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Multiplex Communications > Pathfinding Or Routing > Switching A Message Which Includes An Address Header Switching A Message Which Includes An Address HeaderSwitching A Message Which Includes An Address Header 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.01/31/08 - 20080025301 - Method and system for scheduling utilization of resources, related communication network and computer program product A system for scheduling utilization of a service resource by a plurality of flows of information packets, wherein the flows include rate-guaranteed synchronous flows and best-effort asynchronous flows, the asynchronous flows exploiting the service capacity of the resource left unexploited by the synchronous flows. A server visits the flows, in ... 01/24/08 - 20080019361 - Detection of forwarding problems for external prefixes Methods and apparatus for enabling a provider to perform a tracing procedure to determine the existence forwarding problems within its network are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for detecting a forwarding problem within an autonomous system includes initiating a message from a source node. ... 01/17/08 - 20080013536 - Method and apparatus for injecting information assets into a content stream A method and apparatus for transport encoded asset data and content data, multiplexing the transport encoded content data with a plurality of NULL transport packets to provide “place holder” for the asset data transport packets, and replacing the NULL transport packets with asset data transport packets prior to transmitting the ... 01/17/08 - 20080013535 - Data switch and switch fabric Variable length switch fabric for switching variable length data packets between input and output transmission paths in a communication network. In one embodiment of the invention, apparatus is provided for switching variable length data packets between input and output transmission paths in a communication network. The apparatus includes a plurality ... 01/10/08 - 20080008173 - Methods and apparatus for transmitting data in a packet network Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting data, such as biometric data or Internet telephone data, in a packet network. Packets we split and interchanged prior to transmission across a packet network, such that packets that reach their destination may be processed, even in the presence of lost or delayed ... 01/10/08 - 20080008172 - Dynamic resource re-allocation in a packet based video display interface A packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed that includes a transmitter unit coupled to the source device arranged to receive a source packet data stream in accordance with a native stream rate, a receiver unit coupled to the ... 01/10/08 - 20080008171 - System and method for detecting and interception of ip sharer Disclosed is an IP sharer detecting and intercepting system and method. According to the IP sharer detecting and intercepting method, all the IP packets transmitted through the network are detected, an ID value of the IP header is extracted from the detected IP packets, and an IP sharer user is ... 01/10/08 - 20080008170 - Communication system, communication method, and program An object of the present application is to provide a technology that can achieve packet communication between terminals connected to the Internet by way of a relay server in a faster and safer manner. The system of present application is a communication system characterized in that, on receipt of a ... 01/10/08 - 20080008169 - Redundant packet switching system and system switching method of redundant packet switching system From a time point of last confirmation of operation of the working device 51 until a time point of next confirmation, the standby device 52 receives the same packet as that whose transfer processing is executed by the working device from the interface units 521-1˜521-n, processes the packet by the ... 01/03/08 - 20080002689 - System and method for providing location independent voice communications continuity through disasters A method and system, employing IP telephony, for providing continuous, uninterrupted voice communications during disaster conditions wherein the disaster site telephone infrastructure has been rendered inoperable or inaccessible. The system uses Voice over IP (VoIP) and emerging IP telephony standards to enable users to receive telephone calls, normally destined for ... 01/03/08 - 20080002688 - Method and apparatus for performing harq of packet in a mobile communication system A method and an apparatus for performing Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) of a packet in a mobile communication system. A User Equipment (UE) receives transmission resource allocation information indicating a transmission resource for uplink packet transmission and indicating a valid duration of the transmission resource, from a Node B ... 01/03/08 - 20080002687 - Hardware-enforced loop-level hard zoning for fibre channel switch fabric Hardware-enforced zoning is provided in Fibre Channel switches to protect against breaching of assigned zones in a switch network which can occur with software-based zoning techniques. The invention provides logic for performing a hardware-based validation of the Source ID S_ID of frames both at the point where the frame enters ... 01/03/08 - 20080002684 - Moving router, home agent, router position registration method, and moving network system When first mobile router, which has a MNP, generates a key which corresponds to that MNP and transmits a registration request packet including the key to home agent, home agent stores the MNP and key of the first mobile router, and sends main mobile router registration approval. When first mobile ... 12/27/07 - 20070297405 - Method of operating a network A method of operating a data network 100, of the type in which a number of inter-connected router devices (115-117, 123-124, 131-133, 141-145) forward received packets of data towards a destination node in accordance with a routing table associated with each router. The method comprises: assigning a trust value to ... 12/27/07 - 20070297403 - System and method for fast packet data connection setup The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for a setting up a packet data connection in a wireless network. In one example, a method may include receiving a packet data channel request and an invitation message at a first node over an air interface from a mobile device. ... 12/20/07 - 20070291754 - Packet communications system and transfer device A packet communications system and a transfer device which allow a network control function to be changed at low cost flexibly. The network manager includes an instructor for transmitting instruction information to the plurality of transfer devices, the instruction information indicating a packet ID (terminal ID) and a control function ... 12/20/07 - 20070291753 - Method for implementing voice over ip through an electronic device connected to a packed switched network A method for implementing Voice over IP through an electronic device including the phase of sampling a voice communication in a corresponding sampled communication; encoding the sampled communication into corresponding encoded data; decoding the corresponding encoded data into decoded data; and connecting the electronic device to a packed switched network ... 12/20/07 - 20070291750 - Packet radio transmission over an unlicensed-radio access network An unlicensed-radio access network is connected to a packet service node in a core network portion of a licensed mobile network. The unlicensed-radio access network includes an access controller connected to the core network portion and having a packet controller, a fixed broadband network connected to the access controller and ... 12/13/07 - 20070286191 - Implementing read-only zones in a switching fabric The Switch includes a port configured to receive a command frame when installed in a switching Fabric. The frame identifies a source device and a destination device in the Switching Fabric, a command, and a read/write flag which indicates if the identified source intends to exercise read-only or write access ... 12/13/07 - 20070286190 - Transmitter-receiver crossbar for a packet switch A transmitter-receiver crossbar for a packet switch comprising a transmitter having an array of transmitting ports, each having one or more transmitting antennas to transmit a radio signal and a receiver having an array of receiving ports, each having one or more receiving antennas to receive the radio signal. ... 12/13/07 - 20070286189 - Edge side assembler Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for an edge side assembler. Data is identified that is associated with a common user of a personal digital gateway and of a communications device selected from a plurality of communications devices. Remote data is located that is stored on the selected communications device. ... 12/13/07 - 20070286187 - Apparatus and method for simultaneous multiple telephone type services on a single telephone line Apparatuses for simultaneous multiple telephone type services on a single telephone line are disclosed. One apparatus is connectable to a subscriber line and comprises address logic, a plain old telephone system (POTS) interface, a transceiver, and a host interface. The address logic is configured to determine an address assigned to ... 12/13/07 - 20070286185 - Control of mobile packet streams The invention relates to a method, device and system for control of mobile packet flows forwarded between IP based networks. Individual packet flows on an IP user plane (6) traverse middleboxes (13, 14, 23, 24) that are controlled from a midcom agent (15, 21). Each user flow registers its presence ... 12/06/07 - 20070280229 - Localization of clients and servers A data transfer method includes receiving terminal server identification data at a host system from a terminal server, querying a database to obtain localized information service data associated with the terminal server identification data, and sending the localized information service data from the host system to the terminal server. A ... 12/06/07 - 20070280226 - Servlet model for media rich applications A media rich SIP servlet is enabled using a media control layer and a conventional SIP Servlet container. The media rich SIP servlet provides a media control API that can be used by SIP-based application developers to incorporate media rich functions into SIP-based applications. The media rich SIP servlet includes ... 11/29/07 - 20070274309 - Personal area network with automatic attachment and detachment A network (100) includes a hub device (110) and at least one unattached peripheral device (120). The unattached peripheral device (120) transmits an attach request to the hub device (110) with a selected address, receives a new address from the hub device to identify the unattached peripheral device (120), and ... 11/29/07 - 20070274307 - Cluster system, cluster member, and program Each of cluster members (1-1) constituting a cluster system which functions as a router includes a session processor (15) and session state synchronization unit (16). If the session state of a session to which a packet input via a spare processing packet filter (13) belongs is not held in a ... 11/29/07 - 20070274306 - Method for establishing a call in a telecommunications network; telecommunications network; and controlling device for packet networks The present inventions relates to a method for establishing a call in a telecommunications network (100), the telecommunications network (100) comprising first and packet network sections (110, 120), a wide area packet network (130), and a TDM transit network section (140). Subscribers' terminal equipment (112, 122) is addressable by directory ... 11/22/07 - 20070268898 - Advanced routing Included are embodiments for advanced routing. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a message from a first device at a first backbone controller. The message may be configured to indicate a second device as a desired recipient and sending the message to a network controller. The message ... 11/22/07 - 20070268897 - Communication apparatus, transmission control method, and transmission control program A communication apparatus includes a storage unit having a plurality of storage areas corresponding to a plurality of candidates of a destination of data to be transmitted, a detecting unit for detecting the amount of data stored in each of the storage areas, a destination selecting unit for selecting one ... 11/22/07 - 20070268894 - Packet communication system and packet communication method User communication apparatus 110 in packet communication system 100 has internal network 111, base station apparatus 112, internal server 113, radio network control apparatus 114 and mobile communication terminal apparatus 151. Radio network control apparatus 114 receives an IP packet from mobile communication terminal apparatus 115 via base station apparatus ... 11/15/07 - 20070263624 - Methods for specialized data transfer in a wireless communication system A wireless communication system and method is provided for the transfer and processing of data in accordance with specialized data transfer protocols while utilizing conventional base station equipment. For example, the wireless communication system may include a subscriber station that provides for the modification of data packets in accordance with ... 11/15/07 - 20070263623 - Method for receiving mpe-fec data dvb-h receiver using the same Disclosed are a method for receiving MPE-FEC data and a DVB-H receiver using the same. While receiving packet data for digital broadcasting from a DVB-H network, a digital broadcasting reception unit PID-demultiplexes and outputs the packet data to the controller. The controller receives and stores the PID-demultiplexed packet data in ... 11/15/07 - 20070263622 - Communication system, distribution element and network device There is disclosed a communication system comprising a distribution element, which is coupled to a power supply unit and to which a plurality of network devices can be connected. Each network device that is connected to the distribution element comprises at least one network element and each network device is ... 11/15/07 - 20070263621 - Network plug-and-play compliant network relay control A network relay device compliant with network plug-and-play protocols is presented. The relay device relays messages between a network and a device unit having N service devices that provide a service in response to a request from a client on the network. In one embodiment the relay device has a ... 11/15/07 - 20070263620 - Method and network device for fast look-up in a connection-oriented communication A method for fast look-up in a connection-oriented communication includes generating a connection associated information according to peer information of a first peer and a second peer, storing the connection associated information into the first peer and the second peer, and building a connection between the first peer and the ... 11/15/07 - 20070263619 - Methods and apparatus for performing network operations in network devices A network device comprises a plurality of lookup tables and a processor. Each of the plurality of lookup tables comprises a plurality of table inputs that are associated with a plurality of processor instructions. The processor is operative to perform a network operation on a packet of data comprising a ... 11/08/07 - 20070258453 - Packet based video display interface enumeration method An enumeration method providing the link rate and a pixel/audio clock rate is described. ... 11/08/07 - 20070258451 - Message-based processing According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method in a text-based message-based communication system of sending messages from a first network element to a destination network element for processing thereby. The method comprises at the first element obtaining a message to be sent to the ... 11/08/07 - 20070258450 - Packet routing and vectoring based on payload comparison with spatially related templates An Internet infrastructure with network devices and end point devices containing service module manager and service modules, that supports packet routing and vectoring based on payload comparison with spatially related templates. The network device that supports packet content analysis on arriving packet, consists of a plurality of packet switched interface ... 11/08/07 - 20070258449 - Packet routing with payload analysis, encapsulation and service module vectoring An Internet infrastructure with network devices and end point devices containing service module manager and service modules, that supports packet analysis, encapsulation and vectoring, and interleaving applications. The network device that supports packet content analysis on arriving packet, consists of a plurality of packet switched interface circuitries, user interface circuitry, ... 11/08/07 - 20070258448 - System and method for restricting network access using forwarding databases This specification describes a system that can offer, among other advantages, dynamically allowing or rejecting non-DHCP packets entering a switch. In addition, a FDB is commonly used by a bridge or switch to store an incoming packet's source MAC address and its port number, then later on if the destination ... 11/08/07 - 20070258447 - Inter-area summarization of edge-device addresses using rfc3107 A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing inter-area summarization for edge-device addressing are presented. A network is established, the network including a first ABR, an ingress Provider Edge (PE) device in communication with the first ABR, a second ABR in communication with the first ABR, and an egress ... 11/08/07 - 20070258446 - Support of a large number of vlans in a bridged network Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for supporting a large number of virtual local area networks (VLANS) in a bridged network. Packets are received that include 802.1Q Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identifiers (VIDs). However, rather than accessing the VLAN forwarding information directly ... 11/08/07 - 20070258445 - Systems and methods for protocol filtering for quality of service Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a method for data communication including determining protocol information for a block of data, prioritizing the block of data, and communicating the block of data. The protocol information may include information used by a protocol to communicate the block of data. The ... 11/08/07 - 20070258444 - Integrated cross exchange unit and a method of the service dispatching An integrated cross-switching unit and a service scheduling method thereof are provided. The integrated cross-switching unit includes: a bus identification module, a cross-connecting module, a mapping/de-mapping module, an encapsulation/de-encapsulation module, and a packet scheduling module; the bus identification module identifies service source, transmits service from a line unit to the ... 11/01/07 - 20070253415 - Frame relay switched data service A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer 3 address information ... 11/01/07 - 20070253414 - Method for preventing data packet losses when updating an address table In one aspect, a method for preventing data packet losses when updating of an address table that is stored in a computer of a local area network and comprises allocations of computer addresses valid in the local area network to computer addresses valid in the Internet to mail data packets ... 11/01/07 - 20070253413 - Method and system for detecting a change in device attachment A method and system are disclosed to detect a change in location of a device attached to a communications network including identifying a first address of a device attached to a communications network, identifying the removal of the device from the communications network, identifying when the device is reconnected to ... 11/01/07 - 20070253412 - Method and apparatus for sip message prioritization The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing SIP message prioritization between network elements along at least a portion of an end-to-end path between a SIP client and a SIP server. The method includes determining a SIP message prioritization policy and distributing the SIP message prioritization policy toward a ... 11/01/07 - 20070253411 - Efficient management of queueing resources for diffserv-aware switches Resources allocated to a group of ports include a plurality of storage regions. Each storage region includes a committed area and a shared area. A destination storage region is identified for a packet. A packet queuing engine stores the packet in the committed area of the determined destination storage region ... 11/01/07 - 20070253410 - Integrated circuit and method for packet switching control An integrated circuit having a plurality of processing modules (M, S) and an interconnect means (N) for coupling said plurality of processing modules (M, S) and for enabling a packet based communication based on transactions between said plurality of processing modules (M, S) is provided. Each packet comprises a first ... 11/01/07 - 20070253409 - Method for realizing the multicast service The present invention discloses a method for implementing multicast services, which includes: preset a mapping relation between a multicast user address and a multicast group address; acquire a request packet sent by the multicast user who requests to join in the multicast group; determine whether the multicast group address in ... 10/25/07 - 20070248087 - System and method for signal processing A plurality of systems for routing signals are described. The system includes a cross point switch that can couple any one of a plurality of input terminals to a plurality of output processor terminals. Signals received at the input terminals are coupled to corresponding output terminals and are processed by ... 10/25/07 - 20070248085 - Method and apparatus for managing hardware address resolution Disclosed herein is a network device, such as a host computer, that simultaneously has two IP identities: a local IP identity on a local network (e.g., a non-virtual private network) to which the host computer is connected; and a remote IP identity on a second network (e.g., virtual private network) ... 10/25/07 - 20070248084 - Symmetric connection detection Symmetric Connection Detection (SCD) is a method of detecting when a connection has been fully established in a resource-constrained environment, and works in high-speed routers, at line speed. Many network monitoring applications are only interested in connections that become fully established, so other connection attempts, such as port scanning attempts, ... 10/25/07 - 20070248083 - Access router apparatus, communication handover system using the same, and communication handover method using the same The present invention provides a technique to reduce time delay caused by message exchange or the like and to carry out fast handover. According to this technique, FBack is promptly returned by a mobile node (MN) without performing the processing (the processing to cause delay) that previous access router pAR ... 10/18/07 - 20070242667 - System and method for choosing an outgoing path for a media flow in a next generation network A system and a method for choosing an outgoing path for a media flow in a Next Generation Network (NGN) are disclosed. First, an application layer signalling resolving module in a Service Control Function (SCF) resolves an application layer signalling to determine requirement of a media flow on forwarding and ... 10/18/07 - 20070242666 - Apparatus for managing requests for data in a communication network An apparatus for managing requests for media data such as video data for effecting rapid channel change in IPTV services comprises an interface for receiving data requests addressed for processing by a particular data request service device, and an agent operatively coupled to the interface and configured for selecting which ... 10/18/07 - 20070242665 - Method for derect communication between a first station and a second station of a wireless network In an Access Point controlled wireless network, wherein one channel communication is ruled by an identifier associated with the Access Point, method for direct communication between a first station and a second station, comprises the steps of: generating a second identifier by said first station, different from the identifier associated ... 10/11/07 - 20070237140 - Packet communication system A packet communication system includes a communication control apparatus 8 for searching for an IP address corresponding to a destination telephone number when receiving a connection request including the destination telephone number from a VoIP terminal, and a multiplexing control apparatus 9 for identifying both a multiplexing transmission apparatus 11 ... 10/11/07 - 20070237138 - Selective voice switching of multiparty communications A method for processing speech data packets passed between a plurality of devices in a conversation is disclosed. The method associates priorities with each of the devices in the conversation and processes speech data packets received from the devices according to the priorities. Devices in the conversation are identified, a ... 10/11/07 - 20070237137 - Apparatus, system, and method for integration of wireless devices with a distributed control system A wireless marshalling panel includes a field device protocol communication link. The wireless marshalling panel is capable of receiving a message from a wireless device and transmitting a corresponding message to a process controller via the communication link. The panel is also capable of receiving a message from the process ... 10/04/07 - 20070230461 - Method and system for video data packetization for transmission over wireless channels A method and system for transmitting video information from a sender to a receiver over wireless channels, by inputting a frame of video information at the sender, packetizing the video information and transmitting the video packet from the sender to the receiver over a wireless channel. Packetizing the video information ... 10/04/07 - 20070230460 - Method of and apparatus for transmitting digital broadcasting signal in advanced-vsb (a-vsb) system in which transport packet without adaptation field is provided at fixed location in data field slices A method of processing a digital broadcasting signal includes generating a transport stream including a plurality of transport packets; selecting one of the transport packets as a starting packet to be mapped into a first data segment of an encoded data frame; and constructing deterministic data frames in the transport ... 10/04/07 - 20070230459 - Routing method, system, corresponding network and computer program product A system for controlling the routing of the traffic relating to a mobile node associated with a provider's network, the mobile node being capable of communicating with at least one correspondent node associated with an additional network. For the mobile node and the correspondent node, there is the possibility of ... 10/04/07 - 20070230458 - Communication network, communication apparatus, communication control method and communication control program [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A temporary bundled link forming device (13) associates data links having the same port attributes within own communication apparatus with the identical temporary bundle link ID. A data link neighbor discovery device (11) obtains the neighboring node IDs of the data links. A bundled link forming ... 10/04/07 - 20070230456 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method thereof A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method thereof are provided. An apparatus for generating a transport stream includes a packet generator for generating a plurality of packets by compressing video and audio signals; a counter for counting the number of the generated packets and outputting the count result; ... 10/04/07 - 20070230454 - Method for aggregation of a number of media access control (mac) frames into a single phyical layer frame in a distributed mac layer Embodiments of methods and apparatus for aggregating a plurality of media access control-layer frames into a single physical layer frame are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ... 10/04/07 - 20070230453 - Method and system for the secure and transparent provision of mobile ip services in an aaa environment A system for negotiating the provision of a mobile IP service, such as, MIPv4 or MIPv6, between a mobile node and a server in a network includes the steps of providing an authentication protocol establishing a pass-through transport between the mobile node and the server and negotiating the provision of ... 09/27/07 - 20070223474 - Method and apparatus for filtering packet data in a network device A process of filtering packet data in a network device is disclosed. At least one mask is applied to a portion of an incoming packet and a field is extracted from the portion of the incoming packet. A rules table is searched for a matching value for the extracted field ... 09/27/07 - 20070223470 - System and method for enhancing network quality of service A data transfer network infrastructure device having a plurality of ingress ports for accepting data from a domain of a data network; and, a user interface for enabling a user to limit a rate at which data is accepted from the data network on at least one of the ingress ... 09/27/07 - 20070223469 - Method and apparatus for supporting voice over ip services over a cellular wireless communication network A method and system for supporting voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services over a wireless communication network are disclosed. Data is encoded at a coding rate specified by a controller for generating a VoIP packet. Among the encoded data, bits sensitive to errors and bits not sensitive to errors are ... 09/20/07 - 20070217413 - Method for assigning an ip address to a network connectable device, and a device configured thereby A method of assigning a predetermined IP address to a device for installation on a private network. This IP address can be assigned before installation into any private network without having to be reassigned and without creating addressing conflicts, thereby simplifying the installation process. A registered global IP address is ... 09/20/07 - 20070217411 - Method and system for mobile network nodes in heterogeneous networks The invention relates to a method and a system for creating an optimized communications link (SC/DC) between at least two mobile network nodes (10, 11), whereby corresponding interface management modules (40, 41) create lookup tables (401, 411) of available network interfaces (30, 31), whereby configuration data are transmitted between the ... 09/20/07 - 20070217410 - Method and apparatus for controlling route in network A route controlling apparatus is provided on a center side in a network having a carrier-redundant configuration in which the center side and a base side are connected using a plurality of different carriers, and includes a load distribution table that stores information for load distribution; and a controlling unit ... 09/20/07 - 20070217409 - Tagging network i/o transactions in a virtual machine run-time environment An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to tag network transactions. A virtual queue stores packets received from and transmitted to a network interface card (NIC). A global session manager manages packet communication with a capability operating system (COS). A global virtual machine (VM) database stores global session ... 09/20/07 - 20070217408 - Address resolution device, address resolution method, and communication system including the same An address resolution device includes a gate keeper having an address table with which global addresses, private addresses, and grouping IDs can be registered. During address registration, the gate keeper registers the address of a communication packet into the global addresses, the address assigned to the terminal into the private ... 09/20/07 - 20070217407 - Method and system for implementing traversal through network address translation The present invention discloses a method for implementing traversal through network address translation. The method adopts a FULL PROXY mode for implementing traversal through Network Address Translation (NAT) server or Firewall (FW) by simultaneously relaying call signalings and media streams from a user terminal in a private network. Meanwhile, a ... 09/20/07 - 20070217406 - Bidirectional qos reservation within an in-band signaling mechanism A mechanism for a bidirectional reservation procedure within an in-band signaling mechanism gives symmetric real-time services running on mobile devices, which are used to support different access technologies in dynamic, mobile, wireless IP networks where the quality of the node connectivity can sometimes be unpredictably time-varying, the possibility to mutually ... 09/13/07 - 20070211719 - Dynamic payload header suppression in a wireless communication system In a wireless communication system, dynamic payload header suppression (DPHS) is applied to a data stream to reduce header overhead. DPHS allows the suppression of static fields as well as fields that change in a predictable manner (i.e., predictably dynamic fields). To suppress predictably dynamic fields, delta encoding is utilized ... 09/13/07 - 20070211717 - System and method for forming an internet protocol to x.25 protocol gateway A system and method for converting an inbound Internet protocol (IP) connection to a X.25 protocol connection such that unmodified legacy X.25 applications can process IP communications. ... 09/13/07 - 20070211716 - Managing traffic within and between virtual private networks when using a session border controller Methods and devices for managing traffic are described. Traffic from a source in a virtual private network (VPN) is received. The traffic is directed to a virtual interface that is designated to receive traffic from the VPN. The virtual interface is configured to associate the traffic with an identifier that ... 09/13/07 - 20070211715 - Managing traffic within and between virtual private networks when using a session border controller Methods and devices for managing traffic at a session border controller (SBC) are described. A signal portion of traffic en route from a source in a virtual private network (VPN) to a destination is received. The signal portion has embedded therein an identifier that uniquely identifies the VPN. The identifier ... 09/13/07 - 20070211714 - Method and apparatus for redirection of domain name service (dns) packets Techniques are provided which can allow a host to determine whether to send a DNS request via a distributed Domain Name Service (DNS) protocol or a regular DNS protocol. ... 09/13/07 - 20070211713 - Content relay server, content replay system, content relay method, and program using the same A content relay server including: an information memory (201) that stores identification information, content information, and the like; a content receiving unit (202) that receives a content; a transfer judgment unit (203) that extracts, from the information memory (201), content information associated with received identification information and judges, based on ... 09/06/07 - 20070206594 - Dynamic payload header suppression in a wireless communication system In a wireless communication system, dynamic payload header suppression (DPHS) is applied to a data stream to reduce header overhead. DPHS allows the suppression of static fields as well as fields that change in a predictable manner (i.e., predictably dynamic fields). To suppress predictably dynamic fields, delta encoding is utilized ... 09/06/07 - 20070206593 - Atm cell/packet switch and communication control method using the same In order to provide an ATM cell□packet switch which can easily maintain the band for the normality confirmation packet of the user data transfer path without influencing the user band at a state of in□band, and a communication control method using the switch, at least provided in the switch are: ... 09/06/07 - 20070206592 - Data communication system, data transmission apparatus, data receiving apparatus, data communication method, data transmission method, received-data processing method, and computer program A system allows data transfer in which the most appropriate packet processing is executed according to the performance of a terminal. A data transmission side stores scalable-encoded data in a packet as a payload, assigns priority-level information corresponding to a layer level of the encoded data stored in the packet ... 09/06/07 - 20070206591 - Apparatus and method for intelligent routing of data between a remote device and a host system An apparatus and method is provided for transparent communication between a remote or mobile device and a fixed communication host network. The apparatus and method may include a remote network controller that logically resides between the host network and the existing infrastructure(s) that are used to provide communications network contact ... 09/06/07 - 20070206590 - Apparatus and method for transmitting broadcast data in digital broadcasting service system Disclosed is an apparatus and method for transmitting broadcast data in a digital broadcasting service system. The apparatus includes a server terminal for receiving a digital broadcast transport stream from a digital broadcast service provider, removing a header used for the digital broadcast reception from the received broadcast stream, and ... 09/06/07 - 20070206589 - Method for transmitting/receiving data in a digital multimedia broadcasting system, and system thereof Disclosed is an apparatus for transmitting an Internet Protocol (IP) packet in a terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting system. An IP encapsulator receives an IP packet from an upper layer, and converts the IP packet into Ultra Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) data and ULE-Forward Error Correction (FEC) data if there is a ... 09/06/07 - 20070206587 - Faster routing protocol convergence using efficient message markup Devices executing routing protocols can mark routing protocol messages as urgent so that peer devices are signaled to consume the messages on an expedited basis. Performance of routing protocols improves as a result; for example, Border Gateway Protocol convergence time is reduced. An example router comprises a network interface, a ... 08/30/07 - 20070201466 - Network switch having port blocking capability A switch is configured to block packets from being transmitted through designated ports. The switch has port bitmap generator configured to obtain a port bitmap and a table is configured to store a block mask indicating which port the packet should not be transmitted. A block mask lookup is configured ... 08/30/07 - 20070201465 - Prefix and ip address management scheme for router and host in network system In a network system formed by one or a plurality of hosts having a function for accessing Internet, and a router for connecting each host and the Internet through an accessing communication path of a provider, two types of IP address including first type IP addresses and second type IP ... 08/30/07 - 20070201464 - Method and network element for forwarding data In a method for forwarding data, when at least one logical port is created at a network element connected directly with a peer network element and the logical port is bound with at least two physical ports of the network element which are connected with the peer network element, determine ... 08/30/07 - 20070201463 - Data analysis apparatus and data analysis method A unique pattern detection unit conducts a search for a unique pattern in a forward direction of a program stream, and detects a pseudo unique pattern PUP included in encoded data. A header information extraction unit sets extraction starting position information indicating a head of pseudo header information following the ... 08/30/07 - 20070201462 - Processing of forwarded in communication networks Method and device are provided for processing a packet conveyed in a packet switched communication network. By the invention, a processing indication is associated with the packet, where the indication is adapted to provide instruction(s) for the processing of the packet, and the indication is determined in accordance with the ... 08/30/07 - 20070201460 - Data transmitting and receiving apparatus, data transmitting and receiving method, and computer product In a data transmitting and receiving apparatus, payloads of packets received from the first device are accumulated in a storage unit, a designated payload volume DSPS is calculated based on DSPS=TP×(1−RR/TR), where TP is a total payload volume of a packet received at a certain time point from the first ... 08/30/07 - 20070201459 - System and method for providing status notification for conventional telephony devices in a session initiation protocol environment The present invention comprises a system and method for status notification. The method comprises receiving a subscription message from a first endpoint requesting status data for a second endpoint; detecting a change in status data of the second endpoint; and notifying the first endpoint of the change in status. The ... 08/30/07 - 20070201458 - System and method for implementing acls using multiple hash-trie-key tables A method, data processing system, and computer program product are provided for searching for access rules included in access control lists (ACLs), such as those rules used to accept or deny packets received at a router. An incoming packet that includes several fields is received. An original key is formed ... 08/23/07 - 20070195766 - Virtualized services system and method A virtualized service system and method are provided herein. ... 