Multiplex communications inventions

20090279418 - Overlay modulation of cofdm using phase and amplitude offset carriers: Systems and methods are presented for transmitting additional data over preexisting differential COFDM signals by modulating existing data carriers with a phase and an amplitude offset. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, additional data capacity can be achieved for an COFDM signal which is completely backwards compatible with existing... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090279419 - Communication apparatus and communication method: To efficiently compress the information amount for feedback when a communication apparatus sends back a result of performing discrete cosine transform on the reception quality information to a communication apparatus of a communicating destination. In a communication apparatus for transmitting feedback information generated based on a plurality of reception quality... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279421 - Apparatus and methods for estimating and compensating sampling clock offset: An apparatus for sampling clock recovery (SCO) and methods for estimating and compensating SCO are provided. The apparatus comprises a symbol timing adjustment module for shifting forward or backward symbol timing of the transmitted OFDM symbols; a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) processor for performing DFT to an output from the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090279420 - Base station apparatus, radio transmission system, radio base station program, and timing estimation method: A base station apparatus (100) has an FFT unit (102) which FFT transforms a base station GI deleted signal (SBGID) obtained by removing a guard interval from a received signal and outputs a base station FFT signal (SBFFT). A mobile station separating unit (103) separates the base station FFT signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090279422 - Single sideband and quadrature multiplexed continuous phase modulation: A class of bandwidth reduction techniques are used develop a broad class of modulation types collectively called SSB-FM. These signals can be used to construct communication systems that provide bandwidth-normalized performance gains of 10 dB or more when compared to popular prior art modulation methods. An aspect of the invention... Agent: Eric M. Dowling Interlink 731

20090279425 - Method, system, and network element for service processing after data of network element is invalid or network element fails: A method, a system, and a network element for service processing after data of a network element is invalid or a network element fails is provided. When the service network element receives the service request message from the network and is initiated to a called end and the user data... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090279424 - Methods, communication networks, and computer program products for communicating time division multiplexing traffic using a traffic encapsulation standard configured to support statistical multiplexing (statmux) traffic: A communication network is operated by communicating Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) traffic and data (STATMUX) traffic over a single connection, where the single connection may include multiple aggregated lines using a traffic encapsulation standard configured to support STATMUX traffic.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090279423 - Recovering from failures without impact on data traffic in a shared bus architecture: Methods of detecting and recovering from communication failures within an operating network switching device that is switching packets in a communication network, and associated structures. The communication failures addressed involve communications between the packet processors and a host CPU over a shared communications bus, e.g., PCI bus. The affected packet... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279426 - System and method for dead gateway detection: A system and method for detecting a next-hop dead gateway is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for detecting the next-hop dead gateway includes sending an Internet Protocol (IP) packet by a host to a next-hop gateway associated with the host, receiving the IP packet by the host from the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090279427 - Control of quality of service in overlapping basic service sets in wireless local area networks: Access priority for wireless devices located in an area in which radiofrequency (RF) coverage areas of a first wireless access point and a second wireless access point overlap is controlled by coordinating operation of the first wireless access point and the second wireless access point. The wireless devices access a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090279428 - Frame transmitting apparatus and method thereof: A frame transmitting apparatus transmits a frame to a frame receiving apparatus. The frame transmitting apparatus includes a accumulated-capacity-value storage unit that has stored therein an accumulated capacity value calculated; a cycle and capacity storage unit that has stored therein a cycle and a frame read capacity at every cycle;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090279429 - Optimisation process of the control of traffic in a packet telecommunications network: transmitting, from the traffic regulator (6), said acknowledgement of receipt anticipated ACKa to the transmitter terminal (2) so as to slave the sending rate of the packet segments by the transmitter terminal (2) at a rate fixed by said traffic regulator (6).... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090279430 - Femto cell access point passthrough model: The subject innovation provides system(s) and method(s) to supply fixed, differentiated quality of service (QoS) for packetized traffic (e.g., voice and data) intended for femto cell coverage when transmitted concurrently with external broadband traffic. Quality of Service differentiation is supplied without an external implementation. Femto cell coverage is prioritized over... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20090279434 - packet-switched access networks: In a packet-switched access network using a tunnelling-type micro-mobility protocol whereby packets are caused to flow through at least one mobility agent located in said access network, a method of reducing congestion at and/or in routers near said mobility agent, which method comprises the steps of causing packet traffic of... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20090279432 - Intercept flow distribution and intercept load balancer: A system and method for intercepting and load-balancing information including one or more mediation devices configured to receive intercept instructions for intercepting information for a predetermined period of time, an intercept access device configured to receive the intercept instructions from the one or more mediation devices, wherein the intercept access... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090279431 - Load balancing pseudowire encapsulated iptv channels over aggregated links: A method for load balancing IPTV channels is described. In one embodiment of the invention, a first Provider Edge (PE) network element of a label switched network, coupled with a second PE network element over multiple member links of an aggregate link, receives IPTV packets. For each IPTV packet received,... Agent: Daniel M. Devos Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090279435 - Method for realizing backpressure of masses of ports and device thereof: A method for realizing backpressure of masses of ports and a device realizing the method are disclosed. The method for realizing backpressure of masses of ports includes: detecting whether user data transmitted to a channelized physical port reaches a backpressure threshold, generating an idle frame or a series of idle... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090279433 - Monitoring networks: Methods and systems for determining a correction factor for use in monitoring network traffic, said network traffic comprising a plurality of flows of data units, each flow having associated therewith a flow identifier, said data units having associated therewith a path characterisation metric; the method comprising the steps of: selecting... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090279436 - Method for multiple link quality of service for voice and video over internet protocol: A method for achieving multiple link quality of service for video and voice calls over Internet links, or over IP links running in private networks, is described. This method applies to both the non-mobile domain (alternate paths exist in one place at the same time) as well as the mobile... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090279437 - Locality-based routing table generation: Systems and methods storage of adding a node entry to a routing table of an inquiring node of a data network are disclosed herein. An inquire message is transmitted to a publishing node. The publishing node can be configured to publish a routing entry which can be added by nodes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090279438 - Scalable packet analyzer and related method: A scalable packet analyzer receives data packets from a data packet source for packet analysis and includes a plurality of policy engine arrays, each having a plurality of packet analysis microengines. A policy algorithm loader module is operative with each packet analysis microengine for loading a policy algorithm to each... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090279439 - Systems, methods and computer program products for controlling high speed network traffic in server blade environments: Systems, methods and computer program products for controlling high-speed network traffic in server blade environments. Exemplary embodiments include a method for controlling high-speed network traffic in a server blade network, the method including identifying a port under test, identifying a debug port, identifying a code state of interest from the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20090279440 - Techniques for processing incoming failure detection protocol packets: Techniques that assist in processing of failure detection protocol (FDP) packets. Techniques are provided that assist a CPU of a network device in processing incoming FDP packets. In one embodiment, only a subset of FDP packets received by the network device is forwarded to the CPU for processing, the other... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279441 - Techniques for transmitting failure detection protocol packets: Techniques are provided for processing of failure detection protocol (FDP) packets. Techniques are provided that assist a CPU of a network device in processing incoming FDP packets. The task of transmitting FDP packets from a network device is offloaded from the CPU of the network device and instead handled by... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279442 - Method and system for data communication: There is provided a system and method for multi-user detection by a plurality of base stations situated at different geographical locations through base station cooperation. An exemplary method comprises exchanging detected data iteratively while performing separate detection and decoding of received data streams.... Agent: InternationalIPLaw Group

20090279443 - Analyzing system of network traffic according to variable communication's mass and analyzing method thereof: An analyzing system for measuring and analyzing communication traffic of a network and an analyzing method using the analyzing system are provided. The system includes a data measurement module configured to capture data that influences a change in communication traffic in a network; a measured data functionizing module configured to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090279447 - Antenna selection with frequency-hopped sounding reference signals: The embodiments of the invention describe a method for antenna selection in a wireless communication network. The network includes a transceiver having a set of antennas. The transceiver is configured to transmit a frequency-hopped sounding reference signal (SRS) over a subband from a subset of antennas at a time. The... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090279445 - Communications system, and base station and terminals used therein: A communications system of the present invention is an OFDMA system (100) including a base station (10) and mobile stations (20), the base station (10) communicating wirelessly with the mobile stations (20) over a plurality of channels. Each mobile station (20) includes: a reception quality measuring section (19) for measuring... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279444 - Method and apparatus for discovering, negotiating, and provisioning end-to-end slas between multiple service provider domains: Domains (multiple collaborating service providers) create service offerings between pairs of edge nodes that interconnect with other domains in the network. The service offerings may specify the available bandwidth, quality of service, reliability, available security, price, subscriber and service contextual specific and other SLA information. When a new service is... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20090279448 - Quasi-omni training in channel time allocation period: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for association in contention access periods and to a method for multi-cycle training in channel time allocation periods.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279446 - Radio communication device and cqi generation method: It is possible to provide a radio communication device and a CQI generation method capable of reducing the total number of CQI when reporting CQI for each level in a hierarchized RB. In the device and the method, the RB hierarchy is made as follows: a plurality of groups each... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090279450 - Method for allocation of a quality of service for a packet stream: For a service which is provided in at least one communications network preferably an Internet with service classes—which transmits packets and/or packet streams on a packet-oriented basis as a function of Qualities of Service, use of a service is requested with a controller, and this controller allocates a Quality of... Agent: Dickinson Wright, PLLC

