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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7260631 | System and method for receiving iSCSI protocol data units An Internet small computer system interface (iSCSI) system, method and associated data structure are provided for receiving data in protocol data units. After a protocol data unit is received, a data list is identified that describes how the data contained in the pr... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260659 | Rate matching apparatus, systems, and methods An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to include repeating first data to provide first repeated data and deleting second repeated data to provide second data according to a programmed standard included in a first apparatus and selec... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260143 | Tuner for use in cable modem and cable modem including the tuner A tuner for use in a cable modem of the present invention includes a reception processing section for processing downstream signals supplied from a cable line and a return path circuit for processing upstream signals outputted from the cable modem toward the cable l... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260366 | Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data using an antenna array in a mobile communication system A data transmitting/receiving apparatus and method using an antenna array in a mobile communication system. A Node B measures a transmission status of each transmission antenna, classifies transmission data according to priority, and transmits to a UE high-priority ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260390 | Software enabled on/off switch for radio functionality in a wireless device A panel has been provided to a wireless device that turns off all RF capability of the wireless device (including, but not limited to notifications, wireless web clipping, instant messaging, email sending/receiving, phone calls, etc.). The panel is brought up on a s... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260112 | Method and apparatus for terminating and bridging network protocols Methods and apparatus for bridging network protocols are disclosed. A protocol bridge may be used to function as a target for a network processor while performing a target mode operation, while functioning as an initiator on behalf of the network processor while per... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260108 | Multimedia information providing method and apparatus Media for videophone communication, media for communication navigation, media for i-mode packet communication, and media for handling video data as streaming data are linked to a server so that the server can receive data from the media of each type. A user of data ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260623 | Remote services system communication module The invention relates to a remote services communication module which includes: a communication protocol and a communication encryption module. The communication protocol module provides support for an application level protocol used in a remote services system. The... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260071 | Radio lan communication system A wireless LAN communication system includes a base stations having terminals respectively associated with the base stations and managed by a network management system. In the wireless LAN communication system, each of the base stations includes an association infor... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260078 | Method and system for providing management protocol mediation in wireless communications networks A system for providing management protocol mediation between wireless networks includes a first wireless network (10) operable to communicate with a mobile station (12) over a wireless interface (48). The system also includes a second wireless n... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260067 | Spectrum and bin reassignment protocol for ADSL A system and method for improving communications, wherein Frequency Division Multiplexed (FDM) modems are communicatively coupled over a bi-directional channel. Bandwidth is apportioned to satisfy a desired downstream-to-upstream data rate ratio by measuring upstrea... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260116 | Bandwidth allocation method in point-to-multipoint communication system A bandwidth allocation method used in a point-to-multipoint communication system, for efficiently using the bandwidth while shortening delay time. A central unit quantizes round-trip propagation delay times of subsidiary units, groups the subsidiary units, assigns t... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260099 | Processing of arbitrarily formatted client signals to achieve compatibility with existing transport networks A client signal received at an ingress interface is adapted to a higher-rate transport signal. Clock frequency acceleration is achieved by an M/N-multiplying PLL where the magnitude of M and N can be restricted without causing the rate of the resulting transport sig... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259474 | Method and apparatus for aggregating power from multiple sources A method and apparatus for aggregating power from multiple sources generates a single direct current regulated voltage. The apparatus comprises a plurality of slave voltage converters and a master pulse width modulator circuit. Providing a plurality of direct curren... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257118 | Frame relay switched data service A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257128 | Master-slave data transmission in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing A method for transmitting data between a master modem and at least one slave modem of a master-slave network in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, including assigning to each slave modem at least one transmit frequency band and at least one receive frequenc... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257126 | Communication terminal containing apparatus, communication terminal apparatus, and radio communication system The present invention discloses a communication terminal accommodation device that makes communication terminals under the control of different wireless LAN systems communicate with each other. In a first system, the transmission and reception periods of a downlink ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257117 | Mapping arbitrary signals A synchronizer/de-synchronizer maps continuous format signals of an arbitrary rate into frames of pre-selected single common rate, such as SONET frames, with no bits changed and very little jitter or wander added. In this way, the continuous format signal may be car... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257130 | Asymmetric companion codecs A system and method for using asymmetric companion codecs to establish and maintain a communication. A communication system endpoint replaces instances of a companion codec with the members of a group of all of the companion codecs for the endpoint and performs appr... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257094 | Jointly controlling transmission rate and power in a communications system The present invention jointly controls rate and power in a fashion that enables control of the two variables in one dimension. In some embodiments, this is done by ordering the possible transmit rate (320) and transmit power (340) combinations in a log... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257398 | Telephone set, communication adaptor, home appliance control method, and program recording medium The invention relates to a telephone set comprises a connection apparatus to execute a connecting process for enabling transmission and reception of an information signal to and from a home appliance such as a general audio device remote-controllable by radio commun... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257757 | Flexible accelerators for physical layer processing Flexible, micro-coded accelerators are applied to perform physical layer processing in communications applications. The accelerators are reconfigurable and may be programmed to incorporate new protocols as they are introduced. ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257741 | Methods and systems for communications device troubleshooting Methods and systems provide for the troubleshooting of communications devices that interconnect a personal computer or network of personal computers to a network of a service provider. The troubleshooting is provided through a computer application program that may t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257116 | Disabling header compression over point-to-point protocol (PPP) A method and system for manipulating packet header compression parameters, by substituting at least one instruction set associated with a PPP negotiation packet at the PPP layer of a protocol stack, the at least one instruction set for use in establishing a communic... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257100 | Method for carrying out a transfer procedure in a radio communication system for a packet-switching connection and radio communication system suitable for the same A packet-switching connection is set up from a mobile station through a first transceiver unit, whereby the mobile station is assigned to a first cell and a first residence zone. As the mobile station moves to a second cell and a second residence zone, the connectio... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254140 | Method and apparatus for transceiving data in a micro-area network A method and apparatus for transceiving data in a micro-area network includes processing that begins by obtaining a data unit for transmission by a first data transceiving entity of a micro area network. The processing then continues when the first data transceiving... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254533 | Method and apparatus for a thin CELP voice codec An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a voice signal. The apparatus includes an encoder configured to generate an output bitstream signal from an input voice signal. The output bitstream signal is associated with at least a first standard of a first plur... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254607 | Dynamic coordination and control of network connected devices for large-scale network site testing and associated architectures Dynamic coordination and control of network connected devices within a distributed processing platform is disclosed for large-scale network site testing, or for other distributed projects. For network site testing, the distributed processing system utilizes a plural... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254647 | Network for decreasing transmit link layer core speed A processor includes a core for providing speed reduction in communications between a transmission media and a processor having an upper link layer in a parallel-serial architecture. The core includes a lower logic layer, serial lanes connecting the logic layer to t... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254766 | Discrete multi-tone (DMT) system and method that communicates a data pump data stream between a general purpose CPU and a DSP via a buffering scheme The apparatus and method herein splits the function of a digital subscriber line (DSL) modem data pump between a digital signal processor (DSP 106) and a general purpose host central processing unit (CPU 102). The DSP (106) handles all front end... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254139 | Data transmission system with multi-memory packet switch A data transmission system comprising a packet switch module interconnecting LAN adapters, a plurality of input and output ports connected to the LAN adapters such that each pair of input and output ports defines a crosspoint within the switch module, and a memory b... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251227 | Access stratum manager A multi-mode mobile communication device may include a processing device, a memory sub-system, a communication sub-system operable to communicate with the plurality of wireless access networks, and a protocol stack stored in the memory sub-system and executed by the... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251256 | Synchronization of asynchronous networks using media access control (MAC) layer synchronization symbols A method and structure for the distribution and utilization of synchronization within an asynchronous network is described herein. Synchronization is distributed through an asynchronous network via a synchronization symbol periodically inserted on the MAC layer. The... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251241 | Devices, softwares and methods for predicting reconstruction of encoded frames and for adjusting playout delay of jitter buffer Source devices, softwares and methods are provided for predicting at a transmitting source how well a specific encoded frame, relative to other frames in a stream, would be reconstructed if it were not available for eventual playout at a receiving destination. If po... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251248 | Connection device A connection device comprises a first physical device, a first device driver layer, a first interface abstraction layer, in which is embedded a first software support layer, a data core, a second interface abstraction layer, in which is embedded a second software su... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251252 | Negotiated cell delivery capability According to the invention, a method for establishing a personal communication between an originating end and a terminating end of a communication system is disclosed. In one step, a first number of personal communication modes associated with the originating end is... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251235 | Event-based multichannel direct link Disclosed herein are exemplary techniques for the communication of information in a wireless system by using multiple wireless channels. A direct link between two or more wireless devices may be established by performing a direct link setup between two or more wirel... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249306 | System and method for generating 128-bit cyclic redundancy check values with 32-bit granularity A System and Method for generating Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) values in a system adapted simultaneously handling a plurality of blocks in parallel is described. Included is a memory or other storage device for storing data blocks, wherein the memory or storage de... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249264 | Secure IP based streaming in a format independent manner A system, method and computer readable medium for providing secure IP-based streaming in a format independent manner is disclosed. The method on a content mastering system begins with an encoded media file consisting of content data and associated metadata. First, t... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249185 | Methods, devices and software for redundant transmission of voice data over a packet network connection established according to an unreliable communication protocol Methods, devices, and software are provided for generating and sending data packets that contain redundant voice data over VoIP connections made under an unreliable network protocol. The redundant data is packaged either in redundant data packets, or in expanded ori... | 07/24/2007 |
