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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7167466 | Method and apparatus for dynamically assigning a home agent A method and apparatus for dynamically assigning a home agent to a mobile station for a mobile IP session. The method and apparatus allow the telecommunications network to assign the home agent that is best able to serve the mobile station. This is achieved by utili... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7079499 | Internet protocol mobility architecture framework A communications architecture for enabling IP-based mobile communications includes a Local Service Function (LSF) component configured to serve as an IP-based serving area network for a set of x-Access Networks, and a Network Service Function (NSF) component configu... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7050412 | System and method for determining measurement value for radio resource management in wireless communications A radio resource control unit which monitors air interface resources, includes an air interface measurement unit for obtaining air interface measurements; a storage unit which stores air interface measurements and a corresponding timestamp; and a processing unit, fo... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046651 | System topologies for optimum capacity transmission over wireless local area networks An inventive method provides optimum topology for a multi-antenna system dedicated to higher throughput/capacity by bundling the Point Coordination Function (PCF) operation in infrastructure mode of the current and/or enhanced IEEE MAC with PHY specifications that e... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042898 | Reducing delays associated with inserting a checksum into a network message A first partial checksum for the header portion of a TCP header is generated on an intelligent network interface card (INIC) before all the data of the data payload of the TCP message has been transferred to the INIC. A pseudopacket with the first partial checksum a... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042869 | Method and apparatus for gated ACK/NAK channel in a communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting ACK/NAK information in a communication system including a transmitter (74) for transmitting ACK/NAK information on an ACK/NAK channel, and a channel gate (699) for gating the ACK/NAK channel based o... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042904 | Method and apparatus for transmitting multiple signal, method and apparatus for receiving multiple signal, multiple signal transmission method and multiplexer/demultiplexer A client channel receiving processor unit converts each reception client signal of a 10B-character form into a GFP frame form. A mapping unit maps the client signal of the GFP frame form on a channel of virtual concatenation. A SONET/SDH processor unit transmits or ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042872 | Method and apparatus for managing remote IP network elements through SONET network elements A method and apparatus for transmitting an IP packet between first and second remotely located IP end devices via a network operating under OSI. An IP interface is overlaid over OSI in the routers that are directly connected to the IP devices. These routers act as g... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039009 | Control of optical connections in an optical network A method for lightpath restoration in a reconfigurable optical network comprises the steps of naming each network addressable element in said reconfigurable optical network, determining current topology in said reconfigurable optical network, determining current res... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039060 | System and method for extracting fields from packets having fields spread over more than one register Systems and methods that allow for extracting a field from data stored in a pair of registers using two instructions. A first instruction extracts any part of the field from a first register designated as a first source register, and executes a second instruction ex... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039067 | Methods and systems for hybrid interfaces and architectures for optical communications A hybrid interface for handling different types of data streams is disclosed. Both OC192 and OC768 data streams can be transported between terrestrial and submarine systems using hybrid interfaces. Examples include processing branches that use common FEC units, mult... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035223 | Method and apparatus for detecting unreliable or compromised router/switches in link state routing Method and apparatus for detecting whether router status information sent from a first router is unreliable, includes structure and/or steps for storing a router status database. Structure and/or steps are provided for receiving a first signal corresponding to a fir... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031266 | Method and system for configuring wireless routers and networks A method and system for configuring a wireless router and a wireless communications network includes establishing connectivity between a wireless router and at least one wireline router. Connectivity between the wireless router and a plurality of neighboring wireles... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031299 | Control of optical connections in an optical network A method for lightpath provisioning in a reconfigurable optical network that comprises the steps of naming each network addressable element in the reconfigurable optical network, determining current resources therein, determining current topology therein, requesting... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031286 | Method and an arrangement in a mobile radio system The invention relates to a mobile LAN including a number of hosts interconnected by a communication media. Routing means and a mobile station is connected to the LAN. A host on the LAN may perform a packet data communication with an external host via the routing mea... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027419 | Transmitting and receiving circuit, mobile communication terminal device employing the same and control method therefor A transmitting and receiving circuit, a mobile communication terminal device using the same, a control method and a storage medium storing a control program permit interruption of operation of associated functions including a code generator in a time zone where tran... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023837 | Intelligent call routing system An automated call routing system accesses and employs information stored in a database located on a data network. Switching points within a Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN) identify the telephone numbers, i.e. destination addresses received. The destination ad... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020122 | CDMA system mobile radio terminal equipment According to the present invention, one antenna (10b) receives a signal, and a handoff determination means (100a) monitors Ec/Io obtained by a searcher (16a) and determines whether a handoff condition is met or not. When the... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016312 | Feature based configuration profiles and alarm provisioning for SONET networks A system for defining configuration profiles for logical entities representing features of elements in a communications network is described. Network elements or features of network elements in a communications system are represented as logical entities. Characteris... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016356 | Method and system to assign transmission bandwidth in both radio and PON ATM P-MP systems A method and a system are described to assign bandwidth in a point-to-multipoint ATM transmission system, comprising a centralized unit or Master Station (MS) and a plurality peripheral stations (PSs), in particular to assign transmission bandwidth on the channel fr... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012910 | Wireless packet communication system and base station A wireless packet communication system and a base station using an algorithm modified from an existing Proportional Fairness algorithm enables a control according to flexible adjustment of a throughput difference between mobile units and a priority between mobile un... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012918 | Direct data placement A system comprising a host and a network interface card or host bus adapter. The host is configured to perform transport protocol processing. The network interface card is configured to directly place data from a network into a buffer memory in the host. ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009992 | Methods of allocating access across a shared communications medium A method of providing network access across a shared communications medium between competing users includes the steps of monitoring network access usage by each user for a past time interval and, based on the monitored network access usage, allocating network access... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006483 | Qualifying available reverse link coding rates from access channel power setting Data rate allocation decisions are made for a communications channel, such as a wireless reverse link connection. A first parameter used in this determination is a path loss, which is determined by the following process. First, a message is sent from a first station... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002958 | Method for load-balancing with FIFO guarantees in multipath networks A method for routing packets in a multipath network of nodes balances the loading of system resources while guaranteeing a FIFO network (i.e., First In First Out). Acyclic directed graphs based on local network information are used at each node with routing bias tab... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002979 | Voice data packet processing system A system (100) for processing simplex and multiplexed voice packets transmitted over a network is disclosed. The system (100) may include a processor (102) and a compare section (104). A compare section (104) may include simplex id... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002955 | Selective address table aging in a network switch based on application state determined from a received data packet A network switch, configured for performing layer 2 and layer 3 switching in an Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) network without blocking of incoming data packets, includes a network switch port having a packet classifier module configured for evaluating an incom... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002997 | Interpolation filter structure An interpolation filter having a first gain multiplexer, a second gain multiplexer, an adder and a multiplexer. The interpolation filter uses neighboring input discrete-time signals to generate interpolation signals having the desired sampling rate. ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999435 | Method, system and node for providing enhanced mobility in simple IP telecommunication networks when performing L2TP tunneling The present invention relates to a method, system and node for providing enhanced mobility in Simple IP telecommunication networks when performing L2TP tunneling. A mobile station establishes a connection with a first service node in the telecommunication network. T... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999449 | System and method of monitoring and reporting accounting data based on volume A system and method for monitoring and reporting a volume of data transferred between a Mobile Station (MS) and a data network during a data session. A Prepaid Server (PPS) maintains an MS account and informs a AAA Server of a predetermined volume of data that may b... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996111 | ATM node having local error correcting procedures A node for a telecommunications network has a segmentation and reassembly module (SAR module) to perform segmentation and reassembly (SAR) on cells received by the node, the SAR module particularly providing Virtual Channel Identifier (VCI) and Virtual Path Identifi... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6990110 | Automatic permanent virtual circuit connection activation for connection oriented networks A method of automatic permanent virtual circuit connection activation is provided. The method includes detects initiation of communication between a first and a second network element at a first reference point. The method further receives at least one virtual circu... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6987745 | Control of multidirectional antenna structure in a primary station for use in a radio communication network A method for controlling a multidirectional antenna structure in a primary station for use in a radio communication networks comprising a plurality of secondary stations. This method involves an acquisition step of acquiring data relating to secondary stations, a se... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6985448 | Data transfer system capable of avoiding double reception of same data A data transfer method between a plurality of data transfer apparatuses, is attained by establishing peers between the plurality of data transfer apparatuses to store the established peers in a transfer route configuration data table as transfer route configuration ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6980540 | Apparatus and method for acquiring an uplink traffic channel, in wireless communications systems Uplink traffic channel allocation is realized by utilizing a dedicated control channel in which a prescribed portion of the control channel resource, for example, frequency, time slot or the like, is reserved for transporting the uplink traffic channel requests. Bot... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977896 | IP communications network system and QoS guaranteeing apparatus An IP communications network system comprises a first QoS guaranteeing apparatus including a distinguishing unit for classifying target traffics in order to guarantee, based on a QoS guarantee protocol, a quality of a set of specified data packets accordant with a s... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977931 | Routing data A method is provided that comprises storing a first data structure containing costs associated with transmitting data between routers in a network. The method includes combining the first data structure with itself to determine a cost of transmitting the data. The m... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975603 | System and method for minimizing the loss of information in cordless communications The present invention comprises a system and method for minimizing the loss of information in cordless communications. The system comprises a first data station (12) having control logic (11) operable to establish a plurality of individual communicatio... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975627 | Modification of tag fields in Ethernet data packets An Ethernet data packet including a VLAN tag header and a VLAN identification field is modified. The modification is accomplished by inserting in place of the VLAN tag header a field of the same size including selected information. The VLAN identification may be ret... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975645 | Layer-coded data transmitting apparatus When one-video program data (layer-coded data) of a plurality of layers is transmitted in a single channel, a video signal is layer-coded in an MPEG system, the layer-coded ES (Elementary Stream) data is converted to a PES (Packetized Elementary Stream) for each lay... | 12/13/2005 |
