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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179914 | Network slot synchronization scheme for a computer network communication channel Synchronization within a common communication channel having designated transmission time slots for various devices of a computer network is maintained by allowing transmissions within the channel outside of a network device's designated time slot when a clear chann... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8144726 | Structure for out of band signaling enhancement for high speed serial driver A design structure is provided for a microelectronic serial driver. The serial driver is operable to transmit a differential pattern signal during a burst interval and a predetermined common mode voltage level during a second interval between adjacent burst interval... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8121144 | Multi-function wireless terminal A method for communication includes allocating time intervals for a first communication session over a first connection between a wireless terminal and a base station of a long-range wireless data network, which operates in accordance with a first protocol defining ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8085807 | Method and apparatus for real time scheduling of traffic in wireless networks Apparatuses, realtime-stations, computer programs, and methods for scheduling of traffic in wireless networks are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided for scheduling of traffic in a wireless networks including real-time stations intending to send real-t... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8014418 | Allocating burst data units to available time-slots A network device of a network environment may support burst switched technology. The network device may comprise a burst generator, a scheduler, and a content addressable memory to allocate the bursts to earliest available time slots. The burst generator may generat... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7974304 | Out of band signaling enhancement for high speed serial driver An integrated microelectronic serial driver is provided which is operable to transmit a differential pattern signal during a burst interval and a predetermined common mode voltage level during a second interval between adjacent burst intervals, the serial driver inc... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7953105 | Communication apparatus enabling temporal coexistence of systems A coexistence controller which performs management and control of time division for coexistence, is provided in a power line communication modem which has a function as a QoS controller for a QoS type communication system and a power line communication modem for a b... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7899076 | Network device and working mode switching method A network device includes a timing module, a traffic analysis module, a counting module, a mode switching module and at least one processor. The timing module sets a plurality of continual timing periods each including a plurality of timing periods. The traffic anal... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7864795 | Method and system for service allocation in communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor A system for controlling, in a multi-resource communication network, the delivery of services by at least one resource capable of simultaneously delivering, within a maximum joint service capacity, at least one first type of service to a first set of users and a sec... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856030 | Dynamic time division multiplexing circuit without a shadow table In a telecommunication system adapted to exchange n-bit frames according to a dynamic time division multiplexing access method for a maximum of N accessible channels, the use of a shadow time slot assignment table is eliminated by use of a circuit that includes (a) ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7693177 | Navigational aid and carrier sense technique A navigational aid for use as an AIS apparatus includes a memory for storing information about previous use of individual time slots synchronized with transmission schedules of other stations and a signal detector for judging whether an information signal exists in ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7664134 | Programmable Q-ordered sets for in-band link signaling In a network having nodes that operate according to a protocol that defines a node as being in an idle mode when the node is not transmitting or receiving a packet, a method of communicating between nodes during the idle mode. A message formatted according to the pr... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7548554 | Methods for controlling transmission of high-speed data traffic in IPDLs The transmission of high-speed data traffic in IPDLs at a base station of a cellular communications network is controlled. An IPDL is identified which occurs within a set of time slots of a given channel. The channel may comprise a dedicated time slot channel or a p... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7443876 | Information processing terminal, transmission privilege rounding system, transmission privilege rounding method and transmission privilege acquiring program A plurality of information processing terminals 100 to 130 are connected to a network. Each processing terminal parameter-manages the total of the idle time units obtained through the detection of the idle time on the network. The processing terminal a... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7424007 | Power-save method for 802.11 multicast paging applications A power-save method for a network with an access point and an associated power-save client. The access point buffers wireless data that includes a unicast frame and a multicast frame. A periodic scheduled beacon message is transmitted with a unicast indication eleme... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418241 | System and techniques for enhancing the reliability of feedback in a wireless communications system Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to communications. The systems and techniques involve transmitting a signal over a plurality of time periods, receiving a plurality of parameters each relating to the signal transmission during a different one of the tim... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415033 | Dynamic time division multiplexing circuit without a shadow table In a telecommunication system adapted to exchange n-bit frames according to a dynamic time division multiplexing access method for a maximum of N accessible channels, the use of a shadow time slot assignment table is eliminated by use of a circuit that includes (a) ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7400631 | Scheduling unit with optimized jitter and queue occupancy The present invention relates to a scheduling unit adapted to aggregate data units from a plurality of input ports to a common output port according to a service sequence. The service sequence identifies which particular input port must be served for a particular se... | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7366135 | Radio channel assignment method and recording medium of program for controlling radio node The present invention provides a radio channel assignment method where each node in a network assigns radio channels to respective radio links in a decentralized manner without inconsistency. The radio channel assignment method includes a step of assigning on... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7356043 | Network channel access protocol—slot scheduling 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... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349378 | Local area network resource manager Aspects of the invention provide a method and system for managing or coordinating data transmission in a Local Area Network (LAN) such that Quality of Service (QoS) concerns are met. A LAN resource manager (LRM) is provided for managing the LAN resources by providin... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339923 | Endpoint packet scheduling system A method of transmitting packets over a network includes steps of partitioning a transmission interval into discrete time slots and reaching agreement between a transmitting node and receiving node as to when the transmitting node will transmit packets. The intended... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336644 | Method for synchronization of data transmission comprising at least one first radio system and at least one additional radio system The invention relates to a method and an assembly for synchronizing data transmission, comprising at least one first radio system and at least one additional radio system. According to said method, the transmission behavior of the first radio system or systems is ev... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330877 | Devices, softwares and methods for rescheduling multi-party sessions upon premature termination of session Devices, softwares and methods reschedule multi-party sessions upon premature termination of a wireless communication session. Upon sensing a premature termination, an access point transmits a rescheduling frame. All sessions are advanced in time, which saves time i... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324544 | Network slot synchronization scheme for a computer network communication channel Synchronization within a common communication channel having designated transmission time slots for various devices of a computer network is maintained by allowing transmissions within the channel outside of a network device's designated time slot when a clear chann... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317700 | Method and apparatus for cell-specific HSDPA parameter configuration and reconfiguration A method by which resources of a cell under the supervision of a controlling radio network controller (CRNC) are reserved for providing high speed downlink packet access via a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) having one or more corresponding physical cha... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317706 | Fair share scheduling method in a CDMA paging system A method for scheduling messages transmitted on a forward common channel of a CDMA system. The method includes determining the ratio between the slotted and unslotted messages transmitted over the forward common channel over a period of time. For each time slot S(i)... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310380 | Generic transmission parameter configuration A method of determining transmission parameters for a wireless transceiver is disclosed. According to the method, a state table is loaded into a transceiver. The state table includes a plurality of states, each of which has a set of transmission parameters associate... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301908 | Method and apparatus for rescheduling a communication system channel after a channel property change Techniques for rescheduling one or more timing intervals associated with a channel of a communication system. Responsive to a detected change in a property of the channel, a rescheduling algorithm identifies a given one of the timing intervals, within a schedule for... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295817 | Wireless data communication unit A wireless data communication unit (700) shares a data communication resource with a plurality of other data communication units. The wireless data communication unit (700) receives channel status information from a wireless serving communication unit ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292871 | Method for synchronizing mobile communication terminal with neighbor cell in call connection state A method for synchronizing a GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) mobile communication terminal with a neighbor cell in a call connection state the synchronization of the terminal with the neighbor cell during a time period of one frame other than transmissi... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7274725 | System and method for adaptive carrier occupancy in a frequency hopping spread spectrum system A frequency hopping spread spectrum telecommunication system is provided, which selects carrier frequencies based on the number of active slots. The duration that carriers have been employed is then based on the number of active slots (401, 402), rather than ... | 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 |
| 7260100 | System and method for net formation and merging in ad hoc networks A method of allocating communication resources among nodes in a network is provided. Communication among the nodes uses a time division multiple access protocol that includes a plurality of time slots. After identifying and synchronizing with a first communication n... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260640 | System and method for providing an enhanced enterprise streaming media server capacity and performance Streaming media servers are used to provide data streams of streaming media data to network devices across a communications network. In order to allow the servers to scale its processing as the number of data streams increases, these servers use a delay timer determ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257127 | Method and apparatus for burst scheduling Control information associated with data bursts to be switched on a burst-switched router is transmitted using payload envelopes (100) on one or more control channels (16). A control channel scheduling module (86) defines sets of contiguous payl... | 08/14/2007 |
