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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050135418 | Multiplexing of control and data over an HTTP connection A method for exchanging control and customer data between network element in a communications network involves establishing a virtual connection between the routers, and exchanging the control and customer data over an http layer. ... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050135264 | Method for implementing an intelligent content rating middleware platform and gateway system The method for implementing an Intelligent Content Rating middleware platform and gateway system disclosed herewith provides telecommunications carriers and network operators with the ability to define routing and actions based on HTTP/SIP based content and subscriber c... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050129038 | Directional integrity enforcement in a bi-directional braided ring network In one embodiment, a node comprises an interface to communicatively couple the node to a channel. The channel communicatively couples the node to a first neighbor node and first neighbor's neighbor node in a first direction. When the first neighbor node is scheduled to ... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050122912 | Link adaptation method using feedback information for wireless communication system Disclosed is a link margin adaptation method using feedback information of a wireless communication system. For transmission and reception of data between two nodes of the wireless communication system, a transmission node requests a receiving node to transmit a link ma... | 06/09/2005 |
| 20050117601 | Signal interface for higher data rates A data Interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protoc... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050117569 | Real-time communications system of high communications quality and media terminal apparatus A VoIP system has plural CPE units connected to an IP network as parties to be connected with each other. Each CPE unit is composed of a VoIP-IF circuit and an audio codec circuit. The VoIP-IF circuit executes at least one of the coding process to the first audio freque... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050111437 | Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating communication of unfragmented packet-formatted data in a radio communication system Apparatus, and an associated method, for determining an allowable packet size of data packets communicated by a mobile host to a correspondent host. Path MTU discovery is performed at a network-based proxy on behalf of the mobile host. Once the path MTU is determined, a... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111486 | Device and method for controlling network devices located within private networks A network connection device is provided, having a request message processor which processes an information request message transmitted from a first private network; a message parsing/address converting manager which parses an acknowledgement message which at least one s... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111485 | Optimization of the data throughput of a mobile radio connection by efficient packet type changing A packet-oriented mobile radio transmission system takes account of a packet utilization level that indicates how much of the maximum amount of payload information that can be transmitted is used for transmission. Such packet utilization level is a function of the packe... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111484 | Mobile communication system, master base station and slave base station A mobile communication system is provided that can increase the number of radio base stations undergoing the group control, and enable multichannel connection without modifying a hardware configuration and without concentrating a control load on a master base station. I... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111376 | Flexible rate split method for MIMO transmission A method for transmitting a packet of N input bits includes encoding all of the N bits as a single entity, such as with an interleaver of length N within a turbo coder, outputting M encoded bits, channel interleaving the M bits, splitting the M encoded bits into a paral... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050105550 | Asymmetric data path media access controller A method and apparatus for maintaining data throughput in a data element includes receiving a clock and a first plurality of instances of data having a first width on an input, sampling consecutive ones of instances of the data having the first width at consecutive ones... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050105551 | Asymmetric data path media access controller A method and apparatus for maintaining data throughput in a data element includes receiving a clock and a first plurality of instances of data having a first width on an input, sampling consecutive ones of instances of the data having the first width at consecutive ones... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050100045 | Access points with selective communication rate and scheduling control and related methods for wireless local area networks (WLANs) The present invention is directed to methods and wireless communication devices that are configured to enhance communication capacity in a wireless network. In one aspect of the invention various scheduling processes and schedulers for the transmissions of data packets ... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050094659 | Method for distributing a set of data, radiocommunication network and wireless station for implementing the method The invention proposes a method of distributing a set of data to at least one wireless station (1), from a radiocommunication network (2) with multicast capabilities, through at least one base station (12-13), said distribution being performe... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050094662 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA BY AN AUDIO AND VIDEO PLAYBACK SYSTEM A method for transferring data by an AV playback system. The AV playback system includes a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal connected to the transmitting terminal via a network. The receiving terminal includes a receiving buffer, a decoder buffer, and a pl... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050094556 | Multi-link network architecture, including security, in seamless roaming communications systems and methods A communications system provides for secure communications of information over multiple communications links. The system includes a client device, a server device, and at least one, and typically multiple, available and usable communications channels, elements, modes an... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050083967 | Multimedia mobile communication terminal system and method A multimedia mobile communication system and method capable of updating functions of a multimedia mobile communication terminal is provided, wherein the system and method may add to or modify the functions by modifying a software program. The multimedia mobile communica... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050083934 | Header compression/decompression device and header compression/decompression method A header compression/decompression apparatus that improves the throughput of an overall multilayer protocol stack at a network node. In this apparatus, an encoding section 106 compresses multilayer header information included in a protocol data unit on a multilay... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050083856 | Networking methods and apparatus The present invention includes installing a computer network (51) in a building (24) by coupling together a hub (50, 350) and a number of network adapters (100, 400) together with previously installed cabling. Data signals are transmitted fro... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050078616 | Multiple wireless communication protocol methods and apparatuses including quality of service considerations A multi-protocol wireless apparatus is provided with at least one wireless transceiver to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a first and a second protocol to and from first and second network devices of a first and a second wireless network communicatively ... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050078631 | Processing gain for wireless communication, such as in automatic data collection systems for public utility data collection Several embodiments are described that increase processing gain. Under one embodiment, a wireless receiver quickly and accurately determines a particular frequency hopping table employed by a transmitter. Under another embodiment, the wireless receiver accumulates packe... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050074026 | Methods and systems for providing session initiation protocol (SIP) trunk groups Methods and systems for providing SIP trunk groups are disclosed. A SIP call processor identifies an incoming SIP trunk group based on one or more parameters associated with an incoming SIP message. The SIP call processor selects per-trunk-group call processing data bas... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050063417 | Communication system and method Embodiments of the present invention relate to a communication system and method for invoking a network service in response to application of at least one rule to a self-descriptive network service request. ... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050063416 | Apparatus and method for constructing ad-hoc network of heterogeneous terminals An apparatus and method for enabling communications between heterogeneous terminals are provided. A method for establishing an ad-hoc network includes: accessing a first terminal, on which a first protocol stack is installed; accessing a second terminal, on which a seco... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050063415 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing pointer and stake model for frame alteration code in a network processor A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing a pointer and stake model for frame alteration code in a network processor. A current pointer and a stake are provided for a packet selected for transmit. The current pointer is maintained fo... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050058152 | Ultra-wideband/low power communication having a dedicated memory stick for fast data downloads - apparatus, systems and methods In a mobile environment, a mobile device includes an attached memory stick (removable memory) having a high speed—memory and storage with direct memory access embodied in an integrated circuit chip coupled to an ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver. The mobile device comm... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050053038 | Radio communication apparatus A base station has a time correlation calculating unit for estimating a variation-with-time characteristic of radio link quality using radio downlink quality information reported by a mobile station, a target error rate setting unit for changing over a target error rate... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050047424 | Method and system for managing bandwidth use in broadcast communications Methods and systems in accordance with the present invention manage bandwidth use in broadcast communications. More particularly, methods and systems in accordance with the present invention may be used to achieve reliable broadcast communications in a wireless network.... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050036499 | Fibre Channel Switch that enables end devices in different fabrics to communicate with one another while retaining their unique Fibre Channel Domain_IDs An Fibre Channel Switch which enables end devices in different Fabrics to communicate with one another while retaining their unique Fibre Channel Domain_IDs. The Switch is coupled to a first fabric having a first set of end devices and a second fabric having a second se... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050036508 | Method and system for a multi-channel audio interconnect bus Provided is a system and method for communicating audio. A method includes transmitting audio information segments on a first signal line, each segment including a format portion representative of audio format modes, and a data portion having audio data corresponding to... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050036469 | Event-based multichannel direct link Disclosed herein are exemplary techniques for the communication of information in a wireless system by using multiple wireless channels. A direct link between two or more wireless devices may be established by performing a direct link setup between two or more wireless ... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050030972 | Method, system, and article of manufacture for utilizing host memory from an offload adapter Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein in one implementation of the method a memory buffer is allocated in a host memory by a protocol processor, wherein the host memory is comprised in a host that is coupled to a network adapter. A packet is... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050030957 | System and method for variable data transmission rate resolution A system and method for variable data transmission rate resolution is provided. The system implements a method comprising incrementing a port transmission rate using a variable resolution; and transmitting data through the port using the incremented port transmission ra... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050025040 | Method and apparatus providing adaptive learning in an orthogonal frequency division multiplex communication system Disclosed is a method to operate an orthogonal frequency duplex multiplexing (OFDM) communications system, and an OFDM system that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes, when transmitting data over a plurality of OFDM sub-channels from an OFDM tran... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050025185 | System and method of reducing data corruption due to recycled IP indentification numbers A system and method of reducing data corruption due to recycled Internet Protocol (IP) identification numbers are provided. When IP packets are being fragmented and the IP identification number of the packets is cycling through a specific group of numbers, the size of t... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050018709 | Data storage system with one or more integrated server-like behaviors A network adapter is provided that may be used in a network data storage system to facilitate data communication among external data exchanging devices and an input/output (I/O) controller residing in the system. The adapter includes one or more interfaces that may be c... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050013315 | System and method of communicating a priority indication in a call control/bearer control telecommunication system The present invention relates generally to telecommunication services, and in particular, to communicating priority indications between telecommunication nodes in a telecommunication system having a separated call control and bearer control architecture. The present inv... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050007983 | System and method for channel estimation in an OFDM mobile communication system A mobile communication system, a transmitter includes a first transmission antenna and a second transmission antenna, and the first and second transmission antennas transmit signals through at least one odd carrier and at least one even carrier. The transmitter determin... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050008029 | System and method of accessing and transmitting different data frames in a digital transmission network A system accessing and transmitting different data frames in a digital transmission network for accessing and transmitting different data frames, comprising: at least a user-network interface (UNI), which is used to couple with the user's network; at least a network-net... | 01/13/2005 |
