25th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 38 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100157794 | METHOD FOR FINDING PROTECTED PATH IN MESH NETWORKS - A method of finding a primary communication path in a mesh network, which would be at once a protected path having a fully guaranteed segmented node or node-link protection. The method comprises defining a required protection type and further selecting each specific path segment of the desired communication path based on initial user's requirements and topology information of the network. Each specific node path segment N for the communication path is selected upon ensuring that it can be protected in the network by a node backup path satisfying the initial user's requirements. Each specific link path segment L for the communication path is chosen if it can be protected in the network by a link backup path satisfying the initial user's requirements and if the node path segment N to which segment L leads cannot be protected by a suitable node backup path. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157795 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION RATE CONTROL METHOD - In a communication of explicit multicast system used in SICC, the frequency of variation of the transmission rate is reduced to achieve a multimedia data transmission exhibiting a high quality. An available bandwidth estimating part ( | 2010-06-24 |
20100157796 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LOAD-ADAPTIVE BACKOFF FOR WIMAX RANGING - Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide an adaptive technique to determine size of a ranging back-off window according to a load of ranging channel. By applying an adaptive increase of the back-off window size, a probability of collision between ranging codes within a same transmission opportunity can be alleviated, and the ranging channel load can be decreased more efficiently than in the case of a standard non-adaptive back-off procedure | 2010-06-24 |
20100157797 | METHODS OF DATA TRAFFIC SHAPING, APPARATUS AND WIRELESS DEVICE - Methods of data traffic shaping, an apparatus and a wireless device are provided. A method of data traffic shaping comprises receiving data packets, the data packets to be forwarded; storing at least one of the data packets in a buffer memory if the buffer memory has an available space for accomodating the at least one of the data packets; and discarding at least one other of the data packets if the buffer memory does not have an available space for accomodating the at least one other of the data packets. An apparatus is configured to carry out the method. A wireless device may include the apparatus. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157798 | Time Based Queuing - Smart routing packet handling across multiple networks achieves end-to-end (ETE) quality of service (QOS) when complementing or replacing conventional priority-based scheduling algorithms. Packets are “tagged” with a time code that indicates a time is allotted for the packet to transmit from a source to a destination and/or a measure of transmission time. Buffers at routers and/or switches utilize this information to order a transmission queue. In this way, queues may be intelligently scheduled to achieve a maximum ETE QOS. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157799 | LOAD BALANCING - A method of load balancing data packets at an array is disclosed. The method includes receiving a data packet encoded in a first format at an input of the array. The received data packet is assigned to an assigned element of the array, and the data packet is routed to a device. A message encoded in a second format is received from the device at the array. Information is extracted from a payload portion of the message, and the message is assigned to the assigned element of the array based on the information extracted from the payload portion of the message. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157800 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING NETWORK TRAFFIC LOADING BALANCE - A method for processing network traffic loading balance is adapted for balancing the load of a session of various data packet processing threads in a network equipment. The method includes the following steps. First, a plurality of data packet processing threads is executed, a queue is assigned to each thread for storing the received data packets, and the data packet is read from the queue by the thread for processing. Then, it is determined whether the number of the data packets in the queue satisfies a traffic threshold value. If the number of the data packets in a certain queue satisfies an operating threshold value, new data packets are allocated by the network equipment to other queues without affecting the integrity of the session. Therefore, the present method not only maintains the integrity of the session, but also ensures the uniformity in load among the data packet processing threads. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157801 | WIRELESS MESH NETWORK FOR INTER-COMPONENT DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN SATELLITE SYSTEMS - A network system for inter-component communications in an electronic device is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of components for an electronic device, where each of the components communicates with at least one other component over a communications medium for a wireless mesh network. Each of the components comprises a communications transceiver operable to determine network traffic load levels for an exchange of communication data between the components, and allocate the network traffic between at least one pair of the components over a plurality of wireless links within the wireless mesh network based on potential-field based measurements at each of the components. In addition, each of the communications transceivers share the exchange of the communication data between the components based on a prescribed priority level for allocation of the network traffic. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157802 | TRANSPARENT NETWORK TRAFFIC INSPECTION - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing parties with levels of transparency into filtering functionality of network traffic inspection implementations. Embodiments include receiving a filter change request from a subscriber over a network that defines a modification to a set of filter criteria for filtering network traffic, the filter criteria being stored in association with the subscriber in a filter criteria data store; updating the set of filter criteria in the filter criteria data store as a function of the filter change request; receiving a content dataset relating to the network traffic; identifying the content dataset as being associated with the subscriber; retrieving the set of filter criteria associated with the subscriber from the data store; and filtering the network traffic as a function of the set of filter criteria. Embodiments further provide layers of access for different entities to the filtered traffic. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157803 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MANAGE NETWORK TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN NETWORKS WITH LINK LAYER FLOW CONTROL - A method and system to manage network traffic congestion in networks with link layer flow control is provided. The system comprises a physical queue monitor configured to monitor a state of a physical queue at a network device, a link layer flow control activator configured to activate link layer flow control based on the state of the physical queue, a proxy queue control module, a proxy queue monitor to monitor the state of the proxy queue, and a transport layer flow control activator. The proxy queue control module may be configured to update a state of a proxy queue based on the state of the physical queue. The proxy queue monitor may be configured to monitor the state of the proxy queue. The transport layer flow control activator may be configured to activate transport layer flow control based on the state of the proxy queue. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING MAXIMUM THROUGHPUT AND SLA COMPLIANCE - A system and method for controlling maximum throughput for communications. A frame size of each packet communicated to a UNI is determined. A maximum throughput is determined in response to the determined frame size of each packet communicated to the UNI. Frames per second are measured at the UNI. An amount of loss at the UNI is determined. A message indicating the maximum throughput, the amount of loss, and the frames per second is communicated in response to determining there is loss. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157805 | TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT FOR FRAME RELAY SWITCHED DATA SERVICE - A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer | 2010-06-24 |
