Multiplex communications inventions

20100020674 - Apparatus and method for synchronization acquisition and cell id search in wireless communication system: A apparatus and method for allocating synchronization acquisition sequence in a time domain and allocating a cell ID search sequence in a frequency domain. In a method for transmitting a synchronization signal of a base station in a wireless communication system, a binary frequency-domain preamble sequence predetermined for cell ID... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100020675 - Method and apparatus for ofdm based on 3d signal constellation: Provided is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) apparatus using a 3-dimensional (3D) signal constellation. The apparatus performs 2D inverse fast Fourier transform on a set of 3D subchannel signals that is mapped by a signal constellation including signal points distributed on the surface of a 3D sphere.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100020676 - Method for maintaining connectivity in failed switches of stack: Plural of switches are connected as switch stacking for easier management. Failures of stack member switches disrupts the stack and network availability. This invention discloses a method to maintain stacking connections in failed switches. This invention introduces a small circuit to monitor health of the switch and short circuit the... Agent: Sahul Hameed Abdul Kader Jailani

20100020677 - Methods and systems for automatically renaming logical circuit identifiers for rerouted logical circuits in a data network: Methods and systems are provided for automatically renaming logical circuit identifiers for rerouted logical circuits in a data network. A first logical circuit identifier for a first logical circuit in a first network is identified. When a failure is detected in the first logical circuit, a second logical circuit identifier... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100020678 - Switching program, switching method and full duplex system: When a switching unit of each of first DB servers receives a transaction-stop instruction request from a second DB server, the switching unit performs a transaction-stop instruction process. When a transaction processing unit of each of the first DB servers receives a transaction stop instruction from the switching unit, the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100020679 - Core router capable of securing the output router of an autonomous system: A core router adapted to back up a nominal output router. This kind of core router of a first autonomous subsystem is connected to a nominal output router of the first autonomous system adapted to route traffic whose destination is a second autonomous system, the first autonomous system further including... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100020680 - Multi-chassis ethernet link aggregation: In one embodiment a method is provided for forwarding traffic through a standby device in the event of an uplink connection failure. The method generally includes forwarding traffic received on a first downlink connection with a dual-homed device to an uplink connection with a network core, detecting a failure on... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20100020681 - Communication apparatus and device, communication apparatus control method and control program, and computer readable recording medium: Provided is a communication apparatus by which a user can simply set a transmission quality in a network and QoS control effectively functions. QoS type receiving sections (11, 21, 31, 41) are arranged in communication apparatuses (10, 20, 30, 40) on a network, and a user is permitted to specify... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100020682 - Communication device, communication method, and recording medium: In transmitting data between a server device and a client device or between communication terminals, a data transfer rate is set in response to an available bandwidth, an application of the data, and the like not to cause waste of the network. A controlling portion detects a packet loss caused... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20100020684 - Multi-band ofdm communications system: System and method for providing multiple access in a multi-band, orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (multi-band-OFDM) communications system. A preferred embodiment comprises determining a transmission bandwidth to support a performance requirement and configuring transmission bands in the multi-band-OFDM communications system based upon the transmission bandwidth, wherein the transmission bands may be... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100020683 - System and method for combining requests for data bandwith by a data source for transmission of data over a communication medium: A method and system for combining requests for data bandwidth by a data source for transmission of data over a communication medium is provided. A central node receives one or more bandwidths requests from one or more data sources via wireless communication. A scheduler then combines one or more bandwidths... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100020685 - Systems and methods for dynamic bandwidth management on a per subscriber basis in a communications network: A subscriber bandwidth management process and device that allows users/subscribers in a communications network to dynamically alter bandwidth limits independently in both the uplink and downlink data transmission paths. This is accomplished by providing for a single queue in the uplink transmission path and a single queue in the downlink... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100020686 - Dynamic setting of optimal buffer sizes in ip networks: A communications system provides a dynamic setting of optimal buffer sizes in IP networks. A method for dynamically adjusting buffer capacities of a router may include steps of monitoring a number of incoming packets to the router, determining a packet arrival rate, and determining the buffer capacities based at least... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100020691 - Actuator for implementing rate-based packet sending over packet switching networks: An actuator is disclosed which is required to implement, without errors, a generic rate-based packet sending algorithm over a packet switching network such as the Internet. Typical applications are audio/video streaming over UDP or TCP, audio/video conference over IP, Voice over IP, real-time data delivery, IP Television, Digital Video Broadcast... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20100020692 - Communication network design: A communication network design circuit can derive a path and a necessary link capacity for multiple point communication service permitting arbitrary communication within a predetermined range of communication amount by providing traffic amount of data in-flowing through an ingress node and traffic amount of data flowing out through an egress... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100020690 - Communication system, optical line terminal, and congestion control method: Congestion caused by a large number of IGMP requests sent from set top boxes at channel switching is prevented in an optical line terminal (OLT). An IGMP processing section in the OLT has a delayed data generation threshold and a delayed data transmission threshold. When the number of ONTS participating... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100020693 - Cumulative tcp congestion control: A system and method for establishing a plurality of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections between a transmitting host and a receiving host and for sending data from the transmitting host to the receiving host. Congestion control is performed for the plurality of TCP connections using one congestion window on the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100020689 - Immediate ready implementation of virtually congestion free guaranteed service capable network : nextgentcp/ftp/udp intermediate buffer cyclical sack re-use: Various increment deployable TCP Friendly techniques of direct simple source code modifications to TCP/FTP/UDP based protocol stacks & other susceptible protocols, or other related network's switches/routers configurations, are presented for immediate ready implementations over proprietary LAN/WAN/external Internet of virtually congestion free guaranteed service capable network, without requiring use of existing... Agent: Bob Tang

20100020687 - Proactive surge protection: A system for protecting a network from a traffic surge includes a data collection module, an allocation module, and a traffic flow module. The data collection module is configured to obtain network utilization information for a plurality of traffic flows. The allocation module is configured to determine an optimal bandwidth... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20100020694 - System and method for providing dynamic bandwidth on demand: A system and method to adjust dynamically network speed or bandwidth allocation. A network connection is established at some initial speed. The bandwidth usage through the connection is monitored, and when the connection speed becomes congested with data, the connection is dropped and a higher-speed connection is established.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Slusky

20100020688 - Systems and methods for proactive surge protection: A system for protecting a network from a traffic surge includes a data collection module, an allocation module, and a traffic flow module. The data collection module is configured to obtain network utilization information for a plurality of traffic flows. The allocation module is configured to determine a bandwidth allocation... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20100020695 - Routing engine for telecommunications network: A system for automated installation of a communication line using an optimal route between a source location and a destination location is disclosed. The system includes a routing engine providing an automated design process for rendering the optimal route. The routing engine utilizes a routing algorithm to select the optimal... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20100020697 - Method and system for monitoring the health of wireless telecommunication networks: A method and system for monitoring the health of a wireless telecommunication network. Network health is monitored without placing an administrative burden on the carrier network itself, instead, this burden is placed on components that lie outside the carrier network and pass communications through it. The data service provider infrastructure... Agent: Docket Clerk Kelly-krause

20100020696 - Unsupervised traffic estimation for low-power media streaming: A method and system for processing data streams is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a plurality of initial sample zones; establishing a plurality of wakeup zones; sampling a plurality of data packets based on the plurality of initial sample zones; estimating the traffic based on the sampling... Agent: Sawyer Law Group PC

20100020698 - Communication apparatus and oam frame transmission method: A disclosed communication apparatus of one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a transmitting unit including a counter for counting the number of transmitted data frames and indicating the counted number of the transmitted data frames as a counter value and a scheduler for determining a frame transmission order, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100020699 - Method and apparatus for oam & p of wireless network: There is provided a system and method of operating, administering, managing and provisioning of a communications network. A network element enters the registration and discovery mode during its initial auto-configuration, restarting, restarting from different geological location, or forming peer-to-peer groups for self-organized and/or self-coordinated networks. Managing mode is entered after... Agent: Patentique PLLC

20100020700 - Global network monitoring: Systems, methods and apparatus monitor networks to identify when the networks are not operating normally, for instance, because of malware. During a sample interval sample data is collected that corresponds to a plurality of system activities, the sample data collected from a plurality of monitored networks and representing normal operations... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100020710 - Cell identifier assignment and selection: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing physical cell identifier (PCI) assignment. Neighboring access point parameters can be collected and transmitted to a PCI assigning component, which can generate a PCI based on the parameters as well as other local parameters. The neighboring access point parameters can be received... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100020711 - Communication device comprising a carrier sense function and communication method: A communication device of an example of the present invention comprises a first unit determining that whether a state is a first state indicating that a transmission medium is in use, a second state indicating that the transmission medium is not in use, or a third state indicating that whether... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100020706 - Communication parameter setting processing method, communication apparatus, control method therefor, and program: When the role of a receiver is not predetermined, it is impossible to uniquely determine the transfer direction of communication parameters. A communication apparatus comprises: discrimination means adapted to discriminate a function of another communication apparatus with respect to communication parameter setting processing when the self communication apparatus is a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100020713 - Dividing rtcp bandwidth between compound and non-compound rtcp packets: An apparatus for controlling utilization of RTCP bandwidth for compound and non-compound RTCP packets is described. This apparatus includes a bandwidth detector determining available RTCP bandwidth and a channel quality detector determining channel quality. A bandwidth divider connected to the bandwidth detector and the channel quality detector divides the available... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100020701 - Method and apparatus for determining coupled path loss: The disclosure generally relates to method and apparatus for determining coupled path loss in a small geographical which is served by a plurality of transmitters and is subject to broad signal level variation. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for determining performance of a signal received by... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20100020717 - Method and system for quality of service (qos) monitoring for wireless devices: Method and apparatus to monitor MQoS of wireless mobile devices is described. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method to monitor the health of 3G mobile devices and provide a status check of such health to network technicians, supervisors, and management. In one aspect, mobile devices on the... Agent: Richard Esty Peterson Patent Attorney

