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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7515568 | Neighborhood wireless protocol with switchable ad hoc and wide area network coverage A method of communicating in and around a localized wireless coverage area according to the present invention provides cellular coverage to a neighborhood cell (18) in which service might otherwise not be possible or in which a high percentage of calls would ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512136 | Apparatus and method for preserving routable IP addresses using ARP proxy An Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request is received at a gateway coupled to a first local network from a first host also coupled to the first local network. The ARP request includes a destination IP address of a second host coupled to a second local network. Al... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7457233 | Method and apparatus for fast reroute in a connection-oriented network A method and an apparatus for rapidly resuming, at times of failures, network traffic in a connection-oriented network by using an alternative route pre-computed and stored locally in nodes along an initial route without requiring signaling of upstream nodes or a ma... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7447146 | Method and apparatus for supporting multiple independent failure domains A method of error protection. In one embodiment, the method of error protection consists of detecting an error during communication between nodes in a network. The nodes are separated by a link in the network. Further communication between the nodes is blocked in re... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7436838 | Automatic prioritization of BGP next-hop in IGP A technique configures an intermediate network node to automatically determine whether a route advertised by a routing protocol is important for fast convergence in a computer network. As used herein, an important route needed for fast convergence is a route adverti... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426218 | Communication systems and QSIG communications methods This invention relates to communication systems and QSIG communication methods. According to a first aspect, a communication system includes a control component; and a data network configured to communicate packets of information intermediate an originating location... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423958 | Transmitter for transmitting signals over radio channels and method for transmitting signals over radio channels A transmitter for sending signals over wireless channels and a method of sending signals over wireless channels are described. The transmitter and the method are used to determine a transfer characteristic of an amplifier (8) in the transmitter. Symbols in th... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418002 | Method and apparatus for monitoring buffer contents in a data communication system A method and apparatus for buffering data units in a communication switch that allows for configurable monitoring of the buffer contents is presented. Such an apparatus includes a context table that stores a plurality of independent group identifiers for each connec... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417978 | Port reduction for voice over internet protocol router An apparatus and method for increasing available ports on a voice router is provided. A first gateway and a second gateway are assigned a single port number for a data stream, the direction of packet flow is identified to determine a destination gateway. The destina... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412538 | Request event manager and event lists for home and office systems and networks A request event manager for a network of consumer electronic devices. In one embodiment, the request event manager maintains a database of home network services, and allows the home network services to be scheduled for execution over time. Home network services here... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408946 | Systems and methods for smooth and efficient round-robin scheduling The present invention provides improved work schedulers for computer systems and communication processors. A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes systems with buffer memory for storing one or more communication packets or work requests arranged on ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408931 | Methods for delivery in a wireless communications network Methods for delivery of multicast packets in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The methods comprise transmitting a contention free period initiation signal from an access point to the station, transmitting broadcast packets from the access point to the ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7385949 | System and method for de-interleaving data in a wireless receiver A system and method for de-interleaving data in a wireless receiver, wherein a single memory buffer is coupled to a read/write unit that performs both first and second de-interleaving operations. According to a first aspect of the present invention, the read/write u... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385917 | Method and system for providing a protection path for connectionless signals in a telecommunications network A method is provided for providing protection for connectionless signals in a telecommunications network comprising a plurality of nodes. A first protection path is generated from each of the nodes to a destination node. A second protection path is generated from ea... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379476 | Mobile radio communication system, communication apparatus applied in a mobile radio communication system, and mobile radio communication method In the mobile radio communication system where the UMTS and an another system coexist an idle slot for observing the frequency component of another system is inserted in one superframe of UMTS. The duration of this idle slot is at most half of the duration of one fr... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376147 | Adaptor supporting different protocols Provided are a method, adaptor, system, and program for receiving a transmission at one of multiple connections. Information is maintained on storage interconnect architectures and transmission characteristics, wherein the storage interconnect architectures have dif... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376099 | Methods and systems of dynamic channel allocation for access points in wireless networks A method for dynamic channel allocation for access points in wireless networks. Communication information of wireless devices is gathered. A network topology formed by the wireless devices is derived according to the communication information. Switch channel indexes... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369497 | Data communication speed control system, transmitter apparatus and receiver apparatus This invention aims to make it possible to realize data communication having excellent communication throughput and good quality even if the communication state fluctuates. According to the present invention, by sequentially adjusting the transmission speed of data ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366186 | Forwarding data in a routing architecture An apparatus comprises a forwarding component configured to forward data by looking up a routing table, another forwarding component configured to receive the data, and an intermediate forwarding component bridging the two components to forward the data without look... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362780 | Avoiding compression of encrypted payload The invention proposes a method for conveying data packets in a network, comprising the steps of examining (S1, S2) whether a received data packet is encrypted, compressing (S3) the data packet in case it is examined that the data packet is not ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359376 | Serial compressed bus interface having a reduced pin count There is provided a serial compressed bus interface having a reduced pin count. The interface includes a serial-to-parallel converter having a single serial data input line adapted to receive time-division multiplexed serial data from a plurality of data sources. En... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349330 | Packet receiver with the influence of jitter and packet losses reduced before a buffer becomes idle due to data delays and packet receiving method using the same A packet receiver includes a packet memory circuit for temporarily storing received packets in a FIFO (First-In First-Out) fashion in the form of a queue. A read start threshold setting circuit sets, with respect to the length of the queue, a read start threshold at... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342885 | Method and apparatus for implementing a backpressure mechanism in an asynchronous data transfer and source traffic control system Methods for implementing a backpressure mechanism in an asynchronous data transfer and source traffic control system include detecting when a bus user is experiencing congestion and preventing other bus users from sending cells over the bus. According to a first emb... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339947 | Network channel access protocol—frame execution Network channel access protocol is disclosed. More particularly, a distributed, locally determined, channel access protocol that adapts to load, avoids interference and controls access by a group of nodes to a set of shared channels is disclosed. Shared channel spac... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336613 | Method and apparatus for the assessment and optimization of network traffic A system for the assessment of network performance criteria, and applying this criteria to the classification of network addresses into appropriate ranges, using these ranges to consolidate performance measurements for the associated addresses, and applying these me... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327720 | Integrated telephone central office systems for integrating the internet with the public switched telephone network Telephone central office-switching system integrated interface devices such as those for DSL, Voice over IP, cable-TV, fixed wireless, and Internet capable wireless cellular are further integrated into integrated interface device systems. Such systems share common f... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324502 | System and method for mapping a PSTN trunk to a packet network endpoint A system for mapping dissimilar communication protocols is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises user communication information that spans at least two dissimilar communication networks, a first communication protocol associated with a first communicati... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319663 | Method for controlling switching in bidirectional line-switched ring A method for controlling switching in a bidirectional line-switched ring network configured by a plurality of optical fibers and a plurality of nodes, (i) having a first node receive as input an LP-S (or having the first node detect an SF-P) and having a second node... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313153 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication control apparatus, wireless communication control method, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and storage medium A wireless communication system allocates a channel in each frame period in which the amount of channel space allocated to each guaranteed time slot remains unchanged when transmission using an allocated channel is performed in a personal area network. For transmiss... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307954 | Differentiated service network and method of operating a differentiated service network A differentiated service network having a plurality of routers. An operating condition such as stability may be determined at a first router. An indication of the operating condition may be propagated from a first router to a second router such as an edge router. Ba... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304952 | Protocol-mapping network access device with user-provisionable wide area network flow control In a technique for performing flow control in a wide-area network, a user-specified flow control message such as a Pause message is provisioned at a first node, and a user-specified flow control message filter is provisioned at a second node coupled to the first nod... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304956 | Extended wrap mode with source/destination wrap Apparatus and method for automatically testing hardware and software components of a system. A request type message is generated in the software component of the system. A request-type message, including a destination address and a source address, is made to travers... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301936 | Ring overlay network dedicated to carry broadcast traffic to DSLAMs A broadcast overlay network has a ring topology to carry broadcast traffic from a head-end network. A digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) has a network interface in communication with the broadcast overlay network. The DSLAM is to receive a request fo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301922 | Real time handoff in a wireless packet data network A system, a method, and software for communicating packet data are disclosed. A call is communicated from a mobile device through a first base station controller and a first packet data serving node. The call is transferred from the first base station controller to ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301940 | Dual-use packet/analog phone or phone-adapter in a packet telephony distribution system A system and method for communicating via a packet telephony distribution system is defined that includes a dual-use/analog phone or phone adapter. Any communication device incorporating the adapter can dynamically receive incoming calls and transmit outgoing calls ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301951 | Resource reservation protocol based guaranteed quality of service internet protocol connections over a switched network A method and system for establishing a guaranteed quality of service (QoS) Internet protocol (IP) connection between an first bridging device and a second bridging device through a switched transport network. The second bridging device receives a first signaling mes... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298745 | Method and apparatus to manage packet fragmentation with address translation Embodiments of a method and apparatus to improve network performance by managing packet fragmentation with address translation are described. ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7277446 | Communication of digital data over a wireless transmission medium Data packets are received at a communications node. Each of the received data packets is associated with one of a set of different service classes. Packets corresponding to the received data packets are transmitted to recipients. The order in which the data packets ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277457 | Sync bursts for frequency offset compensation A method (500) and system for compensation of frequency offset between a first transceiver (102) and a second transceiver (104) in wireless communication are disclosed. The compensation of the frequency offset between two or more transceivers ( | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269131 | Method and apparatus for managing a loop network A method and apparatus for managing a loop network, the loop network (200) including at least one loop (206, 208), a plurality of devices (210) connected to the at least one loop (206, 208) via ports (211, 212), wherein at least tw... | 09/11/2007 |
