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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189597 | Pipeline scheduler with fairness and minimum bandwidth guarantee A pipeline scheduler provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee by transporting cells from an input port to an output port in a two-phased approach. Cells that conform to a minimum cell rate (MCR) are selected from queues at the input port and arranged into supercells f... | 05/29/2012 |
| RE43385 | Communication method A communication mode which should be set to a mobile communication terminal having a function of switching between an autonomous mode and a scheduling mode is determined based on an amount of interference in each of the communication modes in the cell of a base stat... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175100 | Transmission scheduling optimization method and wireless user equipment device A wireless user equipment device transmits a control channel and a data channel. Each of the control channel and the data channel include a plurality of time slots. The control channel is configured to transmit control information and includes both transmission time... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175101 | Multicasting in a network using neighbor information In one aspect, a method to multicast in a network includes determining using a processor a least amount of relay nodes for use in multicasting a message to nodes in the network by using a neighbor matrix of a source node used in Node Activation Multiple Access (NAMA... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170031 | High performance scheduling methods and apparatus for leveraging diversity in relay-enabled wireless networks Apparatus and methods are described for scheduling transmission resources in a relay-enabled orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless communications system. Schedulers are described which address the problem of determining the optimal transmiss... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8149845 | Network for exchanging packet signals via a pooled connection Networks for exchanging packet signals between first network-units (1) like access providers and/or access multiplexers coupled to terminals and second network-units (2) like service providers and/or gateways coupled to further networks can be improved... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149846 | Data processing system and method A method is provided of managing cluster interconnect traffic, comprising prioritising the cluster interconnect traffic using at least two priorities, and distributing the prioritised cluster interconnect traffic according to the prioritising. Corresponding system a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144712 | Scheduling grant information signaling in wireless communication system A wireless communication infrastructure entity including a transceiver coupled to a controller configured to generate parity bits based on scheduling grant information and to encode the parity bits based on additional scheduling grant information not used to generat... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8121128 | Method and apparatus for link control in a wireless communication system Techniques for controlling transmission of packets on multiple links are described. In one design, a transmitter may generate packets of data for a receiver, assign the packets with sequence numbers from a single sequence number space, demultiplex the packets into m... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116316 | Method and apparatus for scheduling in a packet buffering network A system and method that can be deployed to schedule links in a switch fabric. The operation uses two functional elements: to perform updating of a priority link list; and then selecting a link using that list. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8098666 | Method and system for providing a priority-based, low-collision distributed coordination function using a super-frame structure A method for providing a priority-based, low-collision distributed coordination function (DCF) in a wireless network is provided. The network includes an access point and a plurality of stations. The method includes receiving at a first station a super-frame from th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098667 | Methods and apparatus for efficient providing of scheduling information Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate efficiently providing scheduling information from an access terminal to a base station to enable effectuating scheduling decisions. Access terminals may transmit scheduling information in bifurcated requests. F... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8085785 | Mobile station, a base station, a mobile communication system and a communication control method There is disclosed a mobile station performing packet communications with a base station, including: a reservation control signal generating unit configured to generate a reservation control signal, based on control information transmitted in advance of a data packe... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085784 | Data transmitting apparatus and data transmitting method With time intervals and transmission times of packets of real time streams, transmission end times thereof are calculated. The transmission order of packets of the real time streams is decided in the order of the earlier transmission end times thereof. Transmission ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077727 | Processing of partial frames and partial superframes A method may include determining a schedule of flush events for a queue and identifying whether the queue includes information associated with a partial data unit, the partial data unit being a data unit that is less than completely filled with data. The method may ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072986 | Communication mode controlling method, mobile communication system, radio network controller, base station, and mobile communication terminal A communication mode which should be set to a mobile communication terminal having a function of switching between an autonomous mode and a scheduling mode is determined based on an amount of interference in each of the communication modes in the cell of a base stat... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068497 | System and method for prioritization of retransmission of protocol data units to assist radio-link-control retransmission A medium access control (MAC) architecture reduces transmission latency for data block retransmissions. A plurality of data blocks are received and temporarily stored in a first memory (e.g., queue, buffer). The plurality of data blocks are then transmitted. A deter... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8054837 | Multiuser scheduling for MIMO broadcast channels with finite rate feedback System and methodologies are provided herein for multiuser scheduling in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. Various aspects described herein facilitate full feedback scheduling, wherein multiuser scheduling is performed based on an antenna... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045561 | Two stage traffic scheduling A first traffic flow directed to a first wireless device is received. A second traffic flow directed to a second wireless device is received. These traffic flows comprise at least a first service flow classification and a second service flow classification. The firs... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8023514 | Communication resource management device A communication resource management device changes the transfer rate of a first control channel related to a first mobile terminal according to a communication condition. The device determines whether there is a frequency band for which it is not determined whether ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8005092 | Two-dimensional pipelined scheduling technique A scheduler allowing high-speed scheduling scalable with the number of input and output ports of a crosspoint switch and suppressed unfairness among inputs is disclosed. The scheduler includes an M×M matrix of scheduling modules, each of which schedules packet forw... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995585 | Method of controlling transmission rates In an embodiment of the method, an estimated use of an uplink resource by prioritized users, if transmission rates for the prioritized users are granted, is determined. The transmission rates are then granted if the estimated use of the uplink resource is less than ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990980 | Modeling non-deterministic priority queues for efficient model checking A method and system are disclosed for modeling non-deterministic queues for efficient model checking. In this method and system, a multitude of messages are held in a plurality of queues, and these messages having n priorities. The method comprises the steps of prov... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986699 | Method for downlink packet scheduling using service delay time and channel state The present invention provides a method for downlink packet scheduling for scheduling a real-time service and a non-real-time service. The method for downlink packet scheduling includes steps of: a) classifying inputted packets based on a type of packet and storing ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983273 | High-speed scheduling apparatus for a switching node A scheduling apparatus for a switch includes multiple schedulers which are assigned in a variety of ways to non-intersecting control domains for establishing connections through the switch. The control domains are defined by spatial and temporal aspects. The control... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983271 | Tiered contention multiple access (TCMA): a method for priority-based shared channel access Quality of Service (QoS) support is provided by a Tiered Contention Multiple Access (TCMA) distributed medium access protocol that schedules transmission of different types of traffic based on their service quality specifications. In one embodiment, a wireless stati... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983272 | Apparatus and methods for incorporating bandwidth forecasting and dynamic bandwidth allocation into a broadband communication system A method for providing network access to a shared access communications medium for a plurality of users includes the steps of conducting predictive admission control by arbitrating user requests for access to the shared medium based on predicted aggregate demands, c... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978710 | Synchronous inter-piconet routing Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to wireless communications. The systems and techniques involve wireless communications wherein a process, module or communications terminal schedules communications. The scheduling function may include scheduling an inte... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978711 | Systems and methods for broadcasting content using surplus network capacity A system and method are described for broadcasting/multicasting content using surplus network capacity. The systems and methods are directed to solving the problem of how to simultaneously broadcast/multicast large content files to a plurality of users for later ret... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7948991 | Broadcast and multicast transmissions with acknowledgement scheduling In one embodiment, a method includes scheduling acknowledgements from a plurality of receivers in a wireless network, transmitting an acknowledgement schedule to the receivers, broadcasting or multicasting data to the receivers, processing acknowledgements received ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944927 | Efficient use of persistent scheduling with OFDMA wireless communications Various embodiments of the invention may take advantage of persistent scheduling in a wireless network to achieve efficiencies of operation. One embodiment dynamically adjusts the duration of persistent scheduling based on changing channel conditions. When mobile st... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7929547 | Networks having plurality of nodes One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of communicating in a network with a plurality of nodes. In the method, information is gathered from the plurality of nodes, where information from each node specifies other nodes from which the node detect... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929546 | Systems, methods and apparatus for allocating time slots in an ad hoc wireless communication network In a network comprising a source, a destination, and intermediate nodes along a route between the source and the destination, techniques are provided for allocating one or more time slots to transmit a particular data stream along the route based on the QoS requirem... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924846 | Network connection system and traffic shaping method for facilitating shaping traffic even in network which accommodates lines based on different protocols A packet scheduling apparatus corrects an overhead amount between a DSL rate and a packet rate, converts DSL rate information to the packet rate, and shapes the IP packets from the Internet such that the IP packets are delivered at a transmission rate equal to or lo... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924845 | Message-based low latency circuit emulation signal transfer Message send and receive blocks are provided to emulation ICs and reconfigurable interconnect ICs of an emulation system to reduce the multiplexed transfer latency of critical emulation signals. Each of a corresponding pair of a message send block and a message rece... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7907617 | Method and system for programmable bandwidth allocation The disclosed systems and methods relate to allocating bandwidth to a plurality of ports that access a shared resource. An exemplary system may comprise a multiplexer, a table, and a scheduling circuit. The table may define when a port has access to the shared resou... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7885270 | Statistical multiplexing of compressed video streams Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for statistical multiplexing of compressed video streams. A deadline of a packet of a compressed video stream is computed based on a program clock reference value of the packe... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881303 | Command packet packing to mitigate CRC overhead In an embodiment, a node comprises a packet scheduler configured to schedule packets to be transmitted on a link and an interface circuit coupled to the packet scheduler and configured to transmit the packets on the link. The interface circuit is configured to gener... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873055 | Scheduling user transmissions of mobile stations on a reverse link of a spread spectrum cellular system The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for wireless communication between a base station and at least two mobile stations in a cellular system. The method comprises sending on a forward link at least one of a first and a second command to the at le... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7864777 | Transmission format selection for optimizing transmission of delay sensitive traffic A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions for transmitting delay sensitive packets. A data rate control index is received from a mobile station for use in transmitting the delay sensitive packets to the mobile st... | 01/04/2011 |