20100020712 - Method for reporting channel quality through uplink common channel in wireless communication: In a wireless mobile communications system, a method of transmitting and receiving channel quality information is provided. A base station transmits a command or indication a terminal to transmit the channel quality information, the terminal receives the command or indication by receiving a control channel periodically, and the terminal reports... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100020709 - Method of assigning precoding vectors in a mobile cellular network: The invention concerns a method for assigning precoding vectors in a mobile cellular network as well as a base station (21). A base station (21) provides a code book comprising indexed precoding vectors to one or more mobile stations (41, 42, 43) associated with the base station (21) via a... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100020704 - Method, apparatus and computer readable medium for obtaining efficient downlink power transmission: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for obtaining efficient radio resource utilization in a communication network comprising a communication network entity transmitting data on a downlink channel over a radio interface to one or more user equipments, each of which is transmitting data on an uplink channel... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100020714 - Mobile radio communications device measurement: The present invention provides for a method of facilitating mobile radio communications device measurements within a mobile radio communications network, including the step of including within a Resource Block sent to the mobile radio communications device from the network an indication of the number of subsequent consecutive Transmission Timing Intervals... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100020703 - Network infrastructure capability detection: A system to discover a network infrastructure capability includes one or more subsystems to establish a communication path between a first endpoint and a second endpoint. A test packet is sent from a first endpoint along the communication path and a value is associated with the test packet which relates... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100020708 - Packet capture apparatus, packet capture method, and computer readable medium having a packet capture program: A packet capture apparatus and method including receiving packets through a network, acquiring target packets including specific information from the received packets, extracting the target packets of each session, and storing the extracted target packets, estimating a capture cycle, a capture width, and a capture start time based on static... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100020715 - Proactive network analysis system: A proactive network analysis system is a single unit for diagnosing network problems, measuring network performance, and monitoring network status in a comprehensive manner. The system is a compilation of individual tools including a distributed network packet capture data stream collector; a traffic analyzer; a performance graphing unit; a syslog... Agent: Blynn L. Shideler The Blk Law Group

20100020716 - Scheduling in wireless communication systems: A method in a wireless communication network (100) wherein information is communicated in a frame structure wherein each frame includes multiple sub-frames, including grouping at least two wireless communication terminals in a group, assigning the group to less than all sub-frames constituting a communication frame, and assigning a radio resource... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100020705 - Supervisory control method and supervisory control device: A supervisory control device for a network having a plurality of network elements, includes: a communication interface which is connected to each of a plurality of element groups, wherein the plurality of network elements is grouped into the plurality of element groups; and a controller for controlling supervisory control information... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100020702 - Techniques for wireless communications networks employing beamforming: Techniques involving beamforming are disclosed. For example, For instance an apparatus may select a first mobile station served by a first base station and a second mobile station served by a second base station. Based on this selection, a quality metric may be determined that is based on a strength... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20100020707 - Wi-fi sensor: Disclosed is a combined spectrum and channel analyzer with output in the form of various graphical displays. The graphical displays can be configured to display frequency, amplitude, time and density via a spectral view, a topographic view, or a planar view, or combinations of those views. Channel activities, parameters, overlap... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20100020721 - Arrangement and method relating to routing of ip traffic in mobile wireless newtorks: The present invention relates to a proactive optimized link state protocol and a node with routing means supporting such a protocol implementing multipoint relaying for distribution of control messages, e.g. comprising hello messages, which are extended and comprise neighbour information, link status information and resource related information, and second control... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100020719 - Automatic maintenance of a distributed source tree (dst) network: In one embodiment, an automatically maintained, distributed source tree (DST) network has a plurality of fully connected internal nodes. One or more internal nodes may be connected to one or more external nodes. A first internal node synchronizes its link-state database with another internal node by sending and receiving respective... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.C.

20100020722 - Method for discovering the physical topology of a telecommunications network: A network (NW1) has switches (S1-S7), routers (R1-R4) and a management node (NMS1) interconnected by links (PL1) in a spanning tree (ST1) and links (PL2) to blocked interfaces. Switches and routers have the IP address of the management node. The nodes are discovered by the management node (NMS1) broadcasting a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100020724 - Method of configuring an intelligent electronic device: Substation automation (SA) systems are disclosed such as systems for configuring an International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61850 standard-compliant Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) in a SA system. A proxy IED is a NCC gateway device enhanced for converting data between non-IEC 61850 and IEC 61850 communication protocols. Proxy IED is configured,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100020718 - Shared community storage network: A hardware and/or software facility for durably and securely storing data within a shared community storage network. A user may have a storage device that they intend to share with others in the network. All or a portion of the storage device is registered with the community storage network as... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100020720 - Signaling framework for negotiating and executing composition of registries: Systems, methods, devices and software for negotiating and executing registry composition are described. Signaling frameworks for both of these aspects of registry composition are provided.... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20100020723 - Train car-to-car communication device: A train car-to-car communication device includes: a terminal; an intra-composition transmission line connected to the terminal within the same composition for transmitting information; a composition-to-composition communication relay unit connected to the intra-composition transmission line for receiving first information from the terminal within the composition and transmitting the first information to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100020725 - Method and mobile terminal for searching home network: A mobile terminal and a method for searching for a home network for the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes performing a full scan for searching for the home network at a certain time after roaming to a visited network, initializing a count of a number of times a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100020726 - Automatically configuring mesh groups in data networks: In one embodiment, a method for setting up a flow-through mesh group (FTMG) for transmitting link-state packets (LSPs) in a network having a plurality of nodes interconnected by links. The FTMG is a combination of multiple spanning trees for the network through which LSPs are forwarded. FTMG set-up messages are... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.C.

20100020727 - System and method of using diameter based signaling to activate and deactivate subscriber centric, visually rendered, services: A system and method is provided for providing using Diameter based signaling to activate and deactivate subscriber centric, visually rendered, services. The system is implemented in a computer infrastructure which includes computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium. The executable code is operable to activate and deactivate... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100020728 - System, method and portable communication device: A system, method and computer program product for providing a user a way to change communications presence information is disclosed. A point of presence (PPD) device may produce presentity (a source of presence information about a user) which may be transmitted out-of-band to a watcher or watchers of an intelligent... Agent: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

20100020730 - Frequency synthesizers for wireless communication systems: Synthesizers are configured with first and second phase-locked loops (PLL's). The first PLL is arranged to include a digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO) and to respond to an input signal to provide a reference signal with a plurality of selectable reference frequencies. The second PLL is arranged to include a voltage-controlled oscillator... Agent: Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Dawson

20100020729 - Method and system for half duplex audio in a bluetooth stereo headset: Aspects of a method and system for half duplex audio in a Bluetooth stereo headset are provided. A service type and/or service activity levels may be detected over a link in a duplex communication system. The link may be dynamically changed according to the detected service activity levels in both... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100020731 - Device and control procedure for fdd and non-fdd bandwidth: A device (D) dedicated to control of bandwidth used by a work station (3-j) that can be connected to a network allowing the user to access a service that doesn't require feedback, this network being a frequency division duplexing network which accommodates at least one frequency bundle branch block of... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100020732 - Physical layer superframe, frame, preamble and control header for ieee 802.22 wran communication systems: The present invention provides a system (900), apparatus (700, 800) and method for frames, preambles and control headers for a physical (PHY) layer of the 802.22 WRAN specification. Some of the main features of the present invention include: Superframe and Frame structure; Superframe Preamble (and CBP Preamble); Frame Preamble; Superframe... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100020734 - Base transceiver station, user equipment, communication method of base transceiver station, and radio communication system: A base transceiver station that is communicable with a plurality of user equipment s includes a receiving unit that receives battery information of the user equipment, and a controller that controls allocation of radio resources to be used to transmit data addressed to the plurality of user equipments based on... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100020733 - Synchronous messaging for mobile station: In some embodiments, base station/mobile station state entry schemes may use synchronous messaging for mobile stations to enter into a state in synchronization with an associated base station, e.g., they both know the frame or relative frame in which the state is to be entered, whether or not it actually... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100020736 - Interleaver address generation in turbo decoders for mediaflo communication systems: Address generation for interleaving in a wireless communication system includes at least one input generation module to generate at least one input signal. A first address generator module and a second address generator module generate a first output address for interleaving and a second output address for interleaving. A selector... Agent: Rahman LLC

20100020735 - Method and system for peer-to-peer communication among sites: A method and system for peer-to-peer communication among a plurality of sites in a land mobile radio (LMR) system. The sites are interconnected by a data network, such as an IP network. Each site transmits a periodic broadcast message, which includes the identity of the transmitting site and a list... Agent: Michael A. Rahman Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

20100020737 - Mobile communication system, base station apparatus and mobile station device: To provide a mobile communication system, base station apparatus and mobile station device for use in a data communication service such as MBMS in which a plurality of base station apparatuses transmit identical information toward a plurality of mobile station devices, to enable data transmission of high reliability by making... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100020739 - Automatic partner selection in the coooperative mac protocol: The present invention provides a system (600), device (500) and method (400) for automatic partner selection in an existing Cooperative MAC (CMAC) protocol, which uses the Ready-to-Send (RTS), Clear-to-Send (CTS) and Partner-Clear-to-Send (PCTS) handshaking to establish cooperation. The present invention enables a “best” partner/relay (500.R.k) who is also willing to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100020738 - Relay network system and terminal adaptor apparatus: The optimum relay route is selected out of a plurality of relay routes to a server. In order to solve a multirouting problem, introduced is a multi routing system for determining a relay route on the basis of a label corresponding to a terminal of an access source and a... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20100020741 - Wireless communication system: A modular wireless Internet access communications system designed to extend broadband 802.3 linear-bus topology up to fifteen miles beyond the physical limits of DSL or cable technologies through the integration of specialized wireless hardware devices, firmware, and protocols.... Agent: Anthony D. Pellegrini Rudman & Winchell, LLC