08/23/07 - 20070195765 - Method and system for a communication node with a plurality of network interfaces The invention relates to a method for a communication node with a plurality of network interfaces. Configured on the communication node is a virtual interface, which is accessible from the applications able to be executed on the communication node. A configuration module generates an identifier assigned to the communication node. ... 08/23/07 - 20070195764 - Service flow with robust header compression (rohc) in a wimax wireless network A robust header compression (ROHC) controller provides for service flow processing of a ROHC channel in a WiMAX wireless communication system. The ROHC controller controls the negotiations of the MS ROHC capabilities during its registration and the negotiations of the ROHC channel parameters during ROHC enabled service flow setup; the ... 08/23/07 - 20070195763 - Mount structure, electrooptic device, and electronic device A mount structure includes a first electronic component and a second electronic component mounted to the first electronic component. The first and second electronic components include first and second terminals arrayed in strips and extending along a plurality of lines passing through first and second common points. The second terminals ... 08/23/07 - 20070195761 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture An architecture for a line card in a network routing device is provided. The line card architecture provides a bi-directional interface between the routing device and a network, both receiving packets from the network and transmitting the packets to the network through one or more connecting ports. In both the ... 08/23/07 - 20070195759 - Identification of the location of nodes distributed in ad hoc networks A location of node i in a network having a plurality of nodes is identified by intersecting regions that are guaranteed to contain the node i with respect the other nodes that are neighbors of the node i and iteratively minimizing the size of the intersection region containing the node ... 08/23/07 - 20070195758 - Packet data serving node and communication method using the same A communication system using PPP in which a plurality of layer 3 protocols are defined has a problem. PDSN cannot judge which of layer 3 protocols is equipped in a terminal, and NCP phase processes corresponding to all layer 3 protocols of the system are executed. This increases the number ... 08/16/07 - 20070189284 - System and method for routing table computation and analysis Described is a system and method for determining routing information for a network link, the network link including a plurality of subnets, each subnet having the same routing information as the network link, storing the routing information as an entry in a routing table, determining subnet information for each of ... 08/09/07 - 20070183421 - Router and methods using network addresses for virtualization A router for use in a network includes a scalable architecture and performs methods for implementing quality of service on a logical unit behind a network port; and for implementing storage virtualization. The architecture includes a managing processor, a supervising processor; and a plurality of routing processors coupled to a ... 08/09/07 - 20070183418 - Method and apparatus for multicast packet reception Roughly described, incoming data packets are delivered by the NIC directly to at least two user level endpoints. In an aspect, only filters that cannot be ambiguous are created in the NIC. In another aspect, the NIC maintains a filter table supporting direct delivery of incoming unicast and multicast data ... 08/09/07 - 20070183417 - Data traffic router Systems and methods are disclosed for routing data traffic along a specific route. The method is implemented by a data traffic router configured within a networked environment to appear as a standard network router that caused data to be transmitted through a prescribed data path. The disclosed systems and methods ... 08/09/07 - 20070183416 - Per-port penalty queue system for re-prioritization of network traffic sent to a processor In an embodiment of the invention, a method and system for a per-port penalty queue system in a network device includes: selecting a state for a port in the network device; wherein the selected state comprises either a normal state or a restricted state; wherein the normal state permits a ... 08/09/07 - 20070183415 - Method and system for internal data loop back in a high data rate switch A method and system for internal data loop back in a packet switch is provided. In some instances, the switch may be required to process multiple layers of a header within the data packet, such as when data is transferred over the network encapsulated with a TCP header at the ... 08/02/07 - 20070177591 - Apparatuses and systems to suppress and expand packet header information in a wireless communication system Data packets transmitted over a wireless network are suppressed by hardware at the transmitting end and expanded on the receiving end. This conserves bandwidth as well as reduces the processing resource requirements in both the subscriber station and the base station. An extended header element is added to a data ... 08/02/07 - 20070177588 - Method for transmitting a burst in optical burst switching system Provided is a method for transmitting a burst in an optical burst switching system, in which when a burst is generated at an originating node, a burst control packet is transmitted to a destination node by way of a plurality of nodes and then a data burst is transmitted after ... 08/02/07 - 20070177587 - Systems and methods for distributing data Disclosed are system and methods for distributing data. ... 07/26/07 - 20070171908 - Method and system for improving traffic distribution across a communication network A system and method for distributing data across a network including a plurality of trunked port lines, including modifying an existing field within one layer of a data packet on the basis of information found within another layer of the data packet and restricting the process of trunking distribution to ... 07/26/07 - 20070171907 - Message-based communications According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of communicating information between an intermediate element and a source element in a message-based communications system in which a request message is sent from the source element to a destination element and in response to which a ... 07/26/07 - 20070171906 - Apparatus and method for extending functions from a high end device to other devices in a switching network A network device for implementing a high speed transmission protocol. The network device includes a plurality of high speed modules which are connected by a plurality of high speed links, each of the plurality of high speed modules implementing the high speed transmission protocol. The network device also includes a ... 07/26/07 - 20070171905 - High speed transmission protocol A high speed transmission protocol that is implemented in a network device that includes a plurality of modules which are connected by a plurality of high speed links. The protocol includes a transmission link aspect for providing at least one of variable-sized packet based transmission with fixed sized messaging capability ... 07/26/07 - 20070171904 - Traffic separation in a multi-stack computing platform using vlans Embodiments of networking traffic separation mechanisms in a multi-stack computing platform using VLANs are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ... 07/26/07 - 20070171903 - System and method for retrieving digital multimedia content from a network node A scheme for retrieving digital multimedia content from a network node. A message is provided to the network node by a client application executing on a digital multimedia device, wherein the message includes a multidimensional pointer to a depository of digital multimedia content associated with the network node as well ... 07/26/07 - 20070171902 - Method device for transmitting data packets belong to different users in a common transmittal protocol packet The present invention relates to a method, device and system for handling short data packets, such as speech packets, in a communications network, and in particular a wireless local area network. The present invention is based on collecting several data packets from several users active on the network in one ... 07/26/07 - 20070171901 - Transmission protocol automatic detection method for a portable object such as a chip card or a chip key A processing method for data exchanged between a portable object and an interface device, the portable object being of a chip card or chip key type, wherein the method involves receiving an initial signal from the interface device, wherein the initial signal is received after transmission of a response upon ... 07/19/07 - 20070165631 - Methods to suppress and expand packet header information in a wireless communication system Data packets transmitted over a wireless network are suppressed by hardware at the transmitting end and expanded on the receiving end. This conserves bandwidth as well as reduces the processing resource requirements in both the subscriber station and the base station. An extended header element is added to a data ... 07/19/07 - 20070165629 - System and method for dynamic stability in a peer-to-peer hybrid communications network An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method provides for dynamic stability. ... 07/19/07 - 20070165625 - System and method for exchanging information among exchange applications In a system and method for processing messages in a gateway, a gateway message is received at the gateway, the gateway message including a gateway message header and a payload, the gateway message header including a unique message identifier block, a target block identifying where the gateway message is going, ... 07/19/07 - 20070165623 - Methods and apparatus for providing communications from a plurality of network devices to a user In a first aspect, a first method of providing communication to a user via one of a plurality of network devices is provided. The first method includes the steps of (1) receiving a plurality of communications for the user from one or more of the network devices in a message ... 07/19/07 - 20070165622 - Techniques for load balancing over a cluster of subscriber-aware application servers Techniques for distributing control plane traffic, from an end node in a packet switched network to a cluster of service gateway nodes that host subscriber-aware application servers, include receiving a control plane message for supporting data plane traffic from a particular subscriber. A particular service gateway node is determined among ... 07/19/07 - 20070165621 - System and method for transport pid broadcast scheme A system and method for processing information may include broadcasting information, which indicates program content for each of a plurality of channels communicated via a plurality of transport streams, to a plurality of processors. The plurality of processors identify which of the program content is associated with a particular one ... 07/12/07 - 20070160044 - Method and apparatus for managing transmission and reception of data over a network In a network which includes at least a transmission-side apparatus having a plurality of logical plugs and a reception-side apparatus having a plurality of logical plugs, correspondence between transmission-side logical plugs (e.g., P2 to P4) and reception-side logical plugs (e.g., P4 to P6) is established. The reception-side apparatus stores therein ... 07/12/07 - 20070160043 - Method, medium, and system encoding and/or decoding audio data An audio data encoding method, medium, and system encoding a header that includes signaling information of audio data and selectively includes signaling information of an extension payload, and encoding the audio data and two or more extension payloads, so that backward compatibility is supported, and a decoder that may recognize ... 07/12/07 - 20070160042 - Switching apparatus having universal transport of data packet frames Apparatus (A) is dedicated to switching data packet frames of different types coming from at least two transport networks (N1, N2) that use different transport protocol layers. Said apparatus (A) comprises a switching module (SM) and at least two access cards (AC1, AC2), each of which is connected to a ... 07/12/07 - 20070160039 - Method for identifying node reachability, method for identifying whether a link is an external link, method for calculating a routing, and method for disseminating node address information The present invention discloses a method for identifying node reachability, a method for identifying a link, a method for calculating a routing, and a method for disseminating node address information. In the method of the node address information dissemination, when the network is initiated, each node in the automatically switched ... 07/12/07 - 20070160038 - Fast channel change apparatus and method for iptv The present disclosure provides a system that can receive a group of channels (at least one of which includes an I-frame) from a DSL network, a memory that can store the I-frames, and a channel change detector that can detect a user's selection of a particular channel. If the memory ... 07/05/07 - 20070153788 - Method for transmitting packet data in communication system A method and apparatus for a transmitter having a radio protocol with an upper layer and a lower layer therein used for management of full header packet transmission when transmitting data packets to a receiver are provided. If the upper layer receives from the lower layer, information of a successful ... 07/05/07 - 20070153787 - Home agent apparatus and method of implementing load allocation in communication network The present invention is directed to the problem of data traffic allocation in a home agent (HA) of a mobile network. The present invention provides a method and apparatus of allocating data traffic by using a router and a route protocol, in which load allocation is implemented by using a ... 07/05/07 - 20070153786 - Method and apparatus for communicating data using tx/rx fifo structure in a wideband stereo codec interface A method and interface are provided for using a memory that distinguishes transmission data from reception data and performs a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) operation on the transmission and reception data in a communication system. In the method, a controller receives from a register a last transmission address provided for dividing one ... 07/05/07 - 20070153785 - Method and system for decoding control channels using repetition redundancy Methods and systems for decoding control channels using repetition redundancy may include generating enhanced soft bits by combining soft bits generated from the two GSM SACCH blocks. Combining may comprise averaging soft bits in one GSM SACCH block and corresponding soft bits from the other GSM SACCH block. Information in ... 07/05/07 - 20070153784 - Method and apparatus for enabling transport of ethernet data over a serial digital interface transport service A method and apparatus is provided that allows for the transport of Ethernet data over a serial digital interface network. An Embedder/DeEmbedder allows selective use of the active video region of the SDI frame and the unused HANC space for transporting Ethernet media independent interface data. ... 07/05/07 - 20070153783 - Methods, systems, and products for condensing messages Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for condensing a message. The message is processed, and a portion of a header is removed. The removed portion is stored in memory. A reference is inserted into the header, and the reference references the stored portion. Because the reference replaces the removed portion, ... 07/05/07 - 20070153782 - Reliable, high-throughput, high-performance transport and routing mechanism for arbitrary data flows The present invention leverages an existing content delivery network infrastructure to provide a system that enhances performance for any application that uses the Internet Protocol (IP) as its underlying transport mechanism. An overlay network comprises a set of edge nodes, intermediate nodes, and gateway nodes. This network provides optimized routing ... 06/28/07 - 20070147369 - Telephone system having multiple sources and accessories therefor In conjunction with a data communication network carrying multiple telephony signals and allowing for connection of telephone sets, a system and method in which two external feeders connect to the data network at two distinct points via two distinct devices. The data network can be based on dedicated wiring or ... 06/28/07 - 20070147368 - Network packet steering via configurable association of processing resources and netmods or line interface ports Methods and systems are provided for steering network packets. According to one embodiment, a mapping associates a processing resource with a network interface module (netmod) and/or a number of line interface ports included within the netmod. In one embodiment, the mapping is configurable within the processing resource and pushed to ... 06/28/07 - 20070147366 - System and method for optimizing robust header compression (rohc) in high delay variance environment A system and method for optimizing robust header compression between a compressor (residing at AN/AT) and a decompressor (residing at AT/AN), the method comprising initializing the compressor with an estimated jitter value before the compressor; notifying the decompressor of the estimated jitter value before the compressor; estimating various threshold limits ... 06/28/07 - 20070147365 - Communication method, communication system, relaying device and communication device A communication device transmits to a relaying device a transmission right grant request for requesting a grant of a transmission right to a transmitting device, and the relaying device determines whether the received transmission right grant request is a command associated with the transmission right of the communication device or ... 06/28/07 - 20070147364 - Local and remote switching in a communications network A method, system or switch device, the switch device including an ASIC creating a switching system within the switch device, the ASIC including an ingress packet processor, an egress packet assembly device, a transmit control device and a routing device; whereby the ingress packet processor is disposed to receive a ... 06/28/07 - 20070147363 - Network edge device configured for adding protocol service header identifying service encoding of ip packet payload A service header is generated by an edge device (e.g., a gateway or a router) configured for providing a prescribed service operation for a prescribed network service for a received IP packet. The received IP packet includes an IP payload and an IP header having a protocol field specifying an ... 06/21/07 - 20070140240 - Internet switch router An internet router is implemented as a network fabric of fabric routers and links. The internet router receives data packets from trunk lines or other internet links and analyzes header information in the data packets to route the data packets to output internet links. The line interface also analyzes the ... 06/21/07 - 20070140239 - Distributed services for mesh networks Nodes in a mesh network are configured to access centralized Internet Protocol (IP) services whenever the Internet infrastructure is accessible and then dynamically switch to providing the IP services locally in the mesh network when the Internet infrastructure is not accessible and operate through collaborative cooperation. In one embodiment, a ... 06/21/07 - 20070140238 - Power management device with communications capability and method of use A power management device can include a power management device housing, a power input associated with the power management device housing, and a plurality of power outputs associated with the power management device housing. At least certain power outputs can be connectable to one or more electrical loads external to ... 06/21/07 - 20070140237 - Apparatus and method for traffic filtering in a communication system A method includes receiving traffic through a first interface in a first group of interfaces at a switch. The first group of interfaces is associated with a first virtual network. The method also includes determining that the traffic is destined for a destination associated with a second virtual network and ... 06/21/07 - 20070140236 - Fibre channel traffic redirect scheme using fc nat acls Disclosed are methods and apparatus for redirecting fibre channel data that is transmitted between a first and a second node, such as a host and target, in a storage area network (SAN) to an intelligent node that facilitates implementation of a service on such redirected data. Such redirection is provided ... 06/21/07 - 20070140235 - Network visible inter-logical router links A scheme for allowing logical routers to achieve data path efficiency and still maintain network visible virtual links is provided by allowing logical routers in the same physical router to share routing information using standard protocols in place of proprietary route leaking, and by analyzing received data packets to determine ... 06/21/07 - 20070140234 - Signal transmission housing assembly A signal transmission housing assembly is formed of a plurality of longitudinally interconnected signal transmission housings, wherein the casing of each individual signal transmission housing has a closed bottom plate and four closed surrounding wall plates, and an detachable top plate so as to form a chamber therein. An insertion ... 06/21/07 - 20070140233 - Resource sharing among network A method for communication includes defining a resource-sharing group including two or more communication paths that traverse at least two different routes through a communication network, the routes traversing at least one common network element. A notification of an affiliation of the two or more communication paths with the resource-sharing ... 06/14/07 - 20070133529 - Method of providing multicast services in virtual private lan A method of providing multicast services in a virtual private local area network (LAN) is provided. The method of providing multicast services, which is used by a provider edge in a virtual private LAN in which the provider edge, a customer edge, and a management system are connected to each ... 06/14/07 - 20070133528 - Apparatus and method for traffic performance improvement and traffic security in interactive satellite communication system There are provided an apparatus and method for traffic performance improvement and traffic security in an interactive satellite communication system. The method for traffic performance improvement of an interactive satellite communication system includes the steps of: a) storing an Internet protocol (IP) packet that is received from a user terminal ... 06/14/07 - 20070133527 - Communication of data to communication devices An application server for controlling communication of packet data with a plurality of communication devices in a multicasting session is disclosed. The application server is configured for receiving information regarding a packetization parameter that is desired by at least one of the communication devices for reception of packet data, for ... 06/07/07 - 20070127470 - 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, ... 06/07/07 - 20070127469 - Cross-bar switch having bandwidth allocation A cross-bar switch includes a set of input ports for receiving data packets and a set of sink ports for transmitting the received packets to identified targets. A set of data rings couples the input ports to the sink ports. Each sink port utilizes the set of data rings to ... 06/07/07 - 20070127468 - Method and apparatus for ip data transmission using legacy transmission system and broadband downstream transmission system in hfc network Provided is an IP data transmission apparatus using a legacy transmission system and a broadband downstream transmission system in a HFC network. The IP data transmission apparatus includes: an headend unit for receiving data from an application server system that is a service providing apparatus, splitting the received data into ... 06/07/07 - 20070127467 - Segmentation and reassembly receiver operation A method for eliminating useless waiting for lost data units in a segmentation and reassembly (SAR) receiver operation is disclosed. The SAR receiver checks for any missing data units upon receiving a transmission of a plurality of data units in a predetermined sequence, storing all received data units following a ... 06/07/07 - 20070127466 - Apparatus and method for processing packet in voice and data integration system An apparatus and method for processing a packet in a voice and data integration system are provided. The voice and data integration apparatus includes: a digital signal processing (DSP) for decoding a packet into PCM (pulse code modulation) data; and a host driver for receiving one or more packets from ... 06/07/07 - 20070127465 - Method for providing services from a server to a terminal over a mobile/wireless communication network, corresponding access node and terminal The present invention relates to a method for providing services from a server to a terminal over a mobile/wireless communication network. According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of: sending messages from said server to an access node of said mobile/wireless communication network; extracting at said access ... 06/07/07 - 20070127464 - Managing the distribution of control protocol information in a network node A technique for managing control protocol information in a network node involves identifying messages as control protocol messages and checking the messages to see if the messages carry any updated control protocol information. If a control protocol message carries updated control protocol information, then the message is forwarded to a ... 06/07/07 - 20070127463 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for gatekeeper streaming A conferencing Gatekeeper configured to be adjusted so as to forward a conferencing media stream to be recorded to an appropriate streaming/archiving server, or alternatively to have streaming and archiving modules incorporated. Further, a method and computer program product for archiving or streaming media data between a plurality of endpoints ... 06/07/07 - 20070127462 - Method of operating communication terminal managing channel conversion error of program of digital multimedia broadcasting contents and communication terminal enabling the method A method of operating a communication terminal managing a channel conversion error of a program with respect to a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) content and a communication terminal employing the method. More particularly, a method of operating a communication terminal managing a channel conversion error of a program with respect ... 06/07/07 - 20070127461 - Router and communication system When points are connected by a L2VPN, it is necessary to unify the address system (network). When the user sets the address manually, address duplication may occur or the network may not be unified due to a setting mistake. In addition, when points are connected by a L2VPN, the VPN ... 06/07/07 - 20070127460 - Scalable on-board open data network architecture An embodiment of an open data network system facilitates communication between applications related to operation of a vehicle, such as an aircraft, and re-use of components in different systems and implementations. A switch/router communicates data between on-board systems. A server communicates with the switch/router and provides at least one of ... 06/07/07 - 20070127459 - Network apparatus and method for forwarding multicast packets for the same A network apparatus for forwarding multicast packets to a plurality of multicast receivers includes a switch and a main module. The switch includes a plurality of ports for connecting the plurality of multicast receivers. The main module includes an Internet group management protocol (IGMP) snooping module and a forwarding module. ... 06/07/07 - 20070127458 - Data communication method for detecting slipped bit errors in received data packets A data communication method for transmitting a data packet from a transmitter to a receiver includes providing a key to the transmitter and the receiver where the key includes a K-bit data pattern sensitive to the location of each data bit in the data pattern; appending the key to the ... 06/07/07 - 20070127457 - Method and apparatus to minimize database exchange in ospf by using a sha-1 digest value The present invention provides a method of determining whether database located on a first router is synchronized with the database located on a second router by performing a hash function on the values contained in a link state database to derive a SHA-1 digest value. In an embodiment, the digest ... 06/07/07 - 20070127456 - Communications apparatus and method A communications apparatus includes a router 10, a network address translator 12 and a connection controller 11. The connection controller 11 governs the connection from LAN 1 to other networks such as the Internet. The LAN serves a number of terminals 2 to 7. In the event that the connection ... 05/31/07 - 20070121626 - User and activity based end-to-end utilization measurement system A method and a computer program product embodying software for measuring the utilization of all components in an end-to-end application and automatically associating them with the end-user and end-user activity. One aspect of the invention deals with the measurement and automatic association of server application utilization by the client and ... 05/31/07 - 20070121625 - Method and device for creating/reproducing multimedia file, and information recording medium storing multimedia file A method and device for creating/reproducing a multimedia file, and an information recording medium recording the multimedia file are provided. According to the method for creating the multimedia file, multimedia raw data is coded in accordance with characteristics of a device reproducing the multimedia raw data. After that, header information ... 05/31/07 - 20070121624 - Method and system of network clock generation with multiple phase locked loops A method and system generates a network quality clock signal in a communications system by synthesizing a first clock signal based on arrival rate of packets transmitted via a network link at a rate according to a network clock. The system then synthesizes a second clock signal is then synthesized ... 05/31/07 - 20070121623 - Method and system for establishing narrowband communications connections using virtual local area network identification A method and system detects a network connection in a communications system, such as a narrowband communications system, using Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identification. In one embodiment, a first node transmits a message to a specific second node among a group of second nodes. The message from the first ... 05/31/07 - 20070121622 - Method, system and equipment for processing sip requests in ims network A method for processing SIP requests in an IMS network includes: an AS in the IMS network receiving a first SIP request forwarded by a S-CSCF entity, generating a second SIP request and deciding whether it is needed to associate the second SIP request with the first SIP request in ... 05/31/07 - 20070121621 - Integrated active-active fibre channel capability in sata and sas devices Integrated active-active fibre channel capability in SAS and SATA is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a data processing system to communicate a fibre channel frame through a network and a conversion module in a storage device coupled to the network to translate between the fibre channel frame and ... 05/31/07 - 20070121620 - Method and system for audio and video transport Aspects of a method and system for processing audio and video transport may comprise synchronizing streams with associated program content based on 24-bit presentation time stamps (PTSs) and 32-bit system clock samples (SCSs) field without using decoding time stamps (DTSs). A PTS field may be provided as part of a ... 05/31/07 - 20070121619 - Communications distribution system A communications system, such as a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM), or corresponding method increases available bandwidth for transmission of data, video, and audio to a customer premise, or curb node for further distribution to customer premises, within a network. In one embodiment, a system comprises a host digital ... 05/31/07 - 20070121618 - 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 network efficiency and participation. The method includes determining a priority level of the source node and a priority level of ... 05/31/07 - 20070121617 - Extending sso for dhcp snooping to two box redundancy Disclosed are mechanisms for facilitating the use of DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol) binding data. In general, certain applications include mechanisms for intercepting data being sent from a node and then determining whether the data corresponds to a valid IP address and MAC address binding. Embodiments of the present invention ... 05/31/07 - 20070121616 - Methods and systems for routing packets with a hardware forwarding engine and a software forwarding engine A system is provided that includes a hardware forwarding engine that routes data packets. The system also comprises a processor coupled to the hardware forwarding engine, the processor having a software forwarding engine that routes data packets. If data packets are forwarded from the hardware forwarding engine to the software ... 05/31/07 - 20070121615 - Method and apparatus for self-learning of vpns from combination of unidirectional tunnels in mpls/vpn networks A technique is provided for implementing deep-packet inspection (DPI) services in a MPLS/VPN configured computer network. The technique employs a novel self-learning algorithm that analyzes data packets belonging to different unidirectional tunnels in the MPLS/VPN network and determines whether the analyzed data packets transport data in the same VPN. If ... 05/31/07 - 20070121614 - Method and device for communication channel selection A communication terminal and a method for initiating a communication link from a communication terminal to a remote party, where the method includes sensing input of an address number for the remote party. Upon sensing the input of an address number a plurality of selectable items, representing different communication channels ... 05/31/07 - 20070121613 - Automatic allocation of prefixes to equipments of an ipv6 communication network A communication equipment for an Internet Protocol communication network including a set of interfaces each connected to one or more other communication equipments and having means for receiving an address prefix from a first other communication equipment. It further includes allocation means for allocating to at least a portion of ... 05/24/07 - 20070115974 - High speed data classification system An optical network packet classification architecture is disclosed that addresses the packet classification requirements for OC-768 optical routers and beyond. The herein disclosed system is used for ultra-high speed packet classification of optical data at either the serial data stream level for maximum performance, or after it has been converted ... 05/24/07 - 20070115973 - Power line communication apparatus, power line communication method and communication apparatus PLC modems and a PLC communication system that includes the PLC modems receive a multicast packet from a video server of a multicast group. When a MAC address table is set therein, the PLC modems and the PLC communication system convert the multicast packet into a unicast packet and transmit ... 05/24/07 - 20070115972 - Apparatus for allocating transmission period in a wireless communication system An apparatus is provided for allocating a transmission period in a wireless network system. An access point (AP) transmits a PSMP frame indicating a downlink period and an uplink period allocated to each station (STA), and at least one sub PSMP frame indicating an allocated downlink period for at least ... 05/24/07 - 20070115971 - Method for allocating transmission period in a wireless communication system A method is provided for efficiently allocating a transmission period in a wireless network system. An access point (AP) transmits a PSMP frame indicating a downlink period provided to each station (STA) and a minimum amount of an uplink period allocated to each STA, and at least one sub PSMP ... 05/24/07 - 20070115970 - Apparatus for allocating transmission period in a wireless communication system An apparatus is provided for efficiently allocating a transmission period in a wireless network system. An access point (AP) transmits a PSMP frame indicating a downlink period provided to each station (STA) and a minimum amount of an uplink period allocated to each STA, and at least one sub PSMP ... 05/24/07 - 20070115969 - Systems and methods for digital stream denting A method of forming a digital packet stream, the stream including transport packets. The method can include receiving a packet ID in a transport stream, determining if the packet ID includes a video ID, determining if a coded video frame starts a transport packet, and if a coded video frame ... 05/24/07 - 20070115968 - Default route coding A multi-level lookup table includes a plurality of search levels with each search level including a plurality of subtrees, each subtree representing a plurality of nodes. A search of the multi-level lookup table for an entry corresponding to a search key results in a value stored in an entry associated ... 05/24/07 - 20070115967 - Dynamic discovery of iso layer-2 topology A method is provided of determining a layer-2 topology of an IT infrastructure which includes layer-2 interconnect devices having ports. A list of layer-2 interconnect devices available in the IT infrastructure is obtained. Uplink and non-uplink ports of layer-2 interconnect devices are determined. All the, or a subset of the, ... 05/24/07 - 20070115966 - Compact packet operation device and method A network device and a method of handling a frame in a network device defining a common header for each rule in a rules table of a search engine, wherein the common header comprises a source port specifying a corresponding rule to be applied to a port or ports, and ... 05/24/07 - 20070115965 - Wireless communication system, method for transmitting frame, and computer program product thereof A wireless communication system, method for transmitting a frame, and computer program product thereof are provided. The system comprises a base station and a subscriber station. The frame comprises a MAP area and a user area. The MAP area comprises a broadcast test area. The method and the computer program ... 05/24/07 - 20070115964 - Data compression method and system A data compression method and system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the data compression method includes receiving a data packet. Also, the method includes compressing the data packet using a confirmed compression history, wherein the confirmed compression history includes previously acknowledged data packets. Further, the method includes sending a compressed ... 05/24/07 - 20070115963 - Maximum transmission unit tuning mechanism for a real-time transport protocol stream A Real-Time Protocol (RTP) source node of a network operates to send a first data packet of a first size to a destination node over a path of the network that includes a plurality of intermediate nodes, at least one of the intermediate nodes having a maximum transmission unit (MTU) ... 05/24/07 - 20070115962 - Techniques configuring customer equipment for network operations from provider edge Techniques for configuring customer premises equipment for communication with a provider network include establishing a physical layer network connection between a particular customer node and a first provider node. The particular customer node is an intermediate network node on a customer premises. The first provider node is an intermediate network ... 05/24/07 - 20070115961 - Method for transmitting data from a participant device in a session in an internet protocol (ip) system A method for transmitting data from a participant device in a session in an Internet Protocol (IP) system (100) is provided. The method comprises sending (405) one or more a first Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packet of the session to a first address. The method further comprises sending (410) one ... 05/24/07 - 20070115960 - De-interleaver for data decoding A de-interleaver for data decoding. Two memory banks are configured to store data in column order and output the data in row order. A de-interleaving encoder receives a stream of interleaved data values, generates an input address for both the two memory banks contingent upon a modulation mode and based ... 05/24/07 - 20070115959 - Method and system for quiet time A method and system for creating a quiet zone. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes receiving a request for the creation of the quiet zone and generating a quiet time data packet. The quiet time data packet may be generated by a source system and includes data specifying the ... 05/17/07 - 20070110060 - Packet switching apparatus An access node run as a packet switching apparatus enables IP connection services for a plurality of access methods; e.g., relatively low-speed IP connection, high-speed 1P connection, and mobile network IP connection. By using this apparatus of the present invention, cost can be reduced and upgrading to advanced access networks ... 05/17/07 - 20070110059 - Modulated jitter attenuation filter A system and modulation method are provided for reducing jitter in the mapping of information into Synchronous Payload Envelopes (SPEs), in a data tributary mapping system. The method comprises buffering data from a plurality of tributaries, and generating buffer-fill information responsive to the buffered data being written and read. The ... 