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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7505467 | Method and apparatus for dynamic bandwidth management for voice traffic in a digital communications network A method and apparatus for dynamic bandwidth management for voice traffic in a digital communications network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for use in a digital communications network comprises checking a multiplexed connection's bandwidth capacity to ca... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7460560 | Method for operating an end-user of an isochronous cyclical communication system A method for operating an end-user of an isochronous cyclical communication system, including the following steps: receipt of a synchronisation data telegramme from a connecting user in the communication system by the end-user, whereby the synchronisation data teleg... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7424019 | Packet header altering device A packet processor for a switch/router alters headers of packets and includes a plurality of ports Memory buffers a first portion of a first packet that is received by an incoming port. A control data processor receives a first control portion of the first packet fr... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420968 | High-speed switch architecture A system of switch modules contains input demultiplexers connected to ports on each of the modules and output multiplexers connected to each of the modules. Each module has output and input interfaces for mesh links and at least one output interface is looped back t... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403474 | Redundant router set up Methods, systems, and devices are provided for redundant router set up. One embodiment of a network device having router functionality includes a processor, memory in communication with the processor, and program instructions. The program instructions can be stored ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403481 | Methodology and apparatus for solving lockup conditions while trunking in fibre channel switched arbitrated loop systems Lockup conditions are solved while trunking in Fibre Channel switched arbitrated loop systems. Within a particular switch, a particular combination of pending OPN conditions is detected, indicating a lockup condition. At least one of the detected pending OPN conditi... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400653 | Maintaining synchronization of streaming audio and video using internet protocol A playback system in a digital cinema network synchronizes the presentation of visual and aural content by deriving timing information for packets of information that are conveyed in video and audio data streams, examining the timing information to determine if any ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400649 | Method of generating protocol data units in split mode A method of generating protocol data units in a radio link control layer, which is set to an unacknowledged mode or an acknowledged mode, is disclosed. After producing a payload unit by segmenting and/or concatenating one or more service data units received from a h... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397760 | Transmission apparatus A transmission apparatus including: a plurality of asynchronous network interface units each having an asynchronous network termination unit for inputting/outputting a packet from/to an asynchronous networks and a mapping unit for converting the packet into a first ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391716 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and data transmission system A semiconductor integrated circuit which transmits voice data as ancillary data while maintaining transmission quality without increasing the number of transmission cables in a system for carrying out serial transmission of image data as main data. The semiconductor... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391761 | System and method for voice over internet protocol using a standard telephone system A system and method is provided for routing telephone calls on a standard telephone network to one of a PSTN network and a VoIP network. The system comprises at least one telephone capable of making local and long distance calls on the network. A Central Office is c... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391779 | Scheduling method and apparatus for combined code division multiplexing and time division multiplexing A combined CDM/TDM (code division multiplexing/time division multiplexing) transmitter and method are provided which employ fractional slot assignment by assigning fractional CDM channel gains to multiple slots for at least one packet with a goal that a sum of fract... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388845 | Multiple access wireless communications system using a multisector configuration Power control methods and apparatus for use in a sectorized cell of an OFDM communications system are described. Each sector of a cell uses the same frequencies and transmission times and is synchronized with the other sectors in the cell in terms of tone frequencie... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385943 | Method of allocating communication resources in an MF-TDMA telecommunication system A method of allocating communication resources to terminals in an MF-TDMA telecommunication system is provided, in which digital data is transmitted in selected time intervals on each of a plurality of carriers. The resources for each terminal are allocated to frame... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385924 | Enhanced flow data records including traffic type data Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to a flow-based, traffic-classification-aware data collection and reporting system that combine flow-based data collection technologies with enhanced traffic classification functionality to allow for analysis and reporting i... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385931 | Detection of network misconfigurations A system includes a communication network having any number of separately addressable elements. An analysis device can test packet data paths between these elements by eliciting particular traffic patterns. For example, the analysis device may elicit similar traffic... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385976 | Method for acknowledging data packets in a network A method selectively acknowledges data packets in a network including a multiple stations connected by a common wireless channel. A transmitting station requests a block acknowledgement from a receiving station. The transmitting station transmits a block of data pac... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382786 | Integrated phone-based home gateway system with a broadband communication device A integrated phone-based home gateway system is disclosed. The integrated phone-based home gateway system includes a broadband communication device, such as digital subscriber line (“DSL”) device, an analog modem, a wireless interface, integrated into a screen-p... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382726 | Node system, dual ring communication system using node system, and communication method thereof A dual ring communication method using a node system includes: with congestion occurring in a first node system, the first node system generating a congestion information packet and forwarding it to an upper node system positioned in a direction opposed to a directi... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382746 | Transport channel selecting apparatus and the selecting method A transport channel selecting apparatus is provided, in which the transport channel selecting apparatus includes: a storage for storing information on combinations of transport blocks of transport channels to be transmitted to a radio base station; a transmission bu... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379441 | Framing for an adaptive modulation communication system A system and method for mapping a combined frequency division duplexing (FDD) Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)/Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) downlink subframe for use with half-duplex and full-duplex terminals in a communication system. Embodiments of the dow... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376148 | Method and apparatus for improving voice quality in a packet based network Some embodiments adaptively adjust to the current call load in a packet based virtual circuit to minimize the delay experienced by the first packets of any talk spurt for a particular active call. Some embodiments minimize the jitter introduced by multiplexing voice... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376151 | Recording and producing an MPEG information signal on/from a record carrier A method of transmitting timing critical data via an asynchronous channel without changing any datum to be transmitted. The timing critical data can be an MPEG transport stream. The asynchronous channel can be a computer or telephone network, a digital storage media... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372863 | Systems for monitoring and controlling operating modes in an ethernet transceiver and methods of operating the same Disclosed are systems and methods for monitoring and controlling operating modes in a network transceiver. In one embodiment, a computer system is associable with an Ethernet network, and comprises a processing unit, a memory and a transceiver. The transceiver compr... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366151 | Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mob... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366191 | Mesh network bridges making operable spanning tree protocol and line fault backup protocol in optimized forwarding environment A plurality of mesh-connecting ports interconnect a plurality of bridges including an own bridge and other bridges as a mesh network. A packet transmitter/receiver reciprocally transmits and receives packets between the plurality of bridges through the mesh-connecti... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362773 | DOCSIS 2.0 SCDMA capable sniffers which can capture legacy DOCSIS bursts as well A DOCSIS 2.0 compatible sniffer which can receive legacy DOCSIS 1.x TDMA bursts as well as DOCSIS 2.0 SCDMA bursts. One embodiment uses two cable modems in the sniffer, one to capture downstream data bursts and the other to capture downstream messages and to recover... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362772 | Network processing pipeline chipset for routing and host packet processing A novel network architecture that integrates the functions of an internet protocol (IP) router into a network processing unit (NPU) that resides in a host computer's chipset such that the host computer's resources are perceived as separate network appliances. The NP... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362777 | Concatenated transmission of synchronous data A multiplexed frame based client signal comprising a payload and a client overhead is transported between first and second client networks over a plurality of signal paths by inverse multiplexing the client signal into a plurality of lower rate signals each containi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359320 | Method for supporting quality of service features in heterogeneous communications networks The method is essentially carried out by a gateway device, which is logically divided up into a gateway controller and one or, if required, more user data gateways. Quality of service signaling is evaluated by the gateway controller and, depending thereon, quality o... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359346 | Apparatus for controlling data transmission/reception between main system and remote system of BTS in mobile communication system An apparatus for controlling data transmission/reception between a main system and a remote system of a base transceiver station (BTS) in a mobile communication system to improve reliability of data without the limitation of signal transmission distance between a ma... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359398 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication device and method, and computer program A system for wireless communication having a region for asynchronous information transmission and a region for information transmission. The system uses channel time allocation for storing data in a data transmission buffer and initially transmitting information via... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359343 | System and method for redundant data transmission in a time division duplex data frame A time division duplex digital radio frame structure with time and frequency diversity and method for use thereof is presented. Each packet of data is transmitted twice in successive frequency hops, such that the redundant transmission differs in both time and frequ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355981 | Signature matching methods and apparatus for performing network diagnostics A system for identifying problems in networks receives test data which may include statistical information regarding packet loss on a path. The system creates a signature from the test data and compares the signature to example signatures corresponding to various ne... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355977 | Method and system for a weighted allocation table A method and system for creating and maintaining an allocation table that associates allocation buckets with corresponding target identifiers. Each target identifier has a corresponding weighting value. The allocation table has a number of allocation buckets, each a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352778 | Synchronizing method and apparatus A method and apparatus is disclosed for performing a synchronization of an incoming series of complex samples of an incoming signal with a known sequence of a plurality of coefficients which represents a pattern within the incoming signal, known to the synchronizer,... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352717 | Performing network control at active base transceiver stations and a base station controller A method for performing network control in wireless communication systems and a network entity for performing the same. The method and network entity pool at least one network parameter at the network entity, from at least two active set base transceiver stations an... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352698 | Communications system, communications apparatus, communications terminal and communications method According to a communications method according to the present invention, data is transmitted from a base station to two or more terminals via a common channel, and transmission power, with which the data is transmitted from the base station to the two or more termin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352720 | System and method to determine a bit error probability of received communications within a cellular wireless network RF communications received by a wireless terminal from a servicing base station are used to determine the BEP. These RF communications may be in the form of RF bursts that are part of a data frame. The signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the RF burst is determined and a ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349438 | Formatter, method of formatting encoded symbols and wireless communication system employing the same The present invention is directed to a formatter, a method of formatting encoded symbols and a wireless communication system employing the same. In one embodiment, the formatter includes a symbol generator that provides a plurality of encoded symbols from a bit stre... | 03/25/2008 |
