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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120106332 | Method of Handling Communications of Low Priority Device and MTC Device in a Wireless Communication System and Related Communication Device A method of handling a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The mobile device is a low priority device or a machine type communication (MTC) device. The method comprises the mobile device sending an indicator to a network of the wireless commun... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106327 | Exchanging Data Associated With A Communication Session Within A Communications System In an embodiment, a communications device exchanges, between first and second access terminals, higher priority data in association with a communication session of a first type and also lower priority data in association with a communication session of a second type. If... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106331 | OPTIMIZING SIGNALLING LOAD IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK The invention relates to a cellular communication network serving mobile terminals or devices and how to reduce the signalling load in said network by introducing an auxiliary device which holds data packets in order to minimize connections according to a pre-determined... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106334 | ASYNCHRONOUS LOGIC CIRCUIT, CONGESTION AVOIDING PATH CALCULATION MODULE, SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT, AND PATH CALCULATION METHOD IN ASYNCHRONOUS LOGIC CIRCUIT An asynchronous branching module (102) outputs transfer data received in accordance with a handshake protocol to any of branch destinations. An asynchronous arbitration module (101) merges transfer paths of the transfer data. A congestion detection module ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110641 | TRAFFIC STEERING SYSTEM A method including receiving a session request to establish a network connection with a network; sending a session response to establish the network connection with the network; obtaining, by a traffic steering system, user profile information associated with a user sen... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106333 | Network Aware Global Load Balancing System and Method An apparatus comprising a network aware (NA) global load balancing (GLB) component configured to associate with a local data center (DC), couple to an end user via a network, select a server in the DC or in one or more remote DCs coupled to the network based on applicat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106330 | Low Delay Lossless Packet Selector A method and apparatus for selecting packets from a plurality of packets containing one or more copies of data, the method and apparatus selecting packets such that a single copy of the data can be selected. The method using identifying information contained within the ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106326 | SYNCHRONIZED BANDWIDTH RESERVATIONS FOR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS A method of initiating a communication session includes transmitting, using a call signaling protocol, a call invitation from a first node over a network for receipt by a second node. The call invitation comprises a list of one or more codecs available to the first node... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106328 | ADAPTIVE FRAME RATE CONTROL FOR VIDEO IN A RESOURCE LIMITED SYSTEM Methods of adaptive frame rate control are provided far compressed video where resources are limited by either network or CPU characteristics. The methods include the determination of the type of compressed video frames to be transmitted or decoded and utilizing the pri... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106335 | Method and device for acknowledging a periodic signaling request in a telecommunication network A method that may be implemented in a CSCF entity to acknowledge a REGISTER type request sent by a terminal. It comprises: a step (E30) of estimating, for at least one future time window, the number of REGISTER requests that are liable to be received by the CSCF ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106329 | System and Method for Machine-to-Machine Application Based Congestion Control A method and apparatus for reporting events in a machine-to-machine environment are provided. Upon detection of an event, a determination is made whether to report the event with or without a delay. If the event is to be reported with a delay, then reporting is delayed ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106325 | Adaptive Shaper for Reliable Multicast Delivery over Mixed Networks Improved handling of multicast streams in digital networks. A switching device in a digital network such as a controller, bridge, or access point examines streams flowing through the device. The device identifies a multicast stream and assigns a stateful session to this... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082028 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LOAD, BASE STATION AND MANAGEMENT DEVICE A method for controlling a load in a base station device, including: receiving load information from another base station; receiving, from the other base station, admission information that indicates that an admission of a process request for the other base station to p... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082030 | PACKET RETRANSMISSION CONTROL SYSTEM, PACKET RETRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD AND RETRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM A packet retransmission control system includes an application processing module on which an application for executing communication processing operates, a retransmission control determination module which determines whether to execute high-speed retransmission control ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082029 | Method of Handling APN Based Congestion Control and Related Communication Device A method of initiating a service with an access point name (APN) of a wireless communication system for a mobile device in the wireless communication system is disclosed. The mobile device has a plurality of connections with the APN. The method comprises disconnecting a... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082031 | DISTRIBUTED ADMISSION CONTROL A first network client requests initiation of a data transfer with a second network client. An admission control facility (ACF) responds to the initiation request by performing admission analysis to determine whether to initiate the data transfer. The ACF sends one or m... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069736 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR COMMUNICATING WITH A ZIGBEE DEVICE FROM A PERIPHERAL NETWORK In order to minimize traffic on a Zigbee network, a gateway of the Zigbee network represents end devices in communications with peripheral networks. The gateway receives messages, such as status request messages, from the peripheral network intended for an end device on... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051216 | Localized Congestion Exposure A method for localized congestion exposure within a local loop in a cellular network that is performed by a localized congestion exposure receiver node of the local loop. The method includes receiving downlink packets destined for a downstream user device. The downlink ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044805 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAFFIC POLICING Systems and methods for policing traffic in communications systems are described herein. According to systems and methods herein, tokens are generated for a packet data network based on a peak transmission rate associated with the packet data network. Packets are select... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044806 | METHOD FOR NOTIFYING ABOUT/AVOIDING CONGESTION SITUATION OF DATA TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORK, AND MESH NODE FOR THE SAME Provided is a multi-route routing scheme that supports Quality of Service (QoS) in the wireless mesh network. A method of notifying about and avoiding congestion situation in data transmission in a wireless mesh network and a mesh node may also be provided. Data may be ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039170 | Dynamic Load Control for Downlink Signaling Channels A number of channel coding elements per transmission time interval required to transmit control information to a communication terminal is evaluated based on communication connection condition information with respect to the communication terminal, wherein the control i... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039168 | Call admission control method A call admission control method can ensure the admission rate of the high priority business, and simultaneously greatly improve the admission rate of the low priority business. The occupied bandwidth of currently admitted business flows of a WiMAX network is denoted by ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039169 | Active Queue Management for Wireless Communication Network Uplink According to the teachings presented herein, a base station implements active queue management (AQM) for uplink transmissions from user equipment (UE), such as a mobile terminal. The base station, e.g., an eNodeB in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, uses buffer statu... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033553 | NETWORK FLOW TERMINATION A network has a plurality of edge nodes (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) and core nodes (3a, 3b, 3c) for carrying flows of data from an ingress gateway (7a, 7b, | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033552 | Utilizing Betweenness to Determine Forwarding State in a Routed Network A set of critical nodes or links is identified on the network through which most of the shortest paths on the network occur. Each node compares their distance to end points on the network with a distance between the end points and each of the distinct critical nodes. Wh... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033550 | PACKET RELAY DEVICE AND CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD A packet relay device is equipped with a buffer memory including a plurality of queues for temporarily storing packets, and a storage unit for storing the first queue lengths indicating the respective queue length of each of the queues and a second queue length indicati... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033551 | Handling Signaling Congestion And Related Communication Device A method of handling signaling congestion for a machine type communication (MTC) device and/or a MTC server in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving system information from a network; and stopping a triggering operation in a commun... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026873 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVELY OBTAINING BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION REQUESTS A method and apparatus for adaptively obtaining bandwidth requests in a broadband wireless communication system. The method and apparatus includes dynamically varying technique combinations enabling a plurality of users to efficiently request bandwidth from a shared bas... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026869 | METHOD FOR MEAURING IP NETWORK PERFORMANCE AND CONTROLLING QOS, AND APPARATUS AND SYSTEM THEREOF The present invention discloses a method for measuring IP network performance and controlling IP network QoS, and apparatus and system thereof. In embodiments of the present invention, the information about the measurement contents, the data stream to be measured, and t... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026868 | Backplane Interface Adapter A backplane interface adapter for a network switch. The backplane interface adapter includes at least one receiver that receives input cells carrying packets of data; at least one cell generator that generates encoded cells which include the packets of data from the inp... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026870 | PROXY AGENTS IN A NETWORK Methods for network device management are described. Load balancing for one or more proxy agents 114, in a network 100, is implemented based on a threshold load and a threshold interval. The load on each of the proxy agents 114 is compared with the ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026872 | METHOD FOR MAINTAINING DATALINK NETWORK THROUGHPUT BY DELAYING LOWER PRIORITY MESSAGES A method of maintaining datalink network throughput in a communications channel by delaying lower priority messages is provided. The method comprises receiving periodic channel occupancy data from a radio, and updating channel occupancy status from the channel occupancy... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026871 | System and Method of Communicating a Media Stream A particular method includes measuring port usage data related to each of a plurality of physical ports associated with a link aggregation group. A bandwidth requirement of a requested media stream is estimated and added to a traffic load at each of the plurality of phy... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020208 | ENHANCING MOBILE MULTIPLE-ACCESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS A method for estimating engine thrust values of an aircraft is disclosed, the method comprising calculating estimated thrust value of an engine based on an equation of longitudinal motion, aircraft data measured during flight and calibrated drag/lift models, and a metho... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020209 | LOAD BALANCING A method of communicating in a wireless network including receiving effective load values for sectors accessible to an access terminal of the wireless network. The effective load values represent effective loads on the sectors. The method also includes receiving pilot s... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020212 | System and method for Routing Internet Traffic Over Internet Links An apparatus and method for routing IP traffic in real time from at least one network user to a plurality of internet links. Embodiments include assigning different ranks to different internet links based on network monitoring. In one embodiment, a system for routing in... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020211 | System and Method for Routing Internet Traffic Over Internet Links An apparatus and method for routing IP traffic in real time from at least one network user to a plurality of Internet links. Embodiments include assigning different ranks to different internet links based on network monitoring. In one embodiment, a system for routing In... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014248 | ADMISSION CONTROL The present invention relates to a network node and a method in a network node for admission control of broadcast transmission sessions. The method comprises receiving a broadcast transmission session start request for a first broadcast transmission session, obtaining a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014249 | System and Method for Routing Internet Traffic Over Internet Links An apparatus and method for routing IP traffic in real time from at least one network user to a plurality of Internet links. Embodiments include assigning different ranks to different Internet links based on network monitoring. In one embodiment, a system for routing in... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014251 | LOAD ESTIMATION An OFDM based communications system is provided, in which a scheduler is configured to estimate the load of existing bearers and the load increase that will arise from a new requested bearer if that bearer is accepted. Several techniques are described for estimating the... | 01/19/2012 |