20090279449 - Quality of service and power aware forwarding rules for mesh points in wireless mesh networks: Apparatus, methods and computer program products provide quality of service and power aware forwarding rules for mesh points in wireless mesh networks by monitoring frame flow to and from a first mesh point in the wireless mesh network; and in dependence on the monitored frame flow, setting a power management... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090279452 - Hierarchical mobility management system, access router, anchor node, mobile communication system and route setting method: By use of functions of an access router including an AR return communication state management function to manage the communication state between terminals connected to the access router and an AR return communication notifying function to notify, at detection of new AR return communication, the new AR return communication to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090279453 - Shirnk wrap technique for enclosing mulitple polygons: A computer-implemented method receives a list of polygonal vertices associated with multiple polygons located in proximity to one another in a two-dimensional region and analyzes the polygonal vertices. The method automatically generates, based on the analysis, a polygonal hull that encloses the multiple polygons such that a line segment connecting... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090279451 - Transmitting/receiving method and program and recording medium: The present invention provides a transmitting/receiving method capable of selecting a combination of communication media of the own and its counterpart reflecting the preference of the user or an application for each of flows on communication terminals and capable of doing execution without being known by counterpart the preference information.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279454 - Method for configuring a dhcp server using dhcp option 82: The invention relates to a method for creating a DHCP network device configuration, wherein the parameter allocation by a DHCP server is performed using Option 82, and the assignment for the IP address to be allocated to a network device is determined on the basis of the topological information. The... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090279455 - Method, a device and a system for converging ip message: A method, a device and a system for converging IP message are disclosed. The invention includes the following step: the CPM server that receives a CPM message determines its service type based on the CPM message and performs a corresponding signaling control, and processes the CPM message content based on... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090279456 - Cascade-type multiplex radio communication relay system: A cascade-type multiplex radio communication relay system, in which a donor and a Main Hub Unit (MHU) are connected to each other through an Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cable to enable duplex communication, and in which a plurality of remote units are connected to the MHU through UTP cables to... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20090279460 - Bundling of ack information in a wireless communication system: Techniques for bundling acknowledgement (ACK) information in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a user equipment (UE) may receive multiple codewords in at least one downlink subframe. The UE may decode the multiple codewords and determine an ACK or a negative acknowledgement (NACK) for each codeword based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279459 - Cell specific sounding reference signal sub-frame configuration: A method of wireless communication including a plurality of fixed base stations and a plurality of mobile user equipment with each base station transmitting to any user equipment within a corresponding cell a sounding reference signal sub-frame configuration indicating sub-frames when sounding is permitted. Each user equipment recognizes the sounding... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090279457 - Synchronization between uncoordinated time division duplex communication networks: An apparatus and method for synchronization between uncoordinated Time Division Duplex (TDD) communication networks includes a first step (300) of measuring an interference level on channels available to a base station. A next step (302) includes choosing the channel having the lowest interference level. A next step (304) includes determining... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090279458 - Uplink and downlink hybrid automatic repeat request in time division multiplex communications: This invention notes various patterns of uplink and downlink communication in a wireless communication system which satisfy the requirement that a user equipment receiving a downlink grant in subframe n needs to transmit response ACK/NAK bits in an uplink subframe n+k, where k>3 and a user equipment receiving a DL... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090279461 - Access terminal router implementation on enhanced hrpd: An enhanced access terminal (AT) that can serve as a “proxy wireless over-the-air backhaul or relay” is provided, to connect a base station with no backhaul to its neighboring fully functional base station that is connected to the NMS. In a further embodiment, the AT routing and relaying capability provided... Agent: Docket Adminstrator (room 2f-192) Alcatel Lucent

20090279462 - Stateful scheduling with network coding for roadside-to-vehicle communication: Described is a technology by which a roadside-to-vehicle communication system may be implemented, including via a stateful scheduling with network coding scheme that enhances network capacity. Moving vehicles request and receive data from a roadside access points. Each of the access points operate a stateful scheduling algorithm that serves multiple... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090279467 - Adaptive and effective power saving design: A wireless communication network comprising a plurality of base stations capable of wireless communication with a plurality of mobile stations within a coverage area of the network, wherein at least one of the plurality of base stations is capable of setting a first counter and a second counter to an... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090279466 - Flexible sleep mode for advanced wireless systems: A base station capable of wireless communication with a plurality of subscriber stations within a coverage area of a network, where the base station is capable of transmitting, to a subscriber station, a traffic indication message with an indicator value, wherein the indicator value is used by both the base... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090279465 - Method for low power radio operation in a wireless packet network: A system and method allows devices to send and receive packets while using power to do so to the extent needed, thereby conserving power.... Agent: Innovation Partners

20090279463 - Mobile ad hoc network with isosynchronous communications and related methods: A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) may include a plurality of mobile nodes. Each mobile node may include a wireless transceiver and a controller cooperating therewith for exchanging isosynchronous Internet Protocol (IP) communications with at least one adjacent mobile node. The isosynchronous IP communications may comprise at least one of... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090279464 - Power save mechanism for wireless communication devices: Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to enable power save modes of operation between mobile wireless devices for direct data transfer in an infrastructure BSS. An example embodiment inserts in a message that is transmitted by the transmitting mobile wireless device, a specified time when a next... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090279472 - Communicating program rejection information in broadcast-multicast mobile communication system: The present invention relates to communicating program rejection information in a broadcast-multicast mobile communication system. Preferably, present invention comprises receiving information related to at least one broadcast-multicast service from a base station, determining to receive one or more specific broadcast-multicast services based on the received information, requesting the one or... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090279470 - Device and method for multicast in wireless local access network: A device and method for multicasting data in a wireless network. The method includes receiving multicast data at a specific node of the wireless network, the multicast data including a multicast acknowledgement request; and determining by the specific node whether or not the specific node is requested to send an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279471 - Local and wide-area transmissions in a wireless broadcast network: To broadcast different types of transmission having different tiers of coverage in a wireless broadcast network, each base station processes data for a wide-area transmission in accordance with a first mode (or coding and modulation scheme) to generate data symbols for the wide-area transmission and processes data for a local... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279468 - Methods and apparatuses for increasing data transmission efficiency in a broadcast network: A method for increasing data transmission efficiency in a broadcast network having at least one unicast transmission link and at least one multicast transmission link to a mobile device, the method comprising: identifying a viewing trend based upon monitored viewing activity of first content data by a first plurality of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279469 - The method and device for sending and receiving e-mbms traffic data: The invention provides a method and device for sending MBMS traffic data based on MBMS Cell Group, the method comprises the following steps: channel coding and modulating said MBMS traffic data; determining said MBMS cell group-specific scrambling code; determining said MBMS cell-specific scrambling code; scrambling said MBMS traffic data with... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090279473 - Link training scheme for displayport source repeaters: A system and a method for configuring communication between a source device and a sink device using captured configuration data are described. The source device communicates with a repeater, which modifies received data to facilitate transmission to the sink device, using a communication channel. The communication channel transmits video and/or... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090279474 - Relay station, base station, power management method, and computer readable medium thereof for use in a wireless mesh network: A relay station, a base station, a power management method, and a computer readable medium thereof are provided. The relay station is located within the coverage area of the BS. The relay station comprises a receiving/transmission module and a determination module. The receiving/transmission module is configured to receive a BS... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090279475 - Dynamic link assignment in a communication system: An architecture for the dynamic assignment of links in a multi-user communication system. A plurality of information channels are provided in a forward communication link of the communication system for carrying channel information of the plurality of information channels from a transmitter to a plurality of corresponding receiving devices. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20090279476 - Frequency correction in a multi-carrier communication system: Methods and systems for correction of frequency errors in multi-carrier communication systems. The composite frequency error associated with the downlink signals are used to infer or derive the composite frequency error associated with the uplink signals, which are used to pre-compensate the uplink signals. Special signal components are transmitted by... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090279484 - Location information system and method for performing notification based upon location: According to an embodiment, a location based notification method in a SLP (SUPL Location Platform) includes transmitting, by the SLP, a session initialization message including a notification mode parameter indicating one or more of notification and verification based upon the location of the terminal to the terminal; receiving a positioning... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279478 - Method and apparatus for facilitating dynamic cooperative interference reduction: Various embodiments are described for potentially improving coverage and/or the cell-edge outage rate and thereby the system capacity. Logic flow diagrams 10 and 20, in FIGS. 1 and 2, depict functionality performed by communication devices in the system. A first communication device, attempting to successfully receive (12) signaling from a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090279485 - Method and apparatus for network imposed packet data flow control: A method and apparatus provide network-based flow control for mobile station having data connections to the network. In an exemplary embodiment, a Packet Control Function (PCF) in a Radio Access Network (RAN) requests that a Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) in a Packet Core Network (PCN) turn flow control on... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090279480 - Method and apparatus for retransmission scheduling and control in multi-carrier wireless communication networks: In one embodiment, a method of scheduling transmissions for a base station in a multi-carrier wireless communication network comprises scheduling initial transmissions of data packets for one or more users on a first carrier, without reserving scheduling capacity on the first carrier for retransmissions. Doing so increases the scheduled capacity... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090279483 - Method and system to manage wireless communications of high-occupancy vehicles: A system and method for managing wireless communications for a plurality of devices in a high occupancy vehicle is presented. The method comprises steps of creating a global bandwidth usage map across all vehicles, routes, and passengers, transmitting the global bandwidth usage map to a vehicle controller, interpreting the global... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090279477 - Mobile station, wireless access network apparatus, and mobile communication system: A mobile station, a radio access network apparatus and a mobile communication system that can decrease signal amount of each message to decrease connection delay are provided. The mobile station is provided with storing means configured to store a conversion table between a combination of a plurality of parameters defined... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090279481 - System and method for routing a data packet in a wireless network, computing system in a system for routing a data packet in a wireless network, and method for routing a data packet in a computing system: m

20090279482 - Techniques for enhanced backhaul flow control: Techniques for enhanced backhaul flow control are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a backhaul control system is described that comprises a base station controller (BSC), a backhaul network, and a base transceiver station (BTS). Each is responsive to data and messaging transmitted and received. In one aspect, the BTS includes... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279479 - Wireless communication system and method of wireless communication: A wireless communication system is provided that includes a network and a plurality of access terminals. The plurality of access terminals includes a first group of access terminals configured to receive control information at a first data rate and send a response to the received control information, as well as... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090279495 - Apparatus and method for uplink transmission in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for uplink transmission in a wireless communication system are provided. The method comprises detecting an expiry of a time alignment timer in a MAC (Medium Access Control) layer, the time alignment timer being used to control how long the UE is considered uplink time aligned, notifying... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279496 - Dedicated and priority based allocation in multi-hop wireless systems: A transmission channel allocation scheme for a multi-hop wireless network takes into account the priority of users, particular application requirements, applicable contractual requirements, and other factors. The channel allocation scheme determines which nodes can share a common channel for transmission without interference, and distinguishes between resources that must be dedicated... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20090279487 - Distributed medium access protocol for wireless mesh networks: This invention defines a medium access protocol for the support of mesh networking in wireless communications. It defines a phase for intra-cell and a phase for inter-cell traffic. During the inter-cell traffic a beacon phase is used for the reservation of transmissions. In this phase also information about the mesh... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090279493 - Method and apparatus for resource allocation in wireless communication systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate resource allocation and management in a wireless communication system. As described herein, a resource grid structure can be utilized to allocate resources for respective users corresponding to a given channel (e.g., a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)). The resource grid can be constructed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279494 - Method for allocating frequency subchannels on an air interface of a wireless communication system and corresponding radio resource allocation module: s

