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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7428425 | Method and apparatus for providing biasing criteria for binary decisions for use in wireless communications to enhance protection A criterion for biasing a binary decision requiring an unequal protection which utilizes a measured signal to interference ratio (SIR). The SIR may be derived from a determination of channel estimation. The SIR is compared against a threshold, the threshold being se... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7412208 | Transmission system for transmitting RF signals, power and control signals via RF coaxial cables A transmission system for RF signals, power and control signals over RF coaxial cables is disclosed. A coaxial cable line interconnects two devices, such as an instrument and a remote coupler. A control signal (e.g., data bit) and RF signals are multiplexed onto the... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7379471 | System and method for generating reports in a network Methods and systems are described for generating reports in a communication network. More specifically, the system processes a communication at an enterprise gatekeeper; stores, in memory accessible to the enterprise gatekeeper, information associated with the commu... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373528 | Increased power for power over Ethernet applications According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for supplying power over Ethernet includes determining whether a first port of power sourcing equipment is supplying current to a power over Ethernet device in a predetermined current range. The method also incl... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373429 | Integrated IP network To provide an integrated IP network containing therein a plurality of separated IP networks with a variety of characteristics, such as IP telephone network, IP video network, IP electronic text network, best effort network, IP data multicast network and IP-based TV ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366297 | Method and system for converting alternating current to ethernet in-line power According to one embodiment, a method for converting alternating current voltage signals to Ethernet in-line power includes converting an alternating current voltage signal to an approximate direct current voltage signal, adding at least one odd harmonic of the appr... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366276 | Method and apparatus for transferring signaling messages The present invention provides a novel method for transferring SCCP messages to one of a plurality of entities in an entity set. The method receives a SCCP message from which a traffic type for said received message is determined. A global title associated with said... | 04/29/2008 |
| RE40254 | Method and system for realising a fast control channel in a cellular radio network Signalling information is conveyed from a transmitting device (101) to a receiving device (102) in a cellular radio network where user data transmission takes place on a traffic channel in discrete transmission bursts (111-120; 211-220... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349713 | Data communication apparatus and data communication method A type-2 hybrid ARQ data communication device having an improved quality of transmitted data while an increase of power consumption is avoided. The communication device transmits the same information bits (S) plural times (N times) and controls (changes) the transmi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336649 | Hybrid packet-switched and circuit-switched telephony system A hybrid telephony system with packet switching as well as circuit switching optimizes utilization of transport networks, and is accessible from any conventional telephone set. A call originating from a circuit-switched network is passed through a gateway computer t... | 02/26/2008 |
| RE40077 | Window-based polling scheme for a wireless communications protocol A transmitter is capable of transmitting layer 2 protocol data units (PDUs). Each PDU has an n-bit sequence number. A base sequence number BT(A) is obtained that marks a beginning sequence number of a transmitting window of the transmitter. A current sequence... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7317696 | Method for in-band signaling of data over digital wireless telecommunications networks An inband signaling modern communicates digital data over a voice channel of a wireless telecommunications networks. An input receives digital data. An encoder converts the digital data into audio tones that synthesize frequency characteristics of human speech. The ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313129 | Arrangement for sharing a single signaling point code between multiple hosts in an IP-based network A Voice over IP network having multiple signaling message transfer nodes (e.g., call agents, signaling gateways), communicate with switched circuit network nodes using a single point code. A signaling gateway, upon receiving an SS7 signaling message specifying a des... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310416 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A system for adding or updating contact data in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown. Contact data associated with actual or potential communicants may be entered into a database in the wireless comm... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305076 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system A wireless information communication system and method, such as a paging network, that provides caller identification information transmitted from the public switched telephone network to a pager, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a portable computing device, or per... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301952 | Terminal-to-terminal communication connection control method using IP transfer network Both a connection server and a relay connection server are installed in an IP transfer network; a function similar to a line connection control of a subscriber exchanger is applied to a connection server; a function similar to a line connection control of a relay ex... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299049 | Devices, softwares and methods for handling off live calls between legs of CSV and VoX modalities Devices, softwares methods hand off a live call from an original leg of a first modality (such as Circuit Switched Voice) to an alternate leg of another modality (such as Voice over Internet Protocol). An original leg of a call is established using the first modalit... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295577 | System and method for correlation and real-time display of mapped PSTN trunk identifiers and gateway control protocol endpoints A system for correlating and displaying dissimilar communication protocols is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises user communication information that spans at least two dissimilar communication networks, a first communication protocol associated with ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289048 | Duo-binary encoder and optical duo-binary transmission apparatus using the same A duo-binary encoder performs a parallel processing and an optical duo-binary transmission apparatus using the encoder to enhance transmission capability. The duo-binary encoder has a judgment unit for judging whether an odd number or even number of ‘0’s exists ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286658 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A method for use in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown in which Caller ID data originating from the public switched telephone network or other caller identifying data is received in a paging signal... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286516 | Methods and systems for wireless local area network (WLAN)-based signaling network monitoring Methods and systems for WLAN-based signaling network monitoring are disclosed. A signaling message is received at a network routing node. A message copy function on the network routing node copies the signaling message. The message copy function forwards the copied ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266186 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system Contact data in a phonebook database for a personal communication device are remotely updateable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a wireless radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are inpu... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257210 | Picture phone with caller id Pictures are transmitted to a wireless picture phone with caller ID from a message originator and used by the message recipient to identify who is to sending the picture. In one embodiment the pictures are sent to a message center along with the caller ID of the mes... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7231271 | Steganographic method for covert audio communications Method for embedding a covert message within a digital audio signal. The existence of the covert message is undetectable and the information content of the covert message can be further rendered unascertainable. Covert message data is embedded within a digital audio... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7206577 | Method and apparatus for receiving site selection diversity transmit (SSDT) signal in a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) system Disclosed is a UE and a method to operate the UE in the Site Selection Diversity Transmit mode. The method includes detecting a case where no base station is transmitting to the UE; inserting predetermined values into a received signal; and decoding the predetermine... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203483 | Wireless communication apparatus, method thereof and wireless communication system employing the same A wireless communication apparatus, a method thereof and a wireless communication system employing the same. The wireless communication apparatus for transceiving data wirelessly, includes a transceiving unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from an extern... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7199892 | Facsimile apparatus and repeater When a multicast instruction is input, a facsimile apparatus transmits an input plurality of sub-addresses together with image data to a repeater in a single communication transaction. Thus, effective communication can be performed. ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200405 | Method and system for providing channel assignment information used to support uplink and downlink channels A method and wireless communication system for providing channel assignment information used to support an uplink (UL) channel and a downlink (DL) channel. The system includes at least one Node-B and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU commu... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200150 | System and method for bypassing data from egress facilities An open architecture platform bypasses data from the facilities of a telecommunications carrier, e.g. an incumbent local exchange carrier, by distinguishing between voice and data traffic, and handling voice and data traffic separately. An SS7 gateway receives and t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191244 | System and method for routing media The system and method for streaming media to a viewer and managing the media comprises and an enhanced service routing processor (ESRP), a real time switch management system (RTSMS), a name routing processor (NRP), and a managed media switch (MMS). The RTSMS has a r... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7154865 | Application module interface for bidirectional signaling and bearer channels in a private branch exchange (PBX) environment An application module interface is disclosed that allows one or more modules to access voice or data channels in a private branch exchange environment that contains one or mole B channels (bearer channels) for transmitting voice or data signals, and one or more D ch... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7139380 | System and method for performing signaling-plan-specific call progress analysis Call progress analysis is performed in a telephone system employing different in-band signaling plans are used. From address information for a call destination in a call initiation message, it is determined which type of in-band signaling plans is utilized by equipm... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133420 | Methods and systems for triggerless screening of wireless message service messages for delivery with differential quality of service Methods and systems for triggerless screening of WMS messages for delivery with differential quality of service (QoS) are disclosed. Signaling messages are screened to determine whether they contain WMS content. In response to determining that a message contains WMS... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130408 | Service logic context cache for signaling events A method for sharing signaling event data in a telephony system can include receiving within a first service logic component an event from a telephony signaling network. An event context can be determined for the event and asynchronously stored within an event conte... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120585 | Remote server object architecture for speech recognition A speech recognition system includes a line of service including a first server object coupled to a telephone network for receiving a voice data message from the telephone network, a second server object having a first connection to the first server object for recei... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7085279 | Method and apparatus for carrying telephony network traffic over an ATM network A method that sends ATM source identification and an ATM-TDM correlation tag from an ATM source gateway to a telephony signaling control network; and then receives at an ATM destination gateway the ATM source identification and the ATM-TDM correlation tag as sent fr... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075947 | Signaling system of a signaling point An apparatus, system and method for converting point codes in a signal transfer point, STP, in a telecommunications signaling system. The STP includes a point code conversion function (500) which converts point codes designating the origination and destinatio... | 07/11/2006 |
