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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170032 | Method and arrangement for externally controlling and managing at least one WLAN subscriber who is assigned to a local radio network A method for externally controlling and managing a wireless local area network subscriber assigned to at least one wireless local area network includes requesting a service using the subscriber, checking an authorization of the subscriber to access the TCP/IP networ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8085787 | Virtual loop carrier system with automatic configuration of ATM endpoints In an ATM network having ATM endpoints connected to a central server over respective virtual circuits, ATM endpoints are configured for Internet Protocol (IP) over ATM communications by transmitting an unsolicited message from the server to the selected ATM endpoint... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085788 | System, device, method and computer program product for managing devices A system for managing a communication device having a first function of using a first communication protocol and a second function of using a second communication protocol is provided. The communication device is connected to a network including a first device using... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8068500 | Node device, packet control device, radio communication device, and transmission control method A conventional node 3 divides an IP packet into data fragments and prepares a packet for RAN 9 transmission. There has been a problem that, since a RAN 6 cannot identify an IP packet unit, affinity is low relative to an IP network 1 that ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8014405 | Upgrading ATM embedded networks to carry IP signals An Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) signal is phase modulated based on an Internet Protocol (IP) signal to form a combined ATM/IP signal. The ATM signal is phase modulated without exceeding a specified tolerance of symbol period of the ATM signal. The combined ATM/I... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000332 | Method for terminating attach procedure in mobile terminal A system and method by which an unnecessary General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) attach procedure is no longer performed when a service cancellation situation is generated during execution of a GPRS attach procedure according to a data service requested by a user is ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7974293 | Method and apparatus for transcrypting or transcoding content for a terminal within a vehicle A system 10 for distributing content includes a content provider 12 that provides content through various devices including a satellite 26 or a terrestrial-based system 38. The content provider 12 provides content to a content dist... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7944929 | Secure integrated mobile internet protocol transit case A self-contained wireless internet protocol system includes a power supply converter for receiving input power of any type and converting the input power to a system power. A wireless local area network (WLAN) bridge and a wireless wide area network (WWAN) bridge co... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940777 | Loss-free packet networks In one embodiment, a method can include: receiving a packet in a device; classifying the received packet as a first packet type or a second packet type; when the packet is the first packet type, forwarding the packet to a next hop; and when the packet is the second ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7924849 | Method of and system for providing quality of service in IP telephony A method and system for providing quality of service in an IP telephony session between a calling party and a called party establishes a high quality of service ATM virtual circuit for the session between first and second devices, each of the devices having ATM capa... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924848 | Receive flow in a network acceleration architecture A method for receiving data in a network acceleration architecture for use with TCP (transport control protocol), iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over TCP, including providing a hardware acceleration engine, ca... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920574 | Method for transmitting packet from correspondent node to mobile node A method is disclosed for transmitting a packet from a correspondent node to a mobile node when the mobile node moves from a home network to an external network equivalent to the correspondent node's local network. The method may include securing a Care Of Address (... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912069 | Virtual segmentation system and method of operation thereof A virtual segmentation system and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the virtual segmentation system includes a protocol data unit receiver subsystem configured to (i) receive at least a portion of a protocol data unit and (ii) store the at least a p... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912070 | System and method for seamlessly switching a half-duplex session to a full-duplex session A communication system that is particularly suited to switch a half duplex session to a full duplex session. The system includes a dispatch call controller that sets up a half duplex session; and a VoIP server that receives a request to switch the half duplex sessio... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899064 | System paging method and apparatus of heterogeneous wireless networks A paging method and apparatus for minimizing power consumption under a heterogeneous wireless network environment is provided. The terminal can recognize data reception from the heterogeneous network using a CDMA2000 network having a wide service range under a heter... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7881305 | Network system and method for relaying communication between devices Provided is a network system for relaying communication between devices communicating with the Internet using different communication networks. The network system includes a first home network controller which controls first home network devices within a household; ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881304 | Using distributed aspects to reorder online application workflows One or more distributed aspect servers modify a sequence of online services provided by an application server that is remote from the aspect servers. A client sends a request to the application server. An aspect service is invoked if the request satisfies a criterio... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7864779 | Internet service synchronization method for mobile communication terminal A synchronization method between an application and Internet protocol included in a mobile terminal including determining whether or not an Internet Function can be performed by the Internet protocol and issuing a wait command from the Internet protocol to the appli... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7830891 | Method of and system for providing quality of service in IP telephony A method and system for providing quality of service in an IP telephony session between a calling party and a called party establishes a high quality of service ATM virtual circuit for the session between first and second devices, each of the devices having ATM capa... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7760741 | Network acceleration architecture A network acceleration architecture for use with TCP, iSCSI and/or RDMA over TCP, including a hardware acceleration engine adapted for communication with and processing data from a consumer application in a system that supports TCP, iSCSI and RDMA over TCP, a softwa... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7742483 | Method and radio sation for transmitting data packets in a radio-communication system A method transmits data packets in a radio-communication system. A criterion is associated with a data packet received by a radio station, and a data packet which is correctly received is transmitted to another device and/or protocol layer when the criterion has bee... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7733875 | Transmit flow for network acceleration architecture A method for receiving data in a network acceleration architecture for use with TCP (transport control protocol), iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) and/or RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over TCP, including providing a hardware acceleration engine,... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7701951 | Resource reservation and admission control for IP network A resource reservation and admission control scheme uses pseudowires to reserve bandwidth over a layer-2 and/or layer-3 network. The pseudowires are associated with ports on different network processing devices. During a resource reservation and admission control se... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697545 | Discovery of component relationships in distributed data processing networks A technique for automated discovery of relationships between components providing a service and discovery of the relationship of shared components to other services. A discovery engine determines a management address for a component experiencing a problem and retrie... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7688834 | System and method for providing support for multiple control channels A method for providing support for multiple control channels includes establishing an indirect data connection with a first network entity in an optical network. The method also includes establishing a first control channel with the first network entity. The first c... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7680129 | Preemptive retransmission of buffered data in a network An apparatus for data transmission over a network includes a buffer and a timer mechanism for timing an optimum interval (less than the round-trip error response delay) for retransmission of data. A first accessor accesses data in the buffer for transmission and sta... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7660312 | Method and apparatus for reshaping cell-based traffic A communication network (100) has a plurality of cell-based routers (104), a plurality of frame-based routers (108), and a bidirectional cell and frame based switch (110) coupled to the cell-based routers, and frame-based routers. Each of... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7616644 | Method and apparatus providing a protocol to enable a wireless TCP session using a split TCP connection Disclosed are a method and a system that operates in accordance with the method to set up a TCP session between a MS and an end point destination via a wireless network and the Internet. The method includes sending a split TCP connection request from the MS to a PEP... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613193 | Apparatus, method and computer program product to reduce TCP flooding attacks while conserving wireless network bandwidth A method for operating a firewall includes: in response to the firewall receiving a TCP SYN request packet that is sent towards a first node from a second node, the TCP SYN request packet comprising a sequence value (“seq”), sending to the second node a SYN|ACK ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609701 | Communication using private IP addresses of local networks A system, apparatus and method to use private IP addresses to designate host devices or nodes in different networks for communication purposes are described. Various embodiments of the invention address the problem of a shortage of public IP addresses under IPv4 arc... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7586922 | Providing higher layer packet/frame boundary information in GRE frames A Packet Data Services Node (PDSN) optionally frames user data from an Application IP packet received from a public data network (e.g., the Internet) into a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frame, and encapsulates the Application IP packet or PPP frame data into one or... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7586923 | Bandwidth allocation for VoIP traffic in network having interface between frame relay and ATM A frame relay data rate RFR for a VoIP call is determined based on a particular packetization time interval TS and its associated sample data size BS for a particular CODEC, a size BHT of at least one of a frame relay head... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580414 | Method for terminating attach procedure in mobile terminal A function by which an unnecessary General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) attach procedure is no longer performed when a service cancellation situation is generated during execution of a GPRS attach procedure according to a data service requested by a user is implement... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7564854 | Network architecture with a light-weight TCP stack In one aspect, there is provided a method for use by an edge device for establishing a connection with a server to support a full TCP connection between a client and the edge device. The method comprises establishing a full TCP connection with the server using a ful... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7519069 | Internet protocol address updating system and related method An IP address updating system and related method is applied to a network server having a management controller for the management controller to update IP installation information. The system includes an acquiring module, a comparing module and an updating module. Th... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519068 | System for embodying protocol in gateway GPRS supporting node and method thereof Disclosed is a protocol embodying system and method in the GGSN. An IP layer is provided between the GPRS network and the PDN and performs routing between the two networks, and performs routing between the protocols of the first and second network layers and the tra... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7505469 | Method for reporting transmission state by internet protocol and network using the same Disclosed are a method for reporting a transmission state by an Internet protocol (IP) and a network system using the same. The method includes the steps of determining whether discard of any datagrams occurs, and if the discard of any datagram occurs, obtaining an ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7483436 | System and method for establishing mobile station-to-mobile station packet data calls directly between base stations of a wireless network A wireless network that provides a packet data call connection between a source mobile station (MS) and a destination mobile station (MS) in a coverage area of the wireless network. The wireless network comprises a first base station that wirelessly communicates wit... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7468981 | Clock-based replay protection Nodes in a network include a pseudo-timestamp in messages or packets, derived from local pseudo-time clocks. When a packet is received, a first time is determined representing when the packet was sent and a second time is determined representing when the packet was ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7468980 | Secure integrated mobile internet protocol transit case A self-contained wireless internet protocol system includes a power supply converter for receiving input power of any type and converting the input power to a system power. A wireless local area network (WLAN) bridge and a wireless wide area network (WWAN) bridge co... | 12/23/2008 |