20100020740 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and program: A set-N table (110) is a table holding information regarding other wireless communication devices that can be reached from a wireless communication device (a node) in one hop. A set-N2 table (120) is a table holding information regarding other wireless communication devices that can be reached from a wireless communication... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100020742 - Hybrid spacecraft for communications and remote sensing: Various aspects of the disclosure provide hybrid spacecraft capable of hosting both a remote sensing payload and a communications payload. A hybrid spacecraft includes an isolation system for a remote sensing payload that isolates the remote sensing payload from spacecraft dynamics and disturbances, and prevents interaction between the remote sensing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100020743 - Satellite communications system having transmitting station diversity: The invention relates to a method for transmitting signals termed useful signals via a satellite by means of connection stations. To this end, a first connection station (CNX1) carries out the generation of a first service signal on a service carrier frequency dubbed the pilot signal Fp, and the transmission... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100020746 - Advertisement of multiple security profiles in wireless local area networks: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of advertising multiple security profiles in wireless local area networks (WLANs). The security profile advertisement mechanism of the present invention advertises all configured security profiles by sending unsolicited 802.11 management probe response frames to the broadcast MAC address for available security profile.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100020748 - Communication method and gateway apparatus: A communication method in a gateway apparatus includes a transmission step of transmitting and receiving packets to and from a mobile station device, and transmitting and receiving packets to and from a home agent; and a setting step of establishing settings such that the packets from the mobile station device... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100020747 - Method and apparatus for home agent redirect: A method and apparatus for home agent redirect is provided. A method for redirecting a device from a first home agent to a second home agent includes sending a first message to the first home agent, receiving a second message from the first home agent, and sending a third message... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100020745 - Method for distributing media in an infrastructure based communication system: A wireless communication device acquires membership in a predefined group, joins an ad hoc network associated with the predefined group, and joins and participates in a first session established through an infrastructure device for distributing media to the predefined group. If the wireless communication device is a duplicator node for... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100020744 - Method for managing voice calls during packet-switched sessions, and mobile communications network implementing the method: A method of managing circuit-switched calls in a mobile communications network supporting packet-switched sessions is performed as follows: upon reception by the mobile communications network of a circuit-switched call for a user of the mobile communication network, the network ascertains whether the user is engaged in a packet-switched session. In... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100020750 - Method for remotely controlling a mobile terminal: The invention relates to a method for controlling remotely a mobile terminal (30). The method envisages providing a command (COM) to be sent from a remote server (2) to the mobile terminal (30), and a voice signal (V) to be transmitted from a remote server (20) to the mobile terminal... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20100020749 - Method of downlink packet transmission control in mobile communications system: Provided is a method of downlink packet transmission control in a mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of: a) establishing a default bearer when a downlink packet is received; b) determining whether a downlink packet filter corresponding to a downlink packet exists or not; c) transferring the downlink... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100020752 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing advertising and/or information services over mobile ad hoc cooperative networks using electronic billboards and related devices: A method of operating an electronic billboard includes detecting a mobile electronic device within a predetermined distance of the electronic billboard, establishing an ad hoc wireless connection with the mobile electronic device, and transmitting location-specific data to the mobile electronic device over the ad hoc wireless connection. The location-specific data... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20100020751 - Mitigation of interference in cell search by wireless transmit and receive units: A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) provides facilitation of cell search. In one embodiment, received samples are split into a plurality of sample sets for processing. Each of the sets is processed and an accumulated result is divided by an estimated noise value. In another embodiment, a code correlator correlates... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100020756 - Dynamically transformed channel set quality of service: Systems and methods of the present invention enable the provisioning of QoS over a true multichannel mobile ad hoc network. The QoS framework of the present invention optimizes QoS performance across many channels simultaneously by treating the many channels like a single channel for purposes of QoS optimization. Aspects of... Agent: Feldmangale, P.A.

20100020755 - Method and apparatus for improving drx functionality: A method for improving a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) functionality in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes steps of configuring a DRX functionality, and defining a first DRX inactivity timer for uplink transmission of the UE and a second DRX inactivity timer for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100020753 - Mobile network configuration and method: A mobile network configuration 500 includes a mobile router 525 forming one or more mobile subnets and including a plurality of cellular network interface devices 552, 554, 556, 558 installed thereon. The mobile network 500 further includes a network controller 520 installed as a node on a WAN 515. The... Agent: Edward L. Kelley Dba Invention Management Associates

20100020754 - Ofdma communication system and communication method: There is provided an OFDMA communication system capable of suppressing the communication resource reduction and reducing the processing load on a base station. The system includes a downlink frame generation unit (14) that generates a downlink frame for a downlink period for performing communication to at least one terminal (20)... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100020759 - Packet zone reconnect control for an always-on mobile station: A system and method of packet zone hysteresis for a mobile station is presented. A packet zone hysteresis reset timer is started whenever the mobile station sends or receives packet data and packet data exchange is determined to be incomplete. The packet zone hysteresis reset timer gives a time duration... Agent: Docket Clerk Kelly-krause

20100020758 - Radio resource reallocating method for circuit mode: The present invention relates to a radio resource reallocation method based on the circuit mode. In order to efficiently use the radio resource in the packet-based data transmission system, a circuit mode radio resource is reallocated based on a rearrangement information element and a rearrangement counter information element by using... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100020757 - Resource allocation for mimo-ofdm communication systems: Techniques to schedule terminals for data transmission on the downlink and/or uplink in a MIMO-OFDM system based on the spatial and/or frequency “signatures” of the terminals. A scheduler forms one or more sets of terminals for possible (downlink or uplink) data transmission for each of a number of frequency bands.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100020760 - Orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (ofdm) communication system: An OFDM communication system employs a cell time division time frame for a plurality of overlapping cells wherein the time frame comprises time slots with each time slot allocated to one of the overlapping cells and each time slot being either an information exchange time slot or a data time... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100020761 - Communication system, base transceiver station, mobile station, and data transfer method: A communication system that includes a plurality of base transceiver stations and a mobile station, the communication system including a second base transceiver station that broadcasts identification information to be used to specify the second base transceiver station itself, a mobile station that receives and transfers the identification information that... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100020763 - Communication terminal and communication network system: To provide a technology with which a large number of wireless communication networks can be efficiently used while the size of a device operated by a user is reduced and power is saved by providing a communication terminal whose connection with a different wireless communication network can be dynamically reconfigured.... Agent: Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20100020762 - Conversion of voice-over-ip media control messaging into mobile control channel signaling using a voice-over ip gateway: A gateway serving as an interface between a mobile network and a wireless network can be configured to send a signal strength indicator to the mobile network thereby causing the mobile network to recognize the gateway as a valid path for handing off a call. The wireless network can be... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20100020768 - Method and terminal for restriction of domain transfer: A method and mobile terminal for controlling a voice call continuity (VCC) operation, are provided. According to an embodiment, the invention is directed to a method for controlling a voice call continuity (VCC) operation between a mobile terminal and a network, the method comprising: receiving operator policy via an OMA... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100020765 - Methods and systems for concurrent data and signaling methodology for wimax handover: Techniques, systems and methods for concurrent data and signaling for WiMAX handover are disclosed herein. The serving base station may receive a handover request message from a mobile station and transmit a parameter to the mobile station to indicate a time to suspend a first set of one or more... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100020764 - Mobile communication system, its control device, handover control method, and mobile terminal: According to one embodiment, a mobile communication system includes base stations each forming a wireless zone for wirelessly accommodating mobile terminals, and a control device accommodating the base stations. The control device includes a construction module, a prediction module and an instruction module. The construction module constructs a database regarding... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100020766 - Mobile network system and method for processing ip handoff thereof: Provided are a mobile network system capable of processing a high-speed handoff by dividing into a data packet path between mobile nodes and a handoff packet path of the mobile node, and a method for processing IP handoff thereof. The system includes a MAP broadcasting a handoff registration request and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100020767 - Radio communication system and radio transmission path control method: An IP address is assigned to each of IP bearers, and a mobile anchor device (GWN) 33, which serves as an anchor in a mobile communication system, manages association among an identifier of a mobile terminal 7, those IP addresses, and identifiers that identify radio access means. A handover between... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100020769 - A method for wireless terminal dynamically switching window in a wireless lan environment: The invention discloses a method for wireless terminal dynamically switching window in a wireless LAN environment. The wireless LAN comprises several access points and stations which establish wireless communication connections with the access points. The stations can switch the current access window by scanning. The method characterizes in that including... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20100020771 - Method and apparatus for mitigating pilot pollution in a wireless network: Techniques for mitigating pilot pollution in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, pilot pollution may be mitigated by reducing density and/or transmit power of common pilots whenever possible. A cell may send a common pilot at a first density and a first transmit power level during a first... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100020772 - Packet transmission scheduling technique: A packet data transmission method of the HSDPA system includes collecting information on the quality of physical channels, a status of the MAC buffer, the priority level of data, the delay of data, and the like, determining the transmission order of data and the size of a data block to... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100020770 - System and method for bandwidth reservation protocol for spatial reuse in a wireless communication network: A system and method for providing spatial reuse in a wireless network for communicating compressed and uncompressed audio/video is disclosed. A bandwidth reservation request for data communication with a receiver to a coordinator is transmitted. A first response indicating availability of the receiver for the data communication is received. A... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20100020778 - Communication method and communication terminal device: A communication method includes the steps of: establishing a session with one or two or more other communication terminals according to a set content before it is changed in a case where a change request for own set information about a radio communication is received; notifying a set content to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100020777 - Communication system, management apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium: A management apparatus transmits a registration message to a base station when executing a wireless parameter setting sequence. The base station registers the management apparatus upon the detection of the message. This makes it possible to decrease unwanted communication traffic, and to reduce the time taken to perform the wireless... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100020779 - Data routing through local network connected to a base station: A base station routes data between a wireless communication device and a local device through a local network. When a route-local indicator is received from the wireless communication device, the base station routes data through the local network to the local device without routing the data through a cellular network.... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20100020773 - Flow control techniques for co-localized wlan and bluetooth: Flow control techniques for co-localized wireless local area network (WLAN) and Bluetooth (BT) allowing efficient sharing of radio medium are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes deriving an available medium time (TAV) for the WLAN device to communicate with a peer WLAN device based on schedule data forwarded by... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20100020774 - Interactive wifi connectivity for moving vehicles: Systems and methods are provided to enable high-performance Internet access on board moving vehicles using WiFi data communication protocols. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary wireless data communications environment comprises a ViFi module, an instruction set comprising at least one instruction set to process data for wireless communication between a... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100020775 - Mobile communication method and mobile terminal: A mobile communication method, in which communication is performed using the 3G1X protocol prescribing that mobile terminal MS receives a paging message from a 1x base station through an EV-DO base station, includes the steps of: receiving, at the mobile terminal MS, the paging message through the EV-DO base station... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100020780 - Pseudo-response frame communication system, pseudo-response frame communication method, and pseudo-response frame transmitting device: A pseudo acknowledgement frame communication system includes: at least one communication device that transmits a frame; a second communication device that receives the frame; and a pseudo acknowledgement frame transmission device that monitors link-by-link communication between the first and second communication devices, in which the first communication device has a... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100020776 - Wireless network-based location approximation: The invention pertains to location approximation of devices, e.g., wireless access points and client devices in a wireless network. Location estimates may be obtained by observation/analysis of packets transmitted or received by the access point. For instance, data rate information associated with a packet is used to approximate the distance... Agent: Google Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP

20100020782 - Arq with adaptive modulation for communication systems: A method and apparatus for improving performance in communication systems is provided. In order to maintain the real time constraints of the communication systems, time intervals and indication signals are used in various implementations to indicate and/or force subsequent transmissions of encoded data. An indication signal can include, for example,... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100020781 - Method and apparatus for dynamically changing a maximum access channel rate: A method, device and computer-readable storage element for dynamically changing a maximum access channel rate at a site in a communication system. The method includes setting a maximum access channel rate for an access channel at a site, which comprises a coverage area for a base station. The method further... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100020783 - Processes involving non-coherent integration in a receiver: A non-coherent integration period is divided into a plurality of epochs and a frequency space is divided into a plurality of sub-spaces. A result of a first non-coherent integration in a first frequency sub-space over a first epoch is combined with a result of a second non-coherent integration in a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20100020784 - Apparatus, network and method for implementing tdm channels over a csma shared media network: A carrier sense multiple access network comprises communication nodes which communicate with other nodes over the network using carrier sense multiple access (CSMA). The nodes further comprise channel support capability to set up multiplex channel connections between specific nodes over the CSMA based network. The network thus may reduce conflict... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20100020785 - Processing data units for transfer over the same channel: A radio communication scheme that newly defines a structure of a protocol data unit transmitted through a transport channel so as to avoid unnecessary redundant attachment of the terminal identifier (UE-ID) and the UE-ID type information. As only one terminal identifier (UE-ID) and UE-ID type exist in the header of... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100020786 - Wireless communication system, its base station and mobile station, communication synchronization management method and timer control program therefor: The base station causes the timing calculation part to calculate the timing advance (TA) of a transmit timing from the mth (where m is an integer between 1 and M, and M is a natural number) mobile station; causes the timer adaptive control part to obtain the traveling speed or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100020787 - Method, apparatus and network element for clock tracing: A clock tracing method includes: determining a shortest path to each source network element, and selecting a best source network element among all the source network elements; determining a shortest path to the best source network element according to the shortest path, using the shortest path to the best source... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100020792 - Media proxy able to detect blocking: A media proxy receive a first message from a near end of a path of a communications session, and before receiving a corresponding message from a far end, the media proxy is arranged to detect a blocking situation where another device in the path is awaiting the first message before... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100020793 - Method and apparatus for using a single local phone number for routing out of area phone numbers: A method and apparatus for providing a single shadow number to be associated with one or more out of area phone numbers that have registered service addresses in the same local area. For instance, if multiple subscribers with service addresses within the same local calling area choose to use out... Agent: Mr. S.h. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20100020791 - Method and system for a gigabit ethernet ip telephone chip with no dsp core, which uses a risc core with instruction extensions to support voice processing: Methods and systems for processing data are disclosed and may comprise receiving packetized data comprising voice data and network data via an Ethernet switch integrated within a single gigabit Ethernet IP phone chip. The received packetized data may be processed via a single main processor core integrated within the single... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100020788 - Method for establishing multimedia connections across the borders of packet-switching communications networks: The invention relates to a method for establishing multimedia connections across the borders of packet-switching communications networks according to an Internet protocol and the ITU-Standard H.323, consisting in inserting (connect) a rearwardly pointing authorisation cycle into a standard connection set-up, thereby making it possible to overcome in a simple manner... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100020789 - Provision of telecommunication services: An apparatus (100) suitable for providing telecommunication and data services in a telecommunications network to a plurality of subscribers, comprising a first distribution matrix (104), a crossover matrix (108) and a second distribution matrix (106). Said crossover matrix (108) is adapted to be connected to a main cable (130) and... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100020790 - Service adaptation in an ip multimedia subsystem network: A method of operating a Call Session Control Function node within an IP Multimedia Subsystem network. The method comprises establishing a first session corresponding to a first IP Multimedia Subsystem communication service using a first Application Server, receiving a request for a further session corresponding to a further IP Multimedia... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100020794 - Methods and apparatus for using tuners efficiently for delivering one or more programs: In response to user requests for content, content may be dynamically mapped to communications channels, e.g., QAM channels, used to communicate multiple programs during the same transmission time slot, e.g., through the use of multiplexed MPEG streams. A customer premise device, e.g., STB, uses a tuner tuned to the QAM... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20100020795 - System and method for broadcast pruning in ethernet based provider bridging network: A system and method for delivering multicast/broadcast data frames, originating in a service virtual local area network (S-VLAN), to a plurality of locations on a customer network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for delivering multicast/broadcast data frames includes analyzing ingress data frames, including customer virtual local area network... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100020796 - Method and apparatus for blocking forged multicast packets: Provided are a method and apparatus for blocking forged multicast packets. The apparatus includes input and output ports connected to user terminals; a forwarding process unit transferring a frame input through one of the input ports to one of the output ports connected to a user terminal having a destination... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100020797 - Method and apparatus for exchanging routing information and establishing connectivity across multiple network areas: A method ensures that multicast packets follow the same loop-free path followed by unicast packets in a packet communication network. The communication network includes at least one first area interconnected through at least one area border node (“ABN”) to a second area. Each ABN has a first level port connected... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20100020800 - Communication device: A device including: a receiving unit receiving a packet; a packet determining unit determining whether the received packet is a head fragment packet or an intermediate or last fragment packet; a search control unit using search data registered previously for searching for packet information and search data used for identifying... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100020799 - Method and system for data filtering for data packets: A method and system for filtering data packets, is provided. One implementation involves filtering data packets using a set of filters, each filter having a bit mask and corresponding bit values, by categorizing the filters into different groups based on their bit mask value differences, and generating a new mask... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100020798 - True ring networks with gateway connections using mac source address filtering: A method in a network device implements source address filtering, including gateway address filtering, to enable network devices to be configured in a true Ethernet ring network. By implementing source address filtering or source address filtering with gateway address filtering, a true ring network can be formed using Ethernet protocols... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20100020801 - System and method for filtering and alteration of digital data packets: A method comprises receiving data from a data source and converting the data, in approximately real time, into digital data packets, wherein the data packets have a common format. The method further comprises filtering the data packets using a user-defined metadata schema and storing the filtered data packets into a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100020802 - Device for performing ip forwarding and atm switching: A communication node contains intelligence for directing both internet protocol (IP) packets and Asychronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cells toward their destinations. The ATM cells and IP packets may be received within a common data stream. The respective devices process the ATM cells and IP packets to direct the cells and... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100020803 - Layer 1 frame construction: A layer 1 network frame is disclosed that includes data of a layer 2 frame. A header of the layer 1 frame header includes: a packet length field to indicate a size of a payload portion of the layer 1 frame, a priority field to indicate a priority of the... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100020805 - Call admission control method and system: A call admission control technique allowing flexible and reliable call admissions at an ATM switch in the case of an ATM network including both QoS-specified and QoS-unspecified virtual connections is disclosed. In the case where a QoS (Quality of Service) specified connection request occurs, an estimated bandwidth is calculated which... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100020806 - Scalable commodity data center network architecture: In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving a packet at a switch coupled to a plurality of switches. The switch may determine, from a first level table comprising a plurality of prefixes, a prefix matching a first portion of a destination address of the... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20100020807 - Communication node, communication method, and computer program: A communication node includes: a routing information storing unit configured to store, as routing information, node information indicating a succeeding node and a preceding node in a ring network using a distributed hash table; and a routing information updating unit configured to update the node information, wherein when the succeeding... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20100020808 - Techniques for integrated routing of call circuit signaling and the internet protocol: Techniques for processing an IP packet at a router that supports SS7 signaling include receiving IP routing data that associates a network link and a destination IP address for a node in a signaling network that includes a plurality of signaling nodes. When an ingress IP data packet is received,... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100020809 - True ring networks using tag vlan filtering: A method in a network device configured in a true ring network where the network device has a first port and a second port connected to the true ring network and a third port connected to a processor including: connecting the network device to transmit data packets in a single... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20100020804 - Sts frame-atm cell circuit emulation apparatus and frame length compensation method for the same: A circuit simulation apparatus is disclosed by which, even if an STS-N frame of an abnormal length is detected by a reassembly buffer, the frame length can be compensated for while preventing an overflow of the reassembly buffer. When an STS-(N×M) frame formed by multiplexing M STS-N frames formed from... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100020811 - Content replacement by pid mapping: A method and apparatus for content substitution, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention involves receiving data representing content, the data having at least first and second packet identifiers (PIDs) associated with first and second portions of content. The content having the first PID is placed into a data... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20100020810 - Link services in a communication network: In a communication network, links in a transmission path between source and destination terminals are sequentially switched to an operational state in response to a command or a group of commands for transmitting data prior to completion of assembling the data. Each node in the transmission path independently monitors transmission... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20100020812 - Communication system and access gateway apparatus: A communication system comprising a home server, an access gateway, and a policy server, wherein the policy server transmits, to the first access gateway, a link creation request for associating a communication path of the first terminal and a communication path of the second terminal; and the access gateway sets... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100020813 - Routing facility for a subsea electronics module: The invention relates to a routing facility (1) for a subsea electronics module (7), comprising on a single circuit board (2) means (5) for routing data packets between segments of a differential serial bus, and at least one input/output interface (14, 15, 16) for digital and/or analogue process values, wherein... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20100020816 - Connectionless packet data transport over a connection-based point-to-point link: A multiple processor device generates a control packet for at least one connectionless-based packet in partial accordance with a control packet format of the connection-based point-to-point link and partially not in accordance with the control packet format. For instance, the multiple processor device generates the control packet to include, in... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100020815 - Data transmission method for hsdpa: In the data transmission method of an HSDPA system according to the present invention, a transmitter transmits Data Blocks each composed of one or more data units originated from a same logical channel, and a receiver receives the Data Block through a HS-DSCH and distributes the Data Block to a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100020814 - Ethernet switching: A method in an Ethernet switch (1), and an Ethernet switch (1) provided with an arrangement (702, 704, 706) for handling received unicast packets having an unknown destination address by queuing these packets in a flooding buffer in every interfacing output port (3a-d) of the switch, wherein the traffic in... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100020817 - Transmission path selecting apparatus and method: A transmission path selecting apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a data transmission request and information that identifies the data transmission request, a holding unit that holds the information in association with a transmission path that was previously assigned to the information, a searching unit that searches the holding... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100020819 - Packet coalescing: In general, in one aspect, the disclosures describes a method that includes receiving multiple ingress Internet Protocol packets, each of the multiple ingress Internet Protocol packets having an Internet Protocol header and a Transmission Control Protocol segment having a Transmission Control Protocol header and a Transmission Control Protocol payload, where... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100020818 - Sharing buffer space in link aggregation configurations: In link aggregation configurations, a data packet may be copied into a buffer space of a first NIC. Load balancing techniques may determine that the packet should be transmitted by a second NIC. The packet exists in memory that the second NIC cannot access. The data packet is copied into... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20100020821 - Neighbor discovery in cable networks: A network device has a communications link to allow the device to communicate with customer devices and a processor. The processor is to receive neighbor discovery messages from requesting customer devices, examine the neighbor discovery messages to determine if the neighbor discovery message should be forwarded to other of the... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100020820 - Prioritized segmentation and reassembly methods and systems: The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for accommodating a diversity of services (e.g., telephone, video broadcasting, email, etc.) using a fixed connection of a certain service type. A method and system of communicating data using a fixed connection, including, based on at least two service data units (SDUs), associating... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100020822 - Auto bandwidth negotiation, reroute and advertisement: A bandwidth negotiation system including a first network, a plurality of end user devices in communication with the network, a multiplexing unit communicatively coupled to the network, a second network, and an analyzing unit in communication with a second network. In addition, one of the plurality of end user devices... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100020823 - Communication system and techniques for transmission from source to destination: A system and method for transmitting and presenting streaming digital information signals that optimizes performance in the context of goodput, throughput, delay, receiver buffer requirements and tolerance to loss and jitter. The method provides ordering packets of information based on a priority associated with each of the packets; managing the... Agent: Ballard Spahr LLP

