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Multiplex Communications > Channel Assignment Techniques Channel Assignment TechniquesChannel Assignment Techniques 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.09/27/07 - 20070223508 - Method and apparatus to provide fair spectrum sharing in multiple physical transmission rate wireless systems A method of providing spectrum allocation fairness in a wireless network includes providing an unlicensed communication spectrum. The method also includes co-locating a plurality of wireless systems (101, 102, 103), wherein at least two of the subsystems have different bandwidth requirements and channel capacities. In addition, the method includes determining ... 09/20/07 - 20070217440 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving broadcast channels in cellular communication systems supporting scalable bandwidth Provided is a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving a Broadcast Channel (BCH), by which a User Equipment (UE) can successfully receive system information of neighboring cells in a system supporting the scalability of a UE reception bandwidth and a system bandwidth. The method includes identifying a system bandwidth of ... 09/13/07 - 20070211744 - Method and system for streamlined call setup A method (300) and communication device (106) capable of streamlining call setups to a wireless mobile unit (102) may include a transceiver (520) and a controller (502). In various embodiments of the invention, the controller detects (302) a modified request for a communication resource, optionally monitors (304) a communication system ... 09/13/07 - 20070211743 - Allocating processing resources for multiple instances of a software component Methods and corresponding systems for allocating processing resources for a number of instances (N) of a software component include determining an average processing cost (μ) and a variance (σ2) for the software component. Then a processing cost for the software component is estimated as a function of N, the average ... 09/06/07 - 20070206623 - Combining grant, acknowledgement, and rate control commands Embodiments disclosed herein address the need in the art for reduced overhead control with the ability to adjust transmission rates as necessary. In one aspect, a first signal indicates an acknowledgement of a decoded subpacket and whether or not a rate control command is generated, and a second signal conditionally ... 07/19/07 - 20070165664 - Chime-in protocol for channel access A network of stations uses bandwidth assigned to primary users on a secondary user basis. The stations having a status of needing to send information indicate a need for transmission access by transmitting, simultaneously with transmissions indicating a need for transmission access from other stations of the network, an indication ... 06/28/07 - 20070147410 - Detecting wireless devices to inform about a quiet period A wireless device is detected. A signal is received via a wireless medium. The received signal is processed to detect a wireless device, if any, to communicate with regarding a quiet period. During the quiet period, wireless devices that are aware of the quiet period refrain from transmitting, and the ... 06/28/07 - 20070147409 - Optimized method for multiplexing digital data Provided are apparatuses and methods for identifying unused bandwidth in portions of a time slice frame that are allocated to carrying elementary service burst data and related overhead data, and using that unused bandwidth for the transmission of additional data. The unused portions may be aggregated and subdivided into unused ... 06/14/07 - 20070133588 - Scheduling apparatus and method in channel bonding transmission system Provided is a scheduling apparatus and method in a channel bonding transmission system. The apparatus includes: a downstream service identifier storing unit for storing information related to a downstream service identifier (DSID); a packet transmitting unit for transmitting a packet inputted from outside; a packet classifying unit for analyzing the ... 04/05/07 - 20070076738 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for resource migration in a distributed telecommunication system A system, method, and computer-readable medium for resource migration in a distributed telecommunication system is provided. Respective sets of performance parameters of a first plurality of nodes disposed in a first node group and a second plurality of nodes in a second node group are collected. Service capabilities of the ... 03/08/07 - 20070053374 - Multi-service communication system A network card of a rack system. The card includes a bus interface adapted to connect to a backplane bus of the rack system, a data interface adapted to transmit data signals through the bus interface onto the backplane bus and a controller adapted to periodically generate bandwidth allocation signals ... 02/15/07 - 20070036170 - Collision avoidance in multiple protocol communication networks using a shared communication medium A method for collision avoidance in multiple protocol networks using a shared communication medium begins by determining a first protocol probable active time period. The method continues by determining a first protocol probable inactive time period. The method continues by generating a transmit blocking indication based on the first protocol ... 02/01/07 - 20070025382 - System of virtual data channels in an integrated circuit This disclosure relates to a system of communicating, data within an integrated circuit. Multiple components, or channels, can share common physical communication lines between elements within the system. In some aspect, only one component can access the physical lines at a given time and a selection device chooses which component ... 02/01/07 - 20070025381 - Method and apparatus for allocating processing in a network In a method and apparatus for allocating processing in a network, a processing request is received. It is determined if a first processing node in the network is capable of handling the processing request. If the first processing node is incapable of handling the processing request alone, one or more ... 