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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181249 | Malware detection system and method Methods and systems are presented for detection of malware such as worms in which a network switch entices the malware into sending scan packets by allocating one or more ports as bait addresses, sending outgoing bait packets, and identifying compromised hosts that ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181162 | Manager component for checkpoint procedures A manager component of an apparatus in one example handles one or more checkpoint procedures for one or more software components of a distributed software application that runs within a plurality of executables. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181080 | Adaptive HARQ control for EDCH The present invention relates to a method for transmitting of data frames from user equipment to a base station in a wireless telecommunication network. The method comprises an error control step adapted to retransmit the data frame from the user equipment to the ba... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181066 | Service diagnostic engine and method and service management system employing the same A service management system and a method of performing service diagnostics. In one embodiment, the service management system includes: (1) a service description repository configured to contain service descriptions that define services in terms of end points that as... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180911 | Method of distributing real time data streams across a multimedia network as well as a mediation device and a multimedia network therefore The invention relates to a method of distributing real time data streams across a multimedia network to receiving terminals, wherein a selected real time data streams is transmitted from a media server to a specific receiving terminals, wherein a mediation device is... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180874 | Facilitating defense against MAC table overflow attacks A method for defending against MAC table overflow attacks comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for determining whether each one of a plurality of MAC addresses within a MAC table has one-way traffic or two-way traffic corresponding thereto.... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180599 | Network design utilizing network management routing algorithm Techniques for designing networks. The techniques utilize network management-based routing (NMS routing) in conjunction with the planning step (design-based routing) of the design process so that an optimal network may be designed. An automated technique for designi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180361 | Methods and systems for base station installation in distributed call processing networks Methods and systems are provided for establishing a logical flow path between a radio network controller (RNC) having multiple call processors that are operable in a distributed manner and a base station, in particular a Node B, being served by the RNC using an inte... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180283 | Method of providing feedback to a media server in a wireless communication system The present invention provides a method involving a media server, a wireless network, and at least one media client associated with at least one air interface with the wireless network. The method includes accessing first information indicative of at least one state... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180227 | Digital coherent detection of multi-carrier optical signal Embodiments for optical communication are provided in which subbands of a multi-carrier optical signal are digital coherent detected and then processed to recover data carried by the modulated carriers corresponding to at least one of the subbands. An exemplary opti... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180220 | Protocol configuration method A protocol configuration method for use by a substation to be coupled to a main station in an optical access network is described. The configuration method comprises the following steps: predefining for the substation a plurality o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180217 | Method for coordinating measurements and calibrations in a passive optical network Method for coordinating measurements and calibrations in a passive optical network, PON, in particular in a Gigabit PON, the method comprising: generating, in an optical line termination (3), OLT, a downstream frame (25), transmitting the downstream fr... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180036 | Method and apparatus for accessing missed call information The invention comprises a method and apparatus for enabling missed call information to be accessed from a remote device via a packet network. Specifically, the method comprises receiving missed call information associated with a called party, storing the missed call... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180034 | Apparatus, and associated method, for a CTI-enabled SIP-phone A CTI-enabled SIP-Phone, and an associated method, is provided for a telephonic call center. Responsive to a call operation indication, such as delivery to the phone of a SIP invite message, or of a CTI-formatted call instruction, the embedded functionality of the S... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180023 | Method and apparatus for replacement connection verification during migration from an analog network element to a next generation network element Method, corresponding apparatus and system are provided for transparently testing replacement functionality and optionally migrating subscribers on analog phone lines, served, for example, by PSTN Class 5 elements, to Next Generation Network (NGN) elements when copp... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179960 | Method and apparatus for performing video coding and decoding with use of virtual reference data A video codec is provided in which virtual reference data (e.g., virtual reference blocks) are advantageously employed by a video coder and decoder to significantly improve coding efficiency as compared to prior art codecs. Specifically, a “virtual reference,” a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179898 | Packet processing using braided tries Packets are processed (e.g., routed or classified) in accordance with a braided trie, which represents the combination of two or more different original tries (e.g., representing different forwarding/classification tables). The different tries are combined by twisti... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179878 | Method for performing synchronisation for multicast broadcast services in a wireless access communication network, corresponding multicast broadcast server and base station The present invention relates to a method for performing data synchronization in a wireless access communication network. The method includes data to be synchronized coming from an access network gateway and being sent to at least two base stations, and the data bei... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179860 | Systems and method for performing handovers, or key management while performing handovers in a wireless communication system Example embodiments provide a method for performing handovers and key management while performing handovers. The method includes communicating a random handover seed key protected by a secure protocol from a core component of a network to a user equipment. The secur... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179854 | Allocating base stations to location areas in cellular telecommunications networks A method is provided of allocating a location area identifier to a cellular base station for wireless communications. The method comprises the following steps. Information is received of geographic location of a base station. For each of a plurality of location area... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179846 | DPI-driven bearer termination for short-lived applications Based on application information received from a DPI device, a downstream device, such as a Radio Network Controller (RNC), optimally implements a dormancy timer policy for short-lived applications, such as email and MMS. In particular, the RNC may initially use a l... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179779 | Pilot signal allocation method and apparatus for multi-user wireless systems A construction is provided for uplink pilot signals in a cellular network. Three sets of pilot signals are defined, having orthogonality properties that lead to reduced inter-cell interference. In example embodiments, the network has a reuse factor of 3 for pilot si... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176328 | Authentication of access points in wireless local area networks A method for authenticating an operator of an AP includes: registering the operator's identity with a CA, by providing the operator's identification information and public key; creating a certificate including the foregoing; signing the certificate with the CA's pri... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175975 | IMS device operable for financial transaction authorization and ID cards display IMS networks and methods are disclosed for authorizing financial transactions. Credit card information, debit card information, and other purchasing data may be consolidated into an IMS device for conducting financial transactions, such as the purchasing of items fr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175854 | Universal circuit for secure function evaluation An exemplary method enables implementation of a universal circuit capable of emulating each gate of a circuit designed to calculate a function. A first selection module receives inputs associated with the function. It generates outputs that are an ordered series of ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175582 | System and methods for delivering event-related multimedia content to wireless devices A system for delivering to a wireless subscriber terminal multimedia content related to a spectator event comprises an event application server, a wireless network coupled to the event application server and a wireless subscriber terminal that interacts with the net... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175575 | Online charging for roaming users in a proxy online charging system of a visited network Communication networks and methods are disclosed for performing online charging credit control in a visited network when a user is roaming. The visited network which is providing service to a roaming user includes a proxy online charging system (OCS) that communicat... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175270 | Authentication loading control and information recapture in a UMTS network An authentication loading control feature enables a service provider to control the number of authentication procedures or percentage of time that authentication procedures are performed by a network element adapted to perform authentication procedures (e.g., a Serv... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175252 | Ringback tone bookmark request by calling party A ringback tone is played to a calling party on a call to a called party. Identification information of the ringback tone is stored, upon receipt of a bookmark request from the calling party, for later access by the calling party to the ringback tone and/or informat... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175239 | Method and apparatus for efficient abbreviated dialing A system comprising an abbreviated digit constructor, an abbreviated digit analyzer and a calling line identification data store. The abbreviated digit constructor is communicatively coupled to the calling line identification data store and abbreviated digit analyze... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175075 | Adaptive header compression in a wireless communication network In one embodiment, whether packet loss of link layer packets at a receiver has exceeded a lost threshold is detected. Feedback is sent to a transmitter indicating that a header compressor, for compressing higher layer packets at the transmitter, should send a less c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174982 | Integrated web cache A gateway for mobile communications comprises a cache for storing network data recently downloaded from a network, a foreign agent, and a packet filter that directs requests for the network data from a mobile node to the cache. The packet filter directs the requeste... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171131 | Device for managing the insertion of complementary data into multimedia content streams A device (D) is dedicated to managing multimedia content that is to be transmitted to communication terminals (T). This device (D) comprises management means (MM) tasked, when in the presence of a multimedia content stream to be transmitted, with determining in real... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170055 | Method of converting between radius message and diameter messages In one embodiment of a method of translating a RADIUS message to a Diameter message, an access request message in RADIUS is translated to a credit control request message in Diameter. In one embodiment of a method of translating a Diameter message to a RADIUS messag... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166352 | Alarm correlation system An alarm correlation method with rules and model is disclosed for suppression of alarms which will clear when another alarm clears. The alarm correlation method with rules and model includes a list of objects which alarms may be raised, and a list of correlation rul... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166176 | Context-aware migration of communication session Techniques and systems are disclosed for context-aware migration of a communication network session. For example, a system for migrating a communication session established between a first entity and a second entity in accordance with an application module includes ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166148 | Method for distributing content data packages originated by users of a super peer-to-peer network A method for distributing content data packages 7 originated by users of a super peer-to-peer network is proposed, wherein the content data packages 7 are to be cached in caching nodes CN1,CN2,CN3,CN4 of said network. The ne... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166102 | Signaling method for internet telephony A method for creating, modifying, and terminating connections between Internet end systems, particularly, although not exclusively, for Internet telephony communication. The method relies on several request messages sent between a client and a server and the respons... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166075 | Method for mapping an X500 data model onto a relational database A method for mapping an X500 data model onto a relational database (RDB) comprises the steps of building object classes, each comprising a list of its attributes, building attributes, each comprising its type, building a static directory information tree (SDIT), com... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165608 | Apparatus and method for reducing LTE-to-1XRTT border cell cross-paging in circuit switched fall back call delivery A technique is provided to leverage the border cell paging capability to eliminate paging waste during LTE-to-1xRTT cross-RAT paging for CSFB call delivery. A method comprises receiving a call for the user equipment at the first switching element, sending a page req... | 04/24/2012 |
