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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE42069 | Telecommunications system with a switching facility and a data concentrator for providing access to the internet A method of operating a telecommunications system with a switching facility and with subscriber channels over which digital data are transmissible in the form of data packets each including a destination address, and such a telecommunications system are characterize... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7391769 | Packet aggregation for real time services on packet data networks A method and equipment is used to transmit and/or receive time delay-intolerant information over a communication system. The information is transmitted in aggregated form. A plurality of packets representing time delay-intolerant information is combined to form an a... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379748 | Method for speeding up synchronization by having a search frequency list comprising a limited number of search frequencies A method for initial synchronization in a mobile telecommunications network to connect a mobile terminal (10) to a base station (12). The mobile terminal has a search frequency list comprising a limited number of search frequencies. The method comprise... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372928 | Method and system of cycle slip framing in a deserializer A method and system for cycle slip framing is disclosed. The method includes receiving an asynchronous signal and generating a synchronous pulse after receiving the asynchronous signal. The method further provides that the synchronous pulse be used to affect a bit s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370102 | Managing recovery of service components and notification of service errors and failures A method and apparatus for providing management and maintenance to a node within a data communications network and to the composite data communications network. A network management application is started on a host which may be located at a network operation center.... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362714 | Packet network monitoring device A network diagnostic device is disclosed that digitally samples the voltages on the cabling of the network, but does so at a much higher rate and with greater resolution then is required to minimally detect digital transmissions on the cabling. This sampling provide... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7324488 | Method and system for providing an intelligent data concentrator communicatively coupled to a network by a wireless mode The present invention presents a method and system for providing an intelligent data concentrator communicatively coupled to a network by a wireless mode. Specifically, the present invention comprises a portable intelligent device, communicatively connected to a net... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7272649 | Automatic hardware failure detection and recovery for distributed max sessions server A Max Sessions Server (MSS) automatically detects hardware and communications failures. Upon detection, counters are adjusted accordingly to maintain an accurate count of users or groups of users on a system. A database of unique identifiers for each connection is m... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263104 | Concentrator and reset control method therefor There is provided a concentrator and a reset control method therefor that may easily and reliably secure early restoration from an outage of network communications. A concentrator to which a plurality of network devices are connectible includes a communication contr... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7245603 | Mobile telecommunications network with distributed base stations A mobile telecommunications local area network (20) is described with a concentrator (32) connected to a plurality of radio heads (36, 38) via a local area network (LAN, 20). The concentrator (32) provides remote control of a local... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7233571 | Connection-based bandwidth utilization A way to provide connection-based bandwidth utilization is disclosed. A connection is provided between a plurality of clients in the network environment. The connection is between the plurality of clients by a plurality of nodes through a plurality of trunks. The ut... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7126934 | Method for base station compressing and transmitting high speed data Two related voiceband compression techniques are employed in order to enable an RF telecommunications base station to accommodate data signals of high speed voiceband modems and FAX machines. A High Speed Codec enables the base station to pass voiceband modem and FA... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7113507 | Method and system for communicating control information via out-of-band symbols A serial communications architecture for communicating between hosts and data store devices. The Storage Link architecture is specially adapted to support communications between multiple hosts and storage devices via a switching network, such as a storage area netwo... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110349 | Adaptive communications methods for multiple user packet radio wireless networks An exemplary wireless communication network that includes a base that communicates with remote units located in a cell of the network. A base concatenates information symbols with a preamble corresponding to a destination remote unit. One or more remote units commun... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111106 | Bus communication system by unrestrained connection and a communication control method therefor A USB system is capable of connecting, based on the function of constructing and connecting a virtual port by a virtual port constructing functional unit, a number of devices exceeding a prescribed number of tiers having a hub device in a connection topology of a ho... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7099287 | Node detection and ring configuration for physical star connected networks A novel and useful mechanism for detecting the nodes connected to a network device and for creating a ring network from the nodes detected thereby. The invention simplifies insertion, removal and modification of nodes in the ring by detecting and reconfiguring the r... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7047346 | Transparent fiber channel concentrator for point to point technologies A data processing system for transferring data from a first plurality of data links to a second plurality of data links is provided. A data bridge is initialized. The data bridge is functionally connected on a first end to the first plurality of data links and on a ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7035317 | Single-user decoder metrics for subtractive interference cancellation detectors in code-division multiple-access (CDMA) communication systems with time dependence variance residual multiple-access interference (RMAI) Improved branch metrics for Viterbi decoders in CDMA systems take into account the time dependency of the variance of the multiple access interference in any user's signal after the single-user detector, and the time dependency of the residual multiple access interf... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031333 | Reduced pin count media independent interface A system and method are disclosed for providing a method of communicating between a media access control (MAC) layer and a physical (PHY) layer. The method includes sending a 100 MHz time-division multiplexed signal on a receive data line and sending a time-division... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7020140 | Receive and transmit blocks for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell delineation Receive and transmit blocks for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell delineation are disclosed. The receive block has a plurality of cell delineation blocks, a memory controller, a memory and a bus controller. The transmit block has a bus controller, a plurality of... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020151 | Flow control of a spread spectrum multiuser channel Packet data from multiple types of data sources is stored. The data sources have reroutable and non-reroutable data. The multiple types of data sources flow into a multiuser channel in a wireless spread spectrum code division multiple access communication system. A ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7006520 | System and method of operation for managing data communication between physical layer devices and ATM layer devices A system for managing data communication between physical layer devices and ATM layer devices in a cell based ATM network is disclosed. A plurality of low speed physical layer devices a high speed physical layer device are connected to a bus. A bus interface device ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6999466 | Switching concentrator An m-to-n concentrator constructed from smaller concentrator/sorters wherein m is not necessarily equal to 2n. For instance, the m-to-n concentrator can be implemented from an └m/2┘-to-n concentrator/sorter, an ┌m12┐-to-n concentrator/sorter, and n sorting c... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6980554 | Method and apparatus for connecting lines in line concentrator of switching system A method of connecting a line concentrator to other line concentrators in a switching system, wherein a switching unit accommodates the line concentrator is provided. The method includes the steps of analyzing a call received by the switching unit through the line c... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973037 | System and method for dynamically varying integrated services digital network (isdn) interface bandwidth A method for dynamically varying bandwidth of a primary rate ISDN interface includes requesting, over a data (D) channel, allocation of at least one first B channel of the primary rate ISDN interface. When notification of allocation of the first B channel is receive... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6944672 | Method and system for processing fragments and their out-of-order delivery during address translation A set of packetized fragments in which only a portion of the fragments carry translation information for the set of fragments is translated by storing in a memory fragments received before the translation information. In response to receiving the translation informa... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6937616 | Method and apparatus for providing packet based and distributed xDSL communications A method and apparatus for digital subscriber line (xDSL) communications between one or more digital signal processors (DSPs) and analog front ends (AFEs) each coupled to corresponding subscriber line(s). The apparatus transports channels of data between subscribers... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6879591 | Transferring voice over an asymmetric digital subscriber line An asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL) system for transferring an analog audio signal and high speed digital data on the side of a subscriber, from and to a station, through one ADSL subscriber line, includes an apparatus on the subscriber side which convert... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6826152 | System and method of conserving bandwidth in the transmission of message packets A system and method of increasing message throughput in a communications system utilizing priority management, conglomeration and compression, TCP retransmission filtering and pull transmission. The priority manages ranks the messages in a message queue as a functio... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6791999 | System and method for providing dynamic switching functionality in a static switching environment A system and method for providing dynamic switching functionality in an access network which supports only static switching. Dynamic switching is used to provide connections between a local digital switch and subscribers of the access network wherein the subscribers... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6757244 | Communication bus architecture for interconnecting data devices using space and time division multiplexing and method of operation There is disclosed, for use in a communication device, such as an access concentrator, that performs high-speed data transfers between a group of M data drivers and a group of N data receivers, a space and time division multiplexing (STDM) bus interface in which eac... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6697893 | Line concentrator with storage function Of the line concentrator with a storage function, an insertion end to be connected to a connecting port and a housing provided with a plurality of connecting ports compose its main body. The housing has therein a serially connected line concentrating circ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6687258 | Telecommunications system with a switching facility and a data concentrator for providing access to the internet A method of operating a telecommunications system with a switching facility and with subscriber channels over which digital data are transmissible in the form of data packets each including a destination address, and such a telecommunications system are c... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6674715 | Switching of redundant communication channels in ATM switching system An ATM switching system comprises a redundant communication; system consisting of act-system and standby-system communication channels. Cells are sent through both the communication channels. A switch element is provided for performing system switching fr... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6657951 | Backup CRF VLAN A backup CRF VLAN arrangement provides an alternate, redundant path for traffic between undistributed Concentrator Relay Functions (CRFs) located on separate switches interconnected by trunk links of a distributed token ring bridge. The backup CRF virtual... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6580714 | Concentrator type ATM switch for an ATM switching system An ATM switching system includes a plurality of (m) small-scale n×n ATM switch modules, and a coupling module for coupling the ATM switch modules to one another to implement a large-scale ATM switching system. The coupling module includes m concentrators... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6580932 | Foldable keyboard for mobile communications device A full function keyboard is provided for use with a mobile communication device. The keyboard is constructed in two portions which may be pivoted relative to the body of the device between two positions, one in which the keyboard is hidden and the keypad ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6496513 | Traffic priority control system for a concentration-type ATM switch An ATM concentrator connects (m×n) input highways to n output highways and performs a full priority control. The ATM concentrator has output cell buffers for respective quality classes. Cells are read from the output buffers of the quality classes and th... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6490258 | Mobile unit local access network This invention relates to a local access network for mobile telephone units. Each radio station in this network has an associated group of radio stations forming a predetermined macrocell. Each radio station may become the macrocell's core station. When a... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6392995 | Local access network A local mobile access network is equipped to manage the resources in the network which comprises a number of radio terminals (BR) linked, via the concentration stages (CTR, VCX), to another concentration stage consisting of virtual circuit switches (VCX),... | 05/21/2002 |
