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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7349466 | Parallel interface transmission using a single multi-frequency composite signal A parallel interface modem for simultaneous transfer of a plurality of parallel signals across a medium is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the parallel interface modem includes a modulation circuit for qualifying each of the plurality of parallel device interf... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349422 | Providing contention free quality of service to time constrained data The principles of the present invention provide for providing contention free quality of service to wireless stations. A station indicates to an access point that higher priority data (e.g., time constrained data) is to be sent to the access point. The access point ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350225 | System and related methods facilitating the rapid detection and acquisition of data channels in a cable modem using various modulation techniques A method is presented comprising tuning a receiver of a broadband signal to a channel within the broadband signal to receive information including one or more cable modem operating parameters, and updating one or more operating parameters of the cable modem in accor... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349484 | Adjustable dual-band link A communication system utilizing an adjustable link has at least a first data transmission circuit including at least a first communication link circuit. The first communication link circuit has a baseband circuit and at least a passband circuit. The baseband circui... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349963 | System for DSL modem type identification Operational data collected from a communication system, such as a DSL system, may include exclusionary data and/or indicative data that can be analyzed to determine the type of communication device, such as a DSL modem, that generated the operational data. Exclusion... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349425 | Method and apparatus for overhead messaging in a wireless communication system Method and apparatus for providing a broadcast system parameter message in a wireless communication system supporting a broadcast service. In one embodiment, the message identifies a service option number corresponding to a set of broadcast parameters. In an alterna... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349992 | System for communication with a storage area network A system enables communication between a first network having a first network protocol and a second network having a second network protocol. At least one of the first and second networks is a storage area network. The system includes first and second data ports for... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349426 | Integrated, self-optimizing, multi-parameter/multi-variable point-to-multipoint communication system [II] An Integrated, Self-Optimizing, Multi-Parameter/Multi-Variable Point-to-Multipoint Communication System provides integrated adaptive and dynamic responsiveness for communication parameters related to multiple characteristics of wireless communication links for a sin... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349433 | Signaling for parameterized quality of service (QoS) support The creation, modification, and deletion of a traffic stream 224 with parameterized QoS expectations between two communicating stations 205 and 207, when there is no built-in mechanism for support of parameterized QoS expectations, requires sign... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349368 | Data rate change notification for a communication system In a mobile communication system, a mobile switching center changes a transmission rate of communication data transmitted from a mobile station and so on to a database or a transmission rate of communication data transmitted from the database to the mobile station a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349329 | Network system, data transmitter-receiver and failure location/compensation method A data transmitter-receiver 30 arranged on a ring network to form a node includes a normal-direction data transmit/receive unit 19, a reverse-direction data transmit/receive unit 20, a buffer control unit 13, a controller 14, and c... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349384 | Reliable one-way messaging over request-response transport protocols Example embodiments provide for a binding mechanism between RM protocols and request-response transport protocols (e.g., HTTP) in a one-way message exchange pattern. The present invention leverages existing network characteristics of request-response transport proto... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349407 | Protocol conversion apparatus, communication apparatus, communication program storage medium, and communication system A protocol conversion apparatus for converting a communication system (e.g. a USB scheme and a PDC scheme) is disposed between for example, a personal computer (PC) and a portable telephone (MS). A radio protocol packet is covered with USB protocol header/footer in ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349366 | Overlap mitigation in wireless LANs using a central medium access control The present invention relates to an access point for a wireless local area network. The access point is arranged to service its stations by using a Point Coordination Function protocol and to monitor overlap with neighbouring access points. To mitigate overlap, the ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349339 | Method for operating an ad-hoc network for the wireless data transmissions of synchronous and asynchronous messages A method for operating an ad-hoc network for the wireless data transmission of synchronous and asynchronous messages synchronizes the transmitters and receivers of neighboring nodes on a transmission path using cyclically transmitted identifiers, whose intervals def... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349354 | Serving soft handoffs between mobile switching centers that use different protocols The present invention may relate to the following steps. Converting a bundle of data from a first format of a first mobile switching center to a second format of a switch. Routing, at the switch, the bundle data in the second format. Converting the bundle of data fr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348895 | Advanced automobile accident detection, data recordation and reporting system A system for monitoring a location to detect and report a vehicular incident, comprising a transducer for detecting acoustic waves at the location, and having an audio output; a processor for determining a probable occurrence or impending occurrence of a vehicular i... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349979 | Method and apparatus for redirecting network traffic Methods and apparatus are described for intelligently redirecting and/or processing traffic. In one embodiment, a method of facilitating redirection of traffic sent from a first processing device (e.g., a client) to a second processing device (e.g., a server) is dis... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349406 | Method and apparatus for virtual network connection merging A method and apparatus are provided for performing a virtual network connection merge. In one example, the method assembles at least one data unit from data traffic of at least one network connection. A credit is calculated for each network connection. A chosen data... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349363 | Method of transmitting service information, and radio system The invention relates to a radio system which transmits packet traffic and to a method of transmitting service information flexibly between a network part and a terminal in a radio system which transmits packet traffic and in which a connection set-up process is act... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346071 | Broadband multi-drop local network, interface and method for multimedia access Broadband multi-drop local network, interface and method for multimedia access. A local network architecture include a wired bus coupleable directly to an external data network terminal and configured for carrying broadband packetized data traffic over a frequency s... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346074 | Communication system, signal receiving device, signal transmitting device, and communication method A communication system is disclosed that is capable of reducing data delay in transmitted hierarchized data and selecting predetermined data from the transmitted hierarchized data for communication according to conditions of the receiving end. The communication syst... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346046 | LAN communication method and system for transmitting and receiving packets with correction code data When transmitting voice data, correction codes each representing data of one data packet are added to the transmitted data from the outset. Thus, it is made possible to restore one data packet lost for the first time, and when and only when two successive data packe... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346002 | Electronic control unit A first control circuit section (master station) and a second control circuit section (substation) communicate with each other via series-parallel converters. The master station includes regular transmission device and transmission-permitting signal generation devic... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345678 | Editing character strings with touchscreen A method of editing a character string displayed on a touchscreen with an indicator means. A character string comprising a plurality of characters is displayed on the touchscreen. The character string is edited in response to an indication made with the indicator me... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345989 | Adaptive channelization scheme for high throughput multicarrier systems Adaptive channelization is achieved in a high throughput multicarrier system by first subdividing a high throughput channel into a number of frequency sub-channels. A channelization decision may then be made within a device as to which of the sub-channels to use for... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342946 | Device for processing data signals, method thereof, and device for multiplexing data signals In a device for processing data signals, a storing part stores an input signal and the data signals included in the input signal are extracted from the storing part and the data signals are output at a desired output speed. Then, the data signal is output based on s... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342938 | Spectrally efficient approach to protection of key elements in a non-homogenous data stream A system and method for transmitting a file stream using quality of service capable links. The system has a network capable of supporting quality of service negotiations and an embedded component capable of negotiating different quality of service levels for a plura... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342942 | Multi-service segmentation and reassembly device that maintains only one reassembly context per active output port A multi-service segmentation and reassembly (MS-SAR) integrated circuit is disposed on a line card in a router or switch. The MS-SAR can operate in an ingress mode so that it receives packet and/or cell format data and forwards that data to either a packet-based or ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342878 | Input port routing circuit that performs output port filtering The filtering operations normally performed at the output port side of an Infiniband (or similar protocol) routing switch are performed in parallel at the input side to prevent data packets from being placed on a queue from which they would ordinarily ultimately be ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342908 | Radio communication method and device In a radio communication method such as W-CDMA, additive information of each current frame transmitted and received between a group of base stations 2, 4 and 6 and a mobile station 8 is added to a preceding frame precedent to the current frame b... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342937 | Spectrally flexible band plans with reduced filtering requirements The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a method of simplifying filtering with respect to a band plan. The method includes selecting a reflection point relative to the band plan and designating subchannels as unusable within a filterable separation of the... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343161 | Methods and system for setting up call in CDMA mobile communication system A method and system for setting up a call in a CDMA mobile communication system, which is suitable for real time transmission of a fast data, such as a video data, between origination and termination mobile stations is disclosed. The method includes setting up a cal... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342888 | Method and apparatus for providing resource discovery using multicast scope A method and apparatus for providing resource discovery using multicast scope selection is disclosed. The method includes the discoverer sending a first request message having a first selected scope to a known multicast group, setting a timer after the first request... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343347 | Electronic media player with metadata based control and method of operating the same A method and apparatus is described that prevents viewing or other type of playback of unauthorized copies of media files, whether received through a network or retrieved from a magnetic or optical disc. The apparatus uses data in a metadata field that forms a part ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342905 | Communications system A communications system includes a subnetwork connected to a network. The network has a first part and a second part, with the first and second parts being connected so that a first user can communicate with a second user. The first user is able to move within the r... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343395 | Facilitating resource access using prioritized multicast responses to a discovery request Systems and methods are provided to facilitate resource access using prioritized multicast responses to a discovery request. ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7339942 | Dynamic queue allocation and de-allocation A dynamic queue allocation and de-allocation mechanism for managing traffic flowing through a switching node. If a packet matches conditions of a particular QoS policy rule, a determination is made as to whether a queue associated with the matched QoS policy rule ex... | 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 |
