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Multiplex Communications > Data Flow Congestion Prevention Or Control Data Flow Congestion Prevention Or ControlData Flow Congestion Prevention Or Control patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.01/17/08 - 20080013449 - Mmpp analysis of network traffic using a transition window Data communication in network traffic is modeled in real time and is analyzed using a 2-state Markov modified Poissen process (MMPP). The traffic inter-arrival times for bursty and idle states define a transition window [λ1max, λ2min] represented by the boundary values λ1max max for the inter-arrival time for bursty traffic, ... 01/03/08 - 20080002576 - System and method for resetting counters counting network performance information at network communications devices on a packet network A system and method for collecting network performance information from network communications devices may include requesting, from a network communications device operating on a packet network, a counter value generated from counting a network performance information parameter. The request may cause the counter value to be reset prior to overflowing. ... 12/13/07 - 20070286073 - Method for in-place, lightweight ack promotion in a wireless network environment A method for in-place, lightweight Ack packet promotion in a wireless network environment is provided. The method includes receiving a new Ack packet via a wireless network; searching through a transmit queue for an old Ack packet that corresponds to the new Ack packet; and replacing the data in a ... 12/13/07 - 20070286072 - Method and system for measuring interest levels of digital messages In an electronic communication system, relevance levels of an incoming or outgoing message for presenting it to an interlocutor is measured without having to actually interact with the interlocutor, by a method comprising the steps of extracting from the message, a flow of digital signals pertaining to transmission/reception context features, ... 12/13/07 - 20070286070 - Method and device for controlling a queue buffer A method and device of controlling a queue buffer, in which a congestion notification procedure is conducted if a queue length parameter exceeds a threshold value, said threshold value being adapted automatically by a procedure that takes into account a flow control parameter. ... 11/22/07 - 20070268824 - Thin client system In a thin client system which provides a high-quality picture reproduction method and which makes it possible to use a thin client terminal as a TeleVision (TV) phone terminal and a TV conference terminal, a video reproducing module is disposed in a thin client server device and a graphics module ... 11/22/07 - 20070268823 - Device and method for managing oversubscription in a network A device and a method for aggregating and managing large quantities of data are disclosed. The received data are prioritized into high and low priority queues. The device receive memory is partitioned into blocks which are further divided into free list and allocation list. The low priority queues occupy between ... 11/15/07 - 20070263533 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and recovering multi-lane encoded data streams using a reduced number of lanes A method includes receiving first encoded data associated with one or more first lanes and decoding the first encoded data to produce decoded data. The method also includes encoding the decoded data to produce second encoded data associated with one or more second lanes and transmitting the second encoded data. ... 11/08/07 - 20070258362 - Data flow control apparatus and method of mobile terminal for reverse communication from high speed communication device to wireless network A data flow control apparatus of a mobile terminal that performs reverse communication from a high speed communication device to a wireless network. An Rm interface unit receives data from the high speed communication device and buffers the received data in a byte stream format. An Operating System (OS) device ... 10/11/07 - 20070237076 - Node A node arranged to communicate with at least one further node; comprising: a buffer arranged to receive data transmitted from the at least one further node; an output arranged to transmit data to the at least one further network element, wherein the data comprises information about the ability for the ... 10/11/07 - 20070237075 - Method and apparatus for dynamic adjustment of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing during congested conditions A base station has a transmission element to wirelessly transmit at least one data frame. The at least one data frame has a predetermined uplink allocation and a predetermined downlink allocation. A detection element detects a congestion condition. When the congestion condition is detected, the transmission element transmits a request ... 10/11/07 - 20070237074 - Configuration of congestion thresholds for a network traffic management system A hierarchical congestion management system improves the performance of traffic through a communications system. In one embodiment of the invention, a first subset of thresholds is configured so as to guarantee the passage of a certain high-priority or other selected communications traffic. Further, a second subset of thresholds is configured ... 10/11/07 - 20070237073 - Method and apparatus for improved isochronous data delivery over non-isochronous communication fabric Data buffer management logic transfers a segment of a data stream over a communication fabric and stores it in a buffer. Then, while data is consumed from the buffer, the rate of consumption and communication fabric status are monitored, and a target minimum level of data in the buffer may ... 09/27/07 - 20070223372 - Method and apparatus for preventing congestion in load-balancing networks The invention includes a method and apparatus for processing traffic in a load-balancing network comprising a plurality of nodes. The method includes determining an egress node associated with each of a plurality of packets of a traffic flow received at an ingress node of the plurality of nodes, determining, for ... 09/20/07 - 20070217333 - Apparatus and method for processing reception frame in a wireless terminal Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for estimating a state of a reception buffer, and processing a downlink frame based on the estimated state of the reception buffer in a wireless terminal. The method includes continuously monitoring a level of a reception buffer; determining based on the level of ... 09/13/07 - 20070211626 - Hardware throttling of network traffic sent to a processor based on new address rates In an embodiment of the invention, a method and apparatus for hardware throttling of network traffic, includes: receiving a packet; and preventing the packet from being copied, based on a rate field value associated with a new address in the packet information in the packet. The packet is not copied ... 09/13/07 - 20070211625 - Wireless communication device and method for dynamic bidirectional aggregation of mac frames with delayed channel access in a wireless network Embodiments of a wireless communication device and method for dynamic bidirectional aggregation of media-access control (MAC) layer frames in a wireless network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the time between consecutive bursts is dynamically varied based on a MAC channel access ... 08/30/07 - 20070201357 - Control plane security and traffic flow management An internetworking device that provides improved immunity to Denial of Service attacks, and in general, improved Quality of Service (QoS). An internetworking element or other route processor is composed of two main parts, including a data forwarding plane and a control plane; the control plane runs routing, signaling and control ... 08/16/07 - 20070189158 - Method and a system for transmitting control data traffic between a base station of a 3g mobile communication network and a network management station The invention relates to a method and a system for transmitting packet switched control data traffic between a base station (NodeB) of a third generation (3G) mobile communication network and a network management station. In the system according to the invention, an IP-VPN virtual network is used to isolate essentially ... 08/09/07 - 20070183322 - System and method for automated network element database population In an illustrative method for populating a database for use in automated administration of network elements, data that describes network elements in a telecommunication system is aggregated from existing systems. The aggregated network element data is validated and inserted into a database. Finally, a log is generated for each database ... 08/09/07 - 20070183321 - Mobile communication system, transmitting station, receiving station, relay station, communication path determining method, and communication path determining program Provided is a mobile communication system capable of determining a communication path to implement fast communication by multihop connection. A mobile communication system (1) comprises a mobile station (10), at least one relay station (30), and a base station (20) and implements packet transmission from the mobile station (10) to ... 08/09/07 - 20070183320 - Deficit fair priority queuing A deficit fair priority queue scheduling technique includes arranging connections in a waiting queue according to a plurality of priority classes including a first class having a higher priority than a second class. Each time a scheduler visits a queue having waiting connections, a deficit value for each priority class ... 08/02/07 - 20070177499 - Network connectivity determination By reviewing incoming packets, the network connectivity of a network access site may be determined. The review can be passive where incoming packets are reviewed and no additional network traffic is generated or the review may be active where packet probes are sent to locations and the response are reviewed ... 08/02/07 - 20070177498 - Method and apparatus for implementing speculative credit flow control A method and apparatus are provided for implementing speculative credit flow control in a data communications link. A receiving node selects and sends a number of speculative credits as part of a total number of credits sent to a transmitting node. The receiving node receives and processes communications from the ... 07/26/07 - 20070171819 - Restricting time slots for mesh networks Systems and methods are described that facilitate controlling transmission/reception time slots in a wireless multi-hop ad hoc network. A node, such as an access terminal or an access point, may select an identifier that corresponds to specific time slots during which nodes with that particular identifier may transmit and/or receive. ... 07/26/07 - 20070171818 - Wireless access method and system A system shown in the drawing automatically sends information stored in a server to a mobile terminal (MT) that has entered a service area. At least one access point station (AP#1) of access point stations (AP#1 to AP#3) installed in a high place is connected by cable to a contents ... 07/19/07 - 20070165523 - Infrared communication system and method A wireless communications capability enables field personnel to communicate with a remote control console of a distributed system. A hand held communications unit generates console related messages that are coupled, via local devices to the remote console. ... 07/19/07 - 20070165522 - Method for allocating bearer network resource A method for allocating bearer network resources is disclosed, which includes: each bearer network resource manager deciding after receiving a QoS resource request whether the destination user of the QoS resource request is an intra-domain user, if yes, selecting an intra-domain LSP, allocating resources on the selected intra-domain LSP, and ... 07/19/07 - 20070165521 - Wireless transmission apparatus and wireless transmission method A wireless transmission apparatus that improves throughput in a wireless communication network system. In this apparatus, MT units of transmission/reception sections (122-1 to 122-MT) respectively correspond to MT units of antennas (121-1 to 121-MT) and transmit a preamble signal and a data signal via corresponding antennas (121-1 to 121-MT). MT ... 07/12/07 - 20070159969 - Methods and apparatus for communicating transmission backlog information An uplink dedicated control channel reporting structure includes a plurality of different bit size reports, e.g. 1 bit, 3 bit and 4 bit reports, for reporting a wireless terminal's backlog information of uplink traffic request group queues. Smaller bit size reports are transmitted more frequently than larger reports. A 1 ... 07/12/07 - 20070159968 - Selective text telephony character discarding A network device has a port to allow the device to transmit text telephony packets over a packet network. The device includes at least one processor to detect impending buffer overflow, determine a number of text telephony characters to be dropped, and select a compression to be applied to the ... 07/12/07 - 20070159967 - System and method for implementing a preemptive retransmit for error recovery in a communications environment A method for communicating data is provided that includes receiving a plurality of bits associated with a communications flow and determining whether one or more samples included in the flow should be suppressed. The method also includes suppressing a selected one or more of the samples. The method also includes ... 07/12/07 - 20070159966 - Systems and methods for managing traffic within a peer-to-peer network In a peer-to-peer network, one or more congestion events are defined that imply congestion on the network. In addition, one or more non-congestion events are defined that imply a lack of congestion on the network. When a node detects the occurrence of one or more of the defined congestion events, ... 07/12/07 - 20070159965 - Method for determining threshold values for traffic control in communication networks with admission control Disclosed is a method for allocating transmission capacity to a threshold value based on an expected volume of traffic, said threshold value being used for restricting traffic in a communication network featuring threshold—based access controls. According to the inventive method, a portion of transmission capacity is allocated to the threshold ... 07/05/07 - 20070153688 - Real-time rate control mechanism for multi-rate data transmissions in wireless networks Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the invention, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers ... 07/05/07 - 20070153687 - Method and apparatus for adaptive server selection in a data communication system Methods and apparatus for selecting a serving sector in a high rate data (HDR) communication system are disclosed. An exemplary HDR communication system defines a set of data rates, at which a sector of an Access Point may send data packets to an Access Terminal. The sector is selected by ... 07/05/07 - 20070153686 - Method, apparatus and system for implementing iuup/nbup procedure control The present invention relates to the field of mobile communication, including method, apparatus and system for implementing IuUp/NBUP procedure control. The method includes parsing a received UP frame; generating a control message based on a value obtained from the parsing, and buffering the control message; executing the buffered control message. ... 07/05/07 - 20070153685 - Wireless communication system and method for managing service flow identifier in the same The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and a service flow identifier method of the system. The wireless communication system includes a plurality of PARs that provides wireless communication services to a plurality of access terminals through a plurality of access points for separate management of service flow ... 07/05/07 - 20070153684 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data from a first communication device to a second communication device Method and apparatus for transmitting data from a first communication device to a second communication device, wherein the first communication device can assume at least two communication link states. The data is transmitted by the first communication device when the first communication device is in the first communication link state, ... 07/05/07 - 20070153683 - Traffic rate control in a network A system and method for controlling a rate of transmitting data packets into a subnet path by generating at an ingress point to the subnet a rate control signal based on a congestion level feedback signal received from the path and transmitting data packets from the ingress point into the ... 07/05/07 - 20070153682 - Multi-priority multi-color markers for traffic metering A metering device has a first token bucket with a profile, a rate, and a maximum number of tokens. The device has another token bucket with its own profile, two associated rates, and a maximum number of tokens. In operation, the device adds tokens in the first token bucket at ... 07/05/07 - 20070153681 - Messaging schema for services interaction on prepaid and subscription system Inter-service messages conform to a protocol message schema and support predetermined types according to the destination service. Because the schema and types are well defined, input queues corresponding to the services are able to quickly identify and remove non-conforming messages. The schema supports both prepaid and subscription business models and ... 07/05/07 - 20070153680 - Unlimited participants network A method for communication between a number of participants in a region, the number of participants being unlimited, the method comprising the steps: (a) allocating a unique identity to each participant; (b) allocating an order of priority for transmission by the participants based on an order of the unique identities; ... 06/28/07 - 20070147238 - Method for managing congestion in a network switch A method for managing congestion in a stack of network switches includes the steps of receiving an incoming packet on a first port of a network switch for transmission to a destination port and determining if the destination port of the packet is a monitored port. Thereafter, the method determines ... 06/28/07 - 20070147237 - Quality of service (qos) class reordering with token retention The present invention relates to a router (e.g., intermediate router) and a method that queues and services an upgraded/downgraded packet and a plurality of other packets all of which are part of a flow in a manner that eliminates the reordering of the packets. In one embodiment, the router and ... 06/28/07 - 20070147235 - Digital broadcast receiver and directed channel change method thereof An apparatus and method for changing a channel according to direct channel change information transmitted from a broadcasting station. The apparatus includes a broadcast receiver, a tuner and a controller for checking parsed DCC information. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast signal. The tuner tunes channels and stores the tuned ... 06/28/07 - 20070147234 - Last mile high availability broadband (method for sending network content over a last-mile broadband connection) This disclosure provides a method transmitting a network content, comprising: receiving a first data stream of a network content over a first link; forming a second and third data streams from the first data stream; sending the second data stream over a second link and the third data stream over ... 06/21/07 - 20070140114 - Method and apparatus for multi-path load balancing using multiple metrics One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating multi-path load balancing at a local node in a network. During operation, the system measures a value for a metric on a local link which couples the local node to a neighboring node. In addition, the system receives from ... 06/21/07 - 20070140113 - Method for providing quality-of-service based services in a packet network The disclosure provides a system and method for providing a service in a packet-switched network at a selected Quality of Service (QoS) level. The method includes receiving a request for a service from a customer gateway at server connected to the packet-switched network; correlating the requested service to available network ... 06/14/07 - 20070133404 - Interface link layer device to build a distributed network An interface link layer device (1) of an interface which allows the interconnection of different networks to build a distributed network according to the present invention routes complete data packets directly to another interface link layer device (1) that serves the destination via uplink means (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, ... 