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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184654 | Method for ending a call session in a communication system A repeater receives an indication that a subscriber unit is initiating a call session on a channel, and indicates that the channel is busy. The repeater repeats a transmission from the subscriber unit and sets a timer for a first time upon determination that the tra... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8139597 | Method for trunking radio frequency resources A subscriber unit monitors a first channel currently serving as a rest channel for the system, wherein the channel currently serving as the rest channel for the system is monitored by subscribers that are idle in the system. The subscriber unit determines that a fir... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126005 | Beacon transmission method and beacon transmission apparatus A communication apparatus, wherein the communication apparatus selects a superframe from W consecutive superframes, and starts each of the W consecutive superframes without transmitting a beacon in a first time period of each of the W consecutive superframes when a ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8064475 | Systems and methods of wireless communication Systems and methods for wireless communication are provided. In a particular embodiment, a base station device is disclosed that includes an interface coupled to a network to communicate with a central controller and a wireless transceiver adapted to communicate wir... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7701958 | Communication system supporting transition between network communications protocols This disclosure is directed to techniques for supporting transition between network communication protocols in a communication network. The techniques may be applicable to different network communication protocols, but are especially useful in the transition from th... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7668190 | Method for supporting multiple devices on a high speed physical link In some embodiments, a method for supporting multiple devices on a high speed physical link may be described. An embedded device may assert a link request pin to request to transmit data on a multi-point communications link that may serve a plurality of embedded dev... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7630393 | Optimizing queuing of voice packet flows in a network A system and method are disclosed for increasing the efficiency with which data is transmitted over a network link. Voice packets are encoded to include header bits that indicate the presence and duration of pauses in the voice transmission. A Network linking device... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7623540 | Method and apparatus for channel allocation in a wireless local area network (WLAN) The present invention provides a method for allocating channels in a wireless local area network (WLAN) among a plurality of clients. This method involves first assigning at least one client of the plurality of clients to a channel of a set of active channels. Next,... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620062 | Method of real time optimizing multimedia packet transmission rate A method and apparatus of optimizing transmission (both real time and continuous) of a number of multimedia data packets between a multimedia source device and a multimedia display device is disclosed. In the described embodiment, the multimedia source device and th... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7593419 | Method for controlling a connection in a packet-oriented communication network and arrangements for implementing said method Disclosed is a method for controlling a connection, according to which a signaling control device of the communication network triggers a first of several terminal points of the communication, which are connected via a user data channel, to close the user data chann... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7447228 | Technique for delivering bursted native media data flows over an ethernet physical layer A technique for delivering bursted native media data flows over an Ethernet physical layer between a head-end and an outstation is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by operating a device in a default bypass mode at the outstation; receiving a f... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7408948 | Packet mode speech communication A packet mode (e.g. IP) group communication service layer is provided on top of a standard mainstream cellular radio network. Conceptually, the group communication layer includes a pair of basic logical entities, an application bridge and a call processing server (C... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7386000 | Packet mode speech communication A packet mode (e.g. IP) group communication service layer is provided on top of a standard mainstream cellular radio network. Conceptually, the group communication layer includes a pair of basic logical entities, an application bridge and a call processing server (C... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382746 | Transport channel selecting apparatus and the selecting method A transport channel selecting apparatus is provided, in which the transport channel selecting apparatus includes: a storage for storing information on combinations of transport blocks of transport channels to be transmitted to a radio base station; a transmission bu... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7355971 | Determining packet size in networking A method of determining a maximum packet size for data packets sent along a network path. A sending computer sends a packet to a receiving computer through a sending interface. The packet is fragmented during transfer to a receiving interface. The fragments are anal... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353300 | Apparatus to improve the firmware efficiency for a multiframe serial interface A serial network controller contains control logic to analyze and determine a duration of a proper frame time slot. A number of data fields in a transmission is ascertained from an identifier field supplied in a header field. The number of data fields plus a margin ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349983 | Receiver driven distribution of data using address data of a peer node The invention relates to a device for either generating or maintaining an organic data network having an dynamic topology, comprising a data processing unit at least one data connection to a data network to which s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349380 | System and method for providing an addressing and proxy scheme for facilitating mobility of wireless nodes between wired access points on a core network of a communications network A communications network which is capable of effectively and efficiently handling mobility of wireless user terminals between access point nodes of a packet-switched network with minimal overhead and packet loss, and a method for using the same. The communications n... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349984 | Receiver driven media streaming in a network node The invention relates to a device for either generating or maintaining an organic data network having an dynamic topology, comprising a data processing unit, at least one data connection to a data network to which ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349430 | Addressing scheme implemented in access networks An improved addressing scheme is disclosed for use in access networks. According to a specific embodiment, upstream and/or downstream channels may be grouped together based upon logical associations rather than physical associations. Further, according to at least o... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339947 | Network channel access protocol—frame execution Network channel access protocol is disclosed. More particularly, a distributed, locally determined, channel access protocol that adapts to load, avoids interference and controls access by a group of nodes to a set of shared channels is disclosed. Shared channel spac... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336630 | Simultaneous transmission of speech and data on a mobile communications system A method for transmitting speech and data simultaneously on a circuit switched two-way connection of a mobile communications system, which transfers speech and other data by use of discontinuous transmission, DTX, in which the sending is discontinued when it is indi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324480 | Mobile communication apparatus and method including base station and mobile station having multi-antenna A mobile communication apparatus including a base station and at least two mobile stations, having multiple antennas, respectively is provided. In the mobile communication apparatus, the base station restores from feedback signals transmitted from the mobile station... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321557 | Dynamic latency assignment methodology for bandwidth optimization of packet flows A method and apparatus for transmitting delay sensitive information (DSI) and non-delay sensitive information (NDSI) over a communication link where initial DSI packets are delayed to reduce the number of conflicts between DSI and NDSI. The delay applied to the DSI ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321583 | Data traffic separation method for use in a packet-oriented mobile radio network The invention relates to a data traffic separation method for use in a packet-oriented mobile radio network. According to said method, data traffic arising in an access node of the mobile radio network and consisting of a plurality of layer 2 connections comprising ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317691 | Method for initializing a link suspend device for optimum receive recovery The invention provides a method for initializing a link suspend device for optimum receive recovery. A method for negotiating link parameters to facilitate rapid recovery of the input data from a silent line state is described. The invention can be applied to networ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315817 | Sound encoder and sound decoder An sound encoder accepts a sound signal and then produces a plurality of codes which represent the sound signal on a frame-by-frame basis. The sound encoder determines the order in which the plurality of codes is to be multiplexed into a multiplexed code based on on... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313150 | Telecommunications signal relay node A relay node is provided for coupling telephone, facsimile or data terminals to a digital packet telecommunications network. The relay node includes a signal discriminator for determining the type of signal coming from a terminal coupled to the node, from amongst a ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310664 | Unified, configurable, adaptive, network architecture A network switch having a unified, adaptive management paradigm for wireless network devices is disclosed. The switch includes configurable ports for connecting devices. A software application running on the switch allows a network administrator to selectively confi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7292597 | Method and apparatus for transparent implementation of link-suspend capabilities in network devices A method and apparatus for transparent implementation of link-suspend capabilities in network devices is presented, which is capable of operating in full or substantially full power operational mode, as well as in a low power “link-suspend” operational mode. The... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289469 | Fast switching of forward link in wireless system A technique for distributing channel allocation information in a demand access communication system. In a preferred embodiment, for use with Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) type communication, multiple access codes are used that have a defined code repeat perio... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286494 | Polling communication system and polling control method A polling communication system includes a main station and a plurality of sub stations connected to the main station. The main station includes an address control part and a polling control part. The address control part divides a predetermined polling cycle into a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284268 | System and method for a routing device to securely share network data with a host utilizing a hardware firewall A system and method for providing the ability to selectively share data in a network routing device with an associated host. The system and method employs a hardware firewall in the routing device which restricts the host such that it can only access areas in shared... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283481 | Auto detection of copper and fiber mode Methods and systems for operating a physical layer device (“PHY”) in an Ethernet network include methods and systems for detecting active link partners and for selecting a mode of operation based on detected active link partners. The PHY monitors fiber link medi... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280555 | System and method employing algorithms and protocols for optimizing carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocols in wireless networks A system and method for achieving enhanced CSMA/CA which improves channel availability and quality of service (QoS) in a wireless communications network. The system and method establish channels to enable communication between nodes in a communication network, based... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280545 | Complex adaptive routing system and method for a nodal communication network A complex adaptive routing system and method for routing data packets in a nodal network, in particular, an ad-hoc nodal network. Each data packet contains data representing its routing strategy for routing to a destination node. When a node receives the data packet... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278039 | Physical layer energy saving technique for transceivers A first physical layer device of a first network device includes a sense circuit that senses activity on a medium and with the first physical layer device. An autonegotiation circuit attempts to establish a connection with a second physical layer device of a second ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274938 | Wired control channel for supporting wireless communication in non-exclusive spectrum Wirelessly-linked, distributed resource control (RCS1-RCSn, RCSB, RCC, ARM) supports a wireless communication system (50) for operation in non-exclusive spectrum (24-29). An available resource map (ARM) contains resource availability information... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272132 | Wireless communication apparatus and method capable of adjusting beacon period A wireless communication apparatus capable of adjusting a time interval between slot sections in accordance with the amount of traffic in a piconet. The wireless communication apparatus has a transceiver for sending and receiving data to and from an external device,... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266104 | Time division protocol for an AD-HOC, peer-to-peer radio network having coordinating channel access to shared parallel data channels with separate reservation channel An ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio system includes a series of radio terminals forming a service group, each radio terminal having a transceiver for communicating with terminals in the same service group, computer means, and memory for storing program software. Within th... | 09/04/2007 |
