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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189571 | System apparatus and method for interconnecting TDM and frame/packet communication networks An interconnection between fully synchronous networks and next-generation frame communications networks is disclosed. A means of bidirectional frame format conversion between a synchronous multiplexing system and a logical multiplexing system is provided, along with... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8175084 | Data device to speech service bridge The present invention provides a data device to speech service bridge. The bridge allows packet-based devices, such as, for example, the PDA and 2.5/3G cellular phone, to access voice services. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8040879 | Communication system A method and an arrangement are provided for actuating and operating a heterogeneous transport network which includes connection elements, such as ATM and Ethernet connections, by controlling a TDM-based switching system. In the area of the transport network, there ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036213 | System and method for enhancing network stability by selectively controlling adjacency formation A system and method for facilitating connecting a switch to a network to improve network performance. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a first module for determining when the switch is initially connected to a network and providing a signal in resp... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7940752 | Rake reception apparatus and method in a mobile terminal A rake reception apparatus for determining whether a paging channel is received in a mobile terminal using a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode. A searcher searches for a multi-path signal using a received signal output from a Radio Frequency (RF) part, and calculat... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936747 | Communication system A method and an arrangement are provided for actuating and operating a heterogeneous transport network which includes connection elements, such as ATM and Ethernet connections, by controlling a TDM-based switching system. In the area of the transport network, there ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7907602 | Method and telecommunication system for transmission of a message A method, telecommunication terminal, short message service center and telecommunication system is disclosed for transmission of a message from a first telecommunication terminal to a second telecommunication terminal, of which at least one is connected to a line-co... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7889723 | Virtual burst-switching networks A time-shared network comprising edge nodes and optical core nodes may be dynamically divided into several embedded networks, each of which covering selected edge nodes. At least one of the edge nodes may host an embedded-network controller operable to form multiple... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7864754 | Method and telecommunication system for transmission of a message A method and telecommunication system is disclosed for transmission of a message from a first telecommunication terminal to a second telecommunication terminal, of which at least one is connected to a line-connected telephone network. The message is converted as a s... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7808981 | Packet telephony across the public switched telephone network A network device that allows packet relay across a public switched telephone network. The network device has a converter operable to convert a packet data stream to a public switched telephone network data stream. The converter may be a voice codec or a modem, as ex... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801117 | Fibre channel switching fabric router The Fibre Channel standard was created by the American National Standard for Information Systems (ANSI) X3T11 task group to define a serial I/O channel for interconnecting a number of heterogeneous peripheral devices to computer systems as well as interconnecting th... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801118 | Fibre channel switching fabric port control The Fibre Channel standard was created by the American National Standard for Information Systems (ANSI) X3T11 task group to define a serial I/O channel for interconnecting a number of heterogeneous peripheral devices to computer systems as well as interconnecting th... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7746849 | Providing packet-based multimedia services via a circuit bearer Provided is a method and system for providing a packet-based multimedia service to a mobile device in a network. The service is defined by a telecommunications standard, such as the 3GPP IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) standard, and the network does not support packet... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7693140 | CDMA transmitting apparatus and CDMA receiving apparatus An S/P converting section (101) converts input transmission signals A1, A2, B1, B2, . . . , K1, K2 to parallelized data, separated in individual transmission lines. Spreading sections (102, 103) spread the resp... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7558255 | Method of switching modes of uplink transmission in a wireless communication system A hybrid multi-mode mobile station makes a decision either to encode and modulate a new user data packet using the same OFDMA or pre-coded CDMA mode used for the last retransmission of a previous packet or to switch modes based on inputs of a measured average transm... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7542464 | Switching network A large high capacity switch is provided for a communication network which is constructed from a network of smaller switches. Data is fragmented into fixed sized cells and the cells of a traffic flow are aggregated by grouping cells to form larger yet uniform units ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7443838 | Mobile communications system and operation control method, and node and wireless control apparatus therefor A normal audio communication terminal can use the VoIP technology in a mobile communications system by using an audio communication circuit for a conventional wireless circuit, and adding an audio communications function to a packet communication device. In a PS (pa... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440470 | Multicasting in a high-speed switching environment A system for multicasting in a high-speed switching environment includes multiple input ports and multiple output ports. Each output port is, according to a vector, allowed to forward multicast packets received by only a particular one or by particular ones of the i... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440443 | Integrated universal network adapter An integrated network adapter is operable to establish a network interface with a plurality of media types, including at least a power line network and a telephone line network, based on pre-configuration, upon initialization and dynamically during operation. The ad... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436954 | Security system with an intelligent DMA controller A security subsystem is provided with at least a first security engine, a first set of registers and a control portion to perform a first security operation for each of a first number of data blocks of each of a first number of data segments of a first data object. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428234 | Voice-over-IP hybrid digital loop carrier Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method of use comprising: for a call between a local IP network and a remote non-IP network, converting between IP packets and PCM robbed bit signaling via a VoIP channelized router; providing the PCM robbed bit signaling... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426205 | No-addressing modular-assembly Ethernet switch with a G.Link An Ethernet switch has a header device with a crossbar device and a number of downstream interface modules with a first number of a series of ports and a second number of a series of ports, respectively, such that in each case the same one in the series of the first... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424009 | Method of mapping chips of a spread out symbol to sub-channels of a multi-carrier transmission network The present invention concerns a method of mapping chips of a spread out symbol to sub-channels of a group of sub-channels of a Multi-Carrier transmission channel of a Multi-Carrier transmission network, the spread out symbol being formed by multiplying a data item ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424106 | Routing traffic between carriers A method for routing an international call includes receiving a call and identifying a first international carrier based on an Internet protocol address associated with the call or a tunnel through which the call was received. The method also includes identifying a ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420964 | Arranging packet data connections in office system A method for establishing a packet data connection in a telecommunications system which includes an office network, an operator network, and a local area network between them. Data transmission from the office network through the local area network is adapted to a d... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421509 | Enforcing quality of service in a storage network A system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention provides Quality of Service (QoS) for Storage Access. Such QoS is partially enabled in one embodiment by the automatic pooling of storage devices and provisioning virtual targets from those pools. QoS is enf... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417568 | System and method for data feed acceleration and encryption Systems and methods for providing accelerated transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication ... | 08/26/2008 |
| RE40467 | Method and apparatus for managing the flow of data within a switching device A method and apparatus for managing the flow of data within a switching device is provided. The switching device includes network interface cards connected to a common backplane. Each interface card is configured to support the maximum transfer rate of the backplane... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417980 | Internet telephone system An Internet telephone system is provided with an Internet terminal device capable of connecting with the Internet and transmitting and receiving audio signals for a voice communication. The Internet terminal has a communication unit through for transmitting/receivin... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415005 | Ad hoc selection of voice over internet streams A method and apparatus for a communication system technique involving ad hoc selection of at least two audio streams is provided. Each of the at least two audio streams is a packetized version of an audio source. A data connection exists between a server and a clien... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415006 | Method and system for transporting data packets of a data stream For transporting data packets of a data stream between a packet-oriented network (LAN) and a channel-oriented data stream processing module (VMOD), a data stream controller (ST) is provided which, via a data channel allocation module (VMUX), accesses an interface mo... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415024 | System and method of annotating network packets A system and method of transmitting network packets between network processing elements through links are disclosed. One or more configuration entities may allocate one or more fixed length slots to be appended to network packets forwarded on a link between network ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411976 | Method and gateway device for converting a feature control signaling when changing between different communications networks In the framework of a conversion of a feature control signaling, an item of feature control information is extracted from a protocol-specific feature control message of a communication network and is transmitted to a feature-neutral coordination module. The coordina... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408921 | Mobile terminal apparatus There is provided a portable terminal device which is capable of transmitting and receiving data such as an image during a voice call by using a radio communications system allowing parallel access. The portable access allows parallel access where a voice cal... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403537 | Methods and systems for mobile application part (MAP) screening in transit networks A method for screening mobile application part (MAP) messages in a transit network is provided. Signaling messages are received from a first network. SCCP called party address information is extracted from each signaling message. If the called party address matches ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400690 | Adaptive phase controller, method of controlling a phase and transmitter employing the same The present invention is directed to an adaptive phase controller employing a threshold level and a method of controlling a phase. In one embodiment, the adaptive phase controller includes a comparator configured to receive a comparison signal representing a phase a... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397792 | Virtual burst-switching networks A time-shared network comprising edge nodes and optical core nodes may be dynamically divided into several embedded networks, each of which covering selected edge nodes. At least one of the edge nodes may host an embedded-network controller operable to form multiple... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394816 | Distributing personalized content The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394787 | Method and system for preventing call drop by restricting overhead message updated in 1X system during 1xEV-DO traffic state The present invention relates to a method and system for preventing a call drop by limiting a search time of a 1X system while in traffic with a 1xEV-DO system. The system comprises: a hybrid access terminal, supporting both a 1xEV-DO system and a 1X system, for per... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7385965 | Multiprocessor control block for use in a communication switch and method therefore A communication switch that includes a multiprocessor control block and a method therefore is presented. The multiprocessor control block includes a centralized resource and routing processor that controls resource allocation and routing functionality within the swi... | 06/10/2008 |