06/14/07 - 20070133403 - Voip endpoint call admission The present invention is directed generally to an intelligent endpoint or communication device that can collect available bandwidth-related information metrics and/or perform call admission control functions. The present invention is further directed to an architecture comprising a switch or media server in communication with a plurality of subscriber communication devices ... 06/14/07 - 20070133402 - Terminal and method for managing bandwidth of terminal A terminal includes a higher level bandwidth manager and a lower level bandwidth manager. The higher level bandwidth manager generates a guaranteed access request message including size information of a bandwidth corresponding to user data, transmits the guaranteed access request message, and transmits a user data transmission message including the ... 06/14/07 - 20070133401 - Qos control apparatus in multi-cell network system and method thereof The present invention relates to a QoS information controller in a multi-cell environment and a method thereof. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the QoS information controller is used in the multi-cell environment to determine the traffic characteristic, the mobile communication system characteristic, the traffic processing capacity, ... 06/14/07 - 20070133400 - System for receiving call having priority in call regulation method for receiving call having priority, and program thereof A mobile terminal (1) includes a call request unit (11), a memory unit (12), and a call request probability generation unit (13). A base station (2) includes a t traffic measurement unit (21), and a call regulation transmission unit (22). The call request unit (11) acquires a transmission destination telephone ... 06/14/07 - 20070133399 - Data processing in which concurrently executed processes communicate via a fifo buffer A processing circuit executes a data producing process and a data consuming process. The data producing process produces a stream of data, the data consuming process consumes the stream of data concurrently with production of the stream. A first-in first-out buffer passes data from the stream between the data producing ... 06/07/07 - 20070127375 - Apparatus and method for classifying quality-of-service of packet in portable internet system In a portable Internet system, packets are classified into a first packet classified as a transport connection identifier (CID) and a second packet that is not classified as a transport CID by using an established packet classification rule. An application program of the second packet is searched from a plurality ... 06/07/07 - 20070127374 - Communucation device for providing multimedia in a group communication network A system and method for providing group communication services is disclosed. Each of a plurality of group communication devices coverts media, such as video, audio, image and/or data into data packets suitable for transmission over a data network, such as the Internet. The data packets are selectively transmitted through the ... 06/07/07 - 20070127373 - Delayed data feeding for increased media access control processing time A system and method are provided that are operable for network communications that promote network devices to receive a transmit request, transmit a first part of a frame by a physical layer without a second part of the frame from a medium access control layer, and request the second part ... 06/07/07 - 20070127372 - Digital object routing A digital object may be routed via a network. Routing of a digital object may be based in part on link quality on the network and/or a desired level of quality and/or service. ... 06/07/07 - 20070127371 - Systems and methods for efficient electronic communication in a distributed routing environment A system for managing communications with a provider is disclosed. A provider includes a provider binding. A requestor requests a requested binding. An intervening access node is in electronic communication with the provider and the requestor. The intervening access node includes program instructions stored in memory and implementing a method ... 06/07/07 - 20070127370 - Method for implementing varying grades of service quality in a network switch A method for implementing varying service quality grades in a network switch is provided, comprises the steps of: classifying a plurality of users of the network switch into a plurality of service quality grades according to a contributing factor of the plurality of the users; connecting each of the plurality ... 06/07/07 - 20070127369 - Scheduling with hidden rate request The present invention relates to a terminal device and to a scheduling method and device for scheduling data transmission over a plurality of channels in a data network. A predetermined parameter, e.g. a TFC value, indicating a channel capacity in a received data stream of at least one of the ... 05/31/07 - 20070121498 - System and method for transmitting non-real-time data in a broadband communication system A method is provided for transmitting non-real-time traffic in a broadband communication system. A Base Station (BS) transmits to Mobile Stations (MSs) status information corresponding to each service for transmission of non-real-time traffic. The MSs to the BS each send a bandwidth allocation request according to the status information provided ... 05/31/07 - 20070121497 - Accounting based on active packet time An accounting method, system, device, and a computer-readable medium. The accounting method, system, device, and a computer-readable medium provide for measuring a time interval between arrival of two adjacent packets, comparing the measured time interval to a predetermined threshold, and determining whether the measured time interval is an active packet ... 05/31/07 - 20070121496 - System and method for amplitude optimization in high-speed serial transmissions A method, system, and computer usable program code for increasing drive strength using various steps. First, a data signal is received at a receiving device. The receiving device determines whether the data is successfully received once the data signal is received at the receiving device. If the receiving device determines ... 05/31/07 - 20070121495 - Method and apparatus for managing flow control in pci express transaction layer A method and apparatus is provided wherein a central Credit Controller Entity (CCE) is connected to a PCIE fabric environment by means of several buses. Flow Control information sent to the CCE over two of the buses indicates the buffer storage capacity that is available at respective Receiver components in ... 05/31/07 - 20070121494 - Communication device and communication method A transmission processing portion 102 that transmits various kinds of data, a timer portion 107 that counts a continuous operation request effective time during which transmitted data is always received, a transmission control portion 104 that controls the transmission processing portion 102 to transmit data in which is set a ... 05/24/07 - 20070115813 - Apparatus and method for proportional fair scheduling for multicast service in a communication system An apparatus and method for Proportional Fair (PF) scheduling for multicast services in a communication system are provided. In the PF scheduling method, a multicast PF metric is calculated over every AMC level provided by the system using the channel status information and average data rates of MSs, and an ... 05/24/07 - 20070115812 - Sequence numbers for multiple quality of service levels A system for providing communications using sequence numbers for multiple quality of service (QoS) levels includes a first network device. The first network device receives a data packet and determines a QoS level for the data packet. The first network device also determines a sequence number for the data packet ... 05/24/07 - 20070115811 - Using a signal route dependent on a node speed change prediction A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for receiving wireless data via a node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route and relaying at least a portion of the wireless data. ... 05/17/07 - 20070109962 - Method and apparatus for implementing relay The present invention discloses a method for implementing relay in a wireless communication network, which method comprises: determining that a present-stage backhaul window for use in the backhaul of a present-stage service has started; and switching from a first frequency to a second frequency to complete the backhaul of the ... 05/17/07 - 20070109961 - Determining throughput between hosts An apparatus and method of determining throughput between a first host and a second host of at least one network is disclosed. The method includes the first host intentionally corrupting ICMP packets by manipulating a checksum of the ICMP packets. The first host sends the corrupted ICMP packets to the ... 05/10/07 - 20070104099 - Data processing system and method A method is provided of managing cluster interconnect traffic, comprising prioritising the cluster interconnect traffic using at least two priorities, and distributing the prioritised cluster interconnect traffic according to the prioritising. Corresponding system and computer program product are also provided. ... 05/10/07 - 20070104098 - Radio frequency signal processing device and mobile communication terminal equipped with the device An RF signal processing integrated circuit has a first operation mode in which the operation setting of a time slot is executed using one time slot as one setting unit and a second operation mode in which the operation setting of a time slot is executed using plural time slots ... 05/10/07 - 20070104097 - Transitioning to secure ip communications for encoding, encapsulating, and encrypting data An apparatus, system, and method is directed to transcoding broadcast content, such as in a DVB, ATSC, and MPEG based network, to secure content suitable for an Internet Protocol (IP) based network. In one embodiment, a single multifunctional convergence appliance is employed to enable such transcoding actions as encryption, encoding, ... 05/10/07 - 20070104096 - Next generation network for providing diverse data types A data-processing network based on a new Internet protocol features a modified addressing system, a novel routing method, resolution of congestion problems in the routers, differentiated transport of data, real-time videos and communications, a multicast system to distribute real-time videos, and data transport with quality of services. The network uses ... 05/10/07 - 20070104095 - Communication traffic isolation and control Communication traffic isolation and control systems and methods are disclosed. Communication traffic streams are received and either passed or filtered by respective controllable filtering modules. The operation of the filtering modules is controlled on a per-module and thus a per-stream basis, responsive to congestion of filtered communication traffic streams at ... 05/03/07 - 20070097861 - Method for controlling and monitoring quality of service in a wireless network A method for controlling and monitoring the quality of service (QoS) in a wireless network wherein the network comprises at least a mobile station and wherein individual quality parameters of the service can be defined is—regarding a possibly comprehensive control of the quality of service—characterized in that in addition to ... 05/03/07 - 20070097860 - System and method of authorizing a set top box device in an internet protocol television system A method of authorizing use of a network device is disclosed and includes receiving an internet protocol (IP) address from the network device and receiving an identification from the network device. The method also includes retrieving information that is associated with an account based on the IP address and determining ... 04/26/07 - 20070091797 - Method and apparatus for fast 2-key scheduler implementation A scheduler utilizes a data structure in the form of an augmented, pruned, radix tree to implement 2-key scheduling. ... 04/19/07 - 20070086337 - Method for classifying packets using multi-class structures In one embodiment, a super class that contains a plurality of matching rules is generated. The matching rules of the super class are converted into a hierarchical arrangement of lookup tables and equivalence sets, the hierarchical arrangement having a plurality of levels including a first level and a final level. ... 04/19/07 - 20070086336 - Application layer metrics monitoring The present invention enables the monitoring of application layer metrics of data packets for subscribers or groups of subscribers. In one embodiment, an edge routing node, such as an edge router or the like, between an access network and a core network will identify a subscriber associated with the incoming ... 04/19/07 - 20070086335 - Congestion management over lossy network connections A network stack includes a packet loss analyzer that distinguishes between packet losses due to congestion and due to lossyness of network connections. The loss analyzer observes the packet loss patterns for comparison with a packet loss model. The packet loss model may be based on a Forward Error Correction ... 04/19/07 - 20070086334 - Method and apparatus for connection-rate filtering One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of connection-rate filtering. A rate of traffic through a port of a network device is measured. The measured traffic rate is compared with a pre-set threshold rate. Packets are sampled from the port over a period of time if the pre-set threshold rate ... 04/12/07 - 20070081457 - Systems and method for storing, delivering, and managing messages Systems and methods of storing a message directed to a user and delivering the message from a network server to a user's client device provide for receiving the message and storing the message to an access-restricted user-specific message storage area. When an access request from an application program executing on ... 04/12/07 - 20070081456 - Priority based bandwidth allocation within real-time and non-real time traffic streams A method and system for transmitting packets in a packet switching network. Packets received by a packet processor may be prioritized based on the urgency to process them. Packets that are urgent to be processed may be referred to as real-time packets. Packets that are not urgent to be processed ... 04/12/07 - 20070081455 - Method and apparatus for classifing ip flows for efficient quality of service realization A network component for classifying at least one IP flow for efficient quality of service realization in a network, where in one embodiment the network component includes a unit for detecting at least one IP flow from at least one IP packet. Upon detection of the at least one IP ... 04/12/07 - 20070081454 - Methods and devices for backward congestion notification The present invention provides improved methods and devices for managing network congestion. Preferred implementations of the invention allow congestion to be pushed from congestion points in the core of a network to reaction points, which may be edge devices, host devices or components thereof. Preferably, rate limiters shape individual flows ... 04/12/07 - 20070081453 - Method and apparatus for data transmission in a wireless communication system A data transmission method and apparatus in a communication system to avoid data buffer overrun by using a smaller data buffer. The communication system includes an AP (access point) and a host device connected to a wireless device with a USB interface circuit. The wireless device includes a data buffer ... 04/12/07 - 20070081452 - Access port centralized management The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for managing a wireless network in conjunction with an Ethernet switch comprising at least one SIP-aware application, an SIP-aware Access Port, and an SIP-aware management device for managing wireless network signals by providing out-of-band SIP signals to the SIP-aware Access Port. ... 04/05/07 - 20070076603 - System and method for providing session admission control A system and method for providing session admission control are provided. Generally, a source of a communication request and a session director are utilized. The session director allocates bandwidth to accommodate a bandwidth allocation request from the source, ensures that quantity of the allocated bandwidth is appropriate for transmission of ... 04/05/07 - 20070076602 - Flow control in computer networks The decision within a packet processing device to transmit a newly arriving packet into a queue to await processing or to discard the same packet is made by a flow control method and system. The flow control is updated with a constant period determined by storage and flow rate limits. ... 04/05/07 - 20070076601 - Nodes for managing congestion and traffic flow by considering the minimization of link utilization values Traffic demands are routed across links of an information network so as to avoid congestion and allow for future traffic growth. Traffic demands from a source node to a destination node of the network are monitored, including bandwidths associated with each of the demands. For each demand, and for a ... 04/05/07 - 20070076600 - Method and system for priority based routing A method and system for routing a data packet, intended for a destination node, from a source node to a first intermediate node in a network is useful for improving the efficiency of the network. The method includes determining a priority level for a user of the source node and ... 04/05/07 - 20070076599 - System and method for providing integrated services across cryptographic boundaries in a network A method for providing network integrated services based ReSerVation Protocol across a cryptographic network boundary includes assigning one or more DiffServ forwarding classifications to correspond to IntServ requests for QoS provisioning. A daemon in the QoS Service Provider module signals the QoS upon detecting data packets indicating a DiffServ forwarding ... 04/05/07 - 20070076598 - Method and apparatus for preventing activation of a congestion control process The invention comprises a method and apparatus that prevents the activation of a congestion controlling process that would otherwise be activated in response any packet loss condition. The congestion controlling process is inhibited when a congestion parameter associated indicates that the packet loss condition is not caused by congestion. ... 04/05/07 - 20070076597 - Method and apparatus of multi-entity wireless communication adapter Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for a multi-entity wireless communication adapter having a traffic management configuration to selectively associate at least first and second signal traffics corresponding to a basic service set station entity and an independent basic service set entity, respectively, with a shared ... 03/29/07 - 20070070892 - Method of controlling transmission rate and communication device using the same A method of controlling a transmission rate and a communication device using the same are disclosed. A method of controlling a transmission rate includes changing a path for packet transmission/reception from a first path to a second path, setting a congestion window and a slow-start threshold to be used in ... 03/29/07 - 20070070891 - Resource revoking method based on resource admission control subsystem and network device A resource admission control subsystem based resource revoking method is provided. The method includes: receiving by a service-based policy decision function a Revoke Reservation notification; and when determining service resources have been allocated by border gateway function for the session, notifying, by the service-based policy decision function, the border gateway ... 03/29/07 - 20070070890 - Dynamic bandwidth manager A dynamic bandwidth manager for determining the bandwidth available to an IP connected client device, the IP connected client device requesting access to multimedia resources from a service provider, the dynamic bandwidth manager comprising: a receiving component for receiving an IP address of an IP connected client requesting access to ... 03/29/07 - 20070070889 - Method of selective dormant data session reactivation A method of selective dormant data session reactivation in a radio access network includes calculating an activation rate threshold as a function of a first plurality of packets received over a first time interval, where the first plurality of packets are coupled to reactivate at least one dormant mobile station. ... 03/29/07 - 20070070888 - Method and apparatus to facilitate wireless access gateway selection A wireless access gateway (70) obtains (11) substantially current information regarding its own performance capacity. That information is communicated to a network element (90). In a preferred approach, the wireless access gateway integrally combines (12) the substantially current information with at least one call management message to provide a composite ... 