26th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 37 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110158152 | Method for transmitting non-user-specific control information in a wireless communication system - A method for transmitting non-user-specific control information in a wireless communication system includes: in a downlink time period which includes one or more time zones, a base station sends non-user-specific control information in a time zone in which user specific control information is sent; and a terminal obtains and decodes the non-user-specific control information, then obtains information needed to decode user specific control information according to the obtained non-user-specific control information. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158153 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TERMINAL RELAY AND RELAY TERMINAL - The present invention discloses a system and a method for terminal relay and a relay terminal to improve the security and authenticity of the terminal relay. The system for the terminal relay includes a first terminal, a second terminal and a base station, where the first terminal is adapted to process information according to a packet data convergence protocol and transmit the information to the second terminal; the second terminal is adapted to receive the information from the first terminal and forward the information to the base station; and the base station is adapted to receive the information from the second terminal and parse the information according to the packet data convergence protocol. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158154 | BROADCAST RETRANSMITTING METHOD, BROADCAST RETRANSMITTING APPARATUS, REPLAY APPARATUS, AND BROADCAST RETRANSMITTING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A broadcast retransmitting method, a broadcast retransmitting apparatus, a relay apparatus and a broadcast retransmitting system using the same, are provided. The broadcast retransmitting apparatus includes a demodulation unit which receives and demodulates a modulated broadcast, a modulation unit which modulates the demodulated broadcast, a spectrum sensing unit which detects an available band through spectrum sensing, and a control unit which retransmits the modulated broadcast to at least one surrounding apparatus. The broadcast retransmitting method includes receiving and demodulating a broadcast which has been modulated according to a first modulation method, and modulating the demodulated broadcast according to a second modulation method different from the first modulation method; detecting an available band from an idle band through spectrum sensing; and retransmitting the broadcast which has been modulated in the second modulation method to at least one surrounding apparatus using the detected available band. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158155 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING QUALITY OF SERVICE IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE HOP RELAY COMMUNICATION - A Relay Station (RS) apparatus and an operation method for managing a Quality of Service (QoS) in a broadband wireless communication system with multi-hop relay communication are provided. The operation method of the RS includes, if generation of a service flow is requested from a Portable Subscriber Station (PSS) accessing the RS, allocating a first downlink IDentifier (ID) corresponding to the service flow to a first tunnel between a Base Station (BS) and the RS, transmitting the first downlink ID to the BS and requesting the BS to establish a second tunnel between the BS and an Access Control Router (ACR) for the service flow, receiving a response to the request of establishing the second tunnel and a first uplink ID corresponding to the service flow and allocated to the first tunnel, and storing the first uplink ID. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158156 | METHOD AND SYSTEM USING RELAYS WITH AGGREGATED SPECTRUM - International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) Advanced technology, also known as 4th Generation (4G) targets to support up to 100 MHz BW. LTE currently supports single carrier bandwidths of up to 20 MHz. The present application describes a multi-carrier approach in which some embodiments of the invention provide a simple solution of aggregating multiple single carrier bandwidths to obtain a wider bandwidth (>20 MHz). Such an approach may extend Long Term Evolution (LTE) bandwidth to greater than that provided by a single carrier, yet maintain full backward compatibility with technologies that predate 4G technology and utilize smaller, single carrier bandwidths. More generally, embodiments of the invention can apply to other communication standards than only LTE. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158157 | RELAY STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION RELAY METHOD - A relay station | 2011-06-30 |
20110158158 | Satellite Telephony - Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to packetization techniques for satellite transmission of data, such as telephony data. Some embodiments use the MPEG2 standard in connection with the ETSI DVB data piping profile for arranging the data. Embodiments also relate to method for receiving, demultiplexing and managing incoming telephony data to support a variety of telephony applications including voice, facsimile, Internet and other data. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158159 | EFFICIENT UPLINK SDMA OPERATION - According to various embodiments, a computer-implemented method is disclosed that allows an AP to efficiently poll various information from STAs belonging to a SDMA group. Each STA may transmit uplink frames using uplink SDMA mechanism. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158160 | IP ENCAPSULATION AND ROUTING OVER WIRELESS RADIO NETWORKS - Various methods of operating a wireless mesh network are disclosed herein. According to various embodiments, an Internet Protocol (IP) router generates IP addresses for wireless sensor nodes that do not have native support for the IP protocol stack. The IP router then receives and translates an incoming IP request and routes the incoming IP request to the appropriate wireless sensor node. In some embodiments, an IP data packet can be encapsulated and routed using an IP router and an IP bridge device. In other embodiments, an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) session can be managed over a wireless mesh network. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158161 | PROTOCOL FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MOBILE STATION AND WIMAX SIGNALING FORWARDING FUNCTION - A protocol for communication between a mobile station and a WiMAX signaling forwarding function is generally presented. In this regard, a method is introduced including generating a packet containing a header and a broadband wireless network message, the header to establish communication between a broadband wireless network single radio server and a mobile station in communication with a wireless network of a different standard from the broadband wireless network, storing the packet in a buffer, and transmitting the packet through a core network. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158162 | Method for interworking among wireless technologies - A method is provided for interworking of mobility key management among access networks operating under different access technologies. The method is carried out by performing mobility key management by a core-network authentication server based on the access technology that a mobile terminal accessing a wireless network has selected for operation. The method of the invention defines authentication server behavior based on different access technologies and therefore solves the technology interworking issue seamlessly. The method of the invention also facilitates coexistence of more than two different access technologies without any need for each access technology to be modified in order to interwork with core network that is specified by another technology. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158163 | ENERGY EFFICIENT INTEGRATED ROUTING PROTOCOL - A Link Layer (e.g., TCP/IP Layer 1, OSI Layer 2) routing protocol that routes frames from a sending node to a receiving node based upon service solicitation and availability is proposed. The routing protocol may reduce control messages across the layers, and may achieve greater energy efficiency by placing non-participating nodes into a sleep mode for durations of time while an ad hoc network is being utilized by participating nodes. The proposed scheme may also reduce network setup time by enabling routing as soon as a service and corresponding request is initiated. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158164 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR JOINT PROCESSING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which signals are received from a plurality of base stations, and a measurement is made of synchronization parameters between the plurality of base stations at a user equipment. A signal is transmitted from the user equipment to at least one of the plurality of base stations with information about the synchronization parameters. The base station determines an offset in the received synchronizations and adjusts a transmission waveform based on the determined offset. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158165 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE VOICE SERVICE MANAGEMENT - Methods and apparatus for mobile voice service management are described. An example method includes receiving a mobile network request for registering with a mobile network and responsive to the mobile network request, sending a response including an area identity list and an identifier indicating whether an area identified in the tracking area identity list supports a service. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158166 | ROBUST HEADER COMPRESSION FOR RELAY NODES - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate compressing headers for relay nodes. In particular, a robust header compression (RoHC) profile can be defined for general packet radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP) headers. Upon receiving a packet with one or more GTP headers, an access point or relay node can determine whether the one or more GTP headers are compressible and can apply the RoHC profile to compress the one or more GTP headers. In addition, the packet can include a baseheader encapsulated by the one or more GTP headers, which can also be compressed according to a RoHC profile specific to the baseheader. Moreover, RoHC compressed headers can be decompressed according to the GTP RoHC profile. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158167 | TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNAL IN TRANSMITTING SYSTEM - A transmitting system and a method of transmitting digital broadcast signal are disclosed. The method of transmitting digital broadcasting signal in a transmitter includes multiplexing a specified number of mobile data packets, a first scalable number of mobile data packets, and a second scalable number of main data packets, interleaving mobile data in the mobile data packets and main data in the main data packets, transmitting the interleaved mobile and main data during a slot, wherein the data group includes a plurality of first blocks, each first block including a plurality of data segments, specified block of the plurality of first blocks including the mobile data, known data sequence, trellis initialization data and RS parity bytes inserted in pre-determined position of the data group, wherein the data group includes a plurality of regions, wherein the last region includes the first scalable number of mobile data packets. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158168 | SIGNAL INTERFERENCE HANDLING METHOD AND SYSTEM AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A signal interference handling method adapted to a cellular system, and a system and an apparatuses using the same are provided, where the cellar system includes a macro/micro cell base station (MBS), a home base station (HBS), and a MBS-served mobile station (m-MS), and the signal interference handling method includes steps. The m-MS detects whether there is mutual interference. The m-MS sends an interference mitigation (IM) request to the HBS if there is mutual interference. The HBS enters a low duty mode (LDM) after the HBS receives the IM request. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158169 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ACKNOWLEDGING THE CONTROL INFORMATION - A method of acknowledgment by a receiver includes: receiving a control message via a payload of a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) from a transmitter or receiving control information through an extended header or signaling header of the MAC PDU; and transmitting an acknowledgment of the control message or control information through an acknowledgment extended header containing information about whether the acknowledgment is an acknowledgment of the control message or an acknowledgment of the control information. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158170 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNAL - A digital broadcasting system and a method for transmitting and receiving digital broadcast signal are disclosed. The method for processing a digital broadcast signal comprises processing the digital broadcast signal in at least two transmission modes, wherein the processing comprises first processing for a first transmission mode comprising forming a data group including mobile service data and place holder data for main service data, an MPEG-2 header and non-systematic RS parity data, removing the place holder data for main service data and non-systematic RS parity data in the data group, replacing the place holder data for the MPEG-2 header with an MPEG-2 header having a packet ID of mobile service data packets, thereby forming and outputting 118 mobile service data packets including data in the data group, multiplexing the outputted mobile service data packets and 38 main service data packets. Second processing for a second transmission mode of the processing comprises forming a data group including mobile service data, forming and outputting M numbers of mobile service data packets including data in the data group, wherein the M is an integer equal to or greater than 118 and equal to or less than 156, multiplexing the outputted mobile service data packets and N numbers of main service data packets when the N is not zero, wherein a sum of the M and N is 156 and transmitting the first and second processed digital broadcast signal. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158171 | Decentrallizing Core Network Functionalities - The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for providing network access, wherein a connection to a core network is established via a wireless access device and a gateway device. Connectivity of the wireless access device is restricted to a pre-defined group of core network address of a pool of gateway devices with multi-node connectivity to the core network, and a single address is selected to establish the connection to a one of the gateway devices. The gateway device is provided with a relay function for mapping a single input address to a plurality of core network addresses based on a location information of the wireless access device and with at least one co-located decentralized core network functionality. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158172 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENFORCING INTERNET USERS' GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONING TRACEABILITY - A method for enforcing Internet users' geographical positioning traceability, through the building of a community of several network elements with known geographical locations with identified boundaries. The network access to the community is controlled and access of external devices to the community is only possible within one connectivity hop from the network elements of the community. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158173 | SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING BROADBAND WIRELESS SIGNALS INDOORS - system for distributing broadband wireless signals indoors includes a radio access node, connected to a telecommunication access network via an access interface, where said radio access node comprises a broadband-signal-transmitting/-receiving module configured to transmit and receive broadband wireless signals via a broadband radio interface; at least one client device comprising a broadband-signal-transmitting/-receiving module configured to transmit and receive broadband wireless signals to/from said radio access node via said broadband radio interface. It also comprises a control channel configured to exchange control signals between said radio access node and said at least one client device over a control radio interface, each of said radio access nodes and at least one client device comprising a control-signal-transmitting/receiving module configured to establish said control channel for transmitting and receiving wireless signals over said control radio interface. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158174 | Method and System For Establishing A Connection Between Network Elements - The invention provides a method and system for establishing or handling a connection between a first and a second network element connected to different networks such as GPRS/UMTS and IP-based networks. The connection is established by means of at least one third network element such as a SGSN or GGSN arranged in one of the networks. The third network element is adapted to send, when receiving information on an establishment of a connection, a request to a fourth network element which may be a Call State Control Function (CSCF), a Policy Control Function (PCF), or a Call Processing Server (CPS). The request requests permission for establishing a requested type of connection, or requests a check of a connection parameter, and specifies the first and/or second network element and/or the connection or connection type to be established. The fourth network element returns a response specifying a permission for establishing a connection or connection type, or specifying a connection parameter. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158175 | Wireless Device For Voice Communication - A wireless handset for use in a peer-to-peer voice communications system comprising: a display; a keyboard comprising multifunctional keys capable of entering numeric or alphabetic characters depending on a number of key presses, said keyboard being arranged to enter contact information into a user interface displayed on said display, select contacts on the user interface, and initiate a packet data voice call with a contact; a microprocessor arranged to execute embedded client software, wherein the client software is arranged to establish a packet data voice call over the network and encode speech information as individually addressed packets; and a radio communication device arranged to transmit said individually addressed packets as radio signals from said wireless handset to a network. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158176 | Method for Wireless Data Transmission - A method for wireless data transmission between a base station and a transponder is provided, in which data are transmitted between the base station and the transponder in the form of data packets that include a header section with at least one symbol for setting one or more transmission parameters and include at least one additional section. The transponder monitors, during the data transmission, to determine whether a time period between two successive symbol delimiters transmitted by the base station exceeds a maximum time, and if the maximum value is exceeded, a receiver unit of the transponder is reset. The maximum time can be determined in the transponder on the basis of the at least one symbol in the header section. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158177 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION CONTROL DEVICE, AND BASE STATION DEVICE - There are provided a communication system, a base station control device, and a base station device capable of improving communication quality. In the communication system ( | 2011-06-30 |
