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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6687226 | Base station subsystem and method for handling an increase in traffic volume that overloads a terrestrial link in an internet protocol network A base station subsystem (BSS) and method is provided that handles an increase in traffic volume which temporarily overloads at least one terrestrial link in an IP network by gracefully downgrading the transmission rate of one or more calls. More specific... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6671273 | Method for using outgoing TCP/IP sequence number fields to provide a desired cluster node In accordance with the present invention a method is provided for encoding connection ownership information in the sequence number field of an outgoing TCP/IP data packet header. That connection information includes the network layer address of the proces... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668299 | Software interface between a parallel bus and a packet network A bridge device, for coupling a parallel bus to a packet network, includes a bus interface adapter, coupled to the parallel bus so as to receive bus cycles from a master device on the bus. An outbound packet register, having a bus address in an address sp... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6633546 | Network-provisioning data generating method and a transmission device using the same A network-provisioning data generating method, by which manual data registration can be prevented so that correct network provisioning data can be collected and registered in real time, and a transmission device, which is constituted according to the gene... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6628647 | Internet network based telephone call forwarding system and method An Internet network based telephone call forwarding system comprising a home unit to which a user's telephone calls are directed and a remote unit to which a user's telephone calls are forwarded, wherein the home unit has an incoming line connectable to a... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6598172 | System and method for clock skew compensation between encoder and decoder clocks by calculating drift metric, and using it to modify time-stamps of data packets In a coordinated computer system for encoding, transmitting, and decoding a series of data packets such as audio and/or video data, there may be a skew between the clock used by an encoder and the clock used by a decoder. In a method and device for compen... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6578095 | Data transfer control device for transferring data among a plurality of nodes and electronic equipment The objective is to provide a data transfer control device and electronic equipment that are capable of reducing processing overheads, thus enabling high-speed data transfer within a compact hardware configuration. A packet diagnosis circuit diagnoses sel... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6526066 | Apparatus for classifying a packet within a data stream in a computer network An apparatus for classifying a packet within a data stream in a network includes a state machine into which certain functionality has been hardwired. Specifically, the state machine defines in hardware a predetermined number of states and a predetermined ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6516375 | Peripheral component interconnect (PCI) configuration emulation for hub interface A configuration access request packet is transmitted from a first hub agent onto a hub interface. The configuration access request packet comprises an address formatted in accordance with a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) specification. The config... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6452952 | Digital information processing system with copy protection subsystem A digital information processing system ensures illegal-copy protection of video and audio signals without changing the structure or format of a stream of multiplexed video, audio and data packets. A packet demultiplexer selects packets from a packet stre... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6445717 | System for recovering lost information in a data stream Data which is transmitted over the internet or other transmission networks is first divided up into individual information packets, transmitted and then reassembled into useful data after reception. Parity packets are included in with the information pack... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6434143 | Internet protocol telephony voice/video message deposit and retrieval A method for signaling an Integrated Messaging System (IMS) on an Internet Protocol (IP) based network to deposit a message, including the steps of sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SIP INVITE request to the IMS indicating a message deposit acti... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6424658 | Store-and-forward network switch using an embedded DRAM A store-and-forward network switch uses an embedded dynamic-random-access memory (DRAM) packet memory. An input port controller receiving a packet writes the packet to the embedded packet memory. The input port controller then sends a message to the outpu... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6317843 | Erroneous package mounting determination method for a transmission device, and a transmission device using the same A method for detecting an erroneous IF board mounting in a transmission device which can be employed even when one-to-one correspondence is not established for slots on a transmission device and normally mounted IF boards determines when the transmission ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6289003 | Method for transmitting packet switched data in a mobile communications system The invention relates to a method for transmitting packet switched data in a mobile communications system using an ARQ protocol. In the method the receiver orders the desired transmission units. The transmitter sends transmission units according to the or... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6157972 | Apparatus and method for processing packetized information over a serial bus An IEEE 1394 serial bus, during bus initialization, transmits a plurality of self-ID packets across the bus. Each node on the bus is operable to receive the self-ID packet from the bus (140) via receiver (146). Asynchronous packets and isochronous packets... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6148072 | Methods and systems for initiating video communication A two-line videophone can be used to initiate video communication while maintaining audio communication throughout the initiation period. A user uses a first line to initiate an analog voice call with another user. The videophone then uses a modem to init... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6091440 | Implementation of delay-critical services in a cable television system For transmitting delay-critical data in a digital, time division form in an additional channel of a cable television system, the slots of the channel are further divided into smaller mini slots, for the indication of which the same cyclic indication is us... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6081848 | Striping packets of data across multiple virtual channels An I/O unit for transporting a data block having a plurality of data packets across an interconnect includes an I/O controller and a memory coupled to the I/O controller for storing the data block. The I/O unit further includes a DMA object created by the... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5937168 | Routing information within an adaptive routing architecture of an information retrieval system After an origination module (OM) receives information, a packet is transmitted to a routing architecture (RA) for routing to a destination module (DM) designated by the router packet. The RA interprets the router packet and adaptively routes the router pa... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5854786 | Method and apparatus for distribution/consolidation (DISCO) interface units for packet switched interconnection system A packet switching architecture provides for a switch system comprised of a cellular base station in communication with the PSTN through a switch. Data packets are routed through the switch system as necessary to effect communication between the public sw... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5760915 | Communication system capable of carrying out communication of speech and image with a simple structure A communication system comprises a master station 21 and a plurality of slave stations 22-1 to 22-N each of which communicates with the master station through a radio channel carrying a communication signal by using time division multiple access. The slav... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5732213 | System and method of testing open systems interconnection (OSI) layers in telecommunication networks A development test system and method for testing Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layers 3 through 7 of a communications protocol utilized between nodes in a telecommunications network. The system comprises a protocol simulator that simulates OSI layers... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5685775 | Networking video games over telephone network A method and apparatus for playing the same video game by a number of players at remote locations over a telephone network. More specifically, a video representation of the game played by a number of video game players stored at each of the player locatio... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5648965 | Method and apparatus for dynamic distributed packet tracing and analysis A packet filter can be programmed by a remote controller to detect packets meeting a particular criterion and to report detection of these packets to the controller. The reports from the packet filter are collected and analyzed by the remote controller. A... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5636215 | Ring type ATM network system In a ring type ATM network system employing an ATM cell transmission mode, two paths are provided to correspond to a dual ring between node equipments, one path is selected to transmit a cell, and the other path is defined as a stand-by system. The path i... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5233608 | Method of and a device for receiving data packet form A method of and a device for receiving data in packet form. In the method, a synchronization with incoming data is searched for by using a receiving modem, and first clock pulses in correct synchronization with the data are generated and the synchronized ... | 08/03/1993 |
| 4864563 | Method for establishing and maintaining a nodal network in a communication system A method for establishing and maintaining a nodal network in a communication system is described using a network connectivity matrix at each node of the network. The network connectivity matrix has a plurality of channels each corresponding to a node of t... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4701912 | Device for transmitting packets in an asynchronous time-division network, and method of encoding silences A method of encoding silences during transmission of data packets separated by silences consists in transmitting alternately during each silence two types of empty half-bytes which are mirror images of each other and the first two bits of which do not com... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4438511 | Packetized ensemble modem A high speed digital data modem particularly suited for use on a dial up telephone line is disclosed. For the transmit ensemble, the telephone passband is divided into sixty-four sub-bands each with a carrier located approximately in the center of each su... | 03/20/1984 |
