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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7680147 | Data transmission system and method A method of transmitting data packets, where randomness is added to the schedule. Universal broadcast schedules using encoding and randomization techniques are also discussed, together with optimal randomized schedules and an approximation algorithm for finding near... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680148 | Communication apparatus and communication method A communication apparatus includes a receiving device configured to receive one physical frame in which a plurality of MAC frames are aggregated. This physical frame includes one acknowledgement request frame for the plurality of MAC frames. The apparatus includes a... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675933 | System and method for enabling radio operations on a wireless computing device Embodiments of the invention provide for a wireless computing device that comprises a set of one or more radio components to transmit and receive wireless communications on the device. Additionally, the wireless computing device includes processing and memory resour... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672329 | Method and apparatus for multiplexing and demultiplexing data, and computer product A generating unit generates an apparatus reference frame phase that becomes a reference in a data multiplexing/demultiplexing apparatus, based on a reception frame phase of the data input to a predetermined reception buffer and a predetermined delay amount. A multip... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668195 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data over a shared access carrier network A method for transmitting and receiving data over a shared access carrier network with a plurality of user devices is provided. The user devices each have a modem associated therewith and a network interface for communicating over a local network. The method begins ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668194 | Dual speed interface between media access control unit and physical unit A system and method to implement a dual speed network interface. A first code is transmitted from an initiator unit to a follower unit on a first output datapath (“OUT_DP”) of multiple OUT_DPs coupling the initiator unit to the follower unit. The first code is t... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7656895 | Method and device for coupling a POTS terminal to a non-PSTN communications network A communications device is used to interface a plain old telephone system (POTS) terminal, which includes a dial-up modem to transmit data, to a communications network. The communications device appears to the POTS terminal to be a modem accessed via a telephone net... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653081 | Internet protocol transport of PSTN-to-PSTN telephony services A system for transporting public switched network (PSTN) terminated signaling across an Internet protocol (IP) network includes a gateway between the PSTN and the IP network. The gateway receives a telephony signaling message from the PSTN and determines if the tele... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7646786 | Neighbor discovery in cable networks A network device has a communications link to allow the device to communicate with customer devices and a processor. The processor is to receive neighbor discovery messages from requesting customer devices, examine the neighbor discovery messages to determine if the... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7639711 | Switch provided with a signaling coupler, and a method of sending a signaling message To simplify the sending of signalling messages, a coupler of a switch is provided with an interpreter. The interpreter is capable of preparing the sending of a signalling message as soon as it receives an order of predetermined syntax. By acting in this way, the tra... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7630397 | Efficient scalable implementation of VCAT/LCAS for SDH and PDH signals An apparatus for implementing VCAT in both SDH and PDH signals includes an SDH VCAT mapper coupled to a first telecom bus and a plurality of PDH units coupled to the first telecom bus and a second telecom bus. The PDH units read SDH VCAT bytes from the first telecom... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7623546 | Latency improvement for file transfers over network connections A method of improving latency time of a data transfer between a sender and a receiver, receiving an odd number of data segments from among a plurality of data segments the receiver determines if it is waiting for a further data segment of less than full size. The de... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620066 | Method and apparatus for shared I/O in a load/store fabric An apparatus and method is provided for allowing I/O devices to be shared and/or partitioned among a plurality of processing complexes within the load/store fabric of each of the processing complexes without requiring modification to the operating system or driver s... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620067 | Method of switching transmission modes in IEEE 802.11n MIMO communication systems A method and system is provided that selects transmission modes between spatial multiplexing, delay diversity and space-time coding in 802.11n systems. As such, eigen-value computation for mode selection is not required. This provides efficiency, in particular for b... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620065 | Mobile connectivity solution A method and application for selecting a network from one or more candidate networks is disclosed. Information is gathered from one or more database relating to each of the one or more candidate networks and is harmonized in relation to an associated network type. T... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616658 | Adaptive wireless parameter control method, QoS control device and wireless communication system A QoS information identification unit receives a packet to be transmitted and based on QoS information, identifies the QoS type of the packet, and outputs the obtained QoS type to an adaptive wireless parameter controller as requested QoS information. The adaptive w... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7606260 | Virtual path configuration apparatus, virtual path configuration method, and computer product Configuration information set in one virtual path configuration apparatus is shared with all the virtual path configuration apparatuses in the virtual private network. The configuration information may be shared by transmitting the configuration information to other... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7602806 | Signaling and coding methods and apparatus for long-range 10 and 100 MBPS ethernet transmission Signaling and coding methods and apparatus for long-range 10 and 100 mbps Ethernet transmission. In accordance with the method, a physical layer (PHY) device is provided that includes the long-range capabilities. In operation, the PHY measures the distance to a comp... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7602805 | Circuits and methods for detecting the mode of a telecommunications signal A method for detecting the mode of a telecommunications signal is provided. The method receives the telecommunications signal and contemporaneously evaluates the telecommunications signal for compliance with at least two signal modes. When the evaluation indicates t... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599393 | Architecture for emulating an ethernet network interface card An architecture for performing communications between a remote computer system and a host server over a “connection establishment” type network (i.e., dial-up) is described. The architecture comprises configuring the remote computer system with a Point-to-Point ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599392 | Devices and methods for matching link speeds between controllers and controlled devices A controller system for detecting and matching link speeds. The present invention provides for a controller system. The controller system is a first controller and a first port. The first port is located in the first controller and has a first link speed. The first ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599391 | Media and speed independent interface A rate adaptation layer (RAL) module for converting from a first interface operating at a first rate to a second interface operating at a second rate comprises first and second input/output (I/O) modules that communicate with the first and second interfaces, respect... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7590142 | Adapter channel mapping system and method An adapter channel mapping system for mapping channels of a network is provided. The system comprises a memory component operable to communicate with the network and having a first and a second memory portion, the first memory portion operable to communicate with a ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7586938 | Methods and systems for self-describing multicasting of multimedia presentations Multimedia presentations are multicast using an announcement channel that includes presentation description information along with multiple channels for multiple streams of multimedia data to accommodate clients of different multimedia resources. Clients can use the... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7586939 | Mobile IP communication scheme for supporting mobile computer move over different address spaces A mobile IP communication scheme for supporting a mobile computer moving over different address spaces is disclosed. A packet relay device for relaying packets having an address of the mobile computer device as a destination or source is provided at a border between... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583694 | Data definition apparatus, systems, and methods An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to send a selected data type without self-definition information to a receiver if a state capable of interpreting the selected data type has been maintained by the receiver, and to send the sele... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7583693 | Signal coding The invention provides signal coding, wherein the signal is source coded to obtain a coded data stream, and source significance information (SSI) is included into the coded data stream, the source significance information (SSI) indicating desired protection rates of... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580421 | Method and device for controlling data connections in a data network having a plurality of data network nodes A method and a device for controlling data connections in a data network including a plurality of data network nodes. The quality of a first data connection is evaluated on the basis of the adaptations of at least one coding used for the first data connection, and a... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7573901 | Hub-based messaging system A messaging system may include a sender backend system, a receiver backend system, and one or more intermediate hubs. The backend systems and message hubs may have messaging software with different protocol versions. The messaging system is downward compatible such ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7573900 | Apparatus and method for transmitting data using transmit antenna diversity in a packet service communication system An apparatus and method for transmitting packet data through at least two transmit antennas in a packet data communication system using transmit antenna diversity. In the packet transmitting apparatus, a feedback information interpreter interprets feedback informati... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7573899 | Adaptor module An adaptor module for use with a service manager adapted to functionally lie between a service application operable to provide a service and a network layer of a telecommunication network service entity, the adaptor module being operable to; receive from the service... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570657 | Autonegotiation between 1000Base-X and 1000Base-T An autonegotiation circuit for gigabit per second Ethernet networks includes a switch with 1000BASE-X media. A gigabit interface connector (GBIC) module connects the switch to the device and allows autonegotiation. The switch includes a first GBIC interface with a t... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7570659 | Multi-lane receiver de-skewing A technique for de-skewing a group of serial data signals respectively outputted from a group of data lanes includes simultaneously feeding a test signal to inputs of the group of data lanes and monitoring respective outputs thereof. A predetermined data element of ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7570658 | Transmitting data Transmitting packets of data from a first station to a second station. Each data packet conveys information of a first information type or a second information type thereby giving each an information type. Each data packet is transmitted using at least a first trans... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7567583 | Radio transmission device and radio transmission method Data streams stored in buffers (101) are modulated by modulation sections (102). Multipliers (103) multiply the signals output from the modulation sections (102) by weights output from a weight control section (112). The signals ou... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7564868 | Configuration DSL transceiver A DSL modem (21) including a configurable digital transceiver (30) is disclosed. The digital transceiver (30) includes a configuration register (43), or other circuitry, that selects a number of analog transmission ports to be implemented... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7561595 | Method and apparatus for instant messaging A method and apparatus for stored message delivery are taught. The method and apparatus can be configured to accomplish the steps of receiving a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message, as a received SIP message, encapsulating the received SIP message in a Message... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7555006 | Method and system for adaptive transcoding and transrating in a video network A video server adaptively selects an appropriate video encoding standard and an appropriate video encoding rate for encoding video content to be downloaded to one or more video client devices over a communication network. The video server adaptively selects the vide... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551640 | Method and apparatus for errorless frame timing adjustment A frame timing adjustment apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an ingress framing unit, an egress framing unit coupled to the ingress framing unit, and a framing control unit coupled to control the ingress framing unit and the egress framing unit. The ingr... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7551641 | Systems and methods for distribution of wireless network access Systems and methods for distribution of wireless network access using a common media access control (MAC) architecture. In one embodiment, a platform architecture may be provided for high speed Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) service termination using a common MAC a... | 06/23/2009 |