parent terminal collects remaining battery capacities of terminals (steps S201-S202, step S212) and monitors data transmission/reception amounts (step S203). The parent terminal calculates remaining battery times o