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 controllable visual indicators, and circuitry that activates the selected indicators. The network peripheral device may also include networking ...

01/04/07 - 20070002876 - Wireless link for power line communications system
One embodiment of the present invention may include of plurality of wireless hops that provide a multi-hop wireless link for facilitating the communication of voice, video, audio, and other data in a packet based network between a broadband power line communications network and a conventional telecommunications link (such as a ...

01/04/07 - 20070002875 - Apparatus, system, and methods for status monitoring and control of cable television network components
Apparatus, systems, and methods to cost effectively monitor and control distributed devices within a cable television network are disclosed. In particular, a gateway transponder and a device transponder are provided. A device transponder can be associated with a device other than a power supply located in a cable television network. ...

01/04/07 - 20070002874 - Method for distributing stream data based on multi-path scheme using tcp in real time
A method for distributing stream data based on a multi-path scheme using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and a computer-readable recording medium for storing a program that implements the method are disclosed. The method includes the steps of: requesting an input unit to transmit stream data; receiving the stream data generated ...

12/28/06 - 20060291493 - Network interface device with a remote power source
Various methods, apparatuses, and systems in which a residential gateway is located at the network interface device and is powered with a remote power source inside the residence. In another embodiment, bi-directional data communication between the residential gateway and the remote power source is also enabled. ...

12/28/06 - 20060291492 - Method and apparatus for publishing a community based directory and of offering associated community based services
This invention relates to a method or apparatus for publishing a community-based directory and profile using a tangible or a digital equivalent and an intangible publication. The intangible publication consists of using at least two different digital communication protocols or using a fixed and a mobile device. Selected members listed ...

12/28/06 - 20060291491 - Wireless lan unit
A wireless LAN board includes a wired LAN connector connected to a wired LAN board, an antenna connecting terminal connected with an antenna for performing radio signal transmission/reception, a wired LAN section connected to the wired LAN connector to transmit/receive a data signal to/from the wired LAN board, a wireless ...

12/28/06 - 20060291490 - Computer-readable recording medium having recorded worm determination program, worm determination method, and worm determination apparatus
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded a worm determination program capable of reliably determining a worm-infected communication. A worm determination apparatus for executing the program includes a plurality of physical ports functioning as network connection ports, a communication-information-acquisition unit, and a worm determination unit. The communication-information-acquisition unit acquires information about ...

12/28/06 - 20060291489 - System and method to mediate delivery of legacy, non-ims services into an ims network
Systems and methods to mediate Non-IMS services on an IMS network. In a system having an IMS network, a non-IMS network, and a user endpoint (UE) device having at least one media renderer (MR) thereon, the IMS network invokes services provided by the non-IMS network. An application server receives a ...

12/28/06 - 20060291488 - System and method of interworking non-ims and ims networks to create new services utilizing both networks
Systems and methods of inter-working Non-IMS networks and IMS networks. An IMS network has at least one serving node and a non-IMS network has at least one MSC. The IMS and non-IMS networks inter-work so that network services may be provided to a user endpoint (UE) device, utilizing both the ...

12/28/06 - 20060291487 - Ims networks with avs sessions with multiple access networks
IMS networks with AVS sessions with multiple access networks. Systems and methods associate multiple access network sessions with a given user endpoint (UE) device. A UE is managed in an IMS network to have multiple concurrent sessions to corresponding access networks. An application server in the IMS network creates a ...

12/28/06 - 20060291486 - Ims gateway systems and methods that validate routing to online charging systems
IMS gateway systems and methods are disclosed for providing online charging in an IMS network. A call control system of the IMS gateway system receives a message from a CSCF for a call session. The call control system identifies an OCS routing address from the message, and identifies a corresponding ...

12/28/06 - 20060291485 - Link state advertisements specifying dynamic routing metrics and associated variation metrics and selective distribution thereof
Each router in a network is configured for executing a link state routing protocol based on outputting a corresponding first link state advertisement message describing a connected link of the router and that specifies a first dynamic routing metric identifying a first cost of the connected link, and a corresponding ...

12/28/06 - 20060291484 - Method of avoiding or minimizing cost of stateful connections between application servers and s-cscf nodes in an ims network with multiple domains
Methods of avoiding or minimizing cost of stateful connections between application servers (ASs) and S-CSCF nodes in an IMS network with multiple domains. S-CSCF service logic is provided and connected to a co-located AS. The IMS includes a network operator administration domain and an MVNO service domain, and the S-CSCF ...

12/28/06 - 20060291483 - Mobile telephone gateway apparatus, communication system, and gateway operating system
A mobile telephone gateway and communication routing device (MPG) (121) disclosed by the present invention is coupled through an electrical signaling transmission medium with a mobile telephone (100) operative on a first communication network in accordance with a first communication protocol, for adding communication capabilities through at least a second ...

12/28/06 - 20060291482 - Method and apparatus for providing a metropolitan mesh network
The present disclosure provides for creating a metropolitan mesh network using vehicles as the framework. Mobile access points are installed on vehicles and configured to create ad-hoc, self-healing networks using mesh technology. ...

12/21/06 - 20060285546 - Method and apparatus for providing voice signals to and from a telecommunications switch
A voice gateway (64) includes an input port (70) that receives a voice signal from an unbundled analog line (62) coupled to a Class 5 switch (52). The voice signal is converted to a digital format by an analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converting unit (76). The voice signal is placed into ...

12/21/06 - 20060285545 - Communication device, method for generating a transport protocol message and method for processing a transport protocol message
A communication device including a source coding unit source-coding data to be transmitted, a transport protocol unit, coupled to the source coding unit, generating at least one transport protocol message from the source-coded data, wherein the transport protocol unit can add to the source-coded data in the transport protocol message ...

12/21/06 - 20060285544 - Cable modem termination system having a gateway for transporting out-of-band messaging signals
A Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS, 42, FIG. 1) having a gateway configured to output signals over tunnels, wherein the tunnels are one way and out-of-band messages (FIG. 1) are sent over said tunnels (FIG. 1). ...

12/14/06 - 20060280191 - Method for verifying and creating highly secure anonymous communication path in peer-to-peer anonymous proxy
This invention provides a communication method. The method comprises: providing a terminal anonymous proxy server that functions as a user terminal for a specific user and also functions as an anonymous proxy server for a user other than the specific user via a network; creating an encrypted anonymous communication path ...

12/14/06 - 20060280190 - Upnp mirroring systems and methods
UPnP mirroring systems and methods. A UPnP mirroring system comprises a control point, at least one UPnP device, a mirroring agent, and at least one remote control device. The control point and the UPnP device are coupled to a first network. The remote control device is coupled to a second ...

12/14/06 - 20060280189 - Residential gateway discovery
A method and system facilitates enhanced communication between a LAN and a WAN by determining which IP device of the LAN is a gateway and then restricting communication between the LAN and the WAN such that the communication is routed through the gateway. Determining which IP device of the LAN ...

12/07/06 - 20060274769 - System and method for configuring bandwidth transmission rates for call connections
A communication system comprises a signaling processor and an interworking unit. The signaling processor receives and processes signaling for a call to select a connection and a first bandwidth rate. The signaling processor transfers a first message indicating the connection and the first bandwidth rate. The interworking unit receives the ...

12/07/06 - 20060274768 - Method and system for network access control
Prior art quarantine networks were implemented by two methods, the IEEE802.1x method and the DHCP method, but these methods both have different problems. The problem with the IEEE802.1x method is that it is difficult to make the transition from an existing management framework. The problem with the DHCP method is ...

12/07/06 - 20060274767 - System and method for collecting, processing and presenting selected information from selected sources via a single website
A computer-implemented system and method that are configured to automatically collect, process, and present, via a single website, specific types of selected information such as, for example, government press releases, speeches, statements and other information obtained from pre-selected websites. As used herein, government information may include press releases, speeches, statements, ...

12/07/06 - 20060274766 - Smart intermediate authentication management (siam) system and method for multiple permanent virtual circuit (pvc) access environment
A Smart Intermediate Authentication Management (SIAM) system and method for a multiple Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) access environment can be applied to both a Point to Point over Ethernet (PPPoE) session and a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) session when a variety of services are provided to one subscriber using ...

12/07/06 - 20060274765 - Method and apparatus for managing broadband residential gateway
A broadband residential gateway (BRG) management system (101) has a communications interface (102) coupled to one or more BRGs 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 - 20060274764 - Power saving methods in gateway
When a gateway detects that power from a primary power supply is disrupted or unavailable, reserve power, such as from batteries, is provided only to those components, ports, interfaces, and circuits associated with the gateway that are required for making a voice call or a lifeline call. ...

11/30/06 - 20060268908 - Scalable media access control for multi-hop high bandwidth communications
A scalable medium access control (“MAC”) module is provided that avoids conflict resource reservation so that network performance does not degrade as the number of hops or nodes in a wireless network increases. The MAC also provides different access schemes for traffic with different quality of service (“QoS”) requirements such ...

11/30/06 - 20060268907 - System for enabling heterogeneous communication systems to cooperate in providing communication services and method therefor
Provided is a method for enabling a first communications system for providing first communication services to cooperate with a second communications system for providing second communication services for providing complementary communication services in a network including the first and second communications system, which includes the steps of detecting the necessity ...

11/30/06 - 20060268906 - Distribution of performance information for wireless networks
Various techniques are disclosed for the distribution of performance information in a wireless network, such as a wireless meshed network. In a first embodiment, a wireless node, such as a wireless mesh point, may obtain performance information and then transmit a wireless beacon including the performance information. The performance information ...

11/30/06 - 20060268905 - Method for controlling qos and qos policy converter
The present invention discloses a method for controlling QoS, including setting a QPC for each kind of QoS guaranted services in a bearer network; transmitting a QoS guaranteed service to a corresponding QPC by the bearer network, transferring the service and carrying QoS related information in the service by the ...

11/30/06 - 20060268904 - Method and apparatus for acquiring cs service information in ims network
A system and method are provided for acquiring service information in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, which includes the steps of transferring, by a Mobile Station (MS), an IMS registration request message to the IMS network in order to use an IMS service, the MS supporting a CSI (Combinational ...

11/30/06 - 20060268903 - Guaranteed isochronous services method and apparatus in bridged lan
Provided are a guaranteed isochronous services method and apparatus in bridged LAN. Isochronous streams are transmitted through bridges to a plurality of listener stations in a distributed network, and each bridge performs filtering, stream group registration and authentication for the isochronous streams. Accordingly, quality of service (QoS) in a distributed ...

11/30/06 - 20060268902 - Dynamic dual-mode service access control, location-based billing, and e911 mechanisms
A system that facilitates controlling network access comprises a lookup component that determines a geographic location associated with a public originating IP address, wherein the public originating IP address is associated with a request for dual mode services made by a dual mode client. A comparison component compares the determined ...

11/30/06 - 20060268901 - Method and apparatus for providing low-latency secure session continuity between mobile nodes
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, IP application traffic can be provided confidentiality to and from one or more mobile nodes (MNs) belonging to the same domain even when such MNs are remotely located. It is possible to provide, preferably at all times, a similar ...

11/30/06 - 20060268900 - Local switching of calls setup by multimedia core network
A gateway (70, 70(2), 70(3)) of a telecommunications network (20) is arranged for performing protocol signaling conversion for communicating call setup signaling to an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) (40), and upon completion of call setup is arranged to route user traffic between local mobile stations (22) involved in a connection ...

11/30/06 - 20060268899 - Interlock system for home network and telematics system using wibro network, and control method thereof
An interlock system for a home network and a telematics system and a control method thereof are provided. The interlock system includes an information center for storing and managing image information and data; a telematics unit for collecting the image information and data for a telematics service, receiving a control ...

11/30/06 - 20060268898 - Method and apparatus for detecting and fixing faults in an inline-power capable ethernet system
The present disclosure provides for the sensing and detection of potential ground faults, and location of faulty ports. Circuitry is provided that utilizes the isolation resistor provided in the PSE. The present disclosure provides for temporarily breaking isolation to help improve the detection process disclosed herein. ...

11/30/06 - 20060268897 - Signaling agent realizing method based on media gateway control protocol
The present invention discloses a method for realizing signalling agent based on a media gateway control protocol, which comprises the following steps of: providing an agent equipment between media gateways and a media gateway controller that locate in different networks, the agent equipment providing signalling agent and network address translation ...

11/23/06 - 20060262803 - End-to-end qos interoperation apparatus and method in heterogeneous network environment
An end-to-end quality-of-service (QoS) interoperation apparatus and method in a heterogeneous network environment are provided. A Next Steps In Signaling (NSIS) Application Programming Interface (NAPI) block handles an NSIS API at the request of an upper layer. An NSIS entity handles an NSIS protocol stack at the request of the ...

11/23/06 - 20060262802 - Ethernet repeater with local link status that reflects the status of the entire link
An exemplary Ethernet repeater includes an Ethernet driver module adapted to terminate a first Ethernet link and generate repeated Ethernet signals on a second Ethernet link. The Ethernet driver module is adapted to detect whether the second Ethernet link is up and provides control information coupled to the first Ethernet ...

11/23/06 - 20060262801 - Method and system for annotating configuration files
A method, a system, a computer readable medium, and an apparatus for providing information related to a configuration file to a user are provided. The user provides the configuration file to the system of the invention. The system conducts a search for the information related to the configuration file. The ...

11/16/06 - 20060256802 - Communication system using endpoint devices as routers
A method and system is disclosed herein for a communications system. In one embodiment, the system comprises a hub, a plurality of endpoint devices, and at least one routing endpoint device, from among the plurality of endpoint devices. In one embodiment of the system, the plurality of endpoint devices communicate ...

11/16/06 - 20060256801 - Gateway system
A gateway system for transiting communications at the boundary between networks includes a master gateway and at least one slave gateway. The master gateway processes a communication packet, updates state information based on the processing of the communication packet, and transmits the updated state information. The slave gateway receives state ...

11/16/06 - 20060256800 - Triggered announcement from a gateway
An advantageous system, apparatus, and method for remotely managing or maintaining a Gateway, such as a residential router, are provided. In one example, the Gateway generates and sends an announcement to a service or equipment provider informing the provider of the Gateway's current IP address (or resolvable name) and a ...

11/16/06 - 20060256799 - Broadband local area full-service backbone network
A point-to-multipoint broadband local area network (BLAN) system comprising a local area modem controller (LAMC) and plurality of local area modems (LAMs) is capable of voice, video and data communications. The medium is capable of reliably supporting multiple downstream and upstream channels to meet the need of high-capacity and QoS ...

