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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6879585 | Internet based mobile terminal provisioning A system and method for a user to initiate a data only session with a mobile terminal over a wireless network configured with an IS-683 protocol. The user selects a system with the mobile terminal in order to place a call with the wireless network. Next, a call is o... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6865187 | Method and apparatus using transition state protocol signaling for fax transport manner capability exchange A method that involves recognizing an incoming FAX call at a destination edge node, the destination edge node supportive of at least two FAX transport manners. A first control packet is sent from the destination edge node to an originating edge node that effectively... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6853646 | Fast switching of forward link in wireless system A technique for distributing channel allocation information in a demand access communication system. In a preferred embodiment, for use with Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) type communication, multiple access codes are used that have a defined code repeat perio... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6847650 | System and method for utilizing a memory device to support isochronous processes A system and method for utilizing a memory device to support isochronous processes comprises a memory device that may be partitioned to provide an isochronous memory for storing high-priority isochronous information, and a processor device for accessing and utilizin... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6845104 | Receiver for time division multiplex system without explicit time slot assignment A technique for a time division multiplex system in which access to shared broadcast communication media is granted on a demand basis. Particular connections are assigned slot times at the transmitter based on demand. However, no specific information regarding the a... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6839764 | Domain encapsulation A system for processing Internet requests that permits multiple binds to the same socket number at the same time on the same computer. A separate domain processing shell may be provided for each domain being hosted on a particular platform, and each domain may be ma... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6834193 | Method for processing a traffic channel request The invention relates to a method for processing a traffic channel request in a cellular radio system. To ensure that the allocation of a new traffic channel would not disturb adjacent cells, the method comprises the steps of: calculating the number of traffic chann... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6816500 | Apparatus, method and system for multimedia access network channel management An apparatus, method and system are provided for multimedia access network channel management, such as channel management in a hybrid fiber-coaxial cable network, for voice (telephony), video, fax and data transmission. The preferred system embodiment includes a plu... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6813643 | Multimedia system with selectable protocol module including MPEG logic and docsis logic sharing a single tuner A multimedia apparatus is described comprising: a tuner for tuning to a carrier frequency and down-converting a frequency-modulated multimedia signal to a baseband multimedia signal; a selectable protocol module including QAM/MPEG logic and Data Over Cable Service I... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6810029 | Method for using a subscriber unit to selectively utilize B and D channels to support a plurality of communications A method for using a wireless digital subscriber unit to receive, process and transmit a plurality of communications having independent data rates includes establishing a first communication channel having a first data communication rate to support a first communica... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6810026 | Method of reducing radio channel access delay in GPRS system, and packet radio system A method according to the invention of reducing radio channel access delay in a packet radio system, and a packet radio system, which comprises a network element 100, 102 132, 140 and at least one subscriber terminal 150, which network element 100, ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6807426 | Method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions in a communication system Method and apparatus for a generalized scheduler for scheduling transmissions in a communications system. The scheduler is defined by a priority function of the channel condition and fairness criteria. The generalized scheduler is adapted to apply a variety of combi... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6796555 | Centralized video controller for controlling distribution of video signals A single centralized video controller is employed to convert and distribute video channels to one or more analog TVs (i.e., viewing devices or the like). This is realized without the need for changes to either the TVs or the interconnecting COAX. Specifically, the c... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6795865 | Adaptively changing weights for fair scheduling in broadcast environments Adaptively changing weights for fair scheduling in broadcast environments. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method allocates bandwidth among a plurality of flows, such as nodes, sharing an output link, such as a network. The method includes adaptively deter... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6795449 | Method of staining target interphase chromosomal DNA Disclosed is a channel allocation method on performing a data communication in a wide band wireless multi-media communication system, which allocates selectively reserved time slots or contention time slots, according to the quantity of data to be sent. In the metho... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6791968 | Method and apparatus for wirelessly communicating different information streams A method and apparatus dynamically assigns each of a plurality of different information streams associated with one wireless communication unit (12a), to independent communication resources from different communication resource pools from each of a plu... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6792433 | Indexing interleaved media data By providing an index that stores information about how to access each grouping of elements in an interleaved data stream and each element within each grouping, random access to each element in the interleaved data stream can be achieved. The index may store a tempo... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6788702 | Protocol for neighborhood-established transmission scheduling Scheduling packets are exchanged among neighboring nodes of a computer network. These scheduling packets include descriptions of a transmitting node's 2-hop neighborhood within the computer network, and nodes are able to determine transmission schedules from informa... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6789176 | Address release method, and common buffering device for ATM switching system which employs the same method In a common buffering device with a simple arrangement, a write address can be efficiently released from a buffer memory upon receipt of a multi-address call. For an ATM cell which is to be transmitted to a specific line, a write address is set in a common buffer me... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6788659 | Transmission control without limitation of the number of users A packet transmission control method is achieved by borrowing a first one of a plurality of channels for a first one of a plurality of existing users in response to a packet receiving request, and by transmitting packets to a new user using the first channel. ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785291 | Apparatus and method for channel assignment of packet flows A technique for dynamically assigning a packet flow to transmission channels can result in more efficient use of the channels when compared to static assignment techniques. Using this technique for dynamic assignment, an initial channel assignment is made based upon... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6785233 | Method for bandwidth management by resizing pipes Signaling messages are exchanged for a call between a calling party to a called party. A setup message for the call is exchanged through at least one gate controller. Network resources are reserved for the call based on the exchanged setup messages. An end-to-end me... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6781601 | Transport processor The present invention relates to a system and method for processing information, specifically data packets. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for processing information, comprising determining if a first identifier associated with the infor... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6782429 | Dynamic communication path selection for data transmission between computers A system transmits data, which includes a plurality of data types, over a plurality of communication paths. The system determines which of the plurality of communication paths are available for transmitting the data. The system then determines at least one desired q... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778522 | Bandwidth optimizer dynamically operating in connections relating to radiocommunications, particularly for DECT systems This invention refers to a bandwidth optimizer, dynamically operating in connections relating to radio-communications for multi-bearer systems, especially useful for DECT systems for the short-distance transfer of data packets. Such an optimizer comprises: a first b... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775294 | Time slot assigner for communication system The present invention relates to a method of assigning data from time slots on an input bus to time slots on an output bus comprised of determining the order of time slots of data in a frame, determining whether each time slot of data in an input frame is to be loca... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6775714 | Communication method, communication apparatus, communication system and providing medium An object of this invention is to enable a lock transaction to be carried out between apparatuses connected through a bus such as IEEE 1394 method with fewer data transmission processings. If a register conditionally writable is mounted on a desired apparatus connec... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6775257 | Packet-transmitting system A packet-transmitting system comprising a transmitter and a receiver. In the transmitter, the packet-allocating circuit receives a stream of packets. The circuit allocates the packets having PIDs a1 to b1 to the transmission channel #1, ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6771638 | System and method for temporary data transfer A communication system permitting temporary connections for specific, predictable data transfer performance is presented. The communication system includes a requesting computer system, a responding computer system, and communication paths for establishing connectio... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6765930 | Decoding apparatus and method, and providing medium The invention reduces the circuit scale of a decoding apparatus for decoding input signals of multiple channels. A code string inputted to a code string resolver is resolved into signal components which are applied to signal component decoders for corresponding chan... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6763236 | Resource allocating and service providing over a wireless network A method, network element, communication device and system of allocating resources and transmitting a service to several subscribers. The system comprises a server (Srv1, Srv2) for providing a service, a wireless network (AN1-AN3) for com... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6760303 | Channel-type switching based on cell load A system and corresponding method of controlling switching between different types of channels in a cellular communications system (e.g., wideband CDMA). Timer timeout values (i.e., timer lengths) and/or buffer thresholds, used in determining if and when to switch f... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6757738 | Method and apparatus for improving channel utilization Systems and methods applicable in the context of the TCP/IP suite of protocols explicitly are provided which allow for separate and preferential treatment of L4-L7 control packets compared to the treatment of L7 data packets. This provides a per... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754500 | Channel grouping system and method for a wireless communication system A channel grouping system and method for a wireless communication system in which channels are allocated to channel groups according to received signal strength (RSS) data of mobile station accessing occurrences. A group allocator allocates the channels to the chann... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6742187 | Upstream bandwidth allocation map (MAP)-initiated channel change method for data-over-cable systems An upstream channel change for a cable modem in a data-over-cable system is achieved via an upstream bandwith allocation map message sent from a cable modem termination system to cable modems, instead of requiring an exchange of upstream channel change request and r... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6741604 | ADSL transmission in the presence of low-frequency network services A method for providing Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service to a group of subscribers over respective subscriber loops in the presence of another, existing digital network service provided on at least some of the subscriber loops. Lower, middle and upper frequency ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6728772 | Automatic configuration of a channel-to-channel connection employing channel-to-channel functioning integrated within one or more channels of a computing environment Channel-to-channel communications is provided by integrating channel-to-channel functionality into one or more communication channels of a computing environment which may include heterogenous computer systems. The one or more channels having the integrated CTC funct... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6728810 | Data processing apparatus and bus control method therefor A multimedia bus is an internal bus for which two transfer modes, a band-guaranteed cycle and an event-driven type asynchronous (async) cycle, are defined. In the band-guaranteed cycle, stream data is transferred between nodes in peer-to-peer mode by using a reserve... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6711420 | Modified finger assignment algorithm for high data rate calls A method of creating a path list for use in finger assignments comprising clearing a list of paths (12), choosing a sector for consideration from an active set of sectors (14), establishing a searcher window around the sector for cosideration (16 | 03/23/2004 |
| 6704367 | Optimal discrete loading algorithm for DMT modulation A discrete loading algorithm maximizes data rate or system performance margin for discrete multitone (DMT) transmission. A preliminary bit assignment for each subchannel is first obtained by optimizing a DMT system with an available bandwidth. The subchan... | 03/09/2004 |