20090279489 - Methods and apparatus for prioritizing assignment of a packet data session for a plurality of applications of a mobile communication device: Methods and apparatus for prioritizing assignment of a packet data session for a plurality of applications of a mobile communication device, especially when operating in wireless networks that limit the number of simultaneous packet data sessions available to the mobile device. The plurality of applications include at least a first... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. LLC One Magnificent Mile Center

20090279492 - Methods and apparatus for use in facilitating access to a communication service via a wlan hotspot: A mobile communication device identifies and selects a wireless local area network (WLAN) available for communications in its coverage area. Automatically, without detecting any requests made by a user via a browser application. The mobile device initiates a request (e.g. an HTTP GET request) to a predetermined server site of... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. LLC One Magnificent Mile Center

20090279498 - Multi-carrier communications with group-based subcarrier allocation: A method and apparatus for subcarrier selection for systems is described. In one embodiment, the system employs orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). In one embodiment, a method for subcarrier selection comprises a subscriber measuring channel and interference information for subcarriers based on pilot symbols received from a base station,... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090279490 - Terrestrial based high speed data communications mesh network: This present invention is a network for providing high speed data communications. The network includes multiple terrestrial transmission stations that are located within overlapping communications range and a mobile receiver station. The terrestrial transmission stations provide a continuous and uninterrupted high speed data communications link with the mobile receiver station... Agent: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

20090279491 - Terrestrial based high speed data communications mesh network: Provided are an apparatus and a method for transmitting a CBP packet for communication information sharing between base stations in a CR-based wireless communication system. In the method, a CBP packet including a CBP identifier is transmitted to a base station of adjacent cells via one SCW slot. A CBP... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090279488 - Variable header types for persistent resource allocation in a wireless network: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a wireless receiver configured to receive a persistent resource allocation, the persistent resource allocation providing a periodically recurring resource, and a wireless transmitter configured to transmit a persistent data burst in a first frame via... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090279486 - Wireless base station device, terminal, and wireless communication method: A wireless base station device includes a plurality of transmit weight generation sections and a beam selection section. The transmit weight generation sections generate pieces of transmit weight information used for spatial division multiplexing transmission according to different algorithms. The pieces of transmit weight information are generated based on channel... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090279497 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication system: A wireless communication device of the present invention receives a signal on a channel that another wireless communication device allocates to the wireless communication device from a plurality of channels. The wireless communication device includes: an update channel selector that selects a plurality of request channels that are candidates to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279500 - Methods of sending control information for users sharing the same resource: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for sending control information to multiple user terminals that share the same resources in a Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) wireless system. The control information can be transmitted from an access point over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279499 - Wireless resource allocating apparatus, on-vehicle apparatus, and wireless resource allocating system: A wireless resource allocating apparatus includes a ranging signal receiving unit that receives a signal indicating that an on-vehicle apparatus loaded on a vehicle is present within a predetermined area, an on-vehicle apparatus quantity calculating unit that calculates the number of on-vehicle apparatuses present within the area from the signal... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090279501 - Wireless station and frame constructing method and frame reading method thereof: Wireless stations and methods thereof are provided. Allocations in a frame are considered to have a predetermined transmission sequence. MAP in the frame arranges zone allocation IEs of the allocations by following the predetermined transmission sequence so that a station receive the frame can know the predetermined transmission sequence. By... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090279506 - Fixed-mobile communications with mid-session mode switching: A method for performing mode-agile communications during a communications session is disclosed. A communications terminal device supporting multiple modes of access is configured to determine when, during a session involving a first mode of access communications, a second mode of access is available and is to be used for subsequent... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090279502 - Internetworking between wman and wlan networks: According to one general aspect, a method of using a base station (BS) comprising receiving, by the BS of a first wireless network, a notification that a mobile station (MS) is entering a semi-idle state with respect to the first network, wherein the semi-idle mode is also associated with the... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090279505 - Service zone switching method based on load considering inter-cell interference in 802.16/wibro systems: There is provided a method of switching a zone through which services are provided to subscriber stations (SS) in an environment using an FRF-1 zone and an FRF-3 zone based on traffic load of each zone in order to reduce the inter-cell interference in 802.16/WiBro systems. The service zone switching... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090279503 - Systems and methods for multimode wireless communication handoff: Methods and apparatus for base-station-assisted handover between WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) EVDO (Evolution-Data Optimized) or 1xRTT (one times Radio Transmission Technology, or 1x) networks during normal operation of a dual-mode mobile station (MS) are provided. By having a base station (BS) using... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279504 - Systems and methods for multimode wireless communication handoff: Methods and apparatus for autonomous handover between WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) EVDO (Evolution-Data Optimized) or 1×RTT (one times Radio Transmission Technology, or 1×) networks during normal operation of a dual-mode mobile station (MS) are provided. The methods and apparatus may improve service... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279507 - Communication device and handover method: A communication device can perform handover in accordance with a traffic type. In a non-real time communication, it is possible to prevent loss of packet data. In a real time communication, a handover can be rapidly performed without causing a delay. In this device, a handover control unit (105) judges... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090279509 - Mac protocol for centrally controlled multichannel wireless local area networks: A wireless system and method of wireless communication are described.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090279508 - Scanning methods and apparatus for system acquisition: In one illustrative example, a system acquisition method suitable for use in W-CDMA utilizes a receiver having an automatic frequency control (AFC) circuit. A system acquisition scan is performed over a plurality of candidate frequencies in an RF band. During the system acquisition scan, a pilot signal of a system... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. LLC

20090279510 - System and method for releasing quality of service resources in mobile communication network: A system and a method for releasing quality of service (QoS) resources in a mobile communication network enable QoS resources allocated to a mobile terminal to be released, if, after the mobile terminal is allocated with resources for QoS through an Evolution-Data Optimized (EVDO) Revision A (rA) network to receive... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090279514 - Apparatus and method for transmission opportunity in mesh network: An apparatus and method of transmission opportunity in a mesh network is disclosed. A beacon timing from a receiver MP is received. The beacon timing includes a beacon reception timing of a received beacon frame that is received by the receiver MP from a neighboring MP of the receiver MP.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090279513 - Method for transmitting signal and method for receiving signal: A sector transmitter maps a synchronization channel and a broadcast channel to be on a time axis adjacent to each other, and applies the same bandwidth and the same transmission diversity to the synchronization channel and the broadcast channel. A mobile station estimates a plurality of channel statuses for a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090279511 - Multi-transceiver mobile communication device and methods for negative scheduling: Embodiments of a multi-transceiver mobile communication device and methods for negative scheduling are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a broadband wireless access network (BWAN) transceiver of a multi-transceiver mobile communication device may transmit a negative scheduling (NS) request frame that includes time-related... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090279512 - Wireless communication system, radio base station apparatus and radio terminal apparatus: A wireless communication system comprises radio base station apparatuses each of which transmits an estimation pilot in advance for estimating the quality of a downlink communication after a spatial signal processing performed after a time unified among the radio base station apparatuses; and radio terminal apparatuses each of which receives... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090279515 - Apparatus and a method for service continuity between umts network and wlan: The present invention relates to a method for guaranteeing service continuity between a 3GPP network and a non-3GPP network. According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, when a mobile station receiving a service from the 3GPP network moves to the non-3GPP network or it moves back to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090279525 - Association in contention access period: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for association in contention access periods and to a method for multi-cycle training in channel time allocation periods.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279521 - Base station device, base station management device and base station management system: A base station device connected to a base station management device including: a wireless receiving unit receiving transmission data from a wireless terminal; a mode retaining unit stored with a centralized mode for setting a transmission destination of the transmission data in the base station management device, or a distributed... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090279519 - Location survey for power calibration in a femto cell: System(s) and method(s) are provided to survey a confined area serviced by femto cell for power calibration. Building survey facilitates calibration of femto cell power to suit actual coverage conditions within the building. A femto access point (AP) is set to “calibration mode” while a “calibration call” is effected (e.g.,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20090279524 - Method and apparatus for reducing control signaling overhead in hybrid wireless network: Embodiments of the present invention include a method and apparatus for reducing control signaling overhead in a hybrid wireless network. The method comprises receiving a wireless frame in the hybrid wireless network at a first terminal, and determining whether the received wireless frame is a control frame for a wireless... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090279518 - Method and arrangement for providing a wireless mesh network: A method and an arrangement for providing a wire-free mesh network are provided. An approval procedure is carried out in situations in which a subscriber who is registering on the mesh network transmits an MAC address which already exists in the mesh network, such that two different subscribers within the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090279517 - Methods and systems for multi-mode terminal scanning: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for scanning for paging messages in a second radio access technology (RAT) network, such as a CDMA network, while connected to a first RAT network, such as a WiMAX network. For certain embodiments, an enhanced scanning request message may facilitate establishing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279522 - Network device and method for local routing of data traffic: The present invention is related to a network device for serving a local network being in connection with a mobile network. The network device comprises interfaces for exchanging a data packet and further comprises a packet filter arranged for being connected to a local anchor point replicating the data connection... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090279520 - Scalable wlan gateway: A technique for combining transmission bandwidths of several mobile stations (MS1, MS2) is disclosed. A master mobile station (MS1) establishes a WLAN base station communicating with WLAN client terminals (CT). One or more slave mobile stations (MS2) may detect a predefined network identifier and join the WLAN network. The master... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20090279516 - Un-interrupted voip radio gateway services through clustering: A voice-over-internet system and method is disclosed which comprises a gateway (40) and a separate remote gateway (50) which can each provide signals between a radio (12) and a user terminal (24) via the internet (22). If one of the gateways fails, the other gateway is able to take over... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090279523 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: Provided is a wireless communication apparatus wherein random multi-access can be performed while ensuring a transmission distance, even with a radio wave having directivity. A wireless communication apparatus (100) transmits/receives directional radio waves and performs ad hoc network communication with other wireless communication apparatuses. The wireless communication apparatus is provided... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090279526 - Wireless lan system, a terminal and a recording medium readable by a computer: In a wireless LAN system, a terminal that includes a device for wireless LAN connection is capable of simple connection setting for wireless LAN. In said terminal, a simple connection setting recorder records each methods of simple connection setting that easily sets the simple connection setting for the wireless LAN,... Agent: Yokoi & Company U.s.a., Inc.