20100157806 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA PACKET LOAD BALANCING AND NETWORK EQUIPMENT THEREOF - A method for processing data packet load balancing and a network equipment thereof, which are for balancing the load of a plurality of controllers in a network equipment. The method comprises the steps. A plurality of data packets is received. A storage queue is assigned for storing the data packets. The data packets in the storage queue are read by an allocation controller. The allocation controller assigns the data packets to different work sequences according to a work attribute of the data packets. A processing controller is commanded to perform a packet processing procedure, and at least one work queue is assigned to the processing controller for processing the data packets. After completing the packet processing procedure, the processing controller sends a completion message to a completion queue. If the allocation controller detects that the completion queue contains the completion message, the allocation controller sends the processed data packets back. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157807 | Re-Routing Traffic Flow in a Packet Switched Communications Transport Network - In a packet switched communications transport network a method for re-routing traffic flow is provided. The invention based on the recognition of actual utilization of transport resources. In accordance with the implementation, Fast Re-Route detour paths are recalculated each time after new bandwidth information is received. The detours are re-established on new computed paths if needed, i.e., if an optimized path has been found. A node and a system are also disclosed, referring to MPLS network. Also a node is described acting as a Point of Local Repair for link failures. The node comprises a Routing engine, a Link state database, a Detour path calculator and a Detour path establisher in order to capture bandwidth information of the network links and to calculate detour path information for the nodes. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157808 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGNING RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS INCLUDING BROADBAND WIRELESS LINKS - A technique for reducing costs associated with a radio access network of a mobile telecommunications network includes configuring the radio access network using a linear programming model of the radio access network subject to constraints. The technique includes selecting cellular sites and hub locations of the radio access network to be connected by broadband wireless links based on the linear programming model and constraints. In at least one embodiment of the invention, a method of designing a radio access network of links between a cellular site and a core network includes selecting at least one first link of the radio access network to be at least one first wireless link at least partially based on a linear programming model of the radio access network. The method includes configuring an output device of a computer system to indicate the selection. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157809 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPATIALLY CONSISTENT SAMPLING OF FLOW RECORDS AT CONSTRAINED, CONTENT-DEPENDENT RATES - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for sampling network traffic. The method includes receiving a desired quantity of flow record to sample, receiving a plurality of network flow record each summarizing a network flow of packets, calculating a hash for each flow record of based on one or more invariant part of a respective flow, generating a quasi-random number from the calculated hash for each respective flow record, generating a priority from the calculated hash for each respective flow record, and sampling exactly the desired quantity of flow records, selecting flow records having a highest priority first. In one aspect, the method further partitions the plurality of flow records into groups based on flow origin and destination, generates an individual priority for each partitioned group, and separately samples exactly the desired quantity of flow records from each partitioned group, selecting flows having a highest individual priority first. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157810 | DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD - Provided is a distance and position measuring method. A distance measuring method based on packets transmitted and received between a first node and a second node obtains first timing for transmitting a first packet from the first node, second timing for receiving the first packet in the second node, third timing for transmitting a second packet corresponding to the first packet from the second node, fourth timing for receiving the second packet in the first node, fifth timing for transmitting a third packet from the second node, and sixth timing for receiving the third packet in the first node to estimate a clock frequency offset based on the obtained timings, measures a first distance and a second distance based on the clock frequency offset and some of the timings, and measures a distance between the first node and the second node based on the first distance and the second distance. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157811 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA AND METHOD THEREOF - A wireless communication terminal transmitting/receiving data with a folder closed and a method thereof are disclosed. The wireless communication terminal includes: a wireless transceiver for transmitting and receiving data through a wireless communication network; a storage for storing the transmitted data and the received data; a detector for detecting a state of the folder of the wireless communication terminal in order to determine whether the folder is opened or closed; an outputting unit for indicating a result of the data transmission/reception; and a controller for analyzing the transmitted/received data to detect the last packet of the data, and continuing to perform the data transmission/reception without regard to the detected state of the folder until the last packet of the data has been detected. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157812 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS ALARM CORRELATION - A method and apparatus for providing asynchronous alarm correlation in packet networks are disclosed. For example, the method receives a trigger, and performs an asynchronous correlation of at least one root cause alarm with at least one symptom alarm. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157813 | METHOD OF PATH SWITCHING AND NODE APPARATUS - An intermediate node apparatus in a first path including a start node apparatus, an end node apparatus, intermediate node apparatuses, and links between these node apparatuses, including a failure notification message transmission unit transmitting a failure notification message to the start node apparatus, when it is detected that a level of deterioration in transmission quality of a link among the links included in the first path is equal to or higher than a first threshold, and backup path setting device that receives a path setting message for setting a second path from the start node and sets the second path. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157814 | Apparatus and method for handling error for service flow modification a broadband wireless communication network - A network includes a Mobile Station (MS) for sending a Service Flow (SF) modification request message to a Base Station (BS) to modify an SF. The BS sends a path modification request message to a serving SF Authorization (SFA) when there is the information on the SF. The BS also sends an SF modification response message comprising a Confirmation Code ‘Reject SF not found’ to the MS when there is no information on the SF. The serving SFA sends a resource reservation request message to an anchor SFA when there is the information on the SF, and sends a path modification response message comprising a Failure Indication (FI) ‘Requested Context Unavailable’ to the BS when there is no information on the SF. The anchor SFA sends a resource reservation response message comprising the FI ‘Requested Context Unavailable’ to the serving SFA when there is no information on the SF. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157815 | System and Method for Transport Independent Automated Voice Solutions - A system and method provides transport independent automated voice solutions. The method comprises receiving an indication of a network issue of a network. The network issue relates to a malfunction of a voice service provided by the network. Sub-networks of the network utilize a plurality of transmission protocols. The method further comprises determining a source of the network issue by determining a status for each of select components related to the network issue. The select components are determined by a type of the transmission protocols related to the network issue. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157816 | Method and System for Evaluating Network Connectivity In Rule-Based Applications - A computer readable storage medium includes a set of instructions executable by a processor. The instructions are operable to assign a unique identifier to each of a plurality of node subsets of a network, the node subsets being created by damage to the network; assign one or more of the identifiers to each of a plurality of components of the damaged network based on a connectivity to the one or more of the node subsets and corresponding identifiers of the node subsets; assign one or more of the identifiers to each of one or more node types of the plurality of components by assigning each of the node types all of the identifiers of any of the components of the node type; and evaluate a first connectivity between a first one of the components and a second one of the components by determining whether they share at least one of the identifiers. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157817 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATION USING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL - A communication device ( | 2010-06-24 |