20100020824 - Packet header compression for lossy channels: The disclosed systems and methods provide for the compression and decompression of packet headers. An uncompressed header can be compressed in size to form a smaller, compressed header, such that the compressed header can include values that can be used to re-produce the uncompressed header. A compressed header can include... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100020825 - Method and apparatus for concurrent and stateful decompression of multiple compressed data streams: A method for decompressing multiple data streams includes receiving a packet of data of a compressed data stream, directing the received packet to a selected one of a plurality of decompression functional units within a hardware-based decompression accelerator unit, obtaining decompression state information pertaining to the compressed data stream, and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20100020826 - Method and apparatus for channelizing sampled broadband signal: A system for isolating individual channels in a broadcast signal is provided. The system includes a plurality of multipliers, each having an input and an output. A summer coupled to the outputs of each of the plurality of multipliers is provided to generate an output. A multiplication factor system provides... Agent: Jackson Walker (conexant)

20100020827 - Signal processing system, signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to a signal processing system, a signal processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program in which high frequency components of a narrow-range signal having suppressed high frequency components can be restored with high accuracy. A narrow-range audio signal having low frequency components is... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20100020828 - Multirouter for time-controlled communication system: To relay messages in a time-controlled communication system with a star coupler arranged as a multirouter, messages arriving via ports are relayed according to a rule defined in the star coupler. Relaying paths are switched according to a rule defined in the star router which describes relaying paths for messages,... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100020829 - Method for clock recovery using updated timestamps: A method and mechanism for adaptive clock recovery of a service clock of a constant bit rate (CBR) service transmitted as a stream of packets over a packet network from a sending end node to a receiving end node via at least one intermediate node. The intermediate node associates the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100020830 - Transport bitstream synchronization: Disclosed is a method for synchronizing a bitstream, the method comprising comparing an incoming data byte of the bitstream with a predetermined byte pattern; writing a result of the comparison to a current write address in a FIFO; calculating a difference between a current read address in the FIFO and... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20100020831 - Information transmitting apparatus and method, information receiving apparatus and method, information transmitting and receiving system and method, recording medium and program: An original blanking period of a video signal is shortened to a set blanking period, and audio data is multiplexed into a resulting superimposing period. Table distinguishing data indicating the length of the superimposing period is inserted into the period as a blanking signal. With this configuration, it is possible... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100014413 - Method of multi-antenna wireless data emission, emitter and receiver using the method: A method and device in the domain of wireless communication, and more specifically coding and decoding schemes useful in the context of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) or MISO (Multiple Input Single Output) communications especially used in conjunction of OFDM-like transmission schemes. A space frequency block code applies some well... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100014414 - Bridge, system, bridge control method and program recording medium: A bridge according to an exemplary aspect of the invention comprises a BPDU-receiver which receives a BPDU packet of an STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) including failure information and an error-handler which performs error handling according to the failure information.... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100014415 - Mobile router that monitors links: A mobile router having a link monitor module is disclosed. The mobile router may be installed in a mobile vehicle and permit a local end-user to access wide area networks (e.g., the Internet) via the mobile router. The link monitor module may monitor the layer 2 and layer 3 links... Agent: Buchalter Nemer

20100014416 - Systems and methods for routing data in a communications network: A network device includes a group of interfaces. Each interface is associated with at least one other interface of the group of interfaces and a group of network addresses. Each interface is configured to monitor at least one of the group of network addresses with which the each interface is... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100014417 - Method and apparatus of ring network protection: A method of ring network protection is provided. A node in a ring network determines a section that suffers a fault and determines a timeslot of a service impacted by the fault on the node according to section ring formation information and service route information preconfigured on the node when... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100014419 - Apparatus and method for improving transport control protocol performance using path recovery notification over wireless network: Provided are an apparatus and method for improving transmission control protocol (TCP) performance using path recovery notification over a wireless network. The apparatus includes: a path recovery manager which detects a mobile host recovered from a temporary disconnection state and then outputs a detection signal to notify the detection result;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100014418 - Connection recovery device, method and computer-readable medium storing therein processing program: A connection information takeover unit in an active communication processing apparatus in the system sends connection information and a transmission sequence number of each data to be transmitted to a standby connection recovery device when a connection is established, and a connection information takeover unit in a standby communication processing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100014420 - Lightweight application classification for network management: Managing network traffic to improve availability of network services by classifying network traffic flows using flow-level statistical information and machine learning estimation, based on a measurement of at least one of relevance and goodness of network features. Also, determining a network traffic profile representing applications associated with the classified network... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20100014421 - Speculative credit data flow control: A method of speculative credit data flow control includes defining a low watermark value as a function of a number of open buffers in a receiving unit; receiving a data packet from a sending unit; determining whether the data packet includes a packet delay indicator; defining a first speculative credit... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20100014422 - Priority-based admission control in a network with variable channel data rates: A method for priority-based admission control in a network, comprises receiving an admission request for transmitting an information flow to a network through a communication channel and determining an admissible region within a range of a channel data rate of a communication channel for an information flow in response to... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100014424 - Discovering network topology from routing information: A method for inferring network link topology includes receiving an address of a seed node in a network, initializing a set of links and monitors of the network, refining, iteratively beginning at the seed node, the set of links and monitors of the network, wherein a local topology of links... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20100014425 - Method for balancing of modem load: A method for achieving load balance of a modem (21) corresponding to a terminal (20) in a network (100) comprises selecting upstream channel descriptors (UCDs) in the network, checking the terminal for any proven-usable UCD records, determining a prior range of the UCDs according to the checking result, selecting the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100014426 - Method to balance traffic load between nearby lte/wimax cells grouped into inner and border constellations: The embodiments disclose a method for balancing traffic load between nearby cells of a mobile radio communication network, e.g. WiMAX Forum stage 2, 3 specifications or 3GPP UMTS Long Term Evolution (LTE), where cells are configured as peer network nodes interconnected by a transport network, e.g. an IP backbone preferably... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100014423 - Transmission in a shared medium having different access modes: A method of controlling access in a telecommunication network in which a communication medium, such as a set of frequencies, time slots, or codes, is shared among a plurality of mobile units. Transmissions from the mobile units utilize different access modes, such as a direct access mode and a scheduled... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100014427 - Arbitration scheme for an optical bus: A method of arbitrating data transmissions to prevent data collisions in an optical data interconnect system including a transmitting node, a plurality of receiving nodes, and one or more remaining nodes connected through an optical data channel. The method involves transmitting a transmission request signal from the transmitting node over... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20100014428 - Switching device: A switching device comprising at least one ingress port and at least one egress port. The switching device is arranged to receive data packets through said at least one ingress port and to forward received data packets to respective ones of said at least one egress port. The switching device... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100014429 - Method of reporting measurement information in packet based on cellular system: Disclosed is a method for efficiently reporting measurement information required for handover in active-state terminals executing a power-saving operation in a packet-based communication system. The method includes the steps of: (a) receiving a discontinuous reception (DRX) period, a discontinuous transmission (DTX) period, and a measurement information report parameter that are... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100014431 - Method and apparatus for providing automated processing of a network service alarm: A method and apparatus for providing automatic processing of a software defined network alarm or an integrated services digital network alarm are disclosed. For example, the method receives a trouble ticket for an SDN service or an ISDN service, and retrieves at least one of: a calling to number, a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100014434 - Method and apparatus for sending feedback for a downlink shared service and estimating a number of wireless transmit/receive units: A method and an apparatus for sending a signal on a contentious feedback channel for a downlink shared service and for estimating a number of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) are disclosed. When a transmission criterion associated with a physical random access feedback channel (P-RAFCH) is satisfied, a physical resource is... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100014432 - Method for identifying undesirable features among computing nodes: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for identifying undesirable features in a network of computers. During operation, the system detects an anomaly associated with a node in the network. Next, the system identifies one or more features which are associated with the anomaly. The system then updates... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100014433 - Method for processing multiple active devices in stacking system and stacking member device: The present invention discloses a method for processing multiple active devices in a stacking system. In the method, each active device in a stacking system exchanges unique identity information with any another active device through a preconfigured Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) session when a stacking link in the stacking system... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100014430 - Resource allocation method and base station device: There are disclosed a resource allocation method and a base station device for realizing an effective resource allocation for reducing delay time and overhead. In this device, when a base station (11) has received an erroneous data packet (22) from a mobile station (10), prior to the initial transmission of... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20100014435 - System and method for tracking alarms in a packet network: A system and method for locating failures in a metro Ethernet network. Packets are communicated from a maintenance end point through a plurality of maintenance entities. An alarm is generated at a maintenance entity in response to determining the packets are not communicated through a next ME. The alarm indicates... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100014436 - Method and system for providing updates on access network capability in an ip multimedia system network: Updates on access network capability are provided to an IP Multimedia System (IMS) network. A User Equipment (UE) that is connected to the access network initiates a communication session with the IMS network by sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) registration request to the IMS network. The SIP registration request... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100014440 - Bandwidth monitoring method and its device: A bandwidth monitoring device for use in a network for transferring priority packets in preference to non priority packets as far as the amount of the priority packets is within a contract bandwidth established between a network user and a network operator, comprising a bandwidth check result decision unit for... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100014438 - Method and terminal for transmitting uplink data: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for transmitting uplink Ethernet data in a coaxial network, a Coaxial Network Unit (CNU) and a Coaxial Line Terminal (CLT) applying the method. In the method, the CNU determines a transmission path loss between the CNU and the CLT, determines a transmission... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100014437 - Methods for bus data transmission and systems utilizing the same: A method for data transmission in a device coupled to a host via a bus is provided. A sequence of data packets are received from the host and the received data packets are stored into a buffering unit of the device. It is then determined whether a predetermined error has... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100014439 - Node of a distributed communication system, node and monitoring device coupled to such communication system: The present invention relates to a node in distributed communication system operating under a time triggered protocol, further it relates to distributed communication system and to a monitoring device coupled to such node of a communication system. To provide a node in a distributed communication system, a distributed communication system... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100014441 - System and method for strategic network planning: A system and method for strategic network planning includes a service forecast module that determines a forecasted service need for additional telecommunication network services. A network equipment module is in communication with the service forecast module. The network equipment module is operable to determine an equipment need for telecommunications network... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100014442 - Method and apparatus for loop prevention in communication networks: A method and apparatus route data packets in communication network. A current routing topology of the network is analyzed and a digest value representing the current routing topology is determined. The digest value is encapsulated within the data packet. The data packet is forwarded according to the current routing topology.... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20100014443 - Methods and systems for location estimation: A network operating center for a network comprising known-location and unknown-location nodes can be configured to receive from each unknown-location node estimates of the distances from that node to each of its neighbor nodes. The network controller can then choose an initial location estimate for each unknown-location node and compute... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20100014444 - Adaptive message routing for mobile ad hoc networks: Domains are formed in a mobile ad hoc network by exchanging topology update messages among neighboring nodes, each message including the node coverage of the originating node. The node having an optimum coverage of its neighbors becomes a domain lead (DL) node, and nodes within hearing distance or range of... Agent: Bae Systems

