http://www.freshpatents.com/Multiplex-communications-dtnewntc370.php USPTO Class 370 - Multiplex communications en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/Multidiversity-handoff-in-a-wireless-broadcast-system-dt20080717ptan20080170490.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A wireless broadcast system that collects content for distribution over a wireless communication network. The content stream is encapsulated into a stream of transport packets for broadcast over the wireless communication link. The stream of transport packets are simultaneously broadcast as part of an identical signal from a plurality of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Apparatus-and-method-for-providing-energy---bandwidth-tradeoff-and-waveform-design-in-interference-and-noise-dt20080717ptan20080170491.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A new method for transmitter-receiver design that enhances the desired signal output from the receiver while minimizing the total interference and noise output from the receiver at the desired decision making instant is presented. Further the new design scheme proposed here can be used for transmit signal energy and bandwidth... http://www.freshpatents.com/Energy---bandwidth-tradeoff-and-transmit-waveform-design-using-interference-and-noise-whitening-method-dt20080717ptan20080170492.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A new method for transmitter-receiver design that enhances the desired signal output from the receiver by whitening the total interference and noise input to the receiver and maximizing the output Signal to Interference plus Noise power Ratio (SINR) is presented. As a result of the whitening process, the receiver “sees”... http://www.freshpatents.com/Protection-of-hierarchical-tunnel-head-end-nodes-dt20080717ptan20080170493.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 In one embodiment, a point of local repair (PLR) for a child tunnel establishes a backup tunnel to a hierarchical tunnel head-end node's (grooming node's) downstream hierarchical tunnel neighbor (merge point) and learns a corresponding backup tunnel label. The PLR then stores a label stack having at least i) the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Communication-control-apparatus-method-and-program-thereof-dt20080717ptan20080170494.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A communication apparatus communicably connects a network of a plurality of apparatuses and a data relay apparatus to another network of the same manner as that of the network by detecting a failure occurring in the network, and determining a detour to assure communication between an apparatus connected to a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Breakdown-and-decoupling-tolerant-communications-network-a-data-path-switching-device-and-a-corresponding-method-dt20080717ptan20080170495.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 The invention relates to a method for tolerating the breakdown and/or decoupling of at least one network node in a communication network used for controlling and/or adjusting the movement of a plurality of machine parts, for example the rotation bodies in a printing machines, machine tools and other production machines,... http://www.freshpatents.com/Management-of-protection-path-bandwidth-and-changing-of-path-bandwidth-dt20080717ptan20080170496.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A highly efficient protection path bandwidth management method is provided. When a protection path is set up in a loop with a node A as the starting point and endpoint in order to protect a working path, the bandwidth of the protection path is changed by transferring a bandwidth change... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-a-distributed-platform-solution-for-supporting-cim-over-web-services-based-management-dt20080717ptan20080170498.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A portion of management traffic, carried via network traffic, and received and/or transmitted via a network controller, may be processed externally to the network controller. A pass-through driver may be utilized, in the network controller, to enable transparent routing of management traffic that may be processed externally. The externally processed... http://www.freshpatents.com/Proactive-per-class-load-management-dt20080717ptan20080170497.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 An apparatus and a method proactively manage the load of an 802.11 WLAN based on one or more per-class station counts, in which the stations are classified according to access categories (ACs), user priorities (UPs), or services. Alternatively, the load of an 802.11 WLAN may also be proactively managed based... http://www.freshpatents.com/Priority-service-protection-dt20080717ptan20080170499.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 There is disclosed a method and apparatus for allocating resources in a transmission medium, in which method data is associated with different classes of traffic, the different classes of traffic being associated with different priority levels, wherein resources are selectively reserved on the transmission medium for traffic classes in accordance... http://www.freshpatents.com/Data-communication-apparatus-for-performing-bit-rate-control-in-real-time-audio-video-communications-dt20080717ptan20080170500.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 When audio and video data are transmitted in real-time over a network, a transmission bit rate is controlled depending on the congestion of the network. According to a conventional bit rate control process, the present bit rate is increased or reduced based on the difference between a target value for... http://www.freshpatents.com/Enhancing-transmission-reliability-of-monitored-data-dt20080717ptan20080170501.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises logic encoded in one or more tangible media for enhancing transmission reliability of monitored data. The logic is operable to receive a plurality of segments for transmission over a TCP connection to a network node, where the TCP connection is associated with a transmit... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-monitoring-data-flow-in-an-ip-network-device-dt20080717ptan20080170502.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 User input values define an inspection window for evaluating a desired traffic element portions of a bitstream. Offset and reference values determine the start of the window with respect to the bitstream and values for a filter register and mask registers define the size of the window. As the bitstream... http://www.freshpatents.com/Packet-processing-method-packet-processing-system-and-computer-program-dt20080717ptan20080170503.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A packet processing method includes the steps of deciding whether or not a packet has the same contents as a packet that has been processed before the packet (MAC-e PDU) generated based on data received by branches from a mobile terminal (#120), dividing the packet into ES packets of a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Support-of-guaranteed-bit-rate-traffic-for-uplink-transmissions-dt20080717ptan20080170504.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 The invention relates to a method for providing measurements on a bit-rate provided to scheduled data having a guaranteed bit-rate and being transmitted on at least one dedicated uplink data channel by at least user equipment via a C-RNC. Further, the invention also relates to a method for initiating congestion... http://www.freshpatents.com/Systems-and-methods-for-data-obstruction-system-identification-and-circumvention-dt20080717ptan20080170505.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 The present invention relates to detecting, identifying, and circumventing data obstruction systems on a computer device including firewalls, filters, etc. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a video monitoring system control module method for identifying and circumventing active data obstruction systems to enable video monitoring data transmissions. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/Apparatus-and-method-for-flexible-visibility-in-integrated-circuits-with-minimal-package-impact-dt20080717ptan20080170506.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 An apparatus and method for flexible visibility in an integrated circuit are disclosed. As one example, an apparatus for flexible visibility in an integrated circuit is disclosed. The apparatus includes a switch unit disposed in the integrated circuit, the switch unit configured to receive a plurality of signals associated with... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-analyzing-time-series-data-dt20080717ptan20080170507.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Systems and methods for performing fault analysis using numerically coded time series data are disclosed. First time series data, including a plurality of first time entries and an associated first data value for each first time entry, may be received for a machine variable for a first printer. Second time... http://www.freshpatents.com/Channel-integrity-metric-calculation-dt20080717ptan20080170508.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A first device (102), associated with an electrical substation, for example, automatically transmits a plurality of echo requests to a second device (104) that is in communication therewith by way of a communications channel (106). The second device (104) responds to the echo requests, and the first device (102) determines... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-diagnosing-a-cabling-infrastructure-using-a-phy-dt20080717ptan20080170509.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A system and method for discovering a cable type using an automated, systematic process. A PHY can be designed to measure electrical characteristics (e.g., insertion loss, cross talk, length, etc.) of the cable to enable determination of the cable type. The determined cable type can be used in diagnosis of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Efficient-determination-of-fast-routes-when-voluminous-data-is-to-be-sent-from-a-single-node-to-many-destination-nodes-via-other-intermediate-nodes-dt20080717ptan20080170510.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Determination of a fast route from a source node to many destination nodes. Identities of each node, and bandwidths and latencies of paths are received. A threshold bandwidth is set, and routes containing paths among nodes which have an associated bandwidth exceeding the threshold bandwidth (or within a desired range,... http://www.freshpatents.com/Home-electrical-device-control-within-a-wireless-mesh-network-dt20080717ptan20080170511.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for associating a first node in a mesh network with an electrical device, wherein the electrical device comprises a home control device, enabling the mesh network to perform channel adjustment, transmitting data through the mesh network between the first node... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-controlling-power-in-a-decode-and-forward-relay-system-dt20080717ptan20080170512.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method and apparatus for controlling power in a decode-and-forward (DF) relay system is provided. The method of controlling power in a DF relay system includes: acquiring first channel information of a first link between a source node and a destination node, second channel information of a second link between... http://www.freshpatents.com/Group-communication-in-a-mobile-ad-hoc-network-dt20080717ptan20080170513.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A system, method, and computer readable medium for group communication protocol in mobile ad-hoc network, that comprises, collecting a route from a source node to at least one group member node, caching the collected route information, and merging an intermediate link of a host node having a single branch to... http://www.freshpatents.com/Methods-and-apparatus-for-providing-flexible-timing-driven-routing-trees-dt20080717ptan20080170514.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method of producing a flexible timing-driven routing tree is provided. Two or more target nodes are sorted in accordance with data criticality. A source-sink grid is built from one or more source nodes and the two or more target nodes. An initial routing tree is built comprising the one... http://www.freshpatents.com/Single-transducer-full-duplex-talking-circuit-dt20080717ptan20080170515.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A full duplex talking audio circuit uses a single transducer ZT which, even when various characteristics including the strength of a transmission signal change from moment to moment, enables the adequate operation of an echo canceling function and sufficiently compensates for the deterioration of the frequency characteristics of the transmission... http://www.freshpatents.com/Creation-and-transmittal-of-add-messages-dt20080717ptan20080170517.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Described herein are mechanisms and methods that facilitate enabling a first network module to “take over” for a second network module. For instance, an access router can he configured to act as a regional mobility agent with respect to a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal can then identify a different... http://www.freshpatents.com/Data-structure-caching-for-pdu-re-generation-and-transmission-in-a-3g-wireless-network-dt20080717ptan20080170516.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 In one embodiment, a transmitter (a) caches one or more MAC-d PDUs received from a network layer, (b) selects a subset of the MAC-d PDUs for combination into a MAC-e PDU, (c) generates the MAC-e PDU from the subset of selected MAC-d PDUs, (d) caches a data structure to allow... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-feedback-information-transmitting-receiving-in-mobile-telecommunication-using-multiple-input-multiple-output-dt20080717ptan20080170523.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method for transmitting feedback information in a mobile communication system using Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) is provided. The method includes, when knockdown precoding is used and Antenna Selection precoding is used, setting an index field for indicating a universal matrix of a precoding matrix of a first reverse... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-indicating-a-transmission-status-to-a-higher-layer-dt20080717ptan20080170522.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method and apparatus for indicating a transmission status to a higher layer are disclosed. In the transmitting entity, a radio link control (RLC) entity sends a packet delivery notification regarding delivery status of a higher layer message to a higher layer entity based on hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-for-implementing-the-network-service-provider-domain-name-discovery-and-the-device-thereof-dt20080717ptan20080170524.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method and a device for implementing Network Service Provider (NSP) realm discovery, which are designed to discover the NSP realm by the user equipment in wireless communication network. In the present invention, the network side notifies the user equipment of the NSP realm; the user equipment receives the realm... http://www.freshpatents.com/Mobile-ad-hoc-network-routing-based-upon-hardware-address-dt20080717ptan20080170518.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A system, method, and computer readable medium for mobile ad hoc network routing based upon a hardware address that comprises, identifying a destination node hardware address of a data packet that is outbound from a host node, searching a host node routing table for a destination node route from the... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-qos-performance-in-multihop-networks-dt20080717ptan20080170521.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Systems and methods for adjusting channel access based on contention conditions in a communications network are disclosed. The invention addresses the problem of multihop communications networks with varying contention conditions. Particularly, the invention addresses the channel access for common communications channels of a single or plurality of multihop configurations.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Wireless-network-system-and-communication-method-in-a-wireless-network-dt20080717ptan20080170519.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Disclosed is a wireless network system and a method for sending and receiving various information and data related to broadcast or multicast services in a wireless network.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Wireless-network-system-and-communication-method-in-a-wireless-network-dt20080717ptan20080170520.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Disclosed is a wireless network system and a method for sending and receiving various information and data related to broadcast or multicast services in a wireless network.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Adaptive-optimizations-for-connecting-to-a-wireless-network-dt20080717ptan20080170525.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A wireless network scanning order may be optimized based on at least one item of known information. The at least one item of known information may include a wireless network usage history, scheduling information from a scheduling application, location data, or other items of information. Availability of one or more... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-extending-standby-battery-life-of-a-wireless-device-dt20080717ptan20080170526.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 An apparatus and method for extending the standby battery life of a wireless device by reading scheduling information to determine the time when the wireless device should be in the wake-up state to read system information, and going back to the sleep state until the start of the transmission of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Changing-access-point--ap--device-type-based-on-connectivity-to-a-network-dt20080717ptan20080170527.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Techniques are provided for determining whether a particular Access Point (AP) is to be designated as an Infrastructure Access Point (IAP) or a Backhaul Mesh Access Point (BMAP) based on the connectivity of the particular AP to a network which includes at least one multicast heartbeat message (MCHBM) source. Techniques... http://www.freshpatents.com/Connection-identifier-for-wireless-broadcast-system-dt20080717ptan20080170529.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A wireless broadcast system that collects content for distribution over a wireless communication network. Multiple content streams are received and interleaved into an aggregate content stream. The aggregate content stream is encapsulated into a stream of transport packets that are ruggedized for broadcast over the wireless communication link. One connection... http://www.freshpatents.com/Convergence-sublayer-for-use-in-a-wireless-broadcasting-system-dt20080717ptan20080170531.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A wireless broadcast system includes receiving a data a stream by a convergence module. The convergence module partitions and encapsulates the transport packets into MAC protocol data units such that a size dimension of the encapsulated transport packets matches a size dimension of the MAC protocol data units. The MAC... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-of-multicasting-base-and-enhancement-layers-of-a-video-stream-dt20080717ptan20080170528.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 The present invention provides a method of multicasting video streams. The method includes accessing, at a base station, a first packet from a video stream that includes a plurality of packets. Each packet in the video stream is assigned to either a base layer or at least one enhancement layer.... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-embedding-text-in-multicast-transmissions-dt20080717ptan20080170532.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A system and method embeds text in a multicast transmission. An exemplary method comprises receiving non-voice data. The non-voice data is embedded within digitized voice data. The digitized voice data with the embedded non-voice data is wirelessly transmitted, by a computing device, as a multicast transmission to a plurality of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Wireless-broadcasting-system-dt20080717ptan20080170530.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A wireless broadcast system that collects content for distribution over a wireless communication network. At least one content stream is received and encapsulated into a stream of transport packets that are ruggedized for broadcast over the wireless communication link. The stream of transport packets are simultaneously broadcast as part of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-managing-service-flow-based-on-relay-station-dt20080717ptan20080170535.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method and system for managing service flows based on a Relay Station (RS). The method includes the steps of establishing a mapping relation of a connection between an RS and Subscriber Station/Mobile Subscriber Station (SS/MSS) and a connection between a BS and RS in an RS; transforming a connection... http://www.freshpatents.com/Near-field-spatial-multiplexing-dt20080717ptan20080170533.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Wireless communication apparatus (20) includes a transmitter (22), which includes a first plurality of transmit antennas (26) mutually separated by a first spacing, and which is configured to transmit signals via the transmit antennas over multiple spatial sub-channels, the signals having respective phases. A receiver (24), which includes a second... http://www.freshpatents.com/Portable-information-device-dt20080717ptan20080170534.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A portable information device includes first and second enclosures and a hinge portion connecting those enclosures. The first enclosure has: an antenna; a plurality of active circuits for predetermined frequency bands; a first circuit that demultiplexes reception signals into input signals with the predetermined frequency bands to output the input... http://www.freshpatents.com/Dynamic-routing-from-space-dt20080717ptan20080170536.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A satellite communication network includes one or more satellites and multiple ground stations, or ground stations. An originating ground station receives an Internet communication, determines when a satellite will be within range, and transmits a stream of data packets including part or all of the communication to the satellite when... http://www.freshpatents.com/Apparatus-methods-and-computer-program-products-providing-resource-allocation-adaptation-for-point-to-multipoint-transmissions-dt20080717ptan20080170541.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: obtaining feedback from at least one mobile terminal in a communication system; determining, based on the obtained feedback, whether at least one of a downlink shared channel transmit power and a transmission pattern should be modified, wherein the downlink shared channel is used... http://www.freshpatents.com/Base-station-access-system-and-base-station-data-transmission-method-dt20080717ptan20080170542.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A base station access system and a base station data transmission method. The system includes a base station and a broadband access point. A embodiment of base station data transmission method includes: a base station assigns sequence number identifications to uplink data packets, the base station sends the uplink data... http://www.freshpatents.com/Communication-processing-apparatus-and-method-dt20080717ptan20080170537.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 An apparatus and a method for communication processing are disclosed. The apparatus includes a network connecting unit, a wireless connecting unit, and a processing unit. The network connecting unit is for use in connecting with internet and communicating a first communicating signal with the internet. The wireless connecting unit is... http://www.freshpatents.com/Communication-system-communication-device-and-communication-method-dt20080717ptan20080170540.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Disclosed herein a communication system in which communicating stations are interconnected via a first transmission path and a second transmission path, the communication system including: a data transmitting station for dividing one piece of transmission data to generate two data packets, assigning the data packets to the first transmission path... http://www.freshpatents.com/Hierarchical-multicast-protocol-in-a-mobile-ad-hoc-network-dt20080717ptan20080170538.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A system, method, and computer readable medium using a hierarchical multicast protocol in a mobile ad-hoc network, comprises identifying a parent node, determining a sub-group node in communication with the parent node, determining a maximum number of host nodes in communication with the sub-group node, determining an address of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apapratus-for-controlling-transmission-power-of-cognitive-radio-environment-dt20080717ptan20080170539.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method and apparatus of controlling a transmission power of a cognitive radio (CR) environment, the method including: sensing an incumbent user that uses a same channel as the CR environment; detecting signal quality information of the sensed incumbent user; calculating, using the detected signal quality information, a maximum transmission... http://www.freshpatents.com/Apparatus-and-method-for-dynamic-channel-allocation-in-multiple-channel-wireless-communication-system-dt20080717ptan20080170545.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 An apparatus and method for dynamic channel allocation in a multiple channel wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a scheduler for dividing resources to be used for a band Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) channel and a diversity channel, a generator for generating a MAP heading field including... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-of-providing-route-update-messages-and-providing-messages-to-access-terminals-dt20080717ptan20080170543.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 The present invention provides a method including providing at least one route update message based upon at least one sector list associated with an access terminal. The sector lists are formed based on information collected by the access terminal.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-of-transmitting-between-two-nodes-dt20080717ptan20080170544.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method comprising transmitting a busy signal from a first node; receiving said busy signal at a second node; and transmitting data from said second node to said first node on a channel associated with said busy signal.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Connection-control-system-and-method-for-mobile-communication-system-dt20080717ptan20080170547.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A connection control system and method for Wireless Broadband (WiBro) communication system are provided. The connection control method for a mobile communication system, which includes at least one radio access station for providing communication service to a portable subscriber station, and at least one access control router for controlling the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Handoff-method-between-heterogeneous-networks-and-system-thereof-dt20080717ptan20080170548.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A handoff method between a source network to which a terminal is connected in order of a Base Station (BS) and an Access Service Network (ASN), and a target network to which the terminal is connected in order of a Packet Data Service Node (PDSN), a Packet Control Function (PCF)... http://www.freshpatents.com/Wireless-communication-system-mobile-station-and-handover-control-method-dt20080717ptan20080170546.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A processing capability for data communication with a packet terminal is secured while packet loss is prevented, and a load to a mobile station in a handover is reduced. A wireless communication system comprises mobile stations 101 and 102 each having a wireless interface a configured with an antenna 11a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Fragmenting-large-packets-in-the-presence-of-high-priority-packets-dt20080717ptan20080170553.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 In the presence of high priority traffic received at a mobile station over a wireless medium or to be transmitted by the mobile station over the wireless medium, a fragmentation threshold in a wireless local area network (WLAN) medium access control (MAC) layer of the mobile station is adjusted according... http://www.freshpatents.com/Hybrid-mesh-routing-protocol-dt20080717ptan20080170550.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method for selecting a route by a node between a source node and a destination node in a wireless mesh network by establishing the route between the source node and the destination node using media access control addresses is described. A method for a node to selecting a route... http://www.freshpatents.com/Idle-connection-state-power-consumption-reduction-in-a-wireless-local-area-network-using-beacon-delay-advertisement-dt20080717ptan20080170551.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A novel and useful apparatus for and method of improving idle connection state power consumption in wireless local area network (WLAN) system. Beacon transmission delay information is determined by the access points and advertised to the stations via a Beacon Transmission Delay Information Element. In response, the stations adjust their... http://www.freshpatents.com/Idle-connection-state-power-consumption-reduction-in-a-wireless-local-area-network-using-variable-beacon-data-advertisement-dt20080717ptan20080170552.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A novel and useful apparatus for and method of improving idle connection state power consumption in wireless local area network (WLAN) system using variable Beacon data advertisements. The invention takes advantage of the fact that Beacon contents to not change significantly between consecutive messages. Access points determine the size of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Methods-and-improvements-for-joining-wireless-mesh-networks-dt20080717ptan20080170549.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Method and improvements for joining wireless mesh networks are provided. In one embodiment, a controller in each network receives a message from a node in its respective network, the message indicating that the respective nodes each received a signal from a node in the other network. Each controller, in response... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-equipment-for-realizing-smart-antenna-in-wcdma-system-dt20080717ptan20080170554.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method and device for realizing smart antenna in WCDMA system are disclosed in the invention, including array antenna, radio frequency channel module, beam forming module, channel environment detection and classification module, beam-forming algorithm selection and weight value generation module. After processing the signals received by the antenna array in... http://www.freshpatents.com/Wireless-communication-system-and-its-transmission-power-control-method-dt20080717ptan20080170555.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 An uplink channel transmission power control method is provided for a CDMA mobile communication system performing one way communication. A base station measures the received level of data transmitted from each mobile terminal at each channel, and generates a transmission power control signal of each uplink traffic channel. The generated... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-for-measuring-different-frequencies-systems-in-mbms-and-a-device-for-setting-measuring-time-dt20080717ptan20080170557.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method for measuring Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT in Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) includes: setting an Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT measurement time to prevent Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT measurement time from overlapping constantly the transmission time of MCCH information; performing Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT measurement by a UE according to the Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT measurement time. In the present invention, the Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT measurement time... http://www.freshpatents.com/Wireless-communications-with-frequency-band-selection-dt20080717ptan20080170556.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A probe, listen and select (PLS) technique can be used to select from an available frequency spectrum a frequency band whose communication quality is suitable for wireless communication at a desired rate. Probe packets can be transmitted on different frequencies (223) during a known period of time (TPLS), and frequency... http://www.freshpatents.com/Techniques-for-transmission-protection-for-wireless-networks-dt20080717ptan20080170558.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Various embodiments are disclosed relating to techniques for protecting transmissions in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, it may be determined at a wireless node whether the wireless node is exchanging transmissions with a plurality of wireless devices associated with a plurality of different signal types in a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Sub-frame-synchronized-residual-radar-dt20080717ptan20080170559.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method of using a wireless communication system to determine locations is provided. The method including exchanging communication frames between at least two synchronized nodes in the communication system, wherein each communication frame includes at least one of data signals and radar signals. Determining distances of at least one of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Training-sequence-for-wireless-communication-system-dt20080717ptan20080170560.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Disclosed is a system and a training sequence setting method for performing frame synchronization in a wireless communication system. A received signal is affected by a frequency offset due to an oscillator mismatch between the transmitter and the receiver, which is one of the main causes of performance degradation of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Branch-ip-recording-dt20080717ptan20080170561.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Apparatus for recording multi-party Internet Protocol (IP) sessions at a branch, the apparatus comprising: a data capturer, deployed on a device in a local network of the branch, configured to capture at least one data packet of a multi-party IP session involving the branch; and a recorder, deployed on the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-communication-device-for-improving-the-performance-of-a-voip-call-dt20080717ptan20080170562.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A sub-data packet drop method and a dynamic base method for improving the performance of voice calls routed through data packet networks. A voice engine processor of the present invention comprises a smart jitter buffer, which is a jitter buffer couples with a sub-data packet drop method and a dynamic... http://www.freshpatents.com/Session-initiation-protocol-message-content-processing-method-and-network-dt20080717ptan20080170563.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 In a method for processing contents of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message, a SIP sender sends a SIP message, and a SIP network content processing entity sets the message contents of the SIP message based on an acquired management strategy for the message content. A network for processing contents... http://www.freshpatents.com/Systems-and-methods-for-channel-switching-dt20080717ptan20080170564.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Techniques for video encoding and decoding channel switch frames (CSF) to enable acquisition and re/synchronization of the video stream while preserving compression efficiency is provided. Systems and methods to process multimedia data enabling channel switching are presented. The systems generate a CSF with one or more network adaptation layer (NAL)... http://www.freshpatents.com/Communication-system-dt20080717ptan20080170566.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A communication system, which includes an intercom master-station and an intercom door-station connected to a Regidential LAN, uses a DHCP protocol to assign IP addresses. The intercom master-station includes a setting management table, which sets connectivity per terminal name; a temporary address memory, which temporarily registers an IP address and... http://www.freshpatents.com/Nak-message-transmission-with-quicknak-indication-dt20080717ptan20080170565.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 System and method for processing received packets. A QuickNak (QN) packet may be received. The QN packet may include a segmentation and reassembly (SAR) packet. The SAR packet may be delivered to a SAR receiver and it may be determined if there are missing packets, e.g., after delivery of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Packet-switch-apparatus-and-method-thereof-dt20080717ptan20080170567.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Disclosed is a packet switch apparatus applied to Internet Protocol (IP) network, the packet switch apparatus including: an Ethernet switch to perform packet switching, the Ethernet switch including a plurality of ports and a layer 3 table. The plurality of ports include a dummy port, which has an available port... http://www.freshpatents.com/Remote-device-waking-using-a-multicast-packet-dt20080717ptan20080170569.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Sleeping device(s) may be changed from a sleeping state to an awake state using a multicast packet that sent to a multicast address of a multicast wake-up group. The packet may include an identifier for one or more particular device(s) in the multicast group, which, when received by the device(s),... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-of-switching-from-multicast-to-unicast-calls-dt20080717ptan20080170570.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Described is a communication device which includes a receiver receiving a multicast communication including audio data and identification data identifying an initiator of the multicast communication, a memory, an audio output, a processor processing the multicast communication, sending the processed audio data to the audio output to be played to... http://www.freshpatents.com/Systems-and-methods-for-reducing-multicast-traffic-over-a-network-dt20080717ptan20080170568.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method for reducing multicast traffic over a network is described. A control request is received. A first ranking indicator associated with the control request is compared with a second ranking indicator associated with a node that received the control request. A first response to the control request is generated.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Border-gateway-protocol-extended-community-attribute-for-layer-2-and-layer-3-virtual-private-networks-using-802-1ah-based-tunnels-dt20080717ptan20080170573.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Described are a network, network device, and method for a method of distributing routing information for a virtual private network (VPN) application through a packet-switched network (PSN) having fully meshed provider edge (PE) routers through Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) tunnels. Each PE router is configured to support at least one... http://www.freshpatents.com/Detecting-an-identifier-change-of-an-endpoint-dt20080717ptan20080170572.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Detecting an identifier change of an endpoint includes dialing an identifier associated with an endpoint to initiate a call to the endpoint. A network indicator indicating a change of the identifier is detected. A new identifier associated with the endpoint is determined, and a record is updated to reflect the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-synchronous-page-addressing-in-a-data-packet-switch-dt20080717ptan20080170571.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method and system for synchronous page addressing in a data packet switch is provided. Within the packet switch, separate devices are responsible for storing a portion of a received data packet, and thus a view of used memory addresses seen by one device matches that seen by the others.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Methods-and-apparatuses-for-data-compression-dt20080717ptan20080170574.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A plurality, i.e. at least two, cells are combined into a macro cell. In a macro header of said macro cell a full numbering information of a first cell of said plurality of cells is stored. For further cells of said plurality of cells other than said first cell, a... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-distributed-intelligent-assistant-control-of-predictive-digital-information-distribution-dt20080717ptan20080170575.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 An information-based system for controlling the display of digital content dependent upon a state-based controller comprised of status and intelligent-assistant logic. In an exemplary embodiment, the system programmatically integrates distributed automata theory processing for alternative, yet interrelated, states of control within a digital content display system. The state-based system provides... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-computer-program-product-and-apparatus-for-optimally-deploying-iscsi-sessions-automatically-dt20080717ptan20080170576.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 An optimal configuration of Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) sessions is automatically determined. A number of iSCSI target ports and a number of iSCSI initiator ports in a configuration are determined, and an ideal session count is determined for each iSCSI initiator port in order to maximize efficiency. All... http://www.freshpatents.com/Station-device-message-transfer-method-and-program-storage-medium-storing-program-thereof-dt20080717ptan20080170577.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 An Ethernet frame nester nests Ethernet frames addressed to a plurality of remote station devices affiliated with a shared station device on the basis of the correspondence relation between a MAC address of the station device and MAC addresses of the remote station devices stored in a table and the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Border-gateway-protocol-procedures-for-multi-protocol-label-switching-and-layer-2-virtual-private-networks-using-ethernet-based-tunnels-dt20080717ptan20080170578.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Described are a network device and method for distributing routing information for a virtual private network (VPN) application through a packet-switched network (PSN) from a first provider edge (PE) router to a second provider edge (PE) router. An Ethernet switched path (e.g., a Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) tunnel) is established... http://www.freshpatents.com/Methods-apparatus-and-computer-programs-for-managing-performance-and-resource-utilization-within-cluster-based-systems-dt20080717ptan20080170579.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Disclosed are methods, apparatus and computer programs for improving performance and resource utilization of cluster-based data processing systems. The number of persistent connections between first and second data processing units of a system is adjusted according to monitored performance of communications between the nodes. The monitored performance measure is the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Star-network-control-with-mesh-network-payload-delivery-dt20080717ptan20080170580.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A network is provided that includes: a central node (30) and a plurality of other nodes (32); a plurality of first communication links (34) interconnecting the central node (30) to the plurality of other nodes (32) to form a star network topology; and, a plurality of second communication links (36)... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-networking-computing-clusters-dt20080717ptan20080170581.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 In certain embodiments, a method for networking a computer cluster includes communicatively coupling together each of a plurality of client nodes through one or more switches, each switch comprising a plurality of switch ports. The method also includes positioning at least two of the one or more switches inside a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Apparatus-and-method-for-deskewing-1000-base-t-ethernet-physical-layer-signals-dt20080717ptan20080170582.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 The invention provides an Ethernet physical layer (PHY) receiver. Ethernet PHY signals are simultaneously transmitted through first, second, third, and fourth duplex channels. The Ethernet physical layer receiver comprises a deskew first-in first-out (FIFO) module and a deskew control module. The deskew FIFO module includes four deskew FIFO buffers for... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-of-supporting-an-open-provider-backbone-network-dt20080717ptan20080170583.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 An apparatus comprising a first interface configured to transmit or receive backbone traffic, a second interface configured to transmit or receive non-backbone traffic, and a third interface in communication with the first interface and second interface, the third interface configured to multiplex or demultiplex the backbone traffic and the non-backbone... http://www.freshpatents.com/Management-device-management-method-computer-readable-medium-and-computer-data-signal-dt20080717ptan20080170584.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A management device comprises: a receiving section that receives, from at least one information processor via a fire wall, a polling signal to inquire if there is a demand to transmit to the information processor; a deciding section that decides a transmission timing of the polling signal due to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Management-device-management-method-computer-readable-medium-and-computer-data-signal-dt20080717ptan20080170585.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A management device comprises: a receiving section that receives, from at least one information processor via a fire wall, a polling signal to inquire if there is a request to send to the information processor or not; and a sending section that sends a response for the polling signal that... http://www.freshpatents.com/Multi-rate-mac-to-phy-interface-dt20080717ptan20080170586.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method and system for a multi-rate Media Access Control layer (MAC) to Physical layer (PHY) interface is provided. The method to provide a multi-rate Media Access Control layer (MAC) interface comprises receiving a first set of signals, sampling the first set of signals to determine a type of interface... http://www.freshpatents.com/Device-for-generating-a-sampled-ramp-signal-representative-of-a-synchronization-signal-and-device-for-assisting-the-reconstruction-of-a-synchronization-signal-for-a-packet-switching-network-dt20080717ptan20080170588.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A device is dedicated to assisting the reconstruction of synchronization signals, for example within an item of communication equipment of an IP network. This device comprises i) a phase-locked loop charged with reconstructing, on the basis of a second sampled ramp signal received, a reference clock signal and a second... http://www.freshpatents.com/Systems-and-methods-for-a-5-1-multiplexer-with-a-one-fifth-ratio-duty-cycle-clock-dt20080717ptan20080170587.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 The present invention provides methods and systems for multiplexing five channels, such as 10 Gb/s to 50 Gb/s, into a single data sequence using a 5:1 multiplexer using a 1/5th ratio duty cycle clock. The 1/5th ratio duty cycle clock is a clock with a period equal to the channel... http://www.freshpatents.com/Server-and-simultaneous-access-control-method-thereof-dt20080717ptan20080170589.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A server and a simultaneous access control method, the server including: a connector to receive data from and transmit data to a plurality of clients; and a connection manager to extract a simultaneously accessible client from among the plurality of clients, and to permit access to the extracted client, if... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-for-establishing-communication-channel-and-image-receiving-apparatus-using-the-same-dt20080717ptan20080170590.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A method and apparatus for establishing a communication channel provided. The apparatus includes a storage unit which stores a communication channel search starting point for an address of the apparatus; and a controller which searches a communication channel at the communication channel search starting point set in the address of... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-for--distributing-data-by-dividing-the-same-into-plural-pieces-of-partial-data-dt20080717ptan20080170591.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Disclosed is a system for dividing an original data into N pieces of partial data and generating L pieces of encoded data on the basis of the N pieces of partial data wherein N is a natural number greater than 1 and L is a natural number equal to or... http://www.freshpatents.com/Almost-peer-to-peer-clock-synchronization-dt20080717ptan20080170592.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 Disclosed are a method of and a system for synchronizing clocks in a coordinated network of computers including a multitude of processing nodes, each of the nodes having a clock and one or more neighbor nodes. The method comprises the steps of electing one of the nodes as a correct... http://www.freshpatents.com/Display-apparatus-and-control-method-thereof-dt20080717ptan20080170593.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A display apparatus includes a demultiplexing unit which extracts program clock reference (PCR) information for synchronizing image information and voice information of a received image signal; a syntax analyzing unit which identifies a first and a second packet identification number of a packet having the PCR information so that the... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-realizing-network-synchronization-by-packet-network-dt20080717ptan20080170594.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 A system and method for realizing network synchronization by packet network mainly includes: restoring the clock signal from the superior processing equipment data link of the packet network, and sending it to the subordinate processing equipment; realizing the synchronization of said processing equipment based on said clock signal. It can...