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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184653 | Systems and methods for a cognitive radio having adaptable characteristics Systems and methods for configuring a network of radios for dynamic spectrum access are described. A network radio can include hardware and/or software modules for detecting a radio environment and negotiating common communications channels with a plurality of other... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8165148 | System and method for rate assignment A system and method for a time-scalable priority-based scheduler. A flexible scheduling algorithm utilizing variable scheduling durations enables better system capacity utilization. A rate request is transmitted if data arrives in a buffer, data in the buffer exceed... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165150 | Method and system for wireless LAN-based indoor position location A method and system for position location of clients in wireless local area networks. (WLANs). The position location technique utilizes time-of-flight (TOF) measurements of signals transmitted from a client to a number of wireless access points (APs) or vice versa t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165149 | Medium reservation with channel selectivity A medium-reservation mechanism improves transmission efficiency in a multiple-channel network that includes stations with limited-selectivity receivers. The mechanism employs a medium-request signal that conveys channel information. In this network, stations check t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160088 | Way of bandwidth efficient distribution of multiple transport streams with partially same content A method of bandwidth efficient distribution of multiple transport streams with partially the same content solves the centralized way of distribution of multiple transport streams with partially the same set of TV, radio programs, with the distribution network havin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8135026 | Disjoint and common link operation in a wireless communication system Techniques for supporting communication with disjoint links and common links are described. A sector may broadcast an overhead message and/or send unicast messages to indicate whether the sector supports disjoint links. A terminal may receive at least one message in... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126004 | Method for optimising the sharing of a plurality of network resources between a plurality of application flows The invention relates to a method for optimising the sharing of a plurality of network resources between a plurality of data flows generated by a plurality of applications, said flows being able to take a number n of paths [ABi], i=1 to n, linking at least one site ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121140 | Cost containment of mobile datalink communications A method for transmitting messages over a datalink communication system is disclosed. The method comprises assigning each message a cost index value based on prescribed factors for at least one message transmission attribute of the message and transmitting each mess... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8085805 | Adaptive channel selection by wireless nodes for improved operating range Improved message range in a wireless network is achieved by each node performing an energy/noise scan to determine a receiving channel having the lowest noise and/or interference, e.g., best reception conditions, relative to the other channels available in the wirel... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081648 | Method and apparatus for handling reset in a wireless communications system A method for handing reset in a first communications device of a wireless communications system is disclosed. The first communications device includes a first transmitter and a receiver. The method includes receiving a packet from a second communications device by t... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072999 | Method and system for removing and returning nodes in a synchronous network A method and system for adding a node into a network operating in a cyclic state after one or more nodes have been previously removed without interrupting the synchronous traffic of the remaining nodes on the network is provided. The method includes discovering an a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059673 | Dynamic resource re-allocation in a packet based video display interface A packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed that includes a transmitter unit coupled to the source device arranged to receive a source packet data stream in accordance with a native stream r... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050286 | CQICH allocation request header for communicating feedback information A method of communicating feedback information between a mobile station and a base station comprises determining a need to request bandwidth allocation; providing information to a base station according to the determining, wherein the information indicates bandwidth... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040911 | Method and apparatus for allocating upstream channel resource in hybrid fiber coaxial network A method and apparatus for allocating upstream channel resources in a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network are provided. A cable modem termination system (CMTS) previously provides cable modems (CMs) with a plurality of burst profiles through an extended interval usag... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8027354 | Network consolidation for virtualized servers Techniques are disclosed for virtualized server kernel and virtual networks consolidation. The network consolidation allows a data center to migrate from an infrastructure that uses multiple dedicated gigabit Ethernet Network Adapters to manage system virtualization... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023524 | Cooperative relay system enabling simultaneous broadcast-unicast operation with efficient automatic repeat request functionality A wireless node, such as a relay node, has different operating modes for unicast and broadcast/multicast subchannels. For unicast services the phase offsets of those relay nodes engaged in a cooperative transmission are optimized for the subchannels used for unicast... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018963 | Systems for flexible wireless channel association A media access controller (MAC) configurable for first and second modes of operation is provided. The MAC includes an uplink processor coupled to a plurality of uplink channels, a downlink processor coupled to a downlink, and a MAP parser coupled to the downlink pro... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014416 | HD physical layer of a wireless communication device A radio frequency (RF) transmitter is coupled to and controlled by a processor to transmit data. A physical layer circuit is coupled to the RF transmitter to encode and decode between a digital signal and a modulated analog signal. The physical layer circuit compris... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014415 | Apparatus, system and method for communicating information in a wireless communication network Techniques are provided for communicating a data stream in a wireless communication network. A source divides the data stream into a first data sub-stream and a second data sub-stream. The first data sub-stream can be modulated using a first modulation technique to ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005107 | Method and system for robust MAC signaling A method for indicating and interpreting robust MAC signaling, the indicating method having the steps of: checking whether a MAC-PDU contains control information; and if yes, providing an indication to use a robust configuration for a HARQ feedback transmission, and... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990994 | Storage gateway provisioning and configuring Storage gateway provisioning, configuration, and management functions provide mechanisms to specify and manage parameters and operations associated with storage gateways. The parameters may include any combination of VLAN topology, zoning behavior, LUN masking, band... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978723 | Using dedicated upstream channel(s) for cable modem initialization A system facilitates initialization of devices in a cable modem network. The system may provide downstream channels for transmitting data to the devices and upstream channels for receiving data from the devices. At least one of the upstream channels may be dedicated... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974299 | Methods and apparatus for switching transmission channels Methods and apparatus for switching transmission channels that include monitoring a number of packets within a transmitter buffer of a transmitter, determining that the number of packets within the transmitter buffer exceeds a pre-determined threshold, and changing ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965731 | Communication apparatus and communication method A communication apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes a first unit for performing data communication using a bandwidth reservation type transmission area constituted by a plurality of time-divided time slots via a power line to which an alterna... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961749 | Signaling method and system for channel switching in a wireless local area network A signaling method and apparatus for channel switching in a WLAN are provided. In the signaling method and apparatus, a data transmission channel is allocated to a receiver and a transmitter. A channel index is set to indicate the allocated channel in a duration fie... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7936773 | Communication channel establishment method and system The present invention provides a communication channel establishment method that establishes a communication channel used particularly when a cipher communication is carried out. Where a packet indicative of an ISAKMP message transmitted from a second communication ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933286 | Distributed trunking mechanism for VHF networking A system and method for communicating between nodes in a communications network. The network includes nodes that broadcast and receive data packets over a radio channel. The system includes a distributed trunking method that distributes the communications between th... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924864 | Terminal-based contention free low overhead access A station of a wireless local area network, the station includes a joining unit configured to join one of a plurality of cliques or to create a new clique, wherein each of the plurality of cliques includes at least one station and wherein each station in a clique ca... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916744 | Method and system for scanning for a downstream channel in a communication network A predetermined current frequency is selected for a cable modem or embedded media terminal adapter to evaluate for presence of a CMTS signal. A determination is made whether the current frequency carries signal energy as opposed to just noise. If no signal energy is... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903680 | Adaptive algorithm for reducing channel zapping time in multicast media A method and system for reducing channel changing time in multicast media, that can include the steps of receiving at least one of a plurality of available channels from a service provider at a residential gateway through a network, ranking the popularity of at leas... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899072 | Method and system for network bandwidth allocation A method and system of an embodiment may include a method, comprising receiving, at a computing device, network bandwidth information for a network, receiving, at a computing device, a request for network bandwidth, identifying, at a computing device, one or more po... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889753 | Multiple access techniques for a wireless communication medium A multiple access technique for a wireless communication system establishes separate channels by defining different time intervals for different channels. In a transmitted reference system different delay periods may be defined between transmitted reference pulses a... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881326 | Multiple packet routing system (MPRS) A method and system for Multiple Packet Routing is disclosed. A first endpoint may be connected to a sound input/output device and a network. The first endpoint may be capable of breaking a call signal sent from the input/output device into a stream of packets and s... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7813371 | System and method for short range communication using adaptive channel intervals A system and method for data transmission on wireless discontinuous channels including a control/safety information (CSI) channel having a duty cycle, and a plurality of service channels. The system and method include: evaluating channel utilization of one or more o... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813370 | Facilitating wireless spectrum migration Migrating from a legacy spectrum allocation to a target spectrum allocation can be accomplished by adding new access points and, at a selected time, activating the new access points and deactivating the legacy access points with a remote network manager. Alternative... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7796632 | Transmission channel bandwidth selection for communications between multi-bandwidth nodes Techniques and technologies are provided for dynamically selecting one of a default channel bandwidth and an alternate channel bandwidth for transmitting information over a wireless communication link which couples a transmitter node to a receiver node. The transmit... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796631 | Method and system for a multicast service initiation in a communication system Method and a system for multicast service notification in cellular telephone system to enable the cellular telephone systems to provide both multicast and point-to-point services are disclosed. Several embodiments describe the signaling interaction between an access... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7782889 | Method for regulating the transmission parameters of broadband transmission channels assembled to form a group The invention relates to a novel algebraic method wherein sub-groups of subscribers that spectrally influence each other, in a group of broadband subscriber connections or transmission channels connected to an intelligent network node in a star-shaped manner are cla... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7764705 | Interference cancellation unit and interference cancellation method An interference cancellation unit having as an input two or more IFDMA signals comprising a multitude of frequency bins is provided. The unit comprises a channel estimator for determining a channel estimate from the input signals, a matrix calculator for determining... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7738476 | Method and apparatus for improved multicast streaming in wireless networks The invention includes a method and apparatus for scheduling packet transmissions on a data channel from a base transceiver station to a plurality of wireless terminals. The method includes, in response to detecting an available timeslot, computing utilization evalu... | 06/15/2010 |