03/22/07 - 20070064602 - Method and apparatus for handling timers during re-establishing receiving sides in a wireless communications system A communications device utilized in a wireless communications system has an RLC entity with a transmitting side and a receiving side. Handling timers during re-establishment of the receiving side includes only re-establishing the receiving side in the RLC entity of the communications device, stopping a first timer corresponding to the ... 03/22/07 - 20070064601 - Method and apparatus for handling control pdus during re-establishment of transmitting sides in wireless communications systems A wireless communications system has a communications device, which has an RLC entity having a transmitting side and a receiving side. When re-establishing the transmitting side, to handle control PDUs, only the transmitting side in the RLC entity of the communications device is re-established, a first control PDU corresponding to ... 03/22/07 - 20070064600 - Method and apparatus for handling control pdus during re-establishing receiving sides in a wireless communications system A wireless communications system has a communications device, which has an RLC entity having a transmitting side and a receiving side. When re-establishing the receiving side, to handle control PDUs, only the receiving side in the RLC entity of the communications device is re-established, a first control PDU corresponding to ... 03/22/07 - 20070064599 - Method and apparatus fo handling timers during reestablishing transmitting sides in wireless communications systems A communications device utilized in a wireless communications system has an RLC entity with a transmitting side and a receiving side. Handling timers during reestablishment of the transmitting side includes only reestablishing the transmitting side in the RLC entity of the communications device, stopping a first timer corresponding to the ... 03/22/07 - 20070064598 - Systems and methods for flow signature formation and use An embodiment of a method for use in performing interoperability testing between two network architectures includes forming multiple transaction signatures that each characterizes a communication transaction conducted over the two networks and analyzing each of the transaction signatures to determine if the transaction signature matches a previously classified pattern. The ... 03/22/07 - 20070064597 - Globally fair polling for packet switched routers using dynamically biased arbitration Techniques for routing data packets in a networked system. Specifically, a network system and methods of arbitrating data packets in a network system are provided. Switching devices are configured to receive one or more data packets, wherein each of the one or more data packets is received at a respective ... 03/22/07 - 20070064596 - Wireless network apparatus and method for controlling transmission rate using the same A wireless network apparatus and a method for controlling the transmission rate of the same, whereby a receiver side is capable of constantly maintaining the full transmission rate by coordinating the maximum number of packets to be sent to the network from a sender side. Further, a wireless network apparatus ... 03/15/07 - 20070058532 - System and method for managing network congestion According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises measuring traffic congestion experienced by a message transmitted from a source device, and if the measured traffic congestion exceeds a threshold limit, altering at least one bit within a Layer 2 (L2) header of the message. This bit alteration is ... 03/15/07 - 20070058531 - Method and apparatus for improved data transmission through a data connection A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable code for receiving data from a sender across a network connection for the data transfer. An expected size for a congestion window for the sender is identified. An amount of the data received from the sender is tracked. An acknowledgment is sent ... 03/08/07 - 20070053289 - Protecting a network from unauthorized access A method and apparatus of protecting a first network from unauthorized access includes storing profile information for each call session, and determining if an unauthorized access of the first network is occurring based on the profile information. The profile information includes a predetermined threshold indicating a maximum acceptable rate of ... 03/08/07 - 20070053288 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting a channel type for a call Wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting a channel type for a call are disclosed. In a wireless communication system that supports both a basic low speed channel and a special high speed channel, when a call is received from a user, it is determined whether the high speed channel ... 03/08/07 - 20070053287 - System and method for selecting data rates in a wireless communication system There is provided a system and method and apparatus for selecting data rates in a wireless communication system. More specifically, there is provided a method comprising selecting one of a plurality of data rate control values for a transmission based on an adjustable relationship between the selected data rate control ... 03/08/07 - 20070053286 - Router congestion management A concept for providing processes and apparatus for router resource management is described. One process for managing router congestion in a distributed communications system includes monitoring messaging traffic originating from a plurality of clients and determining when one or more of the plurality of clients deviates from an accepted congestion ... 03/01/07 - 20070047437 - Method and apparatus for controlling retransmissions in a wireless communications system A method is provided for controlling communications between a base station and a mobile device when transmission gaps occur. The method comprises skipping a transmission that overlaps with the transmission gap. An alternative method comprises postponing the transmission to the next available transmission time. ... 02/22/07 - 20070041318 - Compilation of access control lists An improvement in the compilation of classification tables from across control lists increases the efficiency of memory utilization by fragments in the lower level tables and using the classification ID's from a pair of higher-level tables as pointers to the fragments and as indicators of the depth of the entries ... 02/22/07 - 20070041317 - Method and system for generating an annotated network topology A method of generating an annotated network topology of a network is described. The method includes determining available bandwidth “B” of a network on a network path connecting a pair of endpoints by performing Transfer Control Protocol (TCP) flows between the pair of endpoints, the network having a plurality of ... 02/15/07 - 20070036074 - Packet transmission method for wlan A packet transmission method for WLAN, a controlling method for data transmitting node of WLAN and a controlling method for data receiving node of WLAN are provided. In the packet transmission method, the data transmitting node sends a transmitting request signal. When the receiving node receives the transmitting request signal ... 02/08/07 - 20070030802 - Enabling non real-time communication enabled devices to participate in real time communication scenarios A system and method for allowing non-real time communication protocol enabled devices to participate in real-time communication protocol scenarios, comprising: discovering at least one non-real time communication protocol enabled device; logging on to at least one real-time communication server; assigning a unique real-time communication protocol identity to the at least ... 02/08/07 - 20070030801 - Dynamically controlling rate connections to sample buffers in a mult-mode wireless processing system A method of dynamically controlling rate connections to sample buffers in a multi-mode processing system. The method can include receiving an instruction for communication in a multi-mode wireless processing system, and determining a rate at which a plurality of buffers are serially connected to elements external to the multi-mode wireless ... 02/01/07 - 20070025245 - Method and apparatus for identifying wireless transmitters In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for identifying wireless transmitters. In one embodiment, a method for identifying a transmitter in a wireless computing network includes extracting one or more radio frequency signal characteristics from a communication from the transmitter and generating a fingerprint of the ... 02/01/07 - 20070025244 - Coexistance of access provider and in-home networks Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and devices that coordinate access to a common medium between two networks. Typically, a gateway is employed that requests resources from a home central coordinator and/or access coordinator. If resources are not available from the home central coordinator and the access coordinator, a ... 02/01/07 - 20070025243 - Method for automatically providing quality of service The embodiments of the present invention provide methods, devices, and systems that automatically provide quality of service to one or more packets, typically by determining whether packets are connection-worthy and accordingly providing connection specifications. ... 02/01/07 - 20070025242 - Dynamic allocation of aggregate buffer A dynamic congestion control apparatus and method are provided to receive data packets from source endpoints and outputting the data packets to destination endpoints. The dynamic congestion control apparatus and method include a congestion controller configured to determine and allocate additional buffer space for active channels based on total buffer ... 02/01/07 - 20070025241 - System and methods for sending trace messages A traceroute mechanism enables responses to the traceroute to reach the originating router (originator) along a multihop pseudowire (PW). A traceroute message includes an accumulator operable to count hops along a MH-PW, implemented as a time-to-live (TTL) field, as is known in the art. An originator router employs multiple TTL ... 01/25/07 - 20070019543 - Systems and methods for detecting and preventing flooding attacks in a network environment A method for processing network traffic data includes receiving a packet, and determining whether the packet is a previously dropped packet that is being retransmitted. A method for processing network traffic content includes receiving a plurality of headers, the plurality of headers having respective first field values, and determining whether ... 01/18/07 - 20070014237 - Communication apparatus, communication system and communication control program A communication apparatus generates a single physical frame including a plurality of MAC frames, and transmits the physical frame. The physical frame has variable-length bitmap information comprising bits corresponding to the plurality of MAC frames, respectively, and length information of the bitmap information. ... 01/18/07 - 20070014236 - Voice packet scheduling method for wireless local area network A scheduling method includes classifying, by a PC, terminals into delay-sensitive terminals and delay-insensitive terminals according to their traffic types; setting an initial value and a maximum value of a poll failure counter of each of the delay-sensitive terminals; polling each of the delay-sensitive terminals; determining whether there exists a ... 01/11/07 - 20070008882 - Method and apparatus for network-based admission control using path-coupled quality of service signaling A Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) proxy is used in combination with a signaling proxy to provide improved admission control, Quality of Service (QoS) reservation, and media path routing. This avoids entangling call signaling with media plane functions as required with Session Border Controllers (SBCs). A QoS access network control scheme, ... 01/11/07 - 20070008881 - Method in a transceiver for allocating transmission capacity between the two directions of transmission in wire line data communication A method performed in one single transceiver for allocating transmission capacity between the two directions of transmission in wire line data communication. The method includes the step of allocating from the single transceiver different parts of the available bandwidth to different duplex methods simultaneously. ... 01/04/07 - 20070002735 - Mobile communication terminal and storage medium Such regulation control that the processing load on the network side is low and, furthermore, particular services are not regulated is realized. A regulation table is stored in a mobile communication terminal 1. When regulation level information is indicated by a maintenance device 4, transmission regulation control for regulating transmission ... 01/04/07 - 20070002734 - Method and apparatus for medium access control for a decentralized network with adapted beamforming and power control A method and apparatus for medium access control in a wireless ad hoc network is disclosed that takes advantage of physical layer properties to jointly and collectively optimize in a distributed fashion transmission parameters such as beam-patterns and transmit powers of all active links in the network. To resolve signal ... 01/04/07 - 20070002733 - Communication apparatus and communication method To provide a technology capable of ensuring a communication traffic on a communication route simply by providing a communication node with this technology in a network such as the Internet where communication control devices on communication routes employed for forwarding data are not all uniformly managed. A communication traffic of ... 01/04/07 - 20070002732 - Application load level determination A software platform in one example comprises a plurality of software applications. The plurality of software applications comprise a first software application that performs a determination of a load level associated with the first software application. The first software application employs the determination of the load level to manage a ... 12/28/06 - 20060291385 - Environment dependent network connection switching setting system and method An environment dependent network connection switching setting system and method thereof is provided, wherein the network connection is interrupted due to changes of the network environment of the user, the system is utilized to automatically detect a set of optimal current network setting parameters based on the network setting parameters ... 12/28/06 - 20060291384 - System and method for discarding packets A call where a packet discard policy (132) should be applied is selectively identified based upon a received property associated with the call. The packet discard policy (132) is applied to the selected call in order to selectively discard packets (134) associated with the call when a triggering event (136) ... 12/28/06 - 20060291383 - Methods for quality of service reverse link admission and overload control in a wireless system At least one traffic flow belonging to one of a plurality of service classes may be admitted based on at least one admission condition and overload state associated with the service class to which the at least one traffic flow belongs. ... 12/21/06 - 20060285489 - Method and apparatus for providing end-to-end high quality services based on performance characterizations of network conditions A method and apparatus enforcing and improving end-to-end service quality, based on end-to-end service performance characterization of network conditions, for a convergence enabled end-user device during a user session for service. ... 12/14/06 - 20060280119 - Weighted proportional-share scheduler that maintains fairness in allocating shares of a resource to competing consumers when weights assigned to the consumers change According to one embodiment, a method comprises receiving at a scheduler a change to a weight assigned to a consumer. The method further comprises utilizing, by the scheduler, a weighted proportional-share scheduling algorithm to maintain fairness in allocating shares of a resource to competing consumers in accordance with the changed ... 12/07/06 - 20060274651 - Method and apparatus for dynamically establishing links between communication channels A method and device for establishing links between communication channels is described. Real link information conveying a set of real links between communication channels in a set of communication channels is provided. The real link information is processed to derive link control data conveying the set of real links and ... 12/07/06 - 20060274650 - Avoiding unnecessary rsvp-based preemptions A technique avoids unnecessary preemption of resource reservations along a requested flow between nodes in a computer network. A node receives priority-based resource reservation requests and determines conditions of reservation eligibility by comparing the requested resources to the amount of available resources at the node. Specifically, the node maintains a ... 11/30/06 - 20060268697 - Method and device for providing video, data and voice to end user devices Method and system for providing data, video and voice to a group of end user devices includes receiving end user device group quality of service rules and access network node bandwidth constraints; assigning multicast addresses and unicast addresses to end user devices of the group in response to the access ... 11/30/06 - 20060268696 - Data packets scrambling module and method A method and scrambling module for degrading delay-sensitive traffic quality in a telecommunications network, wherein data packets that meet a pre-defined rule are detected and delayed by inducing a delay. The scrambling module comprises an access list comprising the pre-defined rule(s) for detecting certain data packets, a packet detector configured ... 11/30/06 - 20060268695 - System and method for dynamically adjusting a rsvp reservation A communication system includes a call agent that coordinates and supervises communications between endpoints. The call agent allocates a QoS agent for each endpoint involved in a call. The QoS agents generate reservations for the call in order to provide the call with a guaranteed amount of bandwidth and an ... 11/30/06 - 20060268694 - System and method for implementing rsvp in a communication environment A communication system includes a call agent that coordinates and supervises communications between endpoints. The call agent allocates a QoS agent for each endpoint involved in a call. The QoS agents generate reservations for the call in order to provide the call with a guaranteed amount of bandwidth and an ... 11/30/06 - 20060268693 - System and method for retrying reservations in a rsvp environment A communication system includes a call agent that coordinates and supervises communications between endpoints. The call agent allocates a QoS agent for each endpoint involved in a call. The QoS agents generate reservations for the call in order to provide the call with a guaranteed amount of bandwidth and an ... 11/30/06 - 20060268692 - Transmission of electronic packets of information of varying priorities over network transports while accounting for transmission delays Transmission of electronic packets of varying priorities is provided for while accounting for transmission delays to minimize the transmission delay for higher priority electronic packets such as real-time services packets including voice or video. One manner of accounting for transmission delays involves applying rules regarding whether certain conditions are met ... 11/30/06 - 20060268691 - Divide and conquer route generation technique for distributed selection of routes within a multi-path network A distributed divide and conquer route generation technique is provided for facilitating routing of data packets in a network of interconnected nodes. The network includes differently sized building block types, with each building block type including at least one node of the network and at least one switch chip of ... 11/30/06 - 20060268690 - Packet handling on a network device Methods for handling packets received at a network device are described. The packets are placed into a queue that contains packets of a first type and packets of a second type. The packets of the first type include protocol packets, and the packets of the second type include packets other ... 11/30/06 - 20060268689 - Backhaul congestion control for wireless communication networks A wireless communication system (20) includes backhaul congestion control. Whenever congestion is detected on the backhaul, a flow control message sets a window size to a reduced window size to reduce or eliminate packet drops and to facilitate alleviating the congestion condition. A disclosed example includes detecting backhaul congestion and ... 