01/25/07 - 20070019662 - Heuristic assignment of light-trails in an optical network A method for assigning a light-trail in an optical network includes identifying unassigned traffic flows in the network that require assignment to a light-trail, where each traffic flow is communicated from an associated source node to an associated destination node. The method also includes identifying which unassigned traffic flow includes ... 01/18/07 - 20070014304 - Ethernet adapter An Ethernet adapter is electrically connected between a power line and an Internet apparatus. The Ethernet adapter includes a power converter and a data transmission processor. The power converter is electrically connected to the power line for converting power provided by the power line and outputting a converted result to ... 01/04/07 - 20070002884 - Usage of multiple ssids for doing fast wlan network discovery The invention proposes a method for scanning an access network, comprising the steps of sending a plurality of probe requests directed to access networks within a first time period, waiting for responses to the plurality of requests within a second time period following the first time period, and detecting the ... 11/30/06 - 20060268916 - Reliable short messaging service Methods and apparatus are provided for communicating messages between a message transmission architecture and a vehicle. The method comprises transmitting a short message service (SMS) message intended for a vehicle-based receiver and monitoring for an acknowledgement (ACK) message generated in response to the SMS message. The ACK message indicating receipt ... 11/16/06 - 20060256806 - Transmission rate control method and mobile station A transmission rate control method, includes: transmitting, at a radio base station, a relative rate grant channel which includes a command for controlling a transmission rate in uplink to a mobile station; and determining, at the mobile station, that the relative rate grant channel which includes a HOLD command for ... 11/16/06 - 20060256805 - Adaptive feedback method for cellular communication In an adaptive feedback method for a cellular communication system having plural terminals feeding back channel information to an access point, the system selects one of an opportunistic mode and a polling mode as a feedback mode between an access point and the terminals on the basis of system and ... 11/09/06 - 20060251097 - Downstream channel change technique implemented in an access network A dynamic channel change technique is disclosed which may be implemented between nodes and a Head End of an access network. Initially a network device may communicate with the Head End via a first downstream channel and a first upstream channel. When the network device receives a dynamic channel change ... 09/21/06 - 20060209869 - Determining data amounts for scheduled and autonomous transmission with a user equipment A method includes (1) receiving with a user equipment (UE) information related to an allowed power for autonomous transmission on at least one logical channel mapped to an uplink channel, the uplink channel being set up with a base station and dedicated for packet data transmission, (2) determining, with the ... 09/14/06 - 20060203836 - Method and system for parsing bits in an interleaver for adaptive modulations in a multiple input multiple output (mimo) wireless local area network (wlan) system Aspects of a method and system for parsing bits in an interleaver for adaptive modulations in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless local area network (WLAN) system are provided. The interleaver may assign at least one binary bit of information, among a plurality of binary bits of information to ... 09/14/06 - 20060203835 - Using channel concepts to control computer networking Described is a system and method that use the concept of channels by which computer users select an appropriate set of network settings maintained in the computer system for a particular network. Upon selection, the corresponding settings are automatically applied by the system. A channel manager manages sets of network ... 08/31/06 - 20060193336 - Local area network above cable television methods and devices A method and apparatus for modifying a cable network to create a local area network is disclosed. By employing a communications modem configured to transmit first communication signals over one or more coaxial cables using a first allocated spectrum designed to avoid contention with ongoing upstream television control signals, an ... 08/10/06 - 20060176895 - Data delivery pipeline optimized by cell-based data cascade technology A data delivery pipeline in accordance with the invention combines client-server and peer-to-peer solutions together. All data displaying entities are separated into cells. Each cell consists of retransmitting entities and servent entities. Servent entities receive data only from in-cell retransmitting entities or other in-cell entities. In one embodiment data is ... 07/20/06 - 20060159116 - Facility management platform for a hybrid coaxial/twisted pair local loop network service architecture The present invention provides a facility management platform to monitor and view the status of a plurality of individually addressable downstream devices including, but not limited to, addressable terminals, IRG's, settops, cable modems, taps, nodes, and/or hubs at a network control center. The FMP may display problems at these downstream ... 07/13/06 - 20060153218 - Channel assignment method for optical burst switching (obs) network A method for efficiently allocating incoming burst data to output channels over an optical burst switching network when the number of incoming channels is greater than the number of outgoing channels. To this end, BD transferred on at least two incoming channels are grouped to BDs that do not block ... 07/06/06 - 20060146856 - Adaptive subchannel and bit allocation method using partial channel information feedback in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication system An adaptive subchannel and bit allocation method in a wireless communication system. A mobile station analyzes channel quality information of a subchannel at a predetermined period and determines a feedback band index with a maximum decision criterion. The mobile station feeds back the determined feedback band index with the maximum ... 06/22/06 - 20060133403 - Radio resource allocation system for packet data service and allocation method thereof A system connected to a mobile station through a network and allocating a radio source to the mobile station for packet data service, the system including a base station connected to the mobile station through a wireless network, and having a physical layer connected to the mobile station through a ... 06/22/06 - 20060133402 - Data transmission method The invention relates to a method for transmitting data between a transmitter and a receiver via a wireless data channel of a communication network (CN). The transmitter transmits data to the receiver, where the transmission includes at least one transmission parameter which is selected based on a first channel quality ... 06/08/06 - 20060120395 - Method and system for switching antenna and channel assignments in broadband wireless networks A method and apparatus for antenna switching, grouping, and channel assignments in wireless communication systems. The invention allows multiuser diversity to be exploited with simple antenna operations, therefore increasing the capacity and performance of wireless communications systems. Channel characteristics indicative of signal reception quality for downlink or bi-directional traffic for ... 06/01/06 - 20060114925 - Interference control in a broadband powerline communication system A broadband powerline communication system is disclosed which makes use of knowledge of the spectrum characteristics of a local radio environment in order to improve the performance of the system. A determination is made of the spectrum characteristics of a radio environment in the vicinity of the broadband powerline communication ... 04/06/06 - 20060072602 - Method and apparatus for least congested channel scan for wireless access points Methods and apparatus for choosing the least congested channel by a communications device in a multi-channel wireless communications system are disclosed. A wireless device, such as a base station or access point, is preferably configured to determine how many wireless client devices are associated with each of the channels of ... 03/30/06 - 20060067352 - Method and apparatus for providing a virtual assistant to a communication participant Methods and apparatus are disclosed for providing a virtual assistant to at least one party of a communication. The virtual assistant is injected into the communication, for example, by a VXML engine. The operation of the virtual assistant is controlled by one or more software modules that are obtained from ... 03/23/06 - 20060062236 - Method and apparatus for efficient bandwidth utilization for subscriber unit initialization and synchronization in a time-synchronized communication system A bandwidth efficient subscriber unit initialization and synchronization method and apparatus is described. The inventive subscriber unit initialization and synchronization method and apparatus uses a combination of an access burst format and a data transportation technique to efficiently use bandwidth when initializing and synchronizing subscriber units in a time-synchronized communication ... 03/23/06 - 20060062235 - Apparatus and methods for modified bluetooth® discovery and link establishment in presence of wireless local area network In an apparatus having both a first communication module of a first communication type and a second communication module of a second communication type, initiating a reaction of the first module to an activity of the second module over a particular communication channel if the first module is about to ... 03/16/06 - 20060056438 - Multi-channel wireless remote control system A multi-channel wireless remote control system, which has N (an integer greater than one) wireless receiving devices and N (an integer greater than one) wireless transmitting devices. The N wireless transmitting devices corresponds to the N wireless receiving devices. The N wireless transmitting devices transmit frames to the respective N ... 03/09/06 - 20060050725 - Least used channel wavelength scheduling in apson A wavelength to be utilized to transfer a data flow amongst different wavelengths available to an adaptive path switched optical network is determined. A measure of average traffic intensity on a particular wavelength is determined. A breakable connection, a connection that is currently transmitting unprotected data packets on a wavelength ... 03/02/06 - 20060045114 - Apparatus, and associated method, for asynchronously pre-reserving channel to effectuate an interactive packet communication service in a radio communication system Apparatus, and an associated method, is provided to facilitate communications pursuant to an interactive packet radio communication service, such as an interactive gaming service. When data is to be communicated by a gaming device, or other mobile node, request for channel allocation is made. And, packet data generated at the ... 03/02/06 - 20060045113 - Method for establishing high-reliability wireless connectivity to mobile devices using multi channel radios A method of using a high throughput multi-channel wireless network client apparatus, comprising running a driver software on an intelligence unit, running a firmware code on a multi-channel radio unit, scanning a network environment for available channels, generating a list of available access points in said network environment, choosing a ... 02/23/06 - 20060039397 - Sagacious routing engine, method of routing and a communications network employing the same The present invention provides a sagacious routing engine for use with a session initiation protocol (SIP) call. In one embodiment, the sagacious routing engine includes a request manager configured to receive a routing request for an integrated routing target set for the SIP call within a network. Additionally, the sagacious ... 02/09/06 - 20060029091 - Method and apparatus for safe switching of an automation bus system The invention provides a method for operation of an automation system having at least one bus system connected to at least one subscriber, and having a central control system. The method includes parameterizing and/or programming the at least one bus subscriber by the central control device, identifying an interruption in ... 12/29/05 - 20050286545 - Wireless communications system including an originator base station capable of notifying of channel resource reservation status A wireless communications system including a network application server; and a base station to receive an expedited request packet from a subscriber unit by way of a radio frequency interface, attempt to reserve channel resources for a traffic channel to communicate with the subscriber unit, and notify the network application ... 12/01/05 - 20050265372 - Method for communication in coordinator-based wireless network and method for communication between coordinator-based wireless networks connected through backbone network A method for communication between first and second coordinator-based wireless networks connected through a backbone network is provided. The method includes receiving a frame indicating data transmission containing information needed for remote channel time allocation (CTA) from a repeater connecting the second coordinator-based wireless network with the backbone network, sending ... 11/17/05 - 20050254510 - Session establishment for real-time media communication service A solution for establishing a session of a real-time media communication service in a communication system comprising at least two separately administered subsystems. The session establishment comprises receiving a request for session initiation, querying subscriber information related to the requested session, and initiating the session according to the queried subscriber ... 10/27/05 - 20050238040 - Distributed trunking mechanism for vhf networking A system and method for communicating between nodes in a communications network. The network includes nodes that broadcast and receive data packets over a radio channel. The system includes a distributed trunking method that distributes the communications between the nodes over multiple channels. Voice and other data may be broadcast ... 10/27/05 - 20050238039 - Method, logic arrangement and program for assigning a primary trunk Method, logic arrangement or program employ trunking identifiers to assign primary trunking connection between a switch pair. ... 10/13/05 - 20050226264 - Ip telephone and ip adaptor When one of two IP telephones that are maintaining a call receives a TV camera connection request, the IP telephone obtains a URI of an IP TV camera service from a resource record of the opposing terminal. Then, the IP telephone delivers the URI of the IP TV camera service ... 09/29/05 - 20050213596 - Communication circuit and method Disclosed is a communication circuit, for monitoring and maintaining an interface transmission path, which is connected to an opposite communication circuit via a plurality of serial data transmission paths and includes a link establishment detector, an idle generator and a link monitoring unit. The link establishment detector detects link status, ... 08/25/05 - 20050185662 - Data transfer to nodes of a communication network using self-replicating code A method and communication network for transferring data is described. For the method, responsive to executing first code in a first node in a communication network, the first node establishes a communication channel with a second node, replicates itself to generate second code, and provides the second code to the ... 07/28/05 - 20050163144 - Assignment of channels to links of nodes within a mesh network It is the object of this invention to provide a method of increasing the data throughput of a multi-hop wireless link. A method is provided which mitigates self-interference, without precluding the use of omni-directional transceivers. Distributed protocols for channel allocations in a multi-hop wireless communication system are described. These protocols ... 07/28/05 - 20050163143 - Method, system and product for identifying, reserving, and logically provisioning resources in provisioning data processing systems A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for logically provisioning resources in a data processing system. A request for one or more resources to be provisioned in a provisioning environment is received. The requested resources may be of multiple different available types of resources. Particular instances of the ... 07/21/05 - 20050157740 - Wireless communication device, interference source estimation method and channel selection method An object of the present invention is to reduce radio wave interference between a wireless communication devices and an interference source that is present in an interference area of the wireless communication device by estimating the interference source. In order to achieve this object, the wireless communication device according to ... 07/14/05 - 20050152389 - Radio network controller and mobile communication system using the same To construct a system abundant in scalability in which the devices are increased or decreased in a minimum unit in accordance with the amount of user data to be processed by dividing the UPE (user plane control equipment) in a radio network controller into the minimum necessary functions. A MAC-d ... 07/14/05 - 20050152388 - Communication network system, and id allocating method and id setting method for communication network system When each slave ECU is powered on and activated while connected to a communication network through a harness, it reads out divided voltage potential applied by voltage dividing resistors in each ID determining signal line, and allows reception of a data packet transmitted from control ECU when a wait time ... 07/14/05 - 20050152387 - Communication method, communication apparatus, and communication system A method for exchanging channel information between a transmitter and a receiver each including antennas. A request frame including a first preamble, second preamble, and channel information feedback request is transmitted to the receiver, wherein the first preamble is transmitted from one of the antennas of the transmitter, the second ... 06/23/05 - 20050135400 - Transport channel selecting apparatus and the selecting method A transport channel selecting apparatus is provided, in which the transport channel selecting apparatus includes: a storage for storing information on combinations of transport blocks of transport channels to be transmitted to a radio base station; a transmission buffer for storing transport blocks of the transport channels; an address generation ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |