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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111615 | Dynamic update of route table A method and apparatus for dynamically modifying routing information in an interconnect architecture without quiescence is herein described. Each agent/node holds routing information regarding target agents/nodes in an interconnect architecture, which may include ro... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8085808 | Automatic configuration of network devices for network services Systems and methods for facilitating automatic configuration of network devices for network services are disclosed. In one of many possible embodiments, a request for information for configuring a network device is received from a requesting device. The request is i... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8068426 | Feedback-based online network coding A method, apparatus and computer program product for feedback-based online network coding is presented. In one embodiment, a transmitting node determines a linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue. The transmitting node transmits the linear co... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064450 | System and method for registering IP address of wireless communication device A system and method for enabling a wireless communication device to register a temporary public IP address assigned to the device by a network access translation module, when the device is initially informed only of a private, non-routable IP address that has been a... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050234 | Walsh code management in a code division multiple access cellular wireless communication system A cellular wireless communication system and method of operation manages Walsh codes in order to ensure that sufficient Walsh codes are available to prevent call blocking and to support additional hand-off operations. In an initial operating condition, the cellular ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045524 | Efficient resource utilization with interlace and/or interlace offset switching A method for switching group assignment of an access terminal (AT) includes receiving a control message indicating a current group to which the AT is assigned and an assigned group to which the AT is to be switched, and decoding data in a next-received group interla... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045463 | Path estimation in a wireless mesh network In example methods and algorithms, a node in a wireless mesh network calculates an estimated cost for a packet flow through the node. The estimation may be based on the back-log at the node and the cost of downstream neighbor nodes for the flow. Further, selection o... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040800 | Method for address translation device traversal for SIP signaling messages through temporary use of the TCP transport protocol A method for establishing a communication session between a first communication client located within a first communication network, and a second communication client, via a signaling server located within a second communication network distinct from the first commu... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040868 | Communication system, communication method, mobile station and base station used for the same A communication system and method for measuring communication channel qualities of one or more partial bands of a communication band is provided. A mobile station represents measured communication channel qualities of the partial bands by relative value information ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040880 | Signed message based application generation and delivery A mailbox system that has a distributed architecture is disclosed. The system includes an application server, a media server, and message storage system having subscriber mailboxes. Application messages may be stored in a subscriber's mailbox. When the subscriber ac... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036198 | Method and system for managing communication in an OFDMA system Managing communication in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system using segments in an OFDMA frame is accomplished by setting at least a first segment in the OFDMA frame as a high power segment for a plurality of base station in the OFDMA sys... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036137 | Methods and apparatus for supporting a half-duplex mode of operation for user equipment communications in a radio communication system Embodiments include methods performed in time division duplex (TDD) radio communication systems in which information is communicated between a first node (e.g., a base) and a second node (e.g., user equipment) in a context of a data frame that includes a plurality o... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031588 | Methods and systems for automatically renaming logical Circuit identifiers for rerouted logical circuits in a data network A disclosed example method involves identifying a first logical circuit identifier for a first logical circuit in a first network. When a failure is detected in the first logical circuit, a second logical circuit identifier for a second logical circuit in a failover... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031604 | Algorithm for grouping stations for transmission in a multi-phase frame structure to support multi-hop wireless broadband access communications A station grouping mechanism has been presented for a wireless device that collects Multi-hop Relay Base Station (MR-BS) and Relay Stations (RSs) into groups according to their locations in a tree topology and assigns them with a phase. Grouping or partitioning MR-B... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031673 | Cell change in cellular networks A handover or cell change procedure in a cellular radio communications system starts with mobile user terminal present in a serving cell and having multiple radio resources simultaneously allocated for communication with a base station of the cell. When there is a n... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014283 | System and method for topology constrained QoS provisioning A system and method for topology constrained Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning between a plurality of sites in a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is disclosed. The method comprises enabling graphical definition of relationships between the plurality of sites of the... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005020 | Wireless mesh network with multisized timeslots for TDMA communication A wireless mesh network uses communication frames that can include timeslots of different sizes depending on communication speed capabilities of the devices assigned to the timeslots. The communication frame is divided into timeslot increments of equal length. The t... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004999 | Method and apparatus for depicting throughput on TCP and RLC layer of UMTS system A method of creating a graphical display illustrating throughput of data across a protocol layer. A first graphical indication is displayed which illustrates of the number of data units received, by a protocol layer, for each of a plurality of transmission intervals... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995600 | Monitoring receiver having virtual receiver and line numbers A virtual receiver having multiple communication ports for connecting a link to a plurality of local security systems. The virtual receiver is programmed with a virtual receiver number and a virtual line number for each physical communication port on the receiver. T... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986645 | Apparatus and method for frame generation for a full duplex relay An apparatus and method for generating a frame in a communicating system supporting a full duplex relay. A controller configures a legacy zone and a new zone in a downlink section of the frame according to a TDM scheme, configures the new zone of the downlink sectio... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983289 | Communication apparatus and recording medium A packet is transmitted such that jitter of a packet transmission time period is suppressed. A transmission apparatus includes a stream data obtaining unit obtaining stream data from a source outside of the transmission apparatus, a coding unit compressing and codin... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978610 | Method for asynchronous transmission of communication data between periodically blanked terminals A method for asynchronous transmission of communication data between periodically blanked terminals separated by an unknown distance is disclosed. A bursted signal is transmitted from a first terminal with a burst time tB and a burst cycle period T. The b... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969934 | System and method for transferring wireless network access passwords The present disclosure provides an access node for transferring and/or assigning network passwords. The access node includes a first interface for sending and receiving communication of a first type to and from a first node operating in a wireless local area network... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7912093 | Method and apparatus for providing piggybacked positive acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement field indicator and a polling indicator A method and apparatus of providing a piggybacked positive acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) (PAN) field indicator (PANI) and a polling indicator are disclosed. A combined field of a PANI bit, a relative reserved block period (RRBP) bit and an EGPR... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7796637 | Radio communication method and radio communication device A radio communication device includes a beacon reception unit extracting a frame from a received beacon and a frame judgment unit judging whether the extracted frame is one requiring data transmission/reception or one giving notice of a collision with a beacon of an... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7787381 | Methods and apparatus to manage network transport paths in accordance with network policies Methods and apparatus to manage network transport paths in accordance with network policies are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a policy manager to manage a first policy for a first endpoint and a second policy for a second endpoint, and a path manager to ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7729373 | Modified range requests enabling bandwidth requests and state of health reporting A modified ranging request in a broadband communications system. The modified ranging request includes a header, a management message header attached to the header, a management message payload attached to the management message header, and a CRC attached to the man... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7646707 | Method and system for automatically renaming logical circuit identifiers for rerouted logical circuits in a data network Logical circuit identifiers for rerouted logical circuits in a data network are automatically renamed. A failure is determined in a first logical circuit and a second logical failover circuit is utilized to reroute data from the failed logical circuit. A logical cir... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7646705 | Minimizing data loss chances during controller switching A method, system, and computer program for managing network connectivity between a plurality of nodes and a network resource. The network resource includes a primary path to the nodes and at least one redundant path. A detecting module is configured to determine if ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643455 | Method and system for mobile IP nodes in heterogeneous networks A method for assigning IP addresses to mobile IP nodes in heterogeneous networks including checking, using an interface administration module of the mobile node, the mobile node for available physical network interfaces, generating a lookup table with the available ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643442 | Dynamic QoS configuration based on transparent processing of session initiation messages Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to the dynamic configuration of QoS policy for sessions in wireless network environments. Certain embodiments of the present invention feature the transparent processing of session initiation messages associated with wireles... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643430 | Methods and apparatus for determining reverse path delay According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided for determining components of a round trip time (RTT). A source node sends data to a destination node. The destination node inserts a timestamp into an acknowledgment and sends the acknowledgment... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639616 | Adaptive cut-through algorithm An Infiniband switch can have an input port and a plurality of output ports. The switch can be configured to interrogate at least a header portion of a received packet to determine an output port for the packet and to forward the packet to an output buffer associate... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636354 | Deriving passive optical network port identifiers A method in accordance with the present invention comprises identifying a M-bit multicast address and deriving a N-bit PON port identifier from the M-bit multicast address. Identifying the M-bit multicast address and deriving the N-bit PON port identifier are perfor... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7633935 | Dynamic port updating An apparatus and method for dynamic port updating that shares a resource which includes a configurable number of groups where each group has a configurable resource share size and a controller which chooses which group are active and the share size of the resource e... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630383 | Synchronization of time stamps of peer devices in a communication node Networks and methods are disclosed for synchronizing time stamps of peer devices. In one embodiment, a first communication node comprised of peer devices is connected to a second communication node. The first and second communication nodes communicate according to a... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7630316 | Method and apparatus for selecting a transport format combination A method for selecting a transport format combination used in a wireless communication network for multiplexing data between logical channels and transport channels. After receiving a configuration table with logical and transport channel information, a transport fo... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7630382 | Method and system for providing transport of channelized circuits of arbitrary bit rate through asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) circuit emulation services (CES) A system for managing circuit emulation service over an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network is provided. The system includes control logic configured to receive channelized circuit data from a client, the channelized circuit data being transmitted at an arbitra... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7630347 | Hybrid UMTS/WLAN telecommunication system The present invention relates to an interface unit comprising a first component for establishing a connection to a radio network controller of a radio network sub-system by means of a first communication protocol, a second component for establishing a connection to ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7626978 | Method for diverting an ISUP talkpath to an IP talkpath A method for improving the sound quality of voice signals transmitted during a call between two digital wireless telephones by diverting the call from a circuit switched network to a data network is disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, a call setup p... | 12/01/2009 |