20100157818 | NETWORK SYSTEM, SERVER, QUALITY DEGRADATION POINT ESTIMATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A network system estimating a point of quality degradation with high accuracy at high speed based on flow quality information and routing information on a large-scale network is provided. A network system causing a communication characteristic collection unit S | 2010-06-24 |
20100157819 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, SYSTEM LSI, AND PROGRAM - One transmission rate of a physical layer (PHY rate) is selected from among a plurality of PHY rates of a protocol stack by calculating one or more effective values of transmission rates of an upper layer of the protocol stack with respect to one or more PHY rates of the plurality of PHY rates respectively, and making a comparison with use of the calculated one or more effective values. Each of the one or more effective values is calculated based on (i) an ideal value of corresponding one of the transmission rates and (ii) a retransmission ratio via the physical layer that corresponds to a reception power value detected in the reception apparatus. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157820 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RANGING USING RANGING LOADING FACTOR - Methods and apparatus for indicating a base station's amount of ranging traffic to a mobile station (MS) and for selecting a base station (BS) for performing ranging based on the ranging traffic indication are provided. This notification may occur via a ranging loading parameter, such as a ranging loading factor (RLF) indicating the ratio of used ranging slots to available ranging slots, transmitted as a new TLV (Type-Length-Value) within the Uplink Channel Descriptor (UCD) of a (potential) serving BS or in the UCD of a Neighbor Advertisement (MOB_NBR-ADV) message for a neighbor BS. By selecting a BS with a certain level of unused ranging slots, the MS may exponentially decrease the ranging overhead (i.e., the average waiting time for the ranging procedures) when compared to a conventional MS that does not consider a BS's ranging overload when trying to perform ranging with the BS. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157821 | Methods, Systems, And Computer Program Products For Sending Data Units Based On A Measure Of Energy - Methods and systems are described for sending data units based on a measure of energy. In one aspect, a data unit sent to a destination node is received at a receiving network node. A measure of energy needed to successfully send data to the destination node is determined for each of at least one of a plurality of destination network paths available for routing the data to the destination node. Each destination network path includes a respective plurality of nodes having an energy expenditure and an effective rate of data transmission contributing to the measure of energy needed to successfully send data to the destination node. Any transmission of the corresponding data unit to a next one of the network nodes along the one of the plurality of destination network paths is determined based on the determined measure of energy needed to successfully send data. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157822 | SERVICE ACCOUNTING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSITE SERVICE - A system for an accounting infrastructure, including monitoring and reporting, for individual services within a composite service. An accounting engine integrates with the composite service to monitor components and parameters of at least one service in the composite service, to provide reporting on the measurements and statistics associated therewith over time. The accounting engine aggregates data for components and services. One example provides the accounting infrastructure as an object-oriented program model, instantiating statistics as objects. The reporting distinguishes each statistic allowing analysis and optimization of processes and services. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157823 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A WIRELESS SERVICE RECOMMENDATION - A method and apparatus for providing a wireless service recommendation are disclosed. For example, the method collects wireless access performance data, and analyzes the wireless access performance data for generating a ranking of a plurality of wireless access services that are available for a physical location. The method then provides the ranking of the plurality of wireless access services that are available for the physical location via an on-line social network website that is accessible to a mobile device that is proximate to the physical location. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157824 | Methods and System for Determining a Dominant Impairment of an Impaired Communication Channel - Methods are described for identifying a dominant impairment on a communication channel impaired by an interference issue. The methods include systematic examination of total power loading, systematic examination of signal power reduction, statistical examination of communication channel noise power, and systematic examination of interleaver effectiveness. Each relates to automatically diagnosing and characterizing distortion-based interference issues by monitoring the performance of a communication channel during a testing procedure. These methods enable a technician or engineer to remotely diagnose distortion-based interference issues relatively quickly without having to use external test equipment and without having to deploy technicians to various locations within the cable plant. A system by which these methods can be implemented is also disclosed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157825 | ESTIMATING BANDWIDTH IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - In general, a method includes monitoring, by a personal access point, an amount of backhaul bandwidth available for multimedia and signaling communications by measuring a level of latency associated with existing multimedia and signaling communications. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157826 | LOCAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MOBILE STATIONS VIA ONE OR MORE RELAY STATIONS - In a cellular communication system where two mobile stations are located within or near to a cell associated with a base station, one or more relay stations with good radio link quality relative to the two mobiles may be used to build a local forwarding communication link between the mobile stations using the one or more relay stations which avoids downlink/uplink transmission with the base station. The relay station(s) is(are) selected based on an association between two mobile stations and the relay station(s). | 2010-06-24 |
20100157827 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORK - A method for effectively using power resource in a wireless mesh network is disclosed to select and change a level of a power saving mode according to terminal and network situations to increase the duration of the network's existence as well as improve the power consumption of each mesh terminal. After active mesh terminals that are to perform a data relay function and super-saving mesh terminals that are not to perform the data relay function are selected in consideration of a network topology at certain periods, the level of a power saving mode of the mesh terminals selected as the super-saving mesh terminals is higher than that of the mesh terminals selected as the active mesh terminals. And then, a routing path in a tree form is formed along the mesh terminals selected as the active mesh terminals to transmit data. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157828 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING EVENT AND REPORTING STATUS OF CABLE MODEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling an event of a cable modem and reporting a status of the cable modem, the method including: determining whether to periodically allocate a transmission bandwidth of a CM-STATUS message with respect to an event occurrence of the cable modem; setting an event control encoding that includes information regarding whether to periodically allocate the transmission bandwidth; and generating a MAC Domain Descriptor (MDD) message containing the event control encoding to transmit the generated MDD message. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157829 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR IMPROVED CHANNEL QUALITY REPORTING - The invention discloses a method ( | 2010-06-24 |
