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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110292944 | FLY-BY AND ACK-ACCELERATED ARBITRATION FOR BROADCAST PACKETS A method for administering transmission of a first type of packets and a second type of packets over a serial bus is disclosed. The method comprises: if there is a packet of a second type to be sent, then concatenating the packet of the second type to a plurality of pac... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110261722 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FORWARDING NODE, PATH MANAGEMENT SERVER, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM A communication system comprises a path management server that configures forwarding path information that is configured by arranging link IDs for identifying communication interfaces provided in respective forwarding nodes in a forwarding path of a data transfer networ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261706 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD A source apparatus writes, in a route request packet, the number of routes requested by the source apparatus. When a relay apparatus receives a route request packet for the first time, the relay apparatus determines a waiting time period, based on a route evaluation val... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110128962 | METHOD FOR ROUTING OF MESSAGES WITHIN A DATA NETWORK A data network includes a plurality of source nodes, at least one sink node, and at least one intermediate node, wherein routing of a reverse message from the sink node to a source node via at least one intermediate node is performed by the intermediate node using rever... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110110375 | METHOD OF RECEIVING A DATA PACKET IN AN IPV6 DOMAIN, AN ASSOCIATED DEVICE AND AN ASSOCIATED HOME GATEWAY A method of receiving an IPv6 data packet in an IPv6 domain connected to an IPv4 domain, said packet comprising an IPv6 destination address and an IPv6 source address. The method comprises the following steps: identifying an IPv6 destination address constructed by conca... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110110374 | METHOD OF RECEIVING A DATA PACKET COMING FROM AN IPV4 DOMAIN IN AN IPV6 DOMAIN, AN ASSOCIATED DEVICE, AND ASSOCIATED ACCESS EQUIPMENT A method of receiving a data packet from an IPv4 domain in an IPv6 domain, said data packet comprising an IPv4 destination address and a destination port number. The method comprises the following steps: constructing an IPv6 destination address by concatenating an opera... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110026529 | Method And Apparatus For Option-based Marking Of A DHCP Packet A method and apparatus for processing a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) packet in a trusted network are disclosed. The trusted network includes a plurality of trusted network devices and a trusted host. The DHCP packet is received at a network device of the t... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100214978 | System and Method for Reducing Overhead in a Wireless Network A method for reducing overhead includes concatenating a plurality of packets into a single jumbo packet. Each packet of the plurality of packets comprises a header. The method also includes identifying a base header from among the plurality of headers. The method furthe... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100177789 | Device and Method for Reducing Overhead in a Wireless Network A method for reducing overhead includes identifying a plurality of packets that are all to comprise at least one common piece of security information. The method also includes concatenating the plurality of packets into a single jumbo packet. The method further includes... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100158013 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING LATENCY AND RESERVATION REQUEST OVERHEAD IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Systems and methods for reducing reservation request overhead in a communications network in which devices are connected via a coax network are provided. A method for managing transmission of data over a MoCA network according to the invention may include monitoring dat... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20090185534 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting a Packet Header A system and method for transmitting a reduced header is presented. A preferred embodiment comprises a base station defining a normal header and a reduced header, wherein the reduced header has a smaller number of bytes than the normal header. The base station then conc... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090103542 | Efficiency Improvement For Shared Communications Networks A technique for providing data unit concatenation in a shared communications network is disclosed. The technique establishes a distinction between a first address space and a second address space within one or more shared communications networks, such as a wireless loca... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20080317033 | Apparatus and method for requesting bandwidth allocation and allocating bandwidth in a communication system A method and apparatus for requesting bandwidth allocation and allocating a bandwidth in response to the request in a communication system are provided, in which an mobile station detects a second CID requiring bandwidth allocation, the second CID being different from a... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080247396 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROCESSING AN IP PACKET, ROUTING A STRUCTURED DATA CARRIER, PREVENTING BROADCAST STORMS, LOAD-BALANCING AND CONVERTING A FULL BROADCAST IP PACKET Method for processing content of an Internet Protocol (IP) packet and method for processing a full broadcast IP packet. Processing content of an IP packet includes: extracting IP source and destination addresses and payload from the IP packet; and generating an IP frame... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080192747 | Frame concatenation with drop precedence assignment A method for communication includes encapsulating multiple data packets, which carry data and have respective drop precedence (DP) values selected from a range of possible DP values, to produce a concatenated frame of a transport protocol. A composite drop precedence (C... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080031253 | Apparatus and Method for Efficiently Processing Voice Packet Data in Mobile Communication System Providing Voice Service Using Packet Network Disclosed are apparatus and method for efficiently processing voice packet data in a mobile communication system providing voice service using a packet network. The method includes: receiving a voice packet from an upper layer and generating a header including informati... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080008185 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING REQUIRED MEMORY USAGE BETWEEN COMMUNICATION SERVERS An arrangement and method for reducing memory usage for communications between servers in a communication network utilizing the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) by controlling establishment of SIP-Tunnels. A single SIP-Tunnel for a certain event package is utilized for... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20060171395 | Systems and methods for implementing a metadata station for an internet radio service Systems and methods for implementing a metadata station for an internet radio service are disclosed. An exemplary method involves exposing a plurality of Internet radio stations and a metadata station. Requests are received for the metadata station. The Internet radio s... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060171394 | Fault tolerant wireless communication systems and methods Systems and methods for fault tolerant communication are provided. A base site is coupled to a central office via a channel service unit. The channel service unit is coupled to the central office via primary and secondary communications links. A first and second permane... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060120376 | Method and apparatus for providing peer-to-peer data transfer within a computing environment A method and apparatus for providing peer-to-peer data transfer through an interconnecting fabric. The method and apparatus enable a first device to read and/or write data to/from a local memory of a second device by communicating read and write requests across the inte... | 06/08/2006 |
| 20060104280 | Method and apparatus for coordinating a change in service provider between a client and a server with identity based service access management A method of configuring a network access device connected to an access network connected to a plurality of service networks, the network device having a first network address allocated to a subscriber of services of a first service provider provided by a first service n... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060062222 | Method and apparatus for computing virtual concatenation group bandwidth data The invention comprises a method and apparatus for computing virtual concatenation group bandwidth data of at least one virtual concatenation group. Specifically, the method comprises determining at least one elementary path of which at least one virtual concatenation g... | 03/23/2006 |
| 20050281197 | Channel control apparatus and channel control method A channel control apparatus is arranged in a plurality of nodes on a source as a transmission side and at a node on a sink as a reception side, and changes a bandwidth of virtual concatenation (VC) between the nodes on the source and the sink using link capacity adjustm... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050195822 | Divided MAC protocol structure, data transmission and reception method, and handover method and system using the structure in a wireless communication system A divided Media Access Control (MAC) protocol structure, a data transmission and reception method, and a handover method and system using the structure in a wireless communication system for efficiently managing session information in handover of an MSS (Mobile Subscrib... | 09/08/2005 |
| 20050169277 | Label switched data unit content evaluation Evaluation of label switched data units is disclosed. In a method, a data unit is received or obtained, and, when the data unit is a label switched data unit, a kind of an encapsulated data unit included in a message body of the data unit is determined by analyzing the ... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050152370 | Protocol for messaging between a centralized broadband remote aggregation server and other devices Protocols for messaging between a centralized network management system and other entities are described. According to one embodiment, in response to a request of a subscriber for joining a multicast group received at a centralized aggregation server, the centralized ag... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050036490 | Method for enabling an application recorded in a radiocommunication terminal to access functions of the terminal and terminal implementing said method A method of enabling at least one application (22) stored in a radiocommunications terminal (10) to access functions of said terminal (10), said terminal (10) being suitable for enabling data to be exchanged in both directions in application ... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050018683 | IP address storage technique for longest prefix match Methods and devices for storing binary IP addresses in memory. The longest prefix match problem is converted into a range search problem and the IP addresses corresponding to the different ranges are stored in a tree data structure. The nodes of the tree data structure ... | 01/27/2005 |