20100014445 - Address updating method, corresponding mobile terminal and node: Disclosed is a technique providing an address updating method capable of transmitting a binding update message while suppressing bandwidth dissipation and a mobile node, a proxy node and a management node for use in this method. This technique comprises a step in which a mobile node generates a single message... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100014446 - Method of generating data block in wireless communication system: A method of generating a data block in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes preparing a first upper data block, a second upper data block and a third upper data block and generating a lower data block comprising a header, the first upper data block, the second... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100014447 - System for offering mobile telecommunication service using internet network with utp cable: Provided is a system for providing mobile telecommunication services using an Internet network built with a UTP cable. The system includes a main unit and a plurality of sub units. The main unit includes a plurality of input ports respectively connected to corresponding distributing ports of the switching hubs through... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100014449 - Idle state management: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to enter an idle state of a wireless device for a selected amount of time responsive to a combined clear channel assessment indication.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100014448 - Systems and methods for parallel communication with legacy wlan receivers: A method for parallel communication with wireless local area network (WLAN) receivers is described. A parallel transmission is started. A first MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) is sent to a first WLAN receiver. An acknowledgment (ACK) request is sent to the first WLAN receiver. An ACK is received from the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100014450 - method of transmitting and receiving control information for point-to-multipoint multimedia multicast service: A method of receiving broadcast information from a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a mobile terminal receives information of a specified number of groups and also receives a plurality of messages according to the information of the specified number of groups, wherein each message corresponds... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100014452 - Communication control apparatus: A communication control apparatus controls radio communications with other communication device through a relay device. The communication control apparatus includes a transmission control unit that notifies a data transmission to the relay device, and performs the data transmission to the relay device when the transmission control unit receives a response... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100014453 - Cooperative mac for rate adaptive randomized distributed space-time coding: Data is transmitted from a source wireless device to a destination wireless device by: (a) discovering node-to-node wireless channel conditions in a wireless network; (b) determining at least one of (A) wireless relay devices, (B) modulation schemes, and (C) transmission rates using the discovered node-to-node channel conditions; (c) signaling at... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20100014451 - Packet distribution system and packet distribution method: Provided is a technique for switching a session between a terminal and a network to a session using a plurality of peripheral terminals having respective functions, by considering the load on the distribution side system and distributing a packet to the plurality of peripheral terminals. This application for relaying a... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100014455 - Access network selection: A network, computer readable medium, and method for ranking a plurality of available access networks by a provider, the provider serving a user equipment and the user equipment being configured to connect to at least one of the plurality of available access networks. The method includes receiving a selection request... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20100014464 - Communication method, communication system, home agent, and mobile node: The present invention provides a technique to prevent the generation of a large number of binding update messages in an overlay network when a mobile node changes connection points. According to this technique, in a communication system where a home agent HA 1210 for holding BCE (Binding Cache Entry) of... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100014466 - Method and a device for improved status reports: The invention discloses a method (700) for a cellular system (100), in which traffic can be exchanged between first (110, 120) and second (110, 120) transceivers. The traffic is sent in data units, each of which is given an identifier, and which data units may be divided into segments. A... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100014459 - Method and apparatus for managing data services in a multi-processor computing environment: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate enhanced data service functionality for data services operating in a multi-processor computing environment. As described herein, respective processors and/or other components can be utilized to form a Smart Peripheral Subsystem (SPS). As further described herein, the SPS can operate in association with a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100014462 - Method and apparatus for recognizing multicast and broadcast service region in broadband wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus for recognizing a Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) region in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the method, whether a next MBS MAP message transmission point of a first frame and an MBS data burst transmission point indicated by MBS burst assignment information... Agent: Maeng-ho Shin JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100014456 - Method and apparatus for use in a communications network: A method and apparatus in a gateway node of a telecommunications network for receiving frames from a source node such as a Radio Network Controller (RNC) and forwarding the frames with correct sequencing and timing to a destination node in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network. Upon determining that a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100014457 - Method and system for method and system for carrier sense multiple access with collsion avoidance (csma/ca) with directional transmission: Aspects of a method and system for carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) with directional transmission are presented. Aspects of the system may include a communicating device (DEV), which transmits a portion of a PDU utilizing omnidirectionally transmitted signals and a subsequent portion of the PDU utilizing directionally... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100014454 - Method of cell reselection in a wireless telecommunications device operative with a plurality of radio access networks: Apparatus and a method of cell reselection in a wireless telecommunications device operative with a plurality of radio access networks are disclosed. The method comprises, when the device is camped on a first radio access network: ranking cells in a neighbouring list according to cell reselection criteria; considering for cell... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20100014465 - Mobility management method and network device: A mobility management method includes: notifying, at a mobile terminal, an edge node of a terminal function indicating that the mobile terminal has a Mobile IP client function; instructing, at the edge node, the mobile terminal to perform an operation for mobility management by using not an MIP function but... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100014460 - Sensor network mac system for multihop communication: Provided is a method of synchronizing time for a multihop sensor network. According to the method, receiving nodes accurately synchronize time by adding a delay transmission time value to a beacon frame in a beacon mode, or by using a time synchronization frame and time synchronization acknowledgement frame containing time... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100014461 - System and method for creating multiple mobility profiles per subscriber in wireless communications systems: A system and method for creating multiple mobility profiles per subscriber in wireless communications systems is provided. A method includes receiving a request for service from a terminal, sending a request for authorization of the terminal to a server, receiving, in response to the request for authorization, an indication that... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100014458 - System and method for establishing a direct link on the high throughput channel of a multi-rate channel wireless communications network: A system and method for wireless communication over multi-rate channels are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a first wireless device; a second wireless device; and an access point that can communicate over high-rate and low-rate channels. One or more of the first and second wireless devices and the... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20100014463 - Wireless communication system, wireless terminal station, wireless base station, and wireless communication method: A first wireless terminal station transmits beam transmission direction identification information in all directions. A second wireless terminal station receives the transmission direction identification information, combines reception direction identification information and the transmission direction identification information, and transmits directivity direction combination information to a wireless base station. The first and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100014476 - Apparatus and method for improving hybrid automatic repeat request combining gain in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for improving a HARQ combining gain in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a seed information generator and a subcarrier allocator. The seed information generator randomly generates a seed value for changing a channel of a subcarrier and an interference pattern in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100014474 - Apparatus for and method of transmitting an uplink control channel: A user apparatus which is used in a communications system in which a synchronous or non-synchronous ARQ is performed is disclosed. The user apparatus includes a unit which receives a downlink control channel; a unit which prepares an uplink data channel; a unit which prepares an uplink control channel accompanying... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100014473 - Cqi report method, radio resource allocation method, base station apparatus, and user equipment: A CQI report method disclosed that includes a step in which the user equipment reports CQI information of top N resource block(s) having channel quality higher than the rest of the resource block(s) and a resource block number(s) of the top N resource block(s) to the base station at CQI... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100014471 - Frequency reusing method in wireless communication system and radio access station system for the same: A frequency reusing method in a wireless communication system including a coverage region, which has first, second and third regions, and a radio access station (RAS) transmitting a traffic to a portable subscriber station (PSS) in the coverage region, comprises (a) transmitting the traffics by assigning an identical frequency band... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20100014470 - Method and apparatus for access selection in a multiaccess communications system: The present invention relates to communications systems comprising multiple access technologies, and more especially it relates to access technology allocation of communications in such communications systems. Particularly, it relates to allocation of a plurality of communication flows to one or more of a plurality of access technologies avail able in... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100014477 - Method and apparatus for discriminating between control messages and speech payload: A base station detects the transition of a mobile station from a DTX mode to a continuous transmission mode. The base station schedules an uplink transmission by the mobile station during an uplink transmission period while the mobile station is in DTX mode and receives an uplink LLC PDU from... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100014479 - Method and apparatus for providing enhanced messages on common control channel in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for providing new configurations for transmitting control information between a mobile terminal and a network using a common control channel (CCCH) logical channel/transport channel. The new configurations enable messages to be sent that are larger than currently allowed and the availability of the new configurations is... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100014468 - Method of transmitting and receiving wireless resource information: A method of transmitting and receiving radio resource information is disclosed, by which a mobile terminal is able to quickly access a mobile communication system. The present invention includes transmitting a paging message to locate a specific mobile terminal by including information for a radio resource allocated to the mobile... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100014469 - Nodeb and method for transmitting control and scheduling information: The present invention discloses a method for transmitting control and scheduling information. The method comprises an eNodeB transmitting control and scheduling information unable to be beamformed in a DwPTS. The control and scheduling information unable to be beamformed is switched from the downlink service slot to the DwPTS and then... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100014467 - Operating method of a user terminal supporting high speed downlink packet access: An operating method of a user equipment supporting HSDPA, comprising: a user equipment sending a message carrying information indicating the user terminal's access capability; the user equipment receives data on carriers allocated by RAN. The present invention enables RAN to learn the user equipment's capability for receiving carriers and to... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100014478 - Radio communication terminal device, radio communication base station device, and radio resource allocation method: Disclosed are a radio communication terminal device, a radio communication base station device, and a radio resource allocation method which can reduce radio resource fragmentation while suppressing increase of the signaling quantity in data retransmission. In ST201, a base station (150) groups a plurality of users. In ST203, the initial... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100014480 - Scheduling data transmission by medium access control (mac) layer in a mobile network: A method for determining padding compatibility is disclosed. A determination is made of a number of protocol data units (PDUs) for a logical channel mapped to a transport channel such that, for a logical channel allowing segmentation, calculate n wherein n=service data unit size/transport block size (SDU size/TB size), and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100014475 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication system: Before a frame 2, allocation information for the frame 2 is transmitted from the relay station to a mobile station. As being allocated based upon the allocation information of the frame 2, a packet “MS(2)” is transmitted to the relay station via a channel “CH1” of the frame 2. At... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100014472 - Wireless network with contention and contention-free periods: A wireless network (1) comprises mesh devices and non-mesh devices. A medium access control architecture incorporates at least a point coordination function as an access method, wherein the point coordination function starts a contention-free period (30) with a beacon (32) so that a non-polled transmission by the non-mesh devices is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100014481 - Method and apparatus for transmitting reference signal, setting reference signal transmission pattern, and setting and allocating resource block: A method for transmitting a reference signal, a method for establishing a reference-signal transmission pattern, and a method for establishing a block are disclosed. The reference-signal density is adjusted according to the request degree of the channel estimation performance, and then the reference signal is transmitted to a destination. As... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100014485 - Buffering packets destined for a mobile device while the mobile device moves from one network to another network to prevent handoff packet loss: A method and system for preventing packet loss during handoff of a mobile host between access networks. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, a home agent on a network maintains a FIFO (First In-First Out) buffer for every mobile host that it serves. When a packet destined for... Agent: At&t Corp.