20100157830 | PACKET TRANSFER METHOD, PACKET TRANSFER DEVICE, AND PACKET TRANSFER SYSTEM - An edge router measures a traffic volume inputted into a network, and the measurement result is notified to a network management server. If the network management server judges that the notified traffic volume is “smaller” than a capacity of a second core router, it will direct a first core router to shift to a power saving mode. The first core router notifies the edge router of the shift to the power saving mode, and the edge router updates a routing table so that the packet to the first core router may be bypassed to the second core router. The first core router shifts to the power saving mode that does not perform packet transfer, and reduction in electric power is realized. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157831 | BASE STATION AND ACCESS CONTROL METHOD FOR CELLULAR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A base station is connected to wired and wireless networks to send a call that is received from the wired network to the wireless network at a predetermined quality of service (QoS), select one or more combinations of a set of modulation and coding scheme, and a radio resource amount that are associated with a QoS set in a newly incoming call, determine the radio resource amount that is equal to or less than a amount of the unassigned radio resources, assign, to the newly incoming call, the combination that is associated with the determined radio resource amount and the QoS set in the newly incoming call, reduce the radio resources assigned to the ongoing call without changing the QoS, and assign, to the newly incoming call, an amount of radio resources released from the ongoing call and modulation and coding scheme associated with this released radio resource amount. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157832 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING FRAME FORMAT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A frame format discrimination method in a wireless communication system is provided. The frame format discrimination method includes: calculating a power of an in-phase signal and a power of a quadrature signal in a predetermined section of a frame; comparing the power of the in-phase signal with the power of the quadrature signal; and determining the format of the frame in accordance with the comparison result. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157833 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED TIMING ACQUISITION FOR VARYING CHANNEL CONDITIONS - An improved receiver apparatus and acquisition algorithm using TDM pilots is disclosed. The timing acquisition method presented provides capabilities for adapting to changing channel conditions, in particular varying expected delay spreads. The information on an expected delay spread can be fed back to the initial acquisition algorithm based on previous successful attempts, and the delay spreads measured at that time, such as to set the length of the detection window used to in the TDM pilot processing. Based on the delay spread information, the algorithm for processing the specialized TDM pilot can adaptively modify the timing acquisition parameters for more robust performance under interference conditions. This may involve reducing the length of the detection window to just a little more than or equal to the maximum expected delay spread, which reduces sensitivity of the fine timing acquisition to signal noise. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157834 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING DATA TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF A NETWORK PATH BASED ON SINGLE-ENDED MEASUREMENTS - Systems and methods for computing data transmission characteristics of a network path are disclosed. In some embodiments, the network path has a sending host, at least one intermediate host, and a receiving host, and the data transmission characteristics are computed based on single-ended measurements performed at the sending host. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157835 | Method and device for determining channel quality - It is provided a method for determining channel quality for a second channel, wherein, the second channel is overlapping with a first channel, the method comprising the steps of sending a request message through the first channel; receiving a response message on the second channel in response to the request message through the first channel; and determining the channel quality of the second channel based on the response message on the second channel. It can be used to determine the channel quality of at least one channel by sending a single message through the first channel. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157836 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - The present invention reduces the amount of control information for specifying the transmission method for simultaneously transmitting the uplink data and the reception quality information as well as the uplink data and the ACK/NACK, reduces delay occurring in changing the transmission method, and realizes the mapping of the uplink data and the reception quality information and that of the uplink data and the ACK/NACK, in compliance with modulation scheme and coding rate of the uplink data specified by the base station apparatus. In the mobile communication system where the base station apparatus allocates, to the mobile station apparatus, resources wherein the base station apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, control information for specifying a transmission format for the mobile station apparatus to transmit information using the uplink, while the mobile station apparatus simultaneously transmits, to the base station apparatus, the uplink data and the reception quality information based on the specified transmission format in case of having received the control information from the base station apparatus. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157837 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE OF PACKET SAMPLING - A method and a system for sampling a packet as well as a device are disclosed herein. The method includes the following steps: a notification node of an LSP sends obtained information about the protocol type of a packet to a specific netflow sampling entity; the netflow sampling entity determines the protocol type of the packet according to the information about the protocol type after receiving the packet, and samples the packet according to the determined protocol type. Through the embodiments of the present invention, the accuracy of netflow sampling is improved significantly. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157838 | Route and Link Evaluation in Wireless Mesh Communications Networks - Methods and systems for providing a network and routing protocol for utility services are disclosed. A method includes discovering a utility network. Neighboring nodes are discovered and the node listens for advertised routes for networks from the neighbors. The node is then registered with one or more utility networks, receiving a unique address for each network registration. Each upstream node can independently make forwarding decisions on both upstream and downstream packets, i.e., choose the next hop according to the best information available to it. The node can sense transient link problems, outage problems and traffic characteristics. Information is used to find the best route out of and within each network. Each network node maintains multi-egress, multi-ingress network routing options both for itself and the node(s) associated with it. The node is capable of several route maintenance functions utilizing the basic routing protocol and algorithms. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157839 | NETWORK SERVICE MONITORING - Network devices, systems, and methods are described that perform network service monitoring. One method includes examining a number of packets received by a first network device to determine whether a protocol of a packet corresponds to a given network service, forwarding packet service type information and packet address information to a second network device in response to a determination that the protocol of the packet corresponds to the network service, comparing the packet service type information and an associated service type address to a list of service types and addresses on the second network device, and executing a remedial action if, based on the comparing, it is determined that the network service is an unauthorized service and that a provider of the network service is an unauthorized provider. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157840 | Method and apparatus for one-way passive loss measurements using sampled flow statistics - A packet loss estimation technique is disclosed that utilizes the sampled flow level statistics that are routinely collected in operational networks, thereby obviating the need for any new router features or measurement infrastructure. The technique is specifically designed to handle the challenges of sampled flow-level aggregation such as information loss resulting from packet sampling, and generally comprises: receiving a first record of sampled packets for a flow from a first network element; receiving a second record of sampled packets for the flow from a second network element communicating with the first network element; correlating sampled packets from the flow at the first network element and the second network element to a measurement interval; and estimating the packet loss using a count of the sampled packets correlated to the measurement interval. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157841 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT FOR A NETWORK - A method and apparatus for determining a bandwidth requirement for a network are disclosed. For example, the method gathers data for one or more types of traffic, and determines an optimal traffic model for each of the one or more types of traffic in accordance with the data and one or more traffic model adaptation rules for each of the one or more types of traffic. The method then determines a demand forecast for each of the one or more types of traffic by applying the optimal traffic model for each of the one or more types of traffic, and determines a bandwidth requirement for the one or more types of traffic in accordance with the demand forecast. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157842 | Method and System for Discovering Isolated Network Fragments - A computer readable storage medium includes a set of instructions executable by a processor. The instructions are operable to receive a node indication for each of a plurality of undamaged backbone nodes of a communication network; receive a link indication for each of a plurality of backbone links connected between undamaged backbone nodes of the communication network; and assign a fragment identifier to each of a plurality of backbone fragments, each of the backbone fragments comprising one or more of the backbone nodes, wherein the one or more backbone nodes comprising each backbone fragment indicates connectivity between the one or more backbone nodes. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157843 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ROUTING IN A NETWORK - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server in communication with a first network element where the server includes a controller to determine routing values associated with a plurality of second network elements where the second network elements are interfaced with the first network elements where the first network elements and the second network elements utilize Interior Gateway Routing Protocol and where the routing values include at least one of routing algorithm constants, service provider routing identifiers, and size of largest deliverable packets, detect a mismatch among the routing values, determine a target routing value when the mismatch is detected and transmit the target routing value to at least one of the second network elements, where the routing values are adjusted in response to the transmitted routing value to match each other. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157844 | RESILIENT ATTACHMENT TO PROVIDER LINK STATE BRIDGING (PLSB) NETWORKS - A method system for interfacing a client system in a first network domain with a Provider Link State Bridging (PLSB) network domain. At least two Backbone Edge Bridges (BEBs) of the PLSB domain | 2010-06-24 |
20100157845 | System and Method for Relay Node Selection - A method for recommending a relay node to which a user agent attaches. The method includes recommending the relay node based on a relay node selection rank. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157846 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A NETWORK DATA PATH - Methods and systems for path determining a network data path are described. In one embodiment, equal cost multiple paths (ECMPs) for a proposed TE tunnel on a network may be determined. The proposed TE tunnel may extend between a head-end tunneling capable router and a tail-end tunneling capable router. The network may further comprise inter router links extending between tunneling capable routers. For each inter router link of at least a portion of the inter router links, a usage count may be established for that inter router link. The usage count may be the number of ECMPs for the proposed TE tunnel that use that inter router link. A tunnel path may be selected from the ECMPs for the proposed TE tunnel that has the lowest usage count of the inter router links. The selected tunnel path may be added to a model of the network. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157847 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING REDUNDANCY FOR AN ACCESS NETWORK - A method and apparatus for providing redundancy for an access network are disclosed. For example, the method receives an access network structure, and removes one or more unnecessary 2D edges or 3D edges from a simplex cover for the access network structure. The method then performs a search on the simplex cover; and, generates a new access network structure that includes the redundancy. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157848 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AND UTILIZING LOCAL MAPS AND ANNOTATIONS IN LOCATION DETERMINATION - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for retrieving a local map for a given area. One or more signals wirelessly transmitted from one or more wireless network elements may be received by a mobile device. The mobile device may identify an associated local map based at least in part on the received one or more signals. The associated local map and annotations associated with the associated local map may subsequently be obtained. The associated local map utilizes a predefined coordinate system. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157849 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DATA COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH DEVICE - A method and a device for data communication between a first instance and a network are provided, wherein the first instance is connected via a first interface with the network. In the novel method, the first instance is connected with the network via at least one second interface. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157850 | IN-BAND PROVISIONING FOR A CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP - In-band provisioning enables subscribers to manually provision themselves via an access point at which the subscribers would not otherwise be allowed access. For example, a subscriber may be temporarily accepted by a restricted access point (e.g., an access point that belongs to a closed subscriber group). The subscriber is then given limited access to enable the subscriber to be provisioned at the access point. For example, the subscriber may be provisioned for full access at the access point if the subscriber presents a valid authorization credential to a provisioning entity. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157851 | Information System for Telecommunications - A profiling system for establishing communication between a plurality of parties ( | 2010-06-24 |
20100157852 | Systems and methods for multiple mode voice and data communications using intelligenty bridged TDM and packet buses and methods for performing telephony and data functions using the same - Systems and methods by which voice/data communications may occur in multiple modes/protocols are disclosed. In particular, systems and methods are provided for multiple native mode/protocol voice and data transmissions and receptions with a computing system having a multi-bus structure, including, for example, a TDM bus and a packet bus, and multi-protocol framing engines. Such systems preferably include subsystem functions such as PBX, voice mail and other telephony functions, LAN hub and data router. In preferred embodiments, a TDM bus and a packet bus are intelligently bridged and managed, thereby enabling such multiple mode/protocol voice and data transmissions to be intelligently managed and controlled with a single, integrated system. A computer or other processor includes a local area network controller, which provides routing and hub(s) for one or more packet networks. The computer also is coupled to a buffer/framer, which serves to frame/deframe data to/from the computer from TDM bus. The buffer/framer includes a plurality of framer/deframer engines, supporting, for example, ATM and HDLC framing/deframing. The buffer/framer is coupled to the TDM bus by way of a switch/multiplexer, which includes the capability to intelligently map data traffic between the buffer/framer and the TDM bus to various slots of the TDM frames. Preferably, a DSP pool is coupled to buffer/framer in a manner to provide various signal processing and telecommunications support, such as dial tone generation, DTMF detection and the like. The TDM bus is coupled to a various line/station cards, serving to interface the TDM bus with telephone, facsimiles and other telecommunication devices, and also with a various digital and/or analog WAN network services. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157853 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PROTECTION AGAINST SPAM - A method and apparatus for providing protection against spam calls are disclosed. For example, the method receives a signaling message for setting up a call to a customer, and determines whether the call is from a caller that has been identified as being a spammer. The method processes the call using one or more filter rules for the customer, if the caller has been identified as being a spammer. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157854 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENDING DATA PACKETS BETWEEN MULTIPLE FPGA DEVICES - Application Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”) devices, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (“FPGAs”), may be interconnected using serial I/O connections, such as high speed multi-gigabit serial transceiver (“MGT”) connections. For example, serial I/O connections may be employed to interconnect a pair of ASICs to create a high bandwidth, low signal count connection, and in a manner so that any given pair of multiple ASIC devices on a single circuit card may communicate with each other through no more than one serial data communication link connection step. A reconfigurable hardware architecture (“RHA”) may be configured to include a communications infrastructure that uses a high-bandwidth packet router to establish standard communications protocols between multiple interfaces and/or multiple devices that may be present on a single circuit card. Dynamically-sized data packets, sized in accordance with the amount of data ready to be sent, are transferred between the devices and/or interfaces on the card. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157855 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless communication device includes a transceiving module, an antenna module, and a switch module. The transceiving module includes a first transceiver and a second transceiver. The antenna module includes at least a first antenna for transmitting electromagnetic signals in a first frequency range. The switch module switches different connections between the antenna module and the transceiving module, and includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, and a first duplexer. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157856 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING A CHANNEL DEVIATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A transmitting apparatus and a transmitting method for improving a channel deviation in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes a power amplifier for amplifying a transmitting signal by a predetermined level and outputting an amplified transmitting signal, a controller for outputting a signal to control a variable capacitor according to a channel of the transmitting signal and a phase transition unit for varying each capacitance value according to a control of the controller and transiting a phase of a signal outputted from the power amplifier. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157857 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING OF FREQUENCY ALLOCATED FOR MOBILE SATELLITE SERVICE USING SATELLITE AND ITS COMPLEMENTARY GROUND COMPONENT - A disclose is a frequency sharing apparatus and method for a mobile satellite service using a satellite and a CGC of the satellite. The frequency sharing method may include measuring a signal strength of a signal received from a satellite, determining a communication mode according to the measured signal strength; and communicating with one of the satellite and a CGC of the satellite, depending on the communication mode. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157858 | RF FRONT-END MODULE AND ANTENNA SYSTEMS - Architectures and implementations of a transceiver system for wireless communications are presented, the system including one or more antennas supporting a single frequency band or multiple frequency bands, a transmit circuit, a receive circuit, and an isolation circuit that is coupled to the one or more antennas and the transmit and receive circuits and provides adequate isolation between the transmit circuit and the receive circuit. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157859 | REMOTELY FED MODULE - In a method and device for the transmission of a multiplicity of signals having different frequencies between a base station and a module situated at a location remote from the base station via a single, common cable connection, some of the signals being transmitted from the electronic assembly to the module and, in general simultaneously, the remaining signals are transmitted in the opposite direction. Each of the base station and the module has bandpass filter bank therein having a multiplicity of bandpass filters, the number thereof being a function of the number of channels to be transmitted, with which the respectively received signals are spectrally separated from one another so that they are available for further signal processing in the base station, or for further use in the module. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157860 | HIGH-FREQUENCY CIRCUIT DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME - A high-frequency circuit device comprising at least first and second antenna terminals, at least first and second transmitting terminals for a first communications system, at least first and second receiving terminals for a first communications system, two or more switch circuits, and two or more filter circuits, the first transmitting terminal for the first communications system being connectable to the first antenna terminal, the second transmitting terminal for the first communications system being connectable to the second antenna terminal, the first receiving terminal for the first communications system being connectable to the first antenna terminal, and the second receiving terminal for the first communications system being connectable to the second antenna terminal. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157861 | BEAMFORMING SPATIAL DE-MULTIPLEXING FOR COLLABORATIVE SPATIALLY MULTIPLEXED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Techniques are provided herein to enable collaborative spatial multiplexing in a wireless communication system. At M plurality of antennas of a first wireless communication device, N plurality of spatially multiplexed transmissions are received from corresponding ones of N plurality of second wireless communication devices. The first wireless communication device produces M receive signals from the transmissions received at the M plurality of antennas. The first wireless communication device applies beamforming weight vectors to the M receive signals and in so doing produces N signals or signal streams, where N is less than or equal to M. The first wireless communication device then recovers the modulated data for each of the transmissions from the N signals. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157862 | Receiving Data in a Sensor Network - A sensor network has a plurality of wireless sensors which transmit to an intermediate receiving device which relays data to a central server. A method is provided for receiving data packets at the intermediate receiving device from a plurality of the transmitting devices. Data packets are sensed on a communication medium at the receiving device and the total traffic intensity of data packets from the transmitting devices is estimated. A detection threshold for data packets is provided and adapted as a function of the total intensity. The receiving device receives data packets with a signal strength above the current detection threshold. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157863 | Power management for wireless networks - Embodiments provide techniques for device power management in wireless networks. For instance, an apparatus may include a power management module, and a transceiver module. The power management module determines a beacon interval and a wakeup interval. The transceiver module to send a transmission to one or more remote devices that includes the beacon interval and the wakeup interval. The beacon interval indicates a time interval between consecutive beacon transmissions of the apparatus, and the wakeup interval indicates a time interval between when the apparatus receives two consecutive beacons from a peer device. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157864 | Scanning Methods And Apparatus For Mobile Devices In Wireless Local Area Networks For Reduced Power Consumption - One illustrative method for reducing power consumption in a mobile communication device of a wireless local area network (WLAN) involves the steps of identifying a communication signal quality value between the mobile device and a wireless access point of the WLAN with which the mobile device is currently associated; determining an initial timer value based on a predefined relationship with the communication signal quality value where, as the communication signal quality value decreases, the initial timer value correspondingly decreases; initializing a scan trigger timer with the initial timer value and running the scarf trigger timer; and upon expiration of the scan trigger timer: causing a scanning operation to be performed for identifying one or more wireless access points in a coverage region; and repeating the acts of identifying, determining, initializing and running the scan trigger timer, and causing the scanning operation to be performed. Preferably, the mobile device operates to refrain from performing scanning operations altogether when the communication signal quality value is greater than a scan trigger threshold value. The scan trigger threshold value may be derived from or calculated based on a previously-received or last-sampled communication signal quality value of the wireless access point sampled at a time when the mobile device chose to reassociate with a different wireless access point of the WLAN. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157865 | Power-Save for Wireless Networks - Embodiments of the present invention enable power-save methods for wireless networks. Embodiments of the present invention are compliant with the IEEE 802.11 protocol. Further, embodiments of the present invention are readily inter-operable with other third party implementations. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157866 | Apparatus and Method for Proxying Powered Off Interfaces Using the Active Interface - An apparatus comprising a mobile node (MN) comprising a first radio interface and at least one second radio interface, wherein a point of service (PoS) is configured to communicate with the MN via the first radio interface to proxy the second interface, and wherein the first interface is an active interface and the second interface is a powered off interface. Also included is an apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising setting an interface between a MN and a network in a powered off mode, tracking the mobility of the MN on behalf of the network when the interface is powered off, and waking up the interface when a call arrives in the network for the interface. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157867 | Pausing Keep-Alive Messages and Roaming for Virtual Private Networks on Handheld Devices to Save Battery Power - Provided is a method, system and programming product for maintaining a connection between a mobile device and a server over a wireless network in a manner that conserves the power supply of the mobile device. The claimed subject matter addresses the transmission of regular “keep-alive” packets to refresh a network address translation (NAT) server and the scanning for and connecting to faster, higher priority network connections. A configurable parameter, or power timeout, specifies an idle time. When a period of time equal to the parameter has passed with no traffic between the mobile device and the server, in either direction, periodic roaming scans and keep-alive messages are halted. As soon as traffic is resumed through the tunnel, the mobile device roams to the highest priority connection and roaming scans and keep-alive messages are resumed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157868 | WIRELESS INTELLIGENT SWITCH ENGINE - A wireless intelligent switch engine (WISE) is described. The wireless intelligent switch engine provides for automatic switching between different physical wireless interfaces in mobile devices while roaming to maintain a wireless network connection. WISE functions as a bridge between a mobile device and multiple wireless network interfaces to provide automatic and seamless switching among networks while roaming. The mobile device sees WISE as a LAN interface and communicates with WISE using the TCP/IP protocol stack, thus providing a PPP-less configuration that uses the TCP/IP protocol stack regardless of the wireless interface. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157869 | MANAGING TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS FOR GROUP COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Apparatuses and methods for managing transmission protocols for group communications are disclosed. In an example, an access network receives a forward link packet having a first transmission protocol, the forward link packet associated with a given group communication session. The access network determines whether the first transmission protocol is acceptable. The access network selects a second transmission protocol, if the determining step determines the first transmission protocol is not acceptable. The access network transmits the forward link packet in accordance with the second transmission protocol (e.g., by mapping the packet between transmission protocols at the access network). | 2010-06-24 |
20100157870 | MANAGING A MULTICAST GROUP MEMBERSHIP TABLE AT AN ACCESS NETWORK WITHIN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Managing multicast communications within a wireless communications system, including receiving, at an access network, a group status message including a multicast session identifier and at least one access terminal identifier. The access network updates a multicast group membership table based on the group status message. The multicast group membership table is configured to include a list of access terminal identifiers that have registered for the multicast session identified by the multicast session identifier. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157871 | Method And Apparatus For Data Package In Broadcast Networks - Disclosed relates to a method and apparatus for data transmission in broadcast networks, in which N×K pieces of inputted application data are segmented into a matrix B | 2010-06-24 |
20100157872 | METHODS OF OBTAINING SERVICE INFORMATION TO RECEIVE BROADCASTING SERVICE IN USER EQUIPMENT, AND SERVICE INFORMATION ANNOUNCEMENT METHODS PERFORMABLE IN SERVICE CENTER AND SERVER - Provided are a method of obtaining service information to receive a broadcasting service in a user equipment (UE), and service information announcement methods performable in a service center in charge of multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) control and a server interoperable with the service center. The method of obtaining MBMS information in a UE includes checking whether or not a previously defined event occurs in order to obtain service information, requesting an external server announcing service information to transmit service information according to whether or not the event occurs, and receiving service information transmitted in response to the service information transmission request and outputting the service information through a user interface (UI). | 2010-06-24 |
20100157873 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF RELEASING A POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT RADIO BEARER - A mobile terminal can release a point-to-multipoint radio bearer (RB) in an explicit manner or an implicit manner, whereby an explicit RB release mechanism allows the network to explicitly instruct the mobile terminal to release the RB, while an implicit RB release mechanism allows the mobile terminal itself to release the RB without receiving any explicit instructions from the network. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157874 | ADAPTIVE MODULATION FOR COOPERATIVE CODED SYSTEMS | 2010-06-24 |
20100157875 | Spatial reuse techniques with wireless network relays - In various embodiments of the invention, a relay station in a wireless communications network may communicate with one or more subscriber stations at the same time and/or on the same frequency that the associated base station is communicating with another relay station in the same network. This contrasts with the conventional technique of devoting one time period or frequency exclusively to communications between the base station and the relay stations, and devoting another time period or frequency exclusively to communications between the relay stations and the subscriber stations. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157876 | METHOD FOR SELECTIVE TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING ANTENNA REPETITION - Disclosed is a method for selective transmitting/receiving antennal repetition. A repeater performs wireless communication with a terminal located in a jurisdiction repetition area by using one transmitting/receiving antenna, and communicates with a base station by using multiple transmitting/receiving antennas. The repeater, in a downlink, selectively receives a signal transmitted from a specific transmitting antenna of the base station by using a signal process technology, and amplifies and transmits the signal to the repetition area. Further, in an uplink, the repeater receives a signal received from the terminal in the repetition area and then transmits the signal to the base station. In this operation, the signal transmitted to the base station is processed by the repeater such that a specific receiving antenna the base station can receive the signal with the largest strength. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157877 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING SEQUENCE TO SYNCHRONIZATION CHANNEL FOR NODE IDENTIFICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is an apparatus for allocating a sequence to a synchronization channel for a node identification (ID), the apparatus including: a base node sequence generator to generate a base sequence that is a sequence for a node ID of a base node; a relay node sequence generator to generate a relay sequence that is a sequence for a node ID of a relay node by transforming the base sequence; a baseband signal generator to generate a baseband signal by mapping the base sequence or the relay sequence to a frequency domain and a time domain; and a transmitter to transmit the baseband signal. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157878 | RELAY STATION FOR A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A relay station for being operative in a mobile communication system, comprising a receiver for receiving a radio signal from a source, the radio signal comprising symbols representing an encoded information, the encoded information being based on an encoding rule and comprising payload information and redundancy information. The relay station comprising a soft detector for detecting a symbol from the radio signal to obtain soft information, the soft information comprising information on the symbol and reliability information on the information on the symbol. The relay station further comprising a quantizer for quantizing the soft information to obtain quantized soft information and a transmitter for transmitting an information on the quantized soft information to a destination. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157879 | SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A plurality of modules interact to form an adaptive network in which each module transmits and receives data signals indicative of proximity of objects. A central computer accumulates the data produced or received and relayed by each module for analyzing proximity responses to transmit through the adaptive network control signals to a selectively-addressed module to respond to computer analyses of the data accumulated from modules forming the adaptive network. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157880 | METHOD OF ESTABLISHING UPLINK IN MOBILE SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method of establishing an uplink in a mobile satellite communication system, the method including: receiving a random uplink access signal from terminals included in a coverage of a satellite beam; estimating a location of each of the terminals; calculating an uplink transmission point in time when each of the terminals transmits an uplink signal, based on the estimated location of each of the terminals; transmitting, to each of the terminals, the calculated uplink transmission point in time; and receiving the uplink signal from each of the terminals at the calculated uplink transmission point in time. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157881 | BLIND IDENTIFICATION OF ADVANCED MODULATION AND CODING MODES - Methods and apparatuses for acquiring and demodulating a data stream transmitted in a communication system. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises finding a boundary of a physical layer frame (PLFrame) in the data stream, finding a first 26 bits of a Unique Word (UW) associated with the data stream, finding a scrambling code utilizing the UW, and using a decoding procedure to determine a modulation type and code rate used for desired signals within the data stream. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157882 | Communication Network Control System, Communication Terminal, and Communication Network Control Method | 2010-06-24 |
20100157883 | VOICE OVER IP CELL PHONE - A cellular telephone is disclosed that allows a user to access a VoIP service provider using the WAP protocol to send and receive telephone calls to other users via the internet or other data network. The cellular telephone includes a cellular portion that formats messages to be sent to and from a cellular base station, a WAP portion that interfaces with the internet to send, receive, and display data therefrom. The cellular telephone also includes an audio gateway to sample, analog to digital convert, compress, and packetize an audio signal to prepare the audio signal to be transmitted via the internet to the second user, | 2010-06-24 |
20100157884 | BASE STATION DEVICE AND MOBILE STATION DEVICE - A base station device and a mobile station device both enabling improvement of the reception quality of transmission data at a mobile station by preventing a sequence for establishing synchronism and the transmission data from interfering with each other. In the base station device ( | 2010-06-24 |
20100157885 | SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AND SYNCHRONIZING METHOD FOR PLURALITY OF BASE STATIONS AND MOBILE STATION IN A FORWARD LINK WIRELESS TRANSMISSION - There is provided a radio communication system in which a mobile station which has decided to switch a base station can immediately be synchronized with the base station to which switching is to be made. Each of the base stations creates a synchronization signal for the mobile station to synchronize with the base station from an upstream pilot signal received from the mobile station, creates upstream propagation quality information from the upstream pilot signal, and creates a downstream control signal including the synchronization information and the upstream propagation quality information, and transmits them. The mobile stations creates an upstream pilot signal, transmits the signal, receives a signal including a downstream control signal from each of the base stations, extracts the upstream propagation quality and information on synchronization with the base stations from the received downstream control signal, and selects an optimal base station from the received upstream propagation quality as a new current base station. If the selected base station is different from the current base station, the transmission timing of the upstream pilot signal is modified to the transmission timing based on the synchronization information extracted from the downstream control signal of the selected base station and transmitted. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157886 | PREAMBLE CAPTURE AND MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL - An apparatus and method for wireless communications configured to receive simultaneous transmissions from a plurality of wireless devices, with each of the transmissions having a reference signal, acquire the reference signals and, based on information obtained from the acquisition of the reference signals, select the transmission from one of the wireless devices for timing synchronization and decoding. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157887 | System, Arrangements And Method Relating To Access Handling - The present invention relates to a system comprising a core network access packet data node ( | 2010-06-24 |
20100157888 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY OF BROADCAST COMMUNICATIONS IN A MULTI-HOP WIRELESS MESH NETWORK - Systems and methods are provided for improving efficiency and reliability of broadcast transmission in a multi-hop wireless mesh communication network. In some implementations, systems and methods are provided for a leaf mesh node to acknowledge reception of a broadcast packet broadcast by an Intelligent Access Point (IAP), and for allowing the IAP to determine whether to re-communicate the broadcast packet that it had previously re-transmitted when no acknowledgment is received from a leaf mesh node. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157889 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF BROADCAST COMMUNICATIONS IN A MULTI-HOP WIRELESS MESH NETWORK - Systems and methods are provided for improving efficiency and reliability of broadcast transmission in a multi-hop wireless mesh communication network. When an intelligent access point (IAP) receives a broadcast packet (BP), the IAP can determine a list of downlink child mesh nodes (DLCMNs) of the IAP based on route information provided in its routing table. After the IAP knows its DLCMNs, the IAP can determine a first lowest data rate (LDR) between the IAP and each of its DLCMNs, and then re-transmit the BP at the first LDR. The BP is then received by at least one “parent” mesh node, which can then perform similar processing, and can then re-transmit the BP to its DLCMNs. This process repeats until the BP reaches a leaf mesh node. In other words, each mesh node can determine its DLCMNs, determine the LDR between itself and each of its DLCMNs, and can then re-transmit the BP at this LDR. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157890 | METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION USING AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION - A data communication method includes providing a sender node having a data packet of information. The data packet includes at least one first field and a second field. The second field has content that is dependent upon actual content of the at least one first field. The content of the second field of the data packet is transmitted from the sender node to a receiver node. The receiver node is used to predict the actual content of the first field of the data packet. The receiver node is used to calculate the content of the second field of the data packet based upon the predicted content of the first field. The predicted content of the first field is confirmed to be equivalent to the actual content of the first field. The confirming step includes comparing the calculated content of the second field to the transmitted content of the second field. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157891 | FEMTOCELL CALL MANAGEMENT - When a call is received for a device within a femtocell area of coverage, all devices within the femtocell area of coverage are rung. The call is connected to the first device that picks up. All devices can be rung at the same time or in a predetermined order. The first device rung can be the device that was most recently moved or the device that was most recently active. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157892 | MOBILITY SUPPORTING METHOD - Provided is a mobility supporting method of a mobile router. The method includes generating an area identifier to identify an open shortest path first area; and transmitting routing information including the area identifier to an access router. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157893 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for transmitting data in a wireless communication system. The apparatus for transmitting a packet data in a wireless communication system includes a Media Access Control (MAC) layer for determining the number of the number of preambles to be inserted based on a feed-back reply signal from a receiver, and generating a multi-preamble aggregation packet by inserting the determined number of preambles into packets received from an upper layer and a physical layer for forming the multi-preamble aggregation packet generated in a data processing unit, by using a physical layer packet, and transmitting the formed multi-preamble aggregation packet. | 2010-06-24 |