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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116260 | Simulcasting MIMO communication system A wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system includes signal simulcasting. Base stations include a plurality of transmit antennas and terminals include a plurality of receive antennas to form MIMO channels. In one embodiment, a simulcasting ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116255 | Device for semi-transparent multiplexing of data stream for a communication satellite A device (D) is dedicated to data stream processing within a communication satellite of a communication network. This device (D) comprises processing means (MT) whose job is, in the event of receipt of a first incoming data stream whose carrier exhibits a first modu... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117658 | Access point, mobile station, and method for detecting attacks thereon A mobile station (STA) communicates with a WLAN device over a communication system includes a storage system, at least one processor, a detection module, an address determination module, a transmission module, and a response module. The STA detects a MAC management ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116320 | Mapping external port using virtual local area network A program product comprising program instructions, embodied on a storage medium that are operable to cause a processor to switch input data packets for ingress to at least one internal-device port of an internal device from all external ports using virtual local are... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116265 | Channel estimation To allocate a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) to a modulation and coding pair (MODCOD) in a second generation digital video broadcasting satellite (DVB-S2) adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) system, a hub periodically transmits pilot frames of alternating MODC... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116237 | Clearing house for publish/subscribe of status data from distributed telecommunications systems A distributed contact center and method of managing data transfers between the distributed parts of the contact center is provided. Distributed parts of the contact center are joined together through a known communications initiation protocol, then one or both of st... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116256 | Wireless data frame structure among nodes The embodiments provide transmitting at same time first and relay second node preambles aligning data frames among the first node and the relay second node wirelessly communicating in a channel and transmitting by the first node one or more radio resource control pa... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116205 | Vehicle active network A vehicle active network (12) communicatively couples devices (14-20) within a vehicle (10). Device operation is independent of the interface (22-28) of the device (14-20) with the active network (12). A... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117511 | Communication device and method of correcting the same A communication device includes a reference clock generator that generates a first reference clock signal, and a super frame timer that clocks a period of super frame based on the first reference clock signal generated by the reference clock generator. The communica... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111621 | Method for configuring a telecommunication system The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matc... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111718 | Communication system and method that reduces interference A method of operating a communication system is disclosed. The method comprises acquiring a first frequency band for a first device to wireles sly communicate a first data stream. The center frequency of the first frequency band is f1. A second frequency ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111612 | Link-based recovery with demand granularity in mesh networks A protected communication network utilizes a link-based recovery strategy that supports independent recovery paths for individual demands, where each link includes one or more lines and each line can support one or more demands. Failure of one or more—or even allâ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111670 | System and method for processing wireless high definition video data using remainder bytes A method and system for processing high definition video data using remainder bytes is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an information packet having the length of L bytes, wherein L=(M×n×K)+A, and where: M is the depth of an interleaver,... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111619 | Apparatus and method for routing data in wireless networks A method includes identifying, at a first wireless node, routing costs associated with routing data to a destination through multiple paths in a wireless network. The method also includes identifying, at the first wireless node, information propagation values associ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111671 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method and computer program The present invention eliminates a transmission-waiting operation which is unnecessary while accommodating a prioritized traffic. Although a communication station enters a transmission-disallowed state in response to detection of a signal addressed to another statio... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107408 | Route maintenance and update based on connection identifier in multi-hop relay systems Connection ID (CID) assignment in multi-hop relay system can be used to perform routing. Using CID assignment as routing information in a multi-hop wireless relay system to maintain the routing structure is disclosed. In a CID cache scheme, a base station builds a C... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107491 | System and method for providing communication between intelligent electronic devices via an open channel An intelligent electronic device is configured to receive and generate data formatted in accordance with Distributed Network Protocol 3.0 (DNP 3.0) through an Ethernet TCP/IP medium. The intelligent electronic metering device for communicating over a network via an ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107418 | Mobile communication system, mobile station apparatus, base station apparatus, mobile communication method, program and recording medium A mobile communication system that is a wireless communication system using the AMC scheme and does not require any transmission/reception of control signals between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus during controlling of the transmission/recep... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107386 | VPLS N-PE redundancy using pseudo wire fast failover In one example embodiment, a system and method is provided that includes establishing a plurality of Pseudo Wire (PW) connections between a first network appliance region and a second network appliance region to transmit data from the first network appliance region ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107361 | Simultaneous active registration in a SIP survivable network configuration Provided are methods, devices, and systems for maintaining a SIP survivable network. The present invention is adapted to allow SIP endpoints or User Agents to discover and select the controller or controllers that the SIP endpoint will register with. Selection of th... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107415 | Method and system for transferring time division multiplexing service data The present invention discloses a method and system for transferring TDM services in GPON, the method includes the steps of: in the case of performing the GPON ranging process, buffering the uplink TDM service data received by an optical signal transceiver in an Inp... | 01/31/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8107359 | Performing a changeover from a first virtual node to a second virtual node Apparatus for non-disruptive error recovery in a clustered system, comprises a node instance configuration activity quiescing component for quiescing configuration activity at a first virtual node instance; a node instance creation component for creating a second vi... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107412 | Gatelink startup controlled by ACARS CMU Methods and apparatus' for operating a communication system between an aircraft and a communication center are provided. One method includes using an aircraft communication addressing and reporting system (ACARS) of an aircraft to control a gatelink communication sy... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102757 | Wireless communication apparatus A wireless transmission apparatus is a wireless communication apparatus constituting a base station capable of communicating with one or more terminals, via a wireless LAN, the wireless communication apparatus including: an inverse fast Fourier transform processing ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102792 | Enabling foreign network multicasting for a roaming mobile node, in a foreign network, using a persistent address Permitting a mobile host to roam in a foreign network, with multiple access node handoffs, while permitting foreign network multicasting by (i) having the mobile node (MN) use a persistent address, for purposes of multicasting, and (ii) relaxing or modifying reverse... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102827 | Peer mobile router authentication method, and multiple peer care-of addresses registration method, and mobile router failover method for multi-homed mobile networks Provided are a peer MR authentication method, a multiple peer CoAs registration method, a failover method for multi-homed mobile networks, and a computer readable recording medium thereof. The registering method includes the steps of: a) determining whether a second... | 01/24/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 8098630 | Scanning methods and apparatus for system acquisition In one illustrative example, a system acquisition method suitable for use in W-CDMA utilizes a receiver having an automatic frequency control (AFC) circuit. A system acquisition scan is performed over a plurality of candidate frequencies in an RF band. During the sy... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098675 | Service interface for QoS-driven HPNA networks An in-band signaling model media control (MC) terminal for an HPNA network includes a frame classification entity (FCE) and a frame scheduling entity (FSE) and provides end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) by passing the QoS requirements from higher layers to the low... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098607 | Efficient multi-cast broadcasting for packet data systems Methods and apparatus are presented for efficient broadcasting in wireless packet data systems. A single MAC_ID is used for broadcasting to a group of subscribers. By using the channel quality information of the group of subscribers, a base station determines the id... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098571 | Stack manager protocol with automatic set up mechanism A stack switch for performing pass-through forwarding operations, assigning stack switch identifiers to a plurality of stack switches, temporarily disabling supervision messages exchanged by stack switches, and electing a primary master stack switch is disclosed. In... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098610 | Multiplexing and demultiplexing radio channels In one embodiment, a method and apparatus of multiplexing and demultiplexing radio channels includes receiving data through at least one multicast media channel available for use in an Internet Protocol Interoperability and Communications System (IPICS) comprising m... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098601 | Slow adaptation of modulation and coding for packet transmission Systems and methods for performing MCS adaptation are provided. In some cases, the network performs MCS adaptation based on received NACKs. In other cases, the mobile station determines an MCS based on channel quality measurements, and feeds back the MCS adaptation ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094668 | Physical layer device including a serial media independent interface (SMII) A physical layer device includes a serial media independent interface (SMII). The SMII includes a first terminal configured to receive a first data stream. The first data stream is received at the first terminal in accordance with a first frequency. The SMII further... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094684 | Link training scheme for displayport source repeaters A system and a method for configuring communication between a source device and a sink device using captured configuration data are described. The source device communicates with a repeater, which modifies received data to facilitate transmission to the sink device,... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094551 | Exchange of access control lists to manage femto cell coverage System(s) and method(s) provide access management to femto cell service through access control list(s) (e.g., white list(s), or black list(s)). White list(s) includes a set of subscriber station(s) identifier numbers, codes, or tokens, and also can include additiona... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094593 | Communication apparatus, communication program, and communication method A communication apparatus of the present invention used for communicating with an external communication device is provided with a memory section to store a correspondence table associating users of external communication devices with contact addresses for contactin... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095710 | System and method of providing electrical isolation In a particular embodiment, a power sourcing equipment (PSE) device is disclosed that includes a plurality of network input/output (I/O) interfaces adapted to physically and electrically connect to a respective plurality of cables. The PSE device further includes a ... | 01/10/2012 |
