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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116337 | Bandwidth requests transmitted according to priority in a centrally managed network Systems and methods are disclosed for a managed access network device that generates and transmits a schedule map for requesting bandwidth to a plurality of network devices. The managed access network device then broadcasts a request time where the request time is b... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111711 | Multi-channel ranging for a cable modem In one example, a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) sends first bandwidth allocation messages to a first upstream transmit interface on a cable modem and send second bandwidth allocation messages to a second upstream transmit interface on the cable modem. The ba... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7986710 | Communication system for providing updatable information via polling communication In a communication system, an information processing apparatus communicates with an information management apparatus via polling communication. In the information management apparatus, specification information including information specifying a timing condition of ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974303 | Method and system for providing bandwidth request opportunities for high priority service flows Different polling rates are applied to high priority BE service flows depending on whether the service flow contains, or is about to contain, traffic packets. A high priority service flow is identified upon boot-up of a user device, and defaults to a slow polling mo... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7916747 | Redundant radio frequency network having a roaming terminal communication protocol Disclosed herein is a redundant network and communication protocol at least including host computers, RF base stations, and roaming terminals. The network may utilize a polling communication protocol such that under heavy traffic conditions, a roaming terminal wishi... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7894468 | Transmission methods for communication systems supporting a multicast mode Transmission methods for multicast messages and for signaling message responses thereto in communication systems supporting a multicast mode provide that a number of retransmissions of a multicast message may be changed based on a number of receivers of the message.... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7876772 | System, method and apparatus for providing multiple access modes in a data communications network A system, method and apparatus for providing multiple access modes in a data communications network includes a network access device having a plurality of input ports, a plurality of output ports, and a switching fabric for routing data received on the plurality of ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7848348 | System and method for managing network traffic A system and method for managing network traffic is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a data switch having a controller element to transmit telemetry data representative of bandwidth usage by one or m... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848347 | Pattern-based polling of mobile stations for channel quality information A channel quality information (CQI) polling controller for use in a wireless communication network is capable of causing a base station to poll a mobile station within its coverage area for CQI at an initial predetermined rate. The controller is also capable of reco... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7835385 | Communication arrangement in a base station in a cellular mobile telephony system The invention discloses an arrangement (100) in a base station in a cellular mobile telephony system, comprising a first plurality (120-160) of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB:s) and a second plurality of switches (110,190). Each of the PCB:s... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7809012 | Managing low-power wireless mediums in multiradio devices A system for optimizing the operation of a plurality of radio modules incorporated within a wireless communication device (WCD) connected as a slave on a low-power wireless network, wherein a low-power device is acting as the master of the wireless network. The timi... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804843 | Communication apparatus and method of airbags for a vehicle A communication apparatus in an airbag system includes an airbag ECU as a master unit, sets of communication lines and slave sensor devices. The slave sensor devices are respectively connected to the airbag ECU through the set of communication lines. The airbag ECU ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7751425 | Management device, management method, computer readable medium and computer data signal A management device comprises: a receiving section that receives, from at least one information processor via a fire wall, a polling signal to inquire if there is a request to send to the information processor or not; and a sending section that sends a response for ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7724766 | High-density wireless local area network A data communication system includes an access point and a plurality of stations each for exchanging wireless data communication messages with the access point. At least some of the messages are in a format that includes at least one message header and a plurality o... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7706399 | Polling in wireless networks Access points in wireless networks provide contention free access to stations through polling. Polling frames are transmitted to stations at polling intervals. Stations may transmit polling alignment requests to the access point to request a modification of the poll... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7693176 | Method and system for bidirectional data transfer A system and method for managing data transfer between a configurable device and a management system including generating device data, detecting a polling request, transmitting, in a first common communications session and in response to the polling request, at leas... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7606259 | Communication resource scheduling among multiple links In situations in which a given communication device may be a slave node on multiple communication sub-networks, a communication resource of the communication device may be allocated so as to serve the various sub-networks according to a device-centric control protoc... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7548552 | Method for polling in a medium access control protocol A method is provided for a master device (601) to allocate channel time. The master device sends a polling frame (240) to a current destination slave device (602) and a current polled slave device (603). The polling frame includes a curre... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548553 | Redundant radio frequency network having a roaming terminal communication protocol Disclosed herein is a redundant network and communication protocol at least including host computers, RF base stations, and roaming terminals. The network may utilize a polling communication protocol such that under heavy traffic conditions, a roaming terminal wishi... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7535921 | Redundant radio frequency network having a roaming terminal communication protocol Disclosed herein is a redundant network and communication protocol at least including host computers, RF base stations, and roaming terminals. The network may utilize a polling communication protocol such that under heavy traffic conditions, a roaming terminal wishi... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535920 | Method and system for optimizing UTOPIA CLAV polling arbitration The present invention is directed to methods and systems for optimizing UTOPIA CLAV polling arbitration. According to an aspect of the present invention, UTOPIA L2 CLAV status polling of each PHY address may be optimized by polling PHY addresses that have not yet in... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7492785 | Time skew correction in data time stamping A method of processing data received at a local system in response to polling a remote device, wherein the local system includes a local clock, the method involving: sending a first poll to the remote device; receiving a response from the remote device to the first ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7450605 | Module interface carrier data rate adaptation techniques Techniques for adapting data rates from a first to a second system in a telecommunication system are provided. The techniques on used on data communications in the ingress or egress direction. The first system transfers data at a first data rate that is faster than ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7430194 | Method and apparatus for communication between coordinator-based wireless networks connected through backbone network A method and apparatus are provided for communication among many coordinator-based wireless networks connected together through a wired backbone network using wired/wireless connecting devices. According to the method and apparatus, communication is allowed between ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430212 | System and method for improved data transmission speed by fixing the lower corner frequency at a frequency above voice band in a symmetric DSL transmission system A system and method of the present invention improves data transmission speeds by fixing the lower corner frequency at a frequency above voice band in a symmetric DSL transmission system. By using a fixed lower corner frequency that is above the voiceband and increa... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424007 | Power-save method for 802.11 multicast paging applications A power-save method for a network with an access point and an associated power-save client. The access point buffers wireless data that includes a unicast frame and a multicast frame. A periodic scheduled beacon message is transmitted with a unicast indication eleme... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420942 | Different delivery traffic indication message (DTIM) periods for different wireless networks having different network names A single access point may manage two or more wireless networks, each having a network name. The access point may be configured to store delivery traffic indication message (DTIM) period values on a per network name basis. A processor of the access point may manage, ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418004 | Medium access control methods with quality of service and power management for wireless local area networks A MAC method has three procedures: a prioritization procedure, a collision resolution procedure, and a polling procedure. The prioritization procedure employs the handshaking method to ensure that a high priority station can join the polling list earlier than a low ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411972 | Link layer device with non-linear polling of multiple physical layer device ports In a communication system comprising a link layer device connectable to one or more physical layer devices, at least a given one of a plurality of ports of the one or more physical layer devices is designated as a port for which status information is to be requested... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412251 | Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system adopting the same and communication method thereof A wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication system adopting the same and a communication method thereof are provided. In the wireless communication system, a slave device transmits a predetermined priority to the master device, and a master device r... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406094 | Power line communication network A media access control (MAC) controller is disclosed for a network providing communication for network stations located at a plurality of customer premises and sharing a communication medium, each of the premises having a plurality of network stations. The MAC contr... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7394794 | Traffic identifier field usage in a polling frame in a packet-based wireless network An access point in a wireless network transmits polling frames to node wherein the polling frame includes a traffic identifier (TID) value that corresponds to a particular stream or category of traffic. The polling frame prompts the receiving node to respond with it... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386002 | Redundant radio frequency network having a roaming terminal communication protocol Disclosed herein is a redundant network and communication protocol at least including host computers, RF base stations, and roaming terminals. The network may utilize a polling communication protocol such that under heavy traffic conditions, a roaming terminal wishi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7369863 | Positional data recording The invention relates to positional data recording, and in particular, to a method and system for polling the concordance of a mobile radio terminal user for the transmission of positional data to a poller. Specifically, polling data are supplemented by a specificat... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369532 | Apparatus and method for an audio channel switching wireless device An apparatus and method for an audio channel switching headset are described. The method includes detection of a plurality of audio sources within communication range of a wireless headset device. Once the plurality of audio sources are detected, an audio link may b... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366095 | Method for controlling access to a shared wireless medium or several connections The invention concerns a method for admission control of connections made up of one or several flows to a shared wireless medium. It applies criteria for each new connection to determine whether resources can be provided for this connection. The criteria include the... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359332 | Enhanced DOCSIS upstream channel changes Enhanced DOCSIS upstream channel changes. A CMTS directs channel changing of a CM, sometimes between upstream data bursts. Logical channels, part of a single frequency channel, may be used, and the channel changing may be performed between those logical channels. Mu... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356335 | Wireless communication apparatus A wireless communication apparatus coordinates communication among a set of mobile stations by giving the mobile stations permission to transmit packets. The mobile stations divide comparatively long packets into shorter fragment packets. When the wireless communica... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356018 | Communication system, communication device, and communication method A communication system including a master station communication device and multiple slave station communication devices is disclosed. The master station communication device transmits a transmission request simultaneously to the slave station communication devices. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355992 | Relay for extended range point-to-point wireless packetized data communication system A limited acknowledgement-based communication methodology increases the throughput efficiency of a relay-based, extended range, wireless packetized data transmissions to a data-reception site from a data-sourcing site, geographically remote with respect to the data-... | 04/08/2008 |