20110158178 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EDGE CACHING WHEN CUMMUNICATING DATA - A communication system for distributing data over an area. The system includes a base station configured to transmit common data over a range that is within the area. The system also includes a plurality of nodes, wherein each node is configured to receive the common data from the base station when within the range, receive the common data from another node when within the area, store and transport the common data, transmit the common data to another node within the area, and display the common data. Neither the base station nor nodes individually are capable of transmitting data over the entire area, but the features of the nodes provide for propagating the data by passing the data from node to node when two nodes are within relatively close proximity to each other. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158179 | NETWORK-AWARE ADAPTER FOR APPLICATIONS - Streams of data traffic from various applications may be handled by a network-aware adapter module as part of a greater platform for filtering communicating the streams to intelligent network components. A distinguishing factor associated with a given data stream may be determined and used as a basis for selecting a QoS policy setting for the given data stream. The selected QoS policy setting may then be signaled to a media access control layer to take advantage of the QoS function of the embedded underlying active media type that is active and optimal (both from technical and business perspective) to carry out the communication for the application. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158180 | METHOD OF PROCESSING RECEIVED SIGNALS, CORRESPONDING RECEIVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR - Signals received from channels exposed to multi-path propagation via a plurality of diversity antennas and including at least one pilot signal are processed by detecting a set of multi-path components for each received signal and computing a set of channel coefficients from multi-path components of the at least one pilot signal in the set of multi-path components. The set of channel coefficients is organized as a channel coefficient vector. From the channel coefficient vector, a set of combining weights is estimated to be applied to the received signals by: computing a spatial correlation matrix of the channel coefficient vector by neglecting the correlations between multi-path components of the channel coefficient vector having different delays, whereby the correlation matrix is a block diagonal matrix including null coefficients other than for non-null sub-matrixes arranged along the diagonal of the correlation matrix, wherein the sub-matrixes have a size equal to the number of diversity antennas; deriving from the spatial correlation matrix a resulting matrix by calculating the inverse of the sub-matrixes or a scaled version thereof; and multiplying the resulting matrix and the channel coefficient vector in order to obtain the desired set of combining weights. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158181 | Mechanism To Uniquely Identify And Unify A User's Set Of Packet Bearer Contexts In A Mobile Telecommunications - A traffic plane entity (e.g., user plane entity (UPE), serving gateway (S-GW)) and method are described herein for allocating a unique identifier (e.g., UPE/S-GW UE-Context-Id) which identifies and unifies a set of bearers within a UE context that is associated with a given UE. In operation, the traffic plane entity can then send the allocated unique identifier to another entity (e.g., mobility management entity (MME)) which at a subsequent time re-sends the unique identifier back to the traffic plane entity along with a request to have the traffic plane entity perform a specific operation or procedure on the bearers associated with the UE context of the given UE. Upon receiving the request, the traffic plane entity uses the unique identifier to perform the requested operation or procedure simultaneously on all of the bearers associated with the UE context of the given UE. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158182 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PACKET SCHEDULING - A method of operating a communication system having a plurality of data channels for downlink transmission from a base station to a plurality of subscriber stations. The method comprises receiving, at a base station, an inflow having a plurality of packets of a plurality of connections, each the connection being with one of a plurality of subscriber stations, regulating the inflow according to a throughput rate, setting a deadline to each the packet in the regulated inflow as a function of its reception time, and scheduling a transmission of the plurality of packets to the plurality of subscriber stations according to their deadlines so as to guarantee substantially the throughput rate for each one of the plurality of connections. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158183 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING REGISTRATION OF AGGREGATE END POINT DEVICES THROUGH PROVISIONING - A method and apparatus for enabling registration of an Aggregate End Point (AEP) device that is incapable of supporting a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) registration are disclosed. The method performs a static registration of the AEP device in a plurality of network elements associated with an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network by provisioning. The method then processes an originating call request or a terminating call request associated with the AEP device using the static registration. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158184 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A SHARED WIRELESS NETWORK - Resource allocation is performed in a shared wireless network that includes multiple cells, a shared wireless network QoS manager, and multiple local QoS managers. The shared wireless QoS manager receives from multiple ones of the local QoS managers on a per cell and per QoS service class basis (for a plurality of QoS service classes): an aggregation of current cell usage estimations; an aggregation of cell load level indicators, and an aggregation of additional resources needed. Using this received information, the shared wireless network QoS manager: determines a total capacity of each cell that is needed to satisfy a total resource need on a cell by cell basis for the local QoS managers; and based on a maximum capacity for each cell, allocates to each local QoS manager a percentage of their total resource need. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158185 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS USING A PERMUTATION SEQUENCE - A method for data transmissions in a wireless communication system includes: allocating resources for data to be transmitted; providing a seed number from the communication system; setting, based on the seed number, at least one parameter for a pseudo-random mapper having an input variable and an output variable; initializing an array with a number of base elements; increasing a current value of the input variable by a current value of a counter; and calculating a value of the output variable based on the pseudo-random mapper and the increased value of the input variable. The method further includes: swapping a first base element and a second base element in the array, the first base element being identified based on the current value of the counter, and the second base element being identified based on the value of the output variable; performing permutation on the resources by using the array as a permutation sequence; and transmitting the data. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158186 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system is provided that facilitates an expedited exchange of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) acknowledgment by scheduling the TCP acknowledgment at a higher priority than Best Effort and/or by arranging for a scheduling of the TCP acknowledgment based on a predicted transmission of a request to schedule the TCP acknowledgment. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158187 | RADIO RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND BASE STATION DEVICE - A radio resource assignment method, wherein it is determined at a predetermined timing whether a cell is congested or not; the determination result is notified to adjacent base stations; results of determination of congestion or non-congestion received from adjacent base stations are stored; when it is determined that the base station is not congested, a check is made whether or not the adjacent base stations are congested; when the adjacent base stations are congested, the use of the resource blocks is restricted to decide an empty resource block; and information on the decided resource block is notified to the adjacent base stations. When it is determined that the base station is congested, the information on the empty resource blocks received from the adjacent base stations is checked, and the empty resource blocks are assigned to mobile terminal devices within the cell. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158188 | System and Method for Uplink Timing Synchronization in Conjunction With Discontinuous Reception - A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wire-less communication system. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158189 | Methods and Apparatus for Multi-Transmitter Collaborative Communications Systems - Method and apparatus for reception of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transmission in a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations. The method includes receiving, by a receiving device, one or more media access control (MAC) messages including a plurality of identifiers of neighboring base stations, and receiving, by the receiving device, a bistream including a plurality of bits, each bit representing one base station of the plurality of base stations. The method also includes determining, by the receiving device, at least one of the plurality of identifiers of neighboring base stations included in the one or more received MAC messages based on the received bitmap. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158190 | CELLULAR RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION APPARATUS AND RADIO TERMINAL UNIT - In a cellular radio communication system including of multi-antenna base stations, to make effective use of the reduced interference in supposing the use of beam form and avoid the interference in an adjacent station even if a space multiplex and the beam form are mixed. Frequencies intended for the cell edge in an FFR are classified into frequencies for space multiplex and a frequency for beam form. Thereby, a frequency at which the interference is reduced by the beam form is fixed. A frequency intended for the cell center is in a frequency band and signals are transmitted from three base stations. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158191 | UPLINK DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL DESIGN FOR MIMO TRANSMISSION - A base station capable of communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations is provided. The base station transmits control information and data to at least one of the plurality of subscriber stations in a subframe using a subset of antenna ports corresponding to a subset of antenna port numbers. The base station maps reference signals corresponding to the subset of antenna ports according to a transmission rank R. The base station indicates, via a cyclic shift indicator (CSI) field in an uplink grant, an assigned resource index corresponding to the mapped reference signal. The CSI field includes a cyclic shift and an orthogonal cover code (OCC) index. The subscriber station uses a resource mapping table to identify the assigned resource index based on the transmission rank, cyclic shift and OCC index. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158192 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY OPERATING FAST FEEDBACK CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for efficiently operating a fast feedback channel in a wireless communication system are provided. A method for operating a feedback channel in a Base Station (BS) of a wireless communication system includes identifying feedback information types of one or more feedback channels intended to be deallocated among a plurality of existing allocated feedback channels for a Mobile Station (MS), activating a bit corresponding to the identified feedback information type in a ‘deallocation bitmap’ field within a DownLink (DL) control signal, and transmitting the DL control signal to the MS. Among the feedback information types of the plurality of existing allocated feedback channels, the feedback information type having the smallest value corresponds to the highest priority bit among bits within the ‘deallocation bitmap’ field. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158193 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A method and apparatus are provided for use in a wireless communications system to enable dynamic selection of k sub-MAPs, and rates for transmitting these k sub-MAPs within communication frames. The method comprises the steps: a) for at least one communication frame comprised within a first interval of time, retrieving information on statistical distribution of downlink (DL) channel rates for a group of subscriber devices; b) based on that information, selecting k and corresponding transmission rates for k sub-MAPs, to minimize total amount of resources to be allocated for MAP and sub-MAPs transmission within that communication frame comprised within the first time interval and/or within a second interval of time that proceeds the first interval of time; and c) transmitting the k sub-MAPs at the selected corresponding transmission rates in communication frames comprised within the first time interval and/or within the second interval of time that proceeds the first one. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158194 | Scheduling of Data Transmissions in Multi-Carrier Data Transmission Networks - The invention relates to a scheduling of data transmissions in multi-carrier data transmission systems, e.g. multi-carrier W-CDMA systems. A method embodiment of performing one or more data transmissions in a multi-carrier data transmission network ( | 2011-06-30 |
20110158195 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE AND CQI REPORT METHOD - Provided is a wireless communication mobile station device by which a throughput can be improved in multicarrier communication. In the device, a group control section ( | 2011-06-30 |
20110158196 | FRAME STRUCTURE FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A frame format used in a wireless communication system, more particularly an OFDMA TDD wireless communication system, of the kind that includes a base station and a plurality of fixed or mobile subscriber stations, the base station maintaining connections with each of the subscriber stations by performing wireless communication in units of frames having the frame format, and within each frame, allocating resources for data transmission and signalling. Each frame has a plurality of downlink subframes and a plurality of uplink subframes including, in time order, a first downlink subframe, a first uplink subframe, a final downlink subframe and a final uplink subframe. One or more further downlink subframe/uplink subframe pairs may be interposed between the first and final subframes as desired, and the configuration can be changed dynamically. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT OPERATION OF AN ENHANCED DEDICATED CHANNEL - A method for processing enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) data in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes sending two messages. A first message is sent from a physical layer to a medium access control (MAC) layer, and triggers MAC layer processing of E-DCH data. A second message is sent from the MAC layer to the physical layer, and enables the physical layer to compute control parameters for physical layer processing of the E-DCH data before the MAC layer processing of the E-DCH data is completed. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158198 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING BEACON SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF - Methods and apparatuses of transmitting a beacon using fragmentation are disclosed. One of the methods includes configuring a beacon in a manner that a schedule block selected for a specific wireless device (deice) only is included in an information element by a coordinator and transmitting the configured beacon to the specific wireless station directionally. Accordingly, an overhead of a beacon can be reduced in a manner of transmitting information specified to a station using a directional beacon or transmitting the beacon by dividing information contained in the beacon into several fragments. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158199 | GROUP SHARED DISTRIBUTED RESERVATION PROTOCOL | 2011-06-30 |
20110158200 | POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods are described to supply positioning reference signal (PRS) in a telecommunication system. A base station supplies a PRS sequence according at least to a time-frequency pattern of modulation symbols, wherein the time-frequency pattern assigns a modulation symbol to each frequency tone in a block of time-frequency resources allocated to transmit PRS. The base station associates a modulation symbol in the time-frequency pattern with a reference symbol in the PRS sequence through a mapping that represents the time-frequency pattern. The PRS sequence is conveyed to user equipment through delivery of a set of modulation symbols established through the mapping. Different time-frequency patterns can be exploited based on time-structure of a radio sub-frame. The user equipment receives the PRS sequence according to at least the time-frequency pattern of modulation symbols and utilizes at least the PRS sequence as part of a process to produce a location estimate. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158201 | RADIO TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A radio terminal ( | 2011-06-30 |
