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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175113 | Communication network with node bypassed co-routed multi-channel traffic Embodiments of the present invention route a wavelength division multiplexed signal across multiple communication paths using skew characteristics of at least some of the communication paths. The network is a wavelength division multiplexed optical transport network... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175112 | Monitoring and control of an Ethernet link using pseudo-wire interfaces A communication system uses an Ethernet link to provide services to a user. The services have service priorities and bandwidth allocations on the Ethernet link. A pseudo-wire interface exchanges user communications for the services over the Ethernet link and transfe... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175114 | Base station apparatus and reception processing method thereof In a base station apparatus, signal processing units are connected to a corresponding antenna unit and another antenna unit, a part of resources for processing a signal received by the antenna unit corresponding to each signal processing unit is allocated to process... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170056 | Wireless bandwidth aggregation Methods and apparatus are disclosed for dynamic bandwidth expansion for wireless clients of a wireless wide-area network (WWAN), wherein each client has an allocated bandwidth for communicating over the WWAN and the clients are within wireless signal reception of ea... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165159 | Wireless communication system, pilot sequence allocation apparatus, pilot sequence allocating method used for the system and apparatus, and mobile station used in the method The present invention provides a method for allocating a pilot sequence that can obtain effect of reducing interference by combining received pilot blocks when sequence such as the CAZAC sequence as a pilot sequence is used. In the present invention, the pilot seque... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160098 | Dynamically allocating channel bandwidth between interfaces In one example, a bandwidth allocation device allocates physical channel bandwidth between local interfaces. Thereafter, at a polling time, the bandwidth allocation device determines whether there is communication activity between each local interface and the physic... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160099 | Radio communication terminal, radio base station, and packet communication method A radio communication terminal according to the present invention transmits and receives multiple types of packets including a RTP packet to and from a communication destination device. The radio communication terminal sets an auxiliary service instance used for tra... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160097 | System and method for optimizing communication between a mobile communications device and a second communications device A mobile communications device includes one or more antennas and a plurality of wireless transceivers that are each configured to transmit and receive transmissions via the one or more antennas according to at least one of several associated communications protocols... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160100 | Mobile station apparatus and method for receiving data It is an object to provide a wireless communication base station device that can prevent the decline of a system throughput due to the degradation of a utilization efficiency of a communication resource of a channel for carrying out a frequency diversity transmissio... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160096 | Method and system for reserving bandwidth in time-division multiplexed networks Methods and systems for reserving bandwidth in communications networks (e.g., time-division multiplexed (TDM) networks). A bandwidth request on a forward path of the communications network is temporarily held without any fixed slot timings. The bandwidth request is ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149874 | Adaptive-allocation of I/O bandwidth using a configurable interconnect topology Apparatus and methods allocate I/O bandwidth of an electrical component, such as an IC, by configuring an I/O interface into various types of interfaces. In an embodiment of the present invention, an I/O interface is configured into either a bi-directional contact, ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149873 | Data transmission apparatus efficiently using network resources A data transmission apparatus connecting to a network consisted of a plurality of data transmission apparatuses comprises a disconnecting device that disconnects a connection established between a transmission plug of a transmitting node and a reception plug of a re... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144731 | Control channel signaling in wireless communications Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate multiplexing control data values over a single physical control channel at least in part by dividing the control channel into one or more logical channels. The physical control channel can have a corresponding ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144732 | Method for boosting downlink transmission to mobile station and system utilizing the same The invention discloses a method for boosting the downlink transmission rate to a mobile station by a processing unit thereof, including the steps of requesting a base station for a bandwidth amount for transmission of at least one un-generated acknowledgement (ACK)... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139607 | Subscriber controllable bandwidth allocation A computer program product includes computer executable instructions, stored on a computer readable medium, for allocating bandwidth among various network provided communication services. The executable instructions include instructions to process a subscriber reque... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139606 | Methods and systems for providing switched broadband Systems and methods are disclosed for providing switched broadband. The disclosed systems and methods may include creating a traffic signature corresponding to a network element connected to a network, the network element having a network element ID and being addres... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135032 | Rate adaptation method for communication systems A rate adaptation method comprises the steps of: updating the probability density function of the SNR of a transmitted signal according to the receiving status of the transmitted signal and the probability density function before update; and updating the transmissio... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130790 | Digital communications system with variable-bandwidth traffic channels Electronic devices and equipment may communicate over a wired communications path. The wired communications path may include one or more wires and may be associated with a headphone cable. Data may be conveyed in the form of a digital data stream containing multiple... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126010 | Methods for dynamic bandwidth allocation and queue management in Ethernet passive optical networks In a passive optical network, dynamic bandwidth allocation and queue management methods and algorithms, designed to avoid fragmentation loss, guarantee that a length of a grant issued by an OLT will match precisely the count of bytes to be transmitted by an ONU. The... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111714 | Method and arrangement relating to admission control of broadband services A broadband access node and method for controlling access by end users to services over communication channels. A resource admission control mechanism includes a first memory for storing information about a currently available transmission capacity on an uplink chan... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111713 | Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus An improved communication apparatus for transmitting media between a sending node and a receiving node during a conversation. When network bandwidth is insufficient to transmit a full bit rate representation of time-sensitive media, the sending node generates and tr... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107497 | Auto bandwidth negotiation, reroute and advertisement A bandwidth negotiation system including a first network, a plurality of end user devices in communication with the network, a multiplexing unit communicatively coupled to the network, a second network, and an analyzing unit in communication with a second network. I... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102878 | Video packet shaping for video telephony The disclosure relates to techniques for video packet shaping for video telephony (VT). The techniques can be used to prioritize audio packets to reduce audio delay. Channel conditions, excessive video content, or both can cause delays in audio transmission. When re... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102877 | Systems and methods for policy-based intelligent provisioning of optical transport bandwidth Policy-based, on-demand provisioning of optical transport bandwidth is disclosed. In one of many possible embodiments, a system is provided for policy-based, on-demand provisioning of optical transport bandwidth. The system includes a layer-specific operation suppor... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098685 | Method and apparatus of scheduling bandwidth in cable network Disclosed are a method and apparatus of scheduling a bandwidth in a cable network. The method includes receiving variable information set according to a condition of a network, calculating a packet time slot value in which a delay time gain is maximized using the re... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094681 | Method and apparatus for adaptive bandwidth control with defined priorities for different networks A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to receive data from a source at a plurality of gateways for distribution using a selected priority. The data is transmitted from the plurality of gateways to a plurality of receivers using t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089985 | Max-Min fair network bandwidth allocator Allocation of an amount of available bandwidth among a plurality of users of a computer network is provided. Each user has a maximum allocation of bandwidth. Tier information of a plurality of tiers is accessed. In the tier information, users are grouped according t... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089986 | Managing quality of service in a communication network for applications Quality of Service (QoS) in a communication network is managed. A service provider requests a level of QoS for communication in the communication network using a QoS request. The requested level of QoS may be allocated to the service provider based on the QoS reques... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081661 | Dynamic bandwidth allocation device for an optical network and method thereof A dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) device and a method thereof are provided. In the DBA method, the band allocation periods according to class queues and allocable bands with respect to each class queue are calculated on the basis of the service level agreement in... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081657 | Method and device for providing video, data and voice to end user devices Method and system for providing data, video and voice to a group of end user devices includes receiving end user device group quality of service rules and access network node bandwidth constraints; assigning multicast addresses and unicast addresses to end user devi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081659 | Map message expediency monitoring and automatic delay adjustments in M-CMTS An M-CMTS compatible UEQAM device implements circuitry to identify and analyze MAP message in the data stream sent from the M-CMTS Core with respect to timing information embedded in those messages. The improved UEQAM will then create a specific message as an extens... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081660 | Method for requesting radio resource in mobile communications system A method for requesting radio resource using a control signal in an evolved universal telecommunications system (E-UMTS) is disclosed. A terminal requests a radio resource for data transmission from a base station by selectively using the control signal or a random ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081658 | Method and signaling procedure for transmission opportunity usage in a wireless mesh network In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the present invention comprises a method for using the remaining TxOP time by the peer node to forward traffic to a different destination, a method for using the remaining TxOP time by the original node to send traffic to a... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077741 | Multiplexing network system and digital information transferring method In a multiplexing network system in which media devices are interconnected through a digital transmission path, during system startup, a device that is used as a master device holds management information for recognizing bands used by media devices connected to the ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077740 | Apparatus and method for reducing noise in seismic data A method of acquiring seismic data. The method includes receiving seismic signals at one or more sensors; sampling the received seismic signals into a plurality of samples, each sample having a same bit length; arranging the samples into a plurality of packets; comp... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073008 | Subnetwork synchronization and variable transmit synchronization techniques for a wireless medical device network A fluid infusion system as described herein includes a number of local “body network” devices, such as an infusion pump, a handheld monitor or controller, a physiological sensor, and a bedside or hospital monitor. The body network devices can be configured to su... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073009 | Adaptive allocation of I/O bandwidth using a configurable interconnect topology Apparatus and methods allocate I/O bandwidth of an electrical component, such as an IC, by configuring an I/O interface into various types of interfaces. In an embodiment of the present invention, an I/O interface is configured into either a bi-directional contact, ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068514 | Efficient bandwidth utilization when streaming data over multiple network interfaces Adjusting utilization of network bandwidth by a non-time critical data stream being sent from a sending endpoint to a receiving endpoint, wherein both of the sending endpoint and the receiving endpoint each have multiple physical interfaces connecting the sending en... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068513 | Determining load measure for network element The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for determining (e.g., calculating) a load measure by a network element (e.g., Node B or any other network element) for optimizing information traffic in communication networ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064482 | System and method for transmitting real-time-critical and non-real-time-critical data in a distributed, industrial automation system A system and a method provides both for a real-time-critical communication and a non-real-time-critical communication in a switched data network consisting of users and switching units, for example a distributed automation system, by means of a cyclic operation. In ... | 11/22/2011 |
