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| 8175115 | Method and system for iterative reconstruction A method for reconstructing an image of an object, the image comprising a plurality of image elements, is disclosed. The method includes accessing image data associated with the plurality of image elements, applying a first algorithm to the plurality of image elemen... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170058 | Communications device, communications method, and storage medium A communications device is provided which receives data frames in FIR communications mode even if the device has failed to normally receive a connect frame in SIR communications mode. A communications device according to the invention includes an incoming fra... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170057 | Communication-processing apparatus and its method A transmitter and a receiver each have an apparatus for carrying out retransmission processing at a TCP layer and an apparatus for carrying out encrypted-data communication at an IPSec layer. The apparatus operating at the IPSec layer has a buffer for storing encryp... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155145 | Method and system for telecommunications using layer 3 packets obtained from a sequence of layer 2 radio link control layer data frames A telecommunications system includes a first node. The system includes a base station that communicates with the first node. The system includes a radio network controller in communication with the base station. The system includes a computer in communication with t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149875 | Packet-based data processing technique A technique is provided for processing data in a packet-based communications environment. A single data packet is encapsulated into a single link layer packet data unit. The link layer unit is encoded to form at least one code block. After the currently available ra... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144733 | Partitioned medium access control implementation A novel implementation of a partitioned Medium Access Control (MAC) is disclosed. The illustrative embodiment employs a shared bus that typically is already present in a wireless terminal for communication between an Upper MAC and a Lower MAC. The partitioned MAC im... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139608 | Method and apparatus optimizing a radio link Optimizing a radio link is done by acquiring at least OSI layer one and two performance measurements, determining an optimum setting collection for at least OSI layer three to a top layer, then configuring at least the OSI layer three to the top layer based upon the... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135033 | Method of communicating between layers of a protocol stack and apparatus therefor In a method of communicating between layers of a protocol stack, message data are generated for communicating between a first layer and a second layer of the protocol stack. The message data are incorporated into a data unit by providing an opaque object within the ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8121148 | Protocol stack using shared memory There are disclosed processes and systems relating to optimized network traffic generation and reception. Application programs and a protocol stack may share a memory space. The protocol stack may designate available bandwidth for use by an application program. The ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8102879 | Application layer metrics monitoring The present invention enables the monitoring of application layer metrics of data packets for subscribers or groups of subscribers. In one embodiment, an edge routing node, such as an edge router or the like, between an access network and a core network will identif... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098686 | Method and apparatus for providing an application-level utility metric A method and apparatus for providing an application utility metric for an application by taking into account of multiple protocols used by the application as well as at least one interaction of the application at the application-level that is deemed to be useful are... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098687 | Method and apparatus for forwarding packets A method for forwarding packets first checks a forwarding table of a bridge to find whether the destination information for a packet is included in the forwarding table. If the information is found, this packet is forwarded to the destination through a physical laye... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8089987 | Synchronizing in-memory caches while being updated by a high rate data stream Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for high availability in data-stream applications using separate but synchronized nodes. Initially, a live node is designated to provide the data stream. Upon startup or restart, a standby node synchro... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089988 | Method for selecting transport format combination guaranteed QoS in mobile communication system The present invention relates to selecting a transport format combination (TFC) such that a quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed in a mobile communication system of a certain level even for a service having a low priority. The present invention selects a transport... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085812 | Symbolic representation of protocol-layer information A method of displaying protocol-specific data includes receiving data, extracting protocol-specific information from the data, converting protocol-specific information into a symbolic representation, and presenting the symbolic representation. A dimension of symbols... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8059681 | Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving packet in mobile communication system Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a packet in a mobile communication system. When upper layer packets are multiplexed into a packet whose overall size is informed via a separate path, the size of the upper layer packet is not signaled if... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059680 | Offload system, method, and computer program product for processing network communications associated with a plurality of ports An offload system, method, and computer program product are provided for handling transport layer processing of a connection between a local host and a remote host via at least one network. A network interface associated with the local host is utilized for such purp... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054855 | Dynamic interface configuration for supporting multiple versions of a communication protocol Techniques are described for dynamically configuring an interface in a network service provider. The techniques allow dynamic configuration of, for example, a dual stacked interface that includes both Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and Internet Protocol version ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045583 | Communication condition information in a mobile terminal and network of a wireless communication system A communication system which has a plurality of mobile terminals and a base station, each of the mobile terminals and/or base station comprising a medium access control sub-layer, upper layers of the medium access control sub-layer, and a lower layer of the medium a... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036244 | Transmitter, receiver, communication system, communication method, non-transitory computer readable medium Provided is a communication system including a transmitter and a receiver which carry out communication by establishing connection of their plurality of communication layers. The transmitter generates a connection request containing a command and data required for c... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027363 | Method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system A method of configuring a lower layer data block in a protocol layer of a transmitting side of a wireless communication system comprises receiving upper layer data from an upper layer, and configuring a second lower layer data block to include a first upper layer da... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027362 | Methods and systems for pushing and pulling network data in user interface design A network management system is provided for allowing a user to interface with network management data provided by a network agent via a network. Application level logic obtains and formats the network management data to thereby create a display presented to the user... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023530 | Physical layer quality of service for wireless communications Physical layer quality of service is provided for a wireless communication system by operationally adapting the physical layer format to the quality of service requirements of transmitted data. The physical layer formats for the data packets are selected based on th... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014420 | Label switching type of packet forwarding apparatus A label switching type packet forwarding apparatus having a routing information table in which a forwarding type of a reception packet, output port identification information, and output routing information of a specific layer in the OSI reference model determined b... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009695 | System and method for dynamically swapping master and slave PHYs to allow asymmetry in energy efficient ethernet A system and method for dynamically swapping master and slave physical layer devices (PHYs) in energy efficient Ethernet (EEE). A physical layer communication mechanism can be used to dynamically reassign the master/slave assignments to facilitate the asymmetric app... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005112 | Service connection method and architecture A point-to-point protocol (PPP) proxy module enables subscribers to seamlessly establish multiple, simultaneous PPP connections with one or more telecommunications networks through different service providers offering various services. The PPP connections are establ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995613 | Communication system with improved medium access control sub-layer A communication system which has a plurality of mobile terminals and a base station, each of the mobile terminals and/or base station comprising a medium access control sub-layer, upper layers of the medium access control sub-layer, and a lower layer of the medium a... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986714 | Apparatus and method for transmitting packets in wireless network Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting packets in a wireless network. The apparatus includes a motion calculation unit, a transmission repetition adjustment unit, and a packet transmission repetition unit. The motion calculation unit calculates the mot... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978731 | Method and system for consolidating TCP ports A system for consolidating TCP ports. In response to initiating a connection to a hidden port via a network, a TCP in TCP packet is created. Then, the TCP in TCP packet is sent to the hidden port via the network via a network visible port. ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970012 | Packet processing using a multi-port memory A packet processing method for exchanging packet data through a plurality of layers is disclosed, that comprises the steps of storing the entire packet to a packet memory; and storing part of each packet of the packet data used in processes of a layer 2 processing p... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961756 | Integrated multimedia system A communications processor includes a first upper layer module to execute one or more upper layer protocols and a data link layer module to execute a data link layer protocol. A host processor includes a second upper layer module to execute the one or more upper lay... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957421 | Method and system for managing data service network of metropolitan area network The present invention discloses a method and system for managing data service network of Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), as well as a method for searching data service paths based on the MAN system. The solution of the present invention includes binding Virtual Cha... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957420 | Packet transfer method and packet transfer node The present invention provides a method of performing packet transfer among nodes on a network by a packet transfer node. When the network is divided into a plurality of network areas and routing within an individual network area and between network areas is perform... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7944943 | Method and apparatus for MAC layer inverse multiplexing in a third generation radio access network A channel inverse multiplexer/multiplexer (IMUX/MUX) (14a) of a MAC sublayer (14) of a UTRAN RNC (11) for providing to a UE (18) traffic (communication signals including in general both control and user data) at a higher rate than ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940796 | System and method for delivery of packets A system and method for delivery of packets is provided. In an embodiment, a client is operable to query a first layer of the protocol stack used to provide a link that carries packets for said client. Based on the query, the client is operable to adjust how those p... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940797 | Apparatus and method for transmitting control information in mobile communication system An apparatus and method for transmitting control information in a mobile communication system transmits uplink or downlink control information required for an E-DCH transmission between MAC layers of a transmitting side and a receiving side. The MAC layer of the tra... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936784 | Method and system for offloaded transport layer protocol switching A method for using offloaded transport layer protocols involves signaling a network interface controller (NIC) with a signal to use one of multiple transport layer protocols embedded in the NIC, and transmitting a data packet via the NIC using the transport layer pr... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933292 | Apparatus and method for transmitting control information in mobile communication system An apparatus and method for transmitting control information in a mobile communication system transmits uplink or downlink control information required for an E-DCH transmission between MAC layers of a transmitting side and a receiving side. The MAC layer of the tra... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924878 | Flexible processing system A multi-mode wireless device on a single substrate includes an analog portion and a digital portion integrated on the single substrate. The analog portion includes a cellular radio core; and a short-range wireless transceiver core. The digital portion includes a mul... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924879 | Data transmission method for HSDPA In the data transmission method of an HSDPA system according to the present invention, a transmitter transmits Data Blocks each composed of one or more data units originated from a same logical channel, and a receiver receives the Data Block through a HS-DSCH and di... | 04/12/2011 |
