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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7406330 | Method and system for extending IP PBX services to cellular wireless communication devices An IP PBX system that serves enterprise telephones via a landline IP network connection is be expanded to serve cellular wireless communication devices (WCD) via a cellular wireless carrier's radio access network (RAN). Calls to and from the cellular WCD are connect... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403892 | AMR multimode codec for coding speech signals having different degrees for robustness A delay unit is provided to delay adapting modes of a codec if channel communication conditions are improving. A less robust mode having a higher intrinsic quality is selected only after some delay. The quality of the communication is measured to give quality values... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403139 | Electronic apparatus and control method thereof using sample rate converter An electronic apparatus reads a digital data stream including a video signal and/or an audio signal outputted from an external apparatus according to a transmission clock different from a clock for the data stream, and outputs the video signal and/or audio signal wi... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403570 | Preamble design for multiple input—multiple output (MIMO), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system One or more preambles are inserted into frames of Orthogonal Frequency Multiplexing (OFDM)-Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) signals. The preamble is received by the antennas of a receiver, decoded and compared to known values to provide synchronization, framin... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400877 | Method of supporting multiple service levels in a wireless data network A wireless data network distinguishes among different users connected to the network and associates each user with a service class that offers a selected level of service. The base station in the network queries the user for its unique user identification code and a... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400636 | Apparatus and method for establishing header compression context according to channel type change in packet data service Disclosed are an apparatus and method for providing packet data service from a radio network controller (RNC) to user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system. A radio bearer (RB) of a predetermined channel type is configured to compress and de-compress heade... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400588 | Dynamic rate adaptation using neural networks for transmitting video data An adaptative source rate control method and apparatus utilizing a neural network are presented for controlling a data transmission of a media object over a communication network. A back propagation method transmitting control parameters related to the operation of ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400572 | System and method for contention based tones in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system Systems and methods for contention based tones in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system are provided. In one embodiment, a multipoint-to-point, orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communication system comprises: a host ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400644 | Digital signal processing apparatus and method, and digital signal processing system There are provided in a rate control command a clock rate select subfunction (SYNC SELECT) to which a digital signal receiver side corresponds, a base rate set subfunction (BASE CONFIGURE), a flow rate control (FLOW CONTROL) subfunction, and a capability inquiry sub... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400643 | Transmission of wide bandwidth signals in a network having legacy devices A method for transmitting wide bandwidth signals in a network that includes legacy devices begins by determining channel bandwidth of a channel that supports the wide bandwidth signals in the network. The method continues by determining overlap of legacy channel ban... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397760 | Transmission apparatus A transmission apparatus including: a plurality of asynchronous network interface units each having an asynchronous network termination unit for inputting/outputting a packet from/to an asynchronous networks and a mapping unit for converting the packet into a first ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397797 | Method and apparatus for performing network processing functions A novel network architecture that integrates the functions of an internet protocol (IP) router into a network processing unit (NPU) that resides in a host computer's chipset such that the host computer's resources are perceived as separate network appliances. The NP... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397814 | Method and apparatus to estimate collision rate parameter Briefly, a method and apparatus to estimate a collision rate parameter by manipulating a first probability value with a second probability value. The first probability value may be the probability of an attempt to transmit a data packet within a desired time slot of... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397817 | Information converting apparatus An information export method for exporting content and right information of the content to a repository includes referring to the right information when the content is exported to the repository and checking whether the repository is allowed to have the content base... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394761 | System and method for delivering messages using alternate modes of communication There is provided a novel system and method for delivering messages using alternate modes of communication when a primary mode of communication is not available as may happen in emergent circumstances such as those that arise during a terrorist attack causing damage... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391714 | Point to multipoint system and process for the transmission over the electricity network of digital data The system enables bidirectional communication between a center and a plurality of users via a power line network and is characterized in that low and high speed communication can be established to provide multiple high-quality services to the users. The system comp... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391757 | Wireless LAN A wireless LAN comprises an access point with a data communicator for data communicated over different channels, each using a respective wireless technology, and at least one mobile communications device with a data communicator for data communicated over the channe... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392050 | Systems and methods for automated network operating center system for broadband wireless network Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for operating and deploying a broadband wireless network having at least one data transmission node and a plurality of CPE units, wherein there is a wireless data link at least in part between the data transmission node and... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388835 | Gateway configuration for controlling data flow in modem over packet networks An apparatus and method for configuring a gateway device for a modem over packet network session is disclosed. The method for configuring the first gateway device generally comprises: negotiating with a first client device to establish a first link; receiving, from ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388524 | Enhancing signal to noise ratio of an interpolated signal Providing interpolated signals with enhanced signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR). In an embodiment, for each digital sample (of an analog signal) having strength Dn, N values are inserted, with the kth inserted value having a strength of Dn(1+/−Dk), wherein Dk is selected... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388829 | Method and apparatus for detecting and recovering from faults associated with transport protocol connections across network address translators Approaches to recover from faults associated with multi-homed clients having transport protocol connections that pass through network address translators are disclosed. In one approach, context information for a connection, between a first host and a second host, re... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386716 | Device in a system operating with CAN-protocol and in a control and/or supervision system A control or supervision system incorporates a digital serial communication and modules which are mutually communicable to this and operate with CAN-protocol. A control desk can be wirelessly connected to one or more modules operating with a signal protocol which ta... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386446 | Predictive coding scheme with adaptive speed parameters If an adaptive prediction algorithm controllable by a speed coefficient is started from to operate with a first adaption speed and a first adaption precision and an accompanying first prediction precision in the case that the speed coefficient has a first value and ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386058 | Transceiver apparatus and transceiving method In a transmitting method for transmitting a transmit signal sequence by a number of subcarriers, a plurality of subcarriers F1, F2, . . . FNSCH exclusively for a synchronization channel are provided, a signal sequence of synchronizat... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385956 | LAN based wireless communications system A system for routing calls between a switching unit and a mobile unit. The system comprises a wireless adjunct and a radio transmit point. The wireless adjunct, in communication with the switching unit and a packet based network, is operable to receive data from the... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385961 | Contending for the medium with a mixture of backwards-compatible wireless devices In a wireless network in which a central network device (e.g., an access point) communicates with multiple generations of mobile wireless devices that are backward compatible but not forward compatible, each generation of device may be selectively put into a mode th... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385959 | Power-efficient channel condition feedback for OFDM channels A wireless data communications device having a corresponding method and computer program comprises a Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) transceiver to communicate on an Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation (OFDM) channel; a measurement circuit having an acti... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382766 | Line concentrator for telephone set and communication method of LAN Speech telephones are incorporated in a LAN, and, for example, when a voice telephone 5 communicates with another voice telephone 8, call control is performed through exchange of information between a PC 1 and a. PC 4, juxtaposed with the... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382729 | Video transmission of layered coded data A video transmission system, a video transmitting apparatus, a video receiving apparatus, and a video transmission method whereby, when a plurality of terminals whose characteristics differ receive video simultaneously, each terminal can receive video with quality a... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379448 | Automated method and system for selectively updating communications parameters representing subscriber services in telecommunications networks Methods and systems for updating subscriber service parameters in a communications network wherein a central provisioning unit automatically locates subscriber ports having subscriber service parameters that require updating and which automatically issues commands f... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376103 | Method for processing a handoff in a mobile communication terminal A method for processing a handoff in a mobile communication terminal. If a handoff direction message received from a base station is a hard handoff direction message, the mobile communication terminal transmits an acknowledgement message to the base station in respo... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376750 | Method and apparatus for generic application layer gateway Methods and apparatuses for a generic application layer gateway. By systematically examining each field in a message, tokens can be found that are likely to represent an IP address. Translation of those tokens can then be attempted. Certain fields that do not requir... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376146 | Bus conversion device, system and method Disclosed are a system and method of transmitting data frames between media independent interfaces (MIIs) in a bus conversion device. Data frames received at a first MII may be formatted according to a first data transmission protocol. A bus conversion device format... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376147 | Adaptor supporting different protocols Provided are a method, adaptor, system, and program for receiving a transmission at one of multiple connections. Information is maintained on storage interconnect architectures and transmission characteristics, wherein the storage interconnect architectures have dif... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376149 | Method and apparatus for 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... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376135 | Modem system and aggregator for paths with different transmission profiles Different services like video-on-demand and Internet Protocol telephony require different paths with different transmission profiles. Known modem systems (1) and aggregators (7) select paths by detecting additional information in packet signals, like i... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372802 | Message communication via channels having strong fading In a transmitting/receiving concept a redundancy-adding encoder is used in order to obtain two data streams for different transmitters. In the receiver, the receiving signal is sampled by a first sampler synchronous to the first transmitter and is output by a second... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372820 | System and method for striping delay-sensitive data over multiple bursty channels Embodiments of the present invention include a method for striping data comprising accessing data to be striped over a plurality of wireless channels, accessing time sensitivity information associated with the data and mapping the data to the plurality of wireless c... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372868 | Mobile agent connectivity Mobile agent connectivity includes dynamically determining addressing information for a mobile device at a mechanism configured to provide the mobile device with access to a network. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372901 | Method and apparatus for modem rate adaptation A method and system for dynamically determining transmission characteristics of a modem transmitting information over a network is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining a plurality of measured characteristics associated with a plurality of receive... | 05/13/2008 |
