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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189611 | System and method for resolving contention among applications requiring data connections between a mobile communications device and a wireless network A mobile communications device (30) includes a wireless transceiver (34) operable to conduct at least two data connections between the mobile communications device (30) and a wireless network (12) wherein each of the data connections is a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8094674 | Method and system for implementing network device access management A method and system for implementing network device access management. The system includes at least one device domain storage unit and at least one Access Server (AS), and the method groups all network devices into at least one device domain managed by at least one ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094673 | Cable user interface A cable user interface, such as a cable for audio headphones, enables control of one or more aspects of operation of a device to which such cable is connected. A user touches/applies pressure to the cable user interface, either along the full length of the cable, or... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8027357 | Broadband wireless communications using multiple contention channels a communication system comprises a plurality of downstream transmission systems configured to transmit downstream wireless communications to an area having a plurality of sectors over a plurality of downstream channels to a plurality of users in the plurality of sec... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7995607 | Arbiter for a serial bus system An arbiter for a device arranged to be coupled to a serial bus, the arbiter comprising a means for obtaining identifier information associated with one more other devices coupled to the serial bus and; means for determining a priority level based upon an identifier ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995606 | Fly-by and ack-accelerated arbitration for broadcast packets A method for administering transmission of a first type of packets and a second type of packets over a serial bus. In one embodiment, the method comprises: if there is a packet of a second type to be sent, then concatenating the packet of the second type to a plural... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990999 | Starvation prevention scheme for a fixed priority PCE-express arbiter with grant counters using arbitration pools Method and apparatus for arbitrating prioritized cycle streams in a manner that prevents starvation. High priority and low priority arbitration pools are employed for arbitrating multiple input cycle streams. Each cycle stream contains a stream of requests of a give... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983294 | Method of transmitting and receiving a message via an uplink channel in a wireless mobile communication system A method of transmitting a message via an uplink access channel in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes initiating a first preamble access procedure with Node B, receiving from Node B a first acknowledgement indication with respect to th... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7957411 | Collision avoidance in multiple protocol communication networks using a shared communication medium A method for collision avoidance in multiple protocol networks using a shared communication medium begins by determining a first protocol probable active time period. The method continues by determining a first protocol probable inactive time period. The method cont... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7940790 | Multiple request intervals Methods and apparatuses are presented for communicating using a shared communication medium. A request is sent over the shared communication medium. The shared communication medium is organized to include a request signal space and a scheduled transmission signal sp... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7924871 | Control channel priority access systems and methods Methods and systems for priority access to control channels are provided. A mobile stations is assigned a user priority value. The mobile station selects a retry algorithm from a plurality of retry algorithms based on the assigned user priority value. Alternatively,... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924870 | Communication system and method for media access control A system and method for upstream transmission and the media access control of upstream transmission of groups of fixed sized cells, such as ATM cells in a point to multipoint optical network, such as a passive optical network. The upstream media access control schem... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7873067 | Adaptive method of floor control with fast response time and fairness in communication network In a floor control system for a network, a floor control server controls a floor-based application for communications between multiple participant terminals. The server carries out a floor determination process that includes an adaptive waiting function. Upon receiv... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7864796 | Start-to-finish reservations in distributed MAC protocols for wireless LANs A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing start-to-finish reservations in distributed MAC protocols for wireless LANs. Each node maintains a corresponding time period (NAV) during which the node must refrain from transmitting on a channel of a p... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7801169 | Method for mapping quality of service requirements to radio protocol parameters An apparatus and method for transmitting packets having quality of service requirement wherein the quality of service requirements associated with the packets are received at an input, said quality of service parameters include at least one of delay, bandwidth, peak... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792138 | Distributed opportunistic scheduling in IEEE 802.11 wireless location area networks (WLANs) A WLAN distributed/opportunistic scheduling (WDOS) method for acquiring a multi-user diversity gain is disclosed. The WDOS method allows a transmitter (i.e., a transmission user) to observe channel conditions of receivers (i.e., reception users), and commands the tr... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7773626 | Technique to improve network switch throughput A technique to route data according to a speculative priority. At least one embodiment detects a conflict among a number of data received by the router, assigns a speculative priority to one of the data in a first clock portion and sends the speculatively prioritize... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7760756 | Arbiter for multiple mutually exclusive vectors An arbiter performs arbitration over a plurality of queues and provides data to a plurality of mutually exclusive destinations using combination logic that logically combines a plurality of mutually exclusive vectors into a combination vector. Each of the mutually e... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7751427 | Packet switching equipment and switching control method A packet switching equipment and a switch control system employing the same performs operation of the switch core portion independent of content of decision of an arbiter portion and overall equipment can be constructed with simple control structure. The packet swit... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7729373 | Modified range requests enabling bandwidth requests and state of health reporting A modified ranging request in a broadband communications system. The modified ranging request includes a header, a management message header attached to the header, a management message payload attached to the management message header, and a CRC attached to the man... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7720092 | Hierarchical round robin arbiter A hierarchical round robin arbiter includes a first set of arbitration vectors, each associated with a plurality of requesters. A second arbitration vector includes one bit for each arbitration vector in the first set. The single bit informs the round robin arbiter ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715427 | Method for data communication In a method for carrying out cyclic and conflict-free data communication for the subscribers of a data bus, which transmits data in non-overlapping time periods within a subscriber cycle interval and processes jobs, and whose fixed transmission time slots in a plann... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7697563 | Switching device of networks-on-chip system and scheduling method thereof A switching device of NoC (Networks on Chip) system and a scheduling method thereof. The switching device has a switching part having a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports, and a scheduler for setting a transmission route between the input ports... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7664135 | Control of network plug-and-play compliant device A network device includes a network protocol controller and a device controller. The device controller controls a plurality of service devices including a first device, and a second device of different type from the first device. The network protocol controller and ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7656892 | Method and apparatus of multi-entity wireless communication adapter Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for a multi-entity wireless communication adapter having a traffic management configuration to selectively associate at least first and second signal traffics corresponding to a basic service set st... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7639709 | System and method for broadcast conflict resolution The present invention is a system and method for providing conflict resolution for broadcast slot assignments. Method may include receiving a message from at least two nodes. Method may determine from received messages that at least two other nodes in a network have... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7623545 | Method and apparatus for extended control over a wireless medium between two or more devices Included are embodiments for protecting a Media Access Control (MAC) layer. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving first data from a communications device, the first data being received via a wireless transmission, the first data including a first du... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7555005 | Area efficient implementation of the consecutive access counter An arbitration unit grants access to a shared resource to one of a plurality of devices. A consecutive access register corresponds to each device. A consecutive access counter is operable to load data stored in a selectable consecutive access register and count down... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7529268 | Multi-point electronic control system protocol A generic software protocol allows communication between multiple devices within an electronic control system as well as between an electronic control system and an external monitoring device. The generic software protocol is reflected in embedded software in each d... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525986 | Starvation prevention scheme for a fixed priority PCI-Express arbiter with grant counters using arbitration pools Method and apparatus for arbitrating prioritized cycle streams in a manner that prevents starvation. High priority and low priority arbitration pools are employed for arbitrating multiple input cycle streams. Each cycle stream contains a stream of requests of a give... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7512148 | Weighted round-robin arbitrator A weighted round-robin arbitrator for a plurality of data queue includes an arbitration table comprising a plurality of entries. Each entry represents a time slot for the transmission of one data packet from a selected one of the plurality of data queues. There is o... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7474670 | Method and system for allocating bandwidth The present invention is directed to methods and systems for allocating bandwidth (or other shared resource) among multiple masters. According to an aspect of the present invention, an arbiter assigns a bucket to each CPU (or other device) where each bucket holds th... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7474671 | System and method for resolving contention among applications requiring data connections between a mobile communications device and a wireless network A mobile communications device (30) includes a wireless transceiver (34) operable to conduct at least two data connections between the mobile communications device (30) and a wireless network (12) wherein each of the data connections is a... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7463646 | Method and system for fibre channel arbitrated loop acceleration A fibre channel switch element with an acceleration device that connects plural fibre channel devices in an arbitrated loop and monitors frames sent during a loop initialization process is provided. The acceleration device creates an AL_PA table selected by each fib... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7440399 | Apparatus and method for efficient transmission of acknowledgments Method and apparatus for transmission of information in multiple access communication system is described. Information from a plurality of access terminals is received. Alternatively, an access terminal determines what information needs to be sent to the access poin... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436848 | Method for mobile node registration management A mobile node registers with a wireless telecommunications network to obtain a mobile node registration having a registration time period. Before the registration time period expires, the mobile node's registration is renewed, if a renewal criterion is met. The rene... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436845 | Input and output buffering An Infiniband device is provided. The device has a plurality of input/output ports. Each port has associated therewith an input buffer for storage of a packet received at that port. Each port also has associated therewith a plurality of output buffers for storage of... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436761 | Apparatus and method for connecting fibre channel devices via bypass buffers Apparatus is disclosed for connecting at least a first Fibre Channel device to at least a second Fibre Channel device. The apparatus includes ports, buffers and bypass buffers that are arranged so that the second Fibre Channel device can operate at a physical link r... | 10/14/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7430626 | Bi-directional data control state machine A method for controlling bi-directional data transfers in an electronic circuit is provided. The method involves when a first of at least two data signals is activated as an originating data signal prior to a second of the at least two data signals: allowing only a ... | 09/30/2008 |