05/17/07 - 20070110058 - Internet protocol address allocation method using base station and mobile terminal, and system therefor An Internet Protocol (IP) address allocation method using a base station and a mobile terminal and system therefor are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a radio frequency(RF) unit for transmitting a signal requesting allocation of an IP address for access to Internet to a base station and receiving information about ... 05/17/07 - 20070110057 - Method and apparatus for transmitting service guide source in a mobile broadcast system A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting information necessary for the generation of a service guide for a mobile broadcast service in a broadcast system supporting the mobile broadcast service. A Content Creation (CC) block transmits a service guide request message including various sources necessary for the generation of ... 05/17/07 - 20070110056 - Apparatus and method for delivering service guide contents and notification event information in a mobile broadcast system A system and method is provided for providing a service guide for a mobile broadcast (BCAST) service in a wireless communication/broadcast system supporting the BCAST service. If there is a need to provide a service guide in the mobile broadcast system, a Service Guide Subscription Source (SGSS) delivers a subscription ... 05/17/07 - 20070110055 - Fast block acknowledgment generation in a wireless environment Fast block acknowledgment generation is provided, via a receiving station, for a plurality of received frames to accommodate latency-sensitive data applications. The fast block acknowledgment generation includes receiving a frame of the plurality of received frames including a transmitter address, a quality of service (QoS) value, and a sequence number. ... 05/17/07 - 20070110054 - Device and method for communicating with another communication device via network forwarding device The communication device includes a first transmitting unit that transmits to a server a first message transmitted according to a first protocol; a receiving unit that receives a port number message including a translated port number from the server via the network forwarding device; a first protocol processing unit that ... 05/17/07 - 20070110053 - Packet processors and packet filter processes, circuits, devices, and systems A packet filter (2500) for incoming communications packets includes extractor circuitry (2510) operable to extract data from a packet, and packet processor circuitry (2520) operable to concurrently mask (3010) the packet data from the extractor circuitry (2510), perform an arithmetic/logic operation (3020) on the packet to supply a packet drop ... 05/17/07 - 20070110052 - System and method for the static routing of data packet streams in an interconnect network dynamic routing management means (8), designed to keep the order of output of the data packets of one and the same stream from said receiving element (3) identical to the order of arrival of said packets at said sending element (2). ... 05/17/07 - 20070110051 - Numeric approach to telephone number management in domain name systems Systems and methods of storing DNS data associated with a telephone number are presented. These systems and methods can reduce storage space needs, increase access speed and/or result in other benefits, in comparison with the prior art. In some embodiments, DNS data is indexed using a numerical representation of a ... 05/17/07 - 20070110050 - Method and system of determining last hop device addresses Method and system of determining addressing in a network environment where client devices are serviced by a number of last hop devices. The method and system including determining client device addresses serviced by the last hop devices as a function of last hop device addresses and client address masks associated ... 05/17/07 - 20070110049 - Data compression approach to telephone number management in domain name systems Systems and methods of storing DNS data associated with a telephone number are presented. These systems and methods can reduce storage space needs, increase access speed and/or result in other benefits, in comparison with the prior art. In some embodiments, DNS data is indexed using a numerical representation of a ... 05/17/07 - 20070110048 - Techniques for inserting internet protocol services in a broadband access network Techniques for inserting a network service in an Ethernet access network operated by an access service provider include sending routing data to customer premises equipment. The access network is between a physical layer link with customer premises equipment and a remote packet switched network. The routing data indicates a logical ... 05/17/07 - 20070110047 - Method of collecting and searching for access route of information resource on internet and computer readable medium stored thereon program for implementing the same Disclosed is a method for systematically collecting and searching for access routes of information resources. Search index node is formed in hierarchical tree structure in the computer. Basic search information including access route and name of resource loaded on web browser is input with selection of search index node. Information ... 05/17/07 - 20070110046 - Internet protocol optimizer A method for optimizing the throughput of TCP/IP applications by aggregating user application data and consolidating multiple TCP/IP connection streams into a single optimized stream for delivery to a destination application. Optimization of the internet protocol uses a packet interceptor to intercept packets from a source application, a packet driver ... 05/10/07 - 20070104193 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving information regarding upnp event Provided are a method and apparatus for efficiently transmitting and receiving information regarding a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) event. In the method of receiving event information, a notice regarding a part of a plurality of status changes of a service is requested for an event indicating at least one ... 05/10/07 - 20070104192 - System and method for simultaneously offering layer-2 multicast switching and layer-3 multicast routing Provides is a method for processing a multicast packet received in a system for simultaneously providing virtual interface-based layer-2 multicast switching and layer-3 multicast routing. When a destination MAC address of a received Ethernet frame is a multicast MAC address, a VLAN-based layer-2 multicast switching function is performed. When a ... 05/10/07 - 20070104191 - Ip network and communication method therein An IP network and a communication method therein. The IP network includes a first terminal adapted to make an outgoing call and a second terminal adapted to transmit information on a plurality of serviceable communication modes other than a communication mode of the call incoming from the first terminal depending ... 05/10/07 - 20070104190 - User datagram protocol packet processing on network elements A device for user datagram protocol packet processing on network elements in a network, a radio access network comprising such a device and a method for user datagram protocol packet processing on network elements in a network, wherein a predetermined limited range of user datagram protocol port numbers is provided. ... 05/10/07 - 20070104189 - Network system and operation method thereof A network system includes a client device (10), a central office (50), and a network device (30) connected to the client and the central office. The network device includes a first control card (300), a second control card (400), and a plurality of line cards (100) connected to the first ... 05/10/07 - 20070104188 - Determining transmission latency in network devices A method, system and storage medium for determining a transmission latency in a network device. The method includes receiving a plurality of data packets in the network device, determining a packet age value for each received packet, generating at least one latency value from a plurality of the determined packet ... 05/03/07 - 20070097968 - Bridge forwarding method and apparatus A bridge forwarding method comprises: receiving a frame from an input port, obtaining the input VLAN ID and a destination MAC address of the frame; determining an output port and an output VLAN ID of the frame, and forwarding the frame according to the output port and the output VLAN ... 05/03/07 - 20070097967 - Method and system for handling a network-identified emergency session The invention relates to a method and system for establishing an emergency session in a communication system which includes at least one user equipment and one or more network entities involved in establishing an emergency session. When the user equipment initiates a session by sending a message to a network ... 05/03/07 - 20070097966 - Device and method for indicating an initial router of a path in a packet switching network A router includes a transceiver operable to transmit and receive packets when operably connected to a communication network, and a processor cooperatively operable with the transceiver. The processor is associated with a unique network routable value and/or a physical address. The processor is configured to facilitate receiving a packet in ... 04/26/07 - 20070091888 - Communication terminal and method used therein A communication terminal which modulates and demodulates a packet for transmission and reception based on a communication parameter for modulation and demodulation determined according to a communication-medium characteristic. The communication terminal includes: an extracting unit which extracts, during every occurrence of a predetermined cycle, information indicative of either one of ... 04/26/07 - 20070091887 - Method and apparatus for recovering interruption of network connection caused by ip address change of universal plug and play (upnp) device Provided are a method and apparatus for rapidly recovering a network connection interrupted by a change in an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device. In the method, a second address of a device is obtained using a message signaling an end of a network ... 04/26/07 - 20070091886 - Method for inserting/removal padding from packets The invention relates to the field of data packet management, and more specifically to the field of managing of data packets in such a manner that power consumption is reduced, such reduction being especially beneficial for portable device applications. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention there is provided ... 04/26/07 - 20070091885 - Digital broadcasting transmission and reception systems and methods thereof A method for processing a dual transport stream (TS) which is multiplexed from a normal stream and a turbo stream is provided for a digital broadcasting transmission/reception system. The digital broadcasting signal processing method includes encoding a dual transport stream (TS) which is multiplexed from a normal steam and a ... 04/26/07 - 20070091884 - Parallel processing of data using information about the data and information about a streaming network Methods and systems thereof for processing data in a network that includes a first node and a second node are described. A first portion of the data is received at the first node, and a second portion of the data is received at the second node. The first portion of ... 04/26/07 - 20070091883 - Serial processing of data using information about the data and information about a streaming network Methods and systems thereof for streaming media data are described. A network includes a first node, a second node, and a communication path between the first and second nodes. Data packets containing data are accessed. The data is processed according to information about the data and according to information about ... 04/26/07 - 20070091882 - Broadcast communication or multicast communication-capable mobile station It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile station which enables transmission of control information on broadcast communication or multicast communication to a radio network controller without establishing a dedicated channel in broadcast communication or multicast communication. The mobile station related to this invention includes a ... 04/26/07 - 20070091881 - Method, system and network entity for indicating hierarchical mode for transport streams carried in broadband transmission A method for transmission, a method for reception, a system, a transmitter and a receiver for signalling a hierarchical priority mapping of a transport stream (TS) to a receiver is disclosed. A way to separate tuning information between different TSs with different priorities. In a wireless hierarchical broadband transmission, preferably ... 04/19/07 - 20070086456 - Integrated layer frame processing device including variable protocol header An integrated layer frame processing device for supporting Internet Protocol version 6 (Ipv6), in which the number of bytes to be processed is more than in Ipv4, and securing a bandwidth of at least several gigabits using an existing network processor is provided. The integrated layer frame processing device includes ... 04/19/07 - 20070086455 - Gmpls control of ethernet Ethernet provider backbone transport (PBT) paths are controlled utilizing Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) signaling protocol. A path between edge nodes is identified by a combination of a VID and destination MAC address in a VID/MAC tuple populated in the forwarding tables of intermediary nodes. To establish the PBT path, ... 04/19/07 - 20070086454 - Tcp receiver acceleration A transport protocol receiver for receiving a packet from a network, the packet having a header, payload, and connection context. The receiver includes an analysis engine, coupled to receive the packet from the network and adapted to parse and validate the header, locate the connection context, and generate a classification ... 04/19/07 - 20070086453 - Communication connection merge method and node to be used therefor A communication connection merge method and a node to be employed in the same can merge parameter of LSP, such as request bandwidth or the like, upon performing merging. The communication connection merge method performs merge process for consolidating a plurality of communication connection of a connection-oriented network at a ... 04/19/07 - 20070086452 - Online service intermediation apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing program When a user receives an online service by accessing a plurality of sites in turn, the user is immediately notified that the user cannot obtain the service since a certain site is out of service. A communication terminal accesses a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus ... 04/19/07 - 20070086451 - Information processing apparatus and operation control method According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body, an operation switch which is provided on the main body, a determination unit which executes, during a time period in which the main body is in a power-off state, a determination process for determining whether a timing, at ... 04/19/07 - 20070086450 - Apparatus and method of remote phy auto-negotiation A communications network includes a management device and a remote device. The remote device includes a physical layer device (PHY) coupled to a link partner. An independent station manager of the remote device provides the bi-directional exchange of management information between the PHY and a serial-to-parallel (S/P) interface connecting the ... 04/19/07 - 20070086449 - System and method for remote management A remote management system including an IPMI enabled server, an IPMI enabled client and a network device is provided. The IPMI enabled server is coupled to a first network and the IPMI enabled client is coupled to a second network. The network device is coupled between the first network and ... 04/19/07 - 20070086448 - Integrated pseudo-wire and virtual routing and forwarding on a single provider edge router A Pseudo-Wire to Virtual Private Network Provider Edge (PW-VPN PE) router (300) has a pseudo-wire (PW) element (302), a virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) element (304) integrally coupled to the PW element, and a controller (306) for controlling operations of the PW and the VRF elements. The controller is programmed ... 04/19/07 - 20070086447 - Modular approach to the tcp/ipv6 hardware implementation A method for processing a packet comprising an ordered sequence of packet parts is disclosed. The method uses a set of hardware processing modules, and the method comprises the steps of broadcasting, in a step the next header field of a received packet part to the set of processing modules, ... 04/12/07 - 20070081533 - Wireless communication system and method of conducting wireless communication A wireless communication system includes a plurality of base stations, a mobile wireless communication device which makes wireless communication with the base stations, a terminal device, and a router through which the base stations make communication with an IP network. The terminal device transmits an address thereof to the mobile ... 04/12/07 - 20070081532 - Data packet and data packet constructing method using reserved bits A method of constructing a data packet, including constructing a PLCP (physical layer convergence protocol) header including first, second, and third tail bits and constructing last 2 bits of reserved bits of a PHY (physical layer) header as the first tail bits. ... 04/12/07 - 20070081531 - Method of downloading terrestrial dmb data using multi-download algorithm and an apparatus thereof Disclosed is an apparatus and method for downloading terrestrial DMB data using a multi-download algorithm. The multi-download algorithm enables the terrestrial DMB receiving apparatus to download and store the data service data in advance from the ensemble consisting of the video service data, the audio service data, and the data ... 04/12/07 - 20070081530 - Packet relay apparatus An IP packet relay apparatus provided between networks to relay an IP packet relating to a host belonging to a specific group, comprising: a list in which an IP address possessed by a host is associated with a group identifier for identifying a group to which the host belongs; a ... 04/05/07 - 20070076713 - Method and apparatus for processing shared sub-packets in a communication system Method and Apparatus for Processing Shared Sub-packets in a Communication System are disclosed. A communication system providing both voice and data services allows for a plurality of subscriber station to share a data sent in a unit of a forward traffic channel. To provide information required by the subscriber stations ... 04/05/07 - 20070076712 - Processing packet headers A network interface device interfaces between a host device and a network by receiving packets over the network and passing at least some of those packets to ports of the host device is disclosed. Each packet may comprise a control section having one or more fields indicative of the type ... 04/05/07 - 20070076711 - Network router security method A local network is secured using a router or hub that includes a security switch. During or immediately after initial network configuration, the router or hub records MAC addresses of connected network devices. After initial configuration is completed, the switch is activated. After the switch is activated, the router or ... 04/05/07 - 20070076710 - Method and system of routing media packets in a network device Systems and methods for routing media packets between a plurality of processors and a digital signal processor (DSP) are disclosed. An exemplary device comprises: an egress processor; an ingress processor; conversion logic; and a DSP configured to transcode a payload in the packet. The ingress processor is configured to change ... 04/05/07 - 20070076709 - Apparatus and method for facilitating a virtual private local area network service with realm specific addresses A method of processing traffic in a Virtual Private LAN service includes replacing a MAC address from a packet with a realm specific Virtual Private Network address. The packet with the realm specific Virtual Private Network address is then processed. ... 04/05/07 - 20070076708 - Error protection techniques for frames on a wireless network Techniques for use of forward error correction (FEC) that may be applied to wireless data packets that may result in reduce errors, which in turn may result in fewer dropped packets and/or retransmissions to provide better multimedia transmission than current techniques. ... 04/05/07 - 20070076707 - Identifying data and/or control packets in wireless communication The present invention provides a method of wireless communication. The method includes determining whether a packet includes a voice payload or control information based on at least one property of the packet. ... 04/05/07 - 20070076706 - Fast reroute in a multiprotocol label switching network A fast reroute in a multiprotocol label switching network is provided. According to one embodiment, a method for finding a Label Switch Path (LSP) in a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network device is provided. The method comprising retrieving a packet from an receive port having an identifier, searching an improved ... 04/05/07 - 20070076705 - System and method for determining whether docsis-enabled devices in a hfc cable network are co-located A system and method for determining if DOCSIS-enabled devices (DEDs) connected to an HFC cable network are co-located. Subscriber account data is acquired to determine the DEDs associated with a subscriber account. The MAC address of the DEC is used to obtain the MAC domain to which a DED is ... 04/05/07 - 20070076704 - Method for processing received networking traffic while playing audio/video or other media A method of providing media content (e.g., audio and/or video) and processing data received over a network. Received data may be processed at a reduced rate while at least one media application is running. Received packets may be processed in batches, and media data may be processed in between processing ... 04/05/07 - 20070076703 - Packet distribution control method A packet distribution control method in the case of performing multicast communication in network environment where both networks that support IP multicast and that do not support IP multicast exist. In packet distribution in multicast communication, each end node checks mutually whether or not other end nodes are capable of ... 04/05/07 - 20070076702 - Method of implementing multimedia protocol passing through network address transform device The present invention discloses a method of implementing traversal of multimedia protocols through Network Address Translation device, wherein the Network Address Translation (NAT) device establishes a mapping relationship between address of a terminal in a private network and address of a terminal in a public network, and enables the terminal ... 03/29/07 - 20070071003 - Apparatus and method for inserting synchronization headers into serial data communication streams An apparatus for transmitting synchronization headers into multiple high-speed serial data communications streams comprising an input channel receiving B symbols, a first output channel outputting A symbols, a second output channel outputting B symbols, a header sequence generator generating H symbols, one multiplexer per output channel, a temporary storage unit ... 03/29/07 - 20070071002 - Method and apparatus for verifying encryption of sip signalling A SIP communication session can be set up between at least two client SIP nodes over at least one proxy SIP node. A proxy SIP node is located based on a destination client name and domain and a secure signal connection is set up between a calling client SIP node ... 03/29/07 - 20070071001 - Method for identifying internet users Method for identifying Internet users, comprising: identifying or authenticating an Internet user at the Internet access point in the course of an access check when using the Internet access service of an Internet Service Provider with whom the Internet user maintains a business relation; and after the Internet user successfully ... 03/29/07 - 20070071000 - Distributed protocol over a wireless connection The disclosure is directed to an access point in a wireless access network and methods for using an access point. The access point includes a transceiver function and a network function. The network function is configured to route packets between a packet-based network and the transceiver function. The transceiver function ... 03/29/07 - 20070070999 - Synchronization of historical data without retransmission In one embodiment of the present invention, a first node receives acknowledgement indications from a second node describing which previously processed and transmitted data have been successfully received and processed by the second node. In response to these indications, the first node makes the corresponding data in its history buffer ... 03/29/07 - 20070070998 - System and method for delivering the magic packet to wake up a node in remote subnet A system and method for delivering the magic packet to wake up a node in a remote subnet are disclosed. A method includes receiving a message generated by a source node located on a first subnet at a switching device located on a second subnet, where the message includes an ... 03/29/07 - 20070070997 - Enhanced passive optical network (pon) processor An enhanced passive optical network (PON) processor adapted to serve a plurality of PON applications is disclosed. The PON processor is a highly integrated communications processor that can operate in different PON modes including, but not limited to, a gigabit PON (GPON), a broadband PON (BPON), an Ethernet PON (EPON), ... 03/29/07 - 20070070996 - Port hopping scheme for peer-to-peer connections A port hopping scheme pseudo-randomly spreads a peer-to-peer connection across a port space. The pseudo-random port hopping scheme varies port address values in a manner that is unknown to intermediary devices but known by the two endpoints or peers. Flow-identification and control schemes depend on the stability of the flow ... 03/29/07 - 20070070995 - Broadcast/multicast services with unidirectional header compression A network node (60), upon receiving a request (62, 92) indicating that the remote unit (40) seeks access to a multicast/broadcast multimedia service, generates the trigger signal (64) which is applied to the compressor (25) to trigger a lowest compression state of the header compression logic. The trigger signal is ... 03/22/07 - 20070064694 - System and method for connecting a logic circuit simulation to a network A system and method for connecting a running logic circuit simulation to a network running at a higher speed that includes a computer for receiving data packets from the network and storing the received data packets in a first buffer. The computer next transmits the received data packets to an ... 03/22/07 - 20070064693 - Access multiplexer In access multiplexers (1) for multiplexing Internet Protocol packets to be exchanged between network devices (2) and subscriber devices (3-5), the Internet Protocol packets are encapsulated at each side of the access multiplexers (1). By providing the access multiplexers (1) with Internet Protocol routers (6-8) for routing the Internet Protocol ... 03/22/07 - 20070064692 - Method and apparatus for providing addressing in a multi-carrier communication system An approach is provided for addressing in a multiple carrier communication system. In one embodiment, a group index is assigned to a group of terminals of a communication network. The group index permits sharing of addressing indices supported by the communication network for transmission of data to the group of ... 03/22/07 - 20070064691 - Arp relay The present invention relates to an access unit comprising: at least one user port for coupling to a user device, at least one network port for coupling to an edge router, a local repository wherein user network addresses are held in one-to-one relationship with user port identifiers, a forwarding unit ... 03/22/07 - 20070064690 - Method and system for routing protocol outbound route control A method and apparatus in a system for exchanging routing information with a peer router in another system, in which the apparatus and peer router are in data communication. The apparatus has a network interface for receiving and transmitting the routing information and a central processing unit in operative communication ... 03/22/07 - 20070064689 - Method of controlling communication between devices in a network and apparatus for the same Disclosed is a technology by which rules on communication permission or control are enforced to network internal devices such that an environment which looks as if to have a virtual firewall existing between network internal devices can be established. A communication control apparatus for this is located on the same ... 03/15/07 - 20070058625 - In-vehicle terminal, server, traffic information system, link data update method, and traffic information provision method The in-vehicle terminal includes an additional link database where link data including a temporary link ID (Identification) before being given by a server and established by an authorization device; a new and old link IDs database where a new and old link IDs table is saved wherein an established link ... 03/15/07 - 20070058624 - Method for controlling packet forwarding in a routing device The present invention discloses a method for implementing packet forwarding control in routing device, comprising: said routing device getting a source address of a received packet and judging whether said source address is a legal source address; if it is a legal source address, confirming said packet to be a ... 03/15/07 - 20070058623 - Method & apparatus for packet processing Frame processing for a wireless communication system. The frame processing includes detecting reception of a frame based on a portion of a preamble of a frame, wherein the frame includes a preamble and a data payload. With detecting the reception of a frame, determining a frame type of a plurality ... 03/15/07 - 20070058622 - Low latency working vpls A system and method are provided for forwarding packets through a fully meshed communication network when the destination MAC address may not be known. Each network element maintains a mapping of MAC addresses and IP addresses, each MAC address having an associated IP address which indicates to where packets are ... 03/15/07 - 20070058621 - Method of identifying a home gateway using network traffic sniffing and apparatus employing the same In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a customer premises equipment (CPE) apparatus includes a first communications unit, a second communications unit, and a processing unit. The first communications unit is configured to receive an inbound message packet from a first communications channel. The inbound packet includes a ... 03/08/07 - 20070053355 - Network processor A network processor, including: a programmable Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) module, with one or more main forwarding hardware pipelines for a main forwarding upon packet; a MicroEngine (ME) module, including one or more programmable ME's for an assistant forwarding through software; designated Steps in the main forwarding hardware pipelines ... 03/08/07 - 20070053354 - Method and system for securing wireless transmission of an aggregated frame A method and apparatus for securing the wireless transmission of an aggregated frame are disclosed. An aggregated frame is generated by aggregating at least one subframe and a security field. The security field is used to secure the entire aggregated frame. The contents of the security field may be generated ... 03/08/07 - 20070053353 - Method for processing subscriber packet using subscriber identification tag A method of classifying packets by a subscriber and processing classified packet to provide fairness to subscribers is provided. In order to classify the packets by the subscriber, a subscriber identification tag is inserted into a predetermined portion of an Ethernet frame and the packets are classified using the subscriber ... 03/08/07 - 20070053352 - Power line communications system with differentiated data services A power line communications system that facilitates the provision of differentiated data services is provided. One embodiment of the present invention may include tagging downstream data at an ingress point, such as a point of presence or aggregation point. The tagging of data packets may allow the power line communication ... 03/01/07 - 20070047543 - Access device for preventing transmission of copyrighted content to external network and method for the same An access device and method for preventing transmission of copyrighted contents to an external network and a method for the same. The access device includes a packet-header analyzer analyzing a header of a packet received from a home network device, a copyrighted-content sensor detecting whether the packet includes copyrighted content ... 03/01/07 - 20070047542 - Real-time audio-visual quality monitoring in a network Systems and methods are described for real-time audio-visual quality monitoring in a network. In one implementation, a system displays an IPTV network in a user interface as a tree consisting of the nodes and the links between nodes of the IPTV network. When a user selects one or more test ... 03/01/07 - 20070047541 - Multi-speed rotorswitch A multi-grained high-performance rotorswitch scaling to high capacities is disclosed. In one embodiment, the rotorswitch comprises common-memory switch modules each of which cyclically accessing each other switch module for an access interval of a predefined value and transmitting, during the access interval, a number of data segments collectively having a ... 02/22/07 - 20070041378 - Method of transmitting feedback information using an extended subheader A method of transmitting feedback information is disclosed. More specifically, a mobile station (MS) receives a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) which includes a Medium Access Channel (MAC) header from a base station (BS). Thereafter, the MS determines from the received MAC header whether an extended subheader group appears after the ... 02/22/07 - 20070041377 - Method and apparatus for providing notification message in a broadcasting system Provided is a broadcasting system based on a network using an Internet protocol (IP). In the broadcasting system, a broadcast transmitter previously transmits first access information including a first network address for transmitting a general notification message and second access information associated with management of the broadcasting system, to a ... 02/22/07 - 20070041376 - Method and apparatus for performing tunnel signaling over ip tunneling path A method and apparatus for performing tunnel signaling over an IP tunneling path connected to an end-to-end path of an IP network where an end-to-end signaling flow from one of a sender and a receiver of the end-to-end path is received, a tunnel signaling flow associated with the IP tunneling ... 02/22/07 - 20070041375 - System and method for implementing suppression for asynchronous transfer mode (atm) adaptation layer 5 (aal5) traffic in a communications environment A method for communicating data is provided that includes receiving a plurality of cells associated with a communications flow and determining whether one or more of the cells included in the flow should be suppressed. In specific embodiments, the method further includes suppressing a selected one or more of the ... 02/15/07 - 20070036159 - Checking data integrity A network interface device for connection to a data processing device and to a data network so as to provide an interface between the data processing device and the network for supporting the network of packets of a transport protocol, the network interface device being configured to: identify within the ... 02/15/07 - 20070036158 - Media sink device and method for controlling the same A Media sink device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A Media sink device for receiving media data from at least two media source devices includes: at least two interfaces for receiving the media data from the at least two media source devices; and a controller for ... 02/15/07 - 20070036157 - Medium recording connection switching program, electronic conference system and connection switching method A connection switching program to perform a function of a first information communication terminal included in an electronic conference system includes the first and a second information communication terminal; a first mobile communication terminal; a second mobile communication terminal that has identification information to be held by the first mobile ... 02/15/07 - 20070036156 - High speed packet capture Packets can be read from a network interface into an application using a single kernel copy. In one embodiment, the invention includes a receiver packet memory to store captured packets, and a network interface driver operating in a kernel of a device to read packets captured by network interface hardware ... 02/08/07 - 20070030848 - Network communication system A network communication system includes a ZigBee network being defined based on IEEE 802.15.4, a plurality of IP (Internet Protocol) networks being defined based on IP, and a plurality of gateways available for protocols of the ZigBee network and the IP networks, wherein the plurality of IP networks is connected ... 02/08/07 - 20070030847 - Method and apparatus for providing network communicatiions A method and apparatus for admitting an additional node into a communications network that uses a scheduled communications protocol. Specifically, the node detects the presence of a network, establishes a communication link with a node already present on the network using a unicast messaging protocol, and then communicates pre-admission information ... 02/08/07 - 20070030846 - Method and apparatus for enabling routing of label switched data packets A method of enabling routing of label switched data packets in a data communications network comprising a plurality of nodes and supporting multiple topologies, comprises processing a label value advertisement comprising an association between a label value and a corresponding forwarding class and topology and carrying out a routing enabling ... 02/01/07 - 20070025349 - Distributed mac architecture for wireless repeater A method and apparatus for communicating between devices is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises running two or more instances of a switch MAC sublayer on a switch and managing the two or more instances of the switch MAC sublayer as multiple logical access points inside the switch. ... 02/01/07 - 20070025348 - Network device and network system In a network device and a network system structuring a VLAN at the layer 2 level, a starting network device transmits a structuring packet including a port number corresponding to an address of a terminating network device and a single VLAN after having added thereto an address of the starting ... 02/01/07 - 20070025347 - Communication protocol One aspect relates to a communication protocol for communicating between one or more entities, such as devices, hosts or any other system capable of communicating over a network. A protocol is provided that allows communication between entities without a priori knowledge of the communication protocol. In such a protocol, for ... 02/01/07 - 20070025346 - System and method for creating a routing table A method for retrieving a first entity description for a first entity, the first entity description including a pointer to a second entity description for a second entity, wherein the first entity is connected to the second entity; retrieving the second entity description using the pointer of the first entity ... 02/01/07 - 20070025345 - Method of increasing the capacity of enhanced data channel on uplink in a wireless communications systems In a UMTS wireless communication system, when the packet size on the enhanced dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH) on the uplink from a UE to a NodeB reaches a converged default packet size, the corresponding dedicated physical control channel (E-DPCCH) is turned off. The NodeB uses the default packet size ... 01/25/07 - 20070019644 - Dmb system for reducing working load of dmb receiving terminal and method of transmitting psi/si version information and parsing psi/si Provided are a DMB system for reducing a working load of a DMB receiving terminal, a method of transmitting PSI/SI version information, and a method of parsing PSI/SI. When PSI/SI is generated, a DMB station receives version information of the PSI/SI from each of PSI/SI generators, generates PSI/SI version information, ... 01/25/07 - 20070019643 - Wireless communication system and method of implementing an evolved system attachment procedure A wireless communication system and method of implementing an evolved system attachment procedure are disclosed. The system includes a first core network and a second core network which is evolved from the first core network. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) sends an attach request message to the second core network. ... 01/25/07 - 20070019642 - Virtual local area network configuration for multi-chassis network element A system, apparatus, and method for providing a plurality of internal VLANs within a networking element/node are described. Internal VLAN topologies are provisioned so that a particular VLAN(S) communicate traffic to corresponding applications. This segregation of internal traffic across a VLAN topology reduces the amount of interference between the traffic. ... 01/25/07 - 20070019641 - Execution of industrial automation applications on communication infrastructure devices A communication infrastructure apparatus comprises an interface component that receives a data packet at the communication infrastructure apparatus. A processor component communicatively coupled to the interface component executes an industrial automation application based at least in part upon contents of the data packet. For example, the communication infrastructure apparatus can ... 01/25/07 - 20070019640 - Packet flow monitoring tool and method A system and method for converting packet streams into session summaries. Session summaries are a group of packets each having a common source and destination internet protocol (IP) address, and, if present in the packets, common ports. The system first captures packets from a transport layer of a network of ... 01/25/07 - 20070019639 - Method for relaying ip-packets to an external control component of a network node IP packets are received, identified, evaluated and processed at interfaces of a network node in a communications network, which comprises a number of network nodes and which transmits IP packets. An in-band IP signaling packet, which is received at an interface of the network node, is identified at the interface ... 01/18/07 - 20070014288 - Apparatus and method for point-to-point emulation in a broadband wireless communication system A point-to-point emulation apparatus and method in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In a communication method in an RAS in a broadband wireless communication system, an ID of a source terminal and an ID of a destination terminal are registered in a database by mapping the ID of ... 01/18/07 - 20070014287 - Method or apparatus for routing signaling messages in a network A method for routing signaling messages between nodes in a network in which virtual addresses are used to route messages in a predetermined order to a set of network nodes. ... 01/18/07 - 20070014286 - Packet detection system, packet detection device, and method for receiving packets A packet detector for a multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system includes a plurality of packet detection units each corresponding to a time frequency code for detecting packets according to a spreading sequence of the time frequency code, a comparison unit for comparing correlation values provided by division units of ... 01/18/07 - 20070014285 - Portable information terminal, ip address setting program, and ip address setting method A portable information terminal 1 performs a communication using an IP address by connecting to a USB-LAN adapter 2. The potable information terminal 1 has a USB interface 15 that connects to the USB-LAN adapter 2 and a controller 11 that reads an IP address previously stored in the USB-LAN ... 01/18/07 - 20070014284 - Human-to-human collaborative session request queue processing Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to queued requests to establish human-to-human collaborative sessions and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for managing queued requests to establish human-to-human collaborative sessions. In one embodiment, a human-to-human collaborative data processing system ... 01/11/07 - 20070008965 - Programmable sonet framing A synchronous optical network (SONET) framer includes a frame dimension unit and a programming interface. The frame dimension unit can be programmed with a frame dimension through the programming interface. The SONET framer converts a data stream to and/or from a frame format based on the frame dimension programmed into ... 01/11/07 - 20070008964 - Ring rapid spanning tree protocol In a method for enabling facilitation of re-convergence, designation information for a first port of each one of a plurality of bridges in a multi-bridge ring is received and designation information for a second port of each one of a plurality of bridges in a multi-bridge ring is received. The ... 01/11/07 - 20070008963 - Method to protect against manipulated charging signaling data in ims networks Method to protect against manipulated charging signaling data in IMS networks In the prior art CDR tickets are exchanged between devices/functionalities of an IMS system. This can result in manipulations. The invention reduces the likelihood of manipulation, in that the BGCF function of the IMS system is enhanced such that ... 01/11/07 - 20070008962 - Packet classification using encoded addresses Techniques that may be utilized in a multiprocessor computing system are described. In one embodiment, one or more addresses (such as source and/or destination addresses) of a received packet are encoded to reduce the size of the addresses and the encoded one or more addresses are utilized to classifying the ... 01/11/07 - 20070008961 - Internet protocol based 911 system The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for initiating and handling an emergency IP request using an IP enabled device having GPS capability. The IP enabled device is monitored for one or more emergency criteria. If the emergency criteria are satisfied, global positioning data is obtained using the ... 01/11/07 - 20070008960 - Method and system for implementing a push-to-talk service in a mobile radio communication network of the gsm-type The present invention relates to a method for transmitting user data via a dialled connection in a radio communication network, characterized in that the user data are transmitted as dedicated data packets upon controlled release. A dedicated push-to-talk domain is provided which is hosting push-to-talk service network nodes (PTT SNN) ... 01/04/07 - 20070002857 - Method of network communication A method of network communication and a network gateway are disclosed. The method and gateway operate between a secure network and remote clients by way of an intermediate transport network, such as the Internet. The remote clients connect through a NAT router so share a common source address on the ... 01/04/07 - 20070002856 - Image communication apparatus and an image communication program There is described an image communication apparatus and an image communication program capable of transmitting image data with the output attribute conforming to the communication charge, and capable of determining the image data output attribute at an earlier phase. The image communication apparatus includes: a signal judgment section which judges ... 01/04/07 - 20070002855 - Signal message compression A method for compressing a signalling message in a compressor in a communication system. The compressor comprising a compression memory, wherein the compression memory comprises a first memory in a virtual machine and a second memory external to the virtual machine. The method comprising the steps of: receiving a part ... 01/04/07 - 20070002854 - Protocol agnostic switching In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a switch fabric, an adaptation processor to append a length field to a received packet, and a switch fabric to use information in the length field to switch variable-sized packets. ... 01/04/07 - 20070002853 - Snoop bandwidth reduction In one embodiment, it may be determined whether a processor is going to access a packet payload that is stored in a source buffer. If the processor is not going to access the packet payload, a data movement module (DMM) may move the packet payload from the source buffer to ... 01/04/07 - 20070002852 - Fixed interleaving length for mpe-fec Provided are apparatuses and methods for maximizing interleaving length when padding the contents of a frame for digital transmission. Data packets, comprising data for transmission, prior to time-interleaving, are padded with padding packets in such a way as to maximize interleaving length. When using Multi Protocol Encapsulation—Forward Error Correction (MPE-FEC), ... 01/04/07 - 20070002851 - Transmission and reception of session packets Techniques are provided that indicate the termination of a session. For instance, a final data packet of a transport session (e.g., an ALC session) is transmitted across a transmission medium within a time period. Also within this time period, an end of session (EOS) packet corresponding to the transport session ... 01/04/07 - 20070002850 - System and methods for compressing message headers An MPLS router operable for labeled switch path (LSP) operation defines a compression index for identifying a decompression context between other MPLS LSP routers. The compression index allows a multipoint-to-point link between MPLS routers, thereby avoiding an exhaustive mesh of point-to-point links between each of the MPLS routers. The originator ... 01/04/07 - 20070002849 - Method and system for switching frames in a switching system A method for switching frames in a switching system is provided. The method includes receiving a first stripe set for a first port at a second port. The first stripe set is stored in a particular location in a queue of the second port. A determination is made regarding whether ... 12/28/06 - 20060291464 - Data link/physical layer packet buffering and flushing A buffering structure including at least a first FIFO storage structure to stage at least a selected one of undiverted egress packets and undiverted ingress packets is provided. The buffering structure further includes at least first associated packet drop logic to selectively effectuate head or tail flushes of the first ... 12/28/06 - 20060291463 - Communication apparatus, control method therefor, computer readable information recording medium and communication destination apparatus type registration data A communication destination apparatus type registering part is configured to register an apparatus type of a destination communication apparatus, and a function corresponding to an apparatus type of a destination communication apparatus is provided with the use of apparatus type information of the destination communication apparatus registered by said communication ... 12/28/06 - 20060291462 - Method and apparatus using multiple application cards to comprise multiple logical network entities An apparatus (301) is comprised of a plurality of application cards (302-304) wherein at least a plurality of the application cards each comprise a part, but not all, of a plurality of logical network entities (307 and 308) such as a Packet Data Serving Node. A data packet session manager ... 12/28/06 - 20060291461 - Apparatus, system and method capable of aggregate compression in a wireless lan An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transmitter capable of compressing header information in an aggregate of Media Access Control Service Data Units (MSDUs) by using one or more flags fields to describe which address fields are present in said aggregate. ... 12/28/06 - 20060291460 - Digital program mapping Rather than utilizing fixed point-to-point remapping of PIDS, the present invention utilizes the type of stream that the PIDS are associated with and the related program services IDs to specify the associations between input and output programs. This permits mapping at the program level and, therefore, allows dynamic responses to ... 12/28/06 - 20060291459 - Scalable, highly available cluster membership architecture The invention comprises a software-based communications architecture and associated software methods for establishing and maintaining a common membership among a cluster of multiple, cooperating computers (called hosts). The invention incorporates the use of nearest neighbor and overlapping heartbeat connections between clustered computers that are logically organized in a linear or ... 12/21/06 - 20060285541 - H.323 user, service and service provider mobility framework for the multimedia intelligent networking The present invention provides a method and system for assuring H.323 alias address portability to an H.323 user in real-time H.323 multimedia communications where the H.323 user is registered with a home gatekeeper for the home zone of the H.323 user. Alias address portability may be obtained using a central ... 12/21/06 - 20060285540 - Providing operation services for networks via operations service servers Systems and methods of provide operations services for networks through an operations service switch. Multiple customers of the operations service may obtain operations service through the operations switch, as opposed to implementing operations services themselves. Operations service servers are in communication with the operations switch so as to be available ... 12/14/06 - 20060280180 - Method of calling between terminals in packet-based multimedia communication system The present invention relates to the communication field, disclosing a method of calling between terminals in a packet-based multimedia communication system, by which an H.323 normal-start terminal can call an H.323 terminal through an SIP relay. In the present invention, virtual SDP information is constructed and added in an SIP ... 12/14/06 - 20060280179 - Dhcp over mobile ip A protocol that enables an 802 mobile host to obtain a “home IP address,” and other configuration parameters via DHCP or BOOTP, while attached to either its home subnet or a foreign subnet. Inner and outer encapsulation headers are used to forward DHCP messages from a DHCP server outbound through ... 12/14/06 - 20060280178 - Script-based parser A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for analyzing network data streams with parsers generated using script based parsers is provided. The script based parsers are used to analyze the captured frames of a network data stream and identify conversations in the frames. The script based parsers are written in a ... 12/14/06 - 20060280177 - Integration network for digital media solutions A technique that provides an integration network for digital media solutions by seamlessly linking one or more digital media applications with one or more associated media services. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by linking one or more digital media applications with one or more media services via a ... 12/14/06 - 20060280176 - Dispersed high level devices in a network environment A system and method for locating Open System Interconnection (OSI) Layer 3 or higher devices at strategic locations throughout the network. The Layer 3 devices may have additional capabilities, such as wireless connections or other functionality that may benefit both the consumer and network provider. Layer 2 traffic is confined ... 12/14/06 - 20060280175 - Method and system for tunneling data using a management protocol A method and system for providing network management communication between a plurality of network elements are disclosed. A method includes creating a tunnel configured for transmitting data between the network elements and transmitting network management information over the tunnel using a network management protocol. The tunnel passes through a gateway ... 12/14/06 - 20060280174 - Method and system for establishing a data link layer protocol on a physical layer port connection This invention relates to a method for establishing a data link layer connection enabling data communication between modules connected through a port connector. The modules may be a mobile communication device such as a cell or mobile telephone, and a peripheral such as a functional cover, a camera or the ... 12/14/06 - 20060280173 - Method and system for uneven distribution of data A method to transmit streamed information at a wireless tele- and data communication network by transmitting streamed high prioritized information via a secure medium, whereas low prioritized data are transmitted over a standard channel. The method combines two technologies, MMS and Streaming, to guarantee that a video client in a ... 12/14/06 - 20060280172 - Virtual networks A virtual network has a plurality of nodes, each node with a list for storing up to a predetermined number (L) of addresses representing links to other such nodes. These links are managed by: receiving (300) a message requesting a link between a first node and a second node; determining ... 12/07/06 - 20060274749 - Method enabling network address translation of incoming session initiation protocol connections base on dynamic host configuration protocol address assignments A system for using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) address assignments to determine a local destination address of a received packet in a Network Address Translation (NAT) environment. The system includes a DHCP server to assign local IP addresses to devices on a network. The system has a NAT device ... 12/07/06 - 20060274748 - Communication device, method, and program When a data transfer request is received, a transmitting-side NIC generates an RDMA packet from transfer data and speculatively transmits it without inquiring the transfer destination about presence of reception permission. If reception of a receiving area is unpermitted, the RDMA packet is retransmitted when a retransmission request is received ... 12/07/06 - 20060274747 - Communication system for wireless audio devices The present subject matter provides a system for wireless communications between one or more wireless audio devices and other electronics for providing a rich set of streaming audio, control, programming and enhanced hearing functions. ... 12/07/06 - 20060274746 - Apparatus and method for combined transmission of input/output data in automation bus systems In order to improve the mutual integration of components which control or are controlled via a fieldbus protocol with other components which can be networked using an Ethernet network, the invention provides an installation having a plurality of components which are connected to one another via an Ethernet network, with ... 12/07/06 - 20060274745 - System and method for transparent wireless bridging of communication channel segments Systems and methods for transparent wireless bridging of communication channels are provided. A plurality of wireless bridge devices are each deployed on a wired communication channel segment and listen for traffic to build a table of MAC addresses for the network devices on each respective segment. The bridges also collectively ... 12/07/06 - 20060274744 - Dynamic vlan id assignment and packet transfer apparatus Any or unique VLAN ID is dynamically assigned to a user terminal connected to a network, and communication by the assigned VLAN ID is enabled. A connection request from a user terminal is directed to L2GWs by a tagged VLAN frame having a common VLAN ID on the network. The ... 12/07/06 - 20060274743 - System and method for a mobile device to learn information about the access networks within its neighborhood A system and method for a mobile device to learn information about the access networks within its neighborhood is disclosed. In certain embodiments, information about networks in a neighborhood of a particular network is stored in a database associated with a dynamic host configuration protocol server. Periodic beacons of an ... 12/07/06 - 20060274742 - Adaptive cache for caching context and for adapting to collisions in a session lookup table Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for an adaptive cache for caching context and for adapting to collisions in session lookup table. A network processor chip may comprise an on-chip cache that stores transport control blocks (TCB) from a TCB array in external ... 12/07/06 - 20060274741 - Managing devices across nat boundaries An address management scheme allows a Network Management System (NMS) to manage devices in a private network operating behind a Network Address Translator (NAT) boundary. A device operating in the private network sends a communication to a Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs) (STUN) ... 12/07/06 - 20060274740 - Method and apparatus for business to consumer channeling over wireless access networks A network service provider (NSP) (101) has a communications interface (102) coupled to one or more wireless access networks (120) and one or more content service providers (CSPs) (110), a memory (104), and a processor (106). The processor can be programmed to establish (202) a content profile for each of ... 12/07/06 - 20060274739 - Method and apparatus for managing medium access control (mac) address A method for managing medium access control (MAC) address and related apparatus are provided, including an MAC address learning method and an MAC addresses inquiring method. The learning method includes the steps of: mapping an MAC address to a designated slot and a companion slot in an address table; if ... 12/07/06 - 20060274738 - Controlling communication path reservations in a packet network with non-homogeneous nodes An exemplary method controls features and services implemented by nodes in a first communication network where nodes in a second network are not adapted to provide such control or services. A first signaling message is sent by a device in response to receipt by a recipient in the first network ... 12/07/06 - 20060274737 - Method and apparatus for processing null packets in a digital media receiver A method and apparatus for reliably detecting MPEG-2 packet sync-byte positions received via a digital transmission system in the event of a packet stream containing a plurality of null packets or a plurality of packets containing a fixed repeating bit pattern and for reliably synchronizing and delivering the MPEG-2 stream ... 11/30/06 - 20060268867 - Tcp/ip reception processing circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit implementing the same A TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) reception processing circuit for transferring a packet included in a frame and received from a lower layer to a memory accessible by an upper layer, includes a section that presumes a communication end point as a destination of the packet included in the frame ... 11/30/06 - 20060268866 - Out-of-order superscalar ip packet analysis An out-of-order network packet analysis architecture that decouples deep packet inspection from the packet forwarding process. Rather than placing the packet inspection engine inline into the packet forwarding pipeline, the packet forwarding and packet inspection processes operate asynchronously on a single unified packet buffer. Furthermore, the present invention reduces the ... 11/30/06 - 20060268865 - Wireless communication method and apparatus A wireless communication method includes determining the number of packets for real-time communication, which are inserted in a wireless frame whose number of bits is adaptively varied; inserting the packets for real-time communication in the wireless frame, wherein the number of the packets are determined by the determining step; and ... 11/30/06 - 20060268864 - System and method for providing data commonality in a programmable transport demultiplexer engine A method and system are provided for providing data commonality in a programmable transport demultiplexer engine. The method may involve utilizing a hardware assist block to process a portion of an incoming data packet, which may result in a partially processed data packet. The data packet may comprise data in ... 11/30/06 - 20060268863 - Transparent address translation methods An address translation method for a LAN (local area network) node using a real Internet protocol (IP) address to deliver and receive transparent application layer packets. First, the IP address of the local node equivalent to the WAN IP address of the router is assigned. Thereafter, the router masquerades ARP ... 11/30/06 - 20060268862 - Apparatus and method for establishing network Embodiments of a method and apparatus can establish a network using pre-set IP information when a host is coupled to a network. In an embodiment of a network establishment method, ARP response information can be compared with pre-stored set information using a predetermined calculation so to decide a set, an ... 11/30/06 - 20060268861 - Network system and communication method A network system and a communication method are provided to solve an NAT problem to functionalize a P2P application in case that new port information (number) is assigned to an NAT device. One communication device sends a pseudo-packet containing an address of another communication device, to a port information transmitting ... 11/30/06 - 20060268860 - Network processor for analyzing network data A network processor used to route network packet to multiple analysis processors for analysis. A network processor is programmable and routes data by receiving the network packets and identifying a transaction of each packet. Each packet is assigned the same transaction identifier by the network processor. A path manager can ... 11/30/06 - 20060268859 - Data stream protocol prioritized analysis Methods and apparatuses for performing priority analysis on data transferred in a network. A network processor is connected with a distribution module that distributes network data to multiple memory buffers that are each connected with an analysis processor. Each analysis processor performs protocol analysis tests on the data it receives. ... 11/30/06 - 20060268858 - Communication system supporting two-way on-hold functionality A communication system and method include a first user agent initiating a telephone call to a second user agent. An intermediary agent establishes a first connection to the first user agent and a second connection to the second user agent. If the intermediary determines that the second user agent has ... 11/30/06 - 20060268857 - Method and apparatus for sip messaging A method and apparatus for encoding a SIP message into an internal binary format so that it can be treated much more efficiently by both the SIP stack layers and the application. Only one memory buffer is used to handle any sort of SIP message. For this reason, this new ... 11/30/06 - 20060268856 - System and method for authentication of sp ethernet aggregation networks A Service Provider (SP) authentication method includes receiving a message from a subscriber-premises device, the message being compatible with an authentication protocol and being transported from the subscriber-premises device to a u-PE device operating in compliance with an IEEE 802.1x compatible protocol. Access to the SP network is either allowed ... 11/30/06 - 20060268855 - Communication apparatus for real-time embedded control A communication apparatus is provided, which may include a node having a processor and a computer-readable medium, the node being associated with an electrical component of a real-time embedded control system configured to control one or more electronic components. The communication apparatus may further include a program stored on the ... 11/30/06 - 20060268854 - Auto-addressing system and method A modular distributed I/O system that allows one or more modules of an island to be omitted without requiring reconfiguration of the system and a method for auto-addressing the system. The island includes a network interface module that is operably connected to a user interface. The user interface allows a ... 11/30/06 - 20060268853 - Methods and apparatus for distributing label information A given router in the core of a label-switching network identifies a group of routers to receive common label binding information for later routing packets along respective paths through the label-switching network. One way to identify which of multiple routers to include as a member of the group to receive ... 11/30/06 - 20060268852 - Lens-based apparatus and method for filtering network traffic data Systems and methods are provided for filtering and processing network traffic data and for providing visual representations of the processed data. A lens may identify or filter source and destination addresses in an address space, or identify and filter other network information of interest. A receptor array can be configured ... 11/30/06 - 20060268851 - Method and apparatus for address resolution protocol persistent in a network data processing system A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for transferring data in a network data processing system. Data is transferred to a destination in which an address resolution protocol entry is used to transfer this data to the destination. A determination is made as to whether the address resolution protocol entry will ... 11/23/06 - 20060262791 - Network switching architecture with multiple table synchronization, and forwarding of both ip and ipx packets A network switch for network communications includes a first data port interface. The first data port interface supports a plurality of data ports transmitting and receiving data at a first data rate. A second data port interface is provided; the second data port interface supports a plurality of data ports ... 11/23/06 - 20060262790 - Low-delay video encoding method for concealing the effects of packet loss in multi-channel packet switched networks A method for encoding digital video with low delay for transport on a multi-channel QoS packet-switched network using multiple reference pictures with specially designated “key frames” to minimize the undesired effects of packet loss on video quality. ... 11/23/06 - 20060262789 - Method and corresponding device for packets classification Methods and corresponding devices for packets classification featuring pattern recognition, and not content recognition or port matching. The methods and corresponding devices are able to recognize traffic in the background and/or offline, without overloading the system. ... 11/23/06 - 20060262788 - Dynamic payload header suppression extensions for ipv6 In a communications system (such as cable modem communications), dynamic payload header suppression (DPHS) is applied to a data stream to reduce header overhead. DPHS allows the suppression of static fields as well as fields that change in a predictable manner (i.e., predictably dynamic fields). To suppress predictably dynamic fields, ... 11/23/06 - 20060262787 - Systems and methods for multiplexing and demultiplexing multiple data sources The present disclosure describes systems and methods for multiplexing multiple data sources Some illustrative embodiments include a method for combining multiple data sources, including building one or more single-source data words by iteratively selecting a data source, writing data from the data source to each data section within a single-source ... 11/23/06 - 20060262786 - Inter-domain routing technique using mpls This invention is to enable inter-domain routing using MPLS. When communication is carried out passing through plural domains, respective management servers managing respective domains cooperate to carry out path constitution and optimum routing. At the path constitution, the respective management servers connect links within the respective controlling domain to constitute ... 11/23/06 - 20060262785 - Methods and apparatus for providing peer-to-peer data networking for wireless devices A system for a server-less peer-to-peer data network for content transfer between wireless devices is described. The system includes a first wireless device having a first address and content, and a second wireless device. The first wireless device transmits a message including the first address over a first service. The ... 11/23/06 - 20060262784 - Technique for in order delivery of traffic across a storage area network A technique is disclosed for managing in-order-delivery of data traffic in a storage area network which includes at least one host device adapted to communicate with at least one storage device via a fibre channel fabric. When a change in at least one route in the fibre channel fabric is ... 11/23/06 - 20060262783 - Approach for implementing ipsec in performance enhancing proxy (pep) environments An approach is provided for implementing IPsec in PEP environments. The approach generally involves preserving TCP header data contained in packets prior to IPsec encryption and making the TCP header data available to PEP applications. For example, TCP header data is identified in a packet that conforms to the TCP ... 11/23/06 - 20060262782 - Asynchronous dual-queue interface for use in network acceleration architecture A method for receiving data in a network acceleration architecture for use with TCP (transport control protocol), iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over TCP, including providing a hardware acceleration engine, called a streamer, adapted for communication with and processing data from a consumer ... 11/23/06 - 20060262781 - Data transport module A data transport module includes a connector to be received and coupled to a backplane within a modular platform. The data transport module also includes another connector to be received and coupled in a slot resident on a board such that the data transport module is coplanar to the board ... 11/16/06 - 20060256789 - Mobile use of a pbx system Systems and methods for utilizing a PBX identifier of a PBX system in a mobile environment are provided. In exemplary systems, an enhanced DNS server maintains a central registry of PBX identifiers and corresponding locations associated with the PBX identifiers. The corresponding locations may comprise both private and public IP ... 11/16/06 - 20060256788 - System and method for content filtering using static source routes A packet containing a request for content is initially received at a content filtering router. The packet comprises a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address of a content server that stores the content and a bogus IP address. It is ascertained that the destination IP address is on a list of ... 11/16/06 - 20060256787 - Switch having external address resolution interface A network switch that has a plurality of input ports that receive data packets. An external interface is connected to the plurality of input ports. The external interface externally transmits the data packets for processing, and receives the data packets after processing. A memory management unit is connected to the ... 11/16/06 - 20060256786 - System and method of message traffic optimization A message traffic optimization system for reducing the size and quantity of messages is provided. The message traffic optimization system comprises a message traffic analysis module for analyzing message headers belonging to a plurality of messages, and a message traffic grouping module for grouping the messages into a bundle. ... 11/16/06 - 20060256785 - Mobile terminal An efficient retransmission control method, whereby a wasteful retransmission request and retransmission of a packet are not carried out when packet loss occurs. A receiving unit sends the received retransmission request information to a retransmission determining unit. When receiving the retransmission request information, the retransmission determining unit reads out refresh ... 11/09/06 - 20060251069 - Programmable packet processor with flow resolution logic A programmable packet switching controller has a packet buffer, a pattern match module, a programmable packet classification engine and an application engine. The packet buffer stores inbound packets, and includes a header data extractor to extract header data from the inbound packets and to store the extracted header data in ... 11/09/06 - 20060251068 - Systems and methods for identifying potentially malicious messages Computer-implemented systems and methods for identifying illegitimate messaging activity on a system using a network of sensors. ... 11/09/06 - 20060251067 - Fibre channel over ethernet A Data Center Ethernet (“DCE”) network and related methods and device are provided. A DCE network simplifies the connectivity of data centers and provides a high bandwidth, low latency network for carrying Ethernet, storage and other traffic. A Fibre Channel (“FC”) frame, including FC addressing information, is encapsulated in an ... 11/09/06 - 20060251066 - Terminal routing identity as user identity for uicc-less terminals A terminal for use with a wireless local area network, said terminal being arranged to use at least part of at least one of the following pieces information as an identity: a MAC Medium Access Control address of an AP access point to which said terminal is connected to, in ... 11/09/06 - 20060251065 - Network system having broadcast suppression function A layer 2 switch includes a first control unit for, when receiving a frame broadcast-transferred in a layer 2 switch located on a transmission source terminal side, if a destination MAC address included in the frame has already been learned and a transmission source MAC address has not been learned, ... 11/09/06 - 20060251064 - Video processing and optical recording A combined digital TV decoding and optical recording system includes a transport stream demultiplexer to demultiplex at least one compressed multimedia stream from an MPEG transport stream having multiplexed compressed multimedia streams. A video encoder compresses a video stream to generate a second compressed video stream. A common system controller ... 11/09/06 - 20060251063 - System and method for implementing suppression in a communications environment A method for communicating data is provided that includes receiving a plurality of cells associated with a communications flow and determining whether one or more of the cells included in the flow should be suppressed, whereby a selected one or more of the cells are suppressed. The method also includes ... 11/09/06 - 20060251062 - Scalable overlay network An overlay network and scheme for building and using the overlay network are described. As the overlay network is built, new nodes joining the network are connected randomly with other nodes which results in a random graph as the network topology. The network is fully scalable, with each new node ... 11/02/06 - 20060245427 - Data bus with client-aborted message handling method A data bus and message handling method provide a definitive means of indicating a client-aborted message for data bus systems which employ a message protocol that requires each message conveyed between a client device and an originating device to automatically and atomically include a frame check sequence (FCS). When a ... 11/02/06 - 20060245426 - Network A network includes a first network function having an address. There is a second network function requiring the address of the first network function. A third network function is arranged to insert the address of the first network function into a message. A fourth network function is sent the message ... 11/02/06 - 20060245425 - Method of access to a channelized network from a packet data network A method for providing a mobile device in a packet data network access to a channelized network is disclosed. At a gateway between the two networks, a first channelized network message that is encapsulated in a first IP data packet from the packet data network is received. The first channelized ... 11/02/06 - 20060245424 - Ultra-low latency packet transport in ad hoc networks The systems and methods described herein include, among other things, processes for providing low latency packet transport in ad hoc networks. To this end, the systems, in certain embodiments, employ an architecture for communication nodes in MANETs, in which the delay introduced in “routing” or “relaying” the packet is reduced. ... 10/26/06 - 20060239263 - Method for the establishing of connections in a communication system The invention relates to the multiplexing of transport layer connections in a communication system comprising a front-end node and a number of server nodes. A first packet from the server node is routed to the front-end node, the first packet comprising destination information associated with an external node. A termination ... 10/26/06 - 20060239262 - Connection memory for tributary time-space switches A method of switching a plurality of tributaries disposed among a plurality of time slots in a frame is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) buffering the frame, (B) switching the tributaries among the time slots in response to a read address and (C) generating the read ... 10/26/06 - 20060239261 - Selecting transport addresses to route streams between endpoints Selecting a transport address for a call session between a first endpoint of a first region and a second endpoint of a second region includes determining that the call session is being initiated. A relationship between the first region and the second region is determined. One or more transport addresses ... 10/26/06 - 20060239260 - Method and system for dynamic stashing A system, method, apparatus and machine-readable medium for stashing an information packet, received by a network interface device, are provided. The method includes i) extracting information from the received information packet; ii) determining the stashing size of the information packet; and iii) stashing the information packet, based on the determined ... 10/19/06 - 20060233170 - Stream-oriented interconnect for networked computer storage An apparatus and method for connecting a plurality of computing devices, e.g. web servers, database servers, etc., to a plurality of storage devices, such as disks, disk arrays, tapes, etc., by using a stream-oriented (circuit oriented) switch that has high throughput, but that requires non-negligible time for reconfiguration is disclosed. ... 10/19/06 - 20060233169 - Residential ethernet switching apparatus capable of performing time-slot switching and time-slot switching method thereof A Residential Ethernet switching apparatus for performing time slot switching includes an input unit for receiving frames as input, and a parser for parsing the received frames into asynchronous Ethernet frames (AsyncE frames) and Residential Ethernet frames (ResE frames). An AsyncE switching processor performs a switching operation for an AsyncE ... 10/19/06 - 20060233168 - Virtual bridge A method and apparatus establish an address of a frame as being associated with a physical device or a virtual device. If the frame is associated with a virtual device, the address of the frame may be established as being associated with a local virtual device or a remote virtual ... 10/19/06 - 20060233167 - Negotiation of datapath treatment for end-to-end interworked network traffic The invention provides a method for negotiating datapath treatment for traffic sourced from a first communications network over an end-to-end path in respect of a path segment provided for said traffic in a second communications network, the path segment being requested for a first node of the second communications network ... 