Bridge Or Gateway Between Networks

Bridge Or Gateway Between Networks 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.

11/22/07 - 20070268922 - Gateway
A work flow manager (1) of a gateway comprises a process automation component (2), a policy engine (3), and a traffic gateway (4). The work flow manager (1) communicates via the internet (5) over IP with content providers (6) and content aggregators (7). On the other side it communicates over ...

11/15/07 - 20070263645 - Multi-path gateway communications device
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for enabling a virtual personalized network. Communications are established with a personal digital gateway to control access, sharing, security, and/or management of up-to-date personalized data exchanged between or among a plurality of associated communications devices and/or communications networks. The associated communications devices are owned, ...

11/15/07 - 20070263644 - Gateway system to interface different communication networks
A first communication network transfers a signaling message for a call to a second communication network. The signaling message indicates a first identifier that represents a connection through the first communication network to the second communication network. The second communication network processes the signaling message to select a second identifier. ...

11/15/07 - 20070263643 - Transfer of electrical data with auto-discovery of system configuration
Automatic discovery of configuration or identification information published by a local computer (publisher) connected to electrical monitoring devices in a power monitoring system and to a server that determines whether to approve data packets sent by the publisher. The publisher attempts to send a data packet including identification information to ...

11/15/07 - 20070263642 - Mechanism to flexibly support multiple device numbers on point-to-point interconnect upstream ports
A method and apparatus for supporting multiple device numbers on point-to-point interconnect upstream ports. In one embodiment, the method includes a downstream component (DC) that performs discovery of internal device components of the DC during initialization of the DC. Subsequent to the discovery of internal devices of the DC, the ...

11/15/07 - 20070263641 - Determining physical location of network devices
Determining a physical location of a network device includes determining a network address associated with the network device and correlating the network address with a physical location. The network address associated with the network device is an address of the network device, an address of a router coupled to the ...

11/15/07 - 20070263640 - Technique for efficiently managing bandwidth for multipoint-to-multipoint services in a provider network
A technique efficiently manages bandwidth (BW) for multipoint-to-multipoint (MP2MP) services in a provider network of a computer network. According to the novel technique, each bridge having a user-network interface (UNI) port of an MP2MP service generates a registration for the service that carries maximum BW values for each port direction ...

11/08/07 - 20070258475 - Multi-protocol network interface card
A method and apparatus for a communications network that executes a medium access control (MAC) protocol that permits multiple access to a shared medium or shared switching fabric. The MAC protocol uses a BANDWIDTH_ALLOCATOR to regulate access to the network by sending a permission message to a NODE, allowing it ...

11/08/07 - 20070258473 - Method for controlling routing operations in a network, related network and computer program product thereof
A communication network with controlled routing operations, including a set of nodes, wherein topological information on the network is broadcast to all the nodes in the set. The network is associated with an external network, such as, a standard public network, and certain nodes are configured to perform a gateway ...

11/08/07 - 20070258472 - System and method for initiating auxiliary communication interfaces via a membership-based network
A system, apparatus and method for utilizing a first communication interface(s) to initiate communications via a second communication interface(s). Auxiliary communication information (104A) is communicated from an initiating device (100) to a target device(s) (110) via a first membership-based communication interface (112). In response to the auxiliary communication information (104A), ...

11/08/07 - 20070258471 - Techniques for measuring media statistics on forked media using a dsp
Techniques for determining media statistics for a communication from a first device to a second device are provided. The techniques include receiving media traffic for the communication at a network device configured to receive the media traffic from the first device. The network device is also configured to transmit the ...

11/08/07 - 20070258470 - System for communication between private and public ip networks
A system for communication between a first computer terminal (1) in a private IP network (7) and a second computer terminal (5) in a public IP network includes a network boundary equipment (3). The communications system further includes a mediation system (2) in the private IP network that is associated ...

11/01/07 - 20070253437 - System and method for intelligent information handling system cluster switches
Information is more efficiently distributed between master and slave information handling systems interfaced through a blocking network of switches by storing the information on switches within the blocking network and distributing the information from the switches. As an example, an application distribution module located on a leaf switch distributes an ...

11/01/07 - 20070253436 - Communicating in a virtual environment
A computer system and method for communicating in a virtual environment. The computer system may include a first partition and a virtual service client implemented at a first position in the first partition. The computer system may also include a second partition, and a virtual service provider implemented at a ...

11/01/07 - 20070253435 - Method for providing reliable session communication within a network
A method of network operation provides reliable session communication within a communication network. A communication session is initiated by an endpoint using a transactional protocol to send a communication session request to a server. The server sends a second communication session request to the at least one other endpoint. An ...

11/01/07 - 20070253434 - Performing a graceful restart operation for wimax network protocols
Facilitating a graceful restart operation includes initiating the graceful restart operation at a gateway of an access service network. A graceful restart request is sent to a helper device. The graceful restart request requests that the helper device recognize the gateway as adjacent during a specified grace period. If the ...

10/25/07 - 20070248108 - System for highly available border gateway protocol
High availability BGP4 is based on redundant hardware as well as redundant software that replicates the RUN state of BGP4. There are two copies, respectively active and backup, of BGP4 running on two separate redundant hardware platforms. All BGP4 internal implementations apply various methods to replicate the running state of ...

10/25/07 - 20070248106 - Method for implementing resources reservation in access configuration mode in next generation network
A method for implementing resources reservation in an access configuration mode in an NGN, including: when a subscriber accesses a network, an NAAF sending a resources request message to a resources mediation PDF; after receiving the resources request message, the resources mediation PDF making an admission decision according to network ...

10/25/07 - 20070248105 - Data communication system, program, and storage medium
The invention provides a data communication system in which a private IP terminal (client terminal) 40 arranged on a private network within a firewall makes connection to a public server 50 by automatically searching for a communication path capable of passing through the firewall. The terminal arranged within the firewall ...

10/18/07 - 20070242683 - Plural telecommunications functions having sharing transaction(s)
A node of a telecommunications network comprises a first function configured to perform a first operation on a first portion of a packet handled by the node and a second function configured to perform a second operation on a second portion of the packet. The first function and the second ...

10/18/07 - 20070242682 - Information processing device, information processing method, program, and recording medium
An information processing device is provided. The information processing device includes a frame acquiring unit for acquiring a frame using a signal transmitted via a network, a computing unit for computing a check sequence on the basis of data included in the frame, a checking unit for checking whether the ...

10/18/07 - 20070242681 - Relay device, packet filtering method, and packet feltering program
A relay device 10 is a relay device for relaying a communication message on a packet-by-packet basis, which comprises an order determiner 13 for determining whether a packet received is one received in an order to be received, a packet holder 14 for, when it is determined that the packet ...

10/18/07 - 20070242680 - Highly adaptable proxy traversal and authentication
Systems and methods are disclosed for transporting multimedia protocol traffic over a proxy server using a commonly-used proxy protocol. Multimedia protocol traffic from a first endpoint is received and then converted. The converted data is then transmitted using a commonly-used protocol across a network. The traffic is received and reconverted ...

10/11/07 - 20070237163 - Multiple virtual channels for use in network devices
A method for establishing a virtual channel between network devices is disclosed. In the case of a local network device establishing a virtual channel with a remote network device, a virtual channel request message is sent from the local network device to the remote network device. A virtual channel acknowledgement ...

10/11/07 - 20070237162 - Method, apparatus, and computer product for processing resource change
A software RM and a network RM read out information from a system resource DB, and perform a software install or a network setting corresponding to a server group to which a server is to be added on a server in a pool based on read information. When a server ...

10/04/07 - 20070230486 - Communication and compliance monitoring system
A system monitors packet data communications passing a network hub or port mirror, for example running on a network server or an appliance or as a set of distributed processes. A processor effects a programmed network probe method as a passive listener or sniffer. Packet data is selectively processed based ...

10/04/07 - 20070230485 - Service providing method, computer-readable recording medium containing service providing program, and service providing apparatus
A service providing method for allowing a user to select services matching his/her tastes with less personal data. When a service request arrives, a service category presenter extracts and transmits a plurality of service category information from a service category storage unit to a terminal device. When the identification information ...

10/04/07 - 20070230484 - Message buffer for a receiver apparatus on a communications bus
A Controller Area Network (CAN) node consists of a high-powered microcontroller, a low standby power regulator, a CAN bus transceiver, and a minimal CAN message buffer for storing received messages. Low power standby operation allows for the controller to power off, while the transceiver and regulator are operated in standby. ...

10/04/07 - 20070230483 - Hybrid ip/atm dslam and method of providing hybrid ip/atm dsl access multiplexing
A hybrid IP/ATM DSLAM and method are provided for hybrid IP/ATM DSL access multiplexing. While traversing a DSLAM, ATM traffic over ATM network infrastructure and GigE/IP traffic over GigE/IP network infrastructure may be recast into crossover GigE/IP traffic and crossover ATM traffic respectively, and routed to the opposite kind of ...

09/27/07 - 20070223502 - Method and apparatus for establishing metazones across dissimilar networks
A system and method for creating and enforcing meta-zones that cross the interface between different network protocols are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of enforcing meta-zones comprises: (a) receiving an Infiniband (IB) packet destined for a Fibre Channel (FC) target device; (b) comparing a partition key in the IB ...

09/27/07 - 20070223501 - Method and system for bidirectional transmission of data between a data processing device and a router
In a method for bidirectional transmission of data between a data processing device and a router data is transmitted over a plurality of sections. Data is transmitted over a first section between the data processing device and an access point via an air interface in accordance with a predefined first ...

09/27/07 - 20070223500 - Home network system
The present invention discloses a home network system (40) which can provide a predetermined control protocol for connecting various home networks (46,48) for communication. The home network system (40) includes a first network (46), a second network (48) separated from the first network (46,48), a home appliance connectable to at ...

09/20/07 - 20070217437 - Method and apparatus for communicating with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number during a disaster and disaster recovery
A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number during a disaster or disaster recovery period. The method can offer disaster recovery to an enterprise depending upon its size, financial well-being and desired capabilities. For example, the enterprise ...

09/20/07 - 20070217436 - Methods and apparatus for centralized content and data delivery
Methods and apparatus for centralized content, media and data delivery and access within a premises such as, e.g., a residence. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a remotely manageable premises device that acts as a centralized client networking platform, providing gateway services such as network management as well as traditional ...

09/20/07 - 20070217435 - Method and apparatus to provide network event messages
These various embodiments are usable in a context that comprises a first network that serves to communicatively couple an entity within a second network (which second network is different than the first network) with an end user platform. Pursuant to these teachings this entity is identified as having a predetermined ...

09/20/07 - 20070217434 - Method for configuring remote ip phones
A system and method for configuring a communication device such as IP phone to operate in central and remote networks is disclosed. A central network includes an Internet Gateway Device, an Internet Protocol Private Branch Exchange (IP PBX) and a communication device. The communication device downloads and stores a configuration ...

09/13/07 - 20070211739 - System and method for automated access of a data management server through a virtual private network
A provider system connects through a virtual private network to a site having various possible virtual private network variants. A virtual private network connection is established to site data management server through a network interface. A virtual machine server, including virtual machines, communicates with the provider system. Each virtual machine ...

09/13/07 - 20070211738 - Ip inter-working gateway in next generation network and method for implementing inter-working between ip domains
An IP inter-working gateway in an NGN includes. a transport layer module which complies with the definition of a standard TCP/IP protocol stack, for determining a service type of an IP packet from a source IP domain, and transmitting the IP packet to a service module or to a destination ...

09/13/07 - 20070211736 - Connecting multi-hop mesh networks usinc mac bridge
A multi-hop mesh network may be connected to a Local Area Network (LAN) using a MAC Bridge. One or more nodes on the mesh network may be configured as a bridge node that employs a MAC bridge. Packets that travel between stations on the LAN to nodes on the mesh ...

09/13/07 - 20070211735 - System and method for providing packet proxy services across virtual private networks
A method is provided for proxy services between a public network and a private network. Such a method includes receiving a first packet having a destination address and a first source address; generating a second packet having the destination address and a second source address; and transmitting the second packet. ...

09/13/07 - 20070211734 - Digital living network alliance gateway having integrated website server for remote access and method thereof
A network gateway includes a first port being coupled to an external network connection; a web server module being coupled to the first port for serving web pages to a remote user through the external network connection; a digital living network alliance (DLNA) controller being coupled to the web server ...

09/06/07 - 20070206617 - Network-triggered quality of service (qos) reservation
A method includes a network originating a QoS reservation message and communicating the network-originated QoS message through a radio access network (RAN) from an access gateway (AGW) to an access terminal (AT). The network-originated reservation message does not cause any network resource reservation by itself, but causes the AT to ...

09/06/07 - 20070206616 - Wireless mesh networks
A wireless network system includes overlapping wireless mesh networks. Nodes that are members of more than one mesh network are capable of communicating with the gateways of each of those mesh networks, which allows sharing information between interrelated control systems through the wireless network system. ...

09/06/07 - 20070206615 - Systems and methods for stochastic-based quality of service
Systems and methods for utilizing transaction boundary detection methods in queuing and retransmission decisions relating to network traffic are described. By detecting transaction boundaries and sizes, a client, server, or intermediary device may prioritize based on transaction sizes in queuing decisions, giving precedence to smaller transactions which may represent interactive ...

09/06/07 - 20070206614 - Border/packet gateway control system and control method
Border/packet gateway control systems and a control method thereof are provided in the embodiments of the invention, the system includes a service control unit, a resource control unit and an interconnecting execution unit. Through schemes of the embodiments of the present invention, the service control information obtained from the service ...

09/06/07 - 20070206612 - Method, apparatus and system for call forwarding through internet
A method, an apparatus and a system for call forwarding through the Internet such that an incoming call transmitted by a caller can be forwarded to communication apparatuses connected to the Internet. The system comprises a first communication apparatus connected to an originating end of the caller, at least one ...

08/30/07 - 20070201494 - Last leg utility grid high-speed data communication network having virtual local area network functionality
A power line based communication system includes a power line termination module, a plurality of power line gateways, and a plurality of power line nodes. The power line termination module manages data for local area networks within the power line based communication system. The plurality of power line gateways is ...

08/30/07 - 20070201493 - Voip gateway apparatus, and method for controlling call-in/call-out in voip gateway apparatus
A VoIP gateway apparatus is used to provide an IP centrex service to accommodated devices. The VoIP gateway apparatus (1) assigns, to a call originated from an accommodated device (PBX2), a telephone number for which the number of simultaneous call connections has not reached a simultaneous connection tolerance number, and ...

08/23/07 - 20070195807 - Methods and systems for establishing communications through firewalls and network address translators
Disclosed are methods that enable communications to be established regardless of the presence of communications blockers, e.g., firewalls and NATs, in the path between two computing devices. Two devices each establish communications with a rendezvous service. Through the service, the devices signal each other to set up direct, peer-to-peer communications ...

08/23/07 - 20070195805 - Ip multimedia subsystem access method and apparatus
A method of facilitating access to IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, services by non-IMS enabled terminals. The method comprises registering a non-IMS enabled terminal with a Home IMS gateway, and, in response to said registration, performing an IMS registration on behalf of said terminal between the Home IMS gateway and the ...

08/23/07 - 20070195803 - Method and arrangement device relating to communication network
The present invention relates to a gateway for connecting a number of incoming analogous and/or digital inputs to a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) based output. The gateway device comprises: at least one analogous and/or digital data interface for interfacing said inputs, a SIM card, with a specific IP address, ...

08/23/07 - 20070195801 - Context-based processing of data flows
The present invention relates to a network node, method and computer program product for processing a data flow based on a context information, wherein a dynamic data structure (DIF) associated with an active data flow is created, when a data packet belonging to said active data flow is received. At ...

08/23/07 - 20070195800 - Communication using private ip addresses of local networks
A system, apparatus and method to use private IP addresses to designate host devices or nodes in different networks for communication purposes are described. Various embodiments of the invention address the problem of a shortage of public IP addresses under IPv4 architecture. In one embodiment of the invention, dynamic NAT ...

08/23/07 - 20070195799 - Packet routing method and packet routing apparatus
A packet routing method for quickly reorganizing a path from a transmission source terminal to a destination terminal. A radio receiver part (103) detects, from a decrease of the field intensity or the like, a cut-off of a communication with a communication device using a radio signal to directly transmit ...

08/16/07 - 20070189312 - Method and apparatus for content-aware web switching
This invention provides methods and apparatus for web switching without connection termination while providing content routing functionality. Content-aware web switches terminate incoming TCP connections and inspect the HTTP header to recognize the URL (content) being requested from a web server farm. This invention maps application layer information (URLs) to MPLS ...

08/16/07 - 20070189310 - Multi-network seamless roaming mobile router with auto-discovery and migration of downstream devices on the mobile network
A mobile router offers seamless roaming services to one or more locally connected mobile hosts over one or more simultaneously connected networks. The mobile router, as well as its local area network, roams across different subnets on similar networks, across networks that are dissimilar, or across a simultaneous combination of ...

08/16/07 - 20070189309 - Route optimization at a packet data switch node
The present invention provides a method of route optimization. The method may include obtaining a packet associated with a first address associated, by a home agent, with a first mobile unit and routing the packet to a second address associated with a second mobile unit along a forward link of ...

08/09/07 - 20070183438 - Method and terminal for restriction of domain transfer
A method and mobile terminal for controlling a voice call continuity (VCC) operation, are provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes receiving, by a terminal, a message from a network server, the message including domain transfer restriction information; checking, by the terminal, the domain transfer restriction information included in ...

08/09/07 - 20070183437 - System and method for transporting a call
A communication system receives a signaling message for a voice communication and processes the signaling message to select a route identifier. The system selects a processing technique for the voice communication, such as compression or encryption. The system processes the voice communication with the selected processing technique. The system adds ...

08/09/07 - 20070183436 - System and method for web-based control of remotely located devices using ready on command architecture
A dynamically adaptable remote control and status system comprising a server computer comprising interface means for interfacing via a computer network with a remotely located client computer; at least one device interface adapted to provide control signals to and receive status signals from a remotely controllable device coupled thereto; processing ...

08/09/07 - 20070183435 - Methods and apparatus providing an airborne e-enabled architecture as a system of systems
A network architecture for implementation in a vehicle is described that comprises an Ethernet gateway module (EGM) and network interface module (NIM). The EGM comprises an Ethernet switch and router therein and is configured to provide an open data network (ODN) connection to the network architecture for a plurality of ...

08/09/07 - 20070183434 - Handling multiple point-to-multipoint services
For enabling multiple point-to-multipoint (PTM) services in a radio communication network system, when joining sessions relating to multiple PTM services is requested by a user equipment first, a first context between the user equipment and network elements providing the multiple PTM services is created, wherein the first context relates to ...

08/09/07 - 20070183433 - Integrated security switch
An integrated security switch and related method for managing connectivity and security among networks. The integrated security switch includes a security function connectable with a first network and at least one switching function connectable with a second network. A common management interface driven by both command line interface and graphic ...

08/02/07 - 20070177617 - Method of efficiently processing dormant state in packet service and multi-mode terminal for the same
An apparatus and method for efficiently processing a dormant state in a packet service between communication networks providing the packet service using different mobile communication technologies is disclosed. This method includes disconnecting, by a multi-mode terminal, a current packet call and changing to a new serviceable mode, if a multi-mode ...

08/02/07 - 20070177616 - Interactive multimedia exchange architecture and services
A multimedia exchange server adapted to communicate multimedia information includes a multimedia gateway adapted to receive a first media from a first network and transmit a second media to a second network. The multimedia exchange server also includes a processor coupled to the multimedia gateway and adapted to provide the ...

08/02/07 - 20070177615 - Voip security
Disclosed herein are techniques for protecting VoIP networks by defending against malicious traffic and malicious access to the systems and networks used for the transmission, storage and management of VoIP data, including defense against weaknesses inherent in VoIP, Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN) and Internet networks used ...

08/02/07 - 20070177614 - Device-to-device communication among customer premise equipment devices
A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes sending a customized configuration file to the cable modem. The configuration file contains service provisioning information and further includes information indicative of a device-to-device communication configuration. A message is passed from the cable ...

07/26/07 - 20070171926 - Method and apparatus for interdomain multicast routing
An apparatus bridges a plurality of domains and routes multicast datastreams between them. The apparatus includes a receiver which receives a client request signal via a multicast access protocol from a user connected within a first domain. A transmitter requests multicast content using a multicast transmission protocol from a provider ...

07/26/07 - 20070171924 - System and method for exchanging information among exchange applications
In a system and method for processing messages, from one or more applications, in a gateway, an application payload is obtained from an application. A raw message is created from the obtained application payload, the raw message including a raw message header and a payload, the raw message header including ...

07/26/07 - 20070171923 - System and method for exchanging information among exchange applications
In a system and method for accessing messages in a data store in a gateway, a data frame request, which is a structured SQL query, is received at the gateway. The received data frame request is applied to the gateway data store, which stores messages. A data frame is generated ...

07/26/07 - 20070171922 - Methods and system for fast session establishment between equipment using h.324 and related telecommunications protocols
Methods of establishing multimedia telecommunication (a multimedia “call”) between equipment (“terminals”). More particularly, the invention provides methods for reducing the time required to establish calls between terminals that implement the ITU-T H.324 Recommendation and other Standards and Recommendations derived from or related to this such as the 3G-324M recommendation developed ...

07/19/07 - 20070165657 - Multicast implementation in a link state protocol controlled ethernet network
Forwarding state may be installed for sparse multicast trees in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network by enabling intermediate nodes to install state for one or more physical multicast trees, each of which may have multiple logical multicast trees mapped to it. By mapping multiple logical multicasts to a ...

07/19/07 - 20070165656 - Control system with predictive field device response time over a wireless network
A host computer communicates with field devices by sending control messages and receiving response messages over a wireless network. When the host computer sends a control message to the wireless network, the host computer is provided with a predictive response time within which the field device receiving the message will ...

07/19/07 - 20070165654 - Method for managing a terminal device
A method for managing a terminal device includes: setting management commands; sending the management commands to a terminal device; and obtaining executed results of the management commands from the terminal device. Another method for managing a terminal device, comprising: setting management commands; configuring a terminal device with the management commands; ...

07/19/07 - 20070165653 - Inter-system communication
In one aspect, a communication system allows telephone users to roam between cellular and broadband domains and obtain equivalent level of service and features in the broadband network as in the cellular network. For example, such users can make use of Push-To Talk service, as well as continuous telephone call ...

07/19/07 - 20070165651 - Broad band transmission path modem, radio terminal device, program, and recording medium
The present invention relates to a broadband transmission path modem, a radio terminal device, a program, and a storage medium. An object of the present invention is to provide a radio terminal device with various communication services including access to the Internet etc. via a broadband transmission path at a ...

07/12/07 - 20070160072 - Selective handoff between access gateways
The described embodiments of the present invention include a method for providing access by a user device of a network service including: sending an initiation signal from the user device to a session initialization proxy server, initiating an application on the user device that requires the network service, sending quality ...

07/12/07 - 20070160071 - Framework for a wireless communication device
A method is provided for managing the operation of a wireless communication device. The method comprises receiving from a source a data stream incorporating at least some data in a generic format to be communicated via a wireless communications connection, determining a selected protocol interface module from a plurality of ...

07/12/07 - 20070160070 - Pushing documents to wireless data devices
A system pushes documents to one or more wireless data devices. The system receives a push request from a user to push a specified document to one or more identified wireless data devices. The system then constructs a wireless gateway server request for each identified wireless data device, and the ...

07/05/07 - 20070153813 - Traffic distribution in a communications network
Systems and methods for implementing telecommunications systems and services are provided. More specifically, embodiments relate to systems and methods for distributing traffic within a telecommunications network. According to various embodiments, systems and methods for establishing a communication session are described which provide for determining information descriptive of an originator of ...

07/05/07 - 20070153812 - Dynamic discovery of a network service on a mobile device
A network service is made available on a device capable of operating on a first network that is coupled to a second network via a Network Address Translator (NAT). One or more User Datagram Protocol (UDP) messages with an entity of the second network. Based on the exchange of UDP ...

06/28/07 - 20070147401 - System and method for communicating telecommunication information between a broadband network and a telecommunication network
A system for communicating telecommunication information includes a memory, packetization modules, and a telecommunication interface module. The memory stores subscriber profiles associating each of several subscribers with a telecommunication interface. The packetization modules receive data packets from a broadband network and extract telecommunication information associated with a subscriber from the ...

06/28/07 - 20070147400 - Communication method for interworking of local heterogeneous link layer protocols and apparatus thereof
A communication method for interworking of local heterogeneous link protocols, includes the following steps: when the type of an input interface of a data packet is a predefined type, remove link layer information of the data packet according to a link protocol of the input interface; transmit the data packet ...

06/28/07 - 20070147399 - Using secondary channels to communicate ip addresses for point-to-point communication
A first device uses a secondary communication channel to send its public IP address to a second device to setup point-to-point communication over a primary communication channel, such as a public computer network. The secondary channel may be a public switched telephone network, a circuit-switched voice channel in cellular network, ...

06/28/07 - 20070147398 - Method and system for setting up a media session in a telecommunications network
A communication system sets a media session between a first media gateway and a second gateway through a media gateway controller. The first media gateway receives a control address of the second media gateway from the media gateway controller. The first media gateway allocates media processor resources from a pool ...

06/28/07 - 20070147397 - Methods, communication networks, and computer program products for configuring a communication tunnel for traffic based on whether a network element can be trusted
A communication network is operated by determining whether a network element can be trusted and configuring a tunnel for traffic associated with the network element based on whether the network element can be trusted operates a communication network. ...

06/28/07 - 20070147396 - Method and system for converting service types of devices connected to control gateway
A method and a system for converting the service types of the devices connected to a control gateway are provided. The system includes a server, an open platform, a control gateway and devices connected to the control gateway. Wherein, the device possesses device description information and is operated in a ...

06/28/07 - 20070147395 - Method for selecting egresses of a multi-isp local area network
The present invention discloses a Multiple ISP local area network egress selecting method, comprising: setting the local area network routing as normal routing and strategic routing; setting the routing plan of the strategic routing; creating NAT address pool; in the case that there is egress request from inside of local ...

06/21/07 - 20070140276 - Communication system switching method, and terminal device using this method
A W-LAN communication unit, a personal handyphone communication unit and an EV-DO communication unit include communication functions corresponding to their communication systems. A W-LAN quality measurement unit detects a value corresponding to RSSI, which is the reception power. An EV-DO quality measurement unit periodically obtains EV-DO quality values. A throughput ...

06/21/07 - 20070140275 - Method of preventing denial of service attacks in a cellular network
A system, method, and computer readable medium for preventing denial of service attacks in a cellular network, that comprises, counting a data packet generated by an address on the cellular network and blocking access to the cellular network of the address if the counted data packets exceeds a pre-defined threshold. ...

06/21/07 - 20070140274 - Centralised irrigation automation system for a building provided with local computer network with standard network protocol
A centralised automation system for an irrigation system is disclosed that is associable with a local computer network of standard type with a standard network protocol of a building in a so-called “building automation” context. The automation system comprises a field control unit (4) for receiving, storing and issuing irrigation ...

06/21/07 - 20070140273 - Packet relay system
A packet relay system requests a peripheral apparatus to perform filtering and enhances the quality of packet relaying. A path establishment block establishes a request path on which a packet to be proxy-filtered is sent and a return path on which a proxy-filtered packet is received. A request source filter ...

06/21/07 - 20070140272 - Portable communication device
A portable communication device comprising a router and a method for incorporating a router into a portable communication device. The portable communication device comprises a transceiver unit. The transceiver unit is adapted to communicate data with at least one communication network, and communicate data with at least one external electronic ...

06/21/07 - 20070140271 - Method and system for terminating sonet/sdh circuits in an ip network
A method and system for terminating SONET/SDH circuits in an IP network includes a SONET/SDH to Ethernet inter-working device/functionality implemented in a network element for mapping SONET/SDH channels into logical channels over an Ethernet connection. The SONET/SDH channels are de-encapsulated to remove Layer-2 protocols and expose IP packets. The IP ...

06/21/07 - 20070140270 - Device, method and computer program product for controlling reception of broadcast content
A device for controlling reception of broadcast content includes a receiving module and an output interface. The receiving module receives broadcast content from a source. The output interface communicates the received broadcast content to a terminal. The device is configured to determine a state of the terminal. The device is ...

06/21/07 - 20070140269 - Cellular communication system on a work machine
A work machine communication system for providing cellular network communications on a work machine includes a work machine controller configured to control at least one operation of a work machine. The system may also include a gateway device including a Web server, the Web server being configured to provide bidirectional ...

06/21/07 - 20070140268 - Network with distributed authentication control
A bridged network system (10). The system comprises at least one network server (NS) for receiving and responding to authentication session requests. The system also comprises a plurality of bridge nodes (BRNx). Each bridge node in the plurality of bridge nodes is connected to communicate with at least one other ...

06/21/07 - 20070140267 - System and method for implementing multimedia calls across a private network boundary
A system and method of the present invention for implementing multimedia calls across a private network boundary is provided, the system comprising a public network and at least one private network, and at least the following hardware components: at least one media gateway for connecting with multimedia terminals of various ...

06/14/07 - 20070133578 - Network gateway and communication frame relaying method
In a network gateway, when a target communication frame is transferred bit-by-bit from at least one of nodes through a corresponding one of networks, a receiving unit sequentially receives the transferred target communication frame bit-by-bit, and sequentially outputs the received target communication frame bit-by-bit. A buffer sequentially stores therein the ...

06/14/07 - 20070133577 - Virtual private network and method for controlling and forwarding route thereof
The present invention discloses a Virtual Private Network (VPN), which includes: a Sub-Provider Edge (SUB_PE), configured in a customer's network and connected with a PE in a provider's network; at least one SUB_VPN belonging to a same customer is configured under the SUB_PE and accesses the provider's network through the ...

06/14/07 - 20070133576 - Packet forwarding apparatus with function of limiting the number of user terminals to be connected to isp
A packet forwarding apparatus for connecting a plurality of user terminals to an ISP management server has a management table indicating the relationship between a connection port identifier and specific header information in association with the MAC address of each of the user terminals so that, in a communication protocol ...

06/14/07 - 20070133575 - Interactive voice response system for online and offline charging and for multiple networks
An interactive voice response system (102) includes a protocol interface (134) that is adapted to communicate with a plurality of divergent telecommunications networks for voice communications (104, 106, 108, 110). These networks are, for example, a wireline telecommunications network, a CDMA network, a GSM network, and a voice over IP ...

06/14/07 - 20070133574 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for using an e.164 number (enum) database for message service message routing resolution among 2g and subsequent generation network systems
Methods, systems, and computer program products for using an E.164 number (ENUM) database for message service message routing resolution among 2G and subsequent generation network systems are disclosed. According to one method, a message including message service message content is received. The message may include a 2G message recipient identifier. ...

06/07/07 - 20070127510 - Wide area communication networking
A wide area communications network or simply a communications network is includes a broadband communication line having a first voice channel and a second voice channel, wherein the first and second voice channels are derived channels. The communications network further includes a residential gateway in communication with the broadband communication ...

06/07/07 - 20070127509 - Method for periodically acquiring the qos of media stream and system thereof
The present invention discloses a method for acquiring media stream Quality of Service (QoS) periodically. The MGC sets an inspect duration during which the MGC periodically acquires the QoS information of the media stream, thereby timely acquiring the QoS information of the media stream and effectively controlling the media stream. ...

06/07/07 - 20070127508 - System and method for managing the transmission of video data
A centralized system for managing video transmission including a gateway serving as an interface between all video capture devices and all viewing devices on the system. All video transmissions must pass through the gateway where they can be identified, managed and monitored accordingly. The system also includes a plurality of ...

06/07/07 - 20070127507 - A voip communication system
An Internet-based system provides substantially instantaneous communication between two devices for exchanging voice and multimedia signals. The system includes ISP gateways with unique IDs that service a plurality of devices with unique telephone numbers. The system further includes a directory which correlates the devices with ISP gateways. More specifically, the ...

06/07/07 - 20070127506 - Complementary residential gateway management
System management functions are remotely performed on customer premises equipment (CPE), such a residential gateway, even if the CPE has not been authenticated or dynamically allocated an IP address or otherwise is not in a state that enables normal communication with the network. CPE management information is communicated using an ...

05/31/07 - 20070121655 - Method for forwarding packet and apparatus thereof
A method for forwarding packet includes: configuring a corresponding relationship between a physical feature and a service feature of a packet; receiving a packet, obtaining the physical feature of the packet; finding the corresponding relationship between the physical feature and the service feature according to the obtained physical feature, and ...

05/31/07 - 20070121654 - Protecting the filtering database in virtual bridges
A method for budgeted learning of link information in a network includes providing a database to contain the link information, for use by an entity connected to the network in transferring traffic over the network, and setting a maximum rate for addition of entries to the database. New entries to ...

05/31/07 - 20070121653 - Protocol independent application layer for an automation network
A software architecture for an automation network is disclosed that implements a high level, protocol-independent interface for a network system. The software architecture includes a system layer interface to maintain a protocol-independent interface with a transport layer and an application layer of the automation network. The system layer interface includes ...

05/31/07 - 20070121652 - Method for storing and processing a data unit in a network device
To provide a possibility for increasing the speed of operation of a data unit according to forwarding and/or processing of data units by a network device (2) that is connected to a communications network (1b) and wherein at least one management information is assigned to each data unit and wherein ...

05/31/07 - 20070121651 - Network-based format conversion
Various embodiments of the invention provide solutions for converting content, such as audio files and/or streams, video files and/or streams, other data files and/or the like. In an aspect, embodiments of the invention thus provide novel solutions to facilitate the provision of media services to one or more subscribers. In ...

05/31/07 - 20070121650 - Enterprise application based multi-billing integration system
A telecommunications messaging architecture efficiently routes messages to the appropriate support systems which process the messages. The messaging architecture is a partially merged architecture in which selected previously independent processing systems (e.g., customer relationship management systems) have been merged. Despite the partially merged architecture, a routing system flexibly routes messages ...

05/31/07 - 20070121649 - High density optical network access switch
In one example, an optical network access switch includes independent first and second banks of individually selectable optical inputs, as well as independent first and second groups of individually controllable optical outputs. A first multiplexer is connected to the optical inputs of the first bank and the optical outputs of ...

05/31/07 - 20070121648 - Wireless communication system
A modular wireless Internet access communications system designed to extend broadband 802.3 linear-bus topology up to fifteen miles beyond the physical limits of DSL or cable technologies through the integration of specialized wireless hardware devices, firmware, and protocols. ...

05/31/07 - 20070121647 - Method for processing create packet data protocal context request
The present invention discloses a method for processing Create Packet Data Protocol (PDP) Context Request. The method includes: 1) storing Cause values of different versions as well as definitions for all the Cause values in the GSN receiving Create PDP Context Request messages; 2) after receiving a Create PDP Context ...

05/31/07 - 20070121646 - Method and apparatus for multiplexing dial-up internet sessions
A method and system for multiplexing a plurality of calls (135a, 135b, 135c, 135d, 135e) to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) for transmission in a plurality of timeslots (145a, 145b, 145c) by combining the calls in assigned timeslots. The timeslots may be assigned dynamically or statically. For example, calls (135a) ...

05/24/07 - 20070116022 - Method and apparatus for guaranteeing fairness regarding access to medium among stations in wlan
A method and apparatus for guaranteeing fairness regarding access to a medium among a plurality of stations in a wireless local area network (WLAN) where a plurality of high throughput (HT) stations and a plurality of 802.11 legacy stations coexist are provided. In the WLAN, information that allows a plurality ...

05/24/07 - 20070116021 - Mesh based/tower based network
Included are embodiments for providing communications services. At least one embodiment includes a first communications component configured to receive data from a first communications device and a second communications component configured to send at least a portion of the received data to a second communications device. ...

05/24/07 - 20070116020 - Method for providing home agent geographic redundancy via a service redundancy protocol
Methods and systems for providing redundancy in servicing packet data communications within wireless mobile data networks are disclosed. More particularly, the method and system provide a redundant Home Agent with the ability to assume the role of the primary Home Agent in the event of a primary Home Agent network, ...

05/24/07 - 20070116019 - Method for providing home agent geographic redundancy
Methods and systems for providing redundancy in servicing packet data communications within wireless mobile data networks are disclosed. More particularly, the method and system for provide a redundant Home Agent with the ability to assume the role of the primary Home Agent in the event of a primary Home Agent ...

05/24/07 - 20070116018 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for distributed resource allocation among clustered media gateways in a communications network
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for distributed resource allocation between media gateways (MGs) in a cluster of MGs. According to one method, available resources provided by each MG in a cluster of MGs controlled by a media gateway controller (MGC) are communicated between the MGs in the ...

05/17/07 - 20070110084 - Access points of defferent types exchanging addresses and rules to support end points devices
An end-point device comprises multiple transceivers via which the end-point device associates with multiple access points simultaneously. The access points may belong to communicatively incompatible packet switched data networks. A backbone network communicatively connects all associated access points. The end-point device receives unique network address of an access point from ...

05/17/07 - 20070110083 - Gateway for achieving low latency and high availability in a real time event processing system
Methods, machine-readable media, and apparatuses are disclosed for interfacing computer networks. According to one embodiment, a method for interfacing a first network using a first protocol with a second network using a second protocol can comprise receiving an event in the form of a first message from the first network, ...

05/17/07 - 20070110082 - Systems and methods for implementing second-link routing in packet switched networks
A network (100) includes multiple gateways (135, 140) and a router (105) connected to at least one of the multiple gateways (135, 140). The router (105) is configured to receive packets that include multiple first virtual circuit identifiers associated with the multiple gateways in the network (100), assign second virtual ...

05/17/07 - 20070110081 - Daisy chaining device servers via ethernet
A device server intended for attaching serial devices to a network includes Ethernet communications, an Ethernet switch, and serial communication capability so that multiple device servers are connected in a “daisy chain” or series pattern. Galvanic isolation of the power supply from the housing and communication ports, screw terminal and ...

05/03/07 - 20070097997 - System, apparatus and method of determining associated data
In the field of monitoring communications systems, it is necessary for a monitoring system to be aware of an association of a Mobile Country Code (MCC), a Mobile Network Code (MNC) and an IP Address of a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) of a first network when a mobile terminal ...

05/03/07 - 20070097996 - Message sequencing and data translation architecture for telecommunication services
A telecommunications architecture processes telecommunications service requests received from third parties through a secure access gateway. The third parties may be other telecommunications service providers which employ the services to support their own products and services or may be or individual subscribers. The service broker provides a flexible and efficient ...

05/03/07 - 20070097995 - Method and apparatus for detecting the presence of a terminal in a data session
To detect the presence of at least one other terminal in a data session (e.g., an RTP session), terminal a generates a request to solicit a response from each terminal, forms an APP packet in RTCP for the request, encapsulates the APP packet in at least one IP packet, and ...

05/03/07 - 20070097994 - Endpoint selection for a call completion response
Techniques for selecting a call completion response from a group of call completion responses based on weights associated with the call completion responses, are provided. A server processes a call invitation for a callee by forwarding the call invitation to each of the callee's endpoints. Each of the callee's endpoints ...

05/03/07 - 20070097993 - System and method for remote control of local devices over a wide area network
A system and method for remote monitoring via an external network of the operation of a plurality of devices located on a local area network. The system and method comprise a gateway device, such as a server or intelligent router, for coupling the external network with the local area network. ...

04/26/07 - 20070091909 - Connection state control device, connection state control method, and connection state controlling program
A connection state control device is provided that can promptly perform a reproducing operation by smoothly switching channels at each node and reduce the load on the management server in a case where operations are performed so as to sequentially change distribution information to be received at each node in ...

04/26/07 - 20070091908 - Communication device and communication control method using efficient echonet address determination scheme
In a communication device for carrying out communications according to an Echonet protocol on a network of a prescribed network layer protocol, a prescribed bit sequence value of a network layer address or a datalink layer address of the communication device is set as a candidate for an Echonet address ...

04/26/07 - 20070091907 - Secured media communication across enterprise gateway
A method for implementing communication between at least two client devices is provided. The first client device of the at least two client devices is disposed externally with respect to a firewall of an internal network. The method includes performing NAT (Network Address Translation) traversal between the first client device ...

04/26/07 - 20070091906 - Voice over internet protocol (voip) location based conferencing
A Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) device uses its location to narrow down known and unknown potential VoIP third parties meeting the user's criteria, based on their physical proximity to the initial caller and other pre-determined characteristics, to join in a phone conference. A VoIP soft switch includes conference bridges ...

04/26/07 - 20070091905 - Telecommunication system gateway architecture and method
A telecommunications system gateway architecture comprises at least one service logic module communicatively coupled to a plurality of mediation layer modules, each respective mediation layer module adapted to interface the at least one service logic module with a respective different network domain. ...

04/26/07 - 20070091904 - Maintaining session information by using a session data structure
Maintaining session information includes initiating an access point session between a node and an access point of a local area network. A data structure is received from the access point. The data structure is operable to store session parameter values describing the first access point session, and is maintained the ...

04/26/07 - 20070091903 - Interface switch for use with fibre channel fabrics in storage area networks
An interface switch which presents itself as switch to an enterprise fabric formed of the devices from the same manufacturer as the interface switch and that of a host or node to an enterprise fabric from a different manufacturer. This allows each enterprise fabric to remain in a higher performance ...

04/26/07 - 20070091902 - Securely managing network element state information in transport-layer associations
Rules in NAT and firewall devices are updated only when a packet flow is verified as genuine through transport-layer message acknowledgment sequences. When a device receives a packet indicating initiation of a new association, the device stores an internal source tag, an internal destination tag, an external source tag, and ...

04/19/07 - 20070086469 - Method for preventing illegal use of service information registered and system using the same
The present invention relates to a method and system to prevent the service registration information such as ID, password to make sure of user's identity from illegally being used by a third party in an effective way when various kinds of service are used in both on-line and off-line. The ...

04/12/07 - 20070081545 - Voice over internet protocol terminal and communication method thereof
A VoIP terminal including at least one IPv6-based VoIP application and a communication method thereof. The VoIP terminal converts IPv6 address information into an IPv4 address format of a receiving terminal, the IPv6 address information allowing a VoIP application to communicate with the receiving terminal, transmits a first message including ...

04/12/07 - 20070081544 - Gateway apparatus, server apparatus, and method for address management
A gateway apparatus obtains IPv6 address information assigned to a monitoring camera by using a camera search unit and assigns a host name to the monitoring camera by using a camera information registration unit, the monitoring camera being connected to the gateway apparatus via a network. The gateway apparatus stores ...

04/12/07 - 20070081543 - Network utilization control apparatus and method of using
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) apparatus includes a first communications unit and a processing unit. The first communications unit sends and receives message packets over a wide area network (WAN), and the processing unit controls the sending and receiving of message ...

04/05/07 - 20070076729 - Peer-to-peer communication traversing symmetric network address translators
Disclosed are systems and methods for peer-to-peer communication over a network between a first node behind a first network address translator (NAT) and a second node behind a second NAT, despite the first NAT and the second NAT intervening between the first and second nodes. The first NAT is a ...

04/05/07 - 20070076728 - Self-monitoring and optimizing network apparatus and methods
Methods and apparatus for dynamically and automatically allocating network resources through anticipatory analysis and control. In an exemplary embodiment, the network comprises a broadcast switched digital architecture, and network bandwidth allocation to multiple digital program streams is performed by processing historical user tuning data, which is obtained directly from the ...

04/05/07 - 20070076727 - Adaptive redundancy protection scheme
A redundancy protection scheme comprises sending a protection packet from the primary network interface to the secondary network interface, the protection packet having a hardware address of the primary network interface as a source address and a hardware address of the secondary network interface as a destination address. The scheme ...

04/05/07 - 20070076726 - Receive window auto-tuning
Methods of tuning a receive window. A receiving device and a sending device may be in communication over a network. The receiving device may advertise a receive window to the sending device. The size of the receive window may be adjusted over time based on one or more connection parameters, ...

03/29/07 - 20070071020 - Gateway digital loop carrier device
A gateway digital loop carrier device accommodates an integrated access device accommodating as a subscriber at least one of a telephone, a modem and ISDN and implementing a TR-008 interface, executes an interface conversion between TR-008 and TR/GR-303, and connects the subscriber to a switch implementing a TR-303 or GR-303 ...

03/29/07 - 20070071019 - Transmitting apparatus and frame transfer method
A transmitting apparatus includes a network interface for connecting between networks; an information embedding unit that embeds, in a frame output from the network interface, first port information for identifying a first port through which the frame is received; and a path deciding unit that decides, when second port information ...

03/29/07 - 20070071018 - Method of filtering a plurality of data packets
A method of filtering a plurality of data packets may include a radio access network (RAN) receiving the plurality of data packets and determining if a mobile station coupled to the RAN is in a dormant state and a reactivation request is not pending for the mobile station. If the ...

03/29/07 - 20070071017 - Mechanism for automatically detecting, creating and configuring virtual lans
According to one embodiment, a virtual local area network (VLAN) detector is disclosed. The VLAN detector includes a reporter that stores VLAN IDs in a file, and an interface that is coupled to the reporter to check the file for information for creating a new VLAN and to transmit the ...

03/29/07 - 20070071016 - Communicating station-originated data to a target access point via a distribution system
A method and an apparatus are disclosed that mitigate congestion in a backbone network that is associated with a wireless network. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention mitigates the congestion by reducing the occurrences of a bridge data-processing system flooding out pre-authentication-related packets, as well as some other types ...

03/29/07 - 20070071015 - Using crc-15 as hash function for mac bridge filter design
A hash function for a MAC bridge filter that improves bridge performance by reducing overflow of the MAC bridge database and which reduces cost of the device by using relatively few hardware resources. A CRC hash function is used to randomize the search string in the MAC bridge filter so ...

03/22/07 - 20070064715 - Method and apparatus for the assessment and optimization of network traffic
A system for the assessment of network performance criteria, and applying this criteria to the classification of network addresses into appropriate ranges, using these ranges to consolidate performance measurements for the associated addresses, and applying these metrics toward the optimization of the network towards performance or policy objectives. ...

03/22/07 - 20070064714 - Wireless based troubleshooting of customer premise equipment installation
Troubleshooting of customer premise equipment installation includes receiving a request for troubleshooting information over a wireless link. The troubleshooting also includes providing information relating to an attempt to activate the customer premise equipment over the wireless link in response to receiving the request for troubleshooting information over the wireless link. ...

03/15/07 - 20070058647 - Video based interfaces for video message systems and services
The user interface to a video based telecommunications system is enriched by the provision of multi-media user interfaces. The user interface may include active video portions along with instructional audio or may be icons or thumbnails representing available video information. Menu structures can be animated by changing the color or ...

03/15/07 - 20070058646 - Device and method for forwarding multicast traffic in a hybrid device
A hybrid device for forwarding traffic in a communication network is provided. According to one embodiment, the hybrid device comprises a layer-2 switch, a multicast forwarding information and a multicast router. The layer-2switch forwards a unicast traffic based on a destination address in the data-link layer within the unicast traffic. ...

03/15/07 - 20070058645 - Network controlled customer service gateway for facilitating multimedia services over a common network
The present invention provides a customer service gateway acting as an interface between various customer premise equipment for a customer and a local access network. The customer service gateway has one or more customer agents and network agents. A network agent is a secure and trusted agent of the service ...

03/15/07 - 20070058644 - Service for nat traversal using ipsec
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for methods and apparatus for facilitating a secure connection between a first and a second node in a computer network where one or both of the nodes may or may not reside behind a network address translation (NAT) enabled gateway. Embodiments of the present invention ...

03/15/07 - 20070058643 - Dual purpose video adapter port
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for using a video port, such as a display data channel (DDC) port, in two modes for transmitting and receiving serial data streams. In one mode, the DDC port is used to control the operation of a video display of an information ...

03/15/07 - 20070058642 - Client requested external address mapping
An access is requested by a local host to a public network. A public address to be used for the access to the public network is determined. A local address, corresponding to the local host, is mapped to the public address. The public address is returned to the local host. ...

03/08/07 - 20070053371 - Method and device for working mode switching of media stream transition channel on gateway
A method and a device for switching the working mode of the media stream transition channel on a gateway. The method includes: detecting signals sent by data devices passing through the gateway, if the signals from common fax machines are detected, the media stream transition channel is switched to a ...

03/08/07 - 20070053370 - Method of providing access to packet-switched services in a heterogeneous network environment
A method of providing access for a multi-mode mobile terminal (13) to packet-switched services in a heterogeneous network environment (10) comprising a uni-directional network (12) and a bi-directional network (11), which method comprises the step of creating and storing a data structure in each of said multi-mode mobile terminal (13), ...

03/08/07 - 20070053369 - System apparatus and method for interconnecting tdm and frame/packet communication networks
An interconnection between fully synchronous networks of the prior art and next generation frame communications networks, which is required for the shift to next-generation packet networks and a broader-based connection service, is realized. Here, the first point is that a means of bidirectional frame format conversion between a synchronous multiplexing ...

03/08/07 - 20070053368 - Graphical representations of aggregation groups
The apparatus in one example may have: aggregation groups of network ports; a respective aggregation group having a formation that is one of statically formed, dynamically formed, unknown, or empty; a respective aggregation group having a state that is one of a working state, a degraded state or a failed ...

03/08/07 - 20070053367 - System and method for developing and executing a wireless application gateway
The invention provides a system and method that enables a business developer to develop and execute a Wireless Application Gateway (WAG) without programming or writing code. The WAG, as developed and executed through this invention can support a variety of wireless devices and a variety of backend systems. The business ...

03/01/07 - 20070047562 - Method and apparatus for cross paging a multi network communication system
Various embodiments are described which can serve to increase the cross paging call success rate in joint networks. Resource reservation by a requesting network (312) in the context of cross paging is described. In general, such resource reservation may be triggered by the occurrence of any one of a variety ...

03/01/07 - 20070047561 - Method for accessing data and for searching data and a message box
A method for accessing data is disclosed, which method is for accessing data to a plurality of storage media through an electronic communication device, wherein the storage media are electrically connected to a gateway, the method including the steps of: the electronic communication device being connected to the gateway in ...

03/01/07 - 20070047560 - Wireless bridge with beam-switching antenna arrays and method thereof
A wireless bridge for communicating with another wireless bridge. The wireless bridge comprises a plurality of phased-array antennas, an antenna selector and a transceiver. The phased-array antennas each forms a beam and transmits/receives a signal to/from the other wireless bridge, and the beams are overlapped in angles. The antenna selector ...

03/01/07 - 20070047559 - Gateway device, audio communication system, and audio communication method
There are provided a voice communication unit 23a for voice communication with the telephone equipment 13 through the metallic cable 3, an identifier generation unit 23b for generating a caller identifier and an intended recipient identifier on the basis of a control signal from the telephone equipment 13, a conversion ...

02/22/07 - 20070041389 - Device and method for interfacing to advanced switching platform
A device and method for interfacing with an advanced switching (AS) platform is provided. In the uplink direction the device includes: a line side interface processing module, which receives SDH/SONET frames and conducts frame header searching and descrambling; a de-framing processing module, which de-frames the descrambled frames to obtain the ...

02/15/07 - 20070036165 - Method and network element configured for limiting the number of virtual local area networks creatable by gvrp
A Layer 2 device configured for providing at least one of bridging and switching functionality in a local area network comprising computer readable instructions for providing GVRP functionality and computer-readable instructions for limiting the number of dynamic VLANs that the GVRP functionality creates on a Layer 2 device of a ...

02/15/07 - 20070036164 - Digital gateway for education systems
A communications and IP network gateway interface unit is provided for use with educational systems in a classroom environment. The gateway interface is configured to communicate with an IP network, and includes a digital signal processing unit storing programs for processing encoded data signals received from the IP network to ...

02/08/07 - 20070030857 - Mobile router device
A wireless mobile router (140) includes wireless network interfaces (202) and (218) attached to a network controller (142). The wireless network interface (202) communicates with a cellular network (110) to access cellular network services. The wireless network interface (218) and the network controller (142) comprise a WLAN (170) or PAN ...

02/08/07 - 20070030856 - Shared dsl network and deployment method
A DSL network topology is provided for the interconnections between a telecom carrier and households. Each household is provided with an HCC (Home Communications Centre) for facilitating digital communication. The digital communication includes DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) communication. A method of forming a DSL network such that existing copper pair ...

02/08/07 - 20070030855 - Default gateway router supplying ip address prefixes ordered for source address selection by host device
A default gateway router of a multi-homed site is configured for supplying, to a host device, a plurality of address prefixes having been advertised by respective exit routers providing respective connecting links for the multi-homed site to a wide area network. The default gateway router sends the address prefixes to ...

02/08/07 - 20070030854 - Method and apparatus for exchanging signals with a computer system through wired and wireless communication in an input device of the computer system
A method for exchanging signals with a computer system through a wired and wireless communication in an input device of the computer system includes determining whether the input device connects to the computer system through a wire or not, and exchanging signals with the computer system through wireless communication when ...

02/01/07 - 20070025374 - Tcp normalization engine
The present invention relates to network security systems and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for maintaining a TCP connection when the payload data of a TCP segment transmitted from source to destination is modified. The present invention allows the payload data of a TCP segment to be modified ...

02/01/07 - 20070025373 - Method for secure reliable point to multi-point bi-directional communications
Systems and methods for sending secure reliable point to multi-point communication on any communication infrastructure. The infrastructure is not required to conform to any specifications of this inventions other that be capable point to point communications. The system consists of a protocol that allows for Secure Reliable point to multi-point ...

02/01/07 - 20070025372 - Remote management of a bridge device
A method and system for remotely managing a bridge device, such as a modem, are disclosed. Management traffic from a service provider can be communicated to a bridge device which lacks a public IP address by sending the management traffic through the bridge device to a router of a LAN. ...

02/01/07 - 20070025371 - Transmitting a communication from a wireless access point indicating available networks and their capabilities
A wireless access point may be configured to advertise, to mobile user devices, multiple wireless networks available through the wireless access point. For example, service set identifiers (SSIDs) may be specified within an information element (IE) of a communication such as, for example, an 802.11 beacon, broadcasted to mobile user ...

02/01/07 - 20070025370 - Cable gateway for interfacing packet cable networks with ip multimedia subsystems
The present invention provides a Cable Gateway for interfacing packet cable networks with Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). The Cable Gateway includes an Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adaptor (E-MTA) Normalization function that includes translation software that normalizes E-MTA interfaces to appear to IMS as SIP user equipment and performs initialization, ...

02/01/07 - 20070025369 - Method for transmitting data in a data network
Data are transmitted in a data network modelled by layers that include a transport layer, a plurality of upper layers above the transport layer and a plurality of lower layers below the transport layer, where the transport layer contains data from the upper layers. ...

02/01/07 - 20070025368 - Home network system
The present invention discloses a home network system using a living network control protocol. The home network system includes: at least one electric device; first and second networks based on a predetermined living network control protocol (LnCP); an LnCP access device connected to the electric device through the second network; ...

02/01/07 - 20070025367 - Mobile communications device and method for condition-dependent resuming of a delayed data transfer over a different network
A portable communications device (2) and method is disclosed wherein data can be transferred between the portable communications device (2) and another portable communications device (4) through a first network (12) using a first network address. It is determined whether a condition related to the operation of the portable communications ...

01/25/07 - 20070019657 - Network apparatus and method of specifying network parameter
A network apparatus configured to communicate with a terminal using an IP address includes an information acquisition control unit configured to obtain a first IP address to be used by the terminal to specify a parameter in a network configuration; and a setting form generation unit configured to generate a ...

01/25/07 - 20070019656 - Systems and method for a dispatch communication router
Systems and methods for a dispatch communication router are provided. The dispatch communication router allows calls between two or more dispatch communication networks which operate using different dispatch communication protocols. The dispatch communication router includes a protocol interworking function, a media control stack and a transcoding function. The dispatch communication ...

01/25/07 - 20070019655 - Method for transmission of data packets through a network
The data packets with a maximum allowable delay and an average packet rate are aggregated in a node of the network of a burst and the burst is transmitted with a number of packets. The number of packets per burst is determined by the result of plus/minus twenty percent of ...

01/18/07 - 20070014302 - Scalable resource discovery and reconfiguration for distributed computer networks
A method is provided for discovering resources in a network of user nodes. According to the method, a resource request to be published is received at a first user node of the network, and it is determined (e.g., randomly) whether or not to send the resource request to a server ...

01/18/07 - 20070014301 - Method and apparatus for providing static addressing
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved static address translation. Certain embodiments include a method for address translation in a network, wherein the network includes a device associated with an identifier and assigned a dynamic address. The method includes matching the identifier for the ...

01/18/07 - 20070014300 - Content router notification
An apparatus, method and computer program product for communicating an outgoing command from a command memory of a content router to a content node using a notification signal to a gateway. ...

01/11/07 - 20070008982 - Redundant pseudowires between ethernet access domains
A computer network includes first and second Ethernet access domain networks, each of Ethernet access domain networks including a user-facing provider edge (u-PE) device, and a stack group of network-facing provider edge (n-PE) devices coupled with the u-PE device, the n-PE devices running a bidding protocol to select one of ...

01/04/07 - 20070002879 - Gateway control agent and its implementation method
A gateway control agent is disclosed in the present invention, which is set between the media gateway controller and a plurality of media gateways in the packet network. The gateway control agent establishes the mapping relations between the media gateway controller and the media gateways, the media gateway controller uniformly ...

01/04/07 - 20070002878 - Multiple protocol wireless communication baseband transceiver
A multi-protocol wireless communication baseband transceiver includes a baseband transmit processing module and a baseband receive processing module. The baseband transmit processing module includes an encoding module, an interleaving module, a plurality of symbol mapping modules, a plurality of domain conversion modules, a plurality of cyclic prefix modules, a plurality ...

01/04/07 - 20070002877 - Peripheral device with visual indicators
An embodiment of the invention is directed to a network peripheral device. The network peripheral device includes a plurality of antennas, network communications electronics operable with the antennas, a plurality of electronically contro