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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7339894 | Closed loop resource allocation Method and apparatus for performing transmission data rate allocation in a high speed wireless communications network. A macro control loop with the network of base stations on one side and all the subscriber stations on the other side. Subscriber station selects a ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339484 | Event-driven discovery method and apparatus Provided is a method and apparatus for performing discovery between devices in a network. Using event-driven discovery, devices conserve energy resources and more rapidly join a given network. The event-driven discovery detects a common-event associated with a first... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339898 | Method for setting data transmission rate in mobile communication Disclosed is a method of setting a data transmission rate capable of setting data transmission rate of a data packet received from an upper node in mobile communication system based on a wireless environment and retransmission rate. The preferred embodiment provides... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339902 | Repeater for performing auto-negotiation between two node devices in a network The present invention provides a repeater and associated method for performing auto-negotiation between two node devices in the Ethernet network. The repeater includes a receiver receiving related information of auto-negotiation of a first node device, a control uni... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339930 | Method and apparatus for performing an address lookup using a multi-bit trie with backtracking One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing a fast address lookup within a packet forwarder to determine where to forward a packet. Upon receiving the packet at an input link of the packet forwarder, the system reads a desti... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339916 | Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless LAN A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame recei... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339881 | Method and apparatus for encoding compressible data for transmission over variable quality communication channel A multi-carrier communication system (400) groups subchannels (802) into different quality-of-signal (QoS) regions (804). An unconstrained optimization process (1200) is performed independently for the subchannels (802) of the diff... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339891 | Method and system for evaluating wireless applications The present invention provides a method and system for evaluating wireless applications utilizing a test console, an application model builder, a test repository manager, a simulator, a test controller, test agents, and a comparator in order to test the performance ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339892 | System and method for dynamic control of data packet fragmentation threshold in a wireless network In a wireless network system having a wired backbone network, one or more access points (APs), and one or more wireless units (WUs), a technique wherein an AP automatically determines a factor indicative of the error(s) occurring in the transmissions of one or more ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340683 | Programming tool A programming tool has selection means for selecting a plurality of function blocks displayed in a library format, storage means for storing the function blocks selected through the selection means in the order as they are selected, and drawing means, as a plurality... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340530 | Methods, for providing data from network secure communications in a cluster computing environment Secure communications are provided over a network in a distributed workload environment having target hosts which are accessed through a distribution processor by a common network address. Secure communications are provided by routing both inbound and outbound commu... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340759 | Systems and methods for adaptive pricing in a digital broadband delivery system Methods and systems are provided for dynamically pricing viewing options in a digital broadband communication network by receiving bandwidth allocation information from a bandwidth allocation manager and dynamically assigning a price criterion to each of a group of ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340254 | Measurement opportunities for a mobile unit operating with a switched beam antenna in a CDMA system Measurement opportunities are provided to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) operating with a switched beam antenna in a CDMA wireless communication system. The switched beam antenna is a smart antenna generating a plurality of directional beams and an omni-dir... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336682 | Network architecture and methods for transparent on-line cross-sessional encoding and transport of network communications data A computer implemented method and system for transferring data packets includes intercepting a stream of data packets at the connectionless network layer from a client or server, encoding and encapsulating the data packets, transmitting the encoded data packets, dec... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337253 | Method and system of routing network-based data using frame address notification A method and system for routing network-based data arranged in frames is disclosed. A host processor analyzes transferred bursts of data and initiates an address and look up algorithm for dispatching the frame to a desired destination. A shared system memory existin... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336667 | Apparatus, method and program product to generate and use CRC in communications network The CRC for the CPS Header of an ATM AAL2 cell is generated by a CRC generator which uses the 8 bits of the CID field to generate partial 5 bits CRCs which are loaded in a first table. The 6 bits LI field and 5 bits UUI field are added to the partial 5 bits CRC to f... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337402 | Tunable information presentation appliance using an extensible markup language The Universal Plug and Play architecture contemplates devices and control points that can automatically integrate themselves into a network and provide functionality to a user. Extensions are provided that allow an information presentation appliance to identify cate... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336617 | Bit-field-encoded resource record for determining a transmission path in a communications network Method and apparatus for tracking, recording and distributing link state characteristics over communications networks. The invention allows network operators to efficiently define, track, store and disseminate link state characteristics using a bit-field-encoded res... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336680 | Multi-carrier frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) architecture for high speed digital service An architecture for providing high-speed access over frequency-division multiplexed (FDM) channels allows transmission of ethernet frames and/or other data across a cable transmission network or other form of FDM transport. The architecture involves downstream and u... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336659 | Method for transmitting multimedia services in the UMTS networks by immediate multicasting of a streaming subset The method concerns multicast service delivering through the UMTS and GSM networks. For this aim is given higher priority to an opportune subset of all the real-time services with guaranteed bandwidth transmissible by the network. This subset is named IS-MBMS (Immed... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336665 | Polling scheme for controlling traffic through a networking system A method is described that associates a first plurality of logical ports with a first bandwidth group and that associates a second plurality of ports with a second bandwidth group. The first bandwidth group is defined by a first bandwidth range whose lowest data rat... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336649 | Hybrid packet-switched and circuit-switched telephony system A hybrid telephony system with packet switching as well as circuit switching optimizes utilization of transport networks, and is accessible from any conventional telephone set. A call originating from a circuit-switched network is passed through a gateway computer t... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336633 | Media access controller for high bandwidth communication media and method of operation thereof An access control method for a medium, a media access controller and a wireless communication system incorporating the method or the controller. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) allowing first and second devices to employ a control channel defined in the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336302 | Frame memory device and method with subsampling and read-out of stored signals at lower resolution than that of received image signals A frame memory device is employed in a digital camera, for example, to output raster-scanned digital color image signals at lower resolution than that of original image signals. The order of sequentially received original raster-scanned digital color image signals i... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333479 | RFID system with packetized data storage in a mobile environment: methods, systems and program products An RFID system includes transponders transmitting or receiving packetized data in standard form in lieu of custom format for applications executable in a mobile device or network. Tag data may be packetized in any of several standard formats. Each format includes a ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333509 | Cell relay using the internet protocol In general, the invention provides for the relaying of ATM cells through an IP network. In one embodiment, an apparatus, such as a routing device, comprises a first interface card for coupling to an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network, and a second interface ca... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333536 | System and method for auto baud rate detection in asynchronous serial communication A microcontroller with embedded software for automatically detecting a baud rate of an asynchronous serial bit stream during an initial set up phase of a microcontroller. The microcontroller is configured to receive a data set from a transmitter and includes a trans... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333505 | Transaction management for interworking between disparate networks The present invention enables a data-driven, dynamic transaction manager capable of coordinating interworking between disparate networks. The transaction manager is preferably provided in a gateway connecting the disparate networks. The transaction manager may dynam... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333439 | Sending/receiving method, and device for the same The packet loss in a wired section is reported to a receiving terminal (61) using a loss notification packet from a gateway (62) located at the boundary between a wired section and a wireless section, and thus the causes for packet loss are separated. ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333805 | Method for monitoring the transmission quality in a cellular radio communication system In a cellular radio communication system that supports in each of its cells a plurality of different codec modes for the purpose of radio transmission, the terminals working in a cell and a base station of the cell refer to the information relating to the use of cod... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333482 | Route optimization technique for mobile IP The present invention relates to mobile data communications in general, and more specifically, the present invention describes a route optimization technique requiring no awareness of the Mobile IP protocol by a Correspondent Node when forwarding traffic using the s... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333465 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving high speed data in a CDMA communication system using multiple carriers The present invention is a novel and improved method and apparatus for transmitting data in a multiple carrier CDMA communication system. In the first implementation of the present invention, the data is encoded and the resulting encoded symbols are divided up and t... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330902 | Header compression A method for communicating a message over a data path by means of data transfer apparatus capable of transmitting the data over the data path, generating a representation of the data as received from the data path and generating an indication of the communication qu... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330426 | Receiver-based RTT measurement in TCP A method of performing Round Trip Time (RTT) measurement in a data packet receiver using a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) for communication via a network with a sender, said method comprising the steps of sending an acknowledgement for a currently received data... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330439 | Packet data transmission in third generation mobile system A method and network elements for transmission of data packets in a data packet network, wherein at least a delivery order attribute (DOA) is detected as a parameter for transmission of data packets, and whether the DOA parameter is set is determined. If the DOA par... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330472 | System and method for hybrid coordination in a wireless LAN A system and method are provided for maintaining a hybrid coordinator (HC) in a wireless communications local area network (LAN). The method comprises: a station (STA) seeking a guaranteed quality of service (QoS); establishing a basic service set (BSS) through asso... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330830 | Distributed commerce system A computer-implemented networked commercial interaction management method distributes information bundles that include values for a plurality of content attribute descriptors and information fields characterizing commercial interactions. The content attribute descri... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328019 | Communication environment measurement method for mobile station and the mobile station In a communication system for respectively transmitting pilot signals from a plurality of base stations to a mobile station via a first channel and also for transmitting data from one base station to a mobile station via a second channel, the mobile station corrects... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327761 | Data streaming A method of streaming data, comprising: receiving an input stream of data, at a transmitter; dividing the input stream into a plurality of blocks, at least one of which blocks is incomplete; generating a plurality of first packets based on at least one block of data... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327815 | Method for synchronizing several digital input signals The invention relates to a method for synchronizing a plurality of digital input signals which are formed by sampling with the aid of a dedicated operating clock in each case. In order to be able to carry out such a method reliably with a relatively low outla... | 02/05/2008 |