20100014484 - Handoff control method and a mobile station employing the same: There is disclosed a handoff control method for registering a CDMA mobile station in such a way that battery power wastage is prevented if successive attempts to register the station fail. If it is judged that registration fails (step S106), idle handoff is inhibited (step S107). The mobile station shifts... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100014483 - Network selection: A wireless user device, in radio communication with a first access point of one or more networks with which it could communicate via at least one of a plurality of access points, sends a network selection request to the first access point. If the network wishes to initiate a response... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100014482 - Radio base station and radio communiction system for starting inter-system handoff: It is possible to forcibly cause a terminal to perform an inter-system handoff for system control in a region where service areas of a plurality of radio access systems are overlapped. When it is detected that communication resource of the radio base station is insufficient, a communication terminal which can... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20100014486 - Base station, mobile station, and method of generating pilot channels: A base station for generating pilot channels which are orthogonal among N (N>=4) sectors, includes a sequence generating unit configured to generate a phase rotation sequence which specifies the amount of phase rotation for each sector in a frequency domain such that there is more than 2π/N difference between the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100014487 - Method and system for a data transmission in a communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting user data from access terminals, including receiving at each of a first subset of the access terminals a scheduling decision for an interval, the interval having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion including overhead channels; selecting at each access terminal... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100014489 - Method and system for directional virtual sensing random access for wireless networks: A method and system for wireless communication in a wireless network is provided. One implementation involves a requesting wireless station directionally transmitting a request to a coordinator for access to a communication channel; the request packet includes a field indicating the length of the desired reservation period; and upon successfully... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100014488 - Mobile communication system and base station device: In a base station device (30) for performing wireless communications with a plurality of mobile station devices (20) by using a frame that includes a plurality of uplink time slots and a plurality of downlink time slots that correspond to these uplink time slots, the base station device includes a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100014490 - Mobile station apparatus and base station apparatus: One aspect of the present invention relates to a mobile station apparatus, including: a first time multiplexing unit configured to time multiplex an uplink CQI measurement pilot channel for measuring an uplink CQI and an uplink L1/L2 control channel; a second time multiplexing unit configured to time multiplex a shared... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100014492 - Apparatus and method for deterministic latency-controlled communications in process control systems: A method includes obtaining a data message having data associated with a process system and mapping the data message to one of multiple classifications. The method also includes wirelessly transmitting the data message, where a Quality of Service (QoS) associated with the transmission is based on the mapping. Mapping the... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20100014494 - Enterprise mobile network for providing cellular wireless service using licensed radio frequency spectrum and the session initiation protocol: Support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) devices is provided in an enterprise mobile network that provides wireless service within a coverage area associated with an enterprise using licensed radio frequency spectrum. In various embodiments, support SIP devices is provided by, for example, incorporating SIP user agent in a mobile switching... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20100014498 - Method and apparatus for wide bandwidth mixed-mode wireless communications: A network device for implementing high-rate greenfield transmission in a mixed mode frame structure. The network device is configured to transmit a mixed mode frame on two adjacent channels. The mixed mode frame comprises at least two backward compatible portions of a first frequency and a greenfield portion of a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100014493 - Network for wireless data transmission: A wireless data transmission network, the mode of operation of which is determined by a protocol stack according to the OSI reference model in addition to existing standards, is disclosed. In order to enable application-specific modifications during the transmission of data without having to dispense with or infringe upon the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100014496 - Node placement method within a wireless network, such as a wireless local area network: The disclosure includes a method of and associated system for placing nodes in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The method includes receiving user-specified parameters regarding the network. The parameters can include a layout of a building or other space, and requirements for the WLAN. An algorithm then employs these... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20100014499 - Probabilistic location prediction for a mobile station: A probabilistic prediction is made of the location of a wireless-enabled mobile station in a wireless local area network. The prediction includes calculating a vector representing movement of the mobile station through a space in which two or more access points of the network are located, and determining a region... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20100014497 - Selectively restricing participation in communication sessions at a communications device within a wireless communications system: Embodiments are directed to determining whether to permit a server-arbitrated communication session at a wireless communications device within a wireless communications system. The wireless communications device receives a request to participate in the server-arbitrated communication session. The wireless communications device obtains information related to a current location of the wireless... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100014491 - System and method for reinforcing wireless communication capability within wireless network group: A method and system is provided to reinforce wireless communication capabilities between multiple network nodes of an wireless network group. The method and system first detects a wireless transmission capability between a first network node and a second network node. When the wireless transmission capability is lower than a threshold... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20100014495 - Wireless communication system and its method, and device and program used for same: Wireless LAN base station devices (107 to 109) monitored by a wireless LAN base station monitoring server device (105) send wireless LAN base station information on themselves to the wireless LAN base station monitoring server device (105). A combined wireless terminal (110) which is to start communication requests the wireless... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100014501 - Data transmission method: A data transmission system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a data signal in the form of a data stream of data bursts in at least two transmission modes to a receiver, in the first mode a reference signal being transmitted by the transmitter in each data burst and being... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100014500 - Method for performing an adaptive modulation and coding scheme in mobile communication system: An efficient link adaptive scheme according to a channel status in a broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. In applying an adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) scheme, modulation and coding selection (MCS) subsets are determined from all or part of MCS set in accordance with a service type or channel... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100014502 - System and method for channel access in dual rate wireless networks: A system and method for wireless communication over multi-rate channels are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes source and destination devices that use first and second channels under a contention-based protocol. The first channel is directional with a first frequency and a first range. The second channel is omni-directional... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20100014503 - Method for extending a heterogeneous mac protocol to multi-channel systems: An extension to a heterogeneous MAC protocol that makes provisions for multi-frequency system architecture is described. A new frame structure for a multi-frequency xMAX system is introduced. Multi-frequency xMAX system is an extension of a single-channel xMAX system, where the available bandwidth is split into multiple channels to provide additional... Agent: The Law Offices Of Dennis L. Cook, PLLC

20100014504 - Multiple-input multiple-output system and method: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system can transmit on multiple antennas simultaneously and receive on multiple antennas simultaneously. Unfortunately, because a legacy 802.11a/g device is not able to decode multiple data streams, such a legacy device may “stomp” on a MIMO packet by transmitting before the transmission of the MIMO packet... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20100014505 - Method and device for service time division multiplexing: A method and device for service time division multiplexing as well as a method and a device for transmitting service are disclosed. The method for service time division multiplexing includes: selecting a part or all of radio frames in one time unit as specific radio frames; and selecting a part... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100014511 - Call centers for providing customer services in a telecommunications network: A software-based distributed architecture allows rapid provisioning and flexible management of fault-tolerant call centers for interaction between companies' agents and outside customers via multi-media messages, using both real time and non-real time messages. The real time messages include web-based chat, forms and applications sharing, PSTN calls, and incoming and outgoing... Agent: North Weber & Baugh LLP- Oracle