11/23/06 - 20060262722 - Downstream channel change technique implemented in an access network A dynamic channel change technique is disclosed which may be implemented between nodes and a Head End of an access network. Initially a network device may communicate with the Head End via a first downstream channel and a first upstream channel. When the network device receives a dynamic channel change ... 11/23/06 - 20060262721 - Receiving data in a sensor network A sensor network has a plurality of wireless sensors which transmit to an intermediate receiving device which relays data to a central server. A method is provided for receiving data packets at the intermediate receiving device from a plurality of the transmitting devices. Data packets are sensed on a communication ... 11/23/06 - 20060262720 - Method and system for providing delay bound and prioritized packet dropping A method and system for providing delay bound and prioritized packet dropping are disclosed. The system limits the size of a queue configured to deliver packets in FIFO order by a threshold based on a specified delay bound. Received packets are queued if the threshold is not exceeded. If the ... 11/23/06 - 20060262719 - Method of blank-and-burst signaling The present invention provides a method of wireless communication on a first channel. The method may include delaying transmission on the first channel of a first frame provided by a first application based on at least one data rate associated with at least one second frame to be transmitted on ... 11/23/06 - 20060262718 - Real-time retry limit-a system and method to maximize throughput and minimize packet loss of wireless local area networks This invention provides a system and method to dynamically adapt a wireless link retry limit in real-time according to channel conditions and workload intensity in order to maximize MAC throughput and minimize packet loss. In wireless local area networks (WLANs), such as IEEE 802.11b or a, packets can get lost ... 11/16/06 - 20060256717 - Electronic packet control system A packet control system for controlling the multiplexing of data packets. ... 11/16/06 - 20060256716 - Electronic communication control An electronic communication control device suitable for embedding into a network interface card or a line card of a switch or router. The electronic communication control device is capable of communications in multiple protocols. The processing architecture of the electronic communication control device may be adapted for any communications protocol ... 11/09/06 - 20060250955 - Monitoring connection quality Quality of a connection between a terminal and a gateway is monitored in the gateway. The gateway informs a core network element handling signaling relating to the connection about the quality of the connection. The core network element triggers an access network control element to inform the terminal about the ... 11/09/06 - 20060250954 - Method and apparatus for controlling connection rate of network hosts A method for controlling data connections of host devices in a network includes creating a record of the number of attempted data connections from a host device through a connection device and the time of the most recent data connection attempt from the host device through the connection device. The ... 11/09/06 - 20060250953 - Quality of service admission control based on congestion of backhaul connection The present invention provides a method of communication using at least one base station and at least one switch. The method includes allocating at least one resource of at least one backhaul connection between said at least one base station and said at least one switch based upon at least ... 11/02/06 - 20060245352 - Method of requesting allocation of uplink resources for extended real-time polling service in a wireless communication system Provided is a device and method for scheduling uplink resources in a wireless communication system supporting VoIP. When its data rate is decreased, an MS notifies a BS of the rate decreased. When increasing its data rate, the MS requests resource allocation to the BS by transmitting a BR header ... 10/26/06 - 20060239188 - Providing a quality of service for various classes of service for transfer of electronic data packets A quality of service for various classes of services for the transfer of electronic data packets is provided by establishing classes of packets for a customer and for assigning bandwidths to the classes for the customer. Accordingly, the amount of bandwidth for one type of service may vary from the ... 10/26/06 - 20060239187 - Facilitating wireless spectrum migration Migrating from a legacy spectrum allocation to a target spectrum allocation can be accomplished by adding new access points and, at a selected time, activating the new access points and deactivating the legacy access points with a remote network manager. Alternatively, the new access points can initially support legacy channels ... 10/26/06 - 20060239186 - System and method for providing hotline and preemption features in real-time communications using presence and preference information A communications system for providing hotline and preemption features in real-time communication sessions includes a presence server for collecting presence and preference information for a presentity and a communications manager for handling requests for communication sessions with the presentity. The presence information includes availability of devices of the presentity, and ... 10/26/06 - 20060239185 - Method and apparatus for adaptive control of system parameters for admission control Methods and apparatus are provided for improving an admission control system using feedback control techniques based on a system performance measure. Generally, one or more performance metrics, such as system output error measurements, are fed back into the admission control system to adjust one or more system parameters and thereby ... 10/26/06 - 20060239184 - Method and apparatus for quality-of-service-based admission control Methods and apparatus are provided for QoS-based admission control (QBAC). The disclosed QoS-based admission control techniques use QoS parameter measurements. An admission control request for a call on a path in a packet network is processed by obtaining performance data for the path; and predicting a performance of the call ... 10/19/06 - 20060233102 - System and method of avoiding cell disposal in buffer A cell disposal avoidance system is provided that can avoid disposal of cells resided in the QoS buffer when a traffic of a specific QoS class in an ATM switch increases. The ATM switch includes a storage cell number monitor, a software data section 813, and a software controller 812. ... 10/19/06 - 20060233101 - Network element architecture for deep packet inspection A method and apparatus for an application aware traffic shaping service node architecture is described. One embodiment of the invention, the service node architecture includes a set of one or more line cards, a set of one or more processor cards and a full mesh communication infrastructure coupling the sets ... 10/19/06 - 20060233100 - Application aware traffic shaping service node positioned between the access and core networks A method and apparatus for an application aware traffic shaping service node positioned between the access and core networks is described. One embodiment of the invention enforces a per subscriber, per application traffic policy for network traffic between one or more subscribers communicatively connected through an access network and a ... 10/12/06 - 20060227706 - System and method for delay-based congestion detection and connection admission control Systems and methods for performing congestion detection and connection admission control for a communications network utilizing the observed one-way delay of packets transmitted through the network are described. Embodiments of the present invention provide endpoints on the network, which can anticipate congestion accurately enough to prevent packet loss and excess ... 10/12/06 - 20060227705 - System and method for optimizing sessions and network resources in a loadbalancing environment A method for loadbalancing in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a create request from an end user for a communications link provided by a network node and communicating a response to the end user in order to establish a communication session. The method further includes identifying a ... 10/05/06 - 20060221826 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing traffic control services A method, system, and computer program product for providing traffic control services is provided. The method includes detecting an occurrence of an activity and obtaining traffic management support information associated with a source of the activity. The method also includes subscribing to traffic messages provided by the source and implementing ... 10/05/06 - 20060221825 - Congestion control network relay device and method A congestion control network relay device capable of preventing redundant retransmission of packets which are already delivered to a receiving-side device. When an acknowledgment packet is detected by an acknowledgment packet detector, a receive packet manager stores acknowledgment information in an acknowledgment information memory. If first and second data packets ... 10/05/06 - 20060221824 - Storage system and data processing method Proposed is a storage system and data processing method capable of effectively preventing the transfer delay or loss of important data or data which should be processed in real time. The priorities respectively set to each packet transmitted from the host system are detected, each packet is processed, and these ... 10/05/06 - 20060221823 - Assigning resources to items such as processing contexts for processing packets Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, and mechanisms, for matching items with resources, such as, but not limited to packet processing contexts, output links, memory, storage, specialized hardware or software, compute cycles, or any other entity. One implementation includes means for maintaining distribution groups of items, ... 10/05/06 - 20060221822 - Provision of static qos control using dynamic service based policy mechanisms An apparatus in one example may have: at least two endpoints operatively coupled to one another via an application function (AF) in a home network; a combined policy decision function (AAA-PDF) operatively coupled to the AF; a combined policy decision enforcement (PDE) operatively coupled to the one of the endpoints; ... 10/05/06 - 20060221821 - Method and apparatus for load balancing in a wireless network A method and apparatus for load balancing in a wireless network is provided. For example, this invention is directed to a technique for balancing bearer load across a bank of traffic processors associated with a high-availability radio network controller (RNC). Instantaneous measures (e.g. processor occupancy) are used as one parameter ... 10/05/06 - 20060221820 - Method and system for fairly adjusting bandwidth among distributed network elements A method and system for fairly adjusting the bandwidth among distributed network elements (NEs). Load-balancing (LB) packets, carrying designated congestion values (CVs) are sent from each source NE to intermediate NEs along data flows routes. The intermediate NEs stamp each received LB packet with a segment CV, if the segment ... 10/05/06 - 20060221819 - System and method for performing distributed policing Various systems and methods that synchronize local copies of a variable used in a distributed algorithm, such as that used in distributed policing, are disclosed. For example, one system includes several distributed algorithm participants that are coupled to communicate with each other. Each of the each of the distributed algorithm ... 09/28/06 - 20060215554 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument A data transfer control device including: a link controller which analyzes a packet received through a serial bus; a packet detection circuit which detects completion or start of packet reception based on analysis result of the received packet; first and second packet buffers into which the packet received through the ... 09/28/06 - 20060215553 - Data transmission apparatus for transmitting data using virtual concatenation A transmission apparatus for transmitting input data to a plurality of paths at a predetermined transmission rate by using virtual concatenation is disclosed. The paths include at least one path having a transmission rate that is different from the transmission rate of another path. The transmission apparatus includes a data ... 09/28/06 - 20060215552 - Method and an apparatus for managing access path The present invention grasps in advance a portion in which traffic is concentrated and which may become a bottleneck and simplifies management of an access path. In a storage network system that forms multiple paths between a large-capacity data storage device and a host computer that employs the data storage ... 09/28/06 - 20060215551 - Mechanism for managing access to resources in a heterogeneous data redirection device A system and method for policing of access to resources in a heterogeneous data redirection device is disclosed. The invention utilizes Random Early Detection to determine whether or not a given packet should be dropped or accepted into the resource. The invention uses a combination of different metrics each of ... 09/28/06 - 20060215550 - Method and apparatus for flow control of data in a network A method of controlling data flow in a network includes detecting a congestion condition in the network, sending a congestion message to one or more nodes upstream of the congestion condition, learning address information of one or more nodes pertaining to the congestion condition, sending another congestion message containing these ... 09/21/06 - 20060209688 - Packet forwarding apparatus A BAS/load balancer which combines the functions of a BAS (Broadband Access Server) providing a dynamic network connection to a user network, and a load balancing relaying the communications traffic of the user network to one of plural load balancing target apparatuses, and which can apply an arbitrary load balancing ... 09/21/06 - 20060209687 - Communication rate control method and device A method of controlling the communication rate between a user terminal and an edge switch of a network is provided. This method includes the step of matching the transmission rate at which data is transmitted from the user terminal to the edge switch, with the communication rate of the edge ... 09/21/06 - 20060209686 - Flow control with dynamic priority allocation for handover calls The present invention relates to a flow control method and apparatus for scheduling data packets in a high-speed time-shared channel, wherein a scheduling priority is dynamically increased for a predetermined time period for users in a handover state. Thereby, transmission gaps caused by empty buffers in the handover target device ... 09/21/06 - 20060209685 - Bfd rate-limiting and automatic session activation A system and method for bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) rate-limiting and automatic BFD session activation includes tracking a total bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) packet rate for a line card (LC) of the node, and rejecting operations associated with creation of a new BFD session that would cause the total BFD ... 09/21/06 - 20060209684 - Data rate controller, and method of control thereof A data rate controller and a method of control thereof. The invention presents a data rate controller to control data transmission between a host and a function device via a buffer by providing an interrupt device to provide feedback of a buffer status of the buffer to the host to ... 09/14/06 - 20060203725 - Fibre channel switch A Fibre Channel switch is presented that tracks the congestion status of destination ports in an XOFF mask at each input. A mapping is maintained between virtual channels on an ISL and the destination ports to allow changes in the XOFF mask to trigger a primitive to an upstream port ... 09/14/06 - 20060203724 - Multi-carrier, multi-flow, reverse link medium access control for a communication system The present method and apparatus comprises a communication element comprising a MAC layer that is configured for wireless communication within a sector, wherein said communication element comprises a transmitter, a receiver operably connected to the transmitter, a processor operably connected to the transmitter and the receiver, and memory operably connected ... 09/14/06 - 20060203723 - Wireless resource assigning apparatus and wireless resource assigning method A wireless resource assigning apparatus for assigning wireless resources to transmission data of a plurality of users is disclosed. The wireless resource assigning apparatus includes a scheduling part configured to start scheduling for all users from a first wireless resource among a plurality of wireless resources prioritized according to a ... 09/14/06 - 20060203722 - System and method for managing performance of mobile terminals via remote diagnostics A system for managing performance of a terminal includes a service level manager capable of identifying one or more QoS management parameters based upon a service level agreement associated with a selected service. Because the QoS management parameters may differ from layer to layer in a multi-layer protocol stack, the ... 09/14/06 - 20060203721 - Apparatus and method for packet forwarding with quality of service and rate control A system and method for forwarding data packets with quality of service and rate control. A plurality of data packets are received from a plurality of sources. The header information of each data packet is extracted and compared against a plurality of tables, and then new header information is assembled ... 09/07/06 - 20060198303 - Scheduling data transmission by medium access control (mac) layer in a mobile network A method for use by a MAC common channel of an RNC to select a transport format combination (TFC) whereby a candidate set of TFCs is selected, and a TFC is chosen from the set of TFCs according to selection criteria. ... 09/07/06 - 20060198302 - Traffic dimensioning in a metro area with iptv architecture A system, method, and computer readable medium for traffic dimensioning in a metro area with Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) architecture that comprises calculating video on demand traffic, calculating instant channel change traffic, calculating broadband television traffic, calculating picture-in-picture traffic, calculating voice over internet protocol (VoIP) traffic, calculating high speed Internet ... 09/07/06 - 20060198301 - Packet-level service differentiation for quality of service provisioning over wireless local area networks The present invention provides a packet prioritizer for use with a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point. In one embodiment, the packet prioritizer includes a priority tagger configured to provide a packet priority for a WLAN packet. Additionally, the packet prioritizer also includes a priority scheduler coupled to the ... 09/07/06 - 20060198300 - Multi-channel tcp connections with congestion feedback for video/audio data transmission A method of transmitting data over a communication network has congestion feedback. The method includes a sending application such as a video conferencing program opening a plurality of TCP connections. The sending application provides data packets to an encapsulation module, which appends a TCP header to each data packet. For ... 09/07/06 - 20060198299 - Flow control and congestion management for random scheduling in time-domain wavelength interleaved networks Flow control techniques are disclosed for use in data communications networks such as those implementing a time-domain wavelength interleaved network (TWIN) architecture or other suitable architectures. Such techniques may provide for congestion management and scheduling for asynchronous traffic. For example, in one aspect, a technique comprises collecting information at a ... 09/07/06 - 20060198298 - System and method for achieving path symmetry in an internet protocol (ip) based network A system and method for improving network performance when communicating between a first site network and a second site network via an IP-based transport network. The site networks include a LAN, a plurality of host/media gateways (MGWs) connected to the LAN, and pairs of first and second Site Edge Routers ... 09/07/06 - 20060198297 - Efficient muxing scheme to allow for bypass and array access A method and apparatus for using a 2:1 MUX to control read access, data bypass, and page size bypass in a memory array. The mechanism of the present invention reduces the 3:1 MUX normally required to manage these three functions to a 2:1 MUX. ... 