20090279528 - Method and system for single antenna receiver system for hsdpa: Aspects of a method and system for a single antenna receiver system for HSDPA are provided. Aspects of a method for processing RF signals, the method may comprise computing channel estimates based on a plurality of received individual distinct path signals, generating timing reference signals indicating a location of at... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090279527 - Wireless communication apparatus and data multiplexing method: A wireless transmitting apparatus capable of improving the reception characteristic at a data stream receiving end. In this apparatus, I/Q separating parts (110, 112) each separate first data modulated symbols included in any of a plurality of data streams, which are to be multiplexed, into first in-phase components and first... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090279530 - Method for synchronizing a data stream transmitted on a communications network, corresponding computer-readable storage medium and receiver device: w

20090279531 - Method for synchronizing radio communication system divided into radio cells: Data is transmitted via time division multiple access methods and every radio cell includes one base station each for the radio coverage of a plurality of mobile stations assigned to the radio cell. The base station receives, in addition to mobile station signals of its own radio cell, mobile station... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090279529 - Synchronization in mobile communication system: A solution to overcome synchronization problems related to a scenario where multiple radio access networks utilize a shared frequency band in a radio communication environment is provided. The radio access networks are synchronized to a common synchronization source which may be a synchronization signal broadcasted by another radio system. The... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20090279538 - Dynamic communication line assignment: A system that enables a calling party to communicate with a called party over a communications network comprises: (a) a web page storage device that is operable to send, over the internet, (i) web pages to a calling party device, the web pages including a data entry screen into which... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20090279533 - Extensible and secure transmission of multiple conversation contexts: The entry and transmission of notes to recipients along the conversation chain. Notes can be created based on an incoming caller. The notes can be transmitted to the conversation recipient for viewing before, during, and after the recipient accepts the conversation. This is facilitated by a communications client that operates... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090279536 - Ip forwarding across a link state protocol controlled ethernet network: Nodes on an Ethernet network run a link state protocol on the control plane and install shortest path forwarding state into their FIBs to allow packets to follow shortest paths through the network without requiring MAC header replacement at each hop through the network. When a node learns an IP... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20090279537 - Method and system for network address translation (nat) traversal of real time protocol (rtp) media: A solution for the Network Address Translation (NAT) traversal problem for Real Time Protocol (RTP) is provided, which uses an RTP Proxy (e.g., a Session Border Controller (SBC)), instead of being logically located between the NAT and the Feature Server (FS), but instead, for devices which use a protocol unsupported... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20090279534 - Method and system for placing a voip call: The present document describes a method and system for placing a VoIP call from a user using a user voice interface device in a given geographical area to a contact using a contact voice interface device in a distant geographical area. The method comprises: assigning an individual local access phone... Agent: Benoit & Cote, S.e.n.c.

20090279539 - Post answer call redirection via voice over ip: A method is provided for forming a multi-media communication path between at least first, second and third communication devices coupled to a multi-media provider system during post answer call redirecting and/or teleconferencing. The method includes receiving and processing a first call request at a circuit-based portion of the multi-media provider... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20090279535 - Providing dynamic services during a voip call: The present document describes a method and system for providing services during a call established between a user making the call and a contact. The call being established using a voice interface device having a key. The method comprises: providing an electronic assistant in a background mode; using the key... Agent: Benoit & Cote, S.e.n.c.

20090279532 - Tcp/ip based voice communication system: In various embodiments described herein a TCP/IP based voice communication system is described. The TCP/IP based voice communication system may be useful in a correctional facility or other environments such as college campus, hospitals or other institutions. In addition to providing voice communication from a source to a destination, the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090279540 - Cluster coupler in a time triggered network: The invention relates to a cluster coupler in a time triggered network for connecting clusters operating on the same protocol. Further, it relates to a network having a plurality of clusters, which are coupled via a cluster coupler. It also relates to a method for communicating between different clusters. To... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090279545 - Automatic packet tagging: A network device is arranged for coupling to a first network segment (18) to a second network segment (17), and has a transfer unit (23) for transferring data packets between the first and second network segments. The device has a determining unit (24) for determining a service requirement for a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090279543 - Method and system for handling tethered user devices in a telecommunications network: The presently described embodiments relate to a method for handling data sessions performed using tethered user devices in a network. The presently described embodiments are directed to network functionality to receive a tethered device indicator by a network element. The tethered device indicator, in at least one form, originates from... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090279544 - Provisioning point-to-multipoint paths: Establishing a point-to-multipoint path includes establishing a first label switched path from a source to a first destination, where the first label switched path is represented by a first label set comprising first node-label pairs. A second label switched path is established from the source to a second destination, where... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090279541 - Techniques for detecting non-receipt of fault detection protocol packets: Techniques that assist in processing of failure detection protocol (FDP) packets. Techniques are provided that assist a CPU of a network device in processing incoming FDP packets. In one embodiment, a module is provided in a network device for detecting and flagging the non-receipt of FDP packets by the network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279542 - Techniques for using dual memory structures for processing failure detection protocol packets: Techniques are provided for assisting in the processing of failure detection protocol (FDP) packets. Techniques are provided that assist a CPU of a network device in processing incoming FDP packets. In one embodiment, only a subset of FDP packets received by the network device is forwarded to the CPU for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279546 - Flexible method for processing data packets in a network routing system for enhanced efficiency and monitoring capability: According to an embodiment of the invention, a network device such as a router or switch provides efficient data packet handling capability. The network device includes one or more input ports for receiving data packets to be routed, as well as one or more output ports for transmitting data packets.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279547 - Network-aware adapter for applications: Streams of data traffic from various applications may be handled by a network-aware adapter module as part of a greater platform for filtering communicating the streams to intelligent network components. A distinguishing factor associated with a given data stream may be determined and used as a basis for selecting a... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20090279548 - Pipeline method and system for switching packets: A switching device comprising one or more processors coupled to a media access control (MAC) interface and a memory structure for switching packets rapidly between one or more source devices and one or more destination devices. Packets are pipelined through a series of first processing segments to perform a plurality... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279549 - Hitless software upgrades: Disclosed is a technique for facilitating software upgrade for a switching system comprising a first management processor and a second management processor and a set of one or more line processors, the techniques comprising receiving a signal to perform a software upgrade for a line processor from the set of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279550 - Tunneling for efficient network traffic management: Data traffic is scheduled by, in a first scheduler, selecting a source of traffic from a plurality of sources of traffic, each source being associated with a second scheduler, in a second scheduler associated with the selected source of traffic, selecting a type of traffic from a plurality of types... Agent: Patentry

20090279552 - Method and apparatus for distributing end-to-end qinq service tags automatically: A method for automatically distributing end-to-end 802.1Q in 802.1Q (QinQ) service tags includes: filtering out an applicable Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tag operation mode set according to a VLAN tag operation mode of an upstream node; selecting a VLAN tag operation mode; and obtaining a VLAN tag value automatically... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090279551 - Vertical integration of network management for ethernet and the optical transport: Systems and methods are described that vertically integrate telecommunications network management across multiple transport domains and network layers to support E2E network management. Embodiments vertically integrate telecommunications network management across multiple transport layers such as physical layers (optical), data link layers (Ethernet), and upper layers (VLAN), and establish an inventory... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Canavan

20090279554 - Device with ethernet switch function and single ethernet connector: A Local Area Network (LAN) device is provided that includes an integrated switching function and a single network port. More specifically, the single network port of the LAN device may be used to provide communications over two different channels to/from two different external network devices. Thus, the LAN device may... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090279553 - Proxy node discovering method, and relay node used in the method, and, node discovering method, and first node, second node and relay node used in the method: A technology is disclosed that can provide a proxy node discovering method, a relay node used in the method, and the like, the method in which a proxy can be decided even when a local technology is not present between a data transmitter and the proxy or between an application... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090279555 - Method and apparatus for a fast installation of an ip user connection over a 3gpp nb interface under application of the bicc \"delayed backward bearer establishment\" and avoidance of failure: An IP user data transport connection is established between a Media Gateway O and a Media Gateway T according to the BICC “Delayed Backward Bearer Establishment”. The Media Gateway O sends an IPBCP Accepted message towards the Media Gateway T upon receipt of an IPBCP Request message from Media Gateway... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090279557 - Method of route convergence, routing device, and main control board in routing device .: A method of route convergence, a routing device, and a main control board in the routing device are provided herein. The method includes receiving route information from multiple neighbor routing devices; selecting a route among the received route information, and applying the selected route to update an FIB of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090279556 - System and method for providing a pluggable architecture for state management in a telecommunication service access gateway: A network service access gateway is described that provides a pluggable state management architecture for storing state information. The gateway typically processes requests between entities such as external applications and subscriber mobile devices. In processing data, the gateway can implement multiple storage providers which are selected according to the data... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090279559 - Method and apparatus for aggregating input data streams: A method and apparatus aggregate a plurality of input data streams from first processors into one data stream for a second processor, the circuit and the first and second processors being provided on an electronic circuit substrate. The aggregation circuit includes (a) a plurality of ingress data ports, each ingress... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279558 - Network routing apparatus for enhanced efficiency and monitoring capability: According to an embodiment of the invention, a network device such as a router or switch provides efficient data packet handling capability. The network device includes one or more input ports for receiving data packets to be routed, as well as one or more output ports for transmitting data packets.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279560 - Adaptive rate control: Techniques are given for determining the data transmission or sending rates in a router or switch of two or more input queues in one or more input ports sharing an output port, which may optionally include an output queue. The output port receives desired or requested data from each input... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20090279561 - Backplane interface adapter: A backplane interface adapter for a network switch. The backplane interface adapter includes at least one receiver that receives input cells carrying packets of data; at least one cell generator that generates encoded cells which include the packets of data from the input cells; and at least one transmitter that... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090279562 - Content-aware dynamic network resource allocation: Network resources allocated for particular application traffic are aware of the characteristics of L4+ content to be transmitted. One embodiment of the invention realizes network resource allocation in terms of three intelligent modules, gateway, provisioning and classification. A gateway module exerts network control functions in response to application requests for... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20090279563 - Signaling separate unicast and broadcast information with a common pilot: Aspects describe conveying unicast information and broadcast information in a resource set for a transmission request. The unicast information and broadcast information can be transmitted at substantially the same time. Power control can be applied separately to the unicast information and the broadcast information for reliable decoding. A null request... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090279564 - Method and apparatus for reducing service impairment in link aggregation group: A method and apparatus for reducing service impairment in a LAG are provided. The method includes: dividing a service packet into multiple service sub-flows, and allocating the multiple service sub-flows to all the physical ports averagely; after a new port is added, configuring a preset quantity of service sub-flows for... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090279565 - Method and apparatus for adaptive time division multiplexing on a multi-channel wireline medium with colocated transceivers: A wireline communications circuit using transceivers compatible with a wireless communications protocol is disclosed using access points and stations in an adaptive Time Division Multiple Access scheme for a multi-channel medium with colocated transceivers. Methods of operating an access point and a station, their implementations as chips and the implementation... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20090279566 - Method and system for reducing call set up time in a group call: A method and system for communicating over an access channel in a network are disclosed. The method includes receiving a request at the network device (102) from a first communication device (104), to initiate a group call. The method also includes the transmission of the control channel capsule (402) from... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090279568 - Class-based bandwidth allocation and admission control for virtual private networks with differentiated service: A method and apparatus for establishing a virtual private network (VPN) session for a priority request. The method and apparatus includes identifying a priority request from a plurality of VPN session request classes. Reserved bandwidth is allocated to the priority request if a nominally allocated bandwidth is insufficient to satisfy... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090279567 - System and method for dynamic bandwidth provisioning: Embodiments disclosed herein provide a control device and a method executing thereon for allocating network bandwidth to users accessing a controlled network. In response to a user connecting to the control device using a user device, the control device obtains a user bandwidth allocation profile for that user based on... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20090279569 - Method and apparatus for assembling network layer data units: A method and apparatus for assembling a first network layer data unit from one or more second layer data units is described. The approach comprises receiving multiple second network layer data units, identifying whether all second network data layer units required for assembling a complete first network layer data unit... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090279570 - Flexible tributary interface: A system and method are provided for transporting Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) tributaries. The method accepts a plurality of PDH tributaries; generates a serial data stream of interleaved PDH tributaries; generates a serial control stream of signals for recovering the PDH tributaries; and, generates a clock signal for timing the... Agent: Gerald W. Maliszewski

