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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8102874 | Method and system to provide blade server load balancing using spare link bandwidth A method for processing network information in a multi-server platform is disclosed and includes receiving by a blade server manager, capacity utilization information embedded in spare link bandwidth from a plurality of blade servers operably coupled to the blade se... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098684 | System, device and method A system or device includes a consumer supplied via a supply line, electrical power and data being transmittable via the supply line, the power signal and the data signal being alternately transmittable. ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094677 | Multi-bus structure for optimizing system performance of a serial buffer A serial buffer having a parser and multiple parallel processing paths is provided. The parser receives incoming packets, determines the type of each packet, and then routes each packet to a processing path that corresponds with the determined packet type. Packet ty... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094678 | Method of and apparatus for providing reserved bandwidth to ethernet devices over switched ethernet including a home network wall plate having a combined IEEE 1394 and ethernet modified HUB A combined IEEE 1394-2000 and ethernet network allows devices to operate according to both the IEEE 1394-2000 protocol and the ethernet protocol. The devices within the network are able to send IEEE 1394-2000 isochronous data, IEEE 1394-2000 asynchronous data and et... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081653 | Communication apparatus and control method thereof In a communication apparatus which can directly wirelessly communicate with another communicate apparatus, whether or not a terminal connected to the communication apparatus supports a real-time transmission protocol is checked. As a result of checking, if it is det... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081655 | Method and apparatus for wireless transmission of data There are provided methods for selecting a communication protocol for formatting data and for wirelessly transmitting data, preferably medical data, e.g., electrocardiogram data, methods for reducing data and/or selecting from data, methods for adding data, methods ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081654 | Bandwidth division for packet processing A bandwidth divider and method for allocating bandwidth between a plurality of packet processors. The bandwidth divider includes a plurality of counters for measuring the bandwidth of data packets transferred from the bandwidth divider to a respective packet process... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077737 | Method for QoS delivery in contention-based multi hop network An arrangement and a method that, for a given pair of nodes that wish to intercommunicate with a high QoS measure, converts a portion of the contention-based network into a contention-less subnetwork by sending a reservation message and a confirmation message betwee... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068512 | Efficient utilization of cache servers in mobile communication system A data center includes an individual storage unit having storage areas for respective user apparatuses, a shared storage unit having a storage area for sharing by the user apparatuses, a unit configured to store data received from an external node in one of the indi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059677 | Scalable channel bundling with adaptable channel synchronization Structures and methods to facilitate channel bundling are disclosed. In one embodiment, signal distribution circuitry includes a data path with at least two registers coupled to adjacent sets of data channels in a bundle of data channel sets. In another embodiment, ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054854 | Network remote control A network of devices with remote control includes a network interconnecting two or more networked devices and a wireless remote control unit for communicating with one or more of the networked devices. The remote control unit stores an interface for one or more of t... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050289 | Media transmission using aggregated bandwidth of disparate communication channels A method and/or system of transmitting media items using aggregating bandwidths of disparate communication channels between a media source and a media player. By using the combined bandwidth of more than one communication channel, a media item that requires a bandwi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050288 | Method and apparatus for interference suppression in orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) wireless communication systems A method and apparatus for interference suppression in wireless communication systems, especially Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) systems. The array apparatus includes a two-tier adaptive array system which provides for both spatial diversity and be... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045578 | Method for controlling event and reporting status of cable modem and apparatus thereof Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling an event of a cable modem and reporting a status of the cable modem, the method including: determining whether to periodically allocate a transmission bandwidth of a CM-STATUS message with respect to an event occurr... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036242 | Dynamic capacity operating point management for a vocoder in an access terminal A variable rate vocoder is configured to encode speech signals with a plurality of encoding rates and to change from a first encoding rate to a second encoding rate according to a received signal indicating reverse link load. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027359 | Extended serial communication protocols The present embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatuses that facilitate communication between two or more devices. Some of these methods identify a first communication to be transmitted and generate a first plurality of frames such that bit data of each of ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8009692 | Bit and power allocation scheme for full-duplex transmission with echo cancellation in multicarrier-based modems The present invention provides a method, data modulator, modem, computer readable medium and system for allocating bits to sub-carriers of data channel frequencies for spectrally efficient full-duplex transmission. Bits are allocated successively to a plurality of s... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000343 | Communication device, and method of communication between communication devices and medium thereof Disclosed are a function of automatically tuning a communication performance between the communications devices connected to a network and a function of periodically confirming and tuning the communication performance. In a plurality of communications devices capabl... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991000 | Inband controlling of a packet-based communications network Inband Controlling of a packet-based Communications NetworkA method of handling control information (CMR latest, CMR latest new) sent inband in a packet-based communications network with traffic data, wherein the network has a buffer for temporarily storing received... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983295 | Optimizing packet queues for channel bonding over a plurality of downstream channels of a communications management system A plurality of downstream channels enables communications between a CMTS and a plurality of legacy and non-legacy cable modems. A dispersion mechanism optimizes channel bonding, such that the downstream channels are interoperable with DOCSIS™-compliant, legacy cab... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983296 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970008 | Multiplexing transmission system and multiplexing transmission method A multiplexing transmission system for adding a management overhead to a client signal, and transparently accommodating or multiplexing the client signal to transmit it is provided. The multiplexing transmission system: accommodates a plurality of client signals of ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970007 | Communication apparatus and retrieval table management method used for communication apparatus A communication apparatus is provided which avoids such a situation that retrieval tables do not correspond with each other, and a broadcast is induced. When an input port or an output port determined by switch function units 121, 131 is a port belonging to a... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970006 | Dynamic configuration for a modular interconnect The present invention relates to adaptive interconnect logic, which is adapted to communicate with various types of modules that are plugged into the interconnect logic, and to automatically configure itself to interact with the various modules. For each module inte... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965736 | Transmission of multiplex protocol data units in physical layer packets A transmitter generates MUX-PDUs for video, audio, data, and/or control streams based on a fixed PHY packet size such that all or a substantial percentage of the MUX-PDUs conform to the PHY packet size. The MUX-PDUs have variable sizes and are mapped to PHY packets ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961754 | Apparatus and method for multimedia data transmission and reception in cable network using broadband and physical layer frame structure Provided are an apparatus and a method for multimedia data transmission in a cable network using a broadband and physical layer frame structure. The apparatus includes an external network matching module for transmitting data inputted/outputted from/to an external n... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957413 | Method, system and program product for outsourcing resources in a grid computing environment A technique for efficiently processing resource allocation requests in an on-demand environment. When a user logs into a resource allocation request manager, various resource requirements entered are immediately sent to a remote resource manager to allow for dynamic... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957414 | Transmitting apparatus and transmission rate control method A wireless communication apparatus (10) includes: a transmission data acquisition unit (21) that acquires transmission data; a control data judging unit (24) that judges whether or not the acquired transmission data is control data for causing a... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949008 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for cell phone security An audio application program is isolated from an Internet application program in a cell phone system having a processor. An operating system program, a partition manager process and the audio and Internet application programs are stored in a computer readable memory... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949009 | Method for determining multiturn modulo master axis data The present invention relates to a method for transmitting multiturn modulo control axis data which includes at least one control axis position value (600°-604°; 245°-248°) and an associated control axis modulo value (720°; 360°) in one communication system wh... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7936779 | System of intelligent devices, a method for providing such a system and a computer data signal A system including a number of intelligent devices connected to each other through a network. The devices are adapted for interacting with each other and automatically discovering new devices by sending and receiving messages over the network. Each intelligent devic... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7907629 | Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system, wireless communication method and program A wireless communication apparatus includes a sender identity evaluating portion that evaluates whether a sender of consecutively received packets is the same, and a physical layer control portion that controls a physical layer using an evaluation result if the send... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899077 | Method and apparatus for supporting network communications One embodiment of the invention includes a method of managing network communications in a network device. The network device includes software components and modules. Some of the components control the interaction between modules, while other components perform spec... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894473 | System and method for monitoring valve status and performance in a process control system A process control system includes at least one controller and at least one wireless valve element capable of being controlled by the at least one controller. The process control system also includes a first transceiver configured to communicate with the at least one... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894472 | Method and apparatus for automatic selection and operation of a subscriber line spectrum class technology The present invention provides a communication device, such as a modem, that is capable of detecting whether it is capable of operating in a mode that is compatible with one or more of the Spectrum Management Classes. The modem automatically selects a mode of operat... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889759 | Broadband cable network utilizing common bit-loading A broadband cable network (“BCN”) for determining a common bit-loading modulation scheme for communicating between a plurality of nodes in the BCN is disclosed. The BCN may include a transmitting node within the plurality of nodes where the transmitting node is ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885290 | Communication terminal apparatus and signal receiving method A communication terminal apparatus receives a management signal at a bit rate A and a data signal at a bit rate B (B>A) through the same line, and includes a band limiting unit, a signal regenerating unit, a timing controlling unit, and a data signal obtaining unit.... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885289 | System and method for relaying turbo-coded piggyback messages Systems and/or methods for relaying messages between nodes in a network (e.g. a wireless network) are provided. In accordance with certain exemplary embodiments, substantially simultaneous communications between nodes may be accomplished. At least one secondary turb... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881332 | Configurable ports for a host ethernet adapter A system and method in accordance with the present invention allows for an adapter to be utilized in a server environment that can accommodate both a 10 G and a 1 G source utilizing the same pins. This is accomplished through the use of a high speed serializer/deser... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881335 | Client-side bandwidth allocation for continuous and discrete media The embodiments of the invention relate to client-side bandwidth allocation or rate-lowering processes, systems, and devices. In general, a received continuous stream is received at a lower rate while a discrete media stream is also being received by the client, and... | 02/01/2011 |