08/31/06 - 20060193254 - Data output method, data output apparatus, communication system and computer program product A data output apparatus judges whether or not sound data that has not yet been outputted has been accumulated. When a judgment is made that there is no accumulation of sound data that has not yet been outputted, the data output apparatus reads already-outputted sound data that was outputted previously ... 08/31/06 - 20060193253 - Radio base station To improve accuracy for verifying reception in the data transmission utilizing the common channel. A radio communication apparatus for transmitting the data to the transmitting destination apparatus selected from a plurality of transmitting destination apparatuses using the shared channel, comprises a control unit for controlling data transmission and a path ... 08/24/06 - 20060187832 - Filter based range check in a network device A network device for processing data on a data network including a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive a data packet from a data network, determine a filter index value for the data packet and to send a processed data packet to an egress ... 08/24/06 - 20060187831 - Remote monitoring and remote control arrangement for an independent target location An arrangement is provided for facilitating remote monitoring and control of an independent target location. Physical level devices (106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 211) are adapted to at least acquire information at the target location. A transceiver (511) is adapted to exchange information with a remote central system. ... 08/24/06 - 20060187830 - Adaptive queue mechanism for efficient realtime packet transfer and adaptive queue establishment system thereof Disclosed are an adaptive queue mechanism for an efficient realtime packet transfer and an adaptive queue establishment system thereof. The adaptive queue establishment system adds or deletes classes and/or filters using a system call from a user mode to a kernel mode. The adaptive queue mechanism includes a default priority ... 08/24/06 - 20060187829 - Distributed connection admission-control A method distributes connection admission control. Traffic flows are distributed locally at network nodes based on determined path weights and dynamic link costs. A traffic source node is sent a back-off signal if a distributing node becomes congested. A received request to admit a new traffic flow to the communications ... 08/24/06 - 20060187828 - Packet identifier for use in a network device A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, connected to a plurality of ports configured to receive data packets from a data network and to send processed data packets to the data network, a memory management unit, in communication with and controlling memory external ... 08/24/06 - 20060187827 - Programmable metering behavior based on table lookup A network device for processing data on a data network including a plurality of ports, configured to receive data from a data network and to send processed data to the data network via an egress port, a controller interface, configured to communicate with an external controller, a memory management unit, ... 08/24/06 - 20060187826 - Dynamic sharing of a transaction queue A network device for dynamically allocating memory locations to plurality of queues. The network device includes means for determining an amount of memory buffers that is associated with a port and means for assigning a fixed allocation of memory buffers to each of a plurality of queues associated with the ... 08/24/06 - 20060187825 - Dynamic color threshold in a queue A network device for dynamically allocating memory locations to plurality of queues. The network device includes means for determining an amount of memory buffers that is associated with a port, for assigning a fixed allocation of memory buffers to each of a plurality of queues associated with the port and ... 08/24/06 - 20060187824 - Method and apparatus for measuring data transport quality over an internet protocol An IP (Internet Protocol) diagnostic system is provided for troubleshooting data transport quality over an Internet Protocol operating in a communication system (100). The IP diagnostic system includes one or more processors (106) each placed at different segments (108) in the communication system. Each processor is programmed to receive (206) ... 08/24/06 - 20060187823 - Retransmit timeout suppression in large scale networks A method, apparatus, and network communication node for suppressing transmission of a request packet, in the context of a request-response network protocol, if a packet in response to a currently pending request packet is present in an input process queue in a network communication node are presented. One embodiment of ... 08/24/06 - 20060187822 - Method and apparatus for partitioning allocation and management of jitter buffer memory for tdm circuit emulation applications A method for partitioning allocation and management of a jitter buffer memory for TDM circuit emulation applications comprises the steps of obtaining a channel hierarchy for a plurality of packet carrying channels having different channel rates, obtaining a packet sequential number, and using the channel hierarchy and the packet sequential ... 08/24/06 - 20060187821 - Network terminal apparatus, communication overload avoiding method and program A network terminal apparatus of the present invention includes an overload condition detecting unit detecting communication overload condition and an overload condition completion detecting unit detecting recovery from an overload condition, invalidates data received by LAN chip when an overload condition is detected, and releases said invalidation when recovery from ... 08/17/06 - 20060182026 - Adaptive coding and modulation The present invention provides a unique feedback system in a wireless communication system wherein the transmission channel is always overloaded with data, which is configured and modulated at a select order of modulation. Based on the channel conditions, only a portion of the data can be successfully received. As such, ... 08/17/06 - 20060182025 - Transmission control protocol (tcp) congestion control using multiple tcp acknowledgments (acks) A method of Transport Control Protocol (TCP) congestion control using multiple TCP AKCs in an integrated network including wireless links, the method including: receiving a packet retransmitted from a correspondent upon a mobile node having a packet loss in a received packet; calculating the number of acknowledgment messages to be ... 08/17/06 - 20060182024 - Bandwidth allocation for voip traffic in network having interface between frame relay and atm A frame relay data rate RFR for a VoIP call is determined based on a particular packetization time interval TS and its associated sample data size BS for a particular CODEC, a size BHT of at least one of a frame relay header and a frame relay trailer, and a ... 08/17/06 - 20060182023 - Methods and devices for iteratively determining mobile device-to-access point associations to achieve load balancing Mobile devices may be associated with access points other than their current access point based on load-balancing objectives of a wireless, local area network during an iterative time period. ... 08/17/06 - 20060182022 - Virtually centralized uplink scheduling A method of scheduling uplink transmissions from a plurality of source user equipments to a base station is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining the amount of data in the data buffer of each of the user equipments, comparing the amount of data in the data buffers of ... 08/17/06 - 20060182021 - Output power control in multislot uplinks In a TDMA communication system, mobile stations (6a, 6b) are given slot allocations and output power levels by base stations. This can lead to situations where the combination of slot allocation size and output power level demanded exceeds the capability of the mobile station (6a, 6b). To solve this problem, ... 08/10/06 - 20060176812 - Data-driven-type information processor outputting data packet to be processed at prescribed interval and method of controlling the same When a data packet branch unit determines that a data packet is included in a data packet group of which output at a prescribed interval is demanded, a data packet status acquiring unit acquires historical information of another data packet included in the data packet group by referring to a ... 08/10/06 - 20060176811 - Method and system for scheduling of base station for hsupa Method and system for scheduling of a base station for HSUPA is provided. The method for scheduling of base station includes a method for scheduling of serving base station and a method for scheduling of non-serving base station, in which the method for scheduling of the serving base station comprises ... 08/10/06 - 20060176810 - Congestion notification in 3g radio access A method, apparatus and system of network congestion notification is disclosed. A source node sends a destination node a data packet. Upon receipt of the data packet if network congestion is detected, the destination node introduces a congestion indication into a data packet. The data packet, including the congestion indication, ... 08/10/06 - 20060176809 - Non-blocking internet backbone network A method and system for computing the maximum amount of admissible ingress and egress traffic of each edge router of the MPLS core network is presented. As long as the ingress and egress traffic amounts are below the admissible amount limit, traffic routes through any link in the network will ... 08/10/06 - 20060176808 - Data transfer apparatus A data transfer apparatus is provided for monitoring the bandwidth of a first and a second flow, comprises flow detecting means for comparing information in a header field of a packet with the first and second detection conditions to detect a flow to which the packet belongs, compliance/violation determining means ... 08/10/06 - 20060176807 - Preemptive weighted round robin scheduler The present invention is to disclose a scheduler which comprising a priority tagging module for receiving a plurality of information chucks, a plurality of output lines, and a WRR (weighted round robin) module. In this regards, each information chucks are tagged with a priority tag by said priority tagging module ... 08/10/06 - 20060176806 - Dynamic band allocation circuit, dynamic band allocation method, dynamic band allocation program, and recording medium In a P2MP system in which upstream bandwidth is shared by a plurality of ONUs, a dynamic bandwidth allocation circuit is provided which reduces the consumption of memory capacity, and avoids the divergence of parameters. A dynamic bandwidth allocation circuit provided in an optical line terminal (OLT) calculates, for each ... 08/03/06 - 20060171313 - Communication apparatus and communication method A communication apparatus for implementing a communication session based upon a congestion window specifying a signal amount that can be sent out continuously to a network employs a signal propagation time in the communication session, thereby to estimate a congestion degree of a bottleneck circuit, and decides an increased-width of ... 08/03/06 - 20060171312 - Radio communication apparatus To alleviate processing load of a communication apparatus (mobile station) for data transmission using the shared channels. A radio communication apparatus for receiving data via the shared channels, comprises a receiving unit for intermittent reception to determine whether the data received via the shared channels is transmitted to its own ... 08/03/06 - 20060171311 - Method and system for classifying packets Methods and systems are provided for managing network traffic in a network device, based on matching criteria. The method includes providing a plurality of objects associated with a packet of the network traffic. A set of criteria corresponding to the type of objects and corresponding to the layer-4 protocol is ... 08/03/06 - 20060171310 - Method and system of consolidating mobile ip messages within a network A method and system of consolidating mobile IP messages within a network is provided. The method and system applies to the transfer of datagrams between home and foreign agents and mobile IP devices. The system provides for a temporary capture and storage of small non-real-time datagrams within a queue by ... 08/03/06 - 20060171309 - System and method for providing rsvp reservations in a shared line environment An apparatus for communicating data in a shared line environment is provided that includes a first reservation element operable to communicate with a second reservation element. The first reservation element is associated with a first location and the second reservation element is associated with a second location. A call may ... 08/03/06 - 20060171308 - Method and system for interactive mapping to provide goal-oriented instructions Provided is a computer system and methods for directing mobile peer devices. A method includes receiving an itinerary identifying one or more goals for the peer devices; receiving a priority associated with the itinerary, the priority identifying at least one goal of the one or more goals, the priority listing ... 08/03/06 - 20060171307 - Method and apparatus for managing packet data resources An apparatus and a method for managing resources for efficient packet data transmission. More specifically, there is provided a method for allocating transmission resources in a base station comprising determining a largest supportable packet size for a highest priority user, wherein the determination is based at least partially on the ... 08/03/06 - 20060171306 - Socket management for always-on data connections A method of automatically keeping sockets open for always-on applications in a GPRS context is provided. Information is maintained by each wireless device identifying each APN (access point name)-port pair associated with a PDP (packet data protocol) context used by an always-on application. Upon the PDP context becoming available after ... 07/27/06 - 20060164982 - Systems, methods and media for detecting nagling on a tcp network connection Systems, methods and media for detecting Nagling on a TCP network connection are disclosed. Embodiments may generally include a system with a Nagle detection threshold determiner for determining a Nagle detection threshold based on the network connection. The system may also generally include a Nagle detection module in communication with ... 07/27/06 - 20060164981 - Method for processing traffic data in a wireless communications system The present invention concerns a method of processing traffic data in Layer 2 of a wireless communications system, whereby the MAC layer is arranged, after receipt of a traffic data volume report from the RLC layer, to process said data volume report and to then issue an acknowledgement message to ... 07/27/06 - 20060164980 - Method and system for classification of packets based on meta-rules A method and apparatus for classification of packets is provided. The method includes classifying the packets based on the structured part of at least one packet classification rule, and classifying the packets based on the unstructured part of the at least one packet classification rule, the classification being done based ... 07/27/06 - 20060164979 - Communication traffic management monitoring systems and methods Systems and methods of monitoring a communication traffic transfer rate control mechanism are provided. The traffic transfer rate control mechanism may control a rate of transfer of communication traffic from a first communication traffic management device to a second communication traffic management device, for example. A communication traffic storage history, ... 07/27/06 - 20060164978 - Methods, systems, and devices for determining cos level Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising: based on an analysis of historical information regarding packet traffic conveyed on a local area network associated with a customer, the packet traffic also conveyed on a wide area network managed by a service provider and coupled to ... 07/27/06 - 20060164977 - Provision of network elements in a communication system According to the invention, at least partly loaded network elements are determined for the provision of network elements in a communication system by means of providing a service. Load thresholds are also determined for network elements. On a service provision request an exceeding of the fixed load threshold values, related ... 07/20/06 - 20060159015 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data in a broadband wireless access communication system A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting data in a broadband wireless access communication system. If transmission data is generated, a data packet generator sets information corresponding to a service type of the generated data in a predetermined field of the generated data. A data packet parser parses the ... 07/20/06 - 20060159014 - System, method and computer program product for provisioning of resources and service environments The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program product to accelerate provisioning by dynamically creating dynamic free pools (DFPs) of pre-provisioned resources that are provisioned in advance, and are ready and free for use. A DFP construct for a resource, and its associated dynamic free pool manager are ... 07/20/06 - 20060159013 - Method of controlling transmission rates In an embodiment of the method, an estimated use of an uplink resource by prioritized users, if transmission rates for the prioritized users are granted, is determined. The transmission rates are then granted if the estimated use of the uplink resource is less than or equal to an available amount ... 07/13/06 - 20060153071 - Jitter controlled wfq algorithm on network processors and latency constrained hardware Systems and methods of reducing service jitter in WFQ scheduling schemes used in packet traffic management are described. Service jitter is the variance in time between when a queue should have been selected for servicing and when it was actually serviced. The service jitter is generally not a problem in ... 07/13/06 - 20060153070 - System and method for monitoring, controlling and provisioning a telecommunications access network An access device includes a first port configured to communicatively couple to a network node via a communications link, with the communications link having a plurality of information flows. At least one of the flows is configured as a maintenance and control flow and at least one of the flows ... 07/06/06 - 20060146704 - System and method for controlling congestion in multihopping wireless networks A system and method to control congestion in a multihopping wireless communication network (100). The system and method distribute the congestion information back to the ingress points (106) and traffic source nodes (102, 106, 107) in the network (100) through the actual route of the data flow that contributes to ... 07/06/06 - 20060146703 - Dynamic quality-of-service mapping apparatus and method through hybrid monitoring in digital home service A media server coupled to a service network by means of a media gateway provides network-adaptive media streams through hybrid monitoring for the digital home service. Clients coupled to the service network measures a network state of the service network and system states of the clients through the hybrid monitoring. ... 07/06/06 - 20060146702 - System and method for automatic rerouting of information when a target is busy A system and method transmits a data packet to a target mobile station (202) when the target mobile station is busy. The data packet is received at a packet function (PCF) (206). It is determined whether the target mobile station (202) is actively engaged in a session other than a ... 07/06/06 - 20060146701 - Phone line supervisory controls Controlling use of a telephone line includes receiving a specification from a first entity that defines one or more supervisory controls on use of a controlled telephone line by a second entity. The supervisory controls specify people with whom the second entity may or may not communicate over the controlled ... 06/29/06 - 20060140114 - Link throughput enhancer A communication method comprises communicating information on a standardized link compliant with a published standard and communicating information on a private link capable of operation at a throughput higher than maximum throughput of the published standard. The method further comprises monitoring private link performance and increasing information throughput on the ... 06/29/06 - 20060140113 - Method for efficiently transmitting communications in a system supporting dedicated and shared communication channels A wireless communication system (20) includes a wireless network (30) that selects between a dedicated communication channel and a shared communication channel for transmitting a real-time communication such as a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) communication. In one example, a radio network controller (40) portion of the wireless network (30) ... 