20090279571 - Diversity proximity communication: A diversity proximity communication system formed on two juxtaposed chips, one having a two-dimensional array of transmit elements, the other having a two-dimensional array of receive elements. The receive and transmit elements need not be aligned and may have nominal alignment of one transmit element overlapping the corners of four... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090279572 - Transmission apparatus and method: A burst signal generator generates a burst signal that is a variable length portion whose length changes in accordance with fluctuations in data input at a predetermined period. An OFDM modulator generates an OFDM signal (including a guard interval portion and an effective symbol portion) that is a fixed length... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090274035 - Dynamic interleaving method and device: An interleaving method (2) and an interleaver (9) for frequency interleaving data symbols. The data symbols are for allocation to carriers in a set of NFFT carriers of a module for multiplexing and modulation by orthogonal functions in a multicarrier transmitter device (3). A block of Npm successive data symbols... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090274036 - Harq based ici coding scheme: Method and apparatus for transmitting data in an OFDM communication system, the method including transmitting over a channel, an original data packet that includes original data, the original data packet including at least one modulated data symbol encoded onto at least one sub-carrier using a first coding scheme. The method... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090274037 - Method for mapping physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel: A method for mapping a physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (PHICH) is described. The method for mapping a PHICH includes determining an index of a resource element group transmitting a repetitive pattern of the PHICH, according to a ratio of the number of available resource element groups in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090274038 - Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus with channel estimation function: A delay profile generating circuit 9 generates a delay profile signal. Concerning the delay profile signal, a ghost decision circuit 10 makes a decision as to the presence or absence of ghosts that will appear during traveling of a mobile vehicle in response to a transmission mode signal fed from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090274039 - Wireless communication device adopting ofdm modulation: A wireless communication device includes a converting circuit, a discrete Fourier transformer, a separating circuit, a correcting unit. The converting circuit converts an analog signal having an in-phase component and a quadrature component into a digital signal having a real part and an imaginary part of complex number respectively. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274041 - Fast feedback contention-based ranging procedure in wireless communications systems: A fast feedback mechanism is provided in a contention-based ranging procedure. A Subscriber Station (SS) initializes a ranging procedure by sending a ranging code on a selected ranging opportunity for resource access to a Base Station (BS) on a shared ranging channel in a previous uplink frame. The SS also... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20090274040 - Mid-call redirection of traffic through application-layer gateways: A method and apparatus are disclosed for redirecting traffic associated with an application so that the traffic advantageously traverses (or “hairpins”) through an application-layer gateway. Because the present invention advantageously redirects traffic without any participation by routers, no changes to or replacement of routers in a network is required. The... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090274044 - Methods and apparatus for decentralized rapid recovery for ethernet rings: A telecommunications system including a plurality of switches defining an Ethernet ring; a plurality of virtual local area networks defined on the Ethernet ring, defining a number of virtual local area networks (VLANs) equal in number to the number of links; and a ring recovery system configured to recover from... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090274043 - Multi-level interconnection network: A method and system for providing a multi-level interconnection network is provided. A multi-level interconnection network comprises basic cells that are aggregated into higher level cells at each level of the network. At the first level, the basic cells are aggregated into first level cells. Each first level cell is... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090274042 - Network based switchover to original content after ad-insertion device failure: In one embodiment, a network device joins a first multicast tree to receive post-ad-inserted video content. The network device also joins a second multicast tree to receive the pre-ad-inserted video content. The content from the first multicast tree is forwarded by the network device to the receiver(s). The network device... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090274045 - Qos provisioning in a network having dynamic link states: A network node for a network having dynamic link states includes a processing unit and computer-readable memory for causing the processing unit to monitor a link state of the network; perform QoS provisioning and make appropriate updates to the QoS provisioning based on changes in the link state and QoS... Agent: Hugh P. Gortler

20090274046 - Transparent optimization for transmission control protocol flow control: A system and method that optimizes transmission control protocol (TCP) flow control without intruding upon TCP's core algorithms. A control module relatively near a sender's local area network (LAN) automatically identifies a packet flow that has become window-limited. After the packet flow has been identified as window-limited, the control module... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090274047 - Distributed bi-directional flow control in wireless mesh networks: A distributed, bidirectional congestion control and starvation avoidance system for wireless mesh networks. In particular implementations, the nodes of the wireless mesh network monitor their respective local buffers for traffic load, and signal upstream and downstream nodes in response to detected congestion or excess capacity to dynamically allocate transmit capacity... Agent: Baker Botts LLP Mark J. Spolyar

20090274050 - Load control of ue mbms measurement reporting: An improved method and a communication means node implementing the method for load control in connection with a multimedia service transmission intended for multiple receivers over a wireless network are disclosed. The receivers in the wireless network are able to respond to requests communicated from an ordering entity by feeding... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090274048 - Methods and apparatus for dynamic load balancing with e-aich: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate dynamic load balancing in a communications network. In particular, one or more mobile devices can send random access preambles on an uplink frequency paired to a downlink frequency employed to connect the one or more mobile devices to a base station. The base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274049 - Non-blocked network system and packet arbitration method thereof: A non-blocked network system and a packet arbitration method thereof are provided to dynamically adjust packet arbitration policy, thereby avoiding the congestion of packet traffic. The non-blocked network system includes a switch network, a source device and a target device. The switch network includes at least a first switch unit... Agent: Ipr Works, LLC

20090274051 - Dynamic switch contact protection: A dynamic switch contact protection circuit and technique to protect a channel switch within an electrical system by limiting transients when the switch is turned on or turned off. The protection circuit comprises switching between a high resistance path and a low resistance path. The high resistance path comprises a... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090274052 - Automatic outage alert system: An outage notification system is provided which includes a first communication network, a second communication network, a plurality of first communication units communicatively coupled to the first communication network and the second communication network, a network monitoring unit communicatively coupled to the first communication network and configured to detect a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090274053 - Methods, devices and computer program products for capturing events associated network anomalies: Methods, devices and computer program products are provided for capturing information associated with a triggering event at a network-enabled device. A triggering event is detected at a first network-enabled device. A message is transmitted to at least one other network-enabled device responsive to the detected triggering event. The message includes... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090274054 - System and method for detecting a network loop: A system and methods of detecting a loop in a network having at least one access point with a first interface and a second interface, at least one switch with multiple ports, and at least one client with a first interface and a second interface, including: the access point first... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090274055 - Method for determining a route in a network and a quality-related parameter for said route: A routing method for a network burdens the network with less routing messages. According to said method, routing hellos for calculating the link metrics are used. The method thus removes the need for metric beacons.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090274056 - Method of identifying at least one route satisfying at least one constraint between a source node and a destination node in a telecommunications network: A device (20) for identifying a route satisfying a first constraint between a source node and a destination node in a telecommunications network. The device includes: means (31, 32, 33) for implementing a proactive routing protocol (RPR) adapted to establish a routing table (TR) and a topology table (TT); test... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090274061 - Computer readable storage media for wireless ofdm communication: Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20090274059 - Method and system for switching antenna and channel assignments in broadband wireless networks: A method and apparatus for antenna switching, grouping, and channel assignments in wireless communication systems. The invention allows multiuser diversity to be exploited with simple antenna operations, therefore increasing the capacity and performance of wireless communications systems. Channel characteristics indicative of signal reception quality for downlink or bi-directional traffic for... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090274058 - System and method for heartbeat signal generation: A system and method for heartbeat signal generation are provided. The method includes determining a communication condition and generating heartbeat signals based on the determined communication condition. The system includes a plurality of communication cells and at least one communication device configured to generate heartbeat signals. A rate of generating... Agent: Brian C. Oakes Tyco Technology Resources

20090274060 - System and method for remote monitoring in a wireless network: A technique for combining operations of a wireless access point with a remote probe. An access point links a wireless client to a wireless switch. A remote probe captures wireless packets, appends radio information, and forwards packets to a remote observer for analysis. In an embodiment, the observer may provide... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090274057 - Systems, methods and software for identifying a preferred egress gateway in a bypass network for accessing a content server in another network: A bypass computer network has multiple egress gateways for communicating with one or more content servers in other computer network(s). The bypass network is configured to test the performance between each egress gateway and a content server, and to identify at least one preferred egress gateway for accessing the content... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20090274064 - Light switch as a wireless hub: The current invention is directed to using utility outlets as wireless hubs within a premise so as to avoid the use of stand-alone wireless access points. Using utility outlets as wireless hubs requires the use of less cables and enhances security of wireless communication in a premises.... Agent: Optimal Technologies, Inc.