11/16/06 - 20060256798 - Radio network communication system and protocol
A communications system and protocol for a radio communications network including a number of transceiver devices. The protocol ensures that network variables to be shared by all devices are correctly received and updated by all devices. The protocol also provides for accurately detecting the transition from one time slot to ...

11/09/06 - 20060251088 - Private network gateways interconnecting private networks via an access network
Gateways providing connectivity for respective private IPv4 networks to an IPv6 network establish communications between IPv4 nodes in the private network. Network address translation-protocol translation (NAT-PT) state entries are created by gateway pairs enabling translation of IPv4 packets between first and second IPv4 nodes in respective first and second IPv4 ...

11/09/06 - 20060251087 - Processing an information payload in a communication interface
In one illustrative example, a bridge connecting a universal serial bus (USB) interface and an advanced technology attachment (ATA) interface may decode a customized small computer system interface (SCSI) command to enable the system to send ATA commands over the USB interface. A customized SCSI command may implement a “pass-through” ...

11/09/06 - 20060251086 - Home network system
The present invention discloses a home network using a living network control protocol. The home network system includes: a network based on a predetermined protocol; at least electric device connected to the network; and a network manager connected to the network, for controlling and/or monitoring the electric device, when the ...

11/02/06 - 20060245441 - Methods and apparatus for conveying a delivery schedule to mobile terminals
Methods and apparatus for conveying a delivery schedule to mobile terminals. In an aspect, a method is provided that includes receiving a contact window that describes a time interval when a content clip will be available on a distribution network, determining one or more clips of interest, determining that the ...

10/26/06 - 20060239284 - Establishing calls using q.2630.1 aal2 signaling responsive to private network-network interface (pnni) signaling
Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for establishing a call across a network. For example, the network may include a first edge switch, a second edge switch, and an ATM core network coupled to the first and the second edge switches and configured ...

10/26/06 - 20060239283 - Combined telephone pbx and computer data router with pooled resources
System resources are pooled and allocated in an optimal manner to handling telephone voice traffic or to handling computer data traffic. A combination of mechanisms is used to achieve higher statistical multiplexing on a network interface by dynamically adjusting the multiplexing. The system: 1) Provides homogeneous access to DS0 trunk ...

10/26/06 - 20060239282 - System, method and computer program product for providing an ip datalink multiplexer
A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for transmitting a datagram in a wireless multiplexing framework. A datagram destined to a destination in a network is received and a wireless connection is then selected from a set of wireless connections. The received datagram is then processed to associate ...

10/26/06 - 20060239281 - Capacity management
Capacity management is described. In an implementation, a method includes executing a module on a computing device to monitor use of a product during a measurement interval to determine a maximum capacity of the product used during the measurement interval and whether a capacity failure point is reached during the ...

10/26/06 - 20060239280 - Method and apparatus to facilitate point-to-point protocol renegotiation
When a network element detects (100) Point-to-Point Protocol renegotiation as corresponds to a client node, that network element then automatically accesses (102) context information as pertains to a previous Point-to-Point Protocol session for that client node. The network element then facilitates (103) that Point-to-Point Protocol renegotiation and determines (104) freshly ...

10/26/06 - 20060239279 - Contact management in a serverless peer-to-peer system
Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a ...

10/26/06 - 20060239278 - Methods and apparatus to self-configure a flexible residential gateway
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to self-configure a flexible residential gateway providing access to an external communications network, and providing communications with an in home network. An example flexible residential gateway may include an xDSL (“x” variety of Digital Subscriber Line) processor that processes xDSL signals communicated with the connected ...

10/26/06 - 20060239277 - Transmitting messages across telephony protocols
Call control and related messaging may be communicated between systems that operate using different protocols. In one version, a process is described that includes generating a message in a first telephony signaling protocol, wrapping the message in a message of a second telephony signaling protocol, and sending the wrapped message ...

10/26/06 - 20060239276 - Wireless gateway server
A system for pushing data to a wireless data device receives an identifier for the wireless data device and determines a corresponding gateway server by querying a mapping of wireless data device identifiers to wireless gateway servers. The system then submits a request to push the data to the wireless ...

10/19/06 - 20060233184 - Ad-hoc peer-to-peer mobile radio access system interfaced to the pstn and cellular networks
An ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio access system for cellular communications systems using time division duplex as a way of maximizing the bits/hz/km2 for cellular systems. The network architecture of the ad-hoc system allows the radio access to be integrated with the fixed components of a conventional cellular system, PSTN or ISP. ...

10/19/06 - 20060233183 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamic blocking and unblocking of media over packet resources
Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically blocking and unblocking media over packet resources includes, at a first media gateway controller that controls a first media over packet resource, determining whether establishment of calls involving a second media over packet resource managed by second media gateway controller would violate ...

10/19/06 - 20060233182 - Bgp hitless upgrade approaches
A method is disclosed for upgrading network protocol software, comprising receiving a new version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) software on a standby route processor that is coupled to an active route processor in a redundant arrangement; transferring, from the active route processor to the standby route processor, one or ...

10/19/06 - 20060233181 - Method and apparatus for accelerating border gateway protocol convergence
A method and apparatus are disclosed for accelerating Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route convergence in an autonomous system. A virtual link identifier is assigned to each link of a set of communication links that are established between a BGP host and one or more network elements in one or more ...

10/19/06 - 20060233180 - Systems and methods for managing network services between private networks
Systems and methods for managing network services between private networks are disclosed. Advertisement of network services which are available in a services network is controlled in accordance with a policy associated with each network service. Network service information is advertised to an external services network only for those network services ...

10/05/06 - 20060221986 - An arrangement, a functional means and a method in a network supporting communication of packet data
The present invention relates to an arrangement, in a communications system supporting communication of packet data, for selection of a packet data gateway node or function for a mobile user station (MS; UE). It comprises a packet data gateway functional selection means, said gateway functional selection means is adapted to ...

10/05/06 - 20060221985 - Iscsi and fibre channel authentication
Methods and apparatus are provided for authenticating an iSCSI initiator connected to a fibre channel storage area network. An iSCSI initiator performs an authentication exchange with a fibre channel target such as a fibre channel host or disk array through one or more fibre channel switches. Authentication information such as ...

10/05/06 - 20060221984 - Modular interconnect structure
Some embodiments of the invention include an interconnect structure to transfer data among a plurality of devices. The interconnect structure includes a crossbar and a number of interconnect branches coupled to the crossbar. Each of the interconnect branches includes a number of connector circuits coupled in series to transfer data ...

10/05/06 - 20060221983 - Communications backbone, a method of providing a communications backbone and a telecommunication network employing the backbone and the method
The present invention provides a communications backbone for connecting first and second telecommunication nodes. In one embodiment, the communications backbone includes a first time division multiplexed gateway associated with the first telecommunication node and configured to be directly connected to a packet-switched network. Additionally, the communications backbone also includes a ...

10/05/06 - 20060221982 - Signalling gateway
A signalling gateway for connecting a first network to a second network, the signalling gateway being operable to, receive a signalling message from the first network, the message comprising destination information, read the destination information and, where the destination information corresponds to a predetermined value, forward the message to one ...

09/28/06 - 20060215672 - Ethernet-based systems and methods for improved network routing
Ethernet-based networks for routing Internet Protocol (IP) traffic between source and destination sites. One embodiment includes a plurality of discrete data transmission backbones between the source and destination sites. The source site includes control means for distributing IP traffic at the source site to the plurality of backbones for transmission ...

09/28/06 - 20060215671 - Data transmission method and device
The invention concerns a data transmission method, and its implementing device, in an integrated closed system of computers, such as, for example, in an aerial or land vehicle, comprising a step which consists in transmitting point-to-point data between two transmission nodes, for example via a wire system, each node having ...

09/28/06 - 20060215670 - Method and apparatus for non-speculative pre-fetch operation in data packet processing
A system is provided for enabling a non-speculative pre-fetch operation for processing instructions to be performed in the background ahead of immediate packet processing by a packet processor. The system comprises a packet-management unit for accepting data packets and enqueuing them for processing, a processor unit for processing the data ...

09/28/06 - 20060215669 - System, method and apparatus for controlling a network post-demultiplexing function
A system, method and apparatus for controlling a network post-demultiplexing function such as dejittering is described. The method includes accessing data relating to a multiplexing function of said network. The data is processed according to a hysteresis property relating to the multiplexing function. Based on this processing, a jitter value ...

09/28/06 - 20060215668 - Access point management
Access point management is described. In an implementation, a method includes selecting one of a plurality of clients, in which each of the clients has a client profile which describes the client's experience with one or more of a plurality of access points. The selecting is performed based on one ...

09/28/06 - 20060215667 - Communication nodes and methods using small routers to communicate over a backhaul facility
For a wireless network, communication nodes (such as a Mobile Switching Center) are disclosed that include at least ten small routers. The small routers handle traffic received from a plurality of base stations over a backhaul facility. The backhaul facility transports the traffic between the base stations and the small ...

09/21/06 - 20060209857 - Broadband home applications gateway/residential gateway systems, methods and computer program products
A home applications gateway includes a residential gateway interface that is configured to connect to a residential gateway, and a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that includes an Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) framework configured to execute OSGi Java applications that are downloaded and life cycle managed from a Web server ...

09/21/06 - 20060209856 - Communication relay device, communication relay method and computer program product for communication relay
There is provided a relay device which enables improved communication quality and cost-reduction, wherein the device carries out both real-time communications and non-real-time communications. A first communicator carries out packet communications with a first real-time communication device and a first non-real-time communication device, which are connected through an external network. ...

09/21/06 - 20060209855 - Relay unit, terminal device, communication system, and communication control method
A relay unit capable of inquiring of a DNS comprises: an inquiry section which transfers an acquisition request of a transmission destination terminal address, sent from a transmission source terminal, to the DNS, and acquires the transmission destination terminal address and a transmission destination label corresponding to the transmission destination ...

09/21/06 - 20060209854 - Node device for transfering supervisory control information in photonic network
A node device receives supervisory control information on a dedicated wavelength different from a wavelength of signal light, which is input from an input port together with the signal light, and extracts, from signal light to be output from an output port, information superposed on an optical main signal of ...

09/21/06 - 20060209853 - Packet transfer device and transfer control method thereof
A first issue is to provide a packet transfer device for identifying a connection such as a TCP connection linked to a bandwidth control means, and provide a proxy acknowledgment for each identified connection such as TCP. A second issue is to provide a packet transfer device for providing a ...

09/21/06 - 20060209852 - Automated host discovery and path tracing by network management server
One embodiment described relates to an automated method of host discovery and path tracing by a network management server. The method includes discovery of a location in the network of a source host, discovery of a location in the network of a destination host, and discovery of a path from ...

09/21/06 - 20060209851 - Method and apparatus for border gateway protocol route management and routing policy modeling
A method and apparatus is described for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route management and routing policy modeling. In one aspect, the performance of one or more actions associated with one or more routes is disallowed. One or more routing policies associated with the one or more routes are configured. The ...

09/21/06 - 20060209850 - Method, system, and apparatus for a virtual host gateway in a modem device
A system, method, and apparatus for providing an embedded controller in a modem device for enabling data communication between different networks. Management and control capabilities for a gateway function are embedded into a communication controller of the modem device so as to enable direct connection between wired and wireless devices ...

09/21/06 - 20060209849 - Method for and apparatus for aggregating incoming packets into optical for an optical burst switched network
Incoming packets are aggregated into optical bursts in an edge node of an Optical Burst Switched Network by the following. Storing the incoming packets to generate an optical burst. Associating each incoming packets with a generated random binary digit with a probability for a first and a second value of ...

09/21/06 - 20060209848 - Method for the tranmission of buss ieee 1394 reinitialization messages and device for carrying out said method
The invention relates to a method of transmitting messages for resetting an IEEE 1394 bus and associated topology information, across a transparent bridge, a bridge head connected on the one hand to the 1394 bus and to the network affording the said transparent bridge, characterized in that, during a series ...

09/14/06 - 20060203833 - Communication apparatus and method
A terminal determined to be a communication partner in advance is subjected to transmission power control, and another terminal receives data with the maximum transmission power. Data to be transmitted to a plurality of terminals is also transmitted with the maximum transmission power. ...

09/14/06 - 20060203832 - Packet communication apparatus with function enhancement module
A packet communication apparatus comprising a node management processor for controlling the whole apparatus, network interfaces for transmitting and receiving packets to and from external networks, function enhancement modules for performing predetermined processes on the packets, and a switch for transferring the packets within the apparatus. The network interface includes ...

09/14/06 - 20060203831 - Signaling gateway for multihop-relaying a signaling message
If interaction between signaling gateways frequently occurs, it is possible that extended processings are executed redundantly on a path of signaling messages. To avoid such a redundancy, a consistent method is necessary for deciding a signaling gateway to execute an extended processing from among the signaling gateways. The signaling gateways, ...

09/14/06 - 20060203830 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and test method for the same
In order to enable its testing in the form of including the influence of transmission path, a semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a transmission and a receiving circuit comprises an inserted circuit for receiving an output signal of the transmission circuit and providing the output signal to the receiving circuit; and ...

09/14/06 - 20060203829 - Network support for hand-off between fixed and wireless networks for high-speed data applications
An apparatus in one example has: a home fixed wireless data access service having a coverage area and at least one mobile wireless data service having a coverage area; a mobile terminal associated with the home fixed wireless data access service; an active wireless data connection for a data application ...

09/07/06 - 20060198383 - Wireless adaptor and method for transmitting and receiving message
A method for transmitting and receiving a message is provided. The method includes steps of providing a bridge device having a bridge hardware address and a first end, receiving a first message including a first hardware address, a first protocol address and a second protocol address from the first end, ...

08/31/06 - 20060193335 - Tunneling ethernet
A machine readable medium for tunneling Ethernet is described. A machine readable medium comprises receiving an Ethernet frame and transmitting the Ethernet frame over a non-homogenous tunnel, the tunnel distinguishing subscriber traffic. ...

08/24/06 - 20060187943 - Handoff system and method between different kinds of devices, sip server and operational method of sip server
A handoff system and method between different kinds of devices, an SIP server and an application method of the SIP server applied thereto. The handoff system between different kinds of devices includes a plurality of devices; a SIP server which requests a routing path update when a handoff request signal ...

08/24/06 - 20060187942 - Packet forwarding apparatus and communication bandwidth control method
In a network for forwarding user packets by a tunneling protocol, an egress edge node to which tunnels concentrate from a plurality of ingress edge nodes allocates a bandwidth to each of sessions multiplexed through each of the tunnels and notifies each of the ingress edge nodes of the allocated ...

