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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110274117 | BANDWITH ALLOCATION METHOD AND ROUTING DEVICE A bandwidth allocation method and a routing device are provided. The bandwidth allocation method includes: obtaining traffic of a member port belonging to a binding link (101); and allocating corresponding bandwidth to the member port according to total bandwidth... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110249685 | Method and device for scheduling data communication input ports The present invention provides a method and device for scheduling data communication input ports, which comprises: monitoring a state of input ports, acquiring the information about valid input ports, dynamically allocating the buffer size for the valid input ports acco... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110134936 | MULTI-TIER POLLING A polling arrangement where polling frequency and/or rates may be adjusted according to activities of end stations or other elements being polled. The ability to adjust the polling activities may be used to facilitate reducing or otherwise controlling network resources ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110051743 | Polling method compliant to Bluetooth protocol for increasing transfer efficiency and system thereof A polling method compliant to Bluetooth protocol is utilized for increasing transfer efficiency. In a Bluetooth piconet, a master queries each slave to determine the slaves supporting a predetermined protocol. The master determines a predetermined address as the instruc... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100238950 | USE OF GROUP POLL SCHEDULING FOR BROADBAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS A group poll mechanism (GPM) that schedules upstream bandwidth for cable modems by pointing a request opportunity normally reserved for a single service flow to more than one service flow. Essentially, instead of using the seldom-used poll requests one per service flow,... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100124235 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING USE OF A NETWORK RESOURCE A system includes a control source that is provided on a server and control logic that executes on a terminal. The control logic executes on a terminal to (i) identify a plurality of attributes on the terminal, the attributes including an identifier for each of a plural... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100080241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TIMER AFFINITY THROUGH ENGINE POLLING WITHIN A SESSION-BASED SERVER DEPLOYMENT The session-based server deployment can be comprised of an engine tier that is designed for high throughput processing of communications and a state tier that maintains state information for access by the engine tier. The engine tier can include a plurality of engine no... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20090310619 | BANDWIDTH EFFICIENT WIRELESS NETWORK MODEM A modem that provides efficient use of wireless network bandwidth in the presence of multiuser interference and noise is disclosed. The modem design provides for compatibility with existing network hardware and protocols so that new efficient modems may be added to the ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090310618 | Low Power Receiving The disclosed methods of low power communications facilitate high speed reception of data from an access point (AP) with low transmission latencies while remaining in power save mode as long as possible. The disclosed methods allow the client to remain in a power save s... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090296731 | METHODS FOR ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT Methods for CEC logical address assignments and HDMI physical address assignments. Some embodiments determine a required HDMI physical address to be assigned to an upstream HDMI-CEC device and provide the required HDMI physical address. Other embodiments assign consiste... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090190606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POLLING IN ETHERNET PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK Disclosed is a system and a method for polling in an Ether net Passive Optical Network (EPON). The system includes: multiple Optical Network Units (ONUs) for sharing optical channels of the EPON with one another and transmitting traffic; and an Optical Line Terminal (OL... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090180473 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DECREASING ROUTING LATENCY FOR SWITCHING PLATFORMS WITH VARIABLE CONFIGURATION A method for decreasing routing latency of a switching platform comprises identifying ports which have changed their operational state and modifying the port polling code associated with the respective ports so that operational ports are polled for frames to be routed, ... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090175235 | 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... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090073889 | PHY BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION FROM BACKPRESSURE PATTERNS The present invention provides a system and method of determining available bandwidth at a physical layer (PHY) device at a server on a broadband network. A link layer controller of a master administrator adaptively polls a PHY device over a set of time intervals. Durin... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090059950 | INFORMATION POLLING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM The invention provides an information polling method, apparatus and system thereof, wherein a message gateway receives an information polling request from an application in an application client, and according to the received information polling request, the message gat... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20080304506 | MULTIPLE REQUEST INTERVALS Methods and apparatuses are presented for communicating using a shared communication medium. A request is sent over the shared communication medium. The shared communication medium is organized to include a request signal space and a scheduled transmission signal space.... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080304507 | QUASISYNCHRONOUS RESERVATION REQUESTS Methods and apparatuses are presented for communicating using a shared communication medium. A request is sent in a request signal space where the request represents a code sequence that is a member of a set of code sequences. Each member is characterized by an autocorr... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080298386 | Polling A system for mobile device poll creation and conductance disclosed. A poll is created using poll creation software on a mobile device, personal computer or a web-based application. A polling server then validates the poll and publishes the poll to one or more mobile dev... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080285584 | Method and Related Apparatus for Handling Re-establishment of Radio Link Control Entity in a Wireless Communications System A method for handling re-establishment of a radio link control entity having a transmitting side and a receiving side in a wireless communications system includes storing a plurality of control protocol data units, and reserving a poll super field in the plurality of co... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080285583 | Method and Apparatus for Polling Transmission Status in a Wireless Communications System A method for polling transmission status in a transmitter of a wireless communications system includes forming a status protocol data unit including a poll sequence number field indicating a sequence number of a protocol data unit to be polled when a polling procedure i... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080279212 | Communnication system, information management apparatus, information management method, information processing apparatus, and information processing method In a communication system, an information processing apparatus communicates with an information management apparatus via polling communication. In the information management apparatus, specification information including information specifying a timing condition of poll... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080279211 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PIGGYBACKED POSITIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FIELD INDICATOR AND A POLLING INDICATOR A method and apparatus of providing a piggybacked positive acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) (PAN) field indicator (PANI) and a polling indicator are disclosed. A combined field of a PANI bit, a relative reserved block period (RRBP) bit and an EGPRS su... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080267210 | Media channel switching The present invention discloses methods and systems for switching between media channels. Pursuant to these methods and systems, a broadcast source may provide multicast streams to client devices for presentation of media channels to a user. When a client device request... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080259948 | System and method for operating a communications system A method (500, 600) is provided of operating a local transceiver (300), comprising: setting the local transceiver into an operational mode; operating the local transceiver in a polling mode (520); receiving a quiescent begin indicator identifying a ... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080253393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK TRAFFIC A system and method for managing network traffic is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a data switch having a controller element to transmit telemetry data representative of bandwidth usage by one or more ... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080240144 | File server pipelining with denial of service mitigation A method of metering bandwidth allocation on a server using credits is disclosed. The method may receive a request for data from a client, respond to the request for data and determining if the request for data for the client exceeds a current data allocation credit lim... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080240145 | Method and apparatus of connectivity recovery in wireless network A wireless communication device and a method of re-establishing a connection with a WPAN master device is presented. The method includes detecting that a first master station of a WPAN session which includes the first master device and one or more stations becomes unava... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080232391 | 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... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080212605 | Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol dat... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080198869 | Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol dat... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080192767 | Method of transmitting a high-priority message in a lighting control system A lighting control system having a plurality of control devices coupled to a communication link operates with a communication protocol that allows the system to expeditiously process high-priority events while operating communicate at a low enough baud rate to allow for... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080170585 | Management device, management method, computer readable medium and computer data signal A management device comprises: a receiving section that receives, from at least one information processor via a fire wall, a polling signal to inquire if there is a request to send to the information processor or not; and a sending section that sends a response for the ... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080170584 | Management device, management method, computer readable medium and computer data signal A management device comprises: a receiving section that receives, from at least one information processor via a fire wall, a polling signal to inquire if there is a demand to transmit to the information processor; a deciding section that decides a transmission timing of... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080075108 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UPSTREAM TRANSMISSION OF VARIABLE BIT RATE VoIP TRAFFIC IN HYBRID FIBER COAXIAL NETWORK, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION Provided are an apparatus and method for upstream transmission of variable bit rate traffic in a Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) network. The apparatus includes: a VoIP signal processing unit for digitizing a voice of a speaker to create a voice packet, detecting a mute sect... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080025213 | Network communication device The present invention provides a network communication device that performs data communication by using a network, in which a reception capability at a self-machine side is reported to a transmission source side and this transmission source performs communication by a t... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080013565 | Reverse Polling Algorithm For Shared Resources To Reduce Collisions In A Network A method for reducing collisions within a plurality of networks, each of the plurality of networks having a plurality of workstations physically communicating over a plurality of shared communication channels, the method comprising: determining if a communication channe... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070263552 | Method and system for bidirectional data transfer A system and method for managing data transfer between a configurable device and a management system including generating device data, detecting a polling request, transmitting, in a first common communications session and in response to the polling request, at least a ... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070258363 | Application-aware ATM buffer management method and system A database stores a plurality of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) profiles for a plurality of different potential usage patterns for a digital subscriber line (DSL) service. The database associates each of the ATM profiles with a respective buffer size for a network ele... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070242642 | Reliable neighbor node discovery Methods and systems for reliable neighbor discovery in wireless ad hoc networks are provided herein. In one aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for analyzing the quality of a communication link. In embodiments, several factors affect... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070183444 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AND MANAGING HIGH-AVAILABILITY POWER INFRASTRUCTURES WITH FLEXIBLE LOAD PRIORITIZATION Systems and methods for providing and managing high-availability power infrastructures with flexible load prioritization are described. In one embodiment, a system comprises a switch control and monitoring center that monitors and controls a distributed array of remotel... | 08/09/2007 |
