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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8059682 | Apparatus, method and computer program product to request a data rate increase based on ability to transmit at least one more selected data unit A method includes, in response to selection of a transport block to be transmitted through a wireless channel at a current data rate, performing at least the following: selecting a size for a data unit that can be scheduled for transmission; identifying one of a num... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050292 | Method of performing transmission and prioritization for radio link control packets for a medium access control layer of a wireless communications system A method used in a medium access control, hereinafter called MAC, layer of a wireless communications system for performing transmission and prioritization for packets of a radio link control, hereinafter called RLC, layer including a plurality of RLC entities couple... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8014421 | Systems and methods for adjusting the maximum transmission unit by an intermediary device The present invention is generally directed towards a remote access architecture for providing peer-to-peer communications and remote access connectivity. In one embodiment, the remote access architecture of the present invention provides a method for establishing a... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005113 | Encapsulating large Ethernet frames A method comprising receiving a data frame, encapsulating the received data frame into a reflected frame message (RFM) encapsulated frame, and if the received data frame causes the RFM encapsulated frame to exceed a maximum service data unit size, either the data fr... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995614 | Sequence allocation method in mobile communication system Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method divides R×M sequences specified by a ZC... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986715 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data The present invention relates to a digital broadcasting system for transmitting/receiving a digital broadcasting signal and a method of processing data. In one aspect of the present invention provides a method of processing data, the method including receiving a bro... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978732 | Apparatus and method for deciding transmission format using variable frame length and decoding method using the same Provided are an apparatus and method for deciding a transmission format using a variable frame length and a decoding method using the same. The apparatus for deciding the transmission format using the variable frame length includes: a frame synchronization acquiring... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970013 | Systems and methods for wireless network content filtering Systems and methods of determining the content of frames transmitted on a wireless network through comparison of captured frames to predetermined statistical patterns. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965738 | System and method for adaptive frame size management in a wireless multihop network A system and method for adaptively managing frame size in a wireless multihop network (100) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a packet is transmitted from a source to a destination (420). A acknowledgement packet (422) is received and a successfu... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7944944 | Abnormal case handling for acknowledged mode transmission and unacknowledged mode transmission Whenever the Receiver of this invention receives an AMD PDU or a UMD PDU with its “Length Indicator” having an invalid or a reserved value, the Receiver discards such a PDU and treats it as never received. The Receiver may report its receiving status accordingly... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7899079 | System for managing reserved bits in a variable-length message and optimizing message decoding utilizing the same A system of structures and operations is provided for managing reserved bits in a variable-length message, and for optimizing decoding performance of such a message using such reserved bits. ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7873076 | Mapping of block-encoded data formats onto a bit/byte synchronous transport medium A fiber channel (FC) signal representing block encoded data is applied to a block decoder, which removes the block encoding from the data. The data is then applied to a simplified data link (SDL) protocol encoder, which maps the data into an SDL protocol packet for ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7848354 | Wireless communication apparatus A wireless communication apparatus wherein the throughput is improved. In a wireless communication apparatus (100), a frame generating part (120) adds a header to a data portion to form a transport frame. A control part (190) acquires a variatio... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7769043 | Packet shaping for mixed rate 802.11 wireless networks A method of shaping data packet transmissions by nodes in a wireless network is presented. Each node sets a maximum limit for MAC service data unit size based on data rate so that maximum transmission times for data packet transmissions by all of the nodes are appro... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7742500 | Method for transmitting data by a mobile station comprising a step of determining a Maximum Datagram Size (MDS) A mobile station that includes a smart card associated with a mobile host equipment communicates by means of a protocol that is organized in several layers. These layers include at least a data transport layer of the datagram type that is adapted to transmit integra... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7706407 | Method for coding data packets for transmission over an air interface A method for coding data packets (DP) having at least one control command (S) and one data byte (B). The data packets are divided into sequences of control and/or data time blocks (SB, DB) each having a predetermined number (M) of time segments (ZS), whereby these c... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7672334 | Wireless communication apparatus and transmission control method A wireless communication apparatus includes a memory to store reference data including transmission rates usable for transmission of an aggregated frame including frames and reference frame lengths of the aggregated frame corresponding to the transmission rates, res... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7609721 | Systems and methods for adjusting the maximum transmission unit for encrypted communications The present invention is generally directed towards a remote access architecture for providing peer-to-peer communications and remote access connectivity. In one embodiment, the remote access architecture of the present invention provides a method for establishing a... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7599395 | Apparatus, method and a computer readable medium for generating media packets An apparatus, a method and a computer readable medium for generating media packets, the method includes the steps of: (a) providing packet boundary information representative of locations of potential packet boundaries within media objects; said packet boundary info... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7593427 | Method and apparatus for automatic detection and provisioning of DS3 frame formats Methods and apparatus for automatically detecting the frame format of a data signal and automatically provisioning a port based on the detected frame format are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a framing format detection mechanism that is... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7573910 | Wireless device with dynamic fragmentation threshold adjustment A wireless communication device includes an input/output terminal. A memory is configured to store parameters relevant to a wireless communication protocol. A modem is coupled to the input/output terminal and the memory and configured to operate a wireless protocol ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7548560 | Method and system for checking frame-length in fibre channel frames Method and system for checking frame-length in a Fiber Channel frames is provided. The method includes extracting a R_CTL value from a Fiber Channel frame; comparing the extracted R_CTL value of the Fiber Channel frame with R_CTL values stored in a Content Addressab... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7535928 | Segmentation and reassembly of data frames A system and method of transmitting data frames between a plurality of input ports to a plurality of output ports is described. The input ports segment portions of the received data frames to provide smaller data cells which are individually transmitted to an output... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7505484 | Remote discovery and storage of a path maximum transmission unit (PMTU) value A method, system, and computer program product for optimizing a message size for communication in a communication network are disclosed. The method comprises identifying a connection to a target, sending to a path maximum transmission unit value server (which is not... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7489708 | Method of dividing a payload intra-frame Provided is a method of dividing a payload intra-frame for improving throughput of a carrier sensing multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) wireless communication network. The payload intra-frame dividing method includes a data frame dividing step and a physi... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7468990 | Extension mode for wireless LANs complying with short interframe space requirement An access point comprises a transmitter. A coding module communicates with the transmitter and generates a first packet including a first field that identifies one of a standard signal processing mode and an extension signal processing mode, a second field that sele... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7468989 | Extension mode for wireless LANs compying with short interframe space requirement A wireless station comprises a transmitter. A coding module communicates with the transmitter and generates a first packet including a first field that identifies one of a standard signal processing mode and an extension signal processing mode, a second field that s... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7436836 | Method and apparatus for detecting support for a protocol defining supplemental headers Various methods and systems for detecting whether a network device supports a protocol, which defines a supplemental header, are disclosed. One method involves detecting a value within a preamble generated by a sending device and verifying that a header format of a ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436898 | Integrated circuit (IC) card, data transmission apparatus, data transmission method and computer program of data transmission method An integrated circuit (IC) card capable of a high-speed data transmission to/from a data transmission apparatus having low processing capability. A controlling section generates a data packet by adding management information including information regarding a data le... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424026 | Method and apparatus providing continuous adaptive control of voice packet buffer at receiver terminal Disclosed is a device, a computer program and a method to receive and buffer data packets that contain information that is representative of time-ordered content, such as a voice signal, that is intended to be presented to a person in a substantially continuous and ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420980 | Digraph network superframes A method of assigning cells in a superframe using digraph link information in a network of nodes is disclosed. The method comprises determining a total number of desired digraph links in the network of nodes wherein a digraph link is a directional link specifying ro... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418009 | Method of transferring frames of variable length for a passive optical network that improves network efficiency and simplifies child apparatus A method of communicating through a passive optical network (PON) that improves the efficiency of the network with low cost child apparatuses having only simple functions. A parent apparatus provides the child apparatuses with a multi-frame standard signal, and a ch... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418514 | Multi-speed serial interface for media access control and physical layer devices A network device that operates in first and second serial gigabit interface modes involving data speed translation comprising a medium access control (MAC) device that transmits idle order sets. A physical layer (PHY) device receives the idle order sets and that swi... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415047 | Methods for determining multiplex patterns Methods for determining multiplex patterns are provided. More particularly, a multidimensional data structure is used to store multiplex patterns and indexes used to access individual ones of those patterns based on audio channel selection, audio frame size, and wha... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412376 | System and method for real-time detection and preservation of speech onset in a signal A “speech onset detector” provides a variable length frame buffer in combination with either variable transmission rate or temporal speech compression for buffered signal frames. The variable length buffer buffers frames that are not clearly identified as either... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408939 | Method and apparatus for transport of fractional datastreams over frame-based transport systems A method, system and transport unit to combine and transport multiple variable data rate LAN streams and fixed data rate voice streams through a plurality of transmission links used as a conduit for transmission of data between local area networks are disclosed. Com... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408956 | Communication apparatus and communication method A data communication frame is formed by a preamble portion (PREAMBLE) for demodulation and synchronization, a frame information portion (FC) containing a data type of the frame, a frame length portion (FL), and a data body portion (DATABODY) composed of more than on... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400649 | Method of generating protocol data units in split mode A method of generating protocol data units in a radio link control layer, which is set to an unacknowledged mode or an acknowledged mode, is disclosed. After producing a payload unit by segmenting and/or concatenating one or more service data units received from a h... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394814 | Method and apparatus for rendering a cell-based switch useful for frame based application protocols A method for providing an early packet termination such that prior to the complete transmission of the number of cells specified in the first cell of a packet, a crossbar connection is released. The act of releasing the connection is triggered on recognition of an E... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394827 | Asynchronous data segmentation/transmission method for synchronous Ethernet and data structure used therein An asynchronous data segmentation/transmission method for synchronous Ethernet and a data structure used therein are disclosed. The asynchronous data segmentation/transmission method can segment and transmit asynchronous data such that the asynchronous data can be t... | 07/01/2008 |