06/29/06 - 20060140112 - Method and apparatus to provide quality of service to wireless local area networks Briefly, a method and apparatus to classify a data unit according to a type of service of the data unit. The apparatus includes a transmitter controller to control transmission of the classified data unit according to a transmission mechanism suitable for a class of the data unit. ... 06/22/06 - 20060133271 - Node position measuring system A node position measuring system according to this invention includes a node, a reference station, base stations, a server that calculates a position of the node, and a network. The reference station includes a positioning signal reception module and a reference signal generation module that transmits a reference signal after ... 06/22/06 - 20060133270 - Method and apparatus for providing ingress traffic shaping A traffic shaping and bandwidth management in a communications network is provided. More particularly, a method for shaping the ingress traffic received at a first device is provided. A novel apparatus comprising a first network device, wherein the first network device receives ingress traffic to be traffic shaped is provided. ... 06/22/06 - 20060133269 - Methods and apparatus for efficient paging in a wireless communication system The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for monitoring a paging channel. In one aspect, a method for monitoring a paging channel includes monitoring a paging channel for a page message at scheduled paging slots, determining that an error has occurred at a given paging slot, and monitoring the ... 06/22/06 - 20060133268 - Method and appartatus to improve communication performance in arq networks A wireless communication network improves reverse link communication performance by changing one or more Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) control settings as a function of measured or estimated reverse link loading. Control settings can be changed on a per-sector basis, allowing consideration of different loading conditions in different radio sectors of ... 06/22/06 - 20060133267 - Processing platform selection method for data packet filter installation In a data packet system (100) comprised of a plurality of processing platforms that are each at least potentially in-line with respect to a flow of data packets, upon receiving (401) an installation of a data packet filter, automatically selecting (402) where, from amongst that plurality of process platforms, to ... 06/15/06 - 20060126507 - Wireless base station device and rate control method thereof A wireless base station device, connected to a higher-level station device via a wired line, comprises baseband processors 11, one for each virtual link 21 to which user data flows belong. In the baseband processor 11, a congestion monitor 51 monitors the reception bandwidth usage rate of a virtual link ... 06/15/06 - 20060126506 - Upstream channel bonding in a cable communications system A method for increasing upstream bandwidth per cable modem user in a cable communications system that includes a cable modem termination system (CMTS) and a plurality of cable modems is provided. The method permits a cable modem to transmit data to the CMTS on multiple upstream channels simultaneously using a ... 06/15/06 - 20060126505 - Upstream channel bonding in a cable communications system A method for increasing upstream bandwidth per cable modem user in a cable communications system that includes a cable modem termination system (CMTS) and a plurality of cable modems is provided. The method permits a cable modem to transmit data to the CMTS on multiple upstream channels simultaneously using a ... 06/15/06 - 20060126504 - Network centric quality of service using active network technology Systems and methods for improving network centric quality of service using active network technology are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes controlling how a packet is passed over at least one of the interfaces using a differentiated services portion of a network management architecture, monitoring a request for a ... 06/08/06 - 20060120282 - Apparatus and methods for incorporating bandwidth forecasting and dynamic bandwidth allocation into a broadband communication system A method for providing network access to a shared access communications medium for a plurality of users includes the steps of conducting predictive admission control by arbitrating user requests for access to the shared medium based on predicted aggregate demands, conducting lookahead scheduling for use in making user channel assignments ... 06/01/06 - 20060114825 - Congestion avoidance within aggregate channels Network congestion avoidance within aggregated channels is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method first transmits a packet associated with a first channel of a plurality of related channels from a source protocol layer (e.g., a source IP layer) of a source through a network (e.g., the Internet). Next, the method ... 06/01/06 - 20060114824 - Multiple device communications A communications protocol for a communications bus wherein messages are transmitted to a plurality of devices communicating by means of a bus. Each message includes a unique code indicating the end of the message and that same unique code triggers a transfer of communications control to another device of the ... 06/01/06 - 20060114823 - Shared backoff generation for 802.11e compliant wlan communication devices A WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) communication device including a first buffer, a second buffer and a shared backoff generator and corresponding methods and integrated circuit chips provided. The first buffer is for queuing first data packets to be transmitted by the WLAN communication device after a transmission channel has ... 06/01/06 - 20060114822 - Solicitation triggers for opening a network link A method and a system opens a network connection using solicitation triggers. A terminal device that is connecting to a communication network sends a network connection request to a mobile network communication device and forms a connection between the terminal device and the mobile network communication device. The terminal device ... 06/01/06 - 20060114821 - Flow control buffering A method and system for improved buffering during a flow control event, the system comprising: a mobile station having a mobile timer; a radio network communicating wirelessly with the mobile station and including: a base station; and a packet control function (PCF) capable of interrupting the flow of data to ... 06/01/06 - 20060114820 - System and method for caching and fetching data There is disclosed a data processing system and method for fetching a plurality of data frames for processing in succession at a desired rate. Data frames are fetched into available space in cache. A priority level is then assigned to each data frame by applying a recurring priority level pattern. ... 05/25/06 - 20060109785 - System and method for loadbalancing in a network environment using feedback information A method for loadbalancing in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a request from an end user for a communication session at a central node. The method further includes identifying a selected one of a plurality of network nodes to facilitate the communication session for the end user ... 05/25/06 - 20060109784 - Closed loop method and apparatus for throttling the transmit rate of an ethernet media access controller (mac) A system and method for MAC-PHY rate matching combines carrier sense signal and rate matching techniques to implement close loop rate matching. An adapter entity responds to each carrier sense deferral to throttle the MAC until rate matching is achieved. ... 05/11/06 - 20060098572 - Storage switch traffic bandwidth control A switch including a processor and method for monitoring bandwidth in the storage switch. The switch includes at least one physical port coupling at least one target and at least one initiator via the physical port. The monitoring method may include the steps of determining whether congestion occurs on the ... 05/04/06 - 20060092838 - Tcp flow controlling method in high-speed mobile communications network Provided is data transmission in a mobile communications network, more particularly, a TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) flow controlling method for data transmissions in a high-speed mobile communications network in which a handoff/handover is performed, which focuses on that a mobile TCP packet can be identified using a mobile option field ... 05/04/06 - 20060092837 - Adaptive dynamic thresholding mechanism for link level flow control scheme A dynamic threshold apparatus and method are provided including a flow control sender and a flow control receiver. The flow control sender includes an ingress port with one or more Class Groups (CG) defined including a shared buffer pool, a shared counter per ingress port per CG tracking an amount ... 05/04/06 - 20060092836 - Intelligent congestion feedback apparatus and method An intelligent congestion feedback apparatus and method thereof includes a source endpoint transmitting data packets, and a destination endpoint receiving the data packets, and a timer in the destination endpoint set to zero. An intermediate node detects congestion between the source endpoint and the destination endpoint. Upon congestion detection, the ... 05/04/06 - 20060092835 - Data transmission system between two separate terminals and method thereof A data transmission system between two separate terminals is disclosed. The data transmission system includes a first memory for storing data, an encoder for encoding the data and creating an image code, a first terminal having a display unit for displaying the image code, and a second terminal having a ... 05/04/06 - 20060092834 - Application flow control apparatus An application flow control apparatus receives a first message based on a transmission trigger when receiving the transmission trigger indicating a transmission of the first message containing flow definition information for specifying an execution sequence of a plurality of applications performing a cooperative processing; calls an application to be executed ... 05/04/06 - 20060092833 - Congestion control for improved management of service level agreements in switched networks When a switch in a switched network detects congestion at one of its inputs, it floods a congestion control message back to the ingress nodes of the network connected to that input, indicating congestion. The ingress nodes of the network restrict access to the network by comparing incoming information rates ... 04/27/06 - 20060087969 - System and method for hierarchical policing of flows and subflows of a data stream A system and method for policing individual flows and subflows of a data stream. Data traffic streams are classified into separate traffic flows, which in turn can be further classified into subflows, thereby providing for different priority levels of subsets of the flow. The subflows may be still further classified ... 04/27/06 - 20060087968 - Load balancing in data networks Load balancing apparatus for a data communications network comprises hash logic for computing a hash function on incoming data packets. A threshold detector is connected to the hash logic for triggering, in response to utilization of the downstream objects exceeding a predefined threshold, redefinition in the hash logic of parameters ... 04/20/06 - 20060083165 - Link analysis method and system A method and computer program product for performing a latency analysis to determine one or more latency statistics for one or more network links within a distributed computing network. The one or more latency statistics are compared to one or more benchmark latency criteria to determine if at least one ... 04/20/06 - 20060083164 - Infrared adapter with data packet throttle A method for controlling data packet flow through an infrared adapter is provided and includes receiving a data stream from an infrared device. The data stream has a first data transmission rate. Further, the rate of transmission of the data stream is modified within the infrared adapter to produce an ... 04/20/06 - 20060083163 - Method and apparatus to adaptively manage end-to-end voice over internet protocol (voip) media latency A method and apparatus for adaptively managing communication latency, including processing one or more data frames in a communication network; sampling the one or more data frames in accordance with a first sampling time; interpolating the sampled one or more data frames; and forming a play-out waveform using the one ... 04/13/06 - 20060077892 - Enhanced sdu discard procedure for a special data segmentation in a wireless communications system A method for handling discarding of a sequence of service data units in a communications system is disclosed. The sequence of service data units includes at least a last discarded service data unit (SDU). When a protocol data unit (PDU) containing a length indicator of the last discarded SDU contains ... 04/06/06 - 20060072453 - Method and apparatus for assessing traffic load of a communication network An approach is provided for obtaining load of a terminal operating in a communication system. A query is transmitted for a cumulative load of the terminal, wherein the terminal belongs to a group of terminals having a common service level. The cumulative load for the terminal is determined based on ... 04/06/06 - 20060072452 - Method and system for load balancing over a set of communication channels An approach for load balancing is disclosed. A user load is determined based upon data queued for transmission at each of the terminals. In addition, an inroute load corresponding to loading of inroutes serving the terminals is determined. A user-to-inroute distribution that minimizes variation of the inroute load is generated. ... 04/06/06 - 20060072451 - Role-based network traffic-flow rate control Traffic flow rate control in a network device. Traffic flow may be permitted/restricted based on the role of a device in a network. The traffic flow may be limited on the basis of packets per time period, the limits to be applied on a per-protocol, per-port, and/or per-packet basis. ... 03/30/06 - 20060067214 - Systems and methods to select access points on wireless networks with quality of service functionality A client node selects an access point that can service its current and future bandwidth requirements. The client node locates one or more access points that are within range of the client node. The client node tests the located access points to determine which of them can handle its current ... 03/30/06 - 20060067213 - Routing cost based network congestion control for quality of service A method and system of congestion control in a network are provided. A required quality of service (QoS) parameter, such as a maximum allowable latency, for a packet received at a queue in the network, and a route cost metric, such as accumulated and estimated latency, are determined, and the ... 03/30/06 - 20060067212 - Adjusting a transmission rate In one embodiment, data is received from a plurality of token devices and the rate of transmission is adjusted to match a lowest reception rate of the plurality of token devices using the data. ... 03/23/06 - 20060062144 - Tokens in token buckets maintained among primary and secondary storages Token buckets are used in a computer or communications system for controlling rates at which corresponding items are processed. The number of tokens in a token bucket identifies the amount of processing that is available for the corresponding item. Instead of storing the value of a token bucket as a ... 03/16/06 - 20060056294 - Methods and apparatuses for switching system modules in computer systems Methods for switching system modules in a computer system. The computer system includes a first system module, a second system module, and system programs. The system programs include a first and a second system program, corresponding to the first and second system modules respectively. A switching component, such as a ... 03/16/06 - 20060056293 - Device and method for port assignment A port assignment device capable of properly distributing loads on each of a plurality of ports is provided. The device assigning a plurality of ports, storing data from external devices via a network in a plurality of storage modules and managing the data in the storage modules by a plurality ... 03/16/06 - 20060056292 - Fast credit system The invention provides an improved architecture for credit based flow control. Briefly, the memory space within the receiving switch is separated into two parts, a statically allocated portion and a dynamically allocated portion. Packets are first placed in the dynamically allocated portion, and the credits are returned immediately. When the ... 03/16/06 - 20060056291 - Mechanism to improve preemption behavior of resource reservations A technique is provided for one or more network nodes to deterministically select data flows to preempt. In particular, each node employs a set of predefined rules which instructs the node as to which existing data flow should be preempted in order to admit a new high-priority data flow. The ... 03/16/06 - 20060056290 - Advanced processor with implementation of memory ordering on a ring based data movement network An advanced processor comprises a plurality of multithreaded processor cores each having a data cache and instruction cache. A data switch interconnect is coupled to each of the processor cores and configured to pass information among the processor cores. A messaging network is coupled to each of the processor cores ... 03/16/06 - 20060056289 - Communication network A network has a plurality of nodes, wherein at least one of the plurality of nodes includes a switch arranged to carry out a Simple Transit Core Function and three or more of the plurality of nodes include a Single Link Interface which Single Link Interface has associated Output Attributes ... 03/09/06 - 20060050635 - Delay guarantee path setting system A delay guarantee path setting system, which sets a traffic transfer path in a network, based on a delay guarantee message that requests path setting that guarantees a bandwidth and a delay, and in the system, the network management node defines a weighted value for each link connecting between the ... 03/09/06 - 20060050634 - Methods and systems to perform traffic engineering in a metric-routed network A system, to migrate a shortest-path-first (SPF) routed network from a first routing state to a second routing state, includes a changeover module to generate a sequence of intermediate network plans, each of which modifies a preceding network state according to a preceding network plan, such that a routing of ... 03/09/06 - 20060050633 - Method and apparatus for performing quality-of-service calculations on packet-based networks A method and apparatus for performing Quality-of-Service (QoS) calculations on packet-based communications networks using a QoS measure which is based on data included in non-lost packets, as well as on data included in lost packets, when the proper interpretation of the data in non-lost packets depends upon data in one ... 03/09/06 - 20060050632 - Flow control credit updates for virtual channels in the advanced switching (as) architecture Devices in an Advanced Switching (AS) fabric may include state machines for controlling the generation and transmission of flow control (FC) update data link layer packets (DLLPs) between link partners. A link partner may use the state machine to generate flow control update DLLPs for all available virtual channels (VCs) ... 03/02/06 - 20060045009 - Device and method for managing oversubsription in a network A device and a method for aggregating and managing large quantities of data are disclosed. The received data are prioritized into high and low priority queues. The device receive memory is partitioned into 1 Kilo byte (1 KB) blocks which are further divided into free list and allocation list. The ... 03/02/06 - 20060045008 - Queue-based active queue management process An active queue management (AQM) process for network communications equipment. The AQM process is queue based and involves applying at a queue size threshold congestion notification to communications packets in a queue of a link via packet dropping; and adjusting said queue size threshold on the basis of the congestion ... 02/23/06 - 20060039280 - Systems, processes and integrated circuits for rate and/or diversity adaptation for packet communications A process (111,101) of sending packets of real-time information at a sender (311) includes steps of initially generating at the sender the packets of real-time information with a source rate (s11) greater than zero kilobits per second, and a time or path or combined time/path diversity rate (d11), the amount ... 02/16/06 - 20060034170 - Networking device and content transmitting method using the same A networking device and content transmitting method using the same are provided. The networking device includes a transmission path determining unit to determine a transmission path in order to transmit predetermined content to a device having requested the content, a priority determining unit to determine the priority of the content ... 02/16/06 - 20060034169 - Device for preventing process collision based on plural inputted signals A device for preventing a process collision based on plural of input signals includes an input block for receiving a first and a second input signals to thereby generates a first and a second process request signals, a collision controller for controlling the process collision in accordance with a predetermined ... 02/16/06 - 20060034168 - Method for data flow control in a mobile communications system A method for controlling the flow of data between an RNC and a base station of a UMTS mobile communications system with HSDPA capability via an Iub interface, where an HS-DSCH Frame Protocol mechanism is implemented in the Iub interface to provide control and data services for the communication of ... 02/16/06 - 20060034167 - Communication resource reservation system for improved messaging performance A system and method are provided for facilitating zero-copy communications between computing systems of a group of computing systems. The method includes allocating, in a first computing system of the group of computing systems, a pool of privileged communication resources from a privileged resource controller to a communications controller. The ... 02/09/06 - 20060028981 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing admission control in a regional/access network Traffic is admitted to a network that facilitates differentiated end-to-end data transport between a Network Service Provider (NSP) and/or an Application Service Provider (ASP) and a customer Premises Network (CPN) that includes Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) by establishing communication between a node in the network and the NSP and/or the ... 02/09/06 - 20060028980 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing admission control in a regional/access network based on user preferences Traffic is admitted to a network that facilitates differentiated end-to-end data transport between a Network Service Provider (NSP) and/or an Application Service Provider (ASP) and a customer Premises Network (CPN) that includes Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) by obtaining from a user of the network policy information associated with services accessed ... 02/09/06 - 20060028979 - Smart resync of data between a network management system and a network element Network recovery of multiple NEs, such as at NMS restart, or at re-establishment of communication after loss of communication with the NMS that provides reduced cost and reduced the elapsed time before the NMS can start performing network monitoring. A method of recovering data from a network element at a ... 01/26/06 - 20060018256 - Method and apparatus for communications traffic engineering This invention provides for a technique for selectively off-loading traffic from congested sub-regions of a network to more lightly-loaded regions by making use of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). For each network element, an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing is employed to provide re-routing and to identify congested links caused by ... 01/26/06 - 20060018255 - Defining a static path through a communications network to provide wiretap law compliance By defining a static path through a communications network for a call placed by an IP-based telephonic device, stream of packets representing the call are rendered available for wiretapping on a communications network that includes a first and a second switching/routing element. The static path is defined using Multiprotocol Label ... 01/19/06 - 20060013132 - Nonlinear adaptive control of resource-distribution dynamics Nonlinear adaptive resource management systems and methods are provided. According to one embodiment, a controller identifies and prevents resource starvation in resource-limited systems. To function correctly, system processes require resources that can be exhausted when under high load conditions. If the load conditions continue a complete system failure may occur. ... 01/19/06 - 20060013131 - Selecting downloading site of data element in telecommunications system A method for selecting the downloading site of at least one downloadable data element in a telecommunications system comprising at least one telecommunications network, at least two terminals that have established a telecommunications link with each other through the telecommunications network, and a unit comprising at least one data element, ... 01/19/06 - 20060013130 - Apparatus, methods and computer program products for transmission of data over an adjustable synchronous radio channel A data link, e.g., an audio and/or video data link, is established from a data source, such as an audio and/or video encoder, to a data recipient via an adjustable synchronous radio channel, such as an extended Synchronous Connection-Oriented (eSCO) channel between first and second Bluetooth™ devices. A quality of ... 01/19/06 - 20060013129 - Maximal resource utilization in networks A network device includes a scheduler and a transmitter. The scheduler creates a media access plan (MAP) that has overlapping transmission opportunities and the transmitter transmits the MAP. Another network device includes a carrier sensor and a transmitter. The carrier sensor senses the availability of a network medium for transmission ... 01/19/06 - 20060013128 - Method, system, and program for managing congestion in a network controller Provided are a method, system, and program for managing congestion in a network controller, which in one embodiment, substantially all packets having an assigned priority value below a selected priority level are culled. In another embodiment, selected flows of packets into a network controller are culled at selected culling rates. ... 01/12/06 - 20060007859 - Network switching architecture with fast filtering processor A network switch for network communications includes a first data port interface supporting a plurality of data ports transmitting and receiving data at a first data rate. A second data port interface supports a plurality of data ports transmitting and receiving data at a second data rate. A CPU interface ... 01/12/06 - 20060007858 - Network traffic analyzer A system for and method of analyzing packet traffic in a packet-switched network, including collecting traffic logs from a network operations center, wherein the traffic logs are representative of packet traffic passing through an actual configuration of the network, and wherein each traffic log includes the time the traffic log ... 01/12/06 - 20060007857 - Statistic counter device In a statistic counter device comprising a plurality of statistic counters which count statistic information, in order to reduce a hardware scale and power consumption by dynamically controlling a bit number of the statistic counters, a counter management portion forms extension counters by dynamically linking standby counters to higher digits ... 01/12/06 - 20060007856 - Backpressure method on multiplexed links The invention proposes a network element comprising a first network block (1) and a second network block (2) connected via a link (3) providing a certain data rate, wherein the first network block comprises at least one data source (11-1 to 11-n) and at least one data rate limiting means ... 01/12/06 - 20060007855 - Prioritization of network traffic A plurality of packets associated with a plurality of protocols are received, wherein the plurality of packets are to be processed by a plurality of processors. Packets associated with a first protocol are sent to be processed by at least one of the plurality of processors before sending packets associated ... 01/12/06 - 20060007854 - Implementation method on multi-service flow over rpr and apparatus therefor This technology handles Multiple Services Flow (MSF) Based on RPR and a way of multi-service flow over RPR. MSF is defined to work at the client RPR MAC layer and uses Fairness of RPR MAC to support services of Class A, Class B and Class C. MSF is used in ... 01/05/06 - 20060002296 - Controlling transmission rate of reverse traffic channel in wireless communication system The present invention is related to controlling a transmission rate of a reverse traffic channel of an HDR system in a wireless communication system. The present invention checks a congested state of a reverse channel, generates a random number if the reverse channel is in the congested state, compares the ... 01/05/06 - 20060002295 - Suppression of disturbances, caused by burst-like changes of the data rate, during synchronous radio transmission In a receiving device (1) and method for reception of data packets by radio, having a memory (4), values derived from the values of received data packets are entered and values are emitted for further processing from it. The device comprises a regulating unit (6) for regulating the filling level ... 01/05/06 - 20060002294 - Wideband provisioning A provisioning server has a port to receive a request for a network address including an indication that a remote device is wideband capable. The provisioning server also has a processor to respond to the request with a network address and include an address for a configuration file and to ... 12/29/05 - 20050286417 - Device and method of controlling and providing content over a network A device and method of controlling content transmission, and a device and method of providing content. The method of controlling content over a network includes generating a control command using a stateless protocol so that an AV content providing device controls transmission of an AV content using a connectionless protocol ... 12/29/05 - 20050286416 - Communication system A communication terminal (1) on a transmission side comprises means (1-10) for detecting congestion, means (1-7) for detecting a sign of congestion with reference to an ideal congestion window size and a current congestion window size, means for estimating a ratio of priority traffic with respect to traffic within a ... 12/15/05 - 20050276219 - Routing of data packet traffic to a common destination egress queue from a plurality of subscribers each contracting for respective bandwidth of data flow, a method of and apparatus for fairly sharing excess bandwidth and packet dropping amongst the subsc In the routing of data traffic to a common destination egress queue from a plurality of customer subscribers each contracting for respective allocations of bandwidth of data flow, a technique and system for fairly sharing any underutilized excess bandwidth and for data dropping amongst over-subscribers, while guaranteeing each subscriber its ... 12/15/05 - 20050276218 - Resource admission control in an access network The present invention is applicable to access networks across which virtual connections have been provisioned to meet traffic and QoS requirements. The present invention improves service integrity by controlling the right for a service instance to use the network resources that have been provisioned for its class of service. Whenever ... 12/08/05 - 20050270976 - Flow control method of man transmission equipment A flow control method of MAN transmission equipment is disclosed wherein when congestion occurs in a data transmission port of a data transmission equipment at a receiving end, an Ethernet flow control frame is fed back to a transmission equipment at a sending end, to perform flow control of the ... 12/08/05 - 20050270975 - Method and apparatus for scheduling in a wireless network Techniques for scheduling flows and links for transmission are described. Each link is an oriented source-destination pair and carries one or more flows. Each flow may be associated with throughput, delay, feedback (e.g., acknowledgments (ACKs)) and/or other requirements. A serving interval is determined for each flow based on the requirements ... 12/08/05 - 20050270974 - System and method to identify and communicate congested flows in a network fabric The invention provides a system and method for identifying and communicating congested paths throughout a network fabric. Briefly, the present invention augments the congestion management mechanism defined in ASI to allow for the communication of congested paths through the fabric, rather than the simple congested output port notification supported today ... 12/01/05 - 20050265233 - Virus/worm throttle threshold settings One embodiment disclosed relates to a network device that includes at least one port to connect to a network and at least one throttle that limits a rate of connections made from the device. An auto-adaptive thresholding mechanism determines a threshold for the throttle. The mechanism may be tunable to ... 11/24/05 - 20050259577 - Method for transmitting data in mobile ad hoc network and network apparatus using the same Provided are a method for transmitting data in a mobile ad hoc network in which the quantity of data transmitted is adjusted by adjusting the size of a congestion window when network duplicate ACK packets are received, and a network apparatus using the same. The method includes mapping sequence numbers ... 11/24/05 - 20050259576 - Information distributing system and information distributing method as well as information recording medium An information distributing system comprises a network, a server which outputs contents to be received in a terminal over a network, and a plurality of terminals each of which comprises a buffer for temporarily accumulating the contents distributed via the network and receives the contents. When the one terminal receives ... 11/24/05 - 20050259575 - Dynamic flow control support A method for dynamic flow control includes accepting incoming data into a shared resource during a first time period after transmitting a flow control message, and diverting incoming data from the shared resource during a second time period that is after the first time period. ... 11/24/05 - 20050259574 - Method and apparatus for implementing scheduling algorithms in a network element Device-wide performance guarantees may be implemented in a network element using a pull forwarding scheme by using separate proceses on the network element communicating via handshake signals to enable coordination between the aspects of the network element. One class of processes execute at the ingress queues, a second class of ... 11/17/05 - 20050254419 - Method and system for providing bandwidth request opportunities for high priority service flows Different polling rates are applied to high priority BE service flows depending on whether the service flow contains, or is about to contain, traffic packets. A high priority service flow is identified upon boot-up of a user device, and defaults to a slow polling mode. A trigger causes the service ... 11/10/05 - 20050249116 - System and method for prioritizing data transmissions An apparatus, data structures, and method are provided for prioritizing data transmissions within a network. As applied to a switching station in a network, the method prioritizes transmissions from the network to determine which packets should be transmitted from the switching station first when multiple packets are routed to the ... 11/10/05 - 20050249115 - Packet shaping device, router, band control device and control method A packet shaping device for the purpose of shaping a packet in which burst has grown in a router to an original packet without the burst growth is disclosed. The packet shaping device monitors an arrival time TA of each packet on which a pass time TP is recorded when ... 11/10/05 - 20050249114 - Method and device of dynamic resource allocation in a wireless network There is disclosed a method of dynamic transmission resource allocation in a wireless network comprising a plurality of Mobile Terminals or MTs each managing a given number of different data flows (4-9) of Protocol Data Units or PDUs which are classified according to a set of flow types, a Radio ... 11/03/05 - 20050243718 - Wireless mobile terminal and telecommunication system means (120) for determining a size of an advertised window depending on a data rate of a wireless downlink transmission. ... 11/03/05 - 20050243717 - Controlling access message flow Techniques are provided for controlling access message flow. The techniques include receiving one or more access messages; determining one or more sets of features, one for each access message; receiving a particular access message; determining a particular set of one or more features for the particular access message; determining whether ... 10/27/05 - 20050237931 - Method and apparatus for conferencing with stream selectivity A telecommunications system for conferencing including a network. The system comprises N nodes in communication with each other through the network, where N is greater than or equal to three and is an integer. Each node of the N nodes able to produce a unique corresponding video stream having a ... 10/27/05 - 20050237930 - Computer method and apparatus for periodic scheduling with jitter-approximation tradeoff A method and apparatus of scheduling jobs each having respective (i) length of execution time and (ii) requested frequency of occurrence includes for each given job, allocation of a respective set of start times in a cycle in a manner that evenly spreads the given jobs over the cycle. Idle ... 10/27/05 - 20050237929 - Congestion control in data networks Disclosed are methods of congestion control in transmission of data in packets over a network link using a transport layer protocol, and transmission methods and protocol systems to implement such methods. The number of unacknowledged packets in transit is less than or equal to a congestion window value cwndi which ... 10/20/05 - 20050232147 - Communication system for improving data transmission efficiency of tcp in wireless network environment and a method thereof A communication system having a source node, at least one mobile node, and a router that transmits data packets transmitted from the source node to a corresponding one of the at least one mobile node and multiplexes response signals to the data packets received from the corresponding one of the ... 10/13/05 - 20050226149 - Method of detecting non-responsive network flows A network device identifies a non-adaptive flow as follows. The network device drops packets on a random basis using a Random Early Detection (RED) algorithm. A classifier reads indicia of a flow from at least one field of a header of a packet received by the network device. The network ... 10/13/05 - 20050226148 - Method and apparatus for enabling redundancy in a network element architecture A network element includes a plurality of Input/Output Cards (IOCs), a plurality of Datapath Service Cards (DSCs); and at least one crosspoint switch card (XPC) configured to be able to selectively interconnect each of the IOCs with each of the DSCs. Enabling full interconnectivity between all the IOCs and DSCs ... 10/13/05 - 20050226147 - Relay device A data relay device transmitting received unit data has an external interface unit, a main control unit, where the received unit data are received from outside the data relay device and transmitted to the corresponding destination memory not through the main control unit. The external interface unit is equipped with ... 10/13/05 - 20050226146 - Method, system and program product for actively managing central queue buffer allocation using a backpressure mechanism Method, system and program product are provided for packet flow control for a switching node of a data transfer network. The method includes actively managing space allocations in a central queue of a switching node allotted to the ports of the switching node based on the amount of unused space ... 10/13/05 - 20050226145 - Method, system and program product for actively managing central queue buffer allocation Method, system and program product are provided for packet flow control for a switching node of a data transfer network. The method includes actively managing space allocations in a central queue of a switching node allotted to the ports of the switching node based on the amount of unused space ... 10/06/05 - 20050220012 - Cellular data transmission time period estimation A method comprises the step of estimating a time period that remains for a cellular mobile communication device data transmission based on one or more determinations of status for one or more network resources that handle the cellular mobile communication device data transmission. ... 