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A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7978668 | Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for simultaneously establishing links with a plurality of nodes An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for simultaneously establishing links with a plurality of nodes in a wireless network are provided. A processing module determines whether a mesh network configuration message of the apparatus has space to p... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978669 | Methods and apparatus for efficient MPEG transmission over 802.11 In one embodiment, a method includes characterizing a first packet of a video stream as being associated with a first frame type, wherein the video stream is arranged to be transmitted on a wireless local area network. The method also includes processing at least th... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978670 | Method and apparatus to facilitate bandwidth allocation management in integral combination with memory capacity information A method and apparatus to facilitate managing communications with at least one wireless node (102, 103) having an outbound payload memory in a severely resource-constrained wireless network (100) can provide for a coordinator node (101) for that... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978671 | Communication apparatus, communication apparatus control method, and computer program for causing computer to execute the control method In 80211.n, the time during which the band is occupied is prolonged by the use of the frame aggregation method or in accordance with the type of communication frame, and this may influence communication of another apparatus. To solve this problem, a communication fr... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978672 | System and method for link quality source routing Systems and methods for routing packets by nodes in an ad hoc network in accordance with a link quality source routing protocol are disclosed. Route discovery, route maintenance, and metric maintenance are designed to propagate and keep current link quality measurem... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978666 | Node control in wireless sensor networks Network node control is described that includes node wakeup scheduling that reduces the energy consumption of levels of nodes and reduces the delay of information transfer through the network. The node wakeup scheduling includes a crossed ladder pattern that combine... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978665 | Systems and methods for providing connection status and location information in a wireless networking environment A system may provide a client device with a persistent wireless network browser toolbar for use in, for example, a network browser. The persistent wireless network browser toolbar is provided with a login status indicator, a logout option, and a wireless network sig... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978667 | Management of WLAN and WWAN communication services to a multi-mode wireless communication device A mesh network communication system includes a plurality of access points connected to a wireless local area network (WLAN) controller where at least one of the plurality access points is a detection access point (DAP) that receives reverse link (RL) wireless wide a... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974247 | Communication terminal device and billing device For transmitting transmission data generated by a transmission data generator of a communication terminal device, a packet unit determining unit [17] determines a packet unit for a lowest data communication rate for the transmission of the transmission data, ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974248 | Wireless “whooper” system for consolidating wireless communication access points and client stations and providing differentiated wireless services A Wireless Whooper system for use in wireless networks is provided with a collection of wireless client stations arranged to transmit and receive wireless streams of information, and wireless Access Points (APs) arranged to wirelessly link with the wireless client s... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974249 | Virtual access point for configuration of a LAN A technique is disclosed for setting up and configuring a LAN. More particularly, secure communications may be configured between an access point (AP) and a client device. Virtual AP technology is utilized to assist the configuration of the network. In particular, a... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974251 | Wireless networks for vehicles A system for a vehicle including a first user interface to generate a first command to receive audio/video data from a server in the vehicle, a first wireless client station to transmit a first packet including the first command, and a first wireless access point to... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974250 | Power saving apparatus and method in a wireless communication system A power saving apparatus and a method in a wireless communication system are provided. An Access Point (AP) buffers transmission frames for sleep-mode stations in a sleep-mode buffer. Upon wakeup from a sleep mode, a station sends a first control information frame i... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969951 | Power-saving wireless network, packet transmitting method for use in the wireless network and computer readable media A power-saving wireless network, a packet transmitting method for use in the wireless network, and computer readable medium therefor are provided. The wireless network comprises a PAN coordinator, a receiving node and a transferring node. When the transmitting node ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969952 | Method of implementing multicast routing system in mobile ad-hoc network environment Disclosed is a method of implementing a multicast routing system in a mobile ad-hoc network environment. The method includes causing control packets for data transmission to be transmitted from a source node to object nodes in accordance with a predetermined method ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969953 | Mobile device handoff while maintaining connectivity with multiple access points A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for allowing a mobile device to maintain communication connectivity during a handoff between wireless access points. In one aspect, the method may include negotiating security association information and est... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969954 | Direct wireless client to client communication A wireless station is connected to a wireless network through an access point and can establish a direct client-to-client connection to a second wireless station. The wireless station can communicate directly with the second wireless station without involving the ac... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969950 | System and method for monitoring and enforcing policy within a wireless network In general, one embodiment of the invention is a air monitor adapted to a wireless network. The air monitor enforces policies followed by the wireless network even though it is not involved in the exchange of data between wireless devices of the wireless network suc... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965696 | Information transmitting method and information transmitting system A slave station which transmits/receives signals to/from a master station, the slave station includes: a transmitting unit and receiving unit for transmitting/receiving signals regarding the master station; a storing unit; an input unit; wherein under a control by a... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965692 | Systems and methods for mobile node handoff Systems and methods for handoff of a mobile node between first and second points of attachment are provided. A communication between a first and second mobile node is optimized and conducted independent of a home agent. During the handoff process the communications ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965691 | Network time reservation cancellation Methods and systems that support, for example, canceling or trimming reservations of a shared communication medium are described. In one embodiment, a method that adapts a network time reservation in a communication network may include, for example, one or more of t... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965693 | Interworking mechanism between wireless wide area network and wireless local area network Interconnection and integration of a WWAN and a WLAN to provide continuous packet data services to mobile users where each mobile access terminal is configured to support both air links with the WWAN and WLAN. The WWAN may be a CDMA2000 system and the WLAN may be an... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965694 | Wireless packet communications system and method An access point in a wireless packet communication system is disclosed. The access point has an antenna for receiving IP data encoded according to a wireless IP communication protocol. The access point also has a combiner having an input coupled to said antenna and ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965695 | Method and apparatus for routing a packet in mobile IP system The system includes a mobile node (101) communicating with a correspondent node (102), a home agent node (131) managing the mobile node (101), a proxy node (121) being located closer to the mobile node (101) than the home ag... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965690 | Telecommunications system A telecommunications system includes a mobile network having a plurality of portable communication devices, and a fixed network which includes a signaling agent, a plurality of directory agents, and a plurality of spaced apart attachment points to which the mobile n... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961690 | Wireless switch network architecture implementing mobility areas within a mobility domain Techniques are provided for configuring wireless switches within a mobility domain. In one implementation, a first designated wireless switch and a first client wireless switch are configured as part of a first mobility area of the mobility domain. An internal peeri... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961691 | Timeslot duration in TDMA-based MAC for VOIP over wireless What is described is an approach to assigning timeslots of appropriate duration when using a TDMA based MAC protocol for forwarding VOIP traffic. It is known that a typical user speaks only 35% of the time in a voice session. Existing VOIP systems exploit this fact ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961692 | Communication terminal and method of searching A communication terminal capable of wireless LAN communication includes: a search unit that searches for a base station that should be an access point; a database that stores an application of the wireless LAN communication and search information utilized for search... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961693 | Tunneled direct link setup collision resolution in a wireless local area network Collisions between tunneled direct link setup (“TDLS”) requests are resolved by associating each request with a priority value. Upon issuing a TDLS request the encapsulated frame is associated with a priority value. When a station, which is waiting for a respons... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957353 | System and method for informing that user is in or not in wireless LAN service A preset data storing means 108 stores identification data of the user's own subscribed hot spot data and identification data of a hot spot dealer in roaming contract relation to the own hot spot dealer. A wireless communication means 107 obtains the e... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957354 | Internet enabled cellular telephones A voice web browser system includes a telephone, an access system coupled to a TCP/IP network, a telephone system coupling the telephone to the access system, and a speech-to-text system for “reading” text that had been sent over the TCP/IP network to the teleph... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957355 | Swarm autonomous routing algorithm for mobile ad hoc network communications A Swarm Autonomous Routing Algorithm (SARA) is performed by simple communication node devices for node to node communications in a network, especially a Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET). Each node maintains a table of pheromone values for known neighbor nodes. Pheromon... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957356 | Scalable media access control for multi-hop high bandwidth communications A scalable medium access control (“MAC”) module is provided that avoids conflict resource reservation so that network performance does not degrade as the number of hops or nodes in a wireless network increases. The MAC also provides different access schemes for ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957357 | Method and system for presenting lists of wireless local area network Profile information A method for selecting a wireless local area network (“WLAN”) for a wireless device, comprising: generating a first list of WLAN identifiers for a first group of one or more wireless local area networks (“WLANs”) accessible at a first geographic location and... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957358 | Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for transmitting data via a plurality of network interfaces An apparatus, a method, a computer program, and a computer readable medium for transmitting data via a plurality of network interfaces are provided. The apparatus derives statuses of transmission media and then transmits data based on the statuses. In addition, each... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953053 | Distributed resource reservation in a wireless adhoc network The invention relates to a method of communication in a wireless communication system comprising a first station and at least a second station wherein each of the station for at least a part of the time controls the communication within the system. The first station... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953054 | Dynamic communication and method of use A communication system and method for enhancing the effectiveness of wireless and wired systems. The communication system comprising a communication management system performing dynamic switching of communication transceivers and dynamic addressing of communication ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953055 | Multi-channel MAC apparatus and method for WLAN devices with single radio interface A multi-channel Media Access Control (MAC) method and apparatus for a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) device with a single radio interface are provided. The multi-channel MAC method includes sensing a common channel when a channel coordination window starts from ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953056 | 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 ins... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953058 | Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless LAN A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame recei... | 05/31/2011 |