20090274065 - Method and apparatus for setting wireless local area network by using button: A method and apparatus for setting a wireless local area network (LAN) based on manipulating a button is provided. In the method, an existing wireless network links with a network that supports a wireless security setup. The method includes storing setup information about a currently associated wireless network if the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090274062 - Method and apparatus for updating dns of host in ipv6 stateless address configuration: Disclosed is a method for updating DNS of host in IPv6 stateless address auto-configuration, wherein an option is added in the RS message sent by a host and/or RA message sent by a router, said option including information for negotiation of updating DNS of host. Based on said information, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090274063 - Multi-level interconnection network: A method and system for providing a multi-level interconnection network is provided. A multi-level interconnection network comprises basic cells that are aggregated into higher level cells at each level of the network. At the first level, the basic cells are aggregated into first level cells. Each first level cell is... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090274067 - System and method for network planning: A method for designing a communication network is provided. Network demand data is gathered and network architecture data is gathered. Based in part on the network demand data and the network architecture data, a network plan is automatically generated.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090274066 - Systems and methods for implementing multi-topology support for label distribution protocol (ldp) of a multiprotocol label switching network: System and method for support multiple topology in Label Distribution Protocol of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network are disclosed. The system includes a number of network elements and a communication mechanism used to connect the network elements. The network elements discover LDP peers within the network topology, and create and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090274069 - Inter-access network topology discovery: The disclosure relates to building a topology map that can be used to provide a requesting wireless terminal with information relevant to its current location. Information on neighboring cells of different access networks is maintained in the topology map. An inter-access network (IAN) topology apparatus builds to topology map based... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090274068 - Network having redundancy properties, ethernet switch for such a network and method for configuring such a network: There is described a network having redundancy properties, an Ethernet switch, and a method for configuring the network. At least two network segments which are formed with a plurality of Ethernet switches are connected to one another by means of a redundant connection comprising at least two coupling channels. During... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090274070 - Power management of networked devices: A network-centric, power management system and method is disclosed for monitoring and controlling device nodes attached to a network. The monitoring and controlling includes collecting and processing information available on the network about the device nodes and using the collected information to manage power on the device nodes.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090274071 - Aggregation of resources over multiple frames in a tdd communication system: According to embodiments of the present invention, multiple frames or sub-frames on an uplink channel may be aggregated into one logical unit for demodulation and decoding to allow one data packet to span over multiple frames. Multi-frame aggregation is enabled by modifying the uplink resource allocation messages transmitted to the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090274072 - Antenna feed network for full duplex cummunication: The present invention provides a wireless device for effecting two way wireless transmission, an antenna feed network, and a patch antenna. The wireless device includes an antenna assembly having two inputs accepting two feed signals shifted a feed signal phase difference apart. The antenna assembly receives a radiated signal and... Agent: Herbert F. Ruschmann

20090274077 - Method and apparatus for downlink data arrival: A method is provided to generate messages for wireless communications. The method includes encapsulating a first message protocol within the framework of a second message protocol and generating a message from the first message protocol and the second message protocol. The method transmits the first message protocol to an allocation... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274074 - Method for channel quality measures in a multiple antenna system: The invention relates to a laminate structure comprising a first active layer having a first electrode potential, a second active layer having a second electrode potential, wherein the second electrode potential being different from the first electrode potential and wherein the first and second active layers are arranged at a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090274075 - Radio communication apparatus: A radio communication apparatus performing time division duplex alternately switching a transmission period and a reception period by time dividing an identical frequency, includes the steps of: detecting a transmission signal to be transmitted to the antenna so as to perform radio transmission from an antenna commonly used for transmission... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090274076 - Sounding reference signal user equipment specific sub-frame configuration: A method of wireless communication including a plurality of fixed basestations and a plurality of mobile user equipment with each basestation transmitting to any user equipment within a corresponding cell a sounding reference signal sub-frame configuration indicating sub-frames when sounding is permitted. Each user equipment recognizes the sounding reference signal... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090274073 - Transmit emission control in a wireless transceiver: Methods and apparatus for control of uplink resource allocation and undesirable transmit emissions from a wireless transceiver in a frequency division duplex (FDD) or hybrid frequency division duplex (H-FDD) wireless system. The bandwidths spanned by the receive band and the transmit band may be symmetric or asymmetric. Additionally, each of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090274078 - Method, base station, and user terminal for implementing uplink resource indication: A method, a base station (BS), and a user terminal for implementing uplink resource indication are provided. The method includes: carrying an uplink resource index in an uplink resource grant indication (ul grant), in which the uplink resource index is corresponding to at least one uplink resource in terms of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090274079 - Radio frequency (rf) signal multiplexing: In a radio frequency (RF) receiver, a receiver RF chain is tuned to a first (e.g., global positioning system (GPS)) channel to permit receipt of a first (e.g., GPS) signal over the first (e.g., GPS) channel on the receiver RF chain during a first time duration. The receiver RF chain... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274080 - Method for unifying operations of boards by using logical addresses thereof: The present invention relates to a method or unifying operations of a plurality of boards in a CDMA communication system by using logical addresses of the boards. Conventionally, since a board with a physical slot ID must be attached to a slot of the system corresponding to the physical slot... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090274081 - Device to sense frequency band to share operating frequency bands in heterogeneous communication systems and method thereof: A cognitive radio communication device and method are provided. The cognitive radio communication device includes a reception unit to receive reference signals from a first communication device, a frequency division unit to divide operating frequency bands of the first communication device into a plurality of sub frequency bands, a first... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090274082 - Methods and apparatus for power saving for mesh nodes: Methods and apparatus for implementing power saving in mesh nodes include transmitting a receive window start frame prior to each awake period. The receive window start frame is a short frame, and nodes in the mesh network passively monitor for this frame. Upon detection, a mesh node can transmit data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274083 - Methods and apparatus for scanning for mesh nodes: Methods and apparatus are provided for scanning for mesh nodes. A communication device monitors a shared communication channel to detect receive window start frames indicating that a mesh node is awake and available to receive data. The scanning device transmits a probe request during the awake window.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274084 - User equipment having improved power savings during full and partial dtx modes of operation: The present invention achieves power savings by turning off all or some of the baseband processing for codes and timeslots that have not been transmitted due to full or partial DTX. With respect to partial DTX, the transmitted codes and associated timeslots and radio frames within the shortest TTI in... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090274086 - Improved acquisition of system information of another cell: Method for informing a mobile terminal (MN), which is located in a first cell, on system information of a second cell. In particular, pointers to the system information are transmitted from the base station of the first cell to the mobile node, while the mobile node is located in the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090274085 - System and method for providing multicast and/or broadcast services: A method for a base station to provide a multicast and/or broadcast service (MBS) in a communication system. The method includes: transmitting system information on a system control information block (SCIB); transmitting MBS control information that is changed with relatively high frequency on a secondary multicast/broadcast control information block (S-MCIB);... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090274088 - Methods and apparatus for enabling relay-model tethered data calls in wireless networks: A method and apparatus for enabling a data call in a wireless network comprising determining if the data call in a packet app is a relay model tethered data call; and determining if default link flow type Flow 1 is deactivated for the data call. In one aspect, one or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274087 - Utility outlets as remote control repeaters: The current invention is directed to using utility outlets as remote control repeaters. Using utility outlets as remote control repeaters extends the coverage distance of the remote controller. Additionally, using the utility outlets as repeaters avoids interferences such as walls in premises.... Agent: Optimal Technologies, Inc.

20090274089 - System and method for establishing and maintaining communications across disparate networks: A system for establishing and maintaining communications across disparate networks comprises a satellite dish and control unit comprising a network management server and a satellite data conversion component. The control unit may further comprise an application server and a satellite dish alignment component. The system may further comprise at least... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090274094 - Advertising support for a plurality of service networks by a wireless access point: To advertise capabilities of a wireless access point, the wireless access point communicates, to a mobile station, messages at plural levels of detail to advertise that the wireless access point supports a plurality of service networks. The messages at the plural levels of detail include a first message indicating that... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090274098 - Data transmission method and data retransmission method: A method which can reduce loss in data transmission is provided. A data block is prepared in a high-level layer and the data block is transmitted in a low-level layer. Status report information associated with reception or non-reception of the data block is received through the low-level layer. When a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090274097 - Information transmission to an aircraft: A system and a method for information transmission to an aircraft and for the subsequent provision of the information, which includes an information system for an aircraft including a receiver for receiving a message in a mobile communication standard from a ground system. The message contains a message header and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090274096 - Method of network entry in ofdm multi-carrier wireless communications systems: A unified two-stage network entry procedure is provided for OFDM multi-carrier wireless communications systems. During a first stage, a mobile station performs a common network entry procedure using a primary radio frequency carrier and then exchanges multi-carrier capability information with a base station. In one embodiment, the base station transmits... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20090274099 - Methods and apparatus for communicating transmitter information in a communication network: Methods and apparatus for communicating transmitter information in a communication network are disclosed. The methods and apparatus communicate transmitter specific information, in particular, which includes location information about network transmitters for use in location or positioning type services. The disclosed methods and apparatus include inserting such transmitter specific information within... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274102 - Methods and apparatus for extending mobile ip: Methods and apparatus for extending Mobile IP to enable a Mobile IP Home Agent to forward to a default proxy MN server when it does not have a current binding for a MN home address. This can be used to route traffic when the MN is absent and to add... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274095 - Mobile wireless communication system and wireless base station: A mobile wireless communication system includes: a wireless base station that controls, for each timing, a transmission state of a radio wave repeatedly transmitted at timings that respectively differ; and a plurality of wireless mobile devices that are respectively allocated one of the timings, receive the radio wave at the... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090274093 - Process for routing data packets in a mobile node network and associated terminal: A method of routing data packets (P) between a source node (S) and a target node (C) in an ad hoc network comprising mobile nodes (1-14) that can be located and moving on traffic routes (L1, L2, L3, C1, C2, C3) of a particular geographical network (10) forming between them... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090274090 - Push-to-talk optimization: A push to talk message protocol operating on a communication network between an originating and terminating communication device operates to transmit compressed message formats to initiate the push to talk message protocol. Four compressed session protocol message formats are used in the preferred embodiment. A compressed originating session initiation invite... Agent: Hemingway & Hansen, LLP