10/06/05 - 20050220011 - Packet processing system architecture and method A packet processing system architecture and method are provided. According to a first aspect of the invention, packet parser functions are distributed throughout a packet processing system comprising a packet classification system and a packet modification system. According to a second aspect of the invention, an egress mirroring function is ... 09/29/05 - 20050213502 - Method and system for controlling operation of a network, such as a wlan, related network and computer program product therefor A system controls operation of a network, such as a WLAN, where at least one information stream is delivered to at least one user via a link that is exposed to variable operating conditions. The system includes a controller module for monitoring the operating conditions of the link, and at ... 09/29/05 - 20050213501 - Performance monitoring of transparent lan services A method is described for performance monitoring of Transparent LAN Services according to layer 2 measurements of each flow carrying one Transparent LAN Service, in order to check if requirements defined by traffic parameters for the Transparent LAN Services are fulfilled. The method makes use of a central network management ... 09/29/05 - 20050213500 - Techniques to adaptively control flow thresholds Briefly, techniques to adaptively control flow thresholds. ... 09/15/05 - 20050201280 - Method and apparatus for controlling reverse link data rate of a mobile station in a communication system with reverse link common rate control An efficient use of communication resources is provided by determining a behavior for selecting the payload size (data rate) of a reverse link transmission from a mobile station to a base station. The mobile station may store a predetermined table including the ratio of the power levels of the traffic ... 09/15/05 - 20050201279 - Response for spurious timeout A spurious timeout (STO) response allows a sending device to conservatively adjust congestion state parameters and maintain the packet flow, after detection of the STO. Since occurrence of an STO may be accompanied by data loss, the STO response couples the spurious timeout and the loss event by maintaining a ... 09/15/05 - 20050201278 - Reconfiguring a multicast tree A multicast tree is provided in an application multicast network. A child node in the multicast tree detects a degradation of quality of service associated with a service being received at the child node. The child node determines whether the degradation of quality of service is resulting from a child-parent ... 09/08/05 - 20050195740 - Controlling packet congestion A packet congestion control technique employs an Active Flow Random Early Drop (AFRED) method to provide a service requiring a predetermined bandwidth with a stable Quality of Service (QoS) even when network congestion occurs. The packet congestion control technique includes: receiving at least one packet flow; defining identifiers for the ... 09/01/05 - 20050190696 - Method and apparatus for the reduction of upstream request processing latency in a cable modem termination system Upstream requests such a bandwidth requests, are processed by CMTS out of order on a priority basis to reduce latency in responding to the request. Specifically, a cable modem termination system (CMTS) is connected to a plurality of cable modems by a cable plant. The CMTS has a burst receiver ... 09/01/05 - 20050190695 - Intelligent collaboration across network systems A network monitoring system and method for analyzing network traffic is provided. This network monitoring system and method employ flow monitoring to analyze the traffic flow inside a switching device. All message packets entering the switching device are filtered and then sampled. After message packets are sampled, the switching device ... 09/01/05 - 20050190694 - Method and apparatus for wire-speed application layer classification of upstream and downstream data packets A data packet classifier to classify a plurality of N-bit input tuples, said classifier comprising a hash address, a memory and a comparison unit. The hash address generator generate a plurality of M-bit hash addresses from said plurality of N-bit input tuples, wherein M is significantly smaller than N. The ... 09/01/05 - 20050190693 - Communication-processing apparatus and its method A transmitter and a receiver each have an apparatus for carrying out retransmission processing at a TCP layer and an apparatus for carrying out encrypted-data communication at an IPSec layer. The apparatus operating at the IPSec layer has a buffer for storing encrypted data transmitted by the transmitter. When a ... 09/01/05 - 20050190692 - System and method for identifying network communications of a service Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with identifying network communications of services are described. One example system embodiment includes a service identification logic configured to monitor execution of software of an application server and identify services being processed. The service identification logic can further include a logic configured to ... 08/25/05 - 20050185580 - Method for providing traffic differentiation in a wireless lan environment and corresponding wireless lan station The present invention relates to a method for providing traffic differentiation in a wireless LAN, comprising the step of defining a plurality of access categories each associated with a priority value for the traffic it relates to. According to the present invention, said at least one access category relates to ... 08/25/05 - 20050185579 - Method and apparatus for performing data communication between mobile communication terminal and wireline communication server Disclosed herein is a method of processing an error frame that occurs in packet data communication between a mobile station and a communication server which exchanges packets with the mobile station over a radio network. The method carried out by the mobile station includes the steps of: a) detecting an ... 08/25/05 - 20050185578 - Methods and systems for streaming data A technique is disclosed that can efficiently control congestion, while supporting heterogeneity for streaming data among multiple computers in a network. A plurality of nodes is divided into a plurality of distribution trees within a computer network, wherein the data is divided into a plurality of prioritized layers. When a ... 08/18/05 - 20050180322 - Tcp time stamp processing in hardware based tcp offload A method for sending/receving a TCP segment is provided. The sending process includes, determining if a TCP port can be offloaded; saving a host system's time stamp value; replacing a host system's time stamp value with a TCP offload engine (“TOE”) adapter's time stamp value; and sending the TCP segment ... 08/18/05 - 20050180321 - Data transfer in a messaging system There is disclosed a source messaging system having a queue for receiving messages. The source messaging system has means for determining whether a message should be permitted to become INDOUBT. This is done by retrieving a value denoting the maximum number of messages that may be permitted to become INDOUBT ... 08/18/05 - 20050180320 - Method and system for determining link congestion A computerized method for determining a congestion level for a buffer associated with an SS7 link according to a first set of congestion rules includes receiving an abatement level and an onset level for the buffer. The method also includes generating, based on the received abatement level and the received ... 08/18/05 - 20050180319 - Narrowband and broadband vpn optimal path selection using the global positioning system Method and system are disclosed for selecting a tunnel server in a virtual private network that is closest to a user device. The user device may be equipped with location reporting equipment, such as a GPS module. When the user device connects to the VPN, it automatically uses the tunnel ... 08/04/05 - 20050169172 - System and method for controlling packet transmission in a communication network A system for controlling packet transmission in a communication network includes: a classifier for classifying a plurality of packets into different types and for transmitting the classified packets based on a service level agreement (SLA); a meter for determining whether data arrival rate of packets received from the classifier is ... 08/04/05 - 20050169171 - Method and apparatus for providing end-to-end quality of service (qos) An approach is provided for supporting end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) control. A QoS profile identifier is generated that maps to a QoS parameter. The identifier is transmitted over the radio communication system to an end station, wherein the end station determines the QoS parameter based on the received identifier. ... 08/04/05 - 20050169170 - Space-efficient storage command and data routing system and method An apparatus and method for space-efficient and high throughput command and data routing in data storage systems is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a host interface, a transmit circuit, a receive circuit, a plurality of storage device interfaces, and a sub-link circuit at each storage device interface. The sub-link circuit performs ... 08/04/05 - 20050169169 - Determination of an endpoint association from a transport address A received datagram is associated with the connection endpoint using a transport address index and an endpoint association array which includes a list of active transport addresses for each active endpoint association. At least some of the active endpoint lists include more than one transport address and each entry in ... 07/28/05 - 20050163047 - Method and system for processing quality of service (qos) performance levels for wireless devices A method and apparatus to monitor quality of service (QoS) of wireless mobile devices is described. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method to monitor QoS performance of one or more services provided to a mobile user. The method includes comparing the performance of at least one service ... 07/28/05 - 20050163046 - Handling of acknowledgement messages in terminal The invention relates to handling of an acknowledgement message related to packet data transmission, said acknowledgement message acknowledging positively or negatively one or more data blocks sent from a terminal and said acknowledgement message comprising an information element related to the acknowledgement which element conditionally comprises a length field L, ... 07/28/05 - 20050163045 - Multi-criteria load balancing device for a network equipment of a communication network A load balancing device (D) is dedicated to a communication network (N) comprising a plurality of network equipments (R) defining nodes. The device comprises i) a first processing means (PM1) arranged to compute a set of equivalent paths between a source node and a destination node to transmit traffic therebetween, ... 07/21/05 - 20050157644 - Method and system for reserving resources within an ip-network The present invention relates to a method an arrangement for reserving resources in an IP network. By mixing open-ended reservations with in-advance reservations, by utilising a common pool of resources, the resource utilisation will be high. Despite the support for open-ended reservations, the present invention allows immediate and in-advance time-limited ... 07/14/05 - 20050152270 - Policy-based qos management in multi-radio access networks A system for providing a policy based Quality-of-Service management in multi-radio access mobile networks, comprising: control center means for administrating said radio access networks, thereby controlling the behavior thereof, wherein information model is implemented in said control center means which describes different Quality-of-Service mechanisms including attributes which are involved in ... 07/07/05 - 20050147034 - Method of performing weighted round-robin queue scheduling using a dynamic link list and structure for implementing same A weighted round-robin scheduler includes a round-robin table that stores a plurality of cycle link lists. Each cycle link list includes a head flow identification (FLID) value identifying a first flow of the cycle link list, and a tail FLID value identifying a last flow of the cycle link list. ... 07/07/05 - 20050147033 - Method of controlling data flow for a media player system A data control method used in a media player system is disclosed. The media player system includes a data end and a play end connected to each other through a network. The data end includes an encoder for encoding media data. The play end includes a buffer for storing media ... 07/07/05 - 20050147032 - Apportionment of traffic management functions between devices in packet-based communication networks In a packet-based network node, traffic management functions are apportioned between an upstream device and a connected queuing device. The upstream device is responsible for receiving packets and optionally discarding them. The queuing device is responsible for enqueuing undiscarded packets into queues pending transmission, computing the congestion states of the ... 07/07/05 - 20050147031 - Method for fast network re-optimization A fast and efficient method for network re-optimization is described. In one embodiment, the technique uses an algorithm that requires limited aggregate information to continually monitor the network for re-optimization opportunities. The re-optimization of the present invention enables a network to accommodate more traffic without adding capacity. The re-optimization of ... 07/07/05 - 20050147030 - Scheduling a shared resource among synchronous and asynchronous packet flows Each synchronous flow (i=1, 2 . . . , Ns) is associated to a respective synchronous capacity value (Hi) that is related the period of time for which a synchronous flow can be serviced before the server moves on. This value can be selected either according to a local allocation ... 06/30/05 - 20050141418 - Ring buffer management system and ring buffer management method A ring buffer management system includes a layer interface, which transmits an occupied buffer size or a free buffer size of the ring buffer to a low layer module and/or a high layer module of a TCP/IP stack; a pointer update interface, which calculates a temporary pointer based on a ... 06/30/05 - 20050141417 - Ethernet transmission apparatus with a quick protective and fair attribute and its method An Ethernet transmission apparatus having a quick protection and fair attribute as well as a corresponding method are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a sorter, MPLS processing module and a SDH processing module, wherein, the MPLS processing module includes a VC tag packaging unit, a multiplexing unit, a tag managing unit, ... 06/30/05 - 20050141416 - Frame transmission device A frame transmission device which does not require a separate supervisory line and enables supervisory frames to efficiently enter subscriber traffic for transmission without securing a fixed bandwidth. A supervisory token computing section gives supervisory frames supervisory tokens as permission to transmit within a minimum bandwidth. Subscriber token computing sections ... 06/23/05 - 20050135245 - Method, apparatus, and system for multi-line communication According to one aspect of the invention, a method is provided in which one or more requests are received to transmit data between a first device and a second device via a bus having a plurality of data lines. A first number of data lines is assigned for data transmission ... 06/23/05 - 20050135244 - Wireless network load generator address mask manipulation A method and system for using a single wireless network interface to selectively accept for further processing frames transmitted in a wireless data communications network. This allows a host system to emulate the operation of multiple, concurrently active stations in the wireless network. All wireless stations so emulated adhere to ... 06/23/05 - 20050135243 - System and method for guaranteeing quality of service in ip networks The system of the present invention guarantees quality of service with respect to packets transmitted/received between an external network capable of providing differentiated services and a home network. The system includes a packet classifier, a marker, a priority class queue, a scheduler and a token bucket. The packet classifier classifies ... 06/23/05 - 20050135242 - Data transport protocol for a multi-station network The invention relates to a method of operating a communication network, the network comprising a plurality of stations which are able to transmit data to and receive data from one another so that a message comprising a plurality of data packets is sent from an originating station to a destination ... 06/23/05 - 20050135241 - Supporting mobile internet protocol in a correspondent node firewall A method, system and device for protecting a network node by an access blocking function, such as a correspondent node firewall, are disclosed. The access blocking function protects either a first or a second network node and allows access to the protected network node from the other network node via ... 06/23/05 - 20050135240 - Presentity filtering for user preferences The adjustability of a watcher's level of access to a presentity's presence information is enhanced by providing for the filtering of the presence information based on information that is provided by a source other than the watcher. ... 06/23/05 - 20050135239 - Autonomic optimization of wireless local area networks via protocol concentration A wireless network access point is described which provides the resources of a backbone network to wireless clients. The access point optimizes wireless local area network traffic by concentrating access point traffic toward a single protocol. In the example given, 802.11g clients are associated upon request. However, when an 802.1lb ... 06/16/05 - 20050128944 - Framework and method for qos-aware resource discovery in mobile ad hoc networks A framework and method for quality of service (QoS) aware resource discovery in mobile ad hoc networks are presented. Self-organized discovery agents manage the directory information that describes the network resources available for use by clients. In one embodiment, hash indexing of available resources is utilized. The discovery agents also ... 06/16/05 - 20050128943 - Ip exchange quality testing system and method A method for measuring a quality of an IP network of a member of a trading exchange includes finding a penultimate hop corresponding to each IP network IP network prefix in a set of IP network IP network prefixes of a member, determining a quality score for the each IP ... 06/09/05 - 20050122902 - Quality of service differentiation in wireless networks A method provides differentiated quality of service (QoS) by providing adaptive updates to media access control (MAC) layer parameters on a distributed basis. The method includes calculating a failure probability for a transmission over the network, determining a target value for determining a contention window according to a mapped function ... 06/09/05 - 20050122901 - Method for controlling access to a shared wireless medium for several connections determining if resources can be provided for the connection depending on the or each achievable quality of service parameter (T′i). ... 06/09/05 - 20050122900 - Traffic control in an ip based network According to the present invention, traffic control in an IP based network is provided. For this purpose, traffic situation in the network is measured, and the traffic flow is controlled on the basis of the measured traffic situation. Moreover, an operator may define rules for different measured situations, and the ... 06/02/05 - 20050117512 - Soft preemption feedback Systems and methods for preemption of Traffic Engineering LSPs such that preemption decisions are made in a coordinated fashion along the path of a new LSP and computation of a new path for a preempted LSP can take advantage of knowledge of newly unavailable links. The efficiency of the preemption ... 06/02/05 - 20050117511 - Interface device and interface device control method An interface device and interface device control method that switches a transmission rate to enable high-speed transmission when necessary. In devices (nodes) provided with an interface device, a transmission rate control circuit decreases the frequency of a clock signal to only enable low-speed transmission operations during low-speed transmission and when ... 06/02/05 - 20050117510 - Cell current reconstruction based on cell delay and node slew rate Present invention suggests a method to extract accurate value and time domain of the current in the VLSI circuit, which is almost impossible by the conventional methods. Conventional approaches take the current of a cell as a constant average value extracted by power consumption, which makes designers underestimate peak current ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |