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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085805 | Adaptive channel selection by wireless nodes for improved operating range Improved message range in a wireless network is achieved by each node performing an energy/noise scan to determine a receiving channel having the lowest noise and/or interference, e.g., best reception conditions, relative to the other channels available in the wirel... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081648 | Method and apparatus for handling reset in a wireless communications system A method for handing reset in a first communications device of a wireless communications system is disclosed. The first communications device includes a first transmitter and a receiver. The method includes receiving a packet from a second communications device by t... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072999 | Method and system for removing and returning nodes in a synchronous network A method and system for adding a node into a network operating in a cyclic state after one or more nodes have been previously removed without interrupting the synchronous traffic of the remaining nodes on the network is provided. The method includes discovering an a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059673 | Dynamic resource re-allocation in a packet based video display interface A packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed that includes a transmitter unit coupled to the source device arranged to receive a source packet data stream in accordance with a native stream r... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050286 | CQICH allocation request header for communicating feedback information A method of communicating feedback information between a mobile station and a base station comprises determining a need to request bandwidth allocation; providing information to a base station according to the determining, wherein the information indicates bandwidth... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040911 | Method and apparatus for allocating upstream channel resource in hybrid fiber coaxial network A method and apparatus for allocating upstream channel resources in a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network are provided. A cable modem termination system (CMTS) previously provides cable modems (CMs) with a plurality of burst profiles through an extended interval usag... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8027354 | Network consolidation for virtualized servers Techniques are disclosed for virtualized server kernel and virtual networks consolidation. The network consolidation allows a data center to migrate from an infrastructure that uses multiple dedicated gigabit Ethernet Network Adapters to manage system virtualization... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023524 | Cooperative relay system enabling simultaneous broadcast-unicast operation with efficient automatic repeat request functionality A wireless node, such as a relay node, has different operating modes for unicast and broadcast/multicast subchannels. For unicast services the phase offsets of those relay nodes engaged in a cooperative transmission are optimized for the subchannels used for unicast... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018963 | Systems for flexible wireless channel association A media access controller (MAC) configurable for first and second modes of operation is provided. The MAC includes an uplink processor coupled to a plurality of uplink channels, a downlink processor coupled to a downlink, and a MAP parser coupled to the downlink pro... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014415 | Apparatus, system and method for communicating information in a wireless communication network Techniques are provided for communicating a data stream in a wireless communication network. A source divides the data stream into a first data sub-stream and a second data sub-stream. The first data sub-stream can be modulated using a first modulation technique to ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014416 | HD physical layer of a wireless communication device A radio frequency (RF) transmitter is coupled to and controlled by a processor to transmit data. A physical layer circuit is coupled to the RF transmitter to encode and decode between a digital signal and a modulated analog signal. The physical layer circuit compris... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005107 | Method and system for robust MAC signaling A method for indicating and interpreting robust MAC signaling, the indicating method having the steps of: checking whether a MAC-PDU contains control information; and if yes, providing an indication to use a robust configuration for a HARQ feedback transmission, and... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990994 | Storage gateway provisioning and configuring Storage gateway provisioning, configuration, and management functions provide mechanisms to specify and manage parameters and operations associated with storage gateways. The parameters may include any combination of VLAN topology, zoning behavior, LUN masking, band... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978723 | Using dedicated upstream channel(s) for cable modem initialization A system facilitates initialization of devices in a cable modem network. The system may provide downstream channels for transmitting data to the devices and upstream channels for receiving data from the devices. At least one of the upstream channels may be dedicated... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974299 | Methods and apparatus for switching transmission channels Methods and apparatus for switching transmission channels that include monitoring a number of packets within a transmitter buffer of a transmitter, determining that the number of packets within the transmitter buffer exceeds a pre-determined threshold, and changing ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965731 | Communication apparatus and communication method A communication apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes a first unit for performing data communication using a bandwidth reservation type transmission area constituted by a plurality of time-divided time slots via a power line to which an alterna... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961749 | Signaling method and system for channel switching in a wireless local area network A signaling method and apparatus for channel switching in a WLAN are provided. In the signaling method and apparatus, a data transmission channel is allocated to a receiver and a transmitter. A channel index is set to indicate the allocated channel in a duration fie... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7936773 | Communication channel establishment method and system The present invention provides a communication channel establishment method that establishes a communication channel used particularly when a cipher communication is carried out. Where a packet indicative of an ISAKMP message transmitted from a second communication ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933286 | Distributed trunking mechanism for VHF networking A system and method for communicating between nodes in a communications network. The network includes nodes that broadcast and receive data packets over a radio channel. The system includes a distributed trunking method that distributes the communications between th... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924864 | Terminal-based contention free low overhead access A station of a wireless local area network, the station includes a joining unit configured to join one of a plurality of cliques or to create a new clique, wherein each of the plurality of cliques includes at least one station and wherein each station in a clique ca... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916744 | Method and system for scanning for a downstream channel in a communication network A predetermined current frequency is selected for a cable modem or embedded media terminal adapter to evaluate for presence of a CMTS signal. A determination is made whether the current frequency carries signal energy as opposed to just noise. If no signal energy is... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903680 | Adaptive algorithm for reducing channel zapping time in multicast media A method and system for reducing channel changing time in multicast media, that can include the steps of receiving at least one of a plurality of available channels from a service provider at a residential gateway through a network, ranking the popularity of at leas... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899072 | Method and system for network bandwidth allocation A method and system of an embodiment may include a method, comprising receiving, at a computing device, network bandwidth information for a network, receiving, at a computing device, a request for network bandwidth, identifying, at a computing device, one or more po... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889753 | Multiple access techniques for a wireless communication medium A multiple access technique for a wireless communication system establishes separate channels by defining different time intervals for different channels. In a transmitted reference system different delay periods may be defined between transmitted reference pulses a... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881326 | Multiple packet routing system (MPRS) A method and system for Multiple Packet Routing is disclosed. A first endpoint may be connected to a sound input/output device and a network. The first endpoint may be capable of breaking a call signal sent from the input/output device into a stream of packets and s... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7813371 | System and method for short range communication using adaptive channel intervals A system and method for data transmission on wireless discontinuous channels including a control/safety information (CSI) channel having a duty cycle, and a plurality of service channels. The system and method include: evaluating channel utilization of one or more o... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813370 | Facilitating wireless spectrum migration Migrating from a legacy spectrum allocation to a target spectrum allocation can be accomplished by adding new access points and, at a selected time, activating the new access points and deactivating the legacy access points with a remote network manager. Alternative... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7796632 | Transmission channel bandwidth selection for communications between multi-bandwidth nodes Techniques and technologies are provided for dynamically selecting one of a default channel bandwidth and an alternate channel bandwidth for transmitting information over a wireless communication link which couples a transmitter node to a receiver node. The transmit... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796631 | Method and system for a multicast service initiation in a communication system Method and a system for multicast service notification in cellular telephone system to enable the cellular telephone systems to provide both multicast and point-to-point services are disclosed. Several embodiments describe the signaling interaction between an access... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7782889 | Method for regulating the transmission parameters of broadband transmission channels assembled to form a group The invention relates to a novel algebraic method wherein sub-groups of subscribers that spectrally influence each other, in a group of broadband subscriber connections or transmission channels connected to an intelligent network node in a star-shaped manner are cla... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7764705 | Interference cancellation unit and interference cancellation method An interference cancellation unit having as an input two or more IFDMA signals comprising a multitude of frequency bins is provided. The unit comprises a channel estimator for determining a channel estimate from the input signals, a matrix calculator for determining... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7738476 | Method and apparatus for improved multicast streaming in wireless networks The invention includes a method and apparatus for scheduling packet transmissions on a data channel from a base transceiver station to a plurality of wireless terminals. The method includes, in response to detecting an available timeslot, computing utilization evalu... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738478 | Apparatus and method for determining downstream topology in hybrid-fiber coaxial network An apparatus for determining a downstream topology in a hybrid-fiber-coaxial network includes: a signal branching unit for branching a signal received from a cable modem termination system into a plurality of branched signals; a plurality of signal selecting units f... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738477 | Bus architecture and method for exchanging data A bus architecture has a central processing unit, a data line and bus users. The central processing unit and the bus users are connected to the data line via a bus interface. The data line is constructed as a ring and the central processing unit has two transceiver ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7693170 | Transmission rate control method and mobile station A transmission rate control method, includes: transmitting, at a radio base station, a relative rate grant channel which includes a command for controlling a transmission rate in uplink to a mobile station; and determining, at the mobile station, that the relative r... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7656890 | Downstream channel change technique implemented in an access network A dynamic channel change technique is disclosed which may be implemented between nodes and a Head End of an access network. Initially a network device may communicate with the Head End via a first downstream channel and a first upstream channel. When the network dev... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7630391 | CQICH allocation request header for communicating feedback information A method of communicating feedback information between a mobile station and a base station by determining a need to request bandwidth allocation; providing information to a base station according to the determining, wherein the information indicates bandwidth alloca... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7616654 | Spectrum management systems and methods for cable networks The present methods and systems provide spectrum management for enhancing upstream performance for cable networks. According to one embodiment, a method of enhancing upstream performance in a cable network includes the steps of measuring performance of an upstream c... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7596148 | Receiving data from virtual channels A method for receiving data from a plurality of virtual channels begins by storing a stream of data as a plurality of data segments, wherein the stream of data includes multiplexed data fragments from at least one of the plurality of virtual channels, and wherein a ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7564862 | Assignment of channels to links of nodes within a mesh network Embodiments for assigning channels to links of a node of a mesh network are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method of assigning channels to links of a node of a mesh network, wherein the mesh network includes the node and an upstream node. The method includes a... | 07/21/2009 |
