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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8045575 | Network access mechanism and method A communications system includes a network that is coupled to a number of terminals, at least some of which are capable of audio or other forms of real-time interactive data communications over the network. Each of the terminals includes a network adapter that is ca... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7876771 | MBMS acknowledgements on RACH The present invention relates to multicast communication systems and in particular to the implementation of a random access uplink channel, which can be used, e.g., for transmission of acknowledgement messages for received data. In order to prevent frequent collisio... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7848346 | Random access scheme for user equipment A method of efficiently processing a random access response message, when a terminal (or user equipment) performs random access, is disclosed. After the terminal transmits a random access preamble to a base station, the terminal may receive a random access response ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7787487 | Systems and methods for contention control in wireless networks Systems and methods provide for controlling contention in a wireless network device. The systems and methods transmit a packet on a wireless network. If the transmission is not successful, then a contention window parameter is adjusted according to a fast backoff op... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7742497 | Access systems and methods for a shared communication medium Priority-based access systems and methods for shared communication media are provided. The priority and a corresponding weight of traffic to be transmitted on a shared communication medium are determined. This determination may be made, for example, before a first a... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738481 | Wireless communication device and wireless communication method A wireless communication device that performs packet transmission in accordance with a packet transmission system that performs wireless bandwidth allocation by virtual carrier sensing has a time-point management section that manages the time-point and outputs curre... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7688847 | Expected channel occupancy time as a wireless link metric Expected channel occupancy time is a wireless link metric determined based on a transmission protocol to be used for transmitting data in a wireless network. The wireless link metric may be used for routing or other network management functions. For determining the ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7539206 | Communication apparatus and method for supporting carrier sense multiple access/collision detection A communication apparatus and a method for supporting carrier sense multiple access/collision detection (CSMA/CD) are disclosed. In a home network having a plurality of peripheral apparatuses in one home bus, the communication apparatus includes an interface circuit... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7535919 | Wireless communication method adapting priority for transmitting packets in WPAN A wireless communication method in a network environment in which several devices are connected and wireless communications are performed through a channel synchronized by a sync signal that is broadcast from a piconet coordinate (PNC) selected among the several dev... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7502383 | Apparatus and method of controlling transmission of response frame Briefly, a method and apparatus to able to set a back-off slot time value and a contention window back-off slots number of a channel access mechanism to control transmissions of two or more response frames from two or more Responders in respond to receiving a data u... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7433366 | Offered load fairness in a stack A technique for allocating stack bus bandwidth based on the offered load of each stack member coupled to the stacking bus allocates access opportunities to the stack bus based on the ratio of the offered loads of the coupled stack members. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428241 | Energy/bandwidth efficient medium access control protocol for wireless packet networks An improved medium access protocol is divided into two tasks: collision avoidance and contention resolution. The purpose of the collision avoidance is to avoid occasional collisions due to the synchronization of channel access among different stations. The purpose o... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7397814 | Method and apparatus to estimate collision rate parameter Briefly, a method and apparatus to estimate a collision rate parameter by manipulating a first probability value with a second probability value. The first probability value may be the probability of an attempt to transmit a data packet within a desired time slot of... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394797 | Medium sensing histogram for WLAN resource reporting The admissibility of periodic traffic to a wireless medium can be estimated using a measurement report format that includes a field indicating the number of bins for a predetermined channel of the wireless medium that were busy during a measurement period, and a fie... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7382739 | Method and apparatus for discovering remote nodes in an ethernet passive optical network One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates discovery of remote nodes in EPONs. The system includes a central node and at least one remote node. During operation, the system first receives a solicitation message from the central node, ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376143 | Systems and methods for contention control in wireless networks Systems and methods provide for controlling contention in a wireless network device. The systems and methods transmit a packet on a wireless network. If the transmission is not successful, then a contention window parameter is adjusted according to a fast backoff op... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366776 | System and method for reestablishing a communication period in a rendezvous scheduled system A system and method are provided for reestablishing communication periods in a rendezvous scheduled communication system. The method comprises: establishing a plurality of time points (TPs); initiating a new communication period at a TP; terminating the new communic... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366133 | Integrated, self-optimizing, multi-parameter/multi-variable point-to-multipoint communication system [II] A method and system for adaptive point to multipoint wireless communication. The method and system integrate adaptive and dynamic responsiveness for communication parameters related to multiple characteristics of wireless communication links, both for a single sende... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366537 | Wireless network apparatus and system The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363046 | Clear channel assessment A clear channel assessment procedure is described. The procedure includes setting a threshold value of signal strength. When a message is ready to transmit, the received signal strength intensity (RSSI) is measured, and compared with the threshold. If the received s... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363040 | Interference avoiding radio transmission unit An object of this invention is to avoid interfering from a radio LAN transmission unit and being interfered. This invention relates a radio transmission unit for transmitting according to a second radio transmission system which transmits/receives data signal under ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359705 | Random access burst transmission scheme The present invention relates to an apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless telecommunication system and to a method for transmitting random access bursts in such an apparatus. The apparatus 1 comprises transmitting means 3 for t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355964 | Systems for contention-based bandwidth requests in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems Systems for contention-based bandwidth requests in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are provided. In one embodiment, a bi-directional communication system comprises: a multipoint-to-point host unit; and a plurality of remote units communicat... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356037 | Telecommunication system and method for transmitting data A telecommunication system includes a base station, a router allocated to the base station, and several subscriber stations that are connected to the base station via an access network. Subscriber station routers set up a telecommunication link with the base station... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352772 | Minimization of performance impact in overlying 802.11b and 802.11g networks A wireless network access point is described which provides the resources of a backbone network to wireless clients. The access point is able to minimize the performance impact on 802.11g clients in the presence of mixed in 802.11g/802.11b traffic by isolating wirel... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7342907 | Method for controlling unidirectional link connection in mobile ad hoc networks and recording medium storing program thereof Disclosed is a method for controlling unidirectional link connection in a mobile ad hoc network which comprises: mobile nodes including transmission power information in a beacon message that is periodically transmitted; using the information to sense a unidirection... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7328625 | Systems and methods for determining fatigue life A method and method of estimating fatigue life of a structure is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method may include determining strain on the structure using a plurality of gauges positioned on the structure. The method may also include detecting a parameter of th... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327753 | Communication of physical layer control parameters Systems and methods are provided for transferring physical layer control information from a central access point to individual subscriber units while maintaining transparency to higher layers. Adaptation of wireline MAC protocols to wireless applications is greatly ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319680 | Method for controlling operational states of a MAC layer in an OFDM mobile communication system A mobile communication system includes a medium access control (MAC) layer that supports an idle state in which no downlink and uplink dedicated control channel and dedicated traffic channel exists and also supports an active state in which the downlink and uplink d... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313121 | Acknowledging data transmissions in the presence of multiple shared-communications channels A technique is disclosed that improves the efficiency of transmitting data over multiple shared-communications channels without some of the costs and disadvantages associated with techniques in the prior art. In particular, and in accordance with the illustrative em... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313105 | Mechanism and method to select a time delay in response to a collision A communications system includes a network that is coupled to a number of terminals, at least some of which are capable of audio or other forms of real-time interactive data communications over the network. Each of the terminals includes a network adapter that is ca... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295542 | System and method for beacon timing control in a mixed IEEE 802.11 network In a mixed IEEE 802.11 network, a system and method are provided for preventing beacon delays. The method comprises: establishing communications between an IEEE 802.11e access point (QAP) and at least one IEEE 802.11 station (STA); determining a safety interval with... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292598 | Adaptive algorithms for optimal control of contention access Contention for a shared communications medium in a communications network involves a fine balancing act between wasting much network bandwidth sitting idle or recovering from collisions and transmitting data. Contention adaptation concepts are introduced for access ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7293090 | Resource management protocol for a configurable network router A method of managing a communications system is disclosed. The method begins with the creation of a resource control block corresponding to a resource of the communications system. The communications system includes, for example, a processor and a resource coupled t... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7280517 | Wireless LANs and neighborhood capture Overlapped wireless LAN cells in a medium have an equal chance at establishing a session on the medium. A first member station in the first cell transmits a timing packet containing a timestamp value, which is received at a second member station in the second cell. ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277415 | Staggered startup for cyclic prioritized multiple access (CPMA) contention-free sessions A staggered startup method and system for a cyclic prioritized multiple access (CPMA) system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells contending for the same medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations. A f... | 10/02/2007 |