20100014509 - Digital telecommunications system, program product for, and method of managing such a system: A digital telecommunications system, a method of managing a communications network in such a system and a program product for managing audio transmission in a digital communications system. A softswitch manages communications between devices at network endpoints, e.g., session initiation protocol (SIP) devices, and detects when communications include a non-human,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100014512 - Ip telephone system and calling method: An IP telephone number query system includes a terminal, a Web server, and an ENUM server. The terminal displays a call recipient profile hypertext markup language (html) that is assigned a HTML document file name. The Web server includes a phonebook searcher that has a plurality of call recipient profile... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100014508 - Method and system for emergency call: An emergency call includes sending, by a Call Session Control Function entity (CSCF) to User Equipment (UE), a session reject message containing indication information indicating re-initiating an emergence call according to a local policy upon detecting that a session request sent by the UE is an emergency session request; and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100014510 - Packet based communications: This invention is applicable to packet based, rate limited radio links, such as satellite or terrestrial wireless digital communications systems. These communications networks concurrently carry time-critical traffic, such as voice or multimedia, and non time-critical traffic, such as generic data traffic, between two or more communication end points. The communication... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20100014506 - System and method for selectively provisioning telecommunications services between an access point and a telecommunications network based on landline telephone detection: A method and system for reducing network load by selectively provisioning connections between an access point and a carrier network is disclosed. The access point supports voice and data connections over an IP network. The access point includes a network connection and a telephone connector capable of connecting to a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100014507 - System and method for selectively provisioning telecommunications services between an access point and a telecommunications network using a subscriber identifier: A method and system for reducing network load by selectively provisioning services between an access point and a carrier network is disclosed. The access point supports telecommunications services over an IP network. The access point includes a network connection and a telephone connector capable of connecting to a standard landline... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100014513 - Reconfigurable compute engine interconnect fabric: A reconfigurable compute engine interconnect fabric includes a reconfigurable interconnect layer (24, FIG. 2) between an application layer (22) and a physical layer (26) which identifies the input and output pins for the engine and their functions.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100014514 - Mainframe computing system having virtual ipmi protocol: In general, techniques for communicating within a mainframe computing system via a virtual Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocol are described herein. More specifically, the mainframe computing system comprises a first cell that forms an Ethernet message to directly encapsulate an IPMI message without further encapsulating the IPMI message within... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20100014517 - Route switching methods and systems: A route switching method, when a mobile node is switching between access routers, the method comprises: the second access router sending a context transfer message to the third access router, the third access router updating a Cache for Destination Terminal and a Cache for Source Terminal in a cache of... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100014515 - Router associated to a secure device: The invention concerns a router associated to a secure device (DC) and included in a communication network (RC), comprising an interface (IRT) to communicate with the secure device following an authentication of the router by the secure device, and comprising a protocol interpreter (INT) to command the execution of the... Agent: Carmen Patti Law Group, LLC

20100014516 - Table lookup mechanism for address resolution: A table lookup indexing system for the transmission of data packets in a network switch. Data is received in an input port and is divided into two parts, an index portion and a bucket portion. The index portion selects a particular bucket and the combination of the index portion and... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20100014520 - Communication method for system including client device and plural server devices: An objective of the present invention is to secure the continuity of the communication between a client device and a standby server device, when a failure occurs and switch to the standby device is performed. A communication processing unit of the client device establishes connection with a plurality of server... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100014518 - Method and apparatus for forwarding packets: An internetworking system operating over an ATM backbone. The physical internetworking devices within the system are shared to provide the internetworking functions while servicing two or more distinct and isolated user networks. This is accomplished by logically partitioning the devices into distinct sub-elements which provide all or part of the... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20100014519 - Methods for managing multicast traffic between sources sending data and hosts requesting data and network equipment used to implement the methods: A device, system and method for controlling the flow of multicast data packets from sources sending data to hosts requesting the data. In one implementation, a router is situated in a data network between sources that send multicast data packets directed to a multicast group and hosts requesting to receive... Agent: Berenbaum Weinshienk PC

20100014521 - Address conversion device and address conversion method: It is possible to perform access from a global network side to a private network side so as to realize mutual communication between the global network and the private network while maintaining security. A table setting unit (307) decides a correspondence between a private IP address and a global IP... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100014522 - Method for managing communication connections by network address translating (nat) network nodes: The invention relates to a method for managing communication connections in a communication system, comprising the following steps: generation of a connection request with a source network address internally valid in the communication system, over at least one network address translating network node to a network element outside the communication... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100014523 - Providing point to point communications among compute nodes in a global combining network of a parallel computer: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for providing point to point data communications among compute nodes in a global combining network of a parallel computer that include: determining a class route identifier available for all of the nodes along a communications path from an origin node to a target node;... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20100014526 - Hardware switch for hypervisors and blade servers: A hardware switch for use with hypervisors and blade servers is disclosed. The hardware switch enables switching to occur between different guest OSs running in the same server, or between different servers in a multi-root IOV system, or between different guest OSs running in the same server in single-root IOV... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100014524 - Adaptive clock method and system: A device and method are disclosed for correctly restoring a read clock when there are a plurality of STM data stream transmission sources. In a CES device of an ATM communication system, ATM cells from respective connections, which are to be delivered to the same outgoing line, are accumulated in... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100014525 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for an n-port network adaptor interchangeable between a network switch/router and a network adaptor: Methods, systems and computer program products for an N-port network adaptor that is interchangeable between a network switch and a network adaptor. Embodiments of the invention include a method in a network device having a random access memory, a non-volatile random access memory and a flash memory, the method including... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20100014527 - Packet ring network system, packet forwarding method and node: Nodes 901 and 902 have the same address. Upon reception of a broadcast packet whose TTL value is not zero from a ringlet 910a, a forwarding circuit 51 of each of the nodes 901 and 902 copies and transits the packet, and an address table 60 of each node learns... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100014528 - Scalable flow transport and delivery network and associated methods and systems: A Flow Transport and Delivery Network (FTDN) supports delivery and transport of flows to destination nodes over parallel overlay networks. Overlay nodes executing overlay processes create and maintain one or more overlay networks. A plurality of sites are connected to each other via the parallel overlay networks with each site... Agent: Venable LLP

20100014531 - Establishing pseudowires in packet switching networks: Embodiments of the invention enable a pseudowire to be dynamically established over a PSN tunnel when the tunnel includes both statically configured segments and dynamically configured segments. Advantageously, these embodiments enable a network node that supports only static tunnel and pseudowire configuration to be included in dynamically configured pseudowires.... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20100014532 - Gateway: A gateway for interconnecting different networks includes a network access means for interconnecting a first network that provides a wireless access function to a mobile station with a second network that provides a network access function to the mobile station. The gateway further includes a first tunnel establishment means for... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100014534 - Multiple node applications cooperatively managing a plurality of packet switched network pathways: End-point devices, access points and other types of network nodes each employ multi-path management software to manage communication via multiple possible paths to the Internet backbone from communication applications that run on an end-point device. Although the multi-path management software on an end-point device may operate independently, it may also... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100014529 - Network communication apparatus, network communication method, and address management apparatus: A network communication apparatus (201) includes: a direct search unit (102) which transmits a direct search request to another network communication apparatus (202); a route information obtaining unit (103) which obtains route information of the network communication apparatus (202) from a server (205) which holds the route information of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100014533 - Overlay network node: There is disclosed a technology which improves scalability in an overlay network system and which efficiently supplies a service with respect to a user, and according to the technology, for example, in a case where a mobile node (110) transmits an update message including a specific flow filtering rule to... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100014530 - Rtp video tunneling through h.221: A system is provided. The system includes a first gateway operable to receive a real-time protocol (RTP) packet including video data from a first endpoint; and a second gateway operable to communicate with a second endpoint. The first gateway is operable to communicate the RTP packet to the second gateway... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100014535 - Data processing device interface and methods thereof: A method of receiving communications at a data processing device includes receiving a packet from a virtual channel associated with a physical communication link. The packet is associated with a link virtual channel, and is stored in a storage location with the link virtual channel. Multiple internal virtual channels can... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20100014536 - Method for building connection channel between network terminals through dynamic domain name sarver: A method for building a connection channel between network terminals through a dynamic domain name server (DDNS) is applied to a network system including a DDNS, the Internet, and at least one private network including more than one network address translation (NAT) router and at least one network terminal linked... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100014537 - Method of exchanging information between two networks operating under different routing protocols: A method of exchanging information between a first network implementing a routing protocol using static routing tables and a second network implementing a routing protocol using dynamic routing tables and including stages of exchanging identification messages and of exchanging routing table update messages, the method comprising the steps of: a... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20100014538 - Transferring docsis frames using a label switching network: In one embodiment, label distribution sessions are established between a Modular Cable Modem Termination System (M-CMTS) core and one or more remote PHYs. The label distribution sessions facilitate association of labels with either Radio Frequency (RF) channels or groups of the RF channels that extend from the remote PHYs to... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100014539 - Packet relay device and queue scheduling method: Each of the plurality of queues stores packet data of a received packet. The read concession assignor assigns one of the plurality of queues with a read concession for a predefined time period. The overdraft storage stores an overdraft amount in connection with each of the plurality of queues. The... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100014540 - Method for managing data transmission according to a quality of service in a network assembly and a computer network system: c

20100014541 - Managing timing of a protocol stack: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a communication in a protocol stack coupled to a tunneling interconnect, determining whether a communication type is subject to altered timing to accommodate a delay associated with the tunneling interconnect, adjusting a timing of at least one stack logic... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100014542 - Network processing apparatus and processing method thereof: A network processing apparatus that receives a fragmented IP datagram to perform reassembling process of the received fragmented IP datagram. Information is held regarding the received IP datagram in which the reassembling process is terminated. Upon performing the reassembling process, in a case where an IP datagram specified by the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto