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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189624 | Communication system, management apparatus, communication apparatus and computer program In a ring type network, a master node sends a measurement packet to a slave node; receives the measurement packet which has been circulated among a plurality of slave nodes; according to time-keeping of an internal clock; stores a sending time and a received time of... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184693 | Adaptive filtering for bit-depth scalable video codec Adaptive filtering may be used to increase the quality of tone mapped, baseline layer encoded information. As a result, scalable video codecs may be implemented with improved picture quality in some embodiments. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184714 | Digital video codec using small-sized buffer memory Techniques, systems and apparatus for digital information processing are described. In particular, techniques, systems and apparatus are described for reducing the size of buffer memory used. In one aspect, a digital video codec includes a buffer memory including an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184599 | Management of UE operation in a multi-carrier communication system Techniques for managing operation of a user equipment (UE) in a multi-carrier system are described. The system may support two or more carriers on the downlink and one or more carriers on the uplink. One carrier on each link may be designated as an anchor carrier. I... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179824 | Method of performing channel sounding in frequency duplex system A method of performing channel sounding in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system in which an uplink frame and a downlink frame use different frequency bands includes dividing a transmission bandwidth with respect to the uplink frame into a plurality of sounding z... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175006 | Multi-path load balancing using route controller Systems and methods are described that employ multi-path BGP to realize dynamic multi-path load balancing based on an Intelligent Route Service Control Point (IRSCP) router control architecture that uses dynamic traffic flow information to perform dynamic load balan... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175158 | Methods and systems for inter-layer image prediction parameter determination Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for predicting a prediction parameter which may be used in the prediction of high dynamic range image elements from low dynamic range image data. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169917 | Tandem connection monitoring method in MPLS network Disclosed herein are a Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM) method in an MPLS network and a data structure of a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) OAM packet for TCM. When data are provided to users through an LSP path comprising multiple network provider in an MPL... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170095 | Faster image processing Methods, medium, and machines associated with image processing performance are disclosed. Image data may be copied from input memory to main memory before performing CPU intensive operations, and efficiently copied from memory thereafter. CPU intensive operations ma... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165134 | Monitoring control system, monitoring device, monitoring control method, and monitoring control program A monitoring control system including a monitoring device to monitor communication data communicated between communication terminals via a communication infrastructure. The monitoring device includes an address conversion table for storing a transmission source addr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160149 | Flowfield motion compensation for video compression Motion compensation for video compression using a “flowfield” comprising a per-pixel field of motion vectors and confidence values. Flowfields can be quantized transform coded for compression motion compensation. Encoding-only flowfields match with one or more p... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160006 | Apparatus and method for providing relay service in multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for providing a synchronous relay service in a multi-hop relay BWA communication system. In the method, a BS-MS link subframe and an RS-MS link subframe are configured for a first section of a subframe in an ith frame. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159933 | Method and system for providing broadband access to a data network via gas pipes A method and system for providing broadband access to a data network via gas pipes is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention utilize Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) or Frequency-Division Multiplexing (FDM) as a modulation technique in orde... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160158 | Scalable video coding method and apparatus and scalable video decoding method and apparatus Provided are a scalable video coding method and apparatus, and a scalable video decoding method and apparatus. The coding method generates a base layer bitstream of video by using one of a plurality of codecs, determines whether the used codec supports enhancement l... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155010 | Regional quality correlation for wireless communications A quality processing system comprises an interface and a processing system. The interface is configured to receive a first quality message from a wireless end device in the first region wherein the first quality message indicates a first quality metric of the first ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149730 | Methods and apparatus related to packet generation and analysis In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a packet generation module that has a set of general purpose processing modules and is configured to define a test packet configured to emulate at least a portion of network traffic. The apparatus also includes a switch devic... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149920 | Device and method for merging codecs A unified codec device and a method thereof are disclosed. The unified codec device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises a decoding control unit, which sets a connection relation of functional units by interpreting connection informati... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144781 | Video processing system for scrambling layered video streams and methods for use therewith A video processing system includes a video encoder that encodes a video stream into an independent video layer stream and a first dependent video layer stream that requires the independent video layer for decoding. A scrambling module scrambles the independent video... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135022 | Detection of SPIT on VoIP calls A method for packet telephony includes receiving over a packet communication network (22) a first message originating from a first end-user (32A) in a first aggregating organization (28) to place a call to a second end-user (32D) in a sec... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126059 | Motion vector detection device and motion vector detection method A motion vector detection device includes: a separation section that separates a video signal into a brightness component and a color-difference component; a selection section that selects either the brightness component or the color-difference component, or both; a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125901 | Video streaming The bitrate for any practical video streaming system will vary considerably as a function of the difficulty of encoding the sequence in question. This variation is even more apparent when comparing different video clips of different genres for example where sports c... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125970 | Ranging method for measuring distance between a central node and an equipment node in a beacon wireless personal area network A ranging method is described for measuring distance between a central node and an equipment node in a beacon wireless personal area network. At the beginning stage, the central node calculates the parameters needed in the ranging operation and sends these parameter... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126014 | Methods and apparatus for improved decoding of hybrid automatic repeat request transmissions A method for improved decoding of hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) transmissions may include attempting to verify a physical layer (PHY) cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for a candidate H-ARQ encoder packet. If the PHY CRC is not verified, medium access control ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121101 | Multichannel MAC in wireless networks A method of transmitting data over a plurality of channels, said channels forming a bonded channel comprising a bonded channel superframe, the bonded channel superframe comprising a bonded channel beacon period and a bonded channel data period; | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116222 | Methods and systems for embedding traffic state information within ethernet trailers Methods and systems for creating a back channel between two network nodes using a packet trailer. The sending node establishes a communication channel between itself and the destination node. A packet is prepared having a header and a payload. Data associated with t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116285 | Intelligent wireless access point selection A method or system of enabling a wireless client device to select an access point based on at least two performance related parameters. A performance related parameter is a measurement of how efficiently a particular access point transfers data. By selecting an acce... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111650 | Method of controlling and apparatus of receiving mobile service data A data transmission system for minimizing the number of errors during Tx/Rx times of mobile service data under mobile environments, and a data processing method for the same are disclosed. The system additionally codes the mobile service data, and transmits the resu... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107502 | Method and apparatus for monitoring packet networks A packet probe for a packet network accurately generates and monitors packets within the network. The packet probe supports packet generation and packet transmission. When a packet is ready for transmission, a hardware-based time stamp unit affixes a time stamp to t... | 01/31/2012 |
| RE43127 | Event-based multichannel direct link Disclosed herein are exemplary techniques for the communication of information in a wireless system by using multiple wireless channels. A direct link between two or more wireless devices may be established by performing a direct link setup between two or more wirel... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102881 | Streamlined guest networking in a virtualized environment Networking speed in a virtualized environment can be improved by utilizing an enhanced protocol and parallel stack to bypass restrictions of a conventional network stack that complies with standard networking protocols. In one embodiment, an enhanced TCP protocol en... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094616 | OFDMA contention-based random access channel design for mobile wireless systems Short spreading is used within a random access channel in an OFDM based network to spread data for transmission through the channel. The resource allocation of the random access channel is divided into a number of resource blocks in frequency, time, or both frequenc... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094676 | Flexible upstream PHY burst profile parameters to improve performance of short bursts in impulse noise A single carrier cable modem can be initialized on multiple channels. By initializing a cable modem on more than one channel, the error rate performance of short data packets in cable modems in an impulsive noise environment is improved. The advantage of low symbol ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094578 | Method of predicting the transmission error rate in a communication network and server implementing such a method To predict the transmission error rate in a stream of data packets transmitted between a server and at least one client in a communication network: the server sends at least one group of packets to the client; the client calculates a plurality of items of statistica... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094579 | Performance measurement A controlling node for a cell in a cellular system, arranged to measure a performance indicator of the communication between the node and at least one user and to aggregate the measured performance indicator for at least one user over an amount of time. The performa... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090030 | Method, apparatus and system for generating and facilitating mobile high-definition multimedia interface A method, apparatus and system are provided for generating and facilitating Mobile High-Definition Multimedia Interface. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a transmitter configured to merge multiple channels of a high-definition interface into a single channel... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085698 | Piggyback acknowledgement Included are embodiments for facilitating communication. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving first communication data from a communications device and creating an acknowledgment indicating receipt of the first communication data. Some embodiments ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085715 | Controlling the use of access points in a telecommunications networks A mobile telecommunications network includes a radio access network comprising base stations and one or more additional access points. An access point is connected to a network core by an IP transport broadband connection. The access point is configured to appear to... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081591 | Access terminal paging improvements A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed providing improved paging procedures in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, a Power-down Registration signal is transmitted via a 1×RTT modem from an Access Terminal (AT) to an Access Network (AN) in a w... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077739 | Methods, communication networks, and computer program products for communicating time division multiplexing traffic using a traffic encapsulation standard configured to support statistical multiplexing (STATMUX) traffic A communication network is operated by communicating Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) traffic and data (STATMUX) traffic over a single connection, where the single connection may include multiple aggregated lines using a traffic encapsulation standard configured to ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077662 | Methods and apparatus for coordinating network monitoring and/or automating device configurations based on monitoring results Methods and apparatus are described that enable a deployment of a system of wireless nodes, e.g., femtocells, which can self-configure themselves into a balanced and optimized wireless network. In various embodiments, access points switch between a network monitorin... | 12/13/2011 |
