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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7433394 | Transmitting/receiving arrangement, and a method for bidirectional transmission of data via a digital interface in a radio A transmitting/receiving arrangement comprises a baseband module (1) and a radio-frequency module (3), which are connected to one another via a bidirectional data line (21) and a bit clock line (22) of a digital interface (2). In o... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7136624 | Radio resources allocating method, radio resources allocating apparatus, and mobile communication system An object is to select destination mobile stations so as to prevent directional beams directed to the respective mobile stations from interfering with each other in application of a directional antenna, and to allocate the radio resources to the mobile stations thus... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7068657 | Facilitating inverse multiplexing over asynchronous transfer mode via communication links having disparate data transmission rates A method for facilitating inverse multiplexing over asynchronous transfer mode is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a stream of sequentially aligned ATM cells via an originating end point logical communication link. A sequence identifier is associated ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068665 | System and method for switching cells in a communications network Disclosed is an asynchronous transfer mode relating to a cell switching method, a cell format converter thereof, and a switching system thereof which are proper for switching an AAL2 ATM cell and an AAL5 ATM cell using an AAL2/AAL5 converter and an AAL5/AAL2 convert... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7012509 | Device for detecting a running surface for vehicle and vehicle using same The invention concerns a device for detecting a running surface for vehicle, comprising a plurality of sensors designed to be oriented towards the running surface to determine modifications thereof, means for processing the data concerning information picked up by t... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6895248 | Dynamic resource allocation and media access control for a wireless ATM network A resource allocation method for use in a wireless ATM network comprises receiving on a wireless signaling channel a request for access to a shared frequency-time sliced wireless medium. A channel matrix is then searched for a set of available frequency-time slots. ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6738360 | System and method for reliable video transmission in wireless Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks with fading The present invention relates to a system and method for reliably transmitting data over wireless communication channels. The invented system 10 comprises a transmitting device 12 having an error control coding circuit 20 and an interleaver circ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6690649 | QoS management apparatus A QoS management apparatus in which the quality of the requested QoS for each path and different values of the state are managed. A QoS monitor, a registered QoS, and an operation determining function are provided for each path, and the QoS is precisely m... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6625156 | Method of implementing quality-of-service data communications over a short-cut path through a routed network A method of establishing Quality-of-Service (QoS) communications within a network proposes the encapsulation of a control message that facilitates QoS for an associated data flow, according to a protocol not implementing resource reservation, such as the ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6611231 | Wireless packet switched communication systems and networks using adaptively steered antenna arrays Methods, apparatuses and systems are provided for use in a wireless routing network. One apparatus, for example, includes an adaptive antenna that is configurable to receive a transmission signal from a transmitter and in response transmit corresponding o... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6556568 | Cell fluctuation absorption receiving system A receiving method for absorbing cell-fluctuation with a minimum data delay in low-speed transmission in an ATM switching network. In a cell fluctuation absorption receiving method of a CLAD device equipped in an ATM switching network, the CLAD device for... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6545979 | Round trip delay measurement A system and method for calculating round trip delay (RTD) values in a switched digital network such as an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. A loopback cell such as an ATM operation and maintenance (OAM) cell is used to carry a delta value through... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6532237 | Apparatus for and method of testing a hierarchical PNNI based ATM network An apparatus for and method of enabling the debugging and testing of complex multilevel PNNI based ATM networks. The invention has applications in networks wherein one or more nodes implement only the Minimum Function PNNI implementation and wherein these... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6483834 | System for creating switched virtual circuits to transport information over an ATM network A system for creating a switched virtual circuit that includes a switch that receives initial information and a connection management system that is electrically connected to the switch, wherein the switch sends a signal to the connection management syste... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6459699 | ATM switching module which allows system growth with different type of module without cell-loss during cutover In an ATM switching module, expansion interfaces are connected in pair to an ATM switch to respectively operate in active and standby states. When another ATM switching module is installed and a connection is established between an expansion interface of ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6456860 | Base station equipment and base station control equipment A wireless communication system having base station equipment which forms a wireless zone and base station control equipment which performs channel control of calls occurred in the radio stations located in the wireless zone, in cooperation with a switchi... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6411624 | Telecommunications system The invention comprises a telecommunications signaling processor that processes Signaling System #7 (SS7) telecommunications signaling messages to select Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) virtual connections and provide control messages indicating the sele... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6314174 | Apparatus for and method of controlling calls, and storage medium storing call control program A call control apparatus shortens a call releasing process to effect the releasing process efficiently. The call control apparatus has a delay time determining factor managing function to manage a delay time determining factor which determines a delay tim... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6243395 | Method and apparatus for transferring ATM cells via 1394-serial data bus ATM data can be transferred via a highspeed serial data bus standardized by the IEEE 1394 format. In a data transferring apparatus for transferring data by employing a serial bus standardized by the IEEE 1394 format, an ATM cell transferring apparatus is ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6189034 | Method and apparatus for dynamic launching of a teleconferencing application upon receipt of a call In a computer system having a memory, a processor, and a network interface, a method for dynamically launching a conferencing application upon the receipt of an incoming call having the steps of: receiving an incoming call signal on the network interface;... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6128295 | Buffering of point-to-point and/or point-to-multipoint ATM cells An Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching device (20) has ATM cells (both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint) routed therethrough to one or more physical output links (31-38). The switching device (20) includes a cell buffer memory (92) which is t... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6122337 | Modular circuitry architecture for residual time stamp service clock regenerator phase locked loop A service clock regenerator regenerates a local clock from time stamps of a remote clock transmitted over a network by determining the slope of (or difference between current and previous) time stamps of the remote clock and the slope of time stamps of th... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6031840 | Telecommunications system The invention comprises a telecommunications signaling processor that processes Signaling System #7 (SS7) telecommunications signaling messages to select Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) virtual connections and provide control messages indicating the sele... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5991265 | Asynchronous transfer mode system and method An ATM system transmits different types of cells (data, forward resource management (RM) and backward RM) from station A through switch(es) to station B. Different fields in an Available Bit Rate (ABR) table provide controls over the rate of such cell tra... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5970107 | Synchronous residual time stamp service clock regenerator phase locked loop phase comparator and loop filter A service clock regenerator regenerates a local clock from time stamps of a remote clock transmitted over a network by determining the slope of (or difference between current and previous) time stamps of the remote clock and the slope of time stamps of th... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5959994 | ATM/SONET network enhanced as a universal computer system interconnect An enhanced ATM switch with CPU node interconnect functionality and peripheral interconnect functionality and network functionality. The ATM switch provides low latency transfer between computer nodes and performs input/output operations with peripherals ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5956342 | Priority arbitration for point-to-point and multipoint transmission An Asynchronous Transfer Mode switch and method which facilitate priority arbitration of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint transmission are disclosed. To execute point-to-multipoint operation a bandwidth arbiter maintains a first list of connections ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5923681 | Parallel synchronous header correction machine for ATM An error correction circuit for an ATM header of an ATM cell uses a sequence of synchronous comparator circuits to generate a correction mask. The sequence of comparators, when used in a processor having a 32-bit bus, provide for near minimum processing d... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5912892 | Method of providing fractional path service on an ATM network A method of routing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) connections in a network. A Virtual Path Index (VPI) and a Virtual Channel Index (VCI) identify connections in the network. The bits of the VPI and VCI are selectively allocated, allowing for an increas... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5892770 | Process for converting digital data streams having an ATM cell structure A first data stream for a first data transmission system having a first data rate contains ATM data cells and structural data, which are distributed as spaced apart data in accordance with a specified instruction and are assigned to a section including in... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5852602 | Credit control method and system for ATM communication apparatus In a credit control method and system, an initial credit value is sent from a receiving-side to a sending-side prior to transferring a packet. Transfer of a packet is started on the sending-side when this credit value is received. On the receiving-side, a... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5815498 | Transmission system for ATM cells through a passive local network A transmission method for ATM cells presented by local stations to a central station, and for ATM cells presented by the central station to the local stations, wherein a cell destined for the central station is stored in a cell buffer of one of the local ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5809012 | Connectionless communication system A communication system for use with a network for transmitting fixed-length cells from a transmitting terminal via a virtual connection in the network to a receiving terminal. The communication system includes a converting device, connected to the transmi... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5781320 | Fiber access architecture for use in telecommunications networks A fiber optic access architecture consisting of a remote terminal for receiving broadband asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic from a broadband switching system is disclosed. The broadband traffic is delivered over a pair of OC-12 links to common elem... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5777995 | Translator chip for a wideband network A translator in an element of a wideband network transforms a format restored by a CCITT information cell into other predetermined formats. It performs this function by inserting cells from a microprocessor into network data flow in asynchronous transfer ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5771350 | Asynchronous transfer mode(ATM) network adaptor for the simultaneous processing of the multi-channel traffic The present invention relates to an Asynchronous Transfer Mode(ATM) network adaptor for the simultaneous processing of the multi-channel traffic, and includes an R-interface(RIF) means composed of a plurality of first interface means, which output the CBR... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5751697 | Allowed cell rate reciprocal approximation in rate-based available bit rate schedulers A method of scheduling cell transmission over an asynchronous transfer mode communication channel. The channel has a characteristic transmission rate that is related to the system clock frequency .function. and an allowed cell rate ACR expressed as a floa... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5737312 | Cell assembly and disassembly apparatus in an ATM network A call processor performs call set-up/release processing based upon absence/presence of valid data from an SVC service terminal and either decreases or increases an idle band of the network by an amount equivalent to the assigned band of the SVC service t... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5724351 | Scaleable multicast ATM switch A multicast switch for routing incoming cells having a multicast bit pattern and a priority value, arriving at a plurality of input ports, to one of a plurality of output ports, which includes input port controllers and routing modules. Each of the routin... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5724358 | High speed packet-switched digital switch and method A system and method for communicating multiple priority level data packets between input ports and output ports of a switch is disclosed where the data packet has a header portion identifying at least one output port destination and a level of priority, s... | 03/03/1998 |
