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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20130121148 | TCP EXTENSION AND VARIANTS FOR HANDLING HETEROGENEOUS APPLICATIONS An extension to TCP is generally provided that allows TCP to handle heterogeneous applications, especially those with delay and smoothness-sensitive contents, and wireless transmission media having noisy, fading radio channels. The TCP extension decouples reliability co... | 05/16/2013 |
| 20130121146 | ITERATIVE MAX-MIN FAIRNESS ALGORITHMS Systems and methods are provided for allocating resources of a network among a plurality of traffic demands to optimize fairness and network utilization. Methods based on flow-increase dynamics converge toward an upward max-min fair (UMMF) allocation, in which the value... | 05/16/2013 |
| 20130121147 | Controlling Uplink Congestion in a Wireless Communication Network A computing device, which is associated with a telecommunication access network, is configured to detect (i) congestion in uplink traffic from a plurality of user equipments (UEs) to a base station (BS), and (ii) a level of the congestion in the uplink traffic from the ... | 05/16/2013 |
| 20130121145 | NETWORK SELECTION BASED ON ONE OR MORE FACTORS A device may receive a network access request and perform at least one of signal strength measurements of a first wireless network and a second wireless network, a determination of a level of congestion of the first wireless network and a level of congestion of the seco... | 05/16/2013 |
| 20130114407 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Radio Resources, Radio Network Controller, and Base Station Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an system for managing radio resources, a radio network controller, and a base station. The method for managing radio resources mainly includes: acquiring respective resources occupied by at least two types of b... | 05/09/2013 |
| 20130114405 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING SERVICE AT USER EQUIPMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME A method for receiving MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) service at a user equipment camping on a first frequency in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving the MBMS on a second frequency without camping on the second fre... | 05/09/2013 |
| 20130114406 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING LOAD BALANCE A method for controlling a load balance between a CDMA2000 1X EV-DO network and a CDMA2000 1X network is provided. A base station controller (BSC) in the CDMA2000 1X EV-DO network receives a connection request message sent by a terminal, determines that a load of the CD... | 05/09/2013 |
| 20130107704 | Dynamic Special Subframe Allocation A base station transmits a message to wireless devices in connected mode. The message comprises an initial subframe allocation bitmap indicating an initial plurality of subframes including an initial plurality of special subframes. After an increase in the number of wir... | 05/02/2013 |
| 20130107706 | QUALITY OF SERVICE FOR DEVICE ASSISTED SERVICES A method for implementing a service policy on a device by obtaining, from a user interface (UI) or a network interface, a quality of service (QoS) activity map of an application identifier to a QoS policy, wherein the QoS policy is determined at least in part by an acce... | 05/02/2013 |
| 20130107702 | PROVIDING MULTIPLE LEVELS OF SERVICE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION Local breakout is provided by one or more nodes (e.g., a local access point and/or a local gateway) in a wireless network to facilitate access to one or more local services. In conjunction with local breakout, multiple IP points of presence relating to different levels ... | 05/02/2013 |
| 20130107705 | Special Subframe Allocation in Heterogeneous Network A first base station provides overlapping coverage area with second base stations and third base stations. Second base stations allow regular access to wireless devices and configure a second plurality of special subframes. Second base stations configure the same set of... | 05/02/2013 |
| 20130107703 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAST INITIAL NETWORK LINK SETUP Systems and methods for communicating in a wireless communication system are described. Various processes for reducing the initial link set up time are described. In one aspect a method in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, at a ... | 05/02/2013 |
| 20130100803 | APPLICATION BASED BANDWIDTH CONTROL FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS A network traffic managing node of a local area network, such as a router or gateway, can implement a packet stream detection and application based bandwidth control for the local area network. A plurality of packet streams are received and detected at a network traffic... | 04/25/2013 |
| 20130100804 | DATA OFFLOADING AT WIRELESS NODE A method performed by a wireless node includes receiving a data flow associated with user devices; performing a packet inspection of the data flow; determining whether a network address of the wireless node matches another network address associated with the data flow; ... | 04/25/2013 |
| 20130100805 | PRIORITIZED TRANSFER OF DATA TELEGRAMS Data telegrams are transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver. A priority level is associated with the data telegrams that specifies a priority to be considered for the transfer of the particular data telegram. In order to transfer data telegrams having different prio... | 04/25/2013 |
| 20130100802 | Method and Apparatus for Channel Traffic Congestion Avoidance in a Mobile Communication System Embodiments of the invention provide apparatus, a method and a computer readable product for avoiding traffic congestion in a mobile communication system. In an exemplary embodiment there is provided an apparatus, including at least one controller and a memory storing a... | 04/25/2013 |
| 20130094357 | FHRP OPTIMIZATIONS FOR N-WAY GATEWAY LOAD BALANCING IN FABRIC PATH SWITCHING NETWORKS Techniques are disclosed for providing n-way gateway load-balancing in a fabric path switching Systems (FSS), such as a layer 2 multipath (L2MP) network in a large data center. An access switch in a L2MP network may learn an emulated switch IDs through FHRP “hello” ... | 04/18/2013 |
| 20130094358 | ADAPTIVE QUEUE-MANAGEMENT In one embodiment, a method includes storing in a QoS-enabled communication system a data structure that has a multi-level hierarchy including a physical level, a logical level, and a class level; receiving a first request for M number of services provided by the QoS-en... | 04/18/2013 |
| 20130088957 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING BURSTING TRAFFIC A network device for managing communications. The network device includes a first counter operable to track CIR tokens. The first counter is operable to increase the CIR tokens at a first rate. The network device also includes a second counter operable to track the EIR ... | 04/11/2013 |
| 20130088956 | CONGESTION/OVERLOAD CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS Embodiments of the present invention provide a congestion/overload control method and apparatus. The method includes: learning, by a gateway device, information about network access time of a User Equipment (UE) or UE group; and rejecting or discarding, by the gateway d... | 04/11/2013 |
| 20130088955 | Method and System for Distributed, Prioritized Bandwidth Allocation in Networks An apparatus, system and method are introduced for prioritizing allocation of communication bandwidth in a network. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes memory including computer program code configured to, with a processor, cause the apparatus to assign a value to... | 04/11/2013 |
| 20130083657 | METHOD TO VERIFY A DROP PROBABILITY CURVE In one embodiment, a test technique verifies a drop probability curve implemented by an intermediate node of a computer network, wherein a test point of the drop probability curve has a drop probability value and a queue length value. Traffic may be loaded into a queue ... | 04/04/2013 |
| 20130083655 | AUTO-COMPRESSION FOR MEDIA OVER IP The present invention allows communicating devices to control the amount of compression used in packet sessions for transmitting streaming media to and from each other. When a communicating device detects a decrease in performance or quality of service indicative of a l... | 04/04/2013 |
| 20130083656 | Method and Arrangement for Detecting Congestion in a Communications Network The invention relates to a method and arrangement for detecting congestion in a communications network (120). A receiving node (130) receives (710) data packets from a sending node (110) over a communications link (140). First and seco... | 04/04/2013 |
| 20130083654 | METHOD FOR LINK BUFFER SIZE AND QUEUE LENGTH ESTIMATION FOR BANDWIDTH-VARYING MOBILE DATA NETWORKS A sum-of-delays algorithm in a digital mobile communication bandwidth-varying network is employed to estimate link buffer size and queue length in an undying network connection. In particular, mechanisms associated with the process compensate for link bandwidth variatio... | 04/04/2013 |
| 20130083653 | MECHANISM TO PREVENT LOAD IN 3GPP NETWORK DUE TO MTC DEVICE TRIGGERS Embodiments of methods and apparatus to manage MTC device trigger load in a wireless network are described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... | 04/04/2013 |
| 20130077482 | SEAMLESS HANDOFF, OFFLOAD, AND LOAD BALANCING IN INTEGRATED WI-FI/SMALL CELL SYSTEMS A method of handing off between a cellular network and a Wi-Fi network is disclosed. A cellular base station of the cellular network is caused to collect information related to the cellular network. A Wi-Fi access point of the Wi-Fi network is caused to collect informat... | 03/28/2013 |
| 20130077485 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING CONTENTION BASED RANDOM ACCESS The disclosure provides a solution for random access in a wireless system, in which there is a plurality of available uplink carriers for the random access. The UE can monitor a random access response to get load related information for the plurality of available uplink... | 03/28/2013 |
| 20130077484 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DATA TRANSMISSION OF MACHINE-TYPE COMMUNICATION DEVICE Disclosed are a method and device for processing data transmission by a machine-type communication device. The method comprises: determining, by the network side, the mode for the machine-type communication device to transmit a small amount of user data using a control ... | 03/28/2013 |
| 20130077483 | MINIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A NETWORK DEVICE A network interface device (NID) may determine whether the received data units of the computer system are to be compressed before transmitting the data units. The NID may determine the compression energy value consumed to compress the first K1 data units and a se... | 03/28/2013 |
| 20130070588 | Packet Processing in a Parallel Processing Environment Processing packets in a system that comprises a plurality of interconnected processing cores includes: receiving packets into one or more queues; associating at least some nodes in a hierarchy of nodes with at least one of the queues, and at least some of the nodes with... | 03/21/2013 |
| 20130070589 | OPTIMIZED SYSTEM ACCESS PROCEDURES A base station subsystem (BSS) and a method are described herein for improving an Access Grant Channel (AGCH) capacity when mobile stations establish an uplink Temporary Block Flow (TBF) triggered by a small data transmission (SDT) or an instant message transmission (IM... | 03/21/2013 |
| 20130070590 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THRESHOLD TESTING WITHIN A NETWORK A system and method for authorizing test traffic over a network. A request is received to perform a throughput test. A state of the network is determined. The throughput test is authorized in response to the determined state of the network being acceptable for performin... | 03/21/2013 |
| 20130070591 | OVERLOAD CALL CONTROL IN A VOIP NETWORK The invention provides a system, method and apparatus for controlling a mass calling event in a VoIP network. The invention provides for monitoring port traffic information on a network edge device and detecting the occurrence of a mass calling event in conjunction with... | 03/21/2013 |
| 20130064083 | EFFICIENT MODIFICATION OF PACKET FILTERS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK Techniques for modifying packet filters in a wireless communication network are described. In one scheme, packet filters may be performed with multiple operations, if needed. The operation(s) to be performed and the order of performing the operation(s) may be dependent ... | 03/14/2013 |
| 20130064085 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING NON-RESOURCE RESERVATION TYPE SERVICE The disclosure provides a method, an apparatus and a system for processing a non-resource-reservation type service, wherein the method for processing the non-resource-reservation type service comprises: acquiring a service type of a received non-resource-reservation typ... | 03/14/2013 |
| 20130064084 | TECHNOLOGY AGNOSTIC QOS SUPPORT IN A MULTI-MODE ENVIRONMENT A generic quality of service (QoS) model that is not dependent on network technology is used to support QoS for communication networks utilizing different network technologies. The generic QoS model may include a superset of all QoS parameters for all network technologi... | 03/14/2013 |
| 20130064081 | CONTROLLING A PACKET FLOW FROM A USER EQUIPMENT A method and User Equipment (UE) for limiting excessive packet flow from the UE to a communication network. The UE receives from the network, an instruction to activate a logic parameter for controlling the packet flow from the UE to the network. In response to receivin... | 03/14/2013 |
| 20130064080 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT NETWORK EDGE TRAFFIC AND SIGNALING MANAGEMENT Systems and methods for intelligent network edge traffic and signaling management are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method for controlling network edge traffic may include receiving network traffic flow information from a network element. The method may also incl... | 03/14/2013 |
| 20130064079 | Network-Wide Flow Monitoring in Split Architecture Networks Flow monitoring tasks are assigned to a set of switches in a split architecture network to optimize network-wide flow monitoring. The assignment maximizes the number of monitored flows and reduces overhead of the flow monitoring. A controller receives an estimated traff... | 03/14/2013 |
