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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7436767 | Method and apparatus for controlling the transmission of cells across a network A Multiservice Access Concentrator (MAC) provides traffic shaping by allocating at least one cell stream to at least one cell slot of a cell scheduling table. A cell slot and a corresponding cell stream are designated in response to a cell interrupt signal generated... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436843 | Method for access selection A method for selecting the best access for terminals (210) in IP-based multi-access communication systems (200) is provided. The access selection is performed on the network side by an access wizard (261) that communicates with a profile server ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433369 | Controlling network traffic In an ATM exchange, a cell transmission control section transmits an ATM cell to a transmission path of an ATM network. A traffic monitor monitors traffic of the cell transmissions. A statistical process section performs a temporal statistical process on the result ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433971 | Interface and related methods for dynamic channelization in an ethernet architecture An interface and related methods for dynamic channelization in an Ethernet architecture is described herein. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433313 | Method of determining reverse data rate in mobile communication system A method determines the data rate of traffic data to be transmitted from a mobile station to a base station in a mobile communication system, by considering a delay time required for the generation and transfer of data rate control information. The method includes s... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430427 | Radio resource management scheduler using object request broker methodology A method for scheduling RRM procedures in a wireless communication system begins by receiving at least one trigger, each trigger being associated with at least one RRM procedure. A radio link is placed into a busy state, whereby the radio link is accessible only by ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430243 | Space-time-frequency coded OFDM communications over frequency-selective fading channels Techniques are described for space-time-frequency (STF) coding of multi-carrier transmissions over frequency-selective fading channels. In particular, techniques for STF coding of MIMO-OFDM systems are described that provide maximum diversity, high coding gains, and... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430219 | Method for transporting media, transmitter and receiver therefor When a transport rate Rs is updated, in the case where the updated transport rate Rs is within a variable range (Rc | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430220 | System load based dynamic segmentation for network interface cards The present invention provides a computer implemented method, system, and computer program product of dynamic segmentation based on processor load using various steps. If a network interface card is enabled for segmentation, a determination is made as to whether a p... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428218 | Flexible approach for representing different bus protocols A method for flexibly defining communication constructs includes providing at least one communication element type for at least one layer of a generalized communication model, such as a bus model. Each communication element type has a user-definable structure that i... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426188 | Method and apparatus to facilitate variable-rate call management operations A network element (20), such as a PDSN or home agent, upon determining (11) a need to effect a call management operation, then determines (12) whether to constrain the facilitation of that call management operation. When determining that the cal... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426211 | Data transmission method and data transmission arrangement The invention relates to an arrangement for implementing data transmission between at least two devices. At least a section of a connection between at least two different devices is implemented by a wireless connection and at least some of the communication between ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426217 | Method for transmitting data by an audio and video playback system A method for transferring data by an AV playback system. The AV playback system includes a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal connected to the transmitting terminal via a network. The receiving terminal includes a receiving buffer, a decoder buffer, and ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426242 | Orthogonal frequency digital multiplexing correlation canceller A correlation canceller modulates a communication signal over a plurality of channels and an epoch aperture by a plurality of interference response signals corresponding to linear response by one or more filtering effects to generate an inversely correlated communic... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424434 | Unified lossy and lossless audio compression A unified lossy and lossless audio compression scheme combines lossy and lossless audio compression within a same audio signal. This approach employs mixed lossless coding of a transition frame between lossy and lossless coding frames to produce seamless transitions... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424002 | Resource allocation in a wireless network A data stream is transmitted between a base station and user terminal. A first resource that is available to transmit a page is selected at the base station and the page transmitted from the base station via the first resource. The page is received at the user termi... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423964 | Apparatus and method to set the signaling rate of a network disposed within an information storage and retrieval system A method is disclosed to set the speed of a network. The method supplies a network interconnected with a system controller and a plurality of switch domains, where each of those plurality of switch domains comprises one or more information storage devices and a swit... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423982 | Adaptive communication modes Systems and methods for implementing a communication mode for a communication terminal are provided. An embodiment of a method for implementing a communication mode includes receiving a message from a remotely located network control system and implementing one of a... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424006 | Methods and systems for prioritized message processing A communication system comprising a call control system and a gateway coupled to the call control system and coupled to a first network node and a second network node. The gateway interworks first communications to a first transport type for the first network node a... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420964 | Arranging packet data connections in office system A method for establishing a packet data connection in a telecommunications system which includes an office network, an operator network, and a local area network between them. Data transmission from the office network through the local area network is adapted to a d... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420945 | Communications systems Communications systems are disclosed having a transmitting apparatus for transmitting a signal to a receiving apparatus, the transmitting apparatus comprising transmitting means for transmitting a plurality of directional transmission beams to the receiving apparatu... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417979 | Systems and methods for providing a home network conversion interface Systems and methods are provided wherein an incoming plain old telephone systems (PSTN) signal is input into a home network conversion interface. The home network conversion interface first determines the data type of the incoming signal. Next, the home network conv... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417991 | Network quality estimation Disclosed are new calculations of packet loss bursts, packet re-ordering, and an indication of relative alternate network path delay metrics, based upon differences between received and expected packet sequence numbers, for determining packet network performance. | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418240 | Dynamic adaptation of impaired RF communication channels in a communication system A system for dynamically adapting a communication channel to channel impairments includes a spectrum monitor configured to determine a channel impairment characteristic related to a channel impairment present in the channel. The system includes a system manager conf... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414994 | Multi-carrier communication with time division multiplexing and carrier-selective loading A method for subcarrier allocation and loading for a multi-carrier, multi-subscriber system is described. At least one cluster in a first and second set of clusters of subcarriers is associated for use in communication with a first and second subscriber, respectivel... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415032 | Aggregatable connectivity A first device and a second device, each coupled to one or more signal paths, attempting to transmit symbols over one or more of the signal paths, identifying one or more signal paths over each of which each device is able to transmit a symbol to the other device an... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414961 | System and method for multiframe alignment in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system Systems and methods for multiframe alignment in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM system are provided. In one embodiment, an (OFDM) communication system comprises: a host unit; a plurality of remote units that access the host uni... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414960 | Multiuse subcarriers in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing Systems and methods for bidirectional communication are provided. In one embodiment, a multipoint-to-point, orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communication system comprises: a plurality of remote units, a host unit; wherein the host sends an adjustmen... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414981 | Method and system for event and message registration by an association controller A system and method is provided for higher-level service intelligence to cooperatively interoperate via a common session control and uniformly control and coordinate at least one transport resource provided by a communication network service provider. Including in t... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411966 | Method and system for coupling data networks A method and a system for transmitting data by means of a first data network (1) have first means for transmitting data in at least one first transmission cycle, the first transmission cycle being subdivided into a first area (4) for transmitting real-... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411974 | Wireless communication rate shaping Reverse Link (RL) data rate allocation in a High Data Rate (such as 1xEV-DO) system as a function of Forward Link (FL) channel quality. Rate shaping of a throughput profile for multiple Access Terminals (ATs) is performed by adjusting transition probabilities associ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411985 | Low-complexity packet loss concealment method for voice-over-IP speech transmission A low complexity packet loss concealment method for use in voice-over-IP speech transmission calculates a cross-correlation of previous speech data to estimate the pitch period of the previous speech when speech frames have been lost. A tap interval used to calculat... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411924 | Method for allocating subchannels in an OFDMA mobile communication system An adaptive modulation scheme relating to an RA problem for maximizing the transmission rates of all users for maximum transmission rates in an OFDMA system including some users requiring to use services at fixed data rates. The scheme proposes introduction of an ad... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411895 | Controlled superposition coding in multi-user communication systems Methods of using superposition coding in a communications systems, e.g., a multi-user communications system. Superpostion coding in accordance with the invention occurs in the case of an uplink by transmissions of different wireless terminals transmitting using the ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411923 | Wireless communication rate shaping Reverse Link (RL) data rate allocation in a High Data Rate (such as 1xEV-DO) system as a function of Forward Link (FL) channel quality. Rate shaping of a throughput profile for multiple Access Terminals (ATs) is performed by adjusting transition probabilities associ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409097 | Video encoding using variable bit rates A system and method is provided for variable bit rate encoding using a complexity ratio. Quantization parameter is calculated using a complexity ratio, which is equal to a local complexity divided by a global complexity. Complex pictures are allocated a larger bit b... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408935 | Packet forwarding apparatus with a flow detection table A packet forwarding apparatus provided with a plurality of line interface units, comprises a routing processing unit for referring to a routing table, based on header information of received packet to specify one of output lines to output the received packet, a flow... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408953 | Information converting apparatus A content delivery method for exporting content from a server to a terminal includes acquiring information on right management capability supported by the terminal, the information being reported from by terminal. The content that is appropriate to the terminal is s... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408904 | Method and apparatus for reducing uplink and downlink transmission errors by supporting adaptive modulation and coding and hybrid automatic repeat request functions A method and apparatus for supporting Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AM&C) and Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (H-ARQ) functions in a cellular system including at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a Node B. A signal is received at the WTRU indicat... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406095 | Data processing apparatus and method with packet parsing A transport stream (TS) is recorded and the recorded TS is reproduced simultaneously. An input PID parser extracts the first packet only to be recorded, the second packet to be recorded and to be used for controlling, and the third packet to be used only for control... | 07/29/2008 |