10/19/06 - 20060233166 - Public and private network service management systems and methods Public and private network service management systems and methods are disclosed. Rules for accessing a private services network in which network services are available are enforced so as to restrict access to the services network through a public network in accordance with policies of the services network. Use of network ... 10/19/06 - 20060233165 - Managing data in a subtended switch A technique for provisioning cross-connects in network switching environment includes receiving a portion of the an input data stream including having header data and the payload data, the payload data occurring at a first offset relative to the header data and generating a delayed version of the portion of the ... 10/12/06 - 20060227780 - Address translation method A translator includes a unit for communication with a DNS-ALG. The DNS-ALG detects a DNS query to a destination terminal, and performs once translation to IPv6. The DNS-ALG translates a destination temporary IPv6 address, in which a real address of IPv4 acquired from a DNS server of the destination terminal ... 10/12/06 - 20060227779 - Network based routing scheme A network organization and routing scheme are provided. These techniques enable a network to control the paths that frames take through the network. A device transmitting a frame may add tags to the frame in order to define a particular path that the frame should take through the network. For ... 10/12/06 - 20060227778 - Method of supporting multiple codes in a wireless mobile communication system A method of supporting multiple code types in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a mobile station (MS) receives a channel descriptor from a base station (BS), wherein the channel descriptor includes at least one burst profile which includes a code type and an interval usage code. ... 10/12/06 - 20060227777 - Filtering frames at an input port of a switch A switch includes multiple ports for transmitting and receiving frames and a switching core for switching frames between the ports. One or more of the ports locally store filtering information, allowing the ports to filter frames without accessing central elements of the switch. For example, a port's filtering information may ... 10/12/06 - 20060227776 - Forwarding traffic flow information using an intelligent line card Methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring traffic characteristics using intelligent line cards. Selected flows are configured for monitoring based on characteristics such as an initiator target pairing or an initiator target and logical unit (LUN) grouping. Frames such as command frames associated with selected flows are forwarded to both ... 10/12/06 - 20060227775 - System, method, and apparatus for embedding personal video recorder functions in transport packets Described herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for embedding personal video recorder functions in transport packets. In one embodiment, there is described a method for commanding a video processor. The method comprises generating a transport packet; placing an indicator in the transport packet, said indicator indicating that the transport packet ... 10/12/06 - 20060227774 - Collective network routing Disclosed are a unified method and apparatus to classify, route, and process injected data packets into a network so as to belong to a plurality of logical networks, each implementing a specific flow of data on top of a common physical network. The method allows to locally identify collectives of ... 10/12/06 - 20060227773 - Authenticity of communications traffic Provided are a techniques for storing information in a packet. A data integrity operation is performed over one portion of the packet to calculate an integrity check value using a secret key. The data transformation operation is performed over another selectable portion of the packet to store the integrity check ... 10/12/06 - 20060227772 - Method and system for packet data communication between networks A system and method for packet data transmission is described, particularly in the case of dispersed networks that are at least occasionally in data communication with each other (such as in a wide area network), in which efficient packet transmission is provided while avoiding traffic bottlenecks and the like. In ... 10/12/06 - 20060227771 - Dynamic service management for multicore processors A system, apparatus, method and article to perform dynamic service management for multicore processors are described. The apparatus may include, for example, a processing device having multiple types of processors to process packets. A service manager may dynamically assign executable files for multiple services to the multiple types of processors ... 10/12/06 - 20060227770 - Preventing duplicate sources from clients served by a network address port translator Preventing duplicate sources on a protocol connection that uses network addresses, protocols and port numbers to identify connections that include port number translation. In response to an inbound IPsec packet from a remote source client, a determination is made as to whether or not a port number is available within ... 10/12/06 - 20060227769 - Method for data exchange between network elements in networks with different address ranges The invention relates to a method for data exchange between network elements with a first network element, arranged in a first network domain with address valid in the first network domain, a second network element, arranged in a second network domain with an address valid in the first network domain ... 10/05/06 - 20060221959 - Data compression device and method, and program for data compression To perform effective compression while maintaining the quality of the data, there is provided a data compression device for compressing a prescribed data file, which comprises: a compression threshold value storage device for storing a compression threshold value indicating compression limit that is set in advance in accordance with a ... 10/05/06 - 20060221958 - Pim sparse-mode emulation over mpls lsp's An apparatus and method for emulating a shared or source distribution tree within an MPLS network. In one embodiment of the method, a router receives a multicast data packet. The router transmits the multicast data packet to a first router via a first point-to-point label switched path (LSP). The router ... 10/05/06 - 20060221957 - Data transmission device capable of transmitting data to a plurality of addresses by simple method When an MFP determines that text data is transmitted to a plurality of addresses as destinations set by a user, an address group including set addresses is searched from a one-touch key registration and the transmission history of the user (or a group such as a department or a section ... 10/05/06 - 20060221956 - Methods for performing packet classification via prefix pair bit vectors Methods for performing packet classification via prefix pair bit vectors. Unique prefix pairs in an access control list (ACL) are identified, with each prefix pair comprising a unique combination of a source prefix and a destination prefix. Corresponding prefix pair bit vectors (PPBVs) are defined for each unique source prefix ... 10/05/06 - 20060221955 - Ip addressing in joined private networks Systems and methods are disclosed for mitigating addressing conflicts in joined networks. For example, Internet Protocol (IP) addressing conflicts in a virtual private network (VPN) can be mitigated by automatically changing an address of a gateway of one network when another network is placed in communication therewith. A destination network ... 10/05/06 - 20060221954 - Methods for performing packet classification Methods for performing packet classification. In one embodiment, packets are classified using a rule bit vector optimization scheme, wherein original rule bit vectors in recursive flow classification (RFC) chunks are optimized by removing useless bits that have no effect on the ultimate rule identified by an associated RFC lookup process. ... 10/05/06 - 20060221953 - Method and apparatus for blind checksum and correction for network transmissions Method and apparatus for providing a checksum in a network transmission. In one aspect of the invention, a checksum for a packet to be transmitted on a network is determined by retrieving packet information from a storage device, the packet information to be included in the packet to be transmitted. ... 10/05/06 - 20060221952 - System and method for parsing, filtering, and computing the checksum in a host ethernet adapter (hea) A system and method for parsing, filtering, and computing the checksum in a host Ethernet adapter (HEA) that is coupled to a host. The method includes receiving a part of a frame, wherein a plurality of parts of a frame constitute a entire frame. Next, parse the part of a ... 10/05/06 - 20060221951 - System and method for a method for reducing latency in a host ethernet adapter (hea) A system and method for reducing latency in a host Ethernet adapter (HEA) includes the following. First, the HEA receives a packet with an internet protocol (IP) header and data in the HEA. The HEA parses a connection identifier from the IP header and accesses a negative cache in the ... 10/05/06 - 20060221950 - Method and system for vpls using ethernet bridges A method for implementing Ethernet service, comprising configuring a bridged network to support virtual private LAN services (VPLS), is disclosed. ... 10/05/06 - 20060221949 - Efficient detection and/or processing in multi-hop wireless networks A multi-hop wireless network system is disclosed that includes a plurality of routing nodes configured to route packets transmitted from a source node to a destination node. In the preferred embodiments, the plurality of routing nodes are configured to perform capture and analysis by only a last routing node before ... 10/05/06 - 20060221948 - Interconnecting network for switching data packets and method for switching data packets The interconnecting network for switching data packets, having data and flow control information, comprises a local packet switch element (S1) with local input buffers (I(1,1) . . . I(1,y)) for buffering the incoming data packets, a remote packet switch element (S2) with remote input buffers (I(2,1) . . . I(2,y)) ... 10/05/06 - 20060221947 - Multiple ip identities for end user telephony devices An apparatus in one example comprises an Internet Protocol telephone set accommodating at least first and second Internet Protocol addresses, wherein at least first and second sets of configuration parameters associated with the first and second Internet Protocol addresses are stored in the telephone set, and one of the first ... 10/05/06 - 20060221946 - Connection establishment on a tcp offload engine A method for performing connection establishment in TCP (transmission control protocol), the method including sending a SYN segment from a sender to a TCP offload engine (TOE), the SYN segment comprising a TCP packet adapted to synchronize sequence numbers on connecting computers, creating a connection context, acknowledging receipt of the ... 09/28/06 - 20060215658 - Electronic device, ip address determining method, and recording medium having ip address determining program stored therein An electronic device is disclosed that generates an interface identifier to determine an IP address to use. The electronic device comprises an interface identifier generating unit to generate the interface identifier, a temporary IP address determining unit to determine a temporary IP address containing the interface identifier and a prefix, ... 09/28/06 - 20060215657 - Isatap tunneling system and method between ipv4 network and ipv6 network In an Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) tunneling system and method, an ISATAP tunnel which is a type of an IPv6 transition tunnel is used, even through a network address translation (NAT) region. The tunneling system for tunneling data having address formats different from one another includes: a host ... 09/28/06 - 20060215656 - Method, device and program storage medium for controlling communication Disclosed is a communication control method which enables a single device to be connected appropriately to multiple hosts under various conditions. The method, which is executed by a storage system composed of a processing unit, a storage unit and a connecting unit for a network, includes the steps of receiving ... 09/28/06 - 20060215655 - Method and system for data link layer address classification A method and system for data link layer address classification. Data link layer address information is received from a device over a local area network (LAN), wherein the LAN is partitioned into a plurality of domains. The data link layer address information is classified as being associated with a domain ... 09/28/06 - 20060215654 - Method and apparatus for detecting and recovering from faults associated with transport protocol connections across network address translators Approaches to recover from faults associated with multi-homed clients having transport protocol connections that pass through network address translators are disclosed. In one approach, context information for a connection, between a first host and a second host, referencing one of several multi-homed network addresses of the first host, is automatically ... 09/28/06 - 20060215653 - Encapsulating packets for network chip conduit port Systems, methods, and devices are provided for moving packets on a network device. One method includes receiving packets to a number of network chips, the number of network chips having a conduit port which can be selectively chosen to exchange packets with a processor responsible for processing packets. The method ... 09/28/06 - 20060215652 - Method and apparatus for packet traversal of a network address translation device A characterization method for a network address translation (NAT) device by an internal computer behind the NAT device includes creating a plurality of sockets; binding the plurality of sockets, respectively, to a plurality of ports; transmitting a plurality of STUN requests in user datagram protocol (UDP) packets to a plurality ... 09/28/06 - 20060215651 - System and method providing fixed rate transmission for digital visual interface and high-definition multimedia interface applications A system and method transmits graphic data received at varying frequencies at a fixed data rate. The frequency dependent data and associated data clock signal are received and the frequency dependent data is converted to frequency independent data. A ratio of a number of data clock cycles to a number ... 09/28/06 - 20060215650 - System and method for allocating processing bandwith in a residential gateway utilizing transmission rules and data mapping A system and method of networking with configurable data mapping is disclosed. Data mapping can be utilized to match data transmission types with devices that can efficiently utilize the data transmission type. In one configuration, the data mapping teachings disclosed herein may be utilized to increase the processing efficiency of ... 09/28/06 - 20060215649 - Network address converting apparatus using ssw tree A network device specifically dedicated to the translation of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses using the SSW Tree. This device implements Application Layer Gateways for DNS, IP Telephony and other Internet Standard Protocols. It provides IPv4 to IPv4 translation as well as IPv4 to IPv6 translation and IPv6 to IPv4 translation. ... 09/28/06 - 20060215648 - System and method for hardware based protocol conversion between audio-visual stream and ip network A system for transferring audio-video data via network includes an audio-video data source, circuits for encapsulation and de-capsulation of the audio-video data, a plurality of network adapters, and a network. The system offloads encapsulation and de-capsulation tasks from a general-purpose processor to its own processors to reduce system load and ... 09/28/06 - 20060215647 - Determination of characteristics during the transition between an aal2 signalling and another signalling The invention relates to a method and device for simple and efficient determining characteristics during a transition between an AAL2 signalling protocol and at least one another signalling protocol of at least one communication network. The inventive method and device are characterised in that at least one characteristic is determined ... 09/21/06 - 20060209823 - Internal substitution bi-level addressing for compatible public networks A computer readable medium stores a program in an ingress capable network device of a network for routing signals through the network. The computer readable includes a receiving code segment for receiving an original signal, which has an embedded destination service address. The computer readable medium also includes a querying ... 09/21/06 - 20060209822 - Communication apparatus, communication system and communication method The NAT type of a router can be examined by communicating with one server having one IP address, and a P2P communication path is established efficiently using the NAT type obtained by the examination. A terminal 100 transmits a plurality of port number examination request packets having a plurality of ... 09/21/06 - 20060209821 - Apparatus and method for selecting network interface in mobile terminal supporting multiple wireless access scheme An apparatus and method are provided for selecting a network interface in a mobile terminal supporting a multiple wireless access scheme. Upon receiving a connection request to a particular network interface from an application layer, an interface manager maps the application layer to its associated network interface. Upon detecting handoff ... 09/21/06 - 20060209820 - Cross bar apparatus, and method and program for controlling the same The frequency of the internal clock is set at ½ of the frequency of an external clock as well as the width of the internal bus is configured to be twice as wide as the width of an external bus. A write control unit controls a bypass unit and a ... 09/21/06 - 20060209819 - Method and apparatus for efficiently expanding a p2p network One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for efficiently expanding a P2P network includes receiving a search request message from a requesting node and sending a response message to the requesting node on behalf of a node that has the requested data, where the response message originates at an ... 09/21/06 - 20060209818 - Methods and devices for preventing arp cache poisoning Methods of processing an address resolution protocol (ARP) response in connection with a data control switch are presented including: receiving an ARP response, the ARP response having an ARP response MAC address and a corresponding ARP response IP address; and dropping the ARP response when: the ARP response MAC address ... 09/14/06 - 20060203817 - Image input/output control apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, data communication apparatus, and data communication method An image input/output control apparatus includes a control device for controlling input/output of image data with an external apparatus, plural image processing devices for performing predetermined image processes to the image data, and plural data transfer devices for connecting each of the plural image processing devices and the control device ... 09/14/06 - 20060203816 - Packet diversion in switching fabrics and multiple forwarding instructions for packets A cascade system of network units includes forwarding units which have external ports, a communication fabric connecting the units and at least one processing unit which needs no forwarding database. The processing unit may perform a security operation such as intrusion prevention or encryption. Each forwarding unit on receipt of ... 09/14/06 - 20060203815 - Compliance verification and osi layer 2 connection of device using said compliance verification The method comprises installing an agent software on the device; detecting a boot-up of the device; providing the device with a temporary IP address upon boot-up, the temporary IP address being within a compliancy network, logically separate from the corporate network; providing a list of compliance rules to be verified ... 09/07/06 - 20060198372 - Traffic exchanging method for mobile node in mobile internet protocol version 6 (mipv6) network A traffic exchanging method for a mobile node in a mobile network reduces packet loss during hand-over latency, and defines new messages in order to prevent packet disorder. By defining a message indicating that earlier received packets have all been delivered, it is possible to prevent packet disorder. This has ... 09/07/06 - 20060198371 - Method and apparatus for analyzing reliability of a flag value A method for analyzing the reliability of a flag value carried by a current block is disclosed. The method includes: determining whether the current block is a dummy block, and determining the flag value as invalid if the current block is determined as a dummy block. The step of determining ... 09/07/06 - 20060198370 - Micro mobility management A MN, a method and a VMAP for increasing efficiency of handover of the MN from a AR1 to a AR2. The VMAP is hierarchically below a MAP and above the AR1. The MN has a RCoA valid under the MAP and a LCoA valid under the AR1. The VMAP ... 09/07/06 - 20060198369 - Lookup table circuit structure for network switch device A circuit structure for implementing the lookup table of a network switching device is provided. With the circuit structure, the memory space of the lookup table could be fully utilized, and the time spent in searching the table is guaranteed to be within a specific time interval. The circuit structure ... 09/07/06 - 20060198368 - Secure multipoint internet protocol virtual private networks A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing secure multipoint Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IPVPNs) is presented. A packet lookup is performed in order to determine a next hop. A VPN label is pushed on the packet, as is an IP tunnel header. Group encryption through the use ... 09/07/06 - 20060198367 - Content based secure rendezvous chaotic routing system for ultra high speed mobile communications in ad hoc network environment The originator requests information from a target by launching a receptor agent that propagates across the mobile ad hoc network to the target. Along the way, intermediate nodes retain copies of the receptor. The target adds reply information to the receptor and launches it onto the network. When the reply-bearing ... 08/31/06 - 20060193322 - Label switched packet transfer base station A cellular network base station configured to operate in a cellular network having a service area divided into a multitude of cells through which mobile terminals can move through. The base station is configured to forwarding packets to and from the mobile terminals. The base station forwards packets to at ... 08/31/06 - 20060193321 - System and method for continuously provisioning a mobile device Described is a provisioning system for receiving configuration changes to and queries of settings on a mobile device. One implementation includes a router component and a configuration manager component. The router component is responsible for receiving messages delivered to the mobile device and parsing the messages into requests for information. ... 08/31/06 - 20060193320 - Data transmission method having improved network address translation method in home gateway and a system thereof A data transmission method and a data transmission system using an improved network address translation method. The data transmission method includes requesting a real-time service from a multimedia device to a home gateway within a home network; inputting a binary code corresponding to the multimedia device to a service type ... 08/31/06 - 20060193319 - System and method for providing packet communication service In a system and method for providing a packet communication service in a network system, a plurality of private networks are connected to one another through a public network. When a voice call is established between Internet protocol (IP) terminals included in respectively different private networks, packets can be directly ... 08/31/06 - 20060193318 - Method and apparatus for processing inbound and outbound quanta of data A method for processing inbound and/or outbound data wherein a processing policy is determined for a quantum of data. A quantum of inbound data is received and a data notification for the received data is prepared. The notification for the quantum of received inbound data is delivered to a processor ... 08/31/06 - 20060193317 - Method and apparatus for direct reception of inbound data A method and apparatus for receiving inbound data on an I/O device wherein a request to receive inbound data is received. A direct-data-placement request-tag is generated and associated with a pre-allocated buffer when the request requires direct data placement. A non-direct-data-placement request-tag is generated when the request does not require ... 08/31/06 - 20060193316 - Autonomous network topology and method of operating same An autonomous network topology for transient network devices. In a network comprising a plurality of autonomous, transient nodes, each node maintains a list of other nodes that are currently within its “line-of-sight,” i.e., other nodes with which a node can exchange packets of information directly. Each node also maintains a ... 08/31/06 - 20060193315 - Beacon transmission in short-range wireless communication systems The invention relates to a method for broadcasting beacon frames in a short-range wireless ad-hoc network including a plurality of wireless terminals. In order to improve the efficiency of the ad-hoc network in terms of power consumption, the terminal that defines the beacon interval for the network starts as a ... 08/24/06 - 20060187927 - System and method for providing rapid rerouting of real-time multi-media flows A system and method for providing rapid rerouting of real-time transport protocol (RTP) multi-media flows is disclosed. Generally, a first endpoint is connected to a second endpoint, wherein the first endpoint comprises a transceiver, software stored within the first endpoint defining functions to be performed by the first endpoint, and ... 08/24/06 - 20060187926 - Communications session switching method and system A first communications terminal (1) includes a step of detecting a session switching factor and extracting configuration information on a switching target session and a step of transmitting a message including the session configuration information and session switching factor to a session management server. A session management server (4) includes ... 08/24/06 - 20060187925 - Method for performing data transport over a serial bus using internet protocol and apparatus for use in the method Real time streaming over serial buses busing Internet protocol IP is becoming more and more important. With new bus technologies e.g. 10 Gbit Ethernet even streaming in HD cinematography quality and uncompressed form becomes possible. In this case, however, data access management by software means is critical or simply not ... 08/24/06 - 20060187924 - Ingress handling of data in a network device A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive a data packet from a data network and assign an ingress interface number to the data packet and a packet evaluation module, in communication with the ... 08/24/06 - 20060187923 - Dynamic filter processor key generation based on packet type A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive a data packet from a data network and to send a processed data packet to an egress port of the plurality of ports and a packet ... 08/24/06 - 20060187922 - Packet communication device To provide a packet communication device to which a function can be added by a functional module and that realizes high throughput and low apparatus cost. According to this invention, there is provided a packet communication device that receives a packet and transfers the packet received in a network, the ... 08/24/06 - 20060187921 - Wireless communication system, data transmitter and wireless communication method A wireless communication system includes a data transmitter, having an image pickup device, and a plurality of data receivers, for performing interactive wireless data communications between the data transmitter and each of the data receivers. The data transmitter includes a display for displaying an image of a data receiver photographed ... 08/24/06 - 20060187920 - Flexible packet modification engine A packet modification engine includes receiving means for receiving data packets, packet modification means for modifying the received data packets to produce the processed data packets and sending means for sending the processed data packets. The packet modification means is configured to modify the data packets on a cell basis, ... 08/24/06 - 20060187919 - Two stage parser for a network A network device for processing data on a data network, the network device includes a port interface, in communication with 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 ... 08/24/06 - 20060187918 - Powerful and expandable pipeline architecture for a network device A network device for processing data on a data network including a plurality of ports, configured to receive data packets and to send out processed data packets, a modification engine configured to parse, evaluate and modify the data packets to produce the processed data packets and a series of search ... 08/24/06 - 20060187917 - Pre-learning of values with later activation in a network device A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive a data packet from a data network and to send a processed data packet to the data network and a memory access unit, in communication with ... 08/24/06 - 20060187916 - Methods and apparatus based on message transmission times A data communication device (e.g., a router) originates a network configuration message in response to a network topology change or so as to refresh a configuration message. The data communication device encodes a timestamp in the network configuration message. The timestamp indicates a time of originating the network configuration message. ... 08/24/06 - 20060187915 - Method and apparatus for updating a wireless telephone A telecommunications system including a telephony device having telephony network and packet network connectivity and storing telephony device user data; a first personal computer having packet network connectivity and storing first user data; a second personal computer having packet network connectivity and storing second user data. The telephony device is ... 08/24/06 - 20060187914 - Method and device for managing heterogeneous communication networks A communication system includes in-band networks, out-of-band (OOB) networks, and translating nodes. In-band data is communicated in the in-band networks in a shared channel and routed based on a destination address specified by in-band control information that is also communicated in the same shared channel as the data. OOB data ... 08/24/06 - 20060187913 - Conduit port for network chips Network devices and methods are provided for device monitoring. One embodiment includes a network device having a processor, a high speed interconnect and a number of network chips. The number of network chips are coupled to one another through the high speed interconnect. The number of network chips have a ... 08/24/06 - 20060187912 - Method and apparatus for server-side nat detection A method and system for a server side detection of a Network Address Translation (NAT) device is provided. During the server-side NAT determination process, the client device is not required to have knowledge of the type of NAT device that the client device is behind. The server side NAT determination ... 08/24/06 - 20060187911 - Communication bonding systems and methods Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide IP bonding. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an IP bonding scheme is disclosed that modifies Generic Routing Encapsulation techniques such that information may be divided and carried through multiple paths (e.g., to improve capacity). ... 08/24/06 - 20060187910 - Method and device for provision and efficient utilization of resources for generating and outputting information in packet-oriented networks According to the invention, an information output, e.g. a voice output, video information output, or a simultaneous output of video and audio information, which is to be transmitted via a packet-oriented network, is generation by means of pre-coded information output components. Said pre-coded information output components are present in a ... 08/24/06 - 20060187909 - System and method for passing data frames in a wireless network A method is provided for receiving a data frame in an ultrawide bandwidth network. In this method, a device receives an ultrawide bandwidth signal containing a data frame. The device then performs an acquisition operation during a first preamble in the data frame, and identifies a marker after the first ... 08/17/06 - 20060182108 - Methods and systems using pld-based network communication protocols Methods and systems for a PLD-based network update transport (PNUT) protocol that utilizes UDP and other protocols for transmitting update or other commands or information over a packet-based or IP network. PNUT is a hardware-based network communication protocol that does not require the full TCP/IP stack and may be utilized ... 08/17/06 - 20060182107 - Electrical devices with improved communication Cameras, radios, televisions, set top boxes, telephones, kitchen appliances, and other electrical devices have their own IP address, and communicate using an internetworking protocol. Of particular interest are those devices that utilize some form of mass storage. Communication of the packets between or among elements can occur using any suitable ... 08/17/06 - 20060182106 - Image input/output control apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, data communication apparatus, and data communication method An image input/output control apparatus includes a control device for controlling input/output of image data with an external apparatus, plural image processing devices for performing predetermined image processes to the image data, and plural data transfer devices for connecting each of the plural image processing devices and the control device ... 08/17/06 - 20060182105 - Apparatus and method for transmitting multi protocol label switching (mpls) multicast packets over ethernet An apparatus and method for transmitting multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) multicast packets over Ethernet are provided. The apparatus and method determine whether a received packet is an MPLS multicast packet; determine whether an address of the received packet exists in a database storing address information for MPLS multicast packet transmission; ... 08/17/06 - 20060182104 - Method and apparatus for registering mobile node in a wireless local area network (lan) environment An apparatus and method for supporting mobility of a mobile terminal in a wireless local area network (LAN) environment deploying mobile IP are provided. The method for registering a mobile node using a virtual mobile node comprises: detecting whether or not a mobile node traveling among a plurality of networks ... 08/17/06 - 20060182103 - System and method for routing network messages A network routing system is provided that may establish a communication session between a local device and a remote destination. To establish a communication session, the local device generates a message directed to the remote destination. A traffic processor intercepts the message and redirects the message to a predefined network ... 08/17/06 - 20060182102 - Intelligent mpeg media storage, execution, and presentation system using network storage system A resource manager transforms the MPEG7 descriptors into an active and composite storage, processing, and presentation component in a storage area network (e.g. iSCSI). The active component can enable fast search and retrival operation directly on the logical disk blocks which maps well with the multimedia video stream and images ... 08/17/06 - 20060182101 - Method for distributing transport sessions over multiple network interfaces The present invention provides a method for distributing transport sessions over multiple network interfaces. The method includes establishing a plurality of network connections using a first plurality of network interfaces and providing a virtual network interface to an application layer, the virtual network interface being configured to provide access to ... 08/17/06 - 20060182100 - Automated nat traversal for peer-to-peer networks The subject invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate direct network communications between peers that operate behind Network Address Translators. In one aspect, a network communications system is provided. The system includes one or more Network Address Translators (NAT) to communicate data across a network between peers. A protocol ... 08/17/06 - 20060182099 - Processing of signalling messages according to one of a plurality of protocol stacks According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of processing a signaling message received from a service application and intended for delivery to a network element having a point code, comprising retrieving, from a data store, an indication of the network type associated with ... 08/17/06 - 20060182098 - System and method for providing differentiated services The present invention relates to a method and arrangements for updating the mapping of traffic in the form of a set of service level aggregate flows (SLS1, SLSM) to a set of partial resources (B1, BN) for forwarding the traffic in a communications network (21). Each service level aggregate flow ... 08/10/06 - 20060176878 - Method and system for transmitting a multimedia message A method and system for transmitting a large multimedia message. The method for transmitting a multimedia message includes dividing the large multimedia data to be transmitted into a plurality of divided multimedia data according to a transmission capacity of the mobile station, and forming plurality divided multimedia messages corresponding to ... 08/03/06 - 20060171388 - Communication apparatus and method having function of transmitting notification signal while hiding group identification information A communication apparatus is configured to receive a search message from an additional communication apparatus while transmitting beacon information while hiding a group identifier. Then, the communication apparatus is configured to determine whether the additional communication apparatus is already registered. Alternatively, the communication apparatus determines whether predetermined information is included ... 08/03/06 - 20060171387 - Method and system for address assignment in mobile ad-hoc network A method for assigning a global address to a node in an ad-hoc network is provided. A joining node to the ad-hoc network generates a local address using its MAC address. The joining node inquires of its one-hop nodes about whether they occupy a local address that is the same ... 08/03/06 - 20060171386 - Means and apparatus for a scaleable congestion free switching system with intelligent control iii A switching system for routing information packets that can simultaneously receive a variety of packet formats. The packet formats include electronic packet transmissions, optical wave division multiplexed data (WDM) with a single frame consisting of a plurality of packets to be sent to a common output line, with each packet ... 08/03/06 - 20060171385 - Data protection method and relay equipment using the same Store-and-forward relay equipment in which received data are temporarily stored in a buffer and then transmitted is provided. In the equipment, protection is performed with the limitation of the data part, which is not an object for substitution operation inside the equipment and has an unchanged content. As to the ... 08/03/06 - 20060171384 - Method and apparatus for automatic verification of a zone configuration and network access control construct for a plurality of network switches Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus for automatic verification of a zone configuration of a plurality of network switches. In one method embodiment, the present invention accesses an actual network access control construct and an actual zone configuration for a plurality of network switching devices. Additionally, ... 08/03/06 - 20060171383 - Handling incoming data So-called push technology enables reception of new contents automatically, i.e. without user initiation. In order to enable a connecting party to send data when a receiving application is not even running, and thus cannot receive the data, middleware simulating the application to a connecting party, and an active connection to ... 08/03/06 - 20060171382 - Method and arrangement for externally controlling and managing at least one wlan subscriber who is assigned to a local radio network A method for externally controlling and managing a wireless local area network subscriber assigned to at least one wireless local area network includes requesting a service using the subscriber, checking an authorization of the subscriber to access the TCP/IP network, and establishing a connection via the TCP/IP network to the ... 07/27/06 - 20060165079 - Method and apparatus for transmitting an optical signal in an optical burst switching network using arrival time A method and a system for entering data in a data processing system is provided. In this case, the data is entered in a number of steps, with a view being displayed at a step in a display region of a display means, with the entering and/or display taking place ... 07/27/06 - 20060165078 - Method and system for allowing and preventing wireless devices to transmit wireless signals A method for arbitrating use of wireless medium for transmission of wireless signals within a selected local geographic region. The selected local geographic region comprises a first set of a plurality of devices to be allowed to transmit wireless signals and a second set of one or more devices to ... 07/27/06 - 20060165077 - Apparatus and method for architecturally redundant ethernet A routing apparatus comprising: 1) a first router coupled to a first plurality of Ethernet links; and 2) a second router coupled to a second plurality of Ethernet links, wherein selected ones of the first plurality of Ethernet links are coupled to selected ones of the second plurality of Ethernet ... 07/27/06 - 20060165076 - Data communication optimization Data communication optimization is disclosed. In a method, when data transmission is requested, an outgoing data unit is prepared with dummy payload data. In a method, when data reception is requested, the header and validation information from an incoming data unit is provided while the payload of the data unit ... 07/27/06 - 20060165075 - Out-of-band state machine In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides if an OOB (out-of-band) state machine has not received a confirmation from an operating system that the operating system is functional, the operating system using a primary IP (internet protocol) address, then if the OOB state machine ... 07/27/06 - 20060165074 - Aggregation of network resources providing offloaded connections between applications over a network A computer system aggregates a plurality of network resources of a computer system. The plurality of network resources forms a bypass stack operable to provide offloaded connections to one or more applications available on the computer system. Each of the applications is associated with a first port number. The computer ... 07/27/06 - 20060165073 - Method and a system for regulating, disrupting and preventing access to the wireless medium A method for restricting one or more wireless devices from engaging in wireless communication within a selected local geographic region. The method includes receiving an indication comprising at least identity information. Preferably, the indication is associated with a selected wireless device, which is associated with an undesirable wireless communication within ... 07/27/06 - 20060165072 - Device comprising an array of microsystems which can be individually addressed by means of electromagnetic transmission, and method of addressing one such device The microsystems communicate by electromagnetic transmission, preferably by radio frequency, with a control circuit. An initialization phase of the method of addressing successively comprises addressing, by the control circuit, of each microsystem by an identification code that is proper to the latter and storing, in a register of the microsystem, ... 07/20/06 - 20060159089 - Pointer processing and path bip-8 computation for large concatenated payloads A system for performing Bit Interleaved Parity-8 (BIP-8) computation on large concatenated payloads, in a processing node of an optical communications networks. The BIP-8 computation system comprises storage means associated with each processing strip for allowing the comparison between calculated and transmitted frame error check values to be delayed. ... 07/20/06 - 20060159088 - Network mobility A method of routing data packet flows from a mobile router in a mobile network, which mobile network comprises one or more network node attached to said mobile router, said mobile router for providing transparency at the network layer for said one or more network node to movement of said ... 07/20/06 - 20060159087 - Method for identifying personal information on a network The present invention provides a method by which to obtain a MAC address of a communication party remotely across a router. In a network where an originating host and a destination host belong to different local areas, the originating host (10) transmits a request packet by which the originating host ... 07/20/06 - 20060159086 - Device of dynamically assigning variable length prefixes for ip network equipments A device is dedicated to assigning prefixes for network equipments of an Internet Protocol communication network. It comprises processing means which, in the event of a request to assign a prefix of length L(Rk) for a network equipment Rk, determine a node Nj associated with an unallocated prefix Pj of ... 07/20/06 - 20060159085 - Network relay apparatus and network relay method A network relay apparatus and method are provided. The network relay includes a sub-network interface for communication with a sub-network, a plurality of backbone network interfaces for communication with a plurality of backbone networks, and a control unit for outputting data, which is received from a device included in the ... 07/20/06 - 20060159084 - Routing control technique in mpls This invention is to provide a technique enabling efficient routing in the entire network by totally viewing a state of the entire network from a specific server. An information processing method for managing paths between arbitrary nodes in a specific network according to the invention, includes: obtaining data concerning a ... 07/20/06 - 20060159083 - Method for dissemination of non-routing information using the is-is protocol A method and apparatus for the dissemination of non-routing information to nodes of a network is provided. A new type of IS-IS packet (called a NRI IS-IS packet) is described that exclusively carries non-routing information. When the NRI IS-IS packet is received by a router, the router may send the ... 07/20/06 - 20060159082 - Techniques for reducing adjacencies in a link-state network routing protocol A method and apparatus are presented supporting shortest path first (SPF) routing of data packets over a network by establishing link-state data at an router. Link-state data indicates direct links between the router and a different router and establishes an adjacency relationship with the different node. Initial link-state data is ... 07/20/06 - 20060159081 - Address translation in fibre channel switches A fibre channel switch element and method for processing frames in a fibre channel network is provided. The switch element includes an address mapping cache that receives an incoming fibre channel frame in a receive and/or transmit segment, wherein the address mapping cache compares a D_ID of an incoming frame ... 07/20/06 - 20060159080 - Methods and systems for generating playback instructions for rendering of a recorded computer session A type of input stored by a packet in a recorded session is identified, said recorded session comprising a plurality of packets representing display data generated by an application program. The packet is marked responsive to the type of input. A destination for rendering the contents of the packet is ... 07/20/06 - 20060159079 - Transmission control method in an arq system A method of controlling the transmission of a sequence of data symbols over a connection provided by a predetermined communication layer, which method comprises modifying the transmission by identifying (S41) a reference data symbol in the sequence of data symbols, dividing (S42) the data symbol following the reference data symbol ... 07/13/06 - 20060153190 - System-on-a-chip using cdma bus and data transmission method therefor System-on-a-chip using a CDMA bus and data transmission method therefor. The system-on-a-chip has plural IP-cores dividing into at least one group according to a predetermined reference; and at least one arbiter connected to the IP-cores belonging to the at least one group, receiving a unique ID of a reception-side IP-core ... 07/13/06 - 20060153189 - Ad hoc communication system, mobile terminal, center, ad hoc communication method and ad hoc communication program An ad-hoc communication system, a mobile terminal, a center, an ad-hoc communication method and an ad-hoc communication program, in which information is directly communicated each other among mobile terminals mounted on vehicles to raise information accuracy while ensuring privacy. The center issues an ad-hoc ID with an expiration date for ... 07/13/06 - 20060153188 - Migration program, information processing apparatus, computer system, and computer-readable recording medium having stored migration program A migration program which reduces a service suspension time, ensures access transparency and position transparency, and enables normal operation without degrading the performance. When processing is migrated from a source computer, an operating reception block receives an operating system program through a network. An execution information reception block receives execution ... 07/13/06 - 20060153187 - Fibre channel forwarding information base According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to improve the techniques and mechanisms for forwarding packets at a fibre channel switch. A combined area table/domain table (ATDT) is accessed using destination information associated with a fibre channel packet. Area/port or domain information can be used to address ... 07/13/06 - 20060153186 - In-order fibre channel packet delivery Methods and apparatus are provided for improving fibre channel packet delivery. Techniques are provided for the in-order delivery of packets by blocking incoming packets associated with a port channel change at a fibre channel switch and sending flush messages onto links associated with a port channel change. Upon receiving acknowledgments ... 07/13/06 - 20060153185 - Method and apparatus for dynamically changing ring size in network processing Systems and methods for dynamically changing ring size in network processing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method generally includes requesting a free memory block from a free block pool manager by a ring manager for a corresponding ring when a first memory block is filled, receiving an address of ... 07/13/06 - 20060153184 - Reducing memory access bandwidth consumption in a hierarchical packet scheduler Reducing memory access bandwidth consumption in a hierarchical packet scheduler. A hierarchical packet scheduler is maintained, wherein the hierarchical packet scheduler includes one or more levels, each level including one or more schedulers, wherein one or more threads serve each level. Scheduling operations are performed at each scheduler of the ... 07/13/06 - 20060153183 - Modified ethernet switch There is provided a modified Ethernet switch for directing data packets to and from a plurality of Ethernet ports. The switch is arranged to forward each data packet outgoing to one of the ports to the correct port as determined by an address lookup table. The switch is operable in ... 07/13/06 - 20060153182 - Method and system for remote tuning and clock synchronization The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for providing remote tuning and clock synchronization in a network. The system includes a device that receives a signal that includes a plurality of channels, a device that receives a user request indicative of a desire to view at least one of the ... 07/13/06 - 20060153181 - Incremental redundancy memory IR memory for an EGPRS receiver of a mobile station which receives data from a base station, by means of a data transmission channel, whereby the IR memory comprises a first memory region, for the buffering of a Particular number of data blocks with a given first data resolution and ... 07/06/06 - 20060146819 - Data switch, and communication system using the data switch A preferred embodiment comprising a data switch includes a first processor for routing data packets including a MAC address, using a MAC address table stored in a writable memory. The switch further includes a second processor for routing data packets including an IP address using an IP address look-up table ... 07/06/06 - 20060146818 - Packet transfer apparatus A packet transfer apparatus has a controller for controlling transmission of a PADO packet on the basis of the information that is previously set in the packet transfer apparatus in order that the PADO packet can be transmitted back to the terminals or a PADI can be discarded when the ... 07/06/06 - 20060146817 - File update system and boot management system of mobile communication terminal, method of updating file in mobile communication terminal, and method of booting mobile communication terminal Disclosed are a file update system of a mobile communication terminal which is capable of recovering Same Owner ID Error caused by damage of a file header in an EFS (Embedded File System) area of the mobile communication terminal, a boot management system of a mobile communication terminal which is ... 07/06/06 - 20060146816 - System and method for integrated header, state, rate and content anomaly prevention for domain name service The present invention provides an integrated prevention of header, state, rate and content anomalies along with network policy enforcement for domain name service (DNS). A hardware-based apparatus helps identifying DNS rate-thresholds through continuous and adaptive learning. The apparatus can determine DNS header and DNS state anomalies and drop packets containing ... 07/06/06 - 20060146815 - Clock recovery algorithm for remultiplexing mpeg-2 sptss and/or mptss in the presence of network jitter A method and apparatus for clock recovery for constant bit rate MPEG-2 compliant single program transport stream and multiple program transport stream delivered over UDP/IP is disclosed. Clock recovery utilizes a dejittering filter to remove arrival time jitter from received packets and a phase lock loop is used to recover ... 07/06/06 - 20060146814 - Remote direct memory access segment generation by a network controller A network controller generates a remote direct memory access segment. In one embodiment, the controller generates an RDMA segment including an RDMA header, markers, and message segment data obtained in a direct memory access operation. Other embodiments are described and claimed. ... 07/06/06 - 20060146813 - Mechanisms for detection of non-supporting nat traversal boxes in the path Disclosed are methods and apparatus for facilitating translation of packet addresses (or ports) by one or more translation devices (e.g., NAT devices) using a specialized protocol to handle an address (or port) that is used to form part of a payload. In one implementation, this specialized protocol is referred to ... 07/06/06 - 20060146812 - Methods and systems for routing data using a destination server A system for routing data over a network. The system can include a destination device having an address, an origination device, and a destination server. The origination device can be configured to generate a routing application request including a recipient identifier, to transmit the routing application request to a destination ... 06/29/06 - 20060140185 - Methods and apparatus for storage and processing of routing information Methods and apparatus for processing a plurality of sets of routing information received from corresponding ones of a plurality of neighbor nodes connectable to a router, the router having a plurality of memory units accessible via separate paths. The method comprises creating a respective plurality of non-identical routing information subsets ... 06/29/06 - 20060140184 - Method for void-filling and transmitting burst data over optical burst switching network A method for enhancing transmission efficiency of burst data by estimating a void between burst data and filling the void with new burst data in an optical burst switching (OBS) network. To this end, a node in the OBS network receives burst data (BD) aggregated from data packets, and a ... 06/29/06 - 20060140183 - Signal processing apparatus and stream processing method A signal processing apparatus includes, a receiving unit which receives a stream includes compression-encoded data via a network, the stream being formed by packets to which time stamps are respectively added, a generating unit which generates a first stream from the stream received by the receiving unit, based on the ... 06/29/06 - 20060140182 - Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling communication traffic Communication traffic monitoring and controlling systems and methods are disclosed that allow for controlling communication traffic over the Internet based on the identity of particular users using potentially volatile information, such as a dynamically assigned IP Addresses. The system and method allow a controller to personalize services for users without ... 06/29/06 - 20060140181 - Method for packet encapsulation and redirection of data packets A method to redirect data packets by a network controller to a network node. A network interface routes a data packet from the network node. Another network interface redirects the data packet from the network node. A switch selects between the two network interfaces based upon the state of the ... 06/22/06 - 20060133374 - Packet exchange device and packet exchange method Registered in a table are an output port number and a MAC address so as to correlate with transmission source and transmission destination IP addresses of a packet. When no information of a flow to which a received packet belongs is registered at the table, a first path unit transfers ... 06/22/06 - 20060133373 - Network system and method for assigning dynamic address and performing routing based upon dynamic address In a network system using dynamic addresses, an address management server assigns dynamic addresses to hosts attempting to use the dynamic addresses in response to dynamic address requests from the hosts, and a router manages packet exchange between hosts connected to the network system based upon authenticated dynamic address information. ... 06/22/06 - 20060133372 - Apparatus and method for multiplexing packet in mobile communication network A multiplexing apparatus and method for reducing packet overhead in a mobile communication network are provided, which can enhance efficiency of a transmission section by performing multiplexing in an application layer and then reducing header quantity of the packet. The method includes the steps of transmitting, at a sending terminal ... 06/22/06 - 20060133371 - Communication data relay system and method The present invention relates to a relay system that is capable of relaying communication data at high speed. There is provided a relay system that is formed by one or more servers having the same application and a client and relays communication data transmitted from the client to one of ... 06/22/06 - 20060133370 - Routing of messages A method to provide transfer of data without the use of a network from an application program to an embedded device. A routing service establishes a communication channel without the use of a local area network. The routing service then manages the control of this communication channel for the transfer ... 06/22/06 - 20060133369 - Adaptive threads assignment for receiving packets Systems and methods for assigning threads in a processor are disclosed. The method generally includes assigning one or more static threads to each port of a plurality of ports and processing incoming packets with the static threads. The port numbers of incoming packets processed by the static threads are stored ... 06/22/06 - 20060133368 - Power prioritization in power source equipment A system and method for automatically suspending power from an IEEE 802.3af PDE switch to one or more PDs in accordance with user defined power allocation policies is disclosed. The PSE switch includes a classifier to associate each switch port with a power allocation policy and assign the applicable power ... 06/22/06 - 20060133367 - Selecting a routing mode for a call session Routing a call includes receiving a request to initiate a call session for a call from a caller endpoint to a callee endpoint, where the caller endpoint belongs to an internal network. Whether the call is internal or external is determined. A routing mode is selected in accordance with the ... 06/22/06 - 20060133366 - Cascaded connection matrices in a distributed cross-connection system A method and system for interconnecting multiple distributed components in a communication network is provided. The design includes a multiple order cross connection fabric employed to interconnect multiple orders of data with at least one distributed component in the communication network. The design may further include at least one order ... 06/22/06 - 20060133365 - Method, system and article for improved network performance by avoiding ip-id wrap-arounds causing data corruption on fast networks The reassembly timer in a TCP/IP receiver is dynamically set to avoid data corruption on fast networks caused by IP identification wrap-around. A sender generates IP packets with a special option specifying a reassembly time for fragments based on the subnet of the destination or on the calculated round-trip time ... 06/22/06 - 20060133364 - Method, system and article for improved network performance by dynamically setting a reassembly timer based on network interface The reassembly timer in a TCP/IP receiver is dynamically set to avoid data corruption on fast networks caused by IP identification wrap-around. A receiver independently sets the reassembly timer to a first reassembly time set by the user for fast networks or to a second reassembly timer set by the ... 06/22/06 - 20060133363 - Method for routing data packets, and devices for implementing the method The present invention is related to a method for routing data packets in a routing device connecting a first network and a second network, and to a corresponding routing device. The method comprises the steps of receiving a frame from a device connected to the first network; forwarding the frame ... 06/15/06 - 20060126624 - Packet transfer apparatus with the function of flow detection and flow management method A packet transfer apparatus having: a flow detector 30 identifying a flow to which an input packet belongs from header information of the input packet and outputting a flow bundle identifier peculiar to the identified flow or a flow bundle identifier common to the identified flow and at least another ... 06/15/06 - 20060126623 - Methods and apparatus for implementing a protocol format capable of handling shared and dedicated radio resources Methods and apparatus are disclosed that implement a protocol format capable of handling shared and dedicated resources. A combined dedicated/shared protocol is used to enable dedicated data to be transmitted over shared wireless networks. In particular, the protocol is a combined DLC/MAC protocol. Header information for L2 headers are modified ... 06/15/06 - 20060126622 - Apparatus for changing mac address to identify subscriber and method thereof Provided is an apparatus for changing Media Access Control (MAC) address, which is a conventional subscriber hardware identification address for identifying each subscriber, and a method thereof. The MAC address changing apparatus includes a frame receiving block for determining whether to change a source MAC address; a switch controlling block ... 06/15/06 - 20060126621 - System, method and computer program for use in a publish/subscribe messaging system A system for use in a publish/subscribe messaging system, the publish/subscribe messaging system having: a network, wherein the network has associated network data; and a broker having a matching engine for receiving at least one message from a publisher and for sending the at least one received message to a ... 06/15/06 - 20060126620 - System for extending business systems to a mobile workforce Systems, software, and methods for reliable wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, a computer program control device, called a node, is configured to be transmitted from a first device for receipt and processing on a second, disparate device. The node comprises a collection of managed objects or managed object ... 06/15/06 - 20060126619 - Aggregation over multiple processing nodes of network resources each providing offloaded connections between applications over a network A computer system aggregates a plurality of network resources of a computer system. The computer system has a plurality of processing nodes. Each of the processing nodes includes one or more of the plurality of network resources. The one or more resources of each processing node makes up a bypass ... 06/15/06 - 20060126618 - System and method for front end processing of messages A system and method of routing messages between at least one server (104, 106, 108) and at least one remote device (114, 116, 118). A message (112) is received from a remote device (116). The remote device has an Internet Protocol (IP) address. The remote IP address is mapped to ... 06/15/06 - 20060126617 - Mesh network of intelligent devices communicating via powerline and radio frequency Low-cost intelligent control and communication devices are arranged to communicate with one another over one or more shared physical media, such as a powerline or a radio frequency band. No network controller is needed, because any device can act as a master, slave, or repeater. Adding more devices makes the ... 06/15/06 - 20060126616 - Tagging rules for hybrid ports A VLAN tagging method employed in a data communications switching device is disclosed. VLAN tagging is processed in accordance with one of a plurality of VLAN tagging modes, namely, a fixed port mode, a tagged port mode, a protocol-enforced port mode, a protocol-enforced port mode, and a standards-observant mode. The ... 06/15/06 - 20060126615 - Transferring data among a logical layer, physical layer, and storage device Provided are a method, system, and program for transferring data among a logical layer, physical layer, and storage device. The logical layer allocates a buffer to use to write data to a storage device. The physical layer manages access to the storage device. The logical layer determines an offset into ... 06/15/06 - 20060126614 - Automatic network configuration Automatic network configuration of a device including receiving a packet and selecting a network address in dependence upon a network address of the packet. In typical embodiments, receiving a packet also includes determining whether the received packet is an ARP query. If the received packet is an ARP query, selecting ... 06/15/06 - 20060126613 - Multi-homed broadband router Described is a multi-homed broadband router for use by an internal network to communicate with an external communications network, such as the Internet. The router has a first external-side port for exchanging packets over a first communication link with a first service provider connected to the external communications network, a ... 06/15/06 - 20060126612 - Method of transporting a pci express packet over an ip packet network In a computer network (100), a method transporting a PCI Express packet (235) from an initiator PCI Express node (202) over an IP packet network (210) to a receiver PCI Express node (204), can include the initiator PCI Express node creating the PCI Express packet and reading a global PCI ... 06/15/06 - 20060126611 - System and method for a distributed server for peer-to-peer networks A logical distributed server is generated for managing (Internet Protocol (IP) address allocation for an ad-hoc, self-forming peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The logical distributed server is generated according to messaging scheme where nodes on the P2P network allocate addresses for themselves and for clients connected to them. Each node implements a ... 06/08/06 - 20060120366 - Stateful network address translation protocol implemented over a data network A technique is disclosed for synchronizing NAT information stored on different network devices that have been configured to implement a network address translation protocol. Each of the network devices includes a respective NAT data structure configured to store NAT information. The NAT information includes at least one NAT entry relating ... 06/08/06 - 20060120365 - Frame construction method, frame construction device and data transfer system capable of accommodating stm traffic and best effort traffic in common frame format A layer 1 frame, capable of accommodating data of any protocol selected from an STM (Synchronous Transfer Mode) signal, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) cells, a primary IP (Internet Protocol) packet and a best effort IP packet in a common frame format, is constructed by an edge node and transmitted to ... 06/08/06 - 20060120364 - Method for transmitting information from a source via a first network unit and a network and a second network unit to a destination Methods for transmitting information from sources (7) via first network units (1) and networks (8) and second network units (2) to destinations (9) and using service identifiers such as service virtual local area network identifiers for routing the information through the networks (8) get a reduced complexity by making the ... 06/08/06 - 20060120363 - Internally-integrated type computer network switching unit An internally-integrated type computer network switching unit is proposed, which is designed for internally integrated to a computer platform, such as a server, for providing the server with a network switching capability that allows the server to selectively switch between various connections to a number of network nodes for the ... 06/08/06 - 20060120362 - Routing messages This invention relates to a method of routing for a message via an IMS system is disclosed. A message is received at an ICSCF. Address information is obtained for one of an application server, server or gateway for which said message is intended. The message is sent to said application ... 06/01/06 - 20060114902 - Multicast trunking in a network device A network device for uniform distribution of non-unicast traffic, such as layer 2 broadcast, layer 2 multicast, unknown unicast and layer 3 multicast on a truch group. The network device includes at least one trunk group including a plurality of physical ports. The network device is connected to at least ... 06/01/06 - 20060114901 - Unicast trunking in a network device A network device for selecting a port from a trunk group to transmit a unicast packet on the selected port. The network device includes at least one trunk group including a plurality of physical ports. The network device also includes a table with a plurality of entries. Each entry is ... 06/01/06 - 20060114900 - Fast filter processor metering and chaining A network device for processing packets. The network device includes applying specific fields from a packet to an associated memory device and comparing means for comparing input to the memory device with entries in the memory device. The network device also includes enabling means for enabling selection of bits, by ... 06/01/06 - 20060114899 - Packet forwarding apparatus In a packet forwarding apparatus having a plurality of interfaces for connection to external networks, at least one of the interfaces is designated as an extension interface, and an extension apparatus having an additional function is connected to the packet forwarding apparatus via the extension interface. An ingress packet having ... 06/01/06 - 20060114898 - Method for providing an internet-layer address to a client device Methods for providing internet-layer addresses from serving devices (1) via relaying devices (4) to client devices (3) comprise the steps of, at the relaying devices (4), receiving first messages (101a) from the client devices (3) and second messages (102a) from the serving devices and transmitting further first messages (101b) to ... 06/01/06 - 20060114897 - System and method for roaming connectivity A communication system allows multiple, simultaneous access by a multiplicity of users to a plurality of area networks. Users are granted access to the plurality of area networks by an authentication server coupled to the plurality of area networks. The authentication server retrieves a subscriber's profile information from a database ... 06/01/06 - 20060114896 - Flow-aware ethernet digital subscriber line access multiplexer dslam An access node (1) that is preferably a Flow-Aware Ethernet DSLAM adapted to transmit Ethernet data frames between subscribers (2) and an aggregation network (3). The access node comprises a first memory (4) for storing classification rules and a second memory (6) for storing flow rules. These rules are applied ... 06/01/06 - 20060114895 - Cpu transmission of unmodified packets A network device for processing packet. The network device includes an ingress module for performing switching functionality on an incoming packet, wherein the network device determines a destination port to which the incoming packet is to be transmitted. The network device also includes a CPU processing module for transmitting information ... 06/01/06 - 20060114894 - Technique for automated mac address cloning In an arrangement where the device that is known to an ISP is communicating with the ISP through an interposed device that is not known to the ISP, the interposed device captures the known device's MAC address upon startup and clones the captured MAC address in all standard packets that ... 06/01/06 - 20060114893 - Updating associating data in a media device A media device and a method of updating associating data in a media device are provided. The associating data relates to a service being transmitted over a radio interface of a cellular telecommunication system and associating the service with a broadcast media stream transmitted by a broadcast system. A starting ... 06/01/06 - 20060114892 - Method and apparatus to transmit state information through a communication link A method and apparatus to transmit state information through a communication link. In an example embodiment, an endpoint on a communication link receives a state packet in a first format from a first device. The state packet is translated into a second format to generate a translated packet. The translated ... 05/25/06 - 20060109847 - Subscriber line accommodation apparatus and packet filtering method In a subscriber line accommodation apparatus, subscriber line termination units individually terminate a plurality of subscriber lines. An address information acquisition unit acquires address information of each communication terminal connected to the subscriber line terminated by the subscriber line termination unit. When the IP address of a communication terminal is ... 05/25/06 - 20060109846 - Method and apparatus for mitigating the impact of receiving unsolicited ip packets at a wireless device To initiate dormancy early, a wireless device receives an IP packet from a wireless network and determines whether the received IP packet is an unsolicited IP packet. An unsolicited IP packet may be declared if the received IP packet causes the wireless device to reactivate from dormancy or is not ... 05/25/06 - 20060109845 - Method of transporting a rapidio packet over an ip packet network A method of transporting a RapidIO packet (135) from an initiator RapidIO domain (102) over an IP packet network (110) to a receiver RapidIO domain (104) can include the initiator RapidIO domain creating the RapidIO packet and reading a destination domain ID (483) of the RapidIO packet, where the destination ... 05/25/06 - 20060109844 - Arbitrated loop address management apparatus method and system An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically and transparently managing addresses in an arbitrated loop network. An arbitrated loop network switch is programmed with an address map and configured with the necessary modules to monitor an address assignment process and associate soft assigned addresses claimed during the address ... 05/18/06 - 20060104273 - Frame relay switched data service A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer 3 address information ... 05/18/06 - 20060104272 - Method for reporting transmission state by internet protocol and network using the same Disclosed are a method for reporting a transmission state by an Internet protocol (IP) and a network system using the same. The method includes the steps of determining whether discard of any datagrams occurs, and if the discard of any datagram occurs, obtaining an address of a destination by parsing ... 05/18/06 - 20060104271 - Method and system for switching packets in a communication network A method for switching packets in a communication network is provided. The method includes dividing a data stream into at least two sub-streams in a first application card received in a first application card slot of a packet switch. A first sub-stream is sent through a first application port associated ... 05/18/06 - 20060104270 - Method and apparatus for communicating within a segmented network A method and apparatus for communicating within a segmented network are generally disclosed. ... 05/18/06 - 20060104269 - Method and system for processing frames in storage controllers Method and system for transferring data between a computing system and a storage device is provided. The system includes a storage controller including a frame snooper module that detects a TMR and generates a pause signal to a channel that stops the channel from sending any non-data frames to a ... 05/18/06 - 20060104268 - Method and apparatus for classifying a network protocol and aligning a network protocol header relative to cache line boundary Techniques for routing a payload of a first network protocol, which includes header information for a second network protocol, include communicating a packet. In a circuit block, a first type for the first network protocol and a second type for the second network protocol are determined. The circuit block stores ... 05/18/06 - 20060104267 - Routing procedure and system, corresponding network, such as a network on chip (noc), and computer program product therefor A network, such as a network on chip, includes a plurality of levels of switches organized in a hierarchy. The connections between the switches are constituted by connections which are able to transport packets of information in opposite directions in such a way that one switch, or one process associated ... 05/18/06 - 20060104266 - Method and apparatus for header compression with transmission of context information dependent upon media characteristic A compressor (25) serves to compress headers of media packets and sends context information to a decompressor (60) for use by the decompressor in decompressing compressed headers (26) of the media packets. With regard to a flow (56) of the media packets from the compressor (25) to the decompressor (60), ... 05/11/06 - 20060098655 - Dynamic link adaption for time division duplex (tdd) A UE system implements dynamic link adaptation by adding or changing control information to notify a receiver which timeslots and codes are currently active and which timeslots should be avoided. The UE provides synchronization such that the receiver knows which timeslots and codes the UE has used to map the ... 05/11/06 - 20060098654 - Source identifier for mac address learning A header value or label, referred to herein as a source station identification (SSID), is added to an encapsulated packet header, such as by adding the SSID as a label to the bottom of a stack of MPLS labels. The SSID comprises a unique identifier that identifies the PE that ... 05/11/06 - 20060098653 - Stateless accelerator modules and methods Stateless storage accelerator modules comprise network interfaces and filter functions that enable the accelerated processing of stateless protocols associated with network storage. Filter functions examine packets received over the network interface according to contexts associated with the destination of the packets. Contexts are found quickly through a fast look-up to ... 05/11/06 - 20060098652 - Scalably detecting and blocking signatures at high speeds A method and apparatus is described for identifying content in a packet. The method may obtain data sample from the packet where the data sample is in a predetermined window at an initial offset point in the packet. For each offset point, a first stage of processing on the data ... 05/11/06 - 20060098651 - Method and system for managing ip address assigned to mobile station A method and system for managing an IP address assigned to a mobile station which can be executed in a PDSN or an IWF is provided. When the mobile station is not determined to have used an actual IP address in a dormant state for a certain time period, the ... 05/11/06 - 20060098650 - Method and system for message delivery using a secure device and simple output without the use of a personal computer Communication systems and methods for enhancing communications between users featuring a central service which formats messages into a printer-friendly format. The format of the delivered message is based on preference settings established by the recipient or an authorized agent of the recipient. The messages are delivered to a device, such ... 05/11/06 - 20060098649 - System, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for determining security realm identity before permitting network connection An embodiment of a system of the invention includes a request node, an enforcement node, and a resource node. A request node generates a packet requesting access to a resource, includes its security realm identifier in the packet header, and transmits the same to the enforcement node via a network ... 05/11/06 - 20060098648 - Packet transmission device A packet transmission device improved in packet transmission efficiency. Each packet input processor generates a pointer and identifies a packet type with respect to a received packet, and generates identification data including the pointer and the packet type identification result. A memory access controller detects a header readout amount of ... 05/11/06 - 20060098647 - Monitoring and reporting enterprise data using a message-based data exchange Systems and techniques for monitoring and reporting enterprise data by using a message-based data exchange. In one general aspect, the invention features a computer-implemented method that includes receiving at a message hub one or more messages from one or more sources. A message includes enterprise data. The method includes selecting ... 05/11/06 - 20060098646 - Local and remote network based management of an operating system-independent processor In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving one or more packets that are addressed to an alternate IP (Internet Protocol) address and that include a LADLC (local application data link control) address in a system having an operating system-independent processor (“service processor”) associated ... 05/11/06 - 20060098645 - System and method for providing client identifying information to a server A system for providing client identifying information to a server includes a tagger at an intelligent intermediate device configured to create at least one tagged packet including client identifying information to be sent to the server, and an interceptor configured to derive the client identifying information from the at least ... 05/11/06 - 20060098644 - Translating native medium access control (mac) addresses to hierarchical mac addresses and their use Different mechanisms are disclosed for translating native Media Access Control (MAC) addresses to and from corresponding hierarchical MAC addresses, and the use of such MAC addresses. A packet switch typically maintains a data structure relating native MAC addresses of certain devices with external MAC addresses, wherein each of the external ... 05/11/06 - 20060098643 - System and method for providing premium transport in a docsis-compliant cable network A system and method for providing premium transport in a DOCSIS-compliant cable network. An edge server in a DOCSIS-compliant cable network maintains a list of preferred content providers (PCPs). For each PCP, the PCP list comprises matching criteria. The edge server monitors the header of incoming packets for the matching ... 05/11/06 - 20060098642 - System and method for sonet nsap addressing A synchronous optical network (SONET) system having multi-hierarchal network service access point (NSAP) addressing includes a plurality of network elements (NEs) electrically linked, and a first level routing area and a second level routing area that each includee at least one NE. The NEs include devices having respective NSAP addresses ... 05/11/06 - 20060098641 - Method and apparatus for detecting format of closed caption data automatically and displaying the caption data A method and apparatus for detecting a format of closed caption data contained in a broadcast signal automatically and displaying the caption data are provided. The method includes: (a) receiving information including closed caption data extracted from the broadcast signal, (b) detecting information on the format of the closed caption ... 05/11/06 - 20060098640 - Universal transfer file for dvd This invention relates to a method for creating a transfer file, the file comprising an information block comprising information on a data block and the data block comprising a navigation field and the navigation field comprising a Relative Logical Block Number of the navigation field, the method comprising the steps ... 05/04/06 - 20060092937 - Non-blocking all-optical switching network dynamic data scheduling system and implementation method A non-blocking optical matrix core switching method that includes maintaining a schedule for routing data through an optical matrix core and receiving and analyzing reports from peripheral devices. The method determines whether the schedule is adequate for the current data traffic patterns and if the schedule is not adequate a ... 05/04/06 - 20060092936 - Method for allocating blocks of internet protocol (ip) addresses in networks Methods for allocating blocks of addresses to nodes in an IP communications network determine an optimal set of serving subnets, referred to as resources, for a single node in an IP communications network with given input demands for blocks of addresses. An optimal set of resources is determined at the ... 05/04/06 - 20060092935 - Softrouter feature server A network architecture includes one or more feature servers and control servers in a control plane that is logically separate from a data plane that includes forwarding elements. Feature servers facilitate adding network-based functionality in a centralized way that is has better scalability than the traditional router architecture. Some examples ... 05/04/06 - 20060092934 - System for protocol processing engine A protocol processing engine system, which is arranged between a host side and a media access control (MAC) layer to thus speed up data transmission. The system includes a host interface, a network media access control (MAC) interface, a receiving subsystem and a transmitting subsystem. The system uses the host ... 05/04/06 - 20060092933 - Mechanism for delivering messages to competing consumers in a point-to-point system A method, system, and computer program for delivering messages and data to competing consumers. One aspect of the invention includes a message delivery system including a destination messaging engine, one or more receiver messaging engines, and a message pool. The destination messaging engine is configured to distribute data from one ... 05/04/06 - 20060092932 - Trunking for fabric ports in fibre channel switches and attached devices N_Ports and F_Ports are provided with logic allowing designation of multiple virtual interfaces on a single host bus adaptor or other Fibre Channel interface, one virtual interface for each VSAN operating on the node interface. Node ports with this additional functionality are referred to as trunking N_Ports or TN_Ports. These ... 05/04/06 - 20060092931 - System and method for managing devices within a private network via a public network A network management system includes a processor and a memory that is accessible by the processor. A computer program is embedded within the memory. The computer program includes instructions to detect the receipt of one or more modified management messages. Each of the one or more modified management messages includes ... 05/04/06 - 20060092930 - Ultrasound beamformer with high speed serial control bus packetized protocol A method for conveying control information in an ultrasound system is provided. The method provides unique identifiers for the processing components in a beamformer of an ultrasound system. The method formats control information into at least one packet based on a packetized protocol, the control information relating to beamforming operations ... 04/27/06 - 20060088030 - System and method for creating a sequence number field for streaming media in a packet-based networks utilizing internet protocol Streaming media network streams are modified using a sequence field with the IP layer 3 protocol compatible with already deployed IP switching systems except as noted for device and system testing and operational monitoring which can be used to detect the loss or out of order delivery of packets belonging ... 04/20/06 - 20060083239 - Method and apparatus for efficient transmission of multimedia data packets A transmission efficient packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed. The transmission efficient interface includes a bi-directional auxiliary channel arranged to transfer information between the multimedia source device and the multimedia sink device and vice versa, wherein the information ... 04/20/06 - 20060083238 - Resource reservation method using multiple interfaces in mobile environments A resource reservation system and method in a multihoming environment are disclosed. The method includes: transmitting query messages from the mobile node to multiple adjacent access routers using a plurality of care of addresses (CoAs) stored in the mobile node; transmitting the query messages from the adjacent access routers to ... 04/20/06 - 20060083237 - Communication apparatus and communication method By transmitting such an extended Echo request packet that device setting information was written in a payload of an ICMP-Echo packet, to an terminal 10b equipped with ICMP function which does not has a special function, the extended Echo request packet collect device setting statuses of relay devices 110 equipped ... 04/20/06 - 20060083236 - Method and system for loss-tolerant multimedia multicasting A method and system are provided for ordering datagrams within an encoded datastream. The system includes a parser for separating headers from each respective datagram. A decoder decodes the separated headers to determine a frame group, a frame number within the frame group, a datagram number within the frame; and ... 04/20/06 - 20060083235 - Channel navigation method of digital broadcast and digital broadcast receiver to be applied to the same A channel navigation method of a digital broadcast and a digital broadcast receiver to be applied to the channel navigation method, select a program map table (PMT) using an identifier of an input source and a PMT packet identifier. A virtual channel table having a PMT packet identifier corresponding to ... 04/20/06 - 20060083234 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data via wireless universal serial bus (wusb) A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data via a WUSB. The method includes creating an integrated header used to transmit data to an external device, wherein the integrated header has a minimum number of fields selected from a plurality fields of headers; and transmitting a packet including the ... 04/20/06 - 20060083233 - Communication apparatus and method A communication apparatus includes a receiving device configured to receive a physical frame in which a plurality of MAC frames, each having a sequence number, are aggregated. A reception buffer which stores MAC frames of the physical frame received by the receiving device. A determination device determines whether or not ... 04/20/06 - 20060083232 - Method and apparatus for transmitting isochronous stream Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting an isochronous stream in an Internet protocol (IP) over Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1394. The method includes: requesting isochronous stream transmission over a predetermined serial bus; and receiving an isochronous stream through the predetermined serial bus using a service ... 04/20/06 - 20060083231 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for modeling and simulating application-level traffic characteristics in a network based on transport and network layer header information Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for determining application-level traffic characteristics in a network based on transport and network layer header information. Transport and network layer header information is collected from packet traffic in a network. Packets are classified to different connections based on the transport and network ... 04/20/06 - 20060083230 - Method and apparatus for transferring data A method for transferring plural pieces of packet data from a plurality of terminal devices to a host device with an IEEE 1394 serial bus. The method includes transferring the plural pieces of packet data from the terminal devices to a transfer controller, storing the plural pieces of packet data ... 04/20/06 - 20060083229 - System and method for streaming sequential data through an automotive switch fabric A system and method for streaming sequential data through a vehicle switch fabric network. This is particular useful in areas such as reprogramming nodes in the automotive switch fabric network where relatively large records or messages need to be transmitted through the switch fabric, although the invention may be used ... 04/20/06 - 20060083228 - One time passcode system The invention relates to a system for securing access to resources or computer systems by means of a self modifying, single use password that limits access to a system and automatically changes each time it is used. Independent computer systems, or clients, are utilized by users to generate one time ... 04/20/06 - 20060083227 - Selecting one of a plurality of adapters to use to transmit a packet Provided are a method, system, and program for selecting one of a plurality of adapters to use to transmit a packet. A packet is generated by a protocol driver having connection information in a packet header. A determination is made as to whether there is one value in a table ... 04/20/06 - 20060083226 - Queueing technique for multiple sources and multiple priorities A method of dealing equitably with traffic from multiple VPNs feeding into a single router utilizes the weighted fair queueing (WFQ) technique of the prior art in combination with a “service level” queue comprising a set of tokens defining the class of service (COS) with the next packet to be ... 04/13/06 - 20060077975 - Checking method for applying in the field of network packet contents of network security switch A checking method for applying in the field of network packet contents of network security switch, specially, it focus on a specific designed IDP (intrusion detection/prevention) can cooperate with any L2 switch that matched some popular specifications and provide security service on the network traffic through the L2 switch. The ... 04/13/06 - 20060077974 - Return path derivation in packet-switched networks A network for transporting data consists of a group of two or more nodes, such as switches, routers or computer systems, linked together. Data is transported from a source node to a destination node through the network. In packed-switched networks, small units of data called packets are routed through the ... 04/06/06 - 20060072570 - System for and method of exchanging server data in packet unit A packet switch apparatus including a plurality of connecting points, each being coupled to one of a plurality of data processing units, and apparatus for receiving a first packet including identification information of a first data processing unit via a first connecting point. The invention further includes a storage for ... 04/06/06 - 20060072569 - Network address translation protocol for transmission control protocol connections The present invention is directed to a computer-implemented Network Address Translation (NAT) traversal method for establishing a direct connection from a first entity to a second entity, including a recipient peer communicating through a recipient NAT box. The method includes the steps of: (a) initiating an outbound TCP communication by ... 04/06/06 - 20060072568 - Method preserving delay properties and an apparatus for scheduling transmission link capacity between packet switched telecommunications flows The invention relates to a method and apparatus for scheduling transmission-link capacity between packet switched telecommunications flows (L1, L2), in such a way that it is possible to ensure the scheduling of packets representing delay-critical traffic to the transmission link (S) before packets representing non-delay-critical traffic and, in addition, to ... 04/06/06 - 20060072567 - Apparatus and method for receiving packet data on a subset of carrier frequencies in a wireless communication system A remote station for a wireless communication system including a base station is disclosed. The remote station includes a front end structure configured to receive packet data in parallel on a subset of carrier frequencies. Each packet data is preceded by a header field for identifying the remote station as ... 04/06/06 - 20060072566 - Optical packet switching Optical Packet Switching (OPS) is considered the most desirable switching technology for the ubiquitous optical networks that carry internet traffic. OPS could provide for great flexibility, capacity, efficiency, and bandwidth utilization that current switching strategies are not capable of providing. Despite its great appeal, OPS has been hampered by some ... 04/06/06 - 20060072565 - Frame switching device A header processing unit includes a key information supply unit that manages MAC addresses and MAC key information having a short bit length that corresponds to the addresses, and decides key information corresponding to a source MAC address and a destination MAC address of an input frame. A destination decision ... 04/06/06 - 20060072564 - Header replication in accelerated tcp (transport control protocol) stack processing In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides storing a packet header at a set of at least one page of memory allocated to storing packet headers, and storing the packet header and a packet payload at a location not in the set of at ... 04/06/06 - 20060072563 - Packet processing In general, the disclosure describes a variety of techniques that can enhance packet processing operations. ... 04/06/06 - 20060072562 - External device-based prefetching mechanism A system, method, and apparatus are provided for external device-based prefetching mechanism. According to one embodiment, a packet is received at a network interface card in communication with a host computer system and a network. The packet is received from the network and includes a context as indicated by a ... 04/06/06 - 20060072561 - Communicating packets along a control channel and a media channel Communicating packets along a control channel and a media channel includes receiving at a network address translator a first message having a first internal address from a first communication device. The first internal address is translated to a first external control address operable to route a control packet along a ... 03/30/06 - 20060067317 - Arrangement and a method relating to access systems The present invention relates to an arrangement for providing communication between end users, and/or end users and service providers, over an access network supporting communication of packet data in frames according to Ethernet technology. It comprises means for, at least for establishment of a packet connection between an end user ... 03/30/06 - 20060067316 - Method and apparatus for tracking costs associated with propagating a data packet Cost information is tracked for a data packet propagated through a node by receiving a data packet, creating a cost carrier descriptor and then forwarding the data packet to another node. ... 03/30/06 - 20060067315 - Building packets in a multi-protocol environment Assembling packets includes determining portions of the packets in parallel. Determining portions of the packets in parallel includes determining a first header portion of the packets in parallel with determining a second header portion of the packets. Corresponding ones of the determined portions are combined to form the packets. ... 03/30/06 - 20060067314 - Overhead processing and generation techniques Techniques to allocate overhead processing and overhead generation among at least data and overhead processors. The data processor and overhead processor may be provided in separate integrated circuits. The data processor and overhead processor may be provided in separate line cards. Multiple data processors may share use of one or ... 03/30/06 - 20060067313 - Method and apparatus for extraction and insertion of plesiochronous overhead data The invention comprises a method and apparatus for adapting plesiochronous hierarchical layered data to produce synchronous hierarchical layered data. Similarly, the invention comprises a method and apparatus for adapting synchronous hierarchical layered data to produce plesiochronous hierarchical layered data. ... 03/23/06 - 20060062218 - Method for establishing session in label switch network and label switch node In a label switch network such as an MPLS, message exchange between adjacent label switch nodes by a label distribution protocol is performed by adding session identification information to the message for identifying a session to be established between the nodes, and the nodes respectively establish a plurality of sessions ... 03/23/06 - 20060062217 - Method of formatting and encoding uplink short length data in a wireless communication system A method of encoding and transmitting at least one short length data in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a user equipment (UE) attaches at least one error detection code to the at least one short length data. Thereafter, the UE encodes for error correction the short length ... 03/23/06 - 20060062216 - Qos measurement with split-path zero-latency virtual jitter buffer An apparatus that includes a packet data ingress, a packet data egress, and a packet data switching matrix configured to switch packet data from the packet data ingress to the packet data egress. The apparatus may further include a packet data jitter buffer and a packet data splitter, wherein the ... 03/23/06 - 20060062215 - Techniques to synchronize packet rate in voice over packet networks Method and apparatus to synchronize packet rate for audio information are described. ... 03/23/06 - 20060062214 - Method and device for roaming-connection in global network As an apparatus itself moves, its access section 101 gets access to router AR2 using a temporarily assigned global address when making a roaming connection to a different network from a network to which the apparatus belongs currently. Message generating section 102 generates a Binding Update message, which contains a ... 03/16/06 - 20060056410 - Communication control device and communication control method A communication control device comprises a calculation part for calculating the number of frames and the frame length for transmitting the transmit data, a payload division part for dividing the transmit data into frame units based on the calculation results of the calculation part, and a header generation part for ... 03/16/06 - 20060056409 - Method and apparatus to permit data transmission to traverse firewalls Currently data transmission over the Internet between two client computers where both client computers are protected by firewalls is problematic, since firewalls block incoming packets. A method is provided for identifying the firewalls protecting a first client computer C1 protected by a first NAPT or NAT firewall and a second ... 03/16/06 - 20060056408 - Method and device for universal plug and play communications A method and a device for universal plug and play communications, wherein the method includes checking for a change in the presence of a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server in a network to which the communication device belongs, changing an Internet protocol address used by the communication device into ... 03/16/06 - 20060056407 - Demultiplexer In a demultiplexer, if as for a certain packet a packet header detection section has detected a packet header without error, a memory control section controls a payload of the packet which is separated by a payload separation section to be stored in a buffer memory. If, as for a ... 03/16/06 - 20060056406 - Packet queuing, scheduling and ordering A method and apparatus for ordering, synchronizing and scheduling work in a multi-core network services processor is provided. Each piece of work is identified by a tag that indicates how the work is to be synchronized and ordered. Throughput is increased by processing work having different tags in parallel on ... 03/16/06 - 20060056405 - Interface internet protocol fragmentation of large broadcast packets in an environment with an unaccommodating maximum transfer unit In a multinode data processing system in which the nodes communicate with one another through communication adapters coupled to a switch or network, a method is provided for using the Internet Protocol (IP) for transmitting large broadcast data packets without incurring the overhead normally associated with packet fragmentation. By adding ... 03/16/06 - 20060056404 - Method and apparatus for wireless communication using voice over internet protocol The present invention provides a method of wireless telecommunication is provided. The method includes accessing a plurality of first data packets having a first size, accessing at least one second data packet having a second size, the second size being larger than the first size, forming a plurality of third ... 03/16/06 - 20060056403 - System and method for robust communication via a non-reliable protocol A system and method are provided which enhance the robustness of non-reliable protocols, such as UDP. As described further below, according to at least one embodiment, a method is provided for improving the robustness of using non-reliable protocols, such as UDP, in applications in which small numbers of time-critical packets ... 03/16/06 - 20060056402 - Cookie-based mechanism providing lightweight authentication of layer-2 frames Methods and apparatus for improving the resilience of wireless packet-switched networks to Layer-2 attacks is provided via a lightweight mechanism for detecting spoofed frames. The mechanism enables a receiving node to detect spoofed frames from information contained in cookies sent with frames. A first cookie, containing initial information, is sent ... 03/09/06 - 20060050700 - System and method for traversing a nat device for peer-to peer hybrid communications An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to traverse a NAT device using a stateless reflector. ... 03/09/06 - 20060050699 - Header conversion technique in atm switch A header conversion device allowing reduced amount of hardware and memory and high-speed line switching is disclosed. In an ATM switching device having redundant incoming line systems, a header conversion table stores a set of header conversion information for one of the redundant incoming line systems. A header converter converts ... 03/09/06 - 20060050698 - Methods and systems using signaling period signals Methods and systems using information derived during a signaling period of a scheduling-based Medium Access Control protocol to adjust operation effective during data transmission periods. For example, channel estimation and transmission power adjustments are made based on indications provided by received signals. ... 03/09/06 - 20060050697 - Random access read/write media format for an on-demand distributed streaming system A random access read/write media format that enables segments of media to be read, written, accessed, and streamed in a non-sequential order. A media file is divided into a series of timeblocks TB0 to TBn-1 wherein each timeblock consists of media packets of a short non-overlapping time span. Each media ... 03/09/06 - 20060050696 - Generic routing encapsulation over point-to-point protocol A system and method are described herein that are capable of reducing overhead while keeping the traffic separation characteristics between two routers by establishing and using a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel directly over a link running a point-to-point protocol (PPP) that connects the two routers. Because, the system and ... 03/09/06 - 20060050695 - System and method for using redundant representations in streaming applications A system and method for stopping temporal propagation by avoiding using erroneous reference pictures in the streaming of pre-encoded and stored media contents. At least one redundant representation for a picture, referred to as the primary representation, is encoded and stored in a file. When encoding the redundant representation, some ... 03/09/06 - 20060050694 - Processing replies to request packets in an advanced switching context An apparatus communicates with an advanced switching (AS) fabric. The apparatus includes a transmit engine that generates a request packet for transmission to the AS fabric. The transmit engine associates a first transaction identifier with the request packet. A receive engine receives a reply packet in response to the request ... 03/09/06 - 20060050693 - Building data packets for an advanced switching fabric An apparatus generates a data packet for an advanced switching (AS) fabric. The apparatus includes a direct memory access (DMA) engine that retrieves a descriptor from a queue, and that stores the descriptor in a storage area. The descriptor contains information used to build the data packet. A work manager ... 03/09/06 - 20060050692 - Routing in a data communication network “A method of supporting mobility in an Internet Protocol (IP)-based data network. The method comprises the steps of generating a first stateful IP autoconfiguration message at a mobile node, whereby the message includes an address capable of use for routing maintenance. The mobile node transmits the generated message to a ... 03/02/06 - 20060045084 - Information server and communication apparatus A communication apparatus as one of first communication apparatuses belonging to a first communication network, for communicating with another of the first communication apparatuses via the first communication network, and with one or more second communication apparatuses via a second communication network, the communication apparatus as the one first communication ... 03/02/06 - 20060045083 - System and method for enabling the coexistence of non-802.11 waveforms in the presence of 802.11 compliant waveforms in a communication network A system and method for enabling the coexistence of waveforms that do not comply with IEEE Standard 802.11 in the presence of 802.11 compliant waveforms in a wireless communication network (100), in particular, a wireless multi-hopping ad-hoc peer-to-peer communication network (100). More particularly, the system and method controls 802.11 compliant ... 03/02/06 - 20060045082 - Method of remotely monitoring an internet session A method of remotely monitoring an Internet session includes participating in a first Internet session at a first Internet protocol (IP) address. Concurrent with the first Internet session, another Internet session is initiated at another IP address. Data associated with the first Internet session is automatically transferred to the other ... 03/02/06 - 20060045081 - Data multiplexing method, field programmable gate array, and optical network A field programmable gate array (FPGA) for multiplexing data and enable signals input from a plurality of input ports and outputting the multiplexed signal to one output port is disclosed. The FPGA includes a plurality of memories, which are connected to the input ports, for storing the input data and ... 03/02/06 - 20060045080 - System and method for handling simple ip to mobile ip transition Methods are provided for transitioning between SIP and MIP. Mobile devices, upon detecting a new system, automatically attempt a MIP session to avoid the default position of SIP. A history is maintained of systems visited, and for systems that did not support MIP in the past, a MIP session is ... 03/02/06 - 20060045079 - Method for the automatic configuration of communication relationships between communicaiton units situated in a packet-oriented communications network In the inventive configuration of a communication relationship, a data packet comprising the respective address information of the communication unit is generated by at least one remote communication device or by at least one communication unit that is assigned to said device and is transmitted to a central communication device ... 02/23/06 - 20060039374 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture A pipelined linecard architecture for receiving, modifying, switching, buffering, queuing and dequeuing packets for transmission in a communications network. The linecard has two paths: the receive path, which carries packets into the switch device from the network, and the transmit path, which carries packets from the switch to the network. ... 02/23/06 - 20060039373 - Information processing device, control method thereof, and program An information processing device which can communicate with an image processing device on a network is characterized by comprising a search indication unit for issuing a search indication for searching the image processing device on the network, a first transmission unit for transmitting a request for changing a power saving ... 02/23/06 - 20060039372 - Method and apparatus for providing multi-protocol, multi-stage, real-time frame classification A multi-protocol, multi-stage, real-time frame classifier is disclosed. A preliminary multi-protocol frame composition analyzer is provided for performing preliminary multi-protocol frame classification for incoming frames. A parsing instruction generator is provided for processing at least the incoming frame and the preliminary multi-protocol frame classification to provide parsing instructions. A multi-stage ... 02/23/06 - 20060039371 - Network routing To reduce the dependency of overlay networks on underlay networks to route messages, a virtual ring routing architecture may be formed that leverages the design of the overlay network to achieve their desirable scaling and robustness properties but also reduce the dependency on any underlay network to setup and maintain ... 02/23/06 - 20060039370 - Low latency switch architecture for high-performance packet-switched networks A low latency switch architecture for high performance packet-switched networks which is a combination of input buffers capable of avoiding head-of-line blocking and an internal switch interconnect capable of allowing different input ports to access a single output simultaneously. ... 02/16/06 - 20060034277 - Method for reporting reception result of packets in mobile communication system Disclosed is a bitmap structure which enables the size of a bitmap field containing reception result information to be significantly reduced while fully performing its acknowledgment function. To this end, a message region for recording indicators, which enables reception success or failure for the maximum allowable SN level packets treatable ... 02/16/06 - 20060034276 - Method and system to connect multiple scsi initiators to a fibre channel fabric topology using a single n-port A method and system for connecting multiple initiators to a storage area network (SAN) via a Fibre channel fabric using a single N_port fibre channel switch. The multiple initiators are associated with a common domain identification (DID), each initiator having a unique source identification (SID). The method includes initiating a ... 02/16/06 - 20060034275 - Data transfer, synchronising applications, and low latency networks Asynchronous network interface and method of synchronisation between two applications on different computers is provided. The network interface contains snooping hardware which can be programmed to contain triggering values comprising either addresses, address ranges or other data which are to be matched. These data are termed “trip wires”. Once programmed, ... 02/16/06 - 20060034274 - System and method for variable length acknowledgements in a shared resource network A system and method for producing variable length acknowledgments and requesting variable length acknowledgement signals in a shared resource network is provided. A plurality of data streams and frames are received, and receipt status information of the plurality of frames is generated. An acknowledgment frame comprising the receipt status information ... 02/16/06 - 20060034273 - Transport stream processing apparatus According to the present invention, a processing switching device switches to and from a hardware transport stream separating device and a software transport stream separating device in executing a partial processing included in a plurality of processings for separating desired data from a transport stream (TS). When the processing switching ... 02/16/06 - 20060034272 - Network device In a network device for setting a configuration definition remotely, a storage generates, upon changing a first (current) IP address to a second IP address, a virtual address which holds the second IP address, a message transceiver transmits a response request message whose source IP address is the second IP ... 02/16/06 - 20060034271 - Packet detection system and method for packet-based wireless receivers having multiple receive chains A packet detection system for a packet-based wireless receiver and a method of detecting packets for use with such receiver. In one embodiment, the packet detection system includes: (1) first and second chain-level packet detection circuits and configured to produce corresponding chain-level status signals and (2) a receiver-level packet detection ... 02/16/06 - 20060034270 - Method and apparatus for call routing via gateway brokering Method and apparatus for routing telephone calls across different types of networks includes means for and steps of determining a destination IP address of a new call according to initial conditions established in a first network, determining a destination gateway (gateway brokering) based on the destination IP address, the initial ... 02/16/06 - 20060034269 - Action list for a split media access and control layer communications system A split MAC layer system is disclosed. The split MAC layer system comprises an upper MAC portion wherein the upper MAC portion is dependent on a MAC protocol, a lower MAC portion wherein the lower MAC portion is independent of the MAC protocol, and wherein the upper MAC portion communicates ... 02/16/06 - 20060034268 - Network-based data transport architecture An apparatus for transporting data in a network-based data communication system includes a first network node comprising a first port couplable to at least a second network node for transferring data in a first format between the first and second network nodes. The first network node further includes a processor ... 02/09/06 - 20060029073 - Collision avoidance in ieee 802.11 contention free period (cfp) with overlapping basic service sets (bsss) A medium access control (MAC) protocol is provided for avoiding collisions from stations (STAs) comprising two or more IEEE 802.11 basic service sets (BSSs) collocated and operating in the same channel during contention free periods (CFPs). The MAC protocol includes hardware/software for utilizing ready-to-send (RTS)/clear-to-send(CTS) exchange during CFPs to avoid ... 02/09/06 - 20060029072 - Switching system for virtual lans A switch encapsulates incoming information using a header, and removes the header upon egress. The header is used by both distributed ingress nodes and within a distributed core to facilitate switching. The ingress and egress elements preferably support Ethernet or other protocol providing connectionless media with a stateful connection. Preferred ... 02/09/06 - 20060029071 - Multiplexing system that supports a geographically distributed subnet A switch encapsulates incoming information using a header, and removes the header upon egress. The header is used by both distributed ingress nodes and within a distributed core to facilitate switching. The ingress and egress elements preferably support Ethernet or other protocol providing connectionless media with a stateful connection. Preferred ... 02/09/06 - 20060029070 - Protocol adapter for electromagnetic device elements Cameras, radios, televisions, set top boxes, telephones, kitchen appliances, and other electrical devices have their own IP address, and communicate using an internetworking protocol. Of particular interest are those devices that utilize some form of mass storage. Communication of the packets between or among elements can occur using any suitable ... 02/09/06 - 20060029069 - Adapated disk drives executing instructions for i/o command processing Communication protocols, systems, and methods that facilitate communication between disaggregated elements, and also to devices adapted to function as such disaggregated elements, particularly across peer-to-peer (masterless) and include one or more unique features such as packet atomicity, blind ACKs, NAT bridging, locking, multicast spanning and mirroring, and authentication. ... 02/09/06 - 20060029068 - Methods of conveying information using fixed sized packets Communication protocols, systems, and methods that facilitate communication between disaggregated elements, and also to devices adapted to function as such disaggregated elements, particularly across peer-to-peer (masterless) and include one or more unique features such as packet atomicity, blind ACKs, NAT bridging, locking, multicast spanning and mirroring, and authentication. ... 02/09/06 - 20060029067 - Systems and methods for automatic evaluation of subjective quality of packetized telecommunication signals while varying implementation parameters A system and method automates the process of objectively measuring the subjective quality of packetized telecommunication signals as a function of network quality-of-service (QoS) parameters, implementation choices, and other related parameters. Computer-based simulation may be used in conjunction with objective quality measurement algorithms and pre-recorded reference or test signals. A ... 02/09/06 - 20060029066 - Method and apparatus for distinguishing between services of all frequency bands and specific frequency band Disclosed is an apparatus and method for transmitting information for distinguishing between a packet data service in all of a plurality of frequency bands and a packet data service of a specific frequency band from a Radio Network Controller (RNC) to a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system ... 02/09/06 - 20060029065 - System and method for low-latency content-sensitive forward error correction A forward error correction (FEC) encoding system and method optimized for protecting real-time audio-video streams for transmission over packet-switched networks with minimal latency. Embodiments of this invention provide bandwidth-efficient and low-latency FEC for both variable and constant bit-rate MPEG-encoded audio and video streams. To maximize bandwidth-efficiency and playable frame rate ... 02/09/06 - 20060029064 - A method and systems for routing packets from an endpoint to a gateway A method for routing packets from an endpoint to a gateway includes the step of receiving a filtering table. An outbound packet is intercepted. The outbound packet is transmitted to a client application, responsive to the filtering table. The client application transmits the outbound packet to a gateway responsive to ... 