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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150040 | Key providing system, terminal device, and information processing method A terminal device improved with a digraph generation method in a key distribution method of various types of broadcast encryption systems is provided. The terminal device includes an acquiring unit for acquiring information related to a set, which is selected from a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7460479 | Late frame recovery method Method of processing a transmitted encoded media data stream is received. If a data element arrives prior to, or at, a predetermined playout deadline, the data element is decoded, the media represented by the decoded data element is played, and the data element is p... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460531 | Method, system, and program for constructing a packet Provided are a method, system, and program for constructing a packet. A request to construct one packet is received, including information on at least one header and a payload to include in the packet. The at least one header for the received request is generated an... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457270 | Re-allocation method for a distributed GGSN system A re-allocation method for a distributed GGSN system. The re-allocation method includes a GGSN controller to determine a GGSN re-allocation for at least one mobile station. The GGSN re-allocation for the mobile station is performed by a GGSN or a SGSN originally con... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7443834 | Combining multimedia services with traditional telephony The present invention provides a combined user agent (CUA) to represent a telephone supported by a circuit-switched telephony switch and a packet-based media device as an integrated group to other network entities. The CUA is configured to facilitate the necessary c... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443822 | Method for multihop routing for distributed WLAN networks A method for multihop packet trasmissions in a wireless network involves establishing a multihop route through the wireless network. After establishment of the multihop route, transmission protocol parameter are altered to minimize delays for transmissions over the ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436852 | Resource allocation method for providing load balancing and fairness for dual ring Disclosed herein is a resource allocation method for providing load balancing and fairness for a dual ring. The resource allocation method includes the step of determining whether a bandwidth allocation request message is received from one of other nodes. If the ban... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430173 | Data traffic policer A data traffic policer includes a classifier for separating a packet stream in accordance with class, a first bucket for a first traffic class representing a first transmission rate and a first burst capacity and a plurality of second buckets for a plurality of seco... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428238 | Broadband network bridging various wiring channels A network utilizing two or more wiring systems with a bridging function to provide a signal interconnect for communication within and between wiring systems. The bridging function can translate the network signals to a different frequency. ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424033 | Network address translation router for voice internet protocol system A network address translation (NAT) router for connecting an inside network to an outside network. The inside network uses local addresses and has a plurality of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) systems and a plurality of hosts, and the outside network uses globa... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417956 | Wireless communication system which improves reliability and throughput of communication and retransmission timeout determining method used for the same A wireless communication system includes a mobile terminal, a base station apparatus, a data relay apparatus and a server apparatus. One of the mobile terminal, the base station apparatus, the data relay apparatus and the server apparatus includes a transmitting uni... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417954 | Method and apparatus for using histograms to product data summaries A system and method are provided for summarizing dynamic data from distributed sources through the use of histograms. In particular, the method comprises receiving a first data signal at a first location, determining a first array sketch of the first data signal, an... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408900 | Method and system for automated determination of inter-system border thresholds A method and system for determining thresholds for evaluating inter-system handovers in a wireless communication system includes determining a quality level of a first digital duplexing type, determining a quality level of a second digital duplexing type, and compar... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408940 | Use of precedence bits for quality of service Certain bits of a packet, such as bits in the IP header of an IP packet, are used to designate the type of service or Quality of Service (QoS) level to be afforded to the packet as it passes through a data communications network. A user entitled to a certain QoS lev... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406031 | Multihop nested tunnel restoration A network communications tunnel is established by assigning a unique label to each communications link between adjacent nodes in a pre-defined network path. A node's unique label is used to forward a data packet to the adjacent node in the pre-defined path. The uniq... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7394821 | System and method for maintaining network system information A system for maintaining network information. The system resides in a network comprising a plurality of sub-networks in communication with one another over a communications backbone. Each sub-network has a router for use in performing communications with other sub-n... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7388860 | Network communication apparatus, communication system and communication method A network terminal apparatus in a type of directly connecting to a packet communication network, with an interface for connecting to a circuit under an environment of an SIP terminal network, and a capability of carrying out facsimile transmission/reception, carries... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385996 | Data distribution apparatus and method A decoding system (1) is provided in which a memory transfer block (14) stores an input transport stream into a memory (16) and the top address of each TS packet into an address memory (15), a CPU (21) refers to information stored ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385994 | Packet data queuing and processing A method of processing queued data packets in a packet data communication system is provided. The method includes allocating a tier of service for substantially each of a plurality of individual packet data queues and determining a total number of data packets that ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385977 | Multicast system for forwarding desired multicast packets in a computer network A method and apparatus for a downstream router to inform an upstream router by use of packets of a new router command protocol that the upstream router is to forward multicast packets of a specified group to the downstream router. First the downstream router transmi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386003 | Systems and methods for communicating in a personal area network A network (100) connects a hub device (110) to several peripheral devices (120). The hub device (110) generates a token and broadcasts the token on the network (100). Each of the peripheral devices (120) receives the token b... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385969 | Cross-point switch fabric and switch fabric slice A cross-point switch fabric slice (100) includes multistage gated buffer tree (135) incorporating at least first and second serially connected gated buffer stages (136, 138). N inputs (102-116) connect to preselected gated buffers ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379432 | Hybrid coordination function (HCF) access through tiered contention and overlapped wireless cell mitigation A method and system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells in a medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations and there is at least one overlapped station occupying both cells. An inter-cell contention-free... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369532 | Apparatus and method for an audio channel switching wireless device An apparatus and method for an audio channel switching headset are described. The method includes detection of a plurality of audio sources within communication range of a wireless headset device. Once the plurality of audio sources are detected, an audio link may b... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369576 | Managing scanning and traffic in a network The present invention provides a network communication device and method for simultaneous connection establishment and traffic delivery in a network. The network communication device comprises a first interface for exchanging information with a network device, a sec... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369577 | Code group acquisition procedure for a UMTS-FDD receiver Step 2 demodulation is conventionally performed using a secondary synchronization channel that correlates a received signal at a known time slot location against each of a plurality of sequences associated with the secondary synchronization code. The disclosed imple... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366086 | Crosstalk reduction in a backplane employing low-skew clock distribution A system for a backplane that employs i) an adjustment of positive-to-negative (P-N) driver skew of a transmit signal of a relatively high-speed differential driver to reduce far-end crosstalk, ii) a high-speed differential subtraction circuit combining a gain-adjus... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366196 | Ranging arrangement and method for TDMA communications An out-of-band ranging technique is automatically initiated at a customer premises equipment unit when the equipment is installed, when power is restored after a power failure or interruption, upon verification of the equipment, upon reconnection after a disconnecti... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366194 | Fibre channel zoning by logical unit number in hardware The present invention provides a system and a method for filtering a plurality of frames sent between devices coupled to a fabric by Fiber Channel connections. Frames are reviewed against a set of individual frame filters. Each frame filter is associated with an act... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366195 | Apparatus and method for efficiently transmitting and receiving multicast data Apparatuses and methods for efficiently transmitting and receiving multicast data having a scalable data structure preferably provide for the transmission of a first data stream at a basic data rate using a first modulation scheme that can be received by all receive... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359402 | System and method for configuring bandwidth transmission rates for call connections A communication system comprises a signaling processor and an interworking unit. The signaling processor receives and processes signaling for a call to select a connection and a first bandwidth rate. The signaling processor transfers a first message indicating the c... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356047 | 10/100/1000/2500 Mbps serial media independent interface (SGMII) A SGMII that operates to transfer data between MAC and PHY chips at 2500/1000/100/10 Mbps utilizes a unique frame extending technique in one embodiment where frames having multiples of 2 and 3 data bytes are utilized to change the data transfer rate by multiples of ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356045 | Shared port address translation on a router behaving as NAT & NAT-PT gateway A method for transparently sharing at least one IPv4 address among a plurality of hosts wherein at least a first host of the plurality of hosts uses the IPv4 protocol and wherein at least a second host of the plurality of hosts uses an IPv6 protocol is provided. A f... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356017 | Data loading method, transmitter, and base station The invention is related to a data loading method in a communication system where sub-carriers include eigenmodes, comprising, for instance: arranging eigenmodes into a predetermined number of clusters, each cluster comprising eigenmodes of different quality levels;... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352777 | Data framer Frames of data comprised of frameword bytes and a payload are processed by identifying a start of a first frame and a phase of the first frame concurrently based on the frameword bytes, and aligning data in a second frame, based on the phase of the first frame, to m... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342876 | Interference mitigation and adaptive routing in wireless ad-hoc packet-switched networks Described are an apparatus and method for routing packets through a multiple-hop wireless communications network. Interference with packet switched communications carried by radio frequency (RF) over the multiple-hop wireless communications network is detected. In r... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339937 | Wide-area content-based routing architecture Content networking provides a content-based routing architecture, in which a virtual overlay network called the “virtual content network” is superimposed over the physical network. The content network contains content routers as the nodes and “pathways” as l... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336649 | Hybrid packet-switched and circuit-switched telephony system A hybrid telephony system with packet switching as well as circuit switching optimizes utilization of transport networks, and is accessible from any conventional telephone set. A call originating from a circuit-switched network is passed through a gateway computer t... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333503 | Sending permission assignment in telecommunications system A method for assigning sending permissions in a telecommunications system and a telecommunications system comprising a unit (20) providing access to said system for at least one telecommunication terminal (40) and a control unit (11) for schedul... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333502 | Services processor having a queue operations unit and an output scheduler In a services processor, a queue operations unit controls the output of processed data packets from the services processor. In accordance with a hybrid list/calendar queue priority scheme, the queue operations unit uses a unique data structure comprising a tree of c... | 02/19/2008 |