20090274091 - System for interconnecting broadband wireless network with wired network: A system for interconnecting a broadband wireless network with a wired network comprises: as for a broadband wireless network required to be interconnected with a wired network, in equipment selected in the corresponding broadband wireless access (BWA) network, setting an interface communicating with at least one kind of wired network;... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090274092 - Transmission of internet packets according to a priority: A telecommunications system is operable to provide a facility for a communications session to a mobile node using an internet protocol. When changing affiliation from one of a first and second packet data network to the other of the first and second packet data network, a mobile node is operable... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090274100 - Uplink resource management in a wireless communication system: Management of uplink resources in a wireless communication is presented. In one embodiment, management of uplink resources comprises receiving a multi-bit acknowledge (multi-bit A/N) that is available for uplink transmission and receiving other information that is available for uplink transmission along with the multi-bit A/N. Next, it is determined whether... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274101 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device and wireless communication method, and computer program: If the RTS/CTS procedure is used together, CTS information is transmitted in response to the reception of RTS information, and data is transmitted in response to the reception of CTS. The CTS transmitting station measures the quality of RTS receive signal, and thereby determines a transmission rate at which it... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274111 - Base station, subordinated station and transmission method thereof: A base station (BS), a subordinated station (SS) and the transmission methods thereof for use in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) network are provided. The BS stores resource allocation information about the MIMO network and an SS list, and generate a super frame according to the resource allocation information and the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090274104 - Fixed mobile convergence techniques for redundant alarm reporting: Alarm reporting systems and methods for reporting alarms to a central monitoring station using fixed mobile convergence (FMC) techniques. An alarm reporting system comprises a plurality of sensors, an alarm reporting module that receives alarm signals from the plurality of sensors, and a logic unit that generates an alarm message... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090274106 - Method and apparatus for routing communications using active and passive end-to-end quality-of-service reservations based on node mobility profiles: A method and apparatus for routing communications using end-to-end QoS reservations based on node mobility profiles is disclosed. The method may include setting up active quality of service reservations along a first path to a destination edge node, receiving a mobility profile from the destination edge node, setting up passive... Agent: Prass LLP

20090274109 - Method and apparatus for uplink ack/nack resource allocation: A method is provided to allocate resources for wireless communications. The method includes grouping downlink control channels from multiple subframes and ordering the downlink control channels across downlink subframes having a first control channel element located in a first symbol map and associated with reserved resources for an uplink channel.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274110 - Method and system for generating antenna selection signals in wireless networks: Embodiments of the invention describe a method for antenna selection (AS) in a wireless communication network, the network comprising user equipment (UE), wherein the UE comprises a plurality of subsets of antennas including a selected subset of antennas and an unselected subset of antennas, wherein only the selected subset of... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090274107 - Method for transmitting voice packets in wireless communication system: There is provided a method for transmitting voice packets for VoIP service using semi-persistent scheduling that previously allocates radio resources and performs uplink transmission using the previously allocated radio resources when additional radio resource allocation is not resources used for talkspurt and radio resources used for silent period, detecting transition... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090274105 - Ofdma contention-based random access channel design for mobile wireless systems: Short spreading is used within a random access channel in an OFDM based network to spread data for transmission through the channel. The resource allocation of the random access channel is divided into a number of resource blocks in frequency, time, or both frequency and time. Each resource block has... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele, LLC

20090274108 - Radio base station and mobile communication method: A radio base station according to the present invention includes: a determiner determining a transfer rate of data transferred from the radio network controller to the radio base station, based on a predetermined bandwidth of a wired transmission path, a bandwidth of the wired transmission path not being used, and... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090274103 - System aided papr reduction scheme based on tr algorithm: A peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction method, known as system-aided PAPR reduction (SAPR), is disclosed. Based on a TR algorithm, the SAPR method avoids the drawbacks of conventional tone reservation implementations, and reduces PAPR significantly, in some embodiments. The SAPR method may be applied to next generation OFDMA-based wireless broadband... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20090274113 - Channel allocation for burst transmission to a diversity of satellites: A method for allocating transmission channels to devices configured to communicate short data packets to a diversity of non geostationary satellites is disclosed hereby. The method suggests a dynamic cellular partitioning of the earth surface, based on the smallest intersections of overlapping satellite service areas (“footprints”), defined as mega-cells, and... Agent: Daniel Katz

20090274112 - Initial access channel for scalable wireless mobile communication networks: Physical layer structures and access schemes for use in such networks are described and in particular initial access channel (IACH) structures are proposed. A spectrum efficient downlink (DL) IACH design supports different types of User Equipment (UE) capabilities and different system bandwidths. An IACH includes the synchronization channel (SCH) and... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090274122 - Communication system, mobility management network element and method for processing resource: A method for processing resource, a communication system, and a mobility management network element are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a mobility management network element in a packet switched (PS) network, a Release Request message sent by an access network of the PS network or a Handoff Complete message... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090274117 - Handover method in mobile phone network: The invention provides for a handover method for use in relation to a mobile radio communications device arranged for communication with an access service gateway by way of an eNodeB arrangement and comprising the steps of, subsequent to the receipt of a handover request at the mobile radio communications device... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090274116 - Method and system for detecting position of mobile communication terminal by using pilot strength measurement message: There is provided a system for detecting a location of a mobile station (MS) by using a pilot strength measurement message (PSMM) in a mobile communication system providing a location-based service in a mobile communication network, comprising: a position determination entity (PDE) for detecting the location of the mobile station,... Agent: David A. Einhorn, Esq. Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090274121 - Method and system for radio access technology monitoring in a wireless communications system: A method and apparatus are provided for radio access technology (RAT) monitoring, in a wireless system environment having wireless communications equipment and at least two different RATs that coexist for providing to the equipment access to one or more communications networks. The equipment has at least two subsystems, each adapted... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090274118 - Method for preventing pin-pong handover effect in mobile wimax networks: To prevent a handover ping-pong effect between base-station in WiMAX-compliant networks, a priority level is firstly assigned to the trigger causes for handover, and the prioritized causes are coded. Then codes are subdivided into a first class of unrestricted handovers and a second class of handover subjected to restriction. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090274114 - Method for updating dns address in mobile ip terminal: The present invention relates to a method for updating a domain name server (DNS) address by obtaining the DNS address when an IP address is allocated by using a mobile IP address in a mobile terminal using the portable internet based on a wireless mobile network. In the method at... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090274119 - Methods and apparatus for rf handoff in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for RF handoff in a multi-frequency network. A method includes detecting a mobility event associated with a detection of a new wide area operating infrastructure (WOI), updating a current WOI identifier to a new WOI identifier, acquiring control channel information associated with the new WOI identifier, determining... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274120 - System and method for multicarrier uplink control: An uplink control method for use in a communication system based on multiple carriers. The method includes allocating different types of random access channels for different types of uplink operations.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090274115 - Wlan roaming and selection using managed wlan handover process:

20090274123 - Method of cell measurement based on cell reselection and measured report in umts cellular system: A cell measurement method used in a mobile station camping on a serving cell is provided, wherein the serving cell sends system information of neighbor cells to the mobile station. A first set of the neighbor cells is determined based on a measurement rule for cell reselection. A second set... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090274125 - Method and system for organizing the cells of a wireless communication system and allocating resources to provide multimedia broadcast services: A system and method for configuring the system for configuring a wireless multi-cell communication to provide multimedia broadcast services (MBMS) to a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs). The cells of the communication system are organized into a plurality of sets of one or more cells. Resource units are assigned... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090274127 - Method for determining superframe for beacon scheduling: Provided is a method for determining superframe to efficiently perform beacon scheduling by allocating superframe lengths which are different according to a routing depth of sensor nodes in a ZigBee based wireless sensor network. The method for determining a superframe for beacon scheduling, includes the steps of: receiving a beacon... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090274126 - Mobile station, mobile communication system, and transmission timing control method in mobile station: A mobile station, a mobile communication system comprising the mobile station and a base transceiver station, and a transmission timing control method in a mobile station, controlling a transmission timing of transmission data sent to the base transceiver station so as to cancel a difference between a first elapsed time... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090274124 - Packet scheduling method, base station, and mobile station in mobile communication system: A downlink packet scheduling method is disclosed for a shared channel or a common channel in a mobile communication system between a base station and a mobile station, the method including a step in which the base station determines whether there is a waiting packet to be transmitted to the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090274132 - Access point used in wireless lan system: The access point used in the wireless LAN system acquires, from a network, an IP address of a management device that holds a list of wireless LAN control devices to each of which the access point can be subordinate, in response to an event start input, acquires the list from... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090274136 - Automatic partitioning of wireless access points into overlay and underlay networks: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to partitioning access points into two or more network access layers, such as overlay and underlay network access layers. According to one implementation of the present invention, a wireless network management system partitions a set of wireless access points into an overlay network for low-functionality... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090274133 - Communication apparatus, control method, and storage medium thereof: A communication apparatus that can perform communication with an external apparatus by switching between a plurality of communication methods, the communication apparatus comprises: a detection unit that detects a change in a position and/or orientation of the communication apparatus; and a switching unit that switches a communication method for use... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090274135 - Direct link setup method in tunneled direct link setup wireless network and station supporting the method: Provided are a Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) establishment method for a TDLS initiator and a station supporting the establishment method. In the establishment method, a requesting Non-AP QSTA transmits a TDLS setup request frame via an access point(AP) to an intended peer Non-AP QSTA. And, the requesting Non-AP QSTA... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090274129 - Distributed load balancing in wireless networks: Distributed load balancing in wireless digital networks. In a network having a plurality of access nodes with at least one wireless client connected to a first access node, the client is encouraged to move to a different access node by reducing the apparent signal strength of transmissions from the access... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090274134 - Method and apparatus for wireless communication: A communication network includes a plurality of network interface devices each covering a respective one of a plurality of cells. Each of the plurality of network interface devices communicates with communication entities in the respective cell using radio frames of the respective cell. The radio frames of a first one... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090274131 - Method and system for dynamic distribution of traffic in channel bonding wireless local area network(lan) systems: A method and apparatus for dynamically distributing traffic in a channel bonding wireless local area network (LAN) system. The method includes extracting information regarding a flow from an arrived packet and classifying the packet in the unit of the flow based on the extracted flow information; monitoring the state of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090274130 - Wireless network communication apparatus, methods, and integrated antenna structures: Wireless mesh network communication apparatus and methods are disclosed. Directional antennas are respectively operatively coupled to dedicated communication devices to provide multiple independent wireless communication links. Exchange of communication traffic through the wireless communication links provided by the communication devices and the antennas is controlled by a switch. Any or... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090274128 - Wireless network system: A radio device, which is the source, transmits a route request packet (RREQ) to a radio device. In response to the route request packet (RREQ), the radio device transmits to the radio device a route setup packet (RSET) including a route Radio Device Radio Device Radio Device Radio Device by... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090274137 - Method and system for establishing a system time within a mobile ad hoc network: A mobile ad hoc network, a mobile ad hoc network node and a method for establishing a system time within a mobile ad hoc network are provided. The network nodes may include a global positioning system (GPS) receiver for receiving GPS signals and for providing a GPS time derived from... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20090274138 - Method for transmitting data and a device having data transmission capabilities: A method for transmitting data, the method includes scanning at least a first memory unit to retrieve data segments associated with multiple TDM channels, in response to a definition of multiple TDM time frames, each TDM time frame includes multiple time slots; sending the retrieved data segments to an array... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090274139 - Pre-emptive acknowledgement for data transmission in a communication system: Techniques for sending acknowledgement (ACK) information for data transmission are described. In one design, a receiver receives a transmission of data, processes the received transmission to decode the data, and generates ACK information for the data prior to decoding all of the data. The receiver may generate the ACK information... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274140 - Efficient channel architectures for multi-channel mac protocols in wireless ad hoc networks: The system (500), apparatus (400), and method of the present invention provide three architectures for logically organizing multiple channels: a parallel multi-channel superframe (PMS) (100), a sequential multi-channel superframe (SMS) (200), and a non-overlapping multi-channel superframe (NMS) (300). Each of these architectures arises from different trade-offs and is applicable to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090274142 - Device and method for the recognition of call numbers for voice-over-ip telephony: Call numbers are recognized in order to establish a connection from a lie-switched network to a packet-switched network. In one aspect, a device comprises a unit for detecting a selected string of digits as a selected call number, a unit for storing a plurality of authorized call numbers, a comparator... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090274147 - Electronic loop provisioning: The present invention is directed to a local network access architecture and method of providing local services that advantageously replaces portions of the physical hardwired local loop with a path that is software-defined. In one embodiment the system comprises a remote terminal comprising a packet processor that converts an analog... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090274141 - Ip telephone system and ip telephone method: There are provided an IP telephone system and method for establishing a connection to the IP network 4 via a public line network and performing talking by transmitting/receiving IP packet data into which audio data has been converted. In a location server 3 arranged on a PSTN 5 or the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274146 - Method, system and device for implementing network address translation traversal: A method for implementing NAT traversal is disclosed herein. The first MGW and the ICE mechanism supporting device obtain the local candidate information and the candidate information of the peer end; the first MGW and the ICE mechanism supporting device perform connectivity check according to the candidate information; and the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090274145 - Methods, systems, and products for emergency communications: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for processing emergency communications. A database of addresses is queried to determine if a communications address is an emergency communications address. When the communications address is the emergency communications address, then a location coordinate is retrieved and mapped to a location of an emergency... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090274144 - Multi-node and multi-call state machine profiling for detecting spit: An apparatus and method for detecting potentially-improper call behavior (e.g., SPIT, etc.) are disclosed. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention is based on finite-state machines (FSMs) that represent the legal states and state transitions of communications protocols at nodes during Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls. In accordance with... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090274143 - State machine profiling for voice over ip calls: An apparatus and method for detecting potentially-improper call behavior (e.g., SPIT, etc.) are disclosed. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention is based on finite-state machines (FSMs) that represent the legal states and state transitions of a communications protocol at a node during a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call.... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090274148 - Efficient path setup in a provider backbone bridge network: In a provider backbone-traffic engineering network, a method and a bridge node are provided for setting up path between edge bridges connected to customer premises. A first edge bridge advertises towards peer edge bridges a tuple comprising a port identity and a layer two address. When it needs to set... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090274150 - Mechanisms for providing intelligent throttling on a nat session border controller: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for managing session data in a session border controller (SBC), where the session data is sent from a first node, such as a first phone, to a second node, such as a registrar or second phone. In one example embodiment, the following operations are performed... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090274149 - Redundant media packet streams: This invention concerns the transmitting and receiving of digital media packets, such as audio and video channels and lighting instructions. In particular, the invention concerns the transmitting and receiving of redundant media packet streams. Samples are extracted (556) from a first (904) and second (906) media packet stream. The extracted... Agent: Jones Day

20090274151 - Broadcast-content transmission apparatus, and broadcast-content transmission method: A transmitting side (101) transmits broadcast content (100) through a communication network (111) or a broadcast network (110). Transmission through the communication network (111) involves an addition of an IP header (100b) to the broadcast content (100) for packetization as an IP packet (100a) and transmission to a terminal device... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090274152 - Method and system for disseminating time-sensitive economic data to market participants: A system and method for disseminating time-sensitive economic information to one or more clients is disclosed. The system includes a computer system and at least one database in communication with the computer system. The database includes a number of XML templates having fields corresponding to one or more economic indicators.... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090274153 - System and method for implementation of layer 2 redundancy protocols across multiple networks: The system, method, and article of manufacture of the present invention allows multiple customers connected to a common external network to each implement a layer 2 redundancy protocol, such as the spanning tree protocol, in order to prevent layer 2 loops. Accordingly, a method is presented for providing an independent... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090274154 - Double-hash lookup mechanism for searching addresses in a network device: A hash function is applied to a set of data to generate a hash. A first subset of the hash is used to lookup an entry in a lookup table for a forwarding database. A second subset of the hash is used to identify, within the entry, data comprising an... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20090274156 - Carrier ethernet over docsis: A network includes a provider edge device with logic to encapsulate Ethernet frames received from customer equipment into Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) frames using Layer Two Tunneling Protocol. The provider edge device further includes logic to implement a virtual switch instance (VSI).... Agent: Fsp LLC

20090274155 - Technique for providing interconnection between communication networks: Technique for interconnecting a first communication network and a second communication network, for example layer 2 Ethernet networks, which uses a fully or partially redundant dual homing configuration. The configuration includes: at least three network elements where at least two of them are peer elements belonging to the second network,... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090274158 - Efficient broadcast of data in a communication network: A system (and a method) are disclosed for reliably disseminating a state of a node in a large network consisting of nodes with constrained resources. The system comprises a process embodied by a state machine comprised of an advertise state, a request state, and a share state. The system processes... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090274157 - Method and apparatus for hierarchical routing in multiprocessor mesh-based systems: A method and apparatus for hierarchical routing in mesh systems. The method may include splitting 420 a mesh network of nodes into a plurality of partitions, each partition including at least one node, dividing 430 a first partition into a plurality of rectangular regions, determining 440 a partition route from... Agent: Prass LLP

20090274159 - Method and apparatus for advertising border connection information of autonomous system: A method and an apparatus for advertising border connection information of autonomous system are disclosed. Moreover, the method includes: establishing and maintaining, by a border node of the autonomous system, the border connection information of the autonomous system; flooding the border connection information within the autonomous system; and receiving, by... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090274160 - Tree-shaped broadcasting system, packet transmitting method, node device, and computer-readable medium: A lost packet in a plurality of packets broadcasted from a broadcasting apparatus is detected. Packet complement request information indicative of a packet complement request for complementing the lost packet is transmitted to a device in a high hierarchical level, and a dummy packet for holding transmission of the packet... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090274161 - Network routing method and system utilizing label-switching traffic engineering queues: The present invention is directed to a scalable packet-switched network routing method and system that utilizes modified traffic engineering mechanisms to prioritize tunnel traffic and non-tunnel traffic. The method includes the steps of receiving a request to establish a traffic engineering tunnel across the packet-switched network. Then at a router... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090274162 - Port expander for fibre channel fabrics in storage area networks: An port expander Fibre Channel switch presents F_ports to form a first Fibre Channel fabric and N_ports to a second Fibre Channel fabric to appear as node devices. The port expander may be used to connect a plurality of blade servers to a Fibre Channel fabric. Fabric events engendered by... Agent: Wong Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20090274163 - Method, system, and apparatus for controlling multicast bearer resources: A method, a system, and an apparatus for controlling multicast bearer resources are disclosed. The method includes: a network entity in the RACS receives a request of controlling a multicast bearer resource and controls the multicast bearer resource according to the request. The method, the system and the apparatus disclosed... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090274164 - Random phase multiple access communication interface system and method: A method for communicating through a multiple access communication interface includes receiving a first signal from a first tag, where the first signal is spread using a predetermined pseudo-noise (PN) code, and further where the first signal includes first payload data. A second signal is received from a second tag.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090274165 - Aggregated resource reservation for data flows: A network node for reserving resources for data flows in a communication network. The node detects a request for resource reservation for a new data flow and computes an admission test count based on descriptors of the new data flow and reservation counts, which represent reservation functions of descriptors of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090274166 - Bandwidth reservation in a tdma-based network: A method of bandwidth reservation in a TDMA-based network comprising a plurality of media access slots, wherein a plurality of transmitter-receiver pairs in the network may reserve the same media access slot.... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20090274167 - Communication terminal apparatus and transmitting method: A communication terminal apparatus capable of suppressing communication delay independently of the packet size, efficiently performing communication, and further solving the problem of hidden terminals. In this apparatus, a number-of-STAs holding part (107) counts, based on a received signal inputted from an STA determining part (105), the other STAs in... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090274169 - Dynamic link distance configuration for extended fabric: A method to dynamically allocate credits for a particular port to port link based on measured link distance during the initial interswitch link configuration process. An apparatus implementing such method or a software upgrade to retrofit existing switches.... Agent: Wong Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20090274168 - Method for transmitting data from multiple clock domains and a device having data transmission capabilities: A method that includes defining a transmission schedule of a TDM data frame that includes multiple TDM time slots allocated for transmitting data over a TDM line; the method is characterized by including: providing a transmission clock signal having a transmission clock frequency to the TDM line, providing a first... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090274170 - Adaptation apparatus and adaptation method for ethernet signal transmission: The present invention provides an adaptation apparatus for Ethernet signal transmission, including: a differential/single-ended conversion unit, set between the coaxial cable network and the Ethernet physical layer chip, adapted to convert a to-be-transmitted signal of the Ethernet physical layer chip from differential signal into single-ended signal; a non-collinear/collinear conversion unit,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090274171 - System and method for data size adaptation in a ue: A method is described for adapting the size of data for a future Transmission Time Interval (TTI) by a User Equipment (UE), wherein all the Media Access Control (MAC)-d flows are grouped and stored in different lists based on a type of grants associated with the MAC-d flows, ability of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090274172 - Method and apparatus for distributing and receiving high-speed ethernet media independent interface blocks: A method and apparatus for distributing and receiving high-speed Ethernet Media Independent Interface (MII) blocks are provided to moderate the increase of control lines with the increase of the bit width and to simplify the block types in the coding process of the Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS). The technical solution... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090274173 - Apparatus and methods for transmitting data over a wireless mesh network: Methods and apparatus for transmitting data over a wireless mesh network include generating a first mesh header having a plurality of fields, and extending the first mesh header by prepending a protocol header to generate a second mesh header. The second mesh header may be inserted into a protocol data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274174 - Method of generating pilot pattern for adaptive channel estimation in ofdma systems, method of transmitting/receiving using the pilot pattern and apparatus thereof: Provided is a method of generating a pilot pattern capable of perform adaptive channel estimation, and a method and apparatus of a base station and a method and apparatus of a terminal using the pilot pattern. The pilot pattern selects pilot symbol positions based on distances from pilots of previous... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20090262668 - Immediate communication system: m

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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