08/17/06 - 20060182133 - Data transmission device
A multiple spanning tree protocol network which does not influence at all MSTI to which VLAN-ID is not added/deleted and does not reconstruct the topology of this MSTI. In the multiple spanning tree protocol network, a plurality of devices are connected via transmission paths, forming a plurality of topologies, and ...

08/17/06 - 20060182132 - Local switching method using logical link id in ethernet passive optical network system
A local switching method using a logical link ID (LLID) in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) system is disclosed. The local switching method includes a first step of an optical network unit (ONU) receiving and separating data inputted through a user port into a wide area network (WAN) traffic ...

08/17/06 - 20060182131 - Gateway interface control
An IP/ISDN/PSTN gateway provides an IP secure telephone with the capability of interfacing to either an ISDN-configured SCIP secure telephone or a PSTN-configured SCIP secure telephone. A translation function is performed between multiple protocols that allows IP secure telephones to communicate with SCIP secure telephones on ISDN and/or PSTN network(s). ...

08/17/06 - 20060182130 - Method and system for establishing an audio/video communication session across zones
The present disclosure provides methods of establishing communication between endpoints located in different gatekeeper zones. An electronic message comprising (i) an alias for a first endpoint and (ii) an address of a first gatekeeper associated with the first endpoint is delivered from a first computer associated with the first endpoint ...

08/17/06 - 20060182129 - Distributed markup and processing apparatus and method
An apparatus for performing XML processing distributed across one or more network entities and a terminal comprised of a mobile device entity. A memory stores a transformed representation of XML information. The network entity and terminal communications are mediated by a proxy tasked with offloading XML processing other operations from ...

08/17/06 - 20060182128 - Data communication system, communication device and communication program thereof
The present invention provides a data communication technology which is capable of securing flexibly a bandwidth for a traffic that is generated and which enables effective use of access lines or wireless resource. A mobile router uses a plurality of communication means, retains a plurality of narrow band communication routes ...

08/10/06 - 20060176888 - High density network topology
A network is disclosed that includes a first subnetwork including a first plurality of nodes interconnected by a first plurality of links, with nodes in the first plurality having a first capacity. A second subnetwork includes a second plurality of nodes interconnected by a second plurality of links, with nodes ...

08/10/06 - 20060176887 - Systems, methods and devices for relaying communications between network devices
Provided are systems, devices and methods pertaining to the relaying of communications between a launch computer and a target computer in a manner which obscures at least the launch computer as a participant in the communications. Outbound traffic from the launch follows an outbound relay route which includes at least ...

08/10/06 - 20060176886 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric supporting a node-only broadcast
A data processing system includes a first processing node and a second processing node coupled by an interconnect fabric. The first processing node includes a plurality of first processing units coupled to each other for communication, and the second processing node includes a plurality of second processing units coupled to ...

08/10/06 - 20060176885 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric having an address-based launch governor
A data processing system includes an interconnect fabric, a protected resource having a plurality of banks each associated with a respective one of a plurality of address sets, a snooper that controls access to the resource, one or more masters that initiate requests, and interconnect logic coupled to the one ...

08/03/06 - 20060171404 - Network routing apparatus that performs soft graceful restart
A network data packet routing apparatus with BGP is configured to soft reset an AFI or SAFI, so that forwarding on routes associated with the AFI or SAFI can continue even after an event or error. One approach involves establishing a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peering session between a first ...

08/03/06 - 20060171403 - Gateway for interconnecting ad-hoc network and infrastructure network, and methods for discovering and registering service provider using gateway
A service provider discovery method in a wireless network environment, includes receiving, by the gateway, a service request (SREQ) packet which is broadcast from a first mobile node in the ad-hoc network; updating and transmitting, by the gateway, the SREQ packet to a service repository which stores at least one ...

08/03/06 - 20060171402 - Method and system for providing broadband multimedia services
A services pivot point employable with first and second enterprises adapted to communicate over disparate access networks and a related method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the services pivot point includes a communication subsystem configured to provide a secure connection and data compression/acceleration for a communication between the ...

08/03/06 - 20060171401 - Method for operating a local computer network connected to a remote private network by an ipsec tunnel, software module and ipsec gateway
The invention relates to a method in particular enabling the computer terminal (T_L) of a local network (RES_L), connected to a gateway (PASS_D) of a remote network (RES_D) by an IPsec tunnel in blocking mode, to launch a print job on a printer (E_L) belonging to the local network. To ...

07/27/06 - 20060165107 - Method of sending a multipoint stream in a local area network and connection device implementing the method
Within the framework of a wireless local area network, the sending of the multipoint transmission streams is not made reliable by an acknowledgment of receipt mechanism. This reliability may be improved by the sending in point-to-point mode of the packets belonging to a multipoint transmission stream. In the case of ...

07/27/06 - 20060165106 - Contact information management apparatus and method for managing contact information
To provide a contact information management device that opens contact addresses of community members only to participants of communities. The contact information management device can collect position information from portable terminals provided with position detection means and open contact addresses based on the position information of the portable terminals. A ...

07/27/06 - 20060165105 - System and method for managing communication for component applications
An application gateway server is provided for managing communication between an application executing in a runtime environment on a device and at least one backend server. The application gateway server comprises a message listener, a connector subsystem, and a messaging subsystem. The message listener receives messages from the component applications. ...

07/27/06 - 20060165104 - Content management interface
A platform is provided to respond to data inquiries from callers or users that are directed to one of a plurality of clients or subscribers. A user is guided to a selected client's area on the platform using voice menus and prompts together with speech recognition and database search techniques. ...

07/27/06 - 20060165103 - Configurable quality-of-service support per virtual access point (vap) in a wireless lan (wlan) access device
A wireless network access device includes a radio and support for virtual access points. According to the invention, each virtual access point has an independently configurable quality-of-service profile. The per-VAP QoS support enables multiple services to be delivered from a single physical access point. A plurality of transmit/receive queues are ...

07/27/06 - 20060165102 - Individual update or reorganisation of message and dialogue services specific to service providers
The invention permits service providers to self-configure message or dialogue services on an arrangement provided by an independent network operator. Said arrangement comprises a provider device, to which the service provider has access. Components or elements of messages or dialogues, altered or newly generated by service providers, stored in the ...

07/27/06 - 20060165101 - Communication arrangement for transmitting information messages between a plurality of decentralised communication units and at least one central communication unit
In order to transmit information messages towards a central communication unit, decentralised communication units are respectively connected to a central memory unit connected to at least one central communication unit, by means of a point-to-point connection. Control means associated with the memory unit are used to identify initial information messages ...

07/20/06 - 20060159111 - Scaleable controlled interconnect with optical and wireless applications
An interconnect structure comprises a plurality of network-connected devices and a logic adapted to control a first subset of the network-connected devices to transmit data and simultaneously control a second subset of the network-connected devices to prepare for data transmission at a future time. The logic can execute an operation ...

07/20/06 - 20060159110 - Open service gateway initiative-based home gateway apparatus and device registration method thereof
An OSGi-based home gateway apparatus and a device register method includes a device detecting unit which detects at least one legacy device which does not load acontrollable middleware from a plurality of home devices connected to the home network; an outside network interface which receives drive information of the detected ...

07/20/06 - 20060159109 - Methods and systems for use in network management of content
The present embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatuses for use in managing content on at least a local network. Some embodiments provide a method for use in managing content that detects there is a change to content on a local network, determines whether the change is additional content on a ...

07/20/06 - 20060159108 - Management session initiation with a customer premises device
A communication method for execution at a customer premises device, comprising detecting receipt of a command indicative of an intent of a management entity to initiate a management session, the command being a management session initiation command. Responsive to detecting receipt of the management session initiation command, an identifier for ...

07/20/06 - 20060159107 - Method and apparatus for managing remote ip network elements through sonet network elements
A method and apparatus for transmitting an IP packet between first and second remotely located IP end devices via a network operating under OSI. An IP interface is overlaid over OSI in the routers that are directly connected to the IP devices. These routers act as gateways, communicating with each ...

07/13/06 - 20060153214 - Home networking gateway
A home networking gateway provides an interface between an HFC network and an in-home network. Full voice and data connection between the HFC network and each device in the in-home network is provided through the interface. A translator included in the home networking gateway is utilized to provide a mapping ...

07/13/06 - 20060153213 - Ethernet wide area network and method
An ethernet wide area network (10) has a number of interconnected network ethernet switches (12). A first local area network (18) has a first local area ethernet switch (16) and is connected to one (14) of the interconnected network ethernet switches (12). A second local area network (24) has a ...

07/13/06 - 20060153212 - Information converting apparatus
An information export method for exporting content and right information of the content to a repository includes referring to the right information when the content is exported to the repository and checking whether the repository is allowed to have the content based on a description of the right information. When ...

07/13/06 - 20060153211 - Local network connecting system local network connecting method and mobile terminal
A local network connecting system includes a first local network, a second local network, a mobile terminal. The first local network is connected with a gateway and a first server assigned with a first local address. The second local network is connected with a second server. The mobile terminal VPN ...

07/13/06 - 20060153210 - Method of message distribution between mgc and mgw in ngn
The present invention discloses a method of message distribution between Media Gateway Controller and Media GateWay, wherein each Call Control Unit in the Media Gateway Controller having corresponding ID; when the Media Gateway Controller sending request message to the Media Gateway or requesting the Media Gateway to detect an event, ...

07/13/06 - 20060153209 - Mobile terminal and network unit for multi-wireless technologies
Mobile terminals (2) for transmitting first signaling signals (11) according to first wireless technologies to first networks (3) and for transmitting second signaling signals (12) according to second wireless technologies to second networks (4), which first signaling signals (11) comprise first information for informing the first networks (3), which second ...

07/13/06 - 20060153208 - Discovery, deployment, and security systems and methods
A system and method for discovering devices connected to a communications network, such as the Internet, includes an agent and installation of the agent on a communications device of the network. The agent is installed on a delegate device, which may, but need not necessarily, be an administration device for ...

07/13/06 - 20060153207 - Physical address based routing for internet protocol based devices
In a computer network comprising a Central System, Internet Protocol (IP) based network, one or more parallel Application Systems and one or more End Devices wherein the End Device receives an IP address and device configuration information from IP Address Server associated with the Central System, a central computer based ...

07/13/06 - 20060153206 - System and method for dynamic egress routing through a single default gateway in a mesh network
A system and method for dynamic egress routing through a default gateway in a network is disclosed. One aspect of the present invention includes providing a default gateway that manages routes to Internet egress points for a client. The default gateway includes a list of Internet egress points that correspond ...

07/13/06 - 20060153205 - Avoidance of an invalid functioning of a media gateway controller or a media gateway
An efficient change to the coding of terminations at a media gateway is made possible by means of a method for carrying out an instruction (2), signalled by a media gateway controller (MGC) to a media gateway (MGW) for changing the coding of at least one live load connection section ...

07/06/06 - 20060146844 - Method for network-assisted communication, a telecommunication service, a server, a terminal device, and a computer software product therefor
The present invention relates to a network-assisted communication method comprising: establishing a communication in a telecommunication network; capturing an identified communication contribution; and presenting and storing said communication contribution, associating the established communication with the captured communication contribution, and associating references to related communications to the established communication. The invention ...

07/06/06 - 20060146843 - Device and method for managing automatic setting up of high data rate connections for access from terminals to data networks
A device is dedicated to managing the setting up of high data rate connections for access from communication terminals to at least one data network via networks of service providers and a high data rate access equipment connected to at least one high data rate access network managed by a ...

07/06/06 - 20060146842 - Programmable transmit wave shaping for 10 base-t ethernet controller
An ethernet controller includes analog circuitry for generating a transmit waveform representing transmitted data. A transmit waveform is generated responsive to a digital control signal provided by digital circuitry. The digital control signal is programmable to enable amplification of the transmit waveform. ...

07/06/06 - 20060146841 - Method and apparatus to facilitate a non-fully meshed communications system gateway interface
One or more gateways (107 and 108) as serve to interconnect the discrete call facilitation platforms (403 and 404) of a given communication network with an external communication network (109) as provided with the routing addresses of such discrete call facilitation platforms. The discrete call facilitation platforms, however, are not ...

07/06/06 - 20060146840 - Intelligent delivery agent for short message distribution center
A message distribution center (MDC) and Intelligent Delivery Agent are implemented in a wireless Internet gateway interposed between content providers and a wireless carrier to subjectively examine and direct messages via SMTP based on desired rules (e.g., non-peak hours, paying subscribers only, etc.) using standard SMTP Gateway and other well-known ...

07/06/06 - 20060146839 - Payment and media management
This invention provides systems and methods that minimize or remove human intervention during the payment media handling process on the shop floor, in the back office and at the cash-in-transit place. By automating processes and providing physical, tamper evident secure means for transporting the payment media, it is possible to ...

06/29/06 - 20060140200 - User-controlled telecommunications system
Disclosed are systems and methods that enable an end user to control the parameters, behavior, and identity of network communications regardless of the limitations placed upon these controls by the end user's communications device or communications service provider. An intermediate media proxy resides on a telecommunications network and accepts inbound ...

06/29/06 - 20060140199 - Sip/upnp bridging middleware architecture for a service gateway framework
A bridging architecture is provided for a network gateway environment which provides service registration in accordance with a gateway framework, such as OSGi. The bridging architecture includes: a SIP service registered with the gateway framework and operable to import and export SIP capabilities into the network gateway environment; a UPnP ...

06/29/06 - 20060140198 - Method and system for determining media gateway loading
A method for load balancing call traffic in a telecommunication gateway is disclosed. The communication gateway comprises a plurality of media gateway controllers and a plurality of media gateways. The media gateway controllers and the media gateways are coupled in a many-to-many relationship. In a first step of the method, ...

06/29/06 - 20060140197 - Data transfer procedure for transferring data of a data sequence between a transmitting entity and a receiving entity
A data transfer procedure enables data of a data sequence to be transferred between a transmitting entity (13) and a receiving entity (19). The entities each comprise a higher data handling layer (11, 17) and a lower data handling layer (12, 18). The procedure comprises transferring down from the higher ...

06/29/06 - 20060140196 - Radio communication management method and radio communication management server
An object is to smoothly perform handover at the time when a mobile terminal changes link connection, and shorten a time required for changing the link connection. When a mobile terminal 21 changes a connection link utilizing HMIPv6, the terminal transmits authentication information together with information (binding update) for changing ...

06/22/06 - 20060133393 - Aging processing apparatus and method in communications system
An aging processing apparatus and method of a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), wherein the GGSN determines an appropriate aging policy on the basis of aging environmental information set by a manager, and checks whether a traffic is generated in every session or ...

06/22/06 - 20060133392 - Gateway device, network system, communication program, and communication method
A communication method includes; generating identification information for identifying each of detected appliances on a second network; classifying the generated identification information; publishing for a terminal device on a first network a list of the identification information; upon receipt of a request for call connection with identification information on the ...

06/22/06 - 20060133391 - Multimedia service apparatus and method for multimedia service providers outside home to upnp devices inside home using home gateway and service gateway platform
A multimedia service apparatus and method for multimedia service providers outside home to UPnP devices inside home using a home gateway and a service gateway platform is provided. In the multimedia service apparatus and method, the home gateway and the service gateway platform such as an open service gateway initiative ...

06/22/06 - 20060133390 - Method and apparatus providing prioritized convergence in border gateway protocol
A method is disclosed for providing prioritized routing table convergence in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hosts, as part of a BGP process that is executed by a route processor in a network, wherein the processor hosts a plurality of BGP routing tables each associated with a specified sub-address family (SAFI). ...

06/22/06 - 20060133389 - Apparatus and method for sharing variables and resources in a multiprocessor routing node
A router for transferring data packets between external devices. The router comprises: 1) a switch fabric; and 2) R routing nodes coupled to the switch fabric. Each routing node exchanges data packets with the external devices and with other routing nodes via the switch fabric. A first routing node comprises: ...

06/15/06 - 20060126650 - Method and apparatus for bridging devices having interfaces of same layer
A method and apparatus for arbitrating control signals to bridge an SPI-3 interface recommended by the optical internetworking forum (OIF), between devices in an identical layer using the SPI-3 interface are provided. According to the method and apparatus, a bridging apparatus which performs the role of a link layer device ...

06/15/06 - 20060126649 - Packet distribution system, pan registration device, pan control device, packet transfer device, and packet distribution method
The packet distribution system according to the present invention includes communication terminals that are connected by way of at least one link to a mobile network, a PAN registration device for holding communication link identification addresses that correspond to communication terminals on a PAN, and a PAN control device for ...

06/15/06 - 20060126648 - Method for supporting session mobility
A method for supporting session mobility, more particularly, a method for supporting session mobility that can move various sessions between two or more devices by using session initiation protocol (SIP). Various sessions can be simultaneously moved by utilizing a SIP PUBLISH message. Accordingly, a user can utilize various services as ...

06/15/06 - 20060126647 - Network interface device
An apparatus is disclosed that provides a gateway function. The apparatus has an enclosure surrounding a network interface device. The network interface device has a communications network interface to a communications network and a power line network interface to a power line carrier-based network. A communications module stores in a ...

06/15/06 - 20060126646 - Coordinated multi-network data services
Content and/or services are provided for a session to a user by controlling use of at least two different networks to deliver the content and/or services for the session to the user. The at least two different networks have different data transfer characteristics. Control of use of the at least ...

06/15/06 - 20060126645 - Methods and systems for connecting mobile nodes to private networks
When mobile node is connected to an access point outside the private network, a tunnel is formed between the mobile node and a home agent on the private network for the transfer of packets. When, the mobile node roams into a region accessible to the private network, the mobile node ...

06/08/06 - 20060120389 - Gigabit switch with frame forwarding and address learning
A network switch and a method thereof for network communications include a first data port interface and a second data port interface supporting a data port transmitting and receiving data at a first data rate and a second data rate, respectively. The switch has a CPU interface to communicate with ...

06/08/06 - 20060120388 - Interworking apparatus and method for accepting ip in wcdma system
An interworking apparatus includes an IP sending/receiving unit coupled to an IP network, an AAL2 sending/receiving circuit coupled to a WCDMA network, and a data processing circuit between the IP sending/receiving unit and AAL2 sending/receiving unit. The data processing circuit processes data in a format suitable for interworking between the ...

06/08/06 - 20060120387 - Methods and apparatus for processing traffic at a wireless mesh node
Embodiments of methods and apparatus for processing traffic at a wireless mesh node are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ...

06/08/06 - 20060120386 - Home network bridge-based communications method and apparatus
A privately addressed home network bridge is provided for each of two privately addressed home networks. These bridges couple to corresponding gateways for each of the networks. A network tunnel connection is established between the two bridges via the gateways and an intervening publicly addressed network. At least one, and ...

06/01/06 - 20060114917 - Secure system and method for san management in a non-trusted server environment
According to the present invention a method and a system is provided for operating a storage area network (SAN) in a server environment in which multiple servers share one Fibre Channel adapter. A SAN Management Server manages regions in storage systems and security, a Fiber Channel Network provides a connection ...

05/25/06 - 20060109854 - Systems and methods to share information between digital video recorders
According to some embodiments, information may be shared between digital video recorders. In some embodiments, systems or methods may include, for example, identifying first information associated with a first user of a first digital video recorder, and providing the first information to a second digital video recorder. Some embodiments may ...

05/18/06 - 20060104295 - Queued, asynchronous communication architecture interface
Methods and techniques are provided for implementing a queued, asynchronous application programming interface (API) for network communications. According to one embodiment, the API provides (i) a system abstraction representing a connection between a local machine and a remote machine, and (ii) multiple routines accessible to applications for operating on connections. ...

05/18/06 - 20060104294 - Router and method of managing packet queue using the same
A router for performing queue management for packet transmission is provided, which includes a first storage unit for storing and outputting packets input to request transmission from a source device to a destination device; a second storage unit for storing information on the packets stored in the first storage unit; ...

05/18/06 - 20060104293 - Method of performing a communication service
The present invention relates to a push-to-talk server (6) and a method of performing a push-to-talk based communication service for registered users (21, 25 to 28) of a push-to-talk service. A push-to-talk call request is transmitted from a calling terminal (31) to the push-to-talk server (6), the push-to-talk call request ...

05/18/06 - 20060104292 - System and methods for supporting multiple communications interfaces with single client interface
Systems and methods for providing network connectivity to a host through multiple communication interfaces. Other embodiments include systems and methods for selecting on of a plurality of communication interfaces through which to perform network operations. ...

05/18/06 - 20060104291 - Network bridge device and methods for programming and using the same
A network bridge device that links a wireless network and a wired network to one another. The bridge includes a wireless signal transceiver adapted to receive and send signals in a wireless format, and a wired signal transceiver adapted to receive and send signals in a wired format. A bridge ...

05/18/06 - 20060104290 - Data transport between a media gateway and server
A system and method for reducing latency includes receiving at a gateway time division multiplexed data from multiple sender devices, the time division multiplexed data including payloads. The method also includes a generated packet that includes the payloads from the received time division multiplexed data from the multiple sender devices. ...

05/11/06 - 20060098670 - Congestion and thru-put visibility and isolation
Offering vertical services to subscribers and service providers is an avenue to immediately improve the competitiveness of digital subscriber line access service, for example of the type offered by a local exchange carrier. To deliver high-quality vertical services, however, the underlying ADSL Data Network (ADN) or the like needs to ...

05/11/06 - 20060098669 - High-speed internet access system
An asymmetric network system manages bandwidth allocation and configuration of remote devices in a broadband network. A modular architecture of the system permits independent scalability of upstream and downstream capacity separately for each of the upstream and downstream physical paths. Allocation of downstream bandwidth to requesting devices is made according ...

05/11/06 - 20060098668 - Managing membership within a multicast group
Each node on a network comprises an application level multicast module. An application level multicast module can determine efficient routing configurations for a host node's transmission and reception of multimedia data from the network. As two or more nodes receive and/or forward the same multimedia data, a multicast group is ...

05/11/06 - 20060098667 - Session relay equipment and session relay method
A network environment capable of performing a smooth and comfortable TCP session operation is provided to a user. The session relay equipment includes a bridge portion which relays a session by which a sequence of packets are transmitted and received between terminals connected with each other via a network; a ...

05/11/06 - 20060098666 - Portable device configuration system
A system for communicating a parameter from a first device to a second device includes an input processor for receiving data indicating a parameter. An interface processor, used by the first device, communicates a first message to the second device including data identifying a communication protocol to be used in ...

05/11/06 - 20060098665 - Systems and methods for communicating with bi-nodal network elements
Systems and methods for communicating with bi-nodal network elements are provided. A single address is shared between both nodes of a bi-nodal network element. When packets are transmitted from either one of the nodes of the bi-nodal network element, the single address is employed as the source address of the ...

05/11/06 - 20060098664 - Intelligent application level multicast module for multimedia transmission
The application level multicast module can determine efficient routing configurations for the host node's transmission and reception of multimedia data from a network. Further, the application level multicast module may aggregate, buffer, process, and multimedia data to and from an application such as a multimedia player. The application level multicast ...

05/11/06 - 20060098663 - Address tagging for network address translation (nat) traversal
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for generating, as well as processing data that is traversing (or will be traversing) a translation device, such as a Network Address Translation (NAT) device. In one embodiment, a method of sending data from a first node to a second node is disclosed. The method ...

05/11/06 - 20060098662 - Memory and processor efficient network communications protocol
System and method for a full featured network communications protocol that is both memory and processor efficient. A preferred embodiment comprises a method for transmitting information between electronic devices, the method comprising creating a connection between a pair of electronic devices, sending a packet between the pair, acknowledging a receipt ...

05/11/06 - 20060098661 - System, method and device for providing communications using a distributed mobile architecture
A communications system includes one or more distributed mobile architecture servers. Each distributed mobile architecture servers includes a compute readable medium. Moreover, a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module are embedded in the computer readable medium. Each distributed mobile architecture server is in direction physical connection ...

05/04/06 - 20060092955 - Network-based dedicated backup service
A system and method for providing alternate dedicated connections are described. A primary dedicated connection may be configured to connect a first network and a second network, and a second dedicated network-based connection, which may include a point-to-point protocol (PPP)/layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) tunnel, may be configured to automatically ...

04/27/06 - 20060088043 - Local area network/wide area network switch
A local area network/wide area network (LAN/WAN) switch is presented which aggregates LAN traffic onto SONET/SDH transport streams in a programmable manner. The system can concentrate Ethernet packets and map the data onto SONET streams at data rates varying from STS-1 to STS-12C. Depending on the bandwidth available in the ...

04/27/06 - 20060088042 - Method, system and devices for creating spontaneous electronic information propagation and retrieval
A system and method for spontaneous electronic information propagation and retrieval. The system comprises a plurality of devices operative to propagate information and to autonomously recognize and analyze the information; and a propagation mechanism that includes a special communication protocol (SCP). The SCP and the autonomous recognition and analysis of ...

04/27/06 - 20060088041 - System, device, and method to automatically disable the camera function of a wireless communication device
A system, device, and method for discretely automatically disabling a camera feature in a wireless communication client device is disclosed. The present invention provides for a wireless gateway, or similar device, on a premise which communicates with a wireless client device and disables the camera feature in the client device ...

04/20/06 - 20060083254 - Network with mac table overflow protection
A method of operating a bridge node (B0) in a network system. The bridge node comprises a plurality of ports (BP0.x). The method comprises a step of receiving a frame (240), from a device in the network system and other than the bridge node, at a port in the plurality ...

04/20/06 - 20060083253 - Home gateway system for providing optical communication packet data interface function and home broadcast service providing method using the same
There are provided a home gateway system providing an optical communication packet data interface function and a home broadcast service providing method using the same. The home gateway system is constructed to include a network processor having two Ethernet interfaces connected to a system control processor of a home gateway ...

04/13/06 - 20060077990 - System and method for providing multimedia tone/announcement over wireless network
A system and method for providing a multimedia tone/announcement over circuit switched wireless networks are provided. The system and method enable processing of a multiple call leg function based on H.324M over a circuit switched wireless network by relaying an end-to-end H.324M initialization over the circuit switched wireless network. Therefore, ...

04/13/06 - 20060077989 - Methods and systems for packet classification with improved memory utilization in a media gateway
Methods and systems for classifying incoming and/or outgoing packets to sessions in a media gateway store session identifiers for active sessions in a media gateway in a memory. Each session identifier is a combination of a local network address, a local port number, a remote network address, and a remote ...

04/13/06 - 20060077988 - System for management of equipment deployed behind firewalls
An element management system enables a network management server to provide a variable value to a management information base of a managed device independent of whether the managed device is served by a network address translation firewall. The element management system comprises an SNMP message manager which receives periodic heart ...

04/13/06 - 20060077987 - Method and apparatus for improving voice band data (vbd) connectivity in a communications network
High compression rate codecs in gateways servicing Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Voice Band Data (VBD) calls distort modem/fax Answer Back Tones (e.g., 2100 Hz), which may lead to signal distortion and call hang-ups. To prevent such occurrences, a method or corresponding apparatus forces originating and terminating gateways to stay in ...

04/13/06 - 20060077986 - Enhancement of aaa routing originated from a local access network involving intermediary network preferences
Enhanced routing of an authentication, authorization, or accounting-related (AAA) message between a local access network associated with a roaming mobile terminal and a home service network is described. A list of one or more intermediary service networks preferred for possible use in routing an AAA message between the mobile terminal ...

04/06/06 - 20060072592 - Method and a system for verifying network routing information
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods and systems for verifying network routing information are described. In one embodiment, a machine-readable map that describes a network route associated with a network router is accessed. The network router is accessed in order to obtain network routing information describing a network ...

04/06/06 - 20060072591 - Initiation of call forwarding for wireless telephone
Methods and systems for forwarding calls associated with a first telephone to a second telephone are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, one of the first telephone and the second telephone is configured to send an instruction to a first telephone network associated with the first telephone to ...

03/30/06 - 20060067344 - Network system, gateway, radio terminal, and recording medium
A radio terminal belonging to an internal network can communicate with a radio terminal belonging to another internal network via the Internet. Each radio terminal has a callsign, and a gateway has a global IP address and a table which associates each radio terminal with the global IP address of ...

03/30/06 - 20060067343 - Address information display system and address information display program
When a management PC (as an address information display device in an address information display system) displays IPv6 addresses that have been assigned to a device in the system, the addresses may be displayed in a pull-down menu, for example. The display order in the pull-down menu may be determined ...

03/30/06 - 20060067342 - Method and system in an ip network for using a network address translation (nat) with any type of application
The present invention is based on a dual dynamic Network Address Translation (NAT) one Network Address Translation (NAT) is executed close to the client stations of customers (to NAT), and one Network Address Translation (NAT) is executed close to the application server (to un-NAT). The networks between the client stations ...

03/30/06 - 20060067341 - Method, system and computer program using standard interfaces for independent device controllers
A system, method and computer program for controlling devices in a control area network that includes providing a first application programming interface containing a first set of functions in a control area network and coupling one or more functions of the first set of functions with a physical device. The ...

03/30/06 - 20060067340 - Methods and apparatus for managing tls connections in a large soft switch
Methods for efficiently establishing TLS connections include detecting the proximity of a user relative to a communication device and establishing a TLS connection between the switch and the communication device based on the proximity of the user. An apparatus according to the invention may include one or more proximity sensors ...

03/23/06 - 20060062230 - Method for testing speech/data channels in a telecommunication network
A method for testing speech/data channels in a telecommunication network port wherein existing test functionalities can still be used with respect to IP networks arranged at a transport side. The method includes the steps of integrating a test functionality into a media gateway controller, addressing a speech/data channel, which is ...

03/23/06 - 20060062229 - Terminal adapter device capable of performing ieee1394-to-ethernet conversion
Disclosed is a terminal adapter device to enable an IEEE1394-to-Ethernet conversion for processing by hardware data of an Ethernet standard that is inputted/outputted in a home network system based on an IEEE 1394. The terminal adapter device includes a 1394 unit to perform an IEEE 1394 connection with a home ...

03/23/06 - 20060062228 - Packet forwarding apparatus and access network system
An access network system connected to an ISP network including a subscriber authentication server comprised of a plurality of packet forwarding apparatuses each for connecting user terminals to an Internet network via the ISP network and an address pool management server having an address pool management table for holding, as ...

03/23/06 - 20060062227 - Switched fabric payload module having an embedded central switching resource
A multi-service platform system, includes a backplane (104), a switched fabric (106) on the backplane, and at least one of a VMEbus network and a PCI network coincident with the switched fabric on the backplane. A payload module (102) has one of a 6U form factor and a 9U form ...

03/23/06 - 20060062226 - Switched fabric rear transition module and method
A multi-service platform system, includes a backplane (104), a switched fabric (106) on the backplane, and at least one of a VMEbus network and a PCI network coincident with the switched fabric on the backplane. A payload module (102) has one of a 3U form factor, a 6U form factor ...

03/16/06 - 20060056430 - Data processing method, data processing apparatus, and recording medium
The present invention has enabled computing resources existing in domestic network systems to be utilized with a maximum efficiency. Actual condition of the connection of client apparatuses to a domestic network and overall computing resources of the domestic network are integrally controlled by a personal computer functioning itself as a ...

03/16/06 - 20060056429 - Gateway apparatus, communication system, and delay measurement method
A gateway apparatus includes a packet transmitting unit, duplicate packet detecting unit, and time measuring unit. The packet transmitting unit transmits to a counter apparatus the first packet that coincides with a packet transmitted immediately before reception of a delay measurement instruction for an IP (Internet Protocol) network between the ...

03/16/06 - 20060056428 - System and method for voice processing and transporting in a protocol independent tandem free operation manner
A wireless communication system including an originator media gateway to encode voice data into an IP packet depending on whether tandem free operation (TFO) or normal operation is being used. The media gateway makes such determination independent of the TFO protocol being used. In particular, the media gateway determines that ...

03/16/06 - 20060056427 - Multicast communication method and gateway apparatus
A gateway apparatus on a receiving side, which controls a receiver terminal, sends a tunnel connection request message to a gateway apparatus on a sending side that controls a sender terminal where multicast packet broadcasting originate. In contrast, the gateway apparatus on the sending side that has received the tunnel ...

03/16/06 - 20060056426 - Access router and terminal device
An access router placed at an entrance of a core network to house an access network through which a host connects to the core network, including: a creating unit for creating network information which has control information to control connection of a host to the access network; and a transmitting ...

03/16/06 - 20060056425 - Method and system for bridging traffic in a resilient packet ring network
A method for bridging traffic over a network includes receiving, at stations that are coupled to the network, forwarding information for remote devices that are coupled to the network via the stations. The forwarding information associates a remote address of each remote device with an address of one of the ...

03/16/06 - 20060056424 - Packet transmission using output buffer
An interconnect device for transmitting data packets includes a plurality of ports, a hub, an arbiter and an output buffer. The hub connects the plurality of ports. The arbiter is coupled to the hub and controls transmission of data packets between the hub and the ports. The output buffer is ...

03/16/06 - 20060056423 - System and method for communicating messages in a mesh network
A gateway node that communicates with a plurality of satellite nodes positioned on one or more logical layers is disclosed. Satellite nodes on the first logical layer operate as repeaters for nodes not on the first logical layer. The gateway node and each satellite node communicate outbound messages during a ...

03/16/06 - 20060056422 - Communication system having decentralized gateway selection
A communication system comprises networks and gateway means (interconnecting the networks. One of the networks comprises a communication device having means for sending a communication request to at least one is of the gateway means, and the gateway means have means for sending an answer back to the communication device. ...

03/09/06 - 20060050721 - Method of determing broadband content usage within a system
An end user network access point monitors and collects usage statistics associated with all content accessed by the end user devices through the access point. One or more external control servers collect the usage statistics from each access point, thereby compiling macro-level statistics related to content accessed by the end ...

03/09/06 - 20060050720 - Dual communication system, cellular communication terminal and dual communication method therefor
A dual communication system comprises a cellular communication terminal 1 having a plurality of communication means. The cellular communication terminal 1 is provided with a function to register the telephone number of WLAN communication means 12 to cellular phone switching network 100 and a function to register the telephone number ...

03/09/06 - 20060050719 - Selective diversion and injection of communication traffic
A method for communication includes coupling a first port of a Layer-3 packet router to receive communication traffic from a network, the traffic including packets destined for a target address, which is accessible via a second port of the router. At the router, the packets that are destined for the ...

03/02/06 - 20060045107 - Network solution for integrated control of electronic devices between different sites
A network solution for integrated control of electronic devices between different sites is provided to enable complete control of home electronic devices, automotive devices, watercraft devices and aircraft electronic device with an affordable cost to the general public. The network solution has a hardware solution and a software solution integrated ...

03/02/06 - 20060045106 - Repeater apparatus for supporting a plurality of protocols, and a method for controlling protocol conversion in the repeater apparatus
Disclosed are an Ethernet-IEEE 1394 repeater apparatus as a network transmission equipment wherein a protocol conversion can be performed to operate a single repeater combining therein an Ethernet repeater function, and a method for protocol conversion thereof. The repeater apparatus, for supporting a plurality of protocol including a first protocol ...

03/02/06 - 20060045105 - System and method for using a utility meter
A system or method for using a utility meter that is electronically addressable and serves as a communications gateway for other devices. There are numerous potential advantages to the use of addressable utility meters, and systems can incorporate one or more of those potential advantages. Emergency alerts can be sent ...

03/02/06 - 20060045104 - Using an external router to manage foreign data communication channel traffic
Methods and apparatus for efficiently managing third-party data communication channel (DCC) channels using an optical network element without an OSI stack in conjunction with an external router are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a gateway network element includes a first port that receives a signal from ...

03/02/06 - 20060045103 - Routing key interpreter
A method of providing a routing key interpreter for a signalling gateway, the method comprising the steps of generating an input file comprising a plurality of input expressions and a plurality of routing keys corresponding to the input expression, supplying the input file to a lexical analyser generator to generate ...

03/02/06 - 20060045102 - Method for recovering a mismatch between a media gateway and a media gateway controller
The present invention provides a method for recovering a mismatch between a media gateway (MGW) and a media gateway controller (MGC). The MGC believes that a channel is idle and attempts to assign the channel in a bearer connection. The state information of the MGW indicates that the channel is ...

02/23/06 - 20060039389 - Remote control of device by telephone or other communication devices
A communication device, such as a telephone or a personal computer, controls one or more remotely controlled devices solely over a signaling path, without necessarily establishing an audio path, thus eliminating the need for the remotely controlled device, or its controller, to include DTMF detection hardware or software or an ...

02/23/06 - 20060039388 - Method and system for a unicast endpoint client to access a multicast internet protocol (ip) session
Unicast endpoint clients (110, 111, 115) on an IP Unicast network (107, 108) are provided access to Multicast sessions on an IP Multicast network (101) through a Multicast-Unicast gateway server (120, 121). The server obtains information about sessions on the Multicast network and makes such information available to a Unicast ...

02/23/06 - 20060039387 - Frame generator
An object of the present invention is to provide a frame generator in which no variable range of the field of a transmission frame required to measure a network is restricted by the capacity of a memory. The invention is a frame generator for outputting a transmission frame generated on ...

02/23/06 - 20060039386 - Internet protocol installer
Provided is a private Internet Protocol (IP) installer for a home network. The Internet Protocol (IP) installer includes a network interface connected to an IP sharing router, a user interface which receives a user's command, an IP installing unit which assigns private IP addresses to products constituting a home network ...

02/16/06 - 20060034304 - Method and apparatus for virtual private networks
A method and apparatus for virtual private networks (VPNs) is described. A computer implemented method comprises determining a set of endpoints for a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel, determining a key (the key corresponding to a VPN), dynamically establishing the GRE tunnel with the set of endpoints and the key, ...

02/16/06 - 20060034303 - System and method for managing transactions related to messages transmitted in a communication network
A system can be located in a communication network in which it handles several simultaneous sessions and transmits messages between end nodes. The system identifies a type of transaction belonging to a session. The transaction type identified is mapped to a token that belongs to an input alphabet of an ...

02/16/06 - 20060034302 - Inter-fabric routing
A method and apparatus is shown for communicating Fibre Channel frames between distinct fabrics. A proxy zone is established in each fabric with a physically present local device and a remote fabric device. A router creates a proxy device in each fabric for every device not physically connected to the ...

02/16/06 - 20060034301 - High data rate interface apparatus and method
A data interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit, ...

02/16/06 - 20060034300 - Systems, methods, and devices for processing audio signals
Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising: initiating a communications connection between an audio device and a CPE gateway coupled to the audio device, the CPE gateway coupleable to a network; and negotiating between the audio device and the CPE gateway for a parameter associated ...

02/16/06 - 20060034299 - Systems, methods, and devices for processing audio signals
Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising: initiating a communications connection between a CPE gateway and a network coupled to the CPE gateway, the CPE gateway coupleable to an audio device; and negotiating between the CPE gateway and the network for a parameter associated with ...

02/09/06 - 20060029086 - Voice communication apparatus
A voice communication apparatus is interposed between a telephone set and a public switched telephone network (PSTN) or a broadband network which can provide a frequency bandwidth broader than a frequency bandwidth of the public switched telephone network. The apparatus selects one of the PSTN and the broadband network, from ...

02/09/06 - 20060029085 - Methods and apparatus for information processing and display for network
Apparatus and methods for automatically processing and displaying information for managing equipment or services in a network. The information is automatically inserted into a hierarchical data structure, which can then presented in a ticker display for viewing by a user. The information concerning the network equipment or services may also ...

02/09/06 - 20060029084 - System and method for signaling information in order to enable and disable distributed billing in a network environment
An apparatus for signaling information in a network environment is provided that includes an access gateway operable to establish one or more packet data protocol (PDP) links on behalf of an end user. The access gateway is operable to communicate a message associated with a change in quality of service, ...

02/09/06 - 20060029083 - Network management across a nat or firewall
The present invention relates to methods of, computer software for and apparatus for enabling network management in a network arrangement in which a first network is separated from a second network by a network address translator or firewall. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention enables, in a carrier ...

02/02/06 - 20060023728 - Methods and apparatus for providing signalling gateways with multi-network support
Gateway apparatus is described for interconnecting at least first and second signalling networks with an application server process via a third network, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of signalling gateways, with at least one signalling gateway coupled to each signalling network; and a proxy element for transferring signalling messages between ...

01/26/06 - 20060018329 - Network interconnect crosspoint switching architecture and method
A network switching system includes transceiver devices respectively provided for a plurality of input line cards. The switching system also includes transceiver devices respective provided for a plurality of output line cards. The switching system further includes a switch device communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of input line ...

01/26/06 - 20060018328 - Method and system for powerline networking
A method and system for powerline networking. The method and system include an adapter and a gateway connected to powerlines. The gateway is operable for configuring the adapter for powerline networking by communicating configuration signals to the adapter over the powerlines. A powerline network is defined by the configuring of ...

01/19/06 - 20060013241 - Communication device and communication method
A communication device having a plurality of processor units is disclosed. Each processor unit has a buffer for buffering packets, a receiving processor, and a transmitting processor. Upon receipt of a reception token, the receiving processor receives packets from the outside. Then, if the buffer is empty, the receiving processor ...

01/19/06 - 20060013240 - Distributed packet processing architecture for network access servers
An access server architecture, and methods for use of the architecture, are disclosed. The architecture and methods are designed to increase the scalability of and balance processor load for a network access server device. In this architecture, packet forwarding and packet processing are distributed amongst the cards serving the low-speed ...

01/19/06 - 20060013239 - Communication network system, gateway, data communication method and program providing medium
This invention relates to provide a communication network system, a gateway, and a data communication method, in which the gateway has an advanced functionality. A person who issues an access request can retrieve a desired access destination easily by the following configuration: functions of routing information providing and authentication processing ...

01/19/06 - 20060013238 - Method and system for diagnosis and control of machines using connection and connectionless modes of communication
A method and system for monitoring, controlling and diagnosing operation of a machine such as a business office machine including a facsimile machine, a copier, and a printer. When the speed of communication between the remote device and machine is not urgent, a connectionless mode of communication may be used. ...

01/19/06 - 20060013237 - Vehicular communications system
In a case that a gateway unit connected with multiple networks receives mode managing data indicating an operating mode from a first network, the gateway unit sends mode managing data formed based on the received mode managing data only to control units and a gateway unit connected with a second ...

01/19/06 - 20060013236 - Method and apparatus for configuring a router, and a computer program product
A method is provided for configuring a router of a first local-area network in a communication network, having a second local-area network in communication with the first local-area network via the router. Configuration data for the router from an external communication device of the second local-area network is inputted via ...

01/19/06 - 20060013235 - Wireless terminal dynamically programmable proxies
The present invention relates to scheduling, compression and transcoding of data content for mobile terminals with limited resources. The present invention provides a method of transferring information or content to or from a terminal dependent on a number of parameters associated with the terminal. Such parameters might include its battery ...

01/19/06 - 20060013234 - Remote access and security system
A method and system for remotely controlling access to a value unit. The system includes a central control means which includes control data relating to the control of access to one or more value units by associated access controllers. The system includes remote communication means between the central control means ...

01/19/06 - 20060013233 - Method, system and computer program to provide support for sporadic resource availability in sip event environments
Disclosed is an event notification system and a method to operate an event notification system that has servers and a subscriber unit. The method includes associating with a particular event subscription an “available” event template subscription; sending an initial notify message to the subscriber unit with a current availability of ...

01/12/06 - 20060007946 - Interconnect network for operation within a communication node
An interconnect network for operation within communication node, wherein the interconnect network may have features including the ability to transfer a variety of communication protocols, scalable bandwidth and reduced down-time. According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication node includes a plurality of I/O channels for coupling information into ...

01/12/06 - 20060007945 - Medium to disparate medium hopping mesh network
A hopping mesh network is described that employs two or more disparate media to connect multiple intelligent devices into a network capable of passing high-speed data. Each intelligent device is able to select the most appropriate media based on the data to be used to transmit the media, and may ...

01/12/06 - 20060007944 - Managing network device configuration using versioning and partitioning
Configuration versioning and partitioning are provided as methods for managing large configuration for a network element such as a router or switch. In one aspect, a method performed in a network element, the network element comprising a plurality of software components that control operations and features of the network element, ...

01/05/06 - 20060002406 - Network connection apparatus, program, and method
There is provided a network connection apparatus comprising: a request acceptance unit which accepts a assignment request of network identification information from a different network connection apparatus connected to the network; an assigning unit which assigns the network identification information to the different network connection apparatus; a noticing unit which ...

01/05/06 - 20060002405 - Method of resynchronizing streams benefiting from circuit emulation services, for use in a packet-switched communications network
A packet-switched communications network (PSN) includes a multiplicity of nodes (Ni) adapted to switch streams of packets benefiting from circuit emulation services, known as CES packets. The network uses a particular method of resynchronizing the CES streams. According to that method, for a CES stream intended to take an associated ...

01/05/06 - 20060002404 - Data transmission control apparatus and data transmission control method
A data transmission control apparatus controls data transmission between a first wireless network and a second wireless network. According to one embodiment, the data transmission control apparatus comprises a wireless communication device that uses an identifier for identifying a wireless network as an access object and a device driver to ...

01/05/06 - 20060002403 - Distributed ip architecture for telecommunications system
A telephone system architecture enabling various components of a telephone system to be distributed geographically yet operates as a seamlessly integrated system. A signaling gateway function interfaces to the PSTN and through an SS7 interface. In addition, one or more media servers interface with a signaling gateway function as well ...

01/05/06 - 20060002402 - Qos and fault isolation in bgp traffic, address families and routing topologies
A method is disclosed for routing BGP traffic. In one embodiment, according to the method, an association is formed between a first process and a second process. The first process includes a first BGP process on a first peer and the second process includes a second BGP process on a ...

01/05/06 - 20060002401 - Discovery of border gateway protocol (bgp) multi-protocol label switching (mpls) virtual private networks (vpns)
A method and apparatus for identifying virtual private networks (VPNs) in a network of a service provider. The method and apparatus includes generating a VPN routing forwarding—route target (VRF-RT) table for the network. From the VRF-RT table, at least one of a VRF-VRF table and a VRF connectivity graph is ...

12/29/05 - 20050286542 - Interface call signaling protocol
A third generation (3G) gateway (30) provides the facilities for extending a number of internet protocols (40, 64, 74, 83, 100, 110, 120 and 130) between a second generation (2G) network and a 3G network. The various messages of a session initiation protocol (SIP) are extended to provide user identification ...

12/29/05 - 20050286541 - Backbone provider bridging networks
An edge device is used to support a backbone provider bridging network to facilitate interconnection of a plurality of networks. The edge device is coupled between the backbone and a first one of the networks, and is operable to encapsulate data units received from the first network with a header, ...

12/29/05 - 20050286540 - Controlling services in a packet data network
A method and system controls services in a packet data based communication network comprising terminal devices and service entities. In response to a change detected in the state of a connection between a terminal device and a gateway node, a service policy request for the terminal device is sent from ...

12/22/05 - 20050281275 - High-performance reconfigurable interconnect for concurrent operation of multiple systems
The present invention generally comprises an on-chip interconnection apparatus. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes programmable routing elements and communication segments coupled between the routing elements and multiple system units. In one embodiment, a first traffic stream is transferred between two of the system units through at least one of ...

12/22/05 - 20050281274 - Voip network, media proxy server, and method of providing additional services used in them
A VoIP network in which the user of a device can activate any addition service, without thinking of the device to which his or her device should be connected. VoIP media packets are transmitted between a network(A) that can provide additional VoIP services and a network(B) that cannot provide additional ...

12/22/05 - 20050281273 - Switched fc-al fault tolerant topology
A computer system uses a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) network to communicate with mass storage devices. The FC-AL network provides alternative communication paths to the mass storage devices. The FC-AL communication network includes a first (60) FC-AL controller within the FC-AL switch (50). A first FC-AL mass storage drive ...

12/22/05 - 20050281272 - Displaying virtual network properties in a graphical user interface
Virtual network properties are displayed in a graphical user interface. Link activity data that describes one or more virtual-network paths is tracked. Each virtual network path data-couples two or more data-transfer components of the network and utilizes rules for restricting data transfer based on specified relations of network switching elements. ...

12/15/05 - 20050276273 - Method and apparatus to facilitate inter-operability between a 3g1x network and a wireless packet data network
To address the need for inter-operability between 3G1X networks and wireless packet data networks, architectural and messaging embodiments are described that provide for new interfaces Ay, Az, and Ap. The Ay interface supports messaging between a 3G1x base station (BS) (103) and a packet data network access network (AN), such ...

12/15/05 - 20050276272 - Ip communications system for notifying a gateway controller of an ip address allocated to a gateway and a method therefor
A gateway device in an IP communications system can be controlled by a gateway controller even when an IP address of the gateway device is not fixed. The IP communications system includes a gateway device having a subscriber terminal interconnected thereto, a gateway controller for controlling the gateway device, provided ...

12/08/05 - 20050271067 - System and method for routing data across heterogeneous private and non-private networks
The invention provides a method and system for routing data across heterogeneous networks. One embodiment comprises a specialized in-band network, an out-of-band network, and a switching platform coupled between them. In one embodiment, the out-of-band network is coupled to an external network such as the Internet via a default gateway. ...

12/08/05 - 20050271066 - Method, device and system for transmitting ethernet packets
Technique for transmitting Ethernet packets from an Ethernet source point to an Ethernet destination point via a communication link, comprising compression of the packets in such a manner that the source point transmits complete Ethernet packets, the communication link carries shortened information blocks (SIB) obtained from said complete Ethernet packets, ...

12/08/05 - 20050271065 - Asymmetric packet switch and a method of use
The present invention relates to a packet switch and a packet switching method. An example embodiment of the present invention comprises at least three network ports, at least one instrument port, a mux-switch, a packet switch fabric, and an address table. The embodiment updates the address table to include the ...

12/01/05 - 20050265367 - Universal naming scheme for peer-to-peer resources
Peer devices register with a resource locator service so that the peer devices can be uniquely identified in a networking environment. An addressing scheme addresses a peer resource in the networking environment based on the unique identifier of a peer device that is a master publisher of the resource. Based ...

12/01/05 - 20050265366 - Virtual private network system, communication terminal, and remote access communication method therefor
A method comprising performing an authentication between a communication terminal and a gateway via a first Internet protocol (IP) network according to a configuration method. Configuration data and an IP address belonging to a second IP network is issued from the gateway to the communication terminal. The second IP network ...

12/01/05 - 20050265365 - Ring bearing network and method of implementing service bearing thereof
The present invention discloses a ring bearing network and a method of implementing service bearing thereof; said ring bearing network comprises a plurality of network nodes and physical links or logical links connected the network nodes, designed to bear service data at different nodes in a manner of label switched ...

12/01/05 - 20050265364 - Asymmetric packet switch and a method of use
The present invention relates to a packet switch and a packet switching method. An example embodiment of the present invention comprises at least three network ports, at least one instrument port, a mux-switch, a packet switch fabric, and an address table. The embodiment updates the address table to include the ...

12/01/05 - 20050265363 - Methods and apparatus for data transfer in a packet-switched data network
Apparatus for and methods of enabling a gateway node of a first packet-switched data network to select a first channel for transferring a data packet to a destination packet data protocol address of a correspondent node provided service in the first network are disclosed. The gateway node is configured to ...

12/01/05 - 20050265362 - Message relay program and message relay device
A message relay program which increases the multiplicity of message-relay processing functions before the number of concurrently processed processing-request messages becomes too great. Message-relay processing units receive processing-request messages from clients, and transform each processing-request message so as to have a predetermined data structure, and transfer the transformed processing-request messages ...

12/01/05 - 20050265361 - Channel reallocation method and device
In a communication system comprising a gateway node between a communication network 1 and a circuit-switched communication network 2 via a plurality of circuit-switched channels ch1, . . . , chn associated with the gateway node and comprising at least two control entities to which respective groups of said channels ...

11/24/05 - 20050259670 - High data rate interface apparatus and method
A data interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit, ...

11/24/05 - 20050259669 - Media gateway device
A gateway device is set to the doubled construction of the media gateway of the normal operation and the media gateway for redundancy. When a device failure is generated in the above media gateway of the normal operation, a signal path is controlled so as to be switched to the ...

11/24/05 - 20050259668 - Method of providing broadband services in client dense environments
A method and apparatus for implementing wireless internet connections for a plurality of portable computing devices located within a given area or hotspot. The invention employs a combination of wired and wireless links to manage propagation effects of the transmitted signal and to reduce interference with signals transmitted in adjacent ...

11/24/05 - 20050259667 - Detection and mitigation of unwanted bulk calls (spam) in voip networks
A technique for detecting SPAM calls in VoIP networks and taking responsive actions to such calls is described. Detection is based on recognizing abnormalities in signaling message statistics. For example, a device that persistently sends many more call setup requests then it receives and at the same time constantly receives ...

11/17/05 - 20050254505 - Smart digital modules and smart digital wall surfaces combining the same, and context aware interactive multimedia system using the same and operation method thereof
Disclosed are smart digital modules, a smart digital wall combining the smart digital modules, a context-aware interactive multimedia system, and an operating method thereof. The smart digital wall includes local coordinators for controlling the smart digital modules, and a coordination process for controlling the smart digital modules. The smart digital ...

11/17/05 - 20050254504 - Gateway apparatus
When a device alarm is raised in a signal processing unit 104 of a gateway apparatus 100, a transmit CH-AIS data generating unit 109 generates CH-AIS data including alarm information provided on a trunk-channel by trunk-channel basis, a packet assembling unit 105 packetizes the generated CH-AIS data into CH-AIS packets ...

11/10/05 - 20050249225 - Method and apparatus for packet source validation architecture system for enhanced internet security
A Packet Source Validation Architecture (PSVA) system for enhanced Internet Security that validates the source of all data packets that enter and propagate in the global computer network is disclosed. The PSVA system includes: (i) a system means to insert a source validation code in the header of the packets ...

11/10/05 - 20050249224 - Method for making contact between a peer communication terminal and an index server
A method for making contact between a peer communication terminal and an index server for providing peer-to-peer data transmission is provided. The method involves a peer communication terminal associated with a first telecommunication network sending a make-contact message addressed to a first index server. This make-contact message is transmitted to ...

11/03/05 - 20050243844 - Point contact array, not circuit, and electronic circuit using the same
A circuit includes a plurality of point contacts each composed of a first electrode made of a compound conductive material having ionic conductivity and electronic conductivity and a second electrode made of a conductive substance. The conductance of each point contact is controlled to realize the circuit. Ag2S, Ag2Se, Cu2S, ...

11/03/05 - 20050243843 - Wireless lan system
A high-speed wireless LAN system capable of avoiding a collision of packets and maintaining the original transmission speed is provided. A transmitter is applied to an HT terminal using a second frequency band wider than a first frequency band used by a legacy terminal, in which an HT sequence is ...

11/03/05 - 20050243842 - Media gateway
The invention concerns a method of providing a reconfiguration of a packet switching fabric plane and/or a source board of a media gateway, as well as a media gateway for executing this method. The media gateway comprises a set of packet switching fabric planes, a set of source boards and ...

11/03/05 - 20050243841 - Tone disabling in a media gateway
Fax and modem connections are usually treated in the same way as voice connections by the network nodes during connection setup. By using the disabling tone, fax modems having integrated echo compensation deactivate echo compensators which are provided on the network side. Packet-switched transport networks are generally unable to transmit ...

11/03/05 - 20050243840 - Method of communication
A method and system that each allow for communication between a first network and a second network. The first and second networks typically operate in accordance with different protocols and a user associated with the first network is typically connected to the second network. The method includes determining when a ...

10/27/05 - 20050238036 - Edge device and method for interconnecting ss7 signaling points (sps) using edge device
Methods and systems for interconnecting SS7 signaling points include connecting an edge device to a plurality of SS7 service switching points using fixed-bandwidth SS7 links. The edge device is connected to an SS7/IP gateway using a variable-bandwidth signaling link. The edge device multiplexes SS7 messages received over the fixed-bandwidth signaling ...

10/27/05 - 20050238035 - System and method for remote direct memory access over a network switch fabric
A system and method for remote direct memory access over a network switch fabric. Some illustrative embodiments may include a system comprising a first system node, a direct memory access (DMA) controller, a second system node, and a network switch fabric coupling together the first and second system nodes (the ...

10/27/05 - 20050238034 - System and method for automatically initiating and dynamically establishing secure internet connections between a fire-walled server and a fire-walled client
A system and method for automatically and dynamically initiating and establishing secure connections between a Server and a Client using a session control server (SCS). Both the Server and the Client are connected to an untrusted network (such as the Internet) through a Network Address Translator or Translation (NAT) router ...

10/27/05 - 20050238033 - Connection system, information supply apparatus, connection method and program
It is an object of the present invention to access to a closed network from an open network while maintaining secrecy of the closed network. In order for the object, a relay positioned in an open network receives user identifying information as a request for connecting to an information providing ...

10/27/05 - 20050238032 - Multiple-path wormhole interconnect
A family of interconnect structures, switches that exploit the interconnect structures to attain scalability, low latency, and single-chip implementations. The disclosed interconnect structures and switches support a wide variety of applications including supercomputer interconnects, LAN switches, IP and ATM switches, telephony central office switching, video on demand servers, interconnects for ...

10/27/05 - 20050238031 - Method and system for supporting simultaneous data sessions of dissimilar access networks
A method and system for supporting, at a PDSN, simultaneous data sessions on dissimilar access networks. A PDSN has a first network communication interface for connection to a first network, a second network communication interface for connection to a second network, and a protocol abstraction routine executable by a processing ...

10/20/05 - 20050232288 - Linking cross bar controller
A crossbar for communicating with at least one device, the crossbar comprises N ports. Each one of the N ports comprises a link logic unit to receive messages and data from a respective device, N−1 output buffers each corresponding to another one of the N−1 ports and a port arbiter ...

10/20/05 - 20050232287 - High speed bus system that incorporates uni-directional point-to-point buses
An apparatus comprises a plurality of ports wherein each port is adapted to couple to a device. At least one port connects by way of first and second unidirectional, point-to-point communication links with a device. The first unidirectional, point-to-point communication link transfers data from the device to the central logic ...

10/20/05 - 20050232286 - System and method for route optimization using piggybacking in a mobile network
A route optimization system and method for packet transmission between particular nodes in a mobile network including a plurality of nodes. If a predetermined mobile router (MR) receives a packet transmitted from a predetermined mobile node (MN) connected to its subnet, the MR transmits the packet to its associated home ...

10/20/05 - 20050232285 - System and method of providing network node services
A network node for processing messages transmitted via a network, the node including: a first circuit providing a processor-based node path; a second circuit, coupled to the first circuit, providing a switch-based node path; and a memory storing mapping information accessible by the first and second circuits, wherein the processing ...

10/20/05 - 20050232284 - Providing automatic format conversion via an access gateway in a home
A system and method supporting the automatic conversion of multimedia information from a first format to a second format in a broadband access gateway and/or network-based server are disclosed. The broadband access gateway and/or network-based server may convert multimedia information that is in a format that an access device is ...

10/20/05 - 20050232283 - Bridging local device communications across the wide area
In a network of devices having a plurality of local domains, each local domain is likely to comprise a plurality of networks or communities of devices that communicate using a shared native protocol such as Jini, UPnP, Bluetooth, HAVi, WiFi, WiMAX or other standard architectures and protocols. The Open Services ...

10/20/05 - 20050232282 - Internet audio gateway
A method and system is disclosed for an internet audio gateway (114) for delivering data based audio content to devices that are incapable of receiving and processing such content in the data form or where the device is capable of receiving and processing such data but the network (110) is ...

10/13/05 - 20050226260 - Fibre channel switching fabric port control
The Fibre Channel standard was created by the American National Standard for Information Systems (ANSI) X3T11 task group to define a serial I/O channel for interconnecting a number of heterogeneous peripheral devices to computer systems as well as interconnecting the computer systems themselves through optical fiber and copper media at ...

10/13/05 - 20050226259 - Fibre channel switching fabric hub
The Fibre Channel standard was created by the American National Standard for Information Systems (ANSI) X3T11 task group to define a serial I/O channel for interconnecting a number of heterogeneous peripheral devices to computer systems as well as interconnecting the computer systems themselves through optical fiber and copper media at ...

10/13/05 - 20050226258 - Method of establishing a connection between an user equipment of a wireless telecommunication network through a gateway
using a domain name server (DNS, 106) of the first network to determine a set of IP addresses of gateways of the plurality of gateways through which the requested connection can be established, receiving network condition data being descriptive of a network condition of the first and/or second network, selecting ...

10/13/05 - 20050226257 - Virtual local area network
Users are enabled to network multiple customer premises equipment (CPE) devices together to form a virtual local area network (VLAN) among CPE devices that access the Internet through different cable modems. In a preferred embodiment, each VLAN is associated with a unique security association identifier (SAID), which enables a cable ...

10/13/05 - 20050226256 - Access-controlling method, repeater, and server
Access from a terminal of an outside network to a server of an inside network is put under control. A repeater and the server permit a packet transmission from the terminal to the server under limited conditions. When the server acknowledges connection for the permitted packet, the transmission conditions for ...

10/06/05 - 20050220126 - Application level gateway and firewall rule set download validation
Method (300) and apparatus for validating application level gateway files or firewall rulsets. The method and apparatus include receiving at a bidirectional communications device, an application level gateway file, and comparing at least one compatibility parameter of said ALG file with features of said bi-directional communications device. In an instance ...

09/29/05 - 20050213592 - System and method for integrating information services through cellular network
The present invention provides a method and a system for handling content requests initiated by mobile wireless devices or content providers servers, implemented within a proxy server. Said method and system comprise of the steps: analyzing request type according to predefined business logic rules; identifying the relevant backend information server ...

09/29/05 - 20050213591 - Router and sip server
A boundary node router determines whether a received packet includes a SIP message and a REGISTER message, and, if so, adds its router identifier to a REGISTER message which includes a user identifier and a user terminal identifier, sent from a user terminal, and sends the message to a SIP ...

09/29/05 - 20050213590 - Universal telecommunication node with software-defined exchangeable protocol architecture
The invention proposes a network node comprising modules (1, 2, 3, 4, 6; 7) including transport functions in order to support a particular network transport protocol, wherein the transport functions are realized by software. The invention also proposes a method for operating the network node. Different network transport protocols are ...

09/22/05 - 20050207433 - Video communication systems and methods
Video communications systems and methods video communications between user terminals in networks that are separated by a firewall. A first user terminal establishes a persistent connection with its proxy that is on the other side of a firewall protecting the terminal. Other terminals can conduct video calls or conferences with ...

09/22/05 - 20050207432 - Internet protocol (ip) phone with search and advertising capability
A software platform in an Internet Protocol (IP) phone having the ability to be used with different communication infrastructures such as broadband, wireless communication and Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) service. Further, the software platform in the IP phone has the ability to be used with different applications operating on ...

09/22/05 - 20050207431 - Ip telephony method and ip telephone system
An IP telephony method facilitating transferring an IP telephony communication inside a LAN is realized. A telephone conversation takes place between a first IP telephone terminal and a conversation partner's IP telephone terminal through a router and a proxy. The proxy relays the telephone conversation by referring to a proxy ...

09/22/05 - 20050207430 - Recording-and-reproducing apparatus, information transfer-and-management method, and recording medium
A software program of a flash memory loaded into an IC recorder is read and executed by a PC connected to the IC recorder via an external interface and an input-and-output end, so that an information signal, such as audio data held by the PC, is transferred from the PC ...

09/22/05 - 20050207429 - Home agent duplication method and home agent duplication apparatus
A method for duplicating a home agent including an address correspondence maintaining unit for maintaining a destination address of a mobile terminal in correspondence with a home address of the mobile terminal, and a transferring unit for encapsulating an IP packet addressed to the home address of the mobile terminal ...

09/22/05 - 20050207428 - Linearly expandable broadcast router apparatus
A linearly expandable router is comprised of first, second, third and fourth router components. First, second and third discrete links couple an input side of a routing engine of the first router component (102) to an input side of a routing engine of the second, third and fourth router components. ...

09/15/05 - 20050201397 - Systems and methods for monitoring conditions
Systems and methods for monitoring conditions are provided. A system can comprise a plurality of wireless transmitters and a plurality of repeaters. At least one wireless transmitter can be integrated into an alarm. The repeaters can be dispersed throughout a region at defined locations. The system can also include a ...

09/15/05 - 20050201396 - Separation of data and control in a switching device
A method and apparatus for switching a data packet between a source and destination in a network. The data packet includes a header portion and a data portion. The header portion includes routing information for the data packet. The method includes defining a data path in the router comprising a ...

09/15/05 - 20050201395 - Autodetection of routing protocol version and type for dial on demand links
Method and system to automatically configure network devices with respect to the routing protocol versions and types of each device on a link are provided. In one embodiment, a packet is received from a first network device to a second network device. The first and second network devices are connected ...

09/15/05 - 20050201394 - Storage gateway and data backup method therefor
A storage gateway (2) includes: a media card reader (23) for reading data from an external media card (25); a storage device (20) for storing the data read from the media card; a data folder (200) for storing a plurality of subfolders (2000), the subfolders being for storing card IDs ...

09/15/05 - 20050201393 - Server apparatus, network-based appliance, and program product
An object of the present invention is to set a wireless LAN communication parameter with respect to an appliance connected to an in-home network smoothly and easily. Prior to purchasing an appliance, a user registers an in-home network in a center server, and receives a user ID and an e-mail ...

09/15/05 - 20050201392 - Intermediary content gateway system and method
A system for enabling exchange of content over a communications network is disclosed having a first category of users comprising wireless carriers and a second category of users comprising content providers. A content gateway platform is provided having a database for storage of content. The content providers supply content to ...

09/15/05 - 20050201391 - Network address translation router and related method
A network address translation (NAT)-enabled device such as a router or gateway device includes a NAT facility for connecting at least two hosts inside a first network to a second network allowing the inside hosts to share an address of the second network, a gateway interface for connecting to a ...

09/08/05 - 20050195842 - Federated multiprotocol communication
Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in distributed communication systems comprising a plurality of communication protocols. In one embodiment a first air interface is used to initiate communication between a wireless client and a remote server at least partially using a first wireless access point. The server ...

09/08/05 - 20050195841 - Federated multiprotocol communication
Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in distributed communication systems comprising a plurality of communication protocols. In one embodiment a first air interface is used to initiate communication between a wireless client and a remote server at least partially using a first wireless access point. The server ...

09/08/05 - 20050195840 - Method and system for preventing denial of service attacks in a network
Leaky bucket state machines police packets and throttle packets of a stream or streams that are flowing from hosts towards the processor of a switch or router of a network. The throttling is performed by measuring and analyzing the actual flow rate(s) of the streams' packets. The actual flow rate(s) ...

09/08/05 - 20050195839 - Universal naming scheme for peer-to-peer resources
Peer devices register with a resource locator service so that the peer devices can be uniquely identified in a networking environment. An addressing scheme addresses a peer resource in the networking environment based on the unique identifier of a peer device that is a master publisher of the resource. Based ...

09/08/05 - 20050195838 - Universal naming scheme for peer-to-peer resources
Peer devices register with a resource locator service so that the peer devices can be uniquely identified in a networking environment. An addressing scheme addresses a peer resource in the networking environment based on the unique identifier of a peer device that is a master publisher of the resource. Based ...

09/08/05 - 20050195837 - Image-taking control apparatus and notification method
An image-taking control apparatus is provided which transmits an image taken by an image-taking device to a communication terminal via the Internet, including a settings memory, a control device, and a communication device. ...

09/08/05 - 20050195836 - Packet redirection and message stream management
A stream manager provides a way of redirecting and managing messaging and information access in a packet network environment. The stream manager is linked to a packet network, such as the Internet. The stream manager receives over the packet network a message from a user's host server initiated by a ...

09/08/05 - 20050195835 - Router configured for outputting update messages specifying a detected attribute change of a connected active path according to a prescribed routing protocol
A first router is configured for monitoring prescribed attributes of an active path connected to the first router, and supplying an update message to a second router, according to a prescribed routing protocol such as Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), that specifies a detected change by the first router ...

09/01/05 - 20050190777 - Simultaneous multiple channel receiver
A simultaneous multiple channel receiver (“SMCR”) for receiving a combined signal having a plurality of carrier signals, where each carrier signal in the plurality of carriers signals corresponds to a frequency channel, and in response, simultaneously producing a plurality of output data stream signals, is disclosed. The SMCR may include ...

09/01/05 - 20050190776 - Distributed wireless packet assembly
Distributed assembly of data packets into messages at a group of interface devices that receive data packets from within a coverage area. Each interface device in the group will take ownership of a sequence of data packets forming a message when a data packet of the message meeting predetermined criteria ...

09/01/05 - 20050190775 - System and method for establishing service access relations
An access system (ACC1) for relating communication service providers (SP1-SPn) and application service providers (AS) to users (U11-Um1) includes an edge access server (EAS) connecting the service providers and penults (P1-Pk) connecting the users. User devices (UD11-UD14) are connected via VLAN:s to user port (UP11) on the penult. Service agents ...

08/25/05 - 20050185661 - Service access gateway
A gateway (1) interfaces between application providers (APs, (4)) and at least one aggregate AP (3) which in turn is linked to multiple APs (4). The gateway (1) manages cascading of access control rights by the APs (4) to reflect links via aggregate APs (3). On the other side the ...

08/25/05 - 20050185660 - Device detection and service discovery system and method for a mobile ad hoc communications network
A system and method of performing device detection and service discovery in a mobile ad hoc communications network, each network node storing a local application directory. One of the network nodes is selected to be a directory server node that stores a combined application directory. The directory server node sends ...

08/25/05 - 20050185659 - Containerized cargo/high value asset tracking method, device and system
A cargo, containerized cargo, high value asset monitoring and tracking communication system including a local area network (LAN) transmitter that transmits a first message having a first frequency spectrum, and a wide area network (WAN) uplink device that receives the first message from the local area network radio transmitter, whereby ...

08/25/05 - 20050185658 - Gateway apparatus connected to a plurality of networks forming respective different network segments, and program and method for transferring ip packets
A gateway apparatus has a first IP address for the first network and a second IP address for the second network. The gateway apparatus includes: an information provision unit for receiving, from a second apparatus having a third IP address over the first network, a first IP packet representative of ...

08/25/05 - 20050185657 - Methods and apparatus for managing voice over ip telephony
Methods and apparatus are provided for: obtaining information at an administrative entity concerning one or more voice-over-Internet (VOI) calls gathered at one or more session controllers operatively coupled between one or more packet switched networks and one or more public switched telephone networks; analyzing the information to determine whether any ...

08/18/05 - 20050180440 - Method of transporting a multipoint stream in a local area network and device for connection implementing the method
Within the framework of a wireless local area network, the reliability of the transporting of the multicast streams is not enhanced by an acknowledgement of receipt mechanism. To improve this reliability the invention proposes a method of transporting packets transmitted in multicast mode by a device for connection between a ...

08/18/05 - 20050180439 - Network system, terminal setting method, address resolving server, and client terminal
An RARP server receives ARP requests that application servers send when they get started. The RARP server records MAC addresses and IP addresses of the application servers. Thereafter, when a client terminal tries to execute an application and needs to access an application server, if the client terminal does not ...

08/18/05 - 20050180438 - Setting timers of a router
A method and apparatus and a program storage device, readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine performs a method including: receiving an update message at a router, the update message including a timer value from at least one other router according to a ...

08/18/05 - 20050180437 - Connecting ethernet based system on a chip integrated circuits in a ring topology
A plurality of System On a Chip (SOC) integrated circuits, a media that intercouples the plurality of SOC integrated circuits to form at least one SOC LAN ring, and a routing address scheme. Each SOC integrated circuit includes at least one processor, a system bus, a memory controller, at least ...

08/18/05 - 20050180436 - Network system integrated with sip call server and sip agent client
A network system integrated with SIP call server and SIP agent client. The network system is provided between a local device and a network for connecting with at least one remote device. The network system includes: at least one local connecting port for coupling with the local device; a remote ...

08/18/05 - 20050180435 - Routing protocol device integrated with sip call server
A routing protocol device integrated with SIP call server. The routing protocol device is provided between a first and a second network systems. The SIP call server is a Session Initiation Protocol architecture which can be coupled with plurality remote SIP agent client devices. The routing protocol device includes a ...

08/18/05 - 20050180434 - Generic support of telephony supplementary services for voice over internet protocol
A Voice Over Internet Protocol gateway support of supplementary services in a communication system. In one embodiment, a gateway includes a main state machine that is adapted to process a plurality of different type supplemental services with a single process. ...

08/11/05 - 20050175022 - Bridge apparatus and logical queue control method
A bridge apparatus is provided, which apparatus includes a tag attaching mechanism for attaching a plurality of VLAN tags to a frame, a queue configured to store the frame according to the VLAN tags attached thereto, and a read control unit configured to control a read rate for reading the ...

08/11/05 - 20050175021 - Dynamic contact list management system and method
A dynamic contact list management (DCLM) method and system operable in a communications network environment. In one embodiment, upon receiving a communication request from an originating party over a first network towards a networked party, a query is generated for determining and locating an IM address associated with the originating ...

08/04/05 - 20050169288 - Secure virtual private network
A gateway apparatus (100) is capable of connecting to an internal network (10) and an external network (50), and includes an information management unit (120) for managing a global IP address of the gateway apparatus and identification information for a device to be permitted to connect to the internal network. ...

08/04/05 - 20050169287 - Method for data transfer in a multi-standard network
The invention provides a method for data transfer in a multiple-standard network, wherein the network comprises a physical gateway (4), a sophisticated gateway (1), and a device (6). The device (6) and the physical gateway (4) are connected via a first connection (8) of a first non-IP physical data transfer ...

08/04/05 - 20050169286 - Distributed finite state machine
A method, a router and a switching element card for providing a rate limiting mechanism in the router. Upon reception of a packet stream from a forwarding element card of the router at a first rate, it is determined that the packet stream is to be forwarded to a further ...

08/04/05 - 20050169285 - Stateful push notifications
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for forming a push notification and pushing the push notification and client state information to a client device is provided. In addition, a method for processing the push notification and client state information is provided. In one embodiment, processing may include ...

08/04/05 - 20050169284 - Method and system for managing a network having an hsrp group
An exemplary method for monitoring status of a Hot Standby Routing Protocol group of routers includes, for each network interface of each router in the group, monitoring changes in a status of the network interface, and based on the monitored changes, determining a status of the group. ...

08/04/05 - 20050169283 - Internet access through conventional telephones
A method of providing real-time Internet access to a caller using only a standard telephone and plain old telephone service. The method includes receiving at a local switch a destination number representing a request for Internet access from the caller; routing the call to an Internet server for providing the ...

08/04/05 - 20050169282 - Data traffic filtering indicator
Disclosed are a method and bi-directional communication device, such as a cable modem, router, bridge, or other communication device adapted to communicate via a network and having a firewall, for identifying those packets associated with inappropriate activity. The communication device includes at least one user discernable indicator associated with the ...

07/28/05 - 20050163136 - Multi-tenant self-service vxml portal
A multi-tenant voice extensible markup language (VXML) voice system includes a voice portal connected to at least one telephony network; a voice application server integrated with the voice portal; and a multi-tenant configuration application integrated with the voice application server, the configuration application accessible to the tenants from a data ...

07/28/05 - 20050163135 - Method for improving peer to peer network communication
The present invention relates to an improvement-node used for deployment on a peer to peer network. The improvement-node is programmed for monitoring the network to receive communication messages there from and to forward said communication messages, optionally changing the communications radius parameters to an optimal or near optimal value. The ...

07/28/05 - 20050163134 - Router supporting network mobility over nested mobile network and a method for tunneling thereof
A router supporting network mobility over a nested mobile network environment, including: a first interface for data communication with an external node; a second interface for data communication with an internal node; and a controller for controlling routing through at least one of the first and second interfaces, obtaining an ...

07/21/05 - 20050157733 - Automatic compiling of address filter information
Automatic compilation of address filter information permits a cable modem to route incoming data packets to destination devices. A cable modem uses address filter information, such as for example, a list of addresses of communication devices that have previously registered with the cable modem, to identify incoming data packets that ...

07/21/05 - 20050157732 - Method and apparatus for emulating ethernet functionality over a serial bus
Applications can transparently use a bus, such as the IEEE-1394 serial bus, as if it were an Ethernet (IEEE 802.3). In a conventional Ethernet, each node is assigned a unique 6-byte MAC address in order to receive frames addressed to it over the LAN. According to the invention, IEEE-1394 bus ...

07/21/05 - 20050157731 - Ip acd using sip format
A method and apparatus are provided for distributing Internet calls by an automatic contact distributor. The method includes the steps of receiving a Session Initiation Protocol INVITE by the automatic contact distributor that identifies an Internet call to be established with a client, selecting an agent to handle the Internet ...

07/21/05 - 20050157730 - Configuration management for transparent gateways in heterogeneous storage networks
A gateway having a first port coupled to a first network and a second port coupled to a second network. Processes are implemented within the gateway for identifying at least one service provided by the first network that is not provided by the second network. Processes are also implemented within ...

07/14/05 - 20050152381 - Network connecting system and method for data transmission in wireless personal area network
In a communication system having at least two piconets, each having at least one device communicating using a single radio resource and a piconet coordinator controlling the device, a connecting method for communications amongst the device and the piconet coordinators of the other piconets. A router device, which is located ...

07/14/05 - 20050152380 - Apparatus and method for sharing services on a network
An apparatus and method for sharing services on a network wherein a role is decided for sharing services so that the services can be shared between OSGi service platforms of devices operating on a desired network using a desired election algorithm. The apparatus for sharing the services on the network ...

07/07/05 - 20050147109 - Gateway for coupling of passive and active networks
f. means (106, 108) for forwarding the equivalent protocol message to the passive network. ...

07/07/05 - 20050147108 - Communication device , communication method, recording medium and program
The present invention relates to a telecommunications apparatus and a method, a storage medium, and a program for determining whether or not the other side communicating content data is located on a LAN or across a WAN. In step S13, the difference between a counter value in a received check ...

06/30/05 - 20050141532 - Universal naming scheme for peer-to-peer resources
Peer devices register with a resource locator service so that the peer devices can be uniquely identified in a networking environment. An addressing scheme addresses a peer resource in the networking environment based on the unique identifier of a peer device that is a master publisher of the resource. Based ...

06/30/05 - 20050141531 - Communication relay method and relay device
A method for handling data packets in a relay device that is provided in a network comprises receiving a data packet including a packet header and packet data from a first client, the data packet identifying a second client to which the data packet is to be directed, the packet ...

06/30/05 - 20050141530 - Communication apparatus
An internal terminal that connects to a DNS server, the server storing and managing a telephone number and an external NAPTR record, the internal terminal including a terminal communication controller that accesses the DNS server and notifies the DNS server of a telephone number for an inquiry; a terminal-side controller ...

06/30/05 - 20050141529 - Communication apparatus and communication system
A communication system includes a communication apparatus having memory, telephone controller, voice processor, network interface, display drive, and key interface. The communication system also includes a door intercom home apparatus, a door intercom with a camera, a TV, a video recorder, and a home gateway. The communication apparatus executes voice ...

06/30/05 - 20050141528 - Media gateway and automatic telephone call redirecting service system
A media gateway built in an exchange comprises a media gateway control unit connected to a control unit of the exchange, a first protocol processing unit for executing a call connection procedure according to a first call control protocol with an IP call connection controller on the IP network, and ...

06/30/05 - 20050141527 - Method, system, and devices for transmitting information between a user equipment and an ip packet gateway
A method, a system, and network elements for transmitting information between a user equipment and an IP packet gateway, are disclosed, the IP packet gateway communicating with an IP network via an interface, wherein, when the UE is requesting at least one service requiring access to the IP network, authorization ...

06/30/05 - 20050141526 - Spanning tree protection using dual switches for lan service over sonet
According to the present invention, a LAN bridge connection scheme is used to connect each LAN service port (LSP) to two ethernet switch ports (ESP) of separate ethernet switches. The basic unit of the scheme is a three port LAN bridge that comprises a LSP and two ESPs. This structure ...

06/30/05 - 20050141525 - Device and method for intermediation between service providers and their users
An intermediation apparatus is designed to interconnect at least one service provider and at least one user by using a non-Internet channel. The apparatus includes an intelligent connection management unit for recognizing an incoming protocol and for selecting an outgoing protocol and an outgoing communications channel by referring to databases. ...

06/23/05 - 20050135392 - Method and system for connection verification
The present invention provides a method and system for connection verification. An embodiment includes a DSL based system, with a tester resident at a central office respective to a DSLAM. When a problem is encountered by a subscriber, the tester can be readily connected to the DSLAM to allow performance ...

06/23/05 - 20050135391 - Apparatus and method for providing voip service
An apparatus and method for providing VoIP service, where, in the case that a plurality of public IP terminals or PCs are connected to a private network using a public IP address, a switching system manages port information which is used by each of the IP terminals, switches a VoIP ...

06/23/05 - 20050135390 - High data rate interface with improved link control
A data Interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit, ...

06/23/05 - 20050135389 - Session control in a communication system
In a communication system, a communication session can be arranged by means of a node and a gateway. Control parameters are commonly signalled for the communication session from the node to the gateway. In the method the gateway is provided with information about the capabilities of the node. A decision ...

06/23/05 - 20050135388 - Control of terminal applications in a network environment
a mechanism and method for controlling the rights and/or behavior of applications in a terminal, especially in a mobile terminal, are disclosed. At least some of the messages generated by an application residing in the terminal and destined for a communication network are diverted to an independent controlling entity also ...

06/23/05 - 20050135387 - Modular gateway
A gateway includes a plurality of gateway modules, coupled together for servicing communication among all of the ports coupled to any of the modules. The number of ports serviced may be increased by adding a gateway module with a minimum of physical and operational configuration changes to the existing gateway ...

06/23/05 - 20050135386 - Interface call signaling protocol
A third generation (3G) gateway (30) provides the facilities for extending a number of internet protocols (40, 64, 74, 83, 100, 110, 120 and 130) between a second generation (2G) network and a 3G network. The various messages of a session initiation protocol (SIP) are extended to provide user identification ...

06/23/05 - 20050135385 - Method and apparatus for digital cross connect
A digital cross connect includes a first transport switch that grooms inbound traffic for at least one local switch and a second transport switch that grooms outbound traffic for the local switch(es). The transport switches may operate independently. The local switch(es) may be protocol switches. The digital cross connect may ...

06/16/05 - 20050129036 - Packet communication terminal
The present invention discloses a communication terminal included in a network system in which a plurality of communication terminals are connected to a single transmission medium. A priority information acquisition section 11 acquires priority information contained in a currently transmitting packet. A priority determination section 13 determines, based on priority ...

06/16/05 - 20050129035 - Service processor gateway system and appliance
A system for physically consolidating and securing access to service processors and management modules in computer, telecommunication and networking equipment is provided that isolates the management ports from the data network. The system converts low-level management protocols into higher-level network protocols suitable for secure transport over the data network. The ...

06/16/05 - 20050129034 - Cooperation information managing apparatus and gateway apparatus for use in cooperation information managing system
In a system including a first unit retaining a first identifier and a second unit retaining a second identifier for reading out the first identifier from the first unit to transmit, as cooperation information, a combination of the first identifier and the second identifier, for managing the cooperation information, a ...

06/16/05 - 20050129033 - Network tap for use with multiple attached devices
A network tap for enabling attached devices, such as an intrusion detection system, to transmit information into a communication line of the network without disrupting the network traffic on the communication line. When the attached device is an intrusion detection device, the network tap is connected to a firewall. An ...

06/09/05 - 20050122985 - Method and apparatus for throttling audio packets according to gateway processing capacity
Rather than dropping packets, the invention throttles the rate that audio packets are output from a voice gateway by increasing the VoIP packet size. An encoder in the voice gateway encodes audio signals into audio packets. A processor in the voice gateway then switches the audio packets to the IP ...

06/09/05 - 20050122984 - Roaming communication system over internet
A roaming communication system includes a first local telephone system, a first communication module connected to the first local telephone system and connected to the Internet through a first dynamic IP address, a second local telephone system, and a second communication module connected to the second local telephone system and ...

06/02/05 - 20050117597 - Clusters of devices, softwares and methods for improved handling of a gatekeeper load in voip communication
A cluster of alternate gatekeepers handles the load of a single logical zone. The alternate gatekeepers exchange signals among each other according to a special cluster protocol. Each alternate gatekeeper may be connected and exchange signals with endpoint devices. ...

06/02/05 - 20050117596 - Communication method and system for the transmission of time-driven and event-driven ethernet messages
The invention relates to a communication method for transmitting Ethernet messages in a distributed real-time system in which a plurality of network node computers, e.g. four network node computers (111, 112, 113, 114), each comprising at least one communication controller (121, 122, 123, 124), are linked via a communication system ...

06/02/05 - 20050117595 - Method for performing network services
The methods of the present invention enable wireless gateway nodes to support mobile node services, such as content based billing, when a data treatment server is present in the system. Using one of a defined Content Flow Label (CFL), an Application Program Interface (API), and a compression protocol header, the ...

06/02/05 - 20050117594 - Modem pass-through panacea for voice gateways
A first gateway is provided for establishing a communicating path for a user placing a call on a communication line. The first gateway has a plurality of modes of operation, including a data mode and a voice mode, wherein the first gateway is configured differently for each of the modes ...

06/02/05 - 20050117593 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing a data communications network
A method is disclosed for synchronizing a data communications network. The data communications network comprises a plurality of existing nodes forming one or more synchronization domains and a node entering the network. Each existing node in a synchronization domain stores a common representation of the synchronization domain and is configured ...

06/02/05 - 20050117592 - Router device and label switched path control method using upstream initiated aggregation
A router device and a label switched path control method capable of reducing the number of label switched paths to be set up by using an upstream initiated procedure in which the label allocation starts from an ingress router are disclosed. In the router device, a router identification information of ...

06/02/05 - 20050117591 - Address de-registration from ip multimedia networks
According to one aspect, a communication network system comprising at least one first network and at least one second network providing application services over the first network is described. The system comprises first network means (GGSN) for receiving a message associated with an IP address allocated by the first network ...

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