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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189594 | Method of controlling header compression in wireless communication, wireless base station, and transmitter The wireless base station notifies the missing to the transmitter upon detection of missing of a data segment received from the transmitter, and the transmitter controls the header compression state of the data segment addressed to the wireless terminal upon the rec... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189593 | Communication system, communication node, and packet scheduling method Provided is a communication system in which a transmission path between communication nodes is multiplexed. A communication node transmitting packets decides the order of the packets to be transmitted through each transmission path on the assumption that an event th... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189595 | Systems and methods for order preserving data A data processing system includes an input circuit, a plurality of processing paths and an output circuit. The input circuit receives blocks of data on a plurality of data streams and distributes the blocks of data to the plurality of processing paths. The plurality... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189592 | Delay reduction method for telephony systems with multiple packet generators A telephony system and method is provided that reduces delay and provides better utilization of upstream bandwidth in delivering packet telephony services to a plurality of subscriber lines via a cable modem system. An exemplary system includes a plurality of voice ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189591 | Methods, systems and computer program products for packet ordering for parallel packet transform processing Packets are processed while maintaining a sequence of the packets. Packets are received and a sequence identifier assigned to the packets. The sequence identifier specifies a serial order associated with the packet. The packets are provided to a plurality of paralle... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184636 | Information processing device and method, and computer readable medium for packetizing and depacketizing data The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, and program, whereby unnecessary standby time can be reduced in depacketizing processing, and processing can be performed easily and at high speed. A common header creating unit 203... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175099 | Embedded system development platform A modular development platform is described which enables creation of reliable, compact, physically robust and power efficient embedded device prototypes. The platform consists of a base module which holds the processor and one or more peripheral modules each having... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170028 | Systems and methods for re-ordering data in distributed data forwarding A network device includes an input interface, at least one processing path and an output interface. The input interface receives data units on a plurality of streams and assigns a first sequence number to each of the received data units. The at least one processing ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165128 | Method and system for lost packet concealment in high quality audio streaming applications The present invention provides an audio streaming system and method for transmitting audio signals with high quality. The advantages of the present invention include easy implementation, computational efficiency, and provision of better audio quality. More particula... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165129 | Method and apparatus for facilitating re-transmitting unacknowledged packets One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating re-transmitting packets in a communication network. During operation, the system transmits one or more acknowledgments to a neighbor in a designated time slot. Next, the system receives one o... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8149841 | System and method for end-user custom parsing definitions Systems and methods for performing customizable analysis of a communication session between two entities includes loading predetermined first parser definitions, stored as at least one binary file, receiving second parser definitions in a form other than a binary fi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144711 | Hitless switchover and bandwidth sharing in a communication network Described are a system and method for providing protection switching and bandwidth sharing in a network. A first endpoint device adds a sequence number to each packet to produce a stream of numbered packets and provides a plurality of packet streams from the stream ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135017 | Arrangement and method in a mobile communication network The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for obtaining efficient radio resource allocation in a mobile communication network comprising a communication network entity (15) and at least one user equipment (18) transmitting data to said mobil... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135016 | System and method for identifying upper layer protocol message boundaries Systems and methods that identify the Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) message boundaries are provided. In one example, a method that identifies ULP message boundaries is provided. The method may include one or more of the following steps: attaching a framing header of a ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130761 | Method and system for providing confirmed delivery of ethernet packets Methods and systems are disclosed for providing confirmed delivery of Ethernet packets. The type/length (T/L) field of the standard Ethernet protocol packet is used to provide sequence numbers for guaranteed delivery of Ethernet packets. Sequence numbers are assigne... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130762 | Distributed wireless packet assembly Distributed assembly of data packets into messages at a group of interface devices that receive data packets from within a coverage area. Each interface device in the group will take ownership of a sequence of data packets forming a message when a data packet of the... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125994 | Method and apparatus for assembling network layer data units A method and apparatus for assembling a first network layer data unit from one or more second layer data units is described. The approach comprises receiving multiple second network layer data units, identifying whether all second network data layer units required f... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121127 | Method for handling multiple network packets A method for handling multiple network packets is provided. The method is suitable for an embedded system connected to a network, wherein the embedded system includes a network device driver module and a simplified TCP/IP stack module. First, a plurality of network ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111700 | Computer-readable recording medium storing packet identification program, packet identification method, and packet identification device A packet identification device has a reception unit that successively receives packets. The device has an obtaining unit that obtains, every time a packet is received, an interval of reception times between the received packet and a packet received immediately befor... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111699 | Base station access system and base station data transmission method A base station access system and a base station data transmission method. The system includes a base station and a broadband access point. An embodiment of base station data transmission method includes: a base station assigns sequence number identifications to upli... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111698 | Method of performing a layer operation in a communications network In an embodiment of the present invention, a scheduling operation is performed at a lower layer based on upper layer information. In another embodiment of the present invention, an action is performed at an upper layer based on received lower layer information. Also... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107477 | Cell or frame assembly method and apparatus optimizing the moving of data In a network node, a method and apparatus assemble fixed cell length cells resulting from the segmenting of variable length frames into cells. A finite state machine fetches frame data moves frame data and control block data to the cell and outputs cell data. A coun... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107478 | Wireless communication device, communication system, communication control method, and program A wireless communication device includes: a control unit configured to control communication data; and memory configured to store communication data; wherein the control unit performs processing of setting a re-order buffer corresponding to a source address, for sto... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102857 | System and method for processing data and control messages in a communication system A system and method for receiving data and control messages comprised of a series of data units is provided. The data units comprising each message are structured to follow a particular sequence, such as zero or more data units of a first type followed by one or mor... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102858 | Context-switched multi-stream pipelined reorder engine A pipelined reorder engine reorders data items received over a network on a per-source basis. Context memories correspond to each of the possible sources. The pipeline includes a plurality of pipeline stages that together simultaneously operate on the data items. Th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098664 | Retransmission-request transmitting method and receiving side apparatus In a retransmission-request transmitting method, the receiving side apparatus activates a reordering timer, when receiving a first packet before receiving an unreceived packet with a sequence number smaller than a sequence number of the first packet; triggers transm... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8085782 | Digital combining device and method thereof The present invention provides a combining device for combining radio signals during uplink transmission in an indoor communication system, the indoor communication system comprising an Ethernet switch, the Ethernet switch connected to a base station and to at least... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085781 | Bulk data transfer This disclosure relates to network data communication. Some embodiments include initiating a network connection between an original source and an ultimate destination, transmitting a block of data from the original source to the ultimate destination on the network, ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081635 | Reconstruction of errored media streams in a communication system A method for reconstructing and reproducing a received media stream while minimizing storage space is presented. The media stream transmitted by a transmitting device is uploaded to an external storage device. Metadata including packetization mapping information, mi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081634 | Method and apparatus for processing downstream packets of cable modem in hybrid fiber coaxial networks A packet processing apparatus of a cable modem in hybrid fiber coaxial networks for processing a packet received from a cable modem termination system through a plurality of downstream channels is provided. A specific channel number is assigned to each channel and t... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072981 | High rate packet data transmission system A hybrid ARQ method for packet data transmission in a mobile communication system wherein previously transmitted packets are combined with retransmitted packets. The packets are segmented into a plurality of protocol data units (PDUs), and each PDU is assigned a seq... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072983 | Method and apparatus for dispatching signals in an optical transport network Methods and apparatuses for dispatching OTN signals are disclosed. The method includes receiving an OTN signal frame; determining in sequence whether each byte in the OTN signal frame is an overhead byte; determining, if the byte is an overhead byte, whether the byt... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072982 | Gateway entity for distinguishing between different messages without full knowledge of underlying protocol A gateway and method for distinguishing between different types of messages without requiring the gateway to be fully aware of the communication protocol. The gateway passes through messages from application entities to network elements and vice versa. The gateway d... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068496 | Method and apparatus for radio communication A radio communication apparatus add an information element (ACK/NACK information element) indicating a reception result of a received signal of a transmission sequence number to the another information element (Other ACK/NACK information element) indicating a recept... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064461 | Method and apparatus for TCIP/IP data transfer over a wireless network Systems and methods are described for increasing data transfer efficiency between networks. The invention being particularly well suited when establishing connectivity between wireless networks, such as based on IEEE 802 standards, and traditionally wired network pr... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064459 | Method and system for transparent TCP offload with transmit and receive coupling Certain aspects of a method and system for transparent transmission control protocol (TCP) offload with transmit and receive coupling are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include collecting at least one received TCP segment for a determined network flow via a netw... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064460 | Method and apparatus of delivering protocol data units for a user equipment in a wireless communications system A method of delivering packet data units (PDUs) for a user equipment in a wireless communications system includes receiving a reordering PDU having at least one upper layer PDU from a protocol entity, determining whether the at least one upper layer PDU are segmente... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059654 | Wireless datagram transaction protocol system Systems are provided for sequencing, delivery acknowledgement, and throttling of data packets over a network layer, such as UDP and SMS. To support devices with limited battery resources, the invention incorporates asymmetric retry logic and/or acknowledgements with... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054836 | Downlink packet data convergence protocol behavior during handover The present invention relates to maintaining an order of received data units during a handover procedure in a wireless communication system. The present invention includes receiving a plurality of data units from a source station according to a sequence prior to han... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050271 | Protecting data integrity in an enhanced network connection The integrity of a data stream transmitted over a network is protected by adjusting the sequence number, the port number, or another field of a data packet field, for a number of data packets so that the data packets will be considered either valid or invalid by a d... | 11/01/2011 |