02/09/06 - 20060029063 - A method and systems for routing packets from a gateway to an endpoint A method for routing packets from a gateway to an endpoint includes the step of associating a private internet protocol (IP) address with an endpoint having a public IP address. A packet addressed to the private IP address of the endpoint is captured. A policy is applied to the packet. ... 02/09/06 - 20060029062 - Methods and systems for securing access to private networks using encryption and authentication technology built in to peripheral devices A method for routing packets from a peripheral device to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateway includes the step of implementing, by a peripheral device, a change to a routing table. The peripheral device receives an outbound packet. The peripheral device transmits information about the outbound packet to a VPN ... 02/09/06 - 20060029061 - Low-power autonomous node for mesh communication network In a packet communication network, a method and apparatus for packet switched transport is provided among intelligent nodes wherein the duty cycling of the intelligent nodes is minimized in order to maximize power life using a synchronization algorithm that assures all nodes are able to propagate information through the network ... 02/09/06 - 20060029060 - Digraph based mesh communication network In a packet communication network, a method of packet switched transport is provided using digraphs defining paths among nodes in which a graph identifier, instead of a literal destination address, is used to determine paths through the network. The nodes themselves implement a real-time mesh of connectivity. Packets flow along ... 02/09/06 - 20060029059 - Method, system, and computer program product for reducing network copies by port-based routing to application-specific buffers A method, system, and computer program product for delivering data, received from a network on a network adapter to a pre-assigned port, to a storage buffer assigned to an application are disclosed. An application designates an application-specific buffer within a local data processing system for buffering data communicated with the ... 02/02/06 - 20060023716 - Bit bucket A multiport data communication system for switching data packets between ports comprises a plurality of ports for receiving and transmitting data packets, a memory temporarily storing the data packets received at the switch. Each port has a transmit queue queuing data packets from the memory, an output terminal outputting the ... 02/02/06 - 20060023715 - System and method for frame re-transmission in a broadcast communication system An apparatus for providing frame re-transmission in a broadcast communication system. Frame re-transmission is accomplished only when a predetermined number of negative acknowledgement messages are received with respect to one or more data frames. The predetermined number may vary in accordance with various operating parameters, such as the latency of ... 02/02/06 - 20060023714 - Packet transmission control method, packet transmission control apparatus and packet transmission control program product According to an embodiment, previous data group input time is subtracted from current data group input time in order to obtain a difference time each time a data group is input. The difference time is subtracted from a packet transmission interval in order to obtain an interval difference. The interval ... 02/02/06 - 20060023713 - Retransmission control method and apparatus using the same Provided are a method of controlling frame transmission in a wireless local area network (WLAN) and an apparatus using the same. A first retransmission control method includes: comparing the number of errors in a frame received from a server with a predetermined threshold; and adaptively not allowing retransmission of the ... 02/02/06 - 20060023712 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for preventing network access by mobile stations which support an incompatible internet protocol version A method and apparatus for determining whether attach procedures between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a network should proceed based on whether the internet protocol (IP) version, (i.e., packet data protocol (PDP) type), of the WTRU is compatible with the network. In one embodiment, the WTRU receives a network ... 02/02/06 - 20060023711 - Method and apparatus for discovering wireless devices in a wireless network A system, including a first device comprising a first description and configured to provide a first service, wherein the first service provides a first interface accessible by a first port, and wherein the first description comprises a first device identifier, a first service identifier corresponding to the first service, a ... 02/02/06 - 20060023710 - System and method for dynamically determining retransmit buffer time A packetized data transmitter notes packet transmission times and the times, if any, of retransmission requests from a receiver. Based on the period between original transmission and retransmission of a dropped packet, the transmitter establishes a packet discard period, essentially a transmitter packet buffer length. ... 02/02/06 - 20060023709 - Inline intrusion detection using a single physical port In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method for inline intrusion detection includes receiving a packet at a physical interface of an intrusion detection system. The packet is tagged with a first VLAN identifier associated with an external network. The network further includes buffering the packet at ... 02/02/06 - 20060023708 - Interfabric routing header for use with a backbone fabric A Fibre Channel router used to join fabrics. EX_ports are used to connect to the fabrics. The EX_port joins the fabric but the router will not merge into the fabric. Ports in the Fibre Channel router can be in a fabric, but other ports can be connected to other fabrics. ... 02/02/06 - 20060023707 - System and method for providing proxy and translation domains in a fibre channel router A Fibre Channel router used to join fabrics. EX_ports are used to connect to the fabrics. The EX_port joins the fabric but the router will not merge into the fabric. Ports in the Fibre Channel router can be in a fabric, but other ports can be connected to other fabrics. ... 02/02/06 - 20060023706 - Packet multiplexing multi-channel audio Systems and methods for providing multi-channel audio using a reduced amount of resources for the decoding process. A 5.1 channel audio stream is divided into three stereo streams. The packets from each of three stereo streams are multiplexed to create a pseudo-5.1 channel audio stream. The pseudo 5.1 channel audio ... 02/02/06 - 20060023705 - Method and apparatus for closed loop, out-of-band backpressure mechanism A backpressure mechanism uses a TDM backpressure bus with each port card being assigned time slot. During its time slot, each ingress card/port writes on the bus the number of packets it transmitted to an egress ports during the last data refresh cycle. This information is read by the egress ... 01/26/06 - 20060018318 - In-band set-up and configuration of transfer-related resources This invention relates to a method for setting up transfer-related resources, comprising assigning (401) an identifier (12a, 212a) to at least one data unit (12, 212), wherein said identifier associates said at least one data unit with a first entity (10, 210, 510) in a first network node (501), transferring ... 01/26/06 - 20060018317 - Communication system, router, method of communication, method of routing, and computer program product A communication system includes a server and a router which are both connected to a first network. The server grants to a response packet destined for an anycast address sent from a communication apparatus connected to a second network, anycast address option information indicating that an anycast address of a ... 01/26/06 - 20060018316 - Packet relaying method and device In a network of a variable length packet system, a bps calculator colors an inputted packet based on a peak bandwidth or a committed bandwidth of a data bit number per unit time for every flow and a packet length of the inputted packet, a pps calculator colors the inputted ... 01/26/06 - 20060018315 - Method and apparatus for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a tranmission path The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a transmission path. The method comprises receiving a data packet from a first remote device for transmission to a second remote device, wherein the data packet includes a transport-level protocol packet encapsulated in a ... 01/26/06 - 20060018314 - Method of downloading data from pc to phs or vice versa The present invention is to provide a method of downloading data from a PC to a PHS or vice versa, which comprises the steps of commanding a PC to edit data (e.g., phonebook, picture, or ring data) by a PHS, sending the edited data complying with the data requirements of ... 01/26/06 - 20060018313 - Gmplsmpls node and ip mpls node A network is realized having GMPLS and IP/MPLS mixed, in which an IP/MPLS node can be operated as is without replacing the IP/MPLS node with a node having a GMPLS function, even if the GMPLS and IP/MPLS are mixed. To match with the protocol of the IP/MPLS node outside of ... 01/19/06 - 20060013225 - Dedicated bandwidth data communication switch backplane A LAN switch has a backplane matrix in which each controller has a dedicated packet bus for propagating packet data. Each bus has a root interfacing with the transmitting (root) controller and a plurality of leaves interfacing with receiving (leaf) controllers. This configuration enables each controller to simultaneously transmit packet ... 01/19/06 - 20060013224 - Computer readable record medium on which data communication load distribution control program is recorded and data load distribution control method Highly flexible trunking is actualized by using a switching hub without a trunking function. A computer generates a distribution algorithm notification packet including physical addresses of communication interfaces and a distribution algorithm used for distributing data sent from a computer at the other end to the computer among the communication ... 01/19/06 - 20060013223 - Apparatus for and method of predictive time stamping of isochronous data packets transmitted over an ieee 1394-1995 serial bus network In order to predictively time stamp isochronous data packets transmitted over an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network, an application, which is to send a stream of isochronous data packets to a receiving node, first transmits a number of dummy frames each consisting of a number of packets. Preferably, these isochronous ... 01/19/06 - 20060013222 - Apparatus and method for internet protocol data processing in a storage processing device A system including a storage processing device with an input/output module. The input/output module has port processors to receive and transmit network traffic. The input/output module also has a switch connecting the port processors. Each port processor categorizes the network traffic as fast path network traffic or control path network ... 01/19/06 - 20060013221 - Method for securing communication in a local area network switch Method for securing communication in a local area network switch (AN) comprising a user interface (UI) and a network interface (NI), comprises the steps of extracting a source address (MACi) from each packet received by said Local area network switch (AN) and storing said address (MACi) together with associated information ... 01/19/06 - 20060013220 - Control method of communication apparatus, communication apparatus, and control program of communication apparatus A communication apparatus generates an IP network communication path on a local interface, which is constituted of a USB between a computer and the communication apparatus, and the like, using a PPP or the like, and communicates through the IP network communication path with the computer. The computer uses a ... 01/19/06 - 20060013219 - Peer-to-peer data backup and data access tool Methods and systems for performing peer-to-peer backup are provided. According to one embodiment, a P2P backup system includes multiple peers on an IP network forming a P2P network, an edge peer residing behind a firewall, a rendezvous server, a relay server and a P2P backup process running on each of ... 01/19/06 - 20060013218 - Method and system for a gigabit ethernet ip telephone chip with no dsp core, which uses a risc core with instruction extensions to support voice processing Methods and systems for processing data are disclosed and may comprise receiving packetized data comprising voice data and network data via an Ethernet switch integrated within a single gigabit Ethernet IP phone chip. The received packetized data may be processed via a single main processor core integrated within the single ... 01/19/06 - 20060013217 - Method and apparatus providing programmable network intelligence Programmable network intelligence approaches as disclosed herein provide apparatus, methods and tools to achieve programmable interfaces to a device, or group of devices or a network where native programmable interfaces are not available. ... 01/19/06 - 20060013216 - Apparatus and method for supporting real-time services in a wireless network A system and method for supporting real-time services in a wireless network that uses ARQ. The system provides for discarding a packet before all the prescribed subpackets have been transmitted, and transmitting the next packet. ... 01/19/06 - 20060013215 - Method of transmitting data service on synchronous digital network A method for data traffic transmission on a synchronous digital network to overcome the inefficiency of the data packet transmission on the synchronous digital network equipment. The method includes, adding a RPR processing module after Ethernet interface in the equipment; through the RPR processing module, a uplink Ethernet frame from ... 01/19/06 - 20060013214 - Method and apparatus for remapping module identifiers and substituting ports in network devices A method of adjusting fields of a datagram in the handling of the datagram in a network device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a datagram, with the datagram having at least module identifier fields and port identifier fields, at a port of a network device, determining whether the received ... 01/19/06 - 20060013213 - Data output control apparatus In a data output control apparatus, a data replacement unit performs replacement of information packets so as to reflect the contents of a partial TS after the transfer status thereof has changed, and outputs a replacement signal as information relating to the replaced packet data to a controller. Therefore, the ... 01/19/06 - 20060013212 - Port aggregation across stack of devices Techniques for receiving a packet at a first packet forwarding device in a stack of packet forwarding devices, providing a port aggregation table having a plurality of entries, wherein at least one entry identifies a plurality of ports associated with at least two packet forwarding devices in the stack, and ... 01/19/06 - 20060013211 - Apparatus and method for mapping overlapping internet protocol addresses in layer two tunneling protocols A method and system are described for resolving problems created by implementing multiple networks using private IP addresses and layer two tunneling protocols is described. A network processing system is operable to map flows from private IP addresses and ports on layer two tunneling protocol networks to public IP addresses ... 01/19/06 - 20060013210 - Method and apparatus for per-service fault protection and restoration in a packet network A method and apparatus are disclosed for per-service flow protection and restoration of data in one or more packet networks. The disclosed protection and restoration techniques allow traffic to be prioritized and protected from the aggregate level down to a micro-flow level. Thus, protection can be limited to those services ... 01/19/06 - 20060013209 - Apparatus and methods for handling shared services through virtual route forwarding(vrf) -aware- nat Methods and apparatus for performing NAT are disclosed. Specifically, NAT is performed at a service provider network device associated with an interface of a service provider network. When a packet is sent from a VPN to a node outside the service provider network (e.g., to access a shared service), the ... 01/19/06 - 20060013208 - Method and device for the synchronised restitution of data flows A method for restitution of data flows or data packets transmitted over a network, using at least two restitution appliances that are at least indirectly connected to the network, for a synchronized and error-free restitution. To synchronize the restitution by the at least two restitution appliances, either one of the ... 01/12/06 - 20060007929 - Transmit and receive system for a cable data service A transmit and receive system for transmitting data between a transmit site and a receive site. The system includes a tunnel source, router and modulator for dividing a transmit data stream having a first bit rate into multiple data streams with each of the multiple data streams having a bit ... 01/12/06 - 20060007928 - Flexible traffic rating interworking A system is provided with data inspection logic for inspecting subscriber packet traffic. The system includes a pre-rating classification table associated with the data inspection logic. The pre-rating classification table includes a table having one or more entry for static or slowly changing rating aspects of traffic applications and/or one ... 01/12/06 - 20060007927 - Transmission frame structure for control communication network of distributed control system for nuclear power plant A transmission frame structure for use in a control communication network allows all process control stations contained in the control communication network to share monitoring/control information received from a field communication network or an information communication network, and properly copes with faulty operations of channels (i.e., ring-shaped lines) or process ... 01/12/06 - 20060007926 - System and method for providing pooling or dynamic allocation of connection context data Aspects for providing pooling or dynamic allocation of connection context data may comprise receiving data associated with a first network protocol via a first network interface and receiving data associated with a second network protocol via a second network interface. The first and the second network interfaces are adapted to ... 01/12/06 - 20060007925 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for compressing a multiprotocol label switching (mpls) shim header in a packet A multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) packet stream is processed by establishing a packet communication context between a first node and a second node in an MPLS network. The context is an uncompressed version of an MPLS shim header. The MPLS shim header in each of the packets is compressed at ... 01/12/06 - 20060007924 - Power saving in wireless packet based networks A method of handling broadcast packets, which are for a single network unit. The method includes receiving, by a network device, a packet, having a broadcast address, but directed to a single network unit and forwarding the packet through a plurality of ports of the network device, but not through ... 01/05/06 - 20060002390 - Method and apparatus for storing and searching broadcasting stream A method and apparatus for storing and searching a broadcasting stream, the method having operations of: storing a broadcasting stream received during a predetermined period; extracting information from the received broadcasting stream indicating a content of the received broadcasting stream; constructing a database based on the extracted information; displaying the ... 01/05/06 - 20060002389 - Method and apparatus for receiving broadcasting data A method and apparatus for receiving digital broadcasting data. The method for receiving digital broadcasting data includes: extracting location information of second service data which already received first service data refers to, from the first service data; by analyzing the location information, determining whether the second service data is in-band ... 01/05/06 - 20060002388 - System and method for supporting secured communication by an aliased cluster According to at least one embodiment, a method comprises implementing cluster aliasing for a cluster of a plurality of members. The method further comprises supporting, by the aliased cluster, secured communication with a non-member node. ... 01/05/06 - 20060002387 - Method, system, apparatus, program code, and means for determining a relevancy of information Some embodiments include a system, method, apparatus and means for determining a relevancy of information include comparing information in an input data packet with a set of relevant keywords to determine that the input data packet contains one or more of the relevant keywords, tagging portions of the input data ... 01/05/06 - 20060002386 - Combined pipelined classification and address search method and apparatus for switching environments A packet switching node having a pipelined packet processing architecture processing packets received via an input port associated with the packet switching node is presented. The method performed by the apparatus includes: determining a packet frame type of the packet received; selectively extracting packet header field values specific to a ... 01/05/06 - 20060002385 - Switching method and apparatus for use in a communications network One embodiment of the invention provides a method of operating a switch in a communications network. The method includes storing a set of routings for each port in the switch. When a packet is received at a port in the switch, the set of routings corresponding to the port at ... 01/05/06 - 20060002384 - Network system and connecting method thereof A network system and a connecting method thereof. The network system includes a first network device having a first MAC address, a second network device having a second MAC address, a first IP-based device having a first IP address for transmitting the data to the first network device through the ... 12/29/05 - 20050286524 - Data packet discarding A system for hierarchically storing packetized data and transferring the packetized data includes an input configured to receive packets of data, a memory coupled to the input and configured to store packets of data, an output coupled to the memory and configured to transfer packets of data from the memory, ... 12/29/05 - 20050286523 - Robust, inferentially synchronized transmission of compressed transport-layer-protocol headers An implementation of a technology, described herein, for transmitting compressed network transport-layer-protocol headers in a speedy, efficient, inferentially synchronized, and robust manner. An implementation, described herein, models the transmission of compressed headers to the congestion procedure of the network transport-layer protocol (e.g., TCP's). Doing so, the sender of the compressed ... 12/29/05 - 20050286522 - Efficient classification of network packets Embodiments describe a system and/or method for efficient classification of network packets. According to an aspect a method includes describing a packet as a feature vector and mapping the feature vector to a feature space. The method can further include defining a feature prism, classifying the packet relative to the ... 12/29/05 - 20050286521 - Universal digital framer architecture for transport of client signals of any client payload and format type Client signals to be transported in a transmission network, particularly an optical transmission network, may have different payload envelope rates and are digitally mapped on the client egress side into first transport frames (also referred to as iDTF frames, or intra-node or internal digital transport frames), at the client side ... 12/29/05 - 20050286520 - Method, transmitter and system for providing video on demand services A method and system for providing video on demand, the method includes: (i) sending, by a resource manager, authorized media stream identification information to a modulation and radio frequency transmitter; (ii) receiving, by a radio frequency transmitter, at least one media stream encapsulated within addressable packets; wherein the at least ... 12/29/05 - 20050286519 - System and method for peer-to peer hybrid communications An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method includes retrieving a profile and a routing table from an access server by a first endpoint during an authentication process. The profile identifies at least a second endpoint as an endpoint with which the first ... 12/29/05 - 20050286518 - Device for enabling intra-edge routing-less premises internet protocol communication and communication method using the same An intra-edge routing-less IP communication device and communication method using the same, in a multi-subnet edge network on a single. LAN segment in which there are a plurality of premises hosts some of which originally belong to subnets different from those of the others. The communication device comprises a DHCP ... 12/29/05 - 20050286517 - Filtering and routing of fragmented datagrams in a data network Techniques to efficiently filter fragmented datagrams and route fragments are described. For each fragmented datagram, a filtering node obtains filter parameters as fragments for the datagram are received. When all filter parameters are available, the node applies one or more filters on the filter parameters to obtain a filter result ... 12/29/05 - 20050286516 - Session multiplex protocol Session multiplex protocol (“SMUX”) is a protocol layered above existing reliable transport mechanisms that can be used to create multiple sessions over a single connection. Data from several different SMUX sessions can be interleaved and message boundaries preserved. Because it sits on top of reliable transport mechanisms, it takes advantage ... 12/29/05 - 20050286515 - Method and apparatus for providing link-local ipv4 addressing across multiple interfaces of a network node One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for providing link-local IPv4 addressing across multiple interfaces of a source network-node. During system operation, the source network-node broadcasts an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request packet on multiple interfaces, wherein the ARP-request packet asks for the hardware address of a network ... 12/29/05 - 20050286514 - Method and apparatus for looking up configuration information for a network node One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for looking up location-specific configuration information for a network node or a subnet. During system operation, a network node creates a query message containing a key that comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) prefix and a string, wherein the IP prefix identifies ... 12/29/05 - 20050286513 - Software assisted rdma A system and method for processing a packet such as an inbound RDMA write packet in a network communication system. When processing the packet, a prefetch may retrieve a header of the next packet or, in the case of the inbound RDMA write packet, the prefetch may additionally retrieve an ... 12/29/05 - 20050286512 - Flow processing A method, system, network nodes and computer programs for processing a packet data flow in a packet data network is disclosed. In the invention a conventional <rule, action> pair is broken into a two-step process. The new processing follows, for example, <rule, optional-action, future-action-tag> out-of-box-processing <future-action-tag, egress-action> semantics. An important ... 12/29/05 - 20050286511 - Method and apparatus for source authentication in a communications network One embodiment of the invention provides a method of handling an incoming packet at a node in a network. The method includes associating at least one source identifier with a link into the node. A packet is then received at the node over the link, and a source identifier is ... 12/22/05 - 20050281263 - Method and apparatus for dividing communication charges A communication charge dividing method according to the invention includes: counting a first number of packets, which is a number of packets for a specific user in a communication path through which both packets regarded as packets for business use and packets regarded as packets for private use pass; counting ... 12/22/05 - 20050281262 - Method and system for supporting read operations for iscsi and iscsi chimney Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for performing a SCSI read operation via a TCP offload engine. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving an iSCSI read command from an initiator. Data may be fetched from a buffer based on the received iSCSI ... 12/22/05 - 20050281261 - Method and system for supporting write operations for iscsi and iscsi chimney Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for performing SCSI write operations via a TCP offload engine. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving an iSCSI write command from an initiator. At least one buffer may be allocated for handling data associated with the ... 12/22/05 - 20050281260 - Methods and program products for mapping a network address translator An exemplary method for mapping a network address translator on a packet based network that is between a client and a server comprises the steps of the client communicating a first message including a first client address to the server, the server extracting the first client address, and the server ... 12/22/05 - 20050281259 - Method of generating a monitoring datagram A method of generating a monitoring datagram for a predetermined network includes generating an initial datagram and encapsulating the initial datagram with a shim header, where the shim header has a first shim entry and a second shim entry, the first and second shim entries are associated with the predetermined ... 12/22/05 - 20050281258 - Address translation program, program utilizing method, information processing device and readable-by-computer medium Disclosed is an address translation program capable of utilizing a communication adapter from a network management program for a network having a different address system and dealing with a change of an address of the communication adapter, etc. at a high speed without depending on a setting content about the ... 12/22/05 - 20050281257 - Packet forwarding device There is provided a packet forwarding device which always carries out high-speed search in a routing table by using a TCAM. The device includes a CAM (120) which includes a first CAM entry (120-1) to set high order bits of destination address conditions and a second CAM entry (120-2) to ... 12/22/05 - 20050281256 - Data transmission in communication system A method for transmitting data in a communications system and a communication arrangement comprising a first network entity (10) and a second network entity (20), the arrangement being configured to transmit data in messages between the first network entity (10) and one or more third network entities (41, 42, 43) ... 12/22/05 - 20050281255 - Maintaining synchronization of streaming audio and video using internet protocol A playback system in a digital cinema network synchronizes the presentation of visual and aural content by deriving timing information for packets of information that are conveyed in video and audio data streams, examining the timing information to determine if any misalignment between the two data streams is likely to ... 12/15/05 - 20050276264 - System for receiving packet steam A system including input circuitry for receiving from one of a plurality of sources at least one packet stream including a plurality of packets for providing audio, video, private data and/or associated information; at least one output for outputting at least one packet of the at least one packet stream ... 12/15/05 - 20050276263 - Traffic distribution control device A data transmission device 10 serving as a traffic distribution control device is a device which, in order to distribute traffic across a plurality of physical ports composing a logical port for link aggregation, uses a hash function to calculate a hash value from a destination address and a source ... 12/15/05 - 20050276262 - Rule set conflict resolution A flow manager may receive prioritized packet flow rules from multiple prioritized network services where each flow rule may comprise a packet filter and a prioritized action list. The priority for the flow rules from each network service may be expressed as either longest prefix or ordered precedence. The flow ... 12/15/05 - 20050276261 - Communication channel calibration using feedback A method for calibrating a communication channel coupling first and second components includes transmitting a data signal from the first component to the second component on the communication channel, and sensing a characteristic, such as phase, of the data signal on the second component. Information about the sensed characteristic is ... 12/08/05 - 20050271059 - Network protocol conversions and routing methods and apparatus A highly flexible and scalable architecture implements a wide variety of protocol bridging, including ATM SARing (segmentation and reassembly) operations and related functions with single call granularity for network to telecom interface applications such as voice over Internet. A very small packet size minimizes packetization delay so that VOIP can ... 12/08/05 - 20050271058 - Cell or frame assembly method and apparatus optimizing the moving of data In a network node, a method and apparatus for assembling fixed cell length cells resulting from the segmenting of variable length frames into cells. The hardware implementations of the preferred embodiments of the invention comprise a finite state machine which handles three processes at the same time, one for fetching ... 12/08/05 - 20050271057 - System, medium, and method for estimating distance in communication system having nodes A method, medium, and system estimating a location of a node, whose location is unknown, in a communication system including both nodes having known locations and nodes having unknown locations. A first packet is transmitted and received between nodes having known locations, via a node having an unknown location to ... 12/08/05 - 20050271056 - Packet generation method, communication method, packet processing method and data structure The objective of the present invention is to perform network grouping without employing a VLAN switch. Communication is performed by using the data structure for an IP packet that includes an IP data portion and an IP header that has an option area, for which a group number area for ... 12/08/05 - 20050271055 - Method, network arrangement and apparatus for providing isdn services in next generation packet based telecommunication networks The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and network arrangement for providing ISDN services in next generation packet based telecommunication networks. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and network arrangement for providing ISDN services in a NGN, wherein at least one local exchange function application server is ... 12/08/05 - 20050271054 - Asynchronous switch based on butterfly fat-tree for network on chip application The present invention disclosed herein is an asynchronous switch for an network on chip application making possible between IP (Intellectual Property) communication among various IPs in the network on chip. The asynchronous switch according to the present invention in which comprises a data input unit for receiving and storing a ... 12/08/05 - 20050271053 - Method and apparatus for delineating data in an fec-coded ethernet frame One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates construction of a forward error correction (FEC) coded Ethernet frame. During operation, the system receives a conventional Ethernet frame. The system then generates a number of FEC parity bits for the conventional Ethernet frame and inserts a start sequence ... 12/08/05 - 20050271052 - Method and system of storage area network switch addressing A method comprises disconnecting from a first port of a switch addressable by an address of a first address format, connecting to a second port of the switch addressable by a second address format, and accessing the second port using the address. ... 12/08/05 - 20050271051 - Capacity limiting platform system and method Systems and methods limit capacity available for VoIP or other packetized data communications over a communications network. An initiator of the call is communicatively connected to the network, for example, by a gateway switch. The call has a particular destination communicatively connected to the network, such as a market gateway. ... 12/08/05 - 20050271050 - Domain-influenced prefix assignment method and apparatus A network element (10) can retain a plurality of prefix identifiers as are used to formulate an address to be used by individual network users. Pursuant to a preferred approach, one or more of these prefix identifiers are pre-correlated to a given domain name while at least one other prefix ... 12/08/05 - 20050271049 - Dhcp cache method and apparatus The invention relates to a router that keeps a short-lived cache of DHCP packets. Each time the router receives a DHCP request or discover packet, the router checks to see if the packet is already in the cache. If the packet is in the cache and has already been processed, ... 12/08/05 - 20050271048 - Selective internet priority service An Internet Priority Service (IPS) provides to authorized users priority access to communication over the Internet during emergencies. Transmission of data packets from an authorized user that accesses the IPS are given priority for transmission over the Internet. The level of priority given to a data packet depends on the ... 12/08/05 - 20050271047 - Method and system for managing multiple overlapping address domains One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of configuring a network including multiple overlapping private address domains. A configuration file is created for each overlapping address domain (OAD). The configuration file includes an identifier for the OAD, a gateway address to the OAD, and mappings between private addresses in the ... 12/01/05 - 20050265342 - System and method for transforming configuration commands A system and method for generating network device-specific configuration commands from device-neutral configuration commands is described. To generate a device-specific configuration command from a device-neutral configuration command, the described device, in one embodiment, determines a target network device's characteristics. Using that characteristic data, a lookup key is generated for the ... 12/01/05 - 20050265341 - Methods and systems for communicating ss7 messages over packet-based network using transport adapter layer interface A transport adapter layer interface (TALI) includes messages, processes, and packet structures for sending and receiving SS7 information over a stream-oriented connection, such as a TCP/IP connection. For example, the TALI interface includes test messages for testing the status of a connection and allow and prohibit messages for enabling and ... 12/01/05 - 20050265340 - Network address-port translation apparatus and method A network address-port translation (NAPT) method includes: selecting a set of server IP and port from the server port table according to an external-to-internal packet; performing NAPT of the external-to-internal packet according to the selected set of server IP and server port; selecting a storage element from the translation table ... 12/01/05 - 20050265339 - Server, contents processor, contents processing system, contents processing method, program for executing contents processing and recording medium for recording the program A server (3) recognizes a contents transmission request from a terminal (4) and judges whether family tag of the terminal (4) is identical with that of the server (3). Only when the family tag is identical, according to license conditions for executing contents, the contents encoded by the family tag ... 12/01/05 - 20050265338 - Downstream remote physical interface for modular cable modem termination system A modular Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) includes a packet shelf operating a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) Media Access Control (MAC) framer. One or more downstream Physical Interface (PHY) shelves receive DOCSIS data from the packet shelf over a packet switched network and modulate the DOCSIS data ... 12/01/05 - 20050265337 - Filtering apparatus, digital broadcast receiving apparatus and filtering method According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a filtering apparatus comprising: one or more first filters each assigned a first number and detecting a packet having a previously specified identifier; one or more registers disposed in correspondence with the first filters and storing a predetermined number ... 12/01/05 - 20050265336 - Data processing apparatus and data transfer control method An apparatus includes a unit which forms N (N≧2K) packets corresponding to N data blocks, an end flag and an identifier which identifies a data transfer process being attached to each of the last K (K≧2) packets among the N packets, K (K≧2) memory control units which control K (K≧2) ... 12/01/05 - 20050265335 - Method and system for prioritizing ip traffic in a wireless network based on a type-of-service identifier A method for prioritizing IP traffic in a wireless network based on a type-of-service (TOS) identifier is provided. The method includes receiving an IP datagram. The IP datagram comprises an original TOS identifier. An IP message is formed by adding an IP header to the IP datagram. The original TOS ... 12/01/05 - 20050265334 - Time stamp correction apparatus and time stamp correction system There is provided a time stamp correction apparatus for being used in an apparatus which receives a packet including real time data and a |