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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165132 | Scheduling apparatus, mobile station therewith, and method therefor A method for real-time uplink traffic scheduling in a mobile station (MS) to communicate with a base station (BS) in a wireless mobile system. When the BS provides a bandwidth grant to the MS in reply to the uplink from the MS, the uplink service flow will be assign... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160075 | Downlink out of sync detection in continuous packet connectivity Although described herein in terms of UE out-of-sync detection, those of skill in the art will readily recognize that embodiments of the present invention improve in-sync detection for currently out-of-sync UEs 22. That is, if an out-of-sync UE 22 dete... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8121129 | Optimizing throughput of data in a communications network A method for transmitting data in a communications network is provided. The method comprises identifying a first data packet associated with a first transmission priority, wherein the first data packet encapsulates a plurality of messages designated for transmission... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116317 | Preventing quality of service policy abuse in a network A system for preventing quality of service policy abuse comprising a media connection and a local area network prioritizing quality of service in which quality of service to a to a video receiver or similar device may be maintained by prioritizing its signal relativ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116318 | Method for scheduling ATM cells and a device having ATM cell scheduling capabilities A method for scheduling a transmission of ATM cells, the method includes: receiving an indication that a scheduling session should starts; and repeating the stages of: selecting a channel representative queue out of multiple queues that are associated with different... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111701 | System and method for prioritizing and providing credits for data packet communication over a packet network A system and method for prioritizing data packets being communicated over a packet network may include receiving a data packet at a network node. The data packet may include an origination network address, a destination network address, and a data field. A determina... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102859 | Method, system, and device for network selection A method, system, and device for network selection are provided. The method for network selection includes the following steps. After network selection is triggered, a network selection list stored in a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) and a network selectio... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8085786 | H-ARQ throughput optimization by prioritized decoding Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate data throughput optimization in a receiver through prioritized decoding of data transmissions. In particular, mechanisms are provided that assign priorities to obtained packets and/or sub-packets of a data tran... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8064464 | Method and system for inbound content-based QoS Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for communicating inbound network data to provide QoS. The method includes receiving data over a network at a node, prioritizing the data at the node by assigning a priority to the data, and communicating... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8040898 | Wireless terminal, access point, system provided with the same, and wireless communication method A wireless LAN communications system with high transmission efficiency is provided. When a first wireless terminal normally receives a Data1 signal from an access point, the wireless terminal transmits an ACK signal. In the case where the wireless terminal has trans... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031721 | Method and apparatus for marking and scheduling packets for transmission A method and system for profile-marking and scheduling of packets are disclosed. Using a dual-rate scheduler, the profile state of a packet being scheduled for transmission by a flow traffic descriptor is determined based on the traffic rate of the flow traffic desc... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8009678 | System and method for generating a dynamic prioritized contact list A system and method for generating a dynamic prioritized contact list for a communication device. The dynamic prioritized contact list may vary over the course of the day to provide an optimized contact list for a time interval. A prioritized contact list generator ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7986700 | Multiplexed data stream circuit architecture An apparatus comprising an ingress controller configured to receive a data frame comprising a high priority data and a low priority data, and an ingress buffer coupled to the ingress controller and configured to buffer the low priority data, wherein the high priorit... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7957398 | Methods and systems for dynamic division of path capacity Methods and systems are disclosed that relate to selecting a path for sending an I/O request from a host to a data storage subsystem from among a plurality of paths from the host to the subsystem. An exemplary method includes identifying a limitation on the traffic ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7920573 | Data relay device, data relay method, and computer product A data relay device includes a plurality of transmission ports that constitutes a logical port, and stores therein a MAC learning table and a CoS distribution table. The data relay device reads a MAC address and a CoS value from a frame, and reads a logical-port ID ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912068 | Low-latency scheduling in large switches Embodiments of a scheduler for a switch, where the switch is configured to couple input ports to output ports are described. During operation, the scheduler may determine a schedule based on a group of requests, associated with multiple data streams, that are receiv... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912067 | Clearinghouse server for internet telephony and multimedia communications A clearinghouse server for routing multi-media communications, including telephony calls, between a source device and a destination device via a distributed computer network, such as the global Internet. The clearinghouse server can authorize the completion of a com... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903667 | Packet communication system with QoS control function A packet communication system of the present invention has first mode, second mode and third mode to apply to input packets. The first mode is a mode that decides priority of the packet by at least one of the address information and the application information, the ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899060 | Method for providing bearer specific information for wireless networks The Packet Control Function (PCF) has limited knowledge about the nature of the packet data arriving on a bearer path connected via the Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN), and cannot make an intelligent decision on its own as to how best to handle the packet data. Thus... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899059 | Media delivery using quality of service differentiation within a media stream A WLAN system adapted to apply QoS differentiation to a media stream to be transmitted from a transmitting station (STA) to a receiving STA of that system. The transmitting STA processes the media stream to generate a base sub-stream and one or more enhancement sub-... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7876763 | Pipeline scheduler including a hierarchy of schedulers and multiple scheduling lanes Disclosed is a hierarchy of individual schedulers with multiple scheduling lanes for scheduling items, such as, but not limited to packets or indications thereof, such that different classes of priority items can be propagated through the hierarchy of schedulers acc... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7852853 | System and method for transmitting video information Systems and methods for transmitting video are provided. The system determines the type of encoded video frames. Each of the video frames is then placed in a network transport packet. A priority level of the network transport packet is set based on the determined ty... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852854 | Method and apparatus for time-multiplexed processing of multiple digital video programs The present invention relates generally to the processing of multiple data streams with common resources. More particularly, this invention relates to a technique for time-multiplexed processing of, for example, multiple digital video programs. In one embodiment, an... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852855 | Method for controlling multi-user TCP/IP access over a satellite communication channel A method is provided for controlling TCP/IP access includes receiving a request from a requestor for data transmission over a satellite communication channel, determining whether the request for data transmission has collided with a separate request for data transmi... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843943 | Differentiation for bandwidth request contention The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for bandwidth contention differentiation comprising: determining a service type of a bandwidth request, setting a priority of the bandwidth request based on the determined service type, and providing conten... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839864 | Priority propagation with a hierarchical asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) scheduler According to various embodiments, high priority traffic is obtained from one of a plurality of virtual channels servicing high priority traffic. High priority traffic is placed in a high priority queue. Low priority traffic is obtained from one of a plurality of vir... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7817643 | System and method for varying the scheduling of real time protocol (RTP) packets Apparatus and a method for transmitting a plurality of streams of data packets through a computer network assigns queued packets from each of the plurality of data streams to respective slots in scheduling windows such that queued packets from respective ones of the... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817644 | High speed weighted fair queuing system for ATM switches Methods and apparatus for an ATM network for implementing a fair servicing of all connections during a back-logged condition through the use of a weighted fair queuing technique. The system is particularly suited for systems where the packets/cells are of a fixed si... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813352 | Packet load shedding Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to enhanced packet load shedding mechanisms implemented in various network devices. In one implementation, the present invention enables a selective load shedding mechanism that intelligently discards packets to allow or fac... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809002 | Method and apparatus for priority services management Apparatus and method for adapting a control plane of a communications network normally using a call session control function (CSCF) in communication with a resource access control function (RACF) by providing a priority service functional element (PS-FE) to handle c... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7787472 | Hierarchical policers for enforcing differentiated traffic behavior A hierarchical traffic policer may include a first policer configured to pass first packets when a first condition is met. The first policer also may alter selection information within the passed first packets. A second policer may be configured to pass second packe... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782870 | Method and apparatus for consolidating available computing resources on different computing devices Computing resources available on multiple computing devices are consolidated by an intermediate computing system and provided to other computing systems when those computing systems need additional bandwidth and processing power they cannot provide by themselves. | 08/24/2010 |
| 7769028 | Systems and methods for adaptive throughput management for event-driven message-based data Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for communicating data including prioritizing data by assigning a priority to the data, analyzing a network to determine a status of the network, and communicating the data based at least in part on the p... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769027 | Method and device for managing priority during the transmission of a message Method of managing priority during the transmission of a message, in an interconnections network comprising at least one transmission agent which comprises at least one input and at least one output, each input comprising a means of storage organized as a queue of m... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7764694 | System, method, and apparatus for prioritizing network traffic using deep packet inspection (DPI) A method, system, and apparatus for prioritizing network traffic according to one embodiment includes receiving a packet addressed to a receiver device from a sender device, identifying the packet at a network layer to determine an application and/or protocol associ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7724750 | Expedited data transmission in packet based network An improved scheduling mechanism usable for a data transmission in a packet based network is provided. A plurality of connections is detected, and for each of the connections, a buffer occupancy level is determined. Then, the connections having a smaller buffer occu... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7710977 | Allocation of radio resources to packets in accordance with service qualities under radio communication environment A mobile communications base station has a service quality detection unit that monitors and measures communication qualities of wireless terminals currently located in the service area, and a packet classification unit that classifies packets addressed to the wirele... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7706386 | Fast 2-key scheduler A scheduler utilizes a data structure in the form of an augmented, pruned, radix tree to implement 2-key scheduling. ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7706387 | System and method for round robin arbitration A switch includes an arbiter that receives a plurality of requests from N input ports, and determines N round robin arbitration option winners by performing N round robin arbitration options on the requests, each of the N round robin arbitration options performed as... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701949 | System and method for switching high priority traffic with low latency An apparatus including a first buffer, a second buffer and a priority switch circuit. The first buffer is configured to store data of a first data stream having a first priority. The second buffer is configured to store data of a second data stream having a second p... | 04/20/2010 |
