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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7944945 | Encapsulation of STM-n/STS-m frames under ethernet Apparatus (D1) is dedicated to processing STM-n/STS-m type data frames in a communications network. It comprises at least one STM-n/STS-m interface unit (LIU1) adapted to receive STM-n/STS-m type data frames from a communications network and processor ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7567563 | Methods and systems for detecting malfunctioning nodes in a telecommunication network The request for the response from the sender to the receiver is dynamically routed via a first route traversing the network nodes. Addresses of the traversed network nodes are recorded in an order of traversing in the request. A second route is determined based on t... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7564876 | 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. Accor... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7564783 | Method for assigning of channel capacity to communication links A method for assigning of channel capacity to communication links in a cellular communication system and to an access controller for controlling the access of contending terminals to channel capacity of a cellular communication system is provided. One or more traffi... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7561795 | Dynamic interlayer protection in optical telecommunication networks The present invention relates to a method for protecting an optical telecommunication network against possible failures and signal degrades, the network comprising at least two nodes; working resources and protecting resources connecting the nodes; a first protectio... | 07/14/2009 |
| RE40823 | Method for bit error rate measurements in a cell-based telecommunication system A method for bit error rate measurements in a cell-based telecommunication system is presented, comprising the following steps of generating a first bit pattern at a first location of said telecommunication system, transmitting said first bit pattern from said first... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554923 | Tandem connection activation/deactivation A method for the automatic activation and deactivation of a tandem connection (2-6) is provided responsive to receiving an activation or deactivation request. Prior to activation, received transmission signals are monitored (M) for an existing tandem c... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551855 | D(WDM) communications network employing periodic spectral multiplex processing A WDM network (R) comprises an optical fiber (F) connected to a hub (H) via an input of a demultiplexer (DX) having N outputs to communications stations (Si-Sn) able to deliver and/or receive spectral multiplexes of modulated optical signals wi... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7551630 | Router to route packets A router for routing packets in a telecommunication network is provided. The router comprises a plurality of inputs for receiving packets and a common processor coupled to the inputs for processing at least part of the packets i.e. the control packets according to o... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548530 | Radio access network and network elements for providing mobile communications services Provided are a radio access network, a distributed radio network controlling structure and a network element, each providing mobile communications services, and each having controlling elements including at least one control plane server for providing control plane ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7546040 | Fiber optical system for PMD mitigation by polarization scrambling A fiber optical system (10) for transmitting an optical signal comprises an optical fiber line (1) with a plurality of successively arranged polarization scramblers (6a to 6c) for polarization modulation of the optical signa... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545869 | Method of reducing the peak-to-average power ratio of a fourier transform-generated multi-carrier signal in transmission systems A method for reducing the peak-to-average power ratio (PAR) of a multicarrier signal in transmitter/receiver systems. The method comprises the steps of: providing, in transmission, a digital signal to be transmitted; and subjecting such a signal to be transmitted to... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545802 | Use of rtp to negotiate codec encoding technique A method for providing an optimized audio quality communication session between a near end and at least a far end telecommunications terminal requires that at least the codec of the near end telecommunications terminal is able to apply two alternative encoding techn... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545776 | Method for improving handovers in a WLAN A method of handover between two WLAN cells based on the IEEE 802.11 standard and working at two different frequencies, the method including the step of performing measurement(s) on the second frequency in order to verify the necessity or the opportunity to realise ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545744 | Method and system for fairly adjusting bandwidth among distributed network elements A method and system for fairly adjusting the bandwidth among distributed network elements (NEs). Load-balancing (LB) packets, carrying designated congestion values (CVs) are sent from each source NE to intermediate NEs along data flows routes. The intermediate NEs s... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545320 | Method and device for acquiring signals in a global navigation satellite system A method is disclosed for acquisition by navigation terminals of navigation signals broadcast by satellites of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS). A communication channel enables nearby terminals to exchange information and to constitute a network to provid... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7543492 | Vacuum line and a method of monitoring such a line The present invention provides a vacuum line for pumping gas from a process chamber, the vacuum line comprising at least: a pump unit comprising a pump body and a motor; a gas exhaust system; first... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542514 | Method and device for adaptive modulation and coding based on second order statistics of channel information The present invention discloses a method and device for adaptive modulation and coding based on second order statistics of channel information in OFDM system, characterized in that, by means of variance of Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) an appropriate adaptation time w... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539505 | Method of performing a dynamic push-to-talk service The invention concerns a method of providing a Push-to-Talk (=PTT) based communication service to subscribers of the PTT service by means of a PTT server which dynamically creates a PTT group. A requesting subscriber sends a call request message to a PTT server. The... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7535837 | Optical packet transmission A burst mode optical signal is transported as payload of a framed continuous bit-stream optical signal through an optical transport network. The optical bursts are all generated at a common nominal bitrate which equals substantially the payload bitrate of the contin... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7460530 | Subscriber card, a subscriber unit, and an exchange for concentrating internet frames A subscriber card includes a controller for concentrating Internet frames so as not to occupy a telephone circuit for each call to an Internet service provider. The subscriber card is connected to a switching matrix that facilitates transmission of the concentrated ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457318 | System comprising a terminal system, an access multiplexer and a network Systems for transmitting information from terminal systems (1) via access multiplexers (3) comprising virtual forwarder systems (5) to networks are made less complex by inserting at the terminal systems (1) virtual forwarder internet prot... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457256 | Local area network with one or more virtual groups of core equipments appropriate for layer 2 switching A local area network comprises a peripheral equipment effecting layer 2 switching and including physical link aggregation means, and first and second core equipments effecting layer 2 switching and including physical link aggregation means. The periphe... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453819 | Method for traffic engineering and ingress router adapted to perform such a method A method for engineering traffic between an ingress router and an egress router of a packet network, whereby the traffic is scheduled within the ingress router in queues pertaining to different service classes, and whereby part of the traffic follows a dedicated tun... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7448078 | Method, a portal system, a portal server, a personalized access policy server, a firewall and computer software products for dynamically granting and denying network resources The invention relates to an personalized access policy server (pAPS) C1 deriving dynamically granted resources with respect to user's grants and with respect to already accessed resources. It relates to a method for providing dynamically defined limited Inter... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447514 | Method of transmitting data in a wireless cellular telecommunication network The present invention relates to a method of transmitting data over first and second channels, the first channels having a predefined grade of service and the second channels having a variable grade of service, the method comprising: determining a load of a transmit... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447213 | Method and apparatus for end-to-end connection between an RPR and an MPLS network The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for an end-to-end connection between an RPR and an MPLS network, where the RPR network is linked to the MPLS network (and viceversa) through a TLS layer. In a preferred solution, the client layer is Ethernet,... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447210 | Method and arrangement to increase the data transmission flow rate in a communication system A method and apparatus to transfer data cells having an overhead section and a payload section via a communication medium from a transmitter to a receiver. Before transfer of a data cell, the overhead section of the data cell is translated into a shortened overhead ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443929 | Method and circuit for adaptive control of the bandwidth of a carrier recovery loop in radio transmission systems A method for adaptively controlling bandwidth of a carrier recovery loop in radio transmission systems, wherein the phase error in a PLL is adjusted to a minimum level by means of a loop filter incorporated in said PLL. The phase noise value in the local oscillator ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443356 | Antenna module An antenna module, in particular for a base station of a cellular mobile radio network, comprising a group of radiating elements capable of receiving and/or transmitting electromagnetic waves having at least two different, preferably linear orthogonal, polarizations... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440512 | Electrical signal regenerator An electrical signal regenerator including an equalizer and a clock data recovery circuit is provided. The clock data recovery circuit is selected when an input signal of a higher bitrate multiplex level is detected, but the clock data recovery circuit is bypassed w... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440395 | Telecommunication switch and operating method A telecommunication switch and an operating method for handling SDH signals transmitted by a protection SDH link associated to a working SDH link of an SDH hardware interface of the telecommunication switch. The telecommunication switch comprises a plurality of SDH ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440166 | Raman diffusion optical amplifier An amplifier or laser using the stimulated Raman diffusion effect comprises a light guide (6), and a light pump (10) for producing a pump wave. In order to increase amplification efficiency, the light guide comprises a core structure that includes at l... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437465 | Method of optimizing calls set up in a private telecommunication network including two subnetworks using the QSIG protocol and the session initialization protocol, respectively A method is disclosed of optimizing calls set up in a private telecommunication network including two subnetworks using the QSIG protocol and the Session Initialization Protocol, respectively, when a first terminal belonging to the subnetwork using the SIP requests ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437083 | Wavelength converter A wavelength converter for binary optical signals includes an interferometer structure (110) for generating an output signal by modulating a received local signal (LS) according to the modulation of a fUrther received first input signal (IS 1). When su... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433939 | Fast reconfiguration of network elements A method for re-configuring a network element of a transmission network to restore traffic after occurrence of a failure is proposed. Each configuration request is divided into two phases: At first a “fetch-ahead” phase and then a “consolidation”. During fet... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433707 | Telecommunication method supporting multiple air interfaces The invention relates to a telecommunication method comprising the steps of: receiving of a required quality of service parameter set from a core network by a radio network controller, selecting a sub-set of air interfaces from a set of air interfaces, the sub-set c... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424020 | Network nodes The invention relates to a process for transmission of data via a communication network to a terminal, and a network node for performance of the process. The data are transmitted to the terminal via the network node which can be connected with two or more terminals.... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420966 | Connection control module A connection control module of a switching node in a telecommunications network, and adapted to communicate to a service control module of the switching node is further adapted to communicate to at least one other connection control module of the switching node. Thi... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417958 | Method for identifying a control element A method of identifying a control element of a telecommunication system as well as a telecommunication system and a control element for executing this method. The telecommunication system has a plurality of control elements, wherein the control element are connected... | 08/26/2008 |