20110158202 | CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (CDMA) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A subscriber unit for use in a multiple access spread-spectrum communication system includes a spread spectrum radio interface, responsive to a rate function signal from a base station, and first and second despreaders. The base station assigns the rate function spread-spectrum message channels and the first despreader recovers and modifies an information signal one of the spread spectrum message channels. The information channel mode is then modified for processing by the second despreader, with the second despreader supporting a different information signal rate. The subscriber unit has a capability of communicating with a dynamically changing a transmission rate of an information signal which includes multiple spread spectrum message channels. The system includes a closed loop power control system for maintaining a minimum system transmit power level for a radio carrier station and the subscriber units, and system capacity management for maintaining a maximum number of active subscriber units for improved system performance. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158203 | PROPORTIONAL FAIR SCHEDULING WITH PACKET TRANSMISSION - A scheduler for transmission of Packetized data over a transmission link between a base station device and various terminal devices, each packet being associated with one terminal device, and the packets being of variable length. The scheduler calculates for each terminal device a proportional fair allocation metric, assigns a next available channel transmission resource to a device having a best metric, but only actually sends a next packet to a respective terminal device provided that respectively allocated and as yet unused channel transmission resources are sufficient to accommodate the next packet. Thus the packets are sent unfragmented and based on a proportional fair resource allocation. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158204 | RELIABLE AND LOW-LATENCY SENSOR NETWORK MAC SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SUPERFRAME - Provided are a reliability-based, real-time sensor network medium access control (MAC) communication system and method using a superframe. The superframe includes an active duration which is a time duration in which a communication is established, and a sleep duration which is a time duration in which no communication is established. The active duration includes a beacon block in which a plurality of beacon transmission nodes are respectively allocated beacon slots for transmitting a beacon frame, and a forwarding block in which each of sinks nodes is allocated a slot for unifying data regarding the sink node and data regarding sensor nodes managed by the sink node and transmit the result of unifying in order to establish a communication between the sink nodes and between each of the sink nodes and a base station. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158205 | Method And Apparatus For Concerted Signal Transmission On Multiple Antennas - A communication method is provided for use in a network in which users are allocated respective symbol positions within timeslots for communication to the respective users from a base station. A signal periodically transmitted from at least two antennas of the base station to a user terminal represents coded information. The signal is transmitted within each of a plurality of periodic timeslots. Within each timeslot, each antenna transmits the same coded information only during an assigned symbol position. The symbol positions assigned to the respective antennas are separated in time according to a specified sequential spacing of symbol positions within the timeslot. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158206 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATION GUARANTEED TIME SLOTS FOR EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION OF TIME-CRITICAL DATA IN IEEE 802.15.4 WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS - A guaranteed time slot allocation scheme is provided for the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for use in wireless personal area networks having sensor devices to overcome bandwidth under-utilization for time-critical or delay-sensitive data transmissions. A fractional knapsack problem is formulated to obtain optimal guaranteed time slot allocation with which a minimum bandwidth requirement is guaranteed for the sensor devices. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158207 | System, Method, and Device for Providing Temporary Communication and Calendaring Applications in a Private Network - A communication device ( | 2011-06-30 |
20110158208 | UPDATING AN IGMP MEMBERSHIP REPORT WHEN A WIRELESS CLIENT DEVICE ROAMS ACROSS IP SUBNETS - A network is provided that includes a first WLAN infrastructure device (WID) that defines a first subnet, and a wireless client device (WCD) that is initially associated with the first WID. The WCD associates with a “current” WID when the wireless client device roams from the first subnet to a second subnet defined by the current WID. Upon successful association, the current WID unicasts a first IGMP query message (IGMPQM) to the WCD that has a MAC header including a destination MAC address that is set to a MAC address of the WCD. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158209 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING PRESENCE STATE OF A STATION IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN) - A method and apparatus for presence state determination at an access point of a station determines whether a station associated with the access point is responsive to the access point to indicate the station is “present” or “not present”. The access point informs a presence server when the station's presence state changes. The presence server does not therefore need to rely on presence handshaking between the presence server and the station. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158210 | DYNAMIC WIRELESS NETWORK APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Exemplary dynamic wireless network apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a plurality of wireless-network-enabled devices configured to communicate with one another when within wireless transmission range of one another, one of the wireless-network-enabled devices including a gateway to an established network. A wireless-network-enabled device within the wireless-network-enabled devices is configured to exchange telemetry data with one or more of the other wireless-network-enabled devices when located within the wireless transmission range of the one or more of the other wireless-network-enabled devices, and selectively and dynamically perform, based on the exchanged telemetry data, one or more connectivity operations to form a dynamic wireless network configuration. For example, the device may selectively and dynamically establish an upstream connection to one of the one or more of the other wireless-network-enabled devices, based on the exchanged telemetry data, to form a data transmission path between the device and the gateway. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158211 | METHOD AND APPARATUS THAT FACILITATES INTERFERENCE REDUCTION IN WIRELESS SYSTEMS - Techniques for managing interference in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one aspect, an estimated interference associated with data transmission over a plurality of subcarriers on an uplink is determined The estimated interference may relate to intermodulation products associated with a parallel transmission over the plurality of subcarriers. Based at least partly on the estimated interference, data received on the downlink can be processed, and subcarriers can be selected for data transmission on the uplink. Additionally, resources can be assigned to a wireless device according to the estimated interference. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158212 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONNECTION METHOD - According to an embodiment, a communication terminal includes a wireless communication unit, a radio signal detection unit, and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs a wireless communication process with other terminal that transmits a radio signals for requesting the wireless communication between terminals. The radio signal detection unit waits for the radio signals with lower operating power than operating power when the wireless communication unit waits for the radio signals. The control unit activates the wireless communication unit to cause the wireless communication unit to perform a connection process of the wireless communication when the radio signal detection unit detects the radio signal. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158213 | Short message service transceiving server device, short message service transceiving method and computer program storage product thereof - A short message service (SMS) transceiving server device, an SMS transceiving method and a computer program storage product thereof are provided. The SMS transceiving server device comprises a first server unit and a second server unit. The first server device having source information is configured to receive a first user message from a first user device, to assign the source information to the first user message, and to transmit a first SMS with the source information and the first user message to a second user device. When the second user device replies a second SMS with the source information and a second user message in response to the first SMS, the second server unit is configured to receive the second SMS, and to transmit the second user message of the second SMS to the first user device according to the source information. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158214 | Cellular phone in a body of a home/office telephone - This invention is a telephone station for placement in the home or work environment which can send and receive telephone calls over CDMA & GSM communication bands and direct link satellite communication such as Iridium and other similar systems. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158215 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING EXISTING WI-FI ACCESS POINTS INTO A SINGLE UNIFIED NETWORK - The present invention comprises a system and method for providing a distributed wireless network. In a preferred embodiment, at least one information processor is coupled to and accessible over a communication network, such as the internet. Network bandwidth is provided to a first user of at least two end users for a first fee and to a second user of the at least two end users for a second fee. The bandwidth is provided by at least one network service provider. Further, at least two wireless gateway devices are each respectively operated by the end users, and the wireless gateway devices are configured to provide wireless access to the communication network within a transmission range and to communicate with the at one least information processor. Also, at least two wireless receiving devices are provided that are operable to receive the respective bandwidth from the at least two wireless gateway devices when in transmission range. Preferably, the first user is authorized to use the second bandwidth and the second user is authorized to use the first bandwidth via the wireless devices. Thus a system and method of sharing bandwidth is provided. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158216 | Idle Connection State Power Consumption Reduction In A Wireless Local Area Network Using Beacon Delay Advertisement - 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 Wake For Beacon Reception time accordingly to wake up at a time much closer to the actual receipt of the Beacon, thereby reducing power consumption due to the reduced time the receive circuits need to be powered on. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158217 | Method and System for Intercommunication between Mobile Terminal and WiMAX Base Station, and Mobile Terminal - A method for intercommunication between a mobile terminal and a WiMAX base station comprises: connecting the mobile terminal with a WiMAX wireless data card via an interface (S | 2011-06-30 |
20110158218 | Techniques utilizing step size adaptation for differential beamforming in wireless networks - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method used in transmit beam forming, comprising, providing differential feedback by using variable differential codebooks across a plurality of feedbacks wherein the differential codebooks may have different shapes, and/or spans, and/or the numbers of codewords across feedbacks. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158219 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of sending data in a multiple antenna system according to an aspect of the present invention includes performing precoding on received symbols based on a second codebook generated from a first codebook for a plurality of transmission antennas and sending the precoded symbols. The second codebook is a codebook for transmission antennas which are a multiple of an integer of the plurality of transmission antennas, and a precoding matrix included in the second codebook is generated by a combination of precoding matrices included in the first codebook. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158220 | MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL METHOD IN WIRELESS NETWORK - A media access control method in a wireless network is provided. Each of devices in the wireless network determines one of a plurality of beacon slots within a beacon period as a beacon slot of the device. The devices in the wireless network determine a data transmission order in accordance with the slot numbers of the beacon slots of the devices in a reserved period of a data transmission period. Data is transmitted in the unreserved period in accordance with the determined data transmission order. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158221 | Support of Plural Chip Rates in CDMA System - In a CDMA system ( | 2011-06-30 |
20110158222 | CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS WITH SUPPORT FOR CONVERTING VOICE CALLS TO DATA SESSIONS - Wireless electronic devices such as cellular telephones may communicate with computing equipment such as servers over a network. Voice telephone calls may be routed over voice links in a voice network and data may be conveyed over data links in a data network. The voice network may be formed using the public switched telephone network. The data network may be formed using the Internet. Cellular base stations may form wireless links with the wireless devices. A server may store information on the current internet protocol address of a wireless device user. The user may place a voice telephone call to an organization. In response to receiving the voice telephone call, a server may automatically transmit information such as web pages or other data that includes interactive on-screen options to the wireless device using the current internet protocol address of the device. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158223 | METHOD, SYSTEM NETWORK AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR CONTROLLING OUTGOING TELEPHONY CALLS TO CAUSE INITIATION OF CALL FEATURES - The present invention discloses numerous implementations for IP-based call processing systems that can selectively control an outgoing call initiated by a source device to a destination device. The call processing system causes a Service Switching Point (SSP) associated with the source device to initiate a media connection between the IP-based call processing system and the source device. The call processing system further causes initiation of a call feature for the outgoing call using the media connection with the source device. The call feature may include a call restriction feature, a call feature for conveying an audio element to the source device, a call record feature and a call feature for conveying information to the source device. The call processing system further causes establishment of a media connection between the source and the destination devices. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158224 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TELEPHONE EXCHANGE APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a Network Address Translator (NAT) rooter and a telephone exchange apparatus. The NAT router comprises a transfer module configured to transfer a communication packet brought from the global network to the telephone exchange apparatus. The telephone exchange apparatus comprises a memory configured to store a map table in which a terminal ID specifying the terminal, and an address and a port number specifying the network are correlated with each other, and a controller configured to refer to the map table, and notify the terminal connected to the global network of an address and a port number of the telephone exchange apparatus's own apparatus as an address and a port number of the communication partner, and bring the communication path between the terminals into the apparatus. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158225 | TELEPHONE APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A telephone apparatus that can be connected to both an IP network and a public switched telephone network, the telephone apparatus includes: a microphone unit, a speaker unit, an operation unit that is operated by a user and a call control unit. The call control unit includes a call processing unit and a relay unit. The relay unit includes a call request transmission section; a conversion section; an analog voice data transmission section; and a digital voice data transmission section. Another telephone apparatus that can be connected to the IP network can perform a voice data communication with a public line telephone apparatus connected to the public switched telephone network, via the above-described telephone apparatus. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158226 | DIGITAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR, AND METHOD OF MANAGING SUCH A SYSTEM - A digital telecommunications system | 2011-06-30 |
20110158227 | GATEWAY HAVING DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING FUNCTION, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - Conventionally, in a system where devices for handling multiple media data such as audio and video are present, there is a problem that the number of audio channels that can be processed at the gateway is limited. In light of this problem, this invention offers a gateway having distributed processing function for a telephone or a data processing system featuring the capability to request address conversion to another terminal within the system to replace the address of stream-type packet data such as audio and video meant for itself, and if the aforementioned terminal to which the request was sent responds that it can handle the requested processing, to notify the address of the terminal processing the address conversion to the terminal transmitting the stream-type packet data. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158228 | Methods, smart cards, and systems for providing portable computer, VOIP, andapplication services - A smart card is used with a network based system to providing portable telecommunication and computing services. In an exemplary embodiment the smart card holds a user authentication code and user telephony account information. The smart card transfers the user authentication code and the account information to one of a plurality of geographically dispersed card readers which are each connected to a local telephony device. When the smart card is plugged into a first card reader, telephone calls directed to the smart card user's follow-me telephone number are received at a first local telephony device. When the smart card is plugged into a second smart card reader, telephone calls directed to the follow-me telephone number are received at a second telephony local device. Hence the user is enabled to receive and place calls using any of the geographically dispersed telephony devices as though they were his/her own personal landline or cellular telephone supplied by his/her telephony services provider. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158229 | CLOCKING OF CLIENT SIGNALS OUTPUT FROM AN EGRESS NODE IN A NETWORK - Consistent with the present disclosure, client data, which may include multiplexed data sub-streams, is supplied to an ingress node of a network. Each sub-stream typically has a corresponding data rate, i.e., an original data rate, prior to multiplexing. The client data is encapsulated in a plurality of successive frames that are output from the ingress node and propagate, typically through one or more intermediate nodes, to an egress node. At the egress node, data rates associated with the sub-streams included in each frame are determined based on the amount of client data in each frame. The data rates are then averaged over a given number of frames to thereby filter any wander or deviation in the client data rate. Based on the averaged data rate, justification opportunities are added to the client data in each sub-stream, which are then multiplexed into frames that are output from the egress node. By including the justification opportunities, the effective rate of each sub-stream may be set equal to the original data rate when the sub-streams are demultiplexed after being output from the egress node. An advantage of the present disclosure is that the justification opportunities, are not generated based solely on clock signals generated by PLL circuits. As a result, fewer PLL circuits are required, thereby simplifying system design and minimizing power consumption. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158230 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MULTI-HOMING TO AN AGGREGATE ENDPOINT DEVICE - A method and an apparatus for providing multi-homing to an aggregate endpoint device over a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method receives a session request directed towards a user endpoint device by a routing device. The method receives at least one Public User Identity (PUID) for the user endpoint device if the session request is for a subscriber of a service with multi-homing via an aggregate endpoint device. The method selects a route for sending the session request in accordance with the at least one PUID and a route priority information of the PUID associated with the user end point device, wherein the route with a highest priority is selected, and forwards the session request via the selected route. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158231 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A communication system includes a first communication terminal, a second communication terminal that has not established communication with the first communication terminal, and a third communication terminal that has established communication with the first communication terminal. The second communication terminal transmits to the first communication terminal a request packet that requests establishment of communication, and receives from the first communication terminal a permission packet that permits establishment of communication. The second communication terminal then establishes communication with the first communication terminal and performs communication with the first communication terminal. A second receiving device receives the request packet from the third communication terminal, after the first receiving device has received the permission packet from the first communication terminal; The second communication terminal transmits the permission packet to the third communication terminal, and establishes communication with the third communication terminal and performs communication with the third communication terminal. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158232 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PLANNING A ROUTE - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining shortest route(s) or path(s) to one or more destination nodes from one or more origin nodes. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes identifying a plurality of origin nodes associated with a route based on a threshold distance from at least one destination node, the origin nodes being options for a departure from the route to the at least one destination node. Further, the method may include calculating, using a processor, a cost associated with travelling from each of the origin nodes to at least one common intermediate node between the route and the at least one destination node, and determining a path to the at least one destination node based on the origin node having the lowest calculated cost. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158233 | GROUP COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MEDIA SERVER HAVING DISTRIBUTED STRUCTURE AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a group communication method in a terminal, including: receiving session information and connection management server information; checking whether there is a connection terminal pre-connected to a session corresponding to the session information on own network; when there is the connection terminal at the check result, accessing to a media server that the pre-connected terminal accesses; when there is no connection terminal at the check result, receiving a media server list by accessing to the connection management server based on the connection management server information; selecting and accessing to a media server in the provided media server list; and performing group communication through the session object on the same session. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158234 | TELEPHONE EXCHANGE SYSTEM, TELEPHONE EXCHANGE APPARATUS, AND TELEPHONE TERMINAL - According to one embodiment, a telephone exchange system includes a plurality of telephone terminals and a telephone exchange apparatus. The plurality of telephone terminals connected to a communication network. The telephone exchange apparatus registers the telephone terminals through the communication network, and execute multicast packet transmission of media signal including at least one of picture, voice, and data to the telephone terminals connected to the communication network. A first telephone terminal of the telephone terminals comprises a packet transfer configured to convert a received multicast packet into a unicast packet receivable by a second telephone terminal, and sends the converted unicast packet to the second telephone terminal. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158235 | STREAM DELIVERY SYSTEM, CALL CONTROL SERVER, AND STREAM DELIVERY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a stream delivery system includes a plurality of terminals, a call control server and a media server. The media server selectively execute multicast stream delivery and unicast stream delivery according to an instruction from the call control server. The terminal includes a transmitter configured to send the call control server an adjustment request including identification data to identify a media file being reproduced. The call control server comprises a determination module configured to determine whether the media file being reproduced is the unicast stream delivery or multicast stream delivery, based on the identification data included in the adjustment request and a controller configured to request the media server to adjust a stream delivery position. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158236 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A CALL TO AN AGGREGATE ENDPOINT DEVICE - A method and an apparatus for processing a call to an aggregate endpoint device over a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a session request by an application server, wherein a route header for the session request comprises an aggregate endpoint identifier, and determines at least one Public User Identity (PUID) of the aggregate endpoint device in accordance with the aggregate endpoint identifier. The method obtains a Serving-Call Session Control Function Fully Qualified Domain Name (S-CSCF FDQN) of a Serving-Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) that performs a termination processing for the aggregate endpoint device, and forwards the session request to the S-CSCF with a route header that comprises the PUID of the aggregate endpoint device. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158237 | MODIFICATION OF PEER-TO-PEER BASED FEATURE NETWORK BASED ON CHANGING CONDITIONS / SESSION SIGNALING - A device communicates with feature peers, associated with a network, to obtain information associated with the feature peers, and receives a customer packet that includes a feature header. The device also modifies, based on the feature peer information, current condition state signaling, and other information, the feature header to create a modified customer packet, and determines, based on the feature peer information, the current condition state signaling, and the other information, which of the feature peers support a feature associated with the modified customer packet. The device further selects, from the determined feature peers, a set of feature peers for the modified customer packet to traverse, and forwards, based on the modified feature header, the modified customer packet to one of the feature peers in the selected set of feature peers. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158238 | IP Cache - Each device (A, B) keeps an IP cache list storing IP address of devices it has communicated with in the past over an IP network ( | 2011-06-30 |
20110158239 | METHOD OF COMMUNICATING PACKET MULTIMEDIA TO RESTRICTED ENDPOINTS - A method, performed in a network element, for communicating packet multimedia data between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, the method comprising the machine-implemented steps of receiving an outbound multimedia data packet; determining if the outbound multimedia data packet originated from a first endpoint that is logically behind a security device; determining and storing information identifying a logical pinhole in the security device, wherein the logical pinhole is associated with expected inbound multimedia data packets directed to the first endpoint; performing an action that keeps the logical pinhole open during all of a communication session between the first endpoint and the second endpoint; and forwarding inbound multimedia data packets directed from the second endpoint to the first endpoint via the logical pinhole. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158240 | Method and apparatus for realizing unicast reverse path forwarding - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for realizing unicast reverse path forwarding. In this method, an access equipment snoops into and obtains an announcement message from a router, wherein the announcement message contains address prefix information; the access equipment establishes a prefix table based on the obtained address prefix information, receives an access request message from a customer premises equipment, determines whether a source IP address of the access request message exists in the prefix table, and decides whether to forward the message to the router based on a result of determining. According to the technical solution provided by the present invention, the message from the customer premises equipment is processed through the obtained routing information of the router interface, thus a pseudo data packet can be filtered out, and address filter control is realized at the access equipment. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158241 | Method and device for transmitting control message based on multi-ring ethernet - A method and device for transmitting a control message based on a multi-ring Ethernet are provided, wherein the method comprises the following steps: control virtual local area networks of a main ring and a sub-ring are configured (S | 2011-06-30 |
20110158242 | TRANSPORTING OBJECT PACKETS IN A NESTED SYSTEM LANDSCAPE - Described are methods and systems related to transporting one or more object packets present in a nested hierarchy of one or more system landscapes. The object packets available for transporting from source systems to target systems present in the nested hierarchy of the system landscapes is identified. A transport request is generate for a collection of object packets of each source system in the nested hierarchy of the system landscapes. The transport requests are aggregated to render a nested transport collection. The nested transport collection is transported within the nested hierarchy of the system landscapes. The nested transport collection is deployed to assign the transport requests present in the nested transport collection to the target systems present in the nested hierarchy of the system landscapes. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158243 | METHOD OF DATA TRANSMISSION, DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A method of data transmission that includes: transmitting first data to be transferred in a synchronous packet using a second asynchronous packet having priority higher than that of a first asynchronous packet; and requesting transmission of second data following the first data using the second asynchronous packet after a lapse of a certain time from the transmission of the second asynchronous packet. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158244 | INTELLIGENT ETHERNET GATEWAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING SERIAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Systems, devices, and computer readable media for optimizing serial communication networks provide an intelligent network gateway through which network data flows. Systems and devices monitor network requests for data packets supplied by slave computing devices, examine the supplied data packets, and copy the supplied data packets to a memory device. The supplied data packets are delivered to a first requesting network device and when an additional network request for the data packets is made by a second requesting network device the data packets are delivered from the memory device to the second requester in response to the additional network request without interrupting the slave computing device to redundantly supply the data packet. Polling by multiple requester devices for redundant data from slave computing devices is avoided. Communication response times are improved, data caching is provided for devices that have no logging memory, and optimum communication settings can be automatically determined. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158245 | NETWORK DEVICE WITH VIRTUAL SWITCH FABRIC - Methods and apparatus for processing packet data are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a plurality of network interfaces configured to send and receive packet data. The example apparatus further includes a switching module coupled with the plurality of network interfaces, the switching module being configured to communicate the packet data to and from the plurality of network interfaces. The example apparatus still further includes a fabric interface controller coupled with the switching module. The example apparatus also includes a virtual fabric interface controller coupled with the fabric interface controller. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158246 | NETWORK SYSTEM OF DATA COMMUNICATION - A data communication network system comprises: a data receiving layer which comprises data communication terminals (DCT), a route layer which comprises routers. Each of the routers receives data from the DCTs or from other router | 2011-06-30 |
20110158247 | PACKET COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, A MEMORY ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE, AND AN INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM - A packet communication control device transfers a control packet and a data packet and includes a plurality of sending units and a multiplexer which separates a data communication path and a control communication path, multiplexes the control packets and transfers the multiplexed control packets by the control communication path and the data packet by the data control path. The average Round Trip communication time can be shortened and the hardware cost can be reduced because the Shortest-Job-First control is implemented by separating data communication pathway from control communication pathway logistically or physically, and also multiplexing the control communication pathway with control packet. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158248 | DYNAMIC PRIORITIZED FAIR SHARE SCHEDULING SCHEME IN OVER-SUBSCRIBED PORT SCENARIO - A network device receives initial policer limits for a plurality of over-subscribing ingress ports, where the initial policer limits are based on existing bandwidth limits for an over-subscribed egress port associated with the over-subscribing ingress ports. The network device receives a high threshold watermark and a low threshold watermark for bandwidth usage of the over-subscribed egress port, and identifies a queue, associated with the over-subscribed egress port, with values outside the high threshold watermark or the low threshold watermark. The network device reduces the initial policer limits for the plurality of over-subscribing ingress ports when the queue has values above the high threshold watermark, and increases the initial policer limits for the plurality of over-subscribing ingress ports when the queue has values below the low threshold watermark. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158249 | Assignment Constraint Matrix for Assigning Work From Multiple Sources to Multiple Sinks - An assignment constraint matrix method and apparatus used in assigning work, such as data packets, from a plurality of sources, such as data queues in a network processing device, to a plurality of sinks, such as processor threads in the network processing device. The assignment constraint matrix is implemented as a plurality of qualifier matrixes adapted to operate simultaneously in parallel. Each of the plurality of qualifier matrixes is adapted to determine sources in a subset of supported sources that are qualified to provide work to a set of sinks based on assignment constraints. The determination of qualified sources may be based sink availability information that may be provided for a set of sinks on a single chip or distributed on multiple chips. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158250 | Assigning Work From Multiple Sources to Multiple Sinks Given Assignment Constraints - A method and apparatus for assigning work, such as data packets, from a plurality of sources, such as data queues in a network processing device, to a plurality of sinks, such as processor threads in the network processing device. In a given processing period, sinks that are available to receive work are identified and sources qualified to send work to the available sinks are determined taking into account any assignment constraints. A single source is selected from an overlap of the qualified sources and sources having work available. This selection may be made using a hierarchical source scheduler for processing subsets of supported sources simultaneously in parallel. A sink to which work from the selected source may be assigned is selected from available sinks qualified to receive work from the selected source. | 2011-06-30 |
20110158251 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND CONTENT RECEPTION DEVICE - Both a first method, in which a packet used to transmit distribution content is divided into two or more containers and the divided containers are transmitted at the same time, and a second method, in which the divided containers are transmitted at different times, are executed in a content distribution system. A download terminal selectively executes high-speed downloading by the first method and low-speed downloading by the second method, thus allowing the user to use a download service according to the terminal performance. | 2011-06-30 |