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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7990995 | Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method A wireless communication apparatus includes a main queue to store MAC frames, a plurality of subqueues related to the main queue and used to control retransmission of the MAC frame, each of the subqueues having different priority for transmission of the MAC frame, r... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7778268 | Method and system of providing redundancy in a network device Systems and methods for redundancy in a network device are disclosed. An exemplary network device comprises: a plurality of data forwarding elements (DFEs); and a redundant control plane. The redundant control plane comprises: an active control processor for configu... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7394985 | Wavelength access server (WAS) architecture A wavelength access server (WAS) architecture provides aggregation of traffic streams of diverse data communication protocols as well as provision of wavelength resources in an optical transport network. The WAS provides functions such as service traffic adaptation,... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7362725 | Method and apparatus for sharing uplink state flag (USF) with multiple uplink temporary block flows (TBFs) A method and an apparatus are described for increasing the flexibility of uplink resource allocation for a mobile station (MS) (100), that is backwards compatible with earlier standards that provide only a single data flow per MS. The method includes steps of... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355999 | Method and apparatus for carrying packetized voice and data in wireless communication networks A method and apparatus for reducing transmission delay in a wireless communication system that carries packetized voice and data information. Interruptions in the traffic channels cause loss of synchronization between a header compressor and a header decompressor. R... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336649 | Hybrid packet-switched and circuit-switched telephony system A hybrid telephony system with packet switching as well as circuit switching optimizes utilization of transport networks, and is accessible from any conventional telephone set. A call originating from a circuit-switched network is passed through a gateway computer t... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7289461 | Communications using wideband terminals A call setup procedure is presented to permit vocoder bypass, which will allow the transmission of wideband speech packets between wideband terminals over narrowband transmission constraints. In addition, methods and apparatus are presented that allow the conversion... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283624 | Idle detection for answer supervision A network device has the capability of monitoring voice over data networks calls. The network device includes a voice activity detector that detects voice activity on a voice channel. If no voice activity is detected, the network device disconnects the call. The net... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280503 | TDMA messaging service microcell A cellular messaging network includes a switching controller connected to the wireless telephone network. One or more base station micro/picocell retransmitters are coupled to the switching controller. The base station micro/picocell transmitter uses simplified cont... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280515 | Method and arrangement for implementing fast signalling in an asymmetric communication connection A method and an arrangement are disclosed for implementing fast signalling in a communication connection between a base station and a mobile station of a cellular radio network. There is defined an arrangement of repeatedly occurring frames that consist of pieces of... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272135 | Gateway apparatus A gateway apparatus according to the present invention, arranged between each of a plurality of circuit switched networks and the Internet, for transmitting data received from each of the circuit switched network to the Internet. The gateway apparatus comprises an e... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263480 | Multi-channel signal encoding and decoding A multi-channel linear predictive analysis-by-synthesis signal encoding method determines (S1) a leading channel and encodes the leading channel as an embedded bitstream. Thereafter trailing channels are encoded as a discardable bitstream exploiting cross-cor... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260439 | Systems and methods for the automatic extraction of audio excerpts A method of extracting audio excerpts comprises: segmenting audio data into a plurality of audio data segments; setting a fitness criteria for the plurality of audio data segments; analyzing the plurality of audio data segments based on the fitness criteria; and sel... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7236837 | Reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus according to the present invention includes a thinning-out unit for thinning out part of a plurality of continuous audio digital data, and a conversion unit for simply increasing or decreasing variations in the amplitude of either continuous ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233594 | Apparatus for transmitting/receiving wireless data and method thereof A method for transmitting and/or receiving wireless data and an apparatus therefor are provided. The method includes the steps of (a) when the length of a collection of data in an application layer is longer than the length of the payload of a protocol which the low... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227849 | Implementation of multiple simultaneous calls in a mobile communication system The invention relates to implementation of multiple simultaneous calls for a mobile station in a mobile communication system. A common traffic channel (TCH) is allocated to several simultaneous calls (applications 1–n) of the mobile station (MS), so that th... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7215679 | Method, apparatus and data structure enabling multiple channel data stream transmission A method, apparatus and data structure enabling multiple channel data stream transmission by inserting data to be transmitted into portions of a plurality of transport streams nominally including NULL packets. The inserted packets have associated with them stream id... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7200150 | System and method for bypassing data from egress facilities An open architecture platform bypasses data from the facilities of a telecommunications carrier, e.g. an incumbent local exchange carrier, by distinguishing between voice and data traffic, and handling voice and data traffic separately. An SS7 gateway receives and t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7161931 | Voice and data exchange over a packet based network A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voic... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158572 | Audio enhancement communication techniques A communication system (10) receives a communication signal comprising first and second data with different compression levels, such as highly compressed and weakly compressed levels. A mode detector (15) detects the level of compression. One or more s... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158597 | TFO resynchronization system A method and apparatus is provided for use in an inband signaling system for quickly resynchronizing devices in the system after synchronization is lost. Synchronization is quickly established by continuing to apply a synchronization technique even while the devices... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7130309 | Communication device with dynamic delay compensation and method for communicating voice over a packet-switched network A device and method for communication of speech packets over a packet-switched network allows for a greater channel reallocation delay. Initial speech packets may be buffered during a channel reallocation delay and sent through an access medium when a channel is gra... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7110416 | Method and apparatus for reducing synchronization delay in packet-based voice terminals Circuitry, embodied in a media subsystem, reproduces a speech or other type of audio signal, and is operable during a time that comfort noise is being generated for storing data from an arriving data packet that contains data representing a beginning of an interval ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110380 | System, method, and computer program product for sharing bandwidth in a wireless personal area network or a wireless local area network A system, method, and computer program product for sharing bandwidth by a plurality of devices in a wireless personal area network or a wireless local area network. A media access control protocol frame includes a beacon signal sent from a coordinator including coor... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7099624 | Method for code division switching of communication signals by trunk coding in a satellite communication system A method provides for trunk group satellite switching using a code division multiple access (CDMA) scheme. The method includes receiving inbound satellite beams carrying individually encoded user signals including a plurality of inbound trunk groups, processing and ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095724 | System and method for using unused arbitrary bits in the data field of a special burst A system and method for reducing the unused capacity of a wireless communication channel utilize the data fields of an special burst (SB) in order to signal physical layer control signaling for coordination between a Node B and a user equipment (UE). The control sig... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096031 | Method for controlling a transcoder of a mobile communication system A mobile communication system includes a mobile services switching center, a base station and a transcoder. The transcoder receives frames containing speech parameters from the base station and receives speech signals from the mobile services switching center which ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092406 | Computer implemented communication apparatus and method A communication apparatus and method includes a modem operable for connection to a telephone line, a voice receiving interface apparatus for use in receiving voice signals from a local user, and a voice conveying interface apparatus for use in conveying voice signal... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092875 | Speech transcoding method and apparatus for silence compression A first CN code (silence code) obtained by encoding a silence signal, which is contained in an input signal, by a silence compression function of a first speech encoding scheme is transcoded to a second CN code of a second speech encoding scheme without decoding the... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092382 | Method for improving the quality of an audio transmission via a packet-oriented communication network and communication system for implementing the method The invention permits the improvement of the quality of an audio transmission in which audio data including samples of an audio signal are asynchronously transmitted in data packets via a packet-oriented communication network, such as a LAN. According to the inventi... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7082115 | Radio telecommunications system with improved use of timeslots A packet control unit for a radio telecommunications system such as GPRS has a radio link control/medium access control blocks scheduler which allocates a number of temporary block flow queues to a timeslot for transmission to a mobile system; a fixed allocation tab... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7080162 | Reduced hardware network adapter and communication method The present invention provides a network interface adapter for connecting a client computer to a computer network that includes a reduced hardware media access controller (MAC) coupled through a physical interface (PHY) to the network physical link. A significant po... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7069211 | Method and apparatus for transferring data over a voice channel A voice channel data processor 207 and corresponding method 600 operable in a wireless communications unit's 200 receiver and transmitter to facilitate data transmission on a voice channel includes an encoder 301 for encoding data traffic... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065057 | Method and apparatus for improving the transmission quality in a packet-oriented data transmission network A method and apparatus for improving the transmission quality in a packet-oriented data transmission network, wherein time-critical data is transmitted over a packet-oriented data transmission network having a number of communications equipment units which are netwo... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065498 | Supply of digital audio and video products A server for a merchant computer system, the server comprising: a file store for storing a range of audio/video products in respective product files; a dialogue unit having a network connection and operable to invite and receive a client selection from among the pro... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058031 | Method and apparatus for efficient use of communication resources in a data communication system under overload conditions In a communication system (1400) for communication of data, a method and apparatus provide for detecting a request for opening a connection for a user (1407) for communication of data, selecting an open connection, releasing the selected open connectio... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054280 | Voice communication between a portable communication apparatus and an external terminal A portable communication apparatus (200) for radio communication of digital audio data (240) representing analog voice signals has an asynchronous interface (250) for exchanging digital non-audio data (242, 244) with an external terminal ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7003000 | Method and apparatus for replacing lost PSTN data in a packet network An apparatus for replacing lost PSTN data in a packet network and for generating variable power white noise, includes a lost packet detection unit (402) for detecting lost data packets, a data processing unit (404) for producing in response a lost data... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999560 | Method and apparatus for testing echo canceller performance A test system measures performance of telephone network echo cancellers using a primary criterion of estimated user annoyance due to audible returned echo. The invention generates live telephone calls, uses real speech samples as stimulus signals and provides tail-c... | 02/14/2006 |
