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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6902108 | Method and apparatus for providing identification A method of providing identification of an individual including: maintaining a database of identification data specific to the appearance and/or condition of individuals; providing a unique description for each ind... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6898652 | Wireless device attachment and detachment system, apparatus and method A polling method, apparatus, and system to detect the attachment and detachment of Universal Serial Bus devices in a wireless system. A hub provides a wired connection to the host and wireless attachment points for its devices. The host periodically queries the hub ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6895255 | Dual mode wireless data communications A dual mode mobile unit is arranged to communicate in either a first or second data communications standard, such as combined Bluetooth and 802.11 operation. An interface unit converts received Bluetooth or 802.11 format signals into 802.11 frame format data signals... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6888816 | Window-based polling scheme for a wireless communications protocol A transmitter is capable of transmitting layer 2 protocol data units (PDUs). Each PDU has an n-bit sequence number. A base sequence number VT(A) is obtained that marks a beginning sequence number of a transmitting window of the transmitter. A current sequence... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6868064 | Method for confirming receipt of protocol data A method of confirming a receipt of protocol data units (PDU) that can eliminate the starting point polling problem of the conventional window-based polling algorithm widely used in a radio link control is disclosed. The conventional window-based polling algorithm i... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6865150 | System and method for controlling admission of voice communications in a packet network A system and method for controlling admission of a communication in a network are disclosed. In the network, a virtual circuit having a predetermined bandwidth is provided. A request is received for a communication having a communication bandwidth, and a total utili... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6862294 | Method and apparatus for overcoming large transport delays between master and slave utopia devices A system for communicating information includes a master UTOPIA device having a receive transfer controller operable to control reception of data by the master UTOPIA device and a transmit transfer controller operable to control transmission of data from the ATM swi... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6859134 | Data communication device Simplified data message terminals and data communicating voice terminals are described for providing additional functionality in a facility using a wireless data communication system. The simplified data message terminals provide message and paging communication to ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6842437 | System for providing satellite bandwidth on demand employing uplink frame formatting for smoothing and mitigating jitter and dynamically changing numbers of contention and data channels A method of transmitting time division multiplexed data from a satellite terminal to a satellite wherein the satellite terminal receives a command indicating to transmit data during a frame comprising a plurality of timeslots in accordance with a timeslot reordering... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6826194 | Method for serving IP users by graphically-based interaction to agents of a call center Method and apparatus for connecting Internet or IP users to agents of a call center, which may be linked to an Internet web site. Visual information about quality of service, available agents, and history of previous connections, is transferred to the IP user via th... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6826153 | System and method of increasing the message throughput in a radio network A system and method of increasing message throughput in a communications system utilizing priority management, conglomeration and compression, TCP retransmission filtering and pull transmission. The priority manages ranks the messages in a message queue as a functio... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6798787 | Network system and communication band control method thereof A network system has a plurality of nodes being operated by their communication application programs. In the network system, each of the nodes includes a transmission rate control module for obtaining a communication attribute required for controlling a communicatio... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6791998 | Polling period controlling apparatus A polling period controlling apparatus capable of polling with a period traceable temporal variations of management information values of a managed unit is provided with a polling period calculator 5 which decomposes a sequence of management information value... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6791984 | Dynamic band-allocating subscriber-line-terminating apparatus A subscriber-line-terminating apparatus for dynamically allocating band portions to a plurality of terminal apparatuses includes an in-buffer-information-amount receiving unit for receiving an in-buffer-information amount from each of the terminal apparatuses; an in... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6781723 | Communication apparatus and its control method A communication apparatus and its control method which assure an execution of a polling communication in a state that an ECM transmit inhibition is selected while an ECM receive inhibition is not selected for communications in the ITU-T Recommendation V.8, V.21, V.2... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778550 | Method and apparatus for TDM/TDMA communications In a power splitting passive optical network, TDM/TDMA communication is employed for downstream/upstream transmission over a fiber. A framed structure is used for the downstream transmission from an optical line card (OLC) at the network end to a plurality of optica... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6771655 | Method and apparatus for managing data transportation A method and apparatus for managing transportation of data include processing that begins by polling a plurality of local memory entities for transportation of data, wherein the polling is based on a linked list. When a currently polled local memory entity has data ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771656 | Communication right determination method, information processing apparatus use therefor, and computer-readable recording medium recorded with program for carrying out the method A communication right determination method determines a right to communicate between a host unit and a plurality of terminal equipments coupled to the host unit. The communication right determination method includes the steps of (a) transmitting polling information ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6754228 | Method and device for data flow control A method and device for controlling the flow of a data amount from a sender to a receiver in a packet exchange connection. The packet exchange connection includes a plurality of links connected by routers. The sender determines from the data amount a data sequence t... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6751200 | Route discovery based piconet forming A method for establishing a route over which data packets are to be sent from a source node to a destination node in an ad-hoc network is provided. A source having packets to send to a destination node employs a reactive routing protocol if it does not posses the ro... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6747968 | Methods and systems for weighted PCF polling lists for WLAN QoS support Methods and system for weighted polling of terminals in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Quality of Service (QoS) information related to WLAN terminals is obtained. A weighted polling factor may be assigned to each WLAN terminal based on the QoS information. Ea... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6744779 | Data processing system The data processing system includes I/O units for transmitting and receiving data, control units for processing the data, and a common bus unit including a common bus. Function cards in each unit are daisy-chained to I/O buses having characteristics to support hot-s... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6744348 | Security system utilizing group supervision polling In a security system that has a large number of individually-addressable modules interconnected on a data bus to a control panel, a method of concurrently supervising the modules by first configuring each module with a unique zone number including a group number and... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6741605 | Terminal identification method, a terminal realizing such a method and an access communication network including such a terminal The invention relates to an identification method for use in a multiple access communication network wherein a terminal. (Ti) with a predefined identifier (IDi) desires access to the network. The identification method includes distribution of a grant message (G(IDx-... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6742186 | Method and apparatus for enhancing periodic ranging for cable modems Disclosed is a cable modem termination system (CMTS) capable of outputting periodic ranging opportunities. The CMTS includes an upstream receiver and demodulator capable of receiving an upstream signal, a downstream transmitter and modulator capable of transmitting ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6735196 | System and method for partially emulating peripherals in hardware for improving delay tolerance in master-slave type communication systems A partial emulation technique in which only the answers to poll frames and uplink information frames, or the slave part of the protocol, are emulated. All messages from the processor are passed down-link, and emulation is dependent upon the contents of an attendant ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6732219 | Dynamic allocation of devices to host controllers The present technique is associated with a device-controller configuration system for a computer system having a plurality of controllers. The technique utilizes an automatic switching assembly so that each device is routed to one of the controllers based on a data ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6721283 | Method and apparatus for a plug and play polling loop system A polling loop system provides all products to be prewired to the polling loop by technically unskilled labor followed by a plug and play enrollment process. The system combines the advantages of DIP switch zone addressing with smart serial number (S/N) addressing, ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6714559 | 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... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6704292 | Use of remote poll to facilitate determining network topology Supervising a network (10), which network comprises a plurality of components (12, 13, 14) having ports at least some of which ports are connected by links to ports on other components, at least one component including means to ascertain the source addres... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6704932 | Multi-access communication system and uplink band allocating method In a multi-access communication system where a center station dynamically allocates the band of an uplink to subscriber stations, the band of an uplink is flexibly and efficiently allocated when the up-service quality is insured. When requesting a service... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6674758 | Mechanism for implementing voice over IP telephony behind network firewalls According to one embodiment, a network is disclosed. The network includes a first Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) station a first communication medium coupled to the VOIP station a router, coupled to the first communication, that includes a network ad... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6674764 | Communications system and method with telemetry device identification capabilities A system and method for polling communication lines in a communication system having a plurality of communication lines and at least one telemetry device coupled to one of the plurality of communication lines. The method comprises the steps of creating a ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6665275 | Network device including automatic detection of duplex mismatch A network device which is for use in an Ethernet packet-based communication system has at least one port which is capable of auto-negotiation to select between half duplex and full duplex working on a link to which the port is connected. The device includ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6658009 | Band allocation method and transmission system for transmitting variable-length packets In a system where a plurality of terminal units are connected to a network unit via an optical transmission line and packets are transmitted in units of cells according to polling information, polling request information including the number of variable-l... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6657987 | Scheduling methodology for connections with quality of service (QoS) constraints in a polling based media access control (MAC) Media Access Control (MAC) Scheduling for Quality of Service (QoS) uses the bandwidth and delay requirements of a connection to calculate the polling interval, which is the maximum time that the scheduler can be away from the connection. The methodology i... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6654957 | Real time device polling for multiplexed transmission A real time device polling method for multiplexed transmission of on/off constant bit rate data, such as voice data from a telephone call, over a cable data network is disclosed. The network serves as a shared bus for both the downstream and upstream traf... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6636501 | High-speed digital network node communication system and method A communication system speeds up digital traffic between nodes. The traffic is organized into data frames flowing over network high and low speed links attached to entry and exit ports of the nodes. Low speed modules connect the low speed links to a high ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6625163 | Collision detection on a differential bus An application module, that is part of an electronic assembly including a controller module, is coupled to a backplane bus structure. The backplane comprises a differential bus(s) having a TX and RX data signal, a differential clock signal, and a single e... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6621812 | Method and apparatus for mapping voice activity detection to a scheduled access media Unsolicited grants are allocated a selected time interval for scheduling transmission of audio packets at a network endpoint. A network processing node switches from outputting unsolicited grants to polling for packet transmission requests when Voice Acti... | 09/16/2003 |
