| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7394763 |
Routing for networks with content filtering |
July 1, 2008 |
| A network of nodes interconnected by links has content filtering specified at certain nodes, and routing of packet connections through the network is generated based on the specified content-filtering nodes. The network is specified via a content-filtering node placement method and a |
| 7392520 |
Method and apparatus for upgrading software in network bridges |
June 24, 2008 |
| Method for upgrading software in a network bridge that is part of a VLAN includes sending notification to other bridges of the VLAN that the bridge is scheduled for upgrading; suspending VLAN registration and membership information in the other bridges while upgrading the bridge; res |
| 7392459 |
Method and apparatus for preventing a false pass of a cyclic redundancy check at a receiver duri |
June 24, 2008 |
| At the receiver in a wireless communications system, the likelihood of a false CRC pass that can occur when a weak received signal produces an all ZERO output from a convolutional or a turbo decoder is minimized. To prevent an all ZERO output, a convolutional decoder selects from among |
| 7392055 |
Method for allocating resources in a wireless data system based on system loading |
June 24, 2008 |
| Resource allocation in a wireless data system determines a load condition of the system and adapts a target quality of service (QoS) characteristic, accordingly. Data transmission parameters may be assigned, or adapted, for the wireless units based on the adapted target QoS character |
| 7392035 |
Consolidated billing in a wireless network |
June 24, 2008 |
| Consolidated billing in a wireless network is achieved by employing a processing node having storage capabilities for facilitating service creation and/or negotiation, and billing for those services in a wireless network, by associating user information and/or service information with |
| 7391936 |
Microfluidic sensors and methods for making the same |
June 24, 2008 |
| Microfluidic optical sensor comprising: an optical waveguide capable of propagating light from an optical input port to an optical output port, the optical waveguide comprising an optical waveguide interaction region; a fluidic channel capable of conducting a fluid from a fluid input por |
| 7391830 |
Receiver of digital data bursts comprising an antenna array, and a method of receiving |
June 24, 2008 |
| A receiver of digital data bursts is provided comprising an antenna array, a first space time filter having filter coefficients initialized by estimation over just training data in a received burst and providing symbol estimates and a second space time filter having filter coefficien |
| 7391826 |
Decoding method and apparatus |
June 24, 2008 |
| A method of decoding is provided comprising processing iterations. In each processing iteration, there is a first Max-Log-MAP decoding operation giving rise to a systematic error due to the Max-Log approximation, and a first weighting operation to weight extrinsic information from the fi |
| 7391769 |
Packet aggregation for real time services on packet data networks |
June 24, 2008 |
| A method and equipment is used to transmit and/or receive time delay-intolerant information over a communication system. The information is transmitted in aggregated form. A plurality of packets representing time delay-intolerant information is combined to form an aggregate packet. T |
| 7391755 |
Signaling and control mechanisms in MIMO harq schemes for wireless communication systems |
June 24, 2008 |
| A method for conveying signaling information of a communication system that uses MIMO antenna systems. To enable a relatively larger amount of information to be conveyed over the communication system and thus exploit the use of the MIMO antenna system, forward link signaling channels are |
| 7391737 |
Method and apparatus for measuring quality of service in voice-over-IP network applications base |
June 24, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for measuring Quality-of-Service (QoS) in packet-based communications networks for Voice-over-IP applications is advantageously based not only on packet loss information but also on particular characteristics of the speech data itself. Measurement of failures o |
| 7388882 |
Method for dynamically reconfiguring wireless network capacity |
June 17, 2008 |
| A method for dynamically reconfiguring wireless network capacity purchased by a service provider from a network equipment/software provider. The method includes: a) determining if a current demand for network capacity exceeds a first value, b) if the current demand exceeds the first valu |
| 7388838 |
Method and apparatus for adjustable QoS based admission control and scheduling WLANs |
June 17, 2008 |
| An advance over the prior art is achieved through an efficient method for an admission control algorithm and a scheduling mechanism that complement each other in providing the following three classes of service. A first class of service is termed Class 1 where users specify a nominal amo |
| 7388490 |
Methods and systems for locating VOIP terminals for improved 911 service |
June 17, 2008 |
| Systems and methods are presented for providing updated VOIP terminal location information to emergency call service providers, in which RFID tags are positioned at various locations within an enterprise and coded with unique tag data. A database is provided with a mapping of RFID tag |
| 7388430 |
Enhanced digital predistortion |
June 17, 2008 |
| In one embodiment of the present invention, a weight vector is generated based on a pre-distorted input signal and an output signal of an amplifier using a computation reduction technique. The computation reduction technique decomposes a number of multiplication operations between co |
| 7386556 |
Substitute manager component that obtains state information of one or more software components u |
June 10, 2008 |
| An apparatus in one example comprises a substitute manager component that upon failure of a first manager component, obtains management responsibility for a distributed software application from the first manager component and queries one or more software components of the distribute |
| 7386320 |
Apparatus and method for use in the multicast of traffic data in wireless multiple access commun |
June 10, 2008 |
| In a wireless communications system, multicast messages are transported to groups of wireless terminals by employing a common control channel to transmit a multicast paging message indicating that multicast traffic data is to be transmitted to a particular group of wireless terminals. In |
| 7386235 |
Protocol and line-rate transparent WDM passive optical network |
June 10, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for a protocol and line-rate transparent WDM passive optical network architecture that scales in terms of bandwidth and number of ONUs. Both an included optical line terminal and each of a plurality of ONUs use substantial |
| 7385954 |
Method of transmitting or retransmitting packets in a communication system |
June 10, 2008 |
| A method of transmitting or retransmitting a packet in a communication system. The method includes determining a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) to reduce the packet error rate (PER) for transmission, where the MCS is an aggregate of M redundant packet transmissions as a function of |
| 7385951 |
Methods of transmitting and signaling over a reverse link in wireless systems |
June 10, 2008 |
| In a wireless communication system, there is a method of transmitting over a reverse link, where a medium access control layer multiplexes data from upper level layers onto transport channels that are used based on whether the user is in a scheduled transmission mode or an autonomous |
| 7385944 |
Method of interference cancellation in communication systems |
June 10, 2008 |
| In a method of canceling interference, a base station selects a known highest data rate user transmission from a received first signal containing a group of user transmissions. The known highest rate user transmission may be configured as one or more frames, each frame including a co |
| 7385706 |
Method and apparatus for determining the nonlinear properties of devices and fibers |
June 10, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for measuring samples of the electric field of light propagated through a device under test and determining a nonlinear property of the device, such as self-phase modulation or cross phase modulation, using the measured samples. |
| 7385220 |
Fiber having dielectric polymeric layer on electrically conductive surface |
June 10, 2008 |
| Fibers having an electrically conductive outer surface and having an average diameter of less than about 5 millimeters; and a dielectric polymeric layer comprising a polymer having a main polymer chain on the outer surface, the dielectric polymeric layer having a thickness of less th |
| 7383349 |
Controlling the flow of packets within a network node utilizing random early detection |
June 3, 2008 |
| A method and system for controlling the flow of packets within a network node is disclosed. The method comprises receiving packets that are intended for a queue, classifying each of packets into at least one of a plurality of traffic classes and applying class-specific random early d |
| 7382747 |
Selecting a subset of automatic request retransmission processes |
June 3, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a method of wireless telecommunication of according to an automatic repeat request protocol supporting a plurality of processes. The method includes selecting a subset of the plurality of processes based on a block size of at least one data packet, the subs |
| 7379864 |
Method and apparatus for the detection of previous packet loss in non-packetized speech |
May 27, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for detecting previous packet loss in non-packetized speech by applying one or more filters to a segment of said non-packetized speech, each of said one or more filters determining an energy parameter value for a given frequency band of said segment of said non |
| 7379743 |
Providing navigation services based on subscriber input location information stored in a telecom |
May 27, 2008 |
| A node in the telecommunication network supports location and direction services that are especially suited for wireless subscribers. Location coordinates such as determined by the global positioning satellite system are entered by a subscriber from the location to be marked. The node |
| 7379647 |
Configuring optical launch powers in optical fiber transmission lines |
May 27, 2008 |
| A method includes transmitting optical signals through a heterogeneous sequence of spans of an all-optical transmission line. Each span has an optical transmission fiber connected to an optical amplifier. Each amplifier launches the signals into a sequential remainder of the line. Th |
| 7376977 |
Defense against virus attacks |
May 20, 2008 |
| A method, software, and computer system for defending against virus attacks is described. Assume that a computer system receives an instruction to run an executable file. Before the computer system runs the executable file, the computer system determines if the executable file is cer |
| 7376840 |
Streamlined service subscription in distributed architectures |
May 20, 2008 |
| Cryptography is used to generate a token that both authorizes request processing and establishes constraints on that authorization. A mobile communications device user or client subscribes to an information service of a content provider. A description of the subscribed service is gen |
| 7376427 |
Methods and apparatus for resource management in integrated wireless data and voice communicatio |
May 20, 2008 |
| Techniques for transmission control in a wireless communication system are described. In a system comprising a plurality of voice and data users, a threshold is set reflecting a minimum gain at which a data user will be allowed to transmit. At each of a plurality of time slots, the c |
| 7376419 |
Call triggering to one or more service nodes upon receipt of initial trigger response |
May 20, 2008 |
| An originating mobile switching center of an apparatus in one example handles one or more calls. A serving mobile switching center for a communication device on a call of the one or more calls passes control of the call to the originating mobile switching center. The originating mobi |
| 7376404 |
System and method for detecting a fault in a multiple receiver system |
May 20, 2008 |
| A system and method for receiving output signals from each receiver of multiple receivers, the output signals generated based on receipt of a same transmission; incrementing a count value associated with each receiver based on the output signals; and determining whether a fault in a |
| 7376360 |
Optical device for extracting a sideband signal from a composite signal including orthogonally m |
May 20, 2008 |
| An optical device extracts an information bearing sideband such as an FSK or SCM signal (label) from a composite signal that includes the sideband and an orthogonally modulated signal such as an intensity modulated signal (payload) by employing polarization beam splitting and polariz |
| 7376356 |
Optical data transmission system using sub-band multiplexing |
May 20, 2008 |
| In accordance with the invention, an optical data transmission system of enhanced flexibility is provided by sub-band multiplexing of a WDM channel. Specifically, an exemplary optical data transmission system comprises an optical source for generating a plurality of frequency spaced |
| 7376353 |
Method and apparatus for dispersion management in optical mesh networks |
May 20, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for dispersion management in hybrid data rate long haul mesh networks are provided. The apparatus comprises a dispersion compensator for fully compensating the residual dispersion of a fiber link in the mesh network. A de-interleaver is coupled to the dispersion |
| 7376311 |
Method and apparatus for wavelength-selective switches and modulators |
May 20, 2008 |
| An apparatus and method are provided for manipulating light beams propagated through an optical apparatus that includes a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) and free-space optics unit. A multi-wave optical signal coupled to the PLC is propagated through a first and second waveguide array |
| 7376208 |
Reception method for packetized information with automatic repeat request |
May 20, 2008 |
| A decoding method is carried out in a receiver configured to accept format information relating to sequences of input data, to use format information in the decoding of each input sequence, and to issue an acknowledgement signal in the event that an input sequence is successfully dec |
| 7376119 |
Method of controlling downlink transmission timing in communication systems |
May 20, 2008 |
| In a method of controlling downlink transmission timing at a radio network controller (RNC) in a communication system, a relative window is determined. The relative window represents a time difference between an arrival time of a data frame at the RNC from a core network, and a target |
| 7376081 |
Establishment of QoS by applications in cellular networks using service based policy control mec |
May 20, 2008 |
| An apparatus in one example may have: at least two endpoints operatively coupled to one another via an application function (AF) in a home network; a policy decision function operatively coupled to the AF; a policy decision enforcement (PDE) operatively coupled to the one of the endp |
| 7375628 |
Message transmission in one or more languages based on one or more personal information componen |
May 20, 2008 |
| An information component of an apparatus in one example selects one or more languages for transmission of one or more messages to one or more personal information components based on one or more inputs from one or more of the one or more personal information components. |
| 7373499 |
Methods and apparatus for delegation of cryptographic servers for capture-resilient devices |
May 13, 2008 |
| Improved cryptographic techniques are provided by which a device that performs private key operations (e.g., signatures and/or decryptions), and whose private key operations are protected by a password, is immunized against offline dictionary attacks in case of capture by forcing the |
| 7373311 |
Method for constructing an updateable database of subject behavior patterns |
May 13, 2008 |
| Disclosed is a method for maintaining compact descriptions of the behavior of customers in a database of information relating to customer transactions. Of all possible variables that might be used to characterize customer transactions, a limited number are selected on the basis of di |
| 7373294 |
Intonation transformation for speech therapy and the like |
May 13, 2008 |
| The intonation of speech is modified by an appropriate combination of resampling and time-domain harmonic scaling. Resampling increases (upsampling) or decreases (downsampling) the number of data points in a signal. Harmonic scaling adds or removes pitch cycles to or from a signal. T |
| 7373151 |
Distributed dynamic channel allocation technique for multi-carrier CDMA cellular systems with mo |
May 13, 2008 |
| A distributed dynamic channel allocation algorithm for a multi-carrier CDMA cellular system having at least one mobile base station. The distributed dynamic channel allocation algorithm uses channel power measurements from both the requesting mobile station and the mobile base statio |
| 7373091 |
Multicasting optical switch fabric and method of detection based on novel heterodyne receiver |
May 13, 2008 |
| The inventors propose herein a switch fabric architecture that allows broadcasting and fast channel access in the ns-range. In various embodiments of the present invention, 10 Gb/s receiver modules are based on a novel heterodyne receiver and detection technique, which is tolerant to |
| 7373039 |
Low-ripple optical device |
May 13, 2008 |
| A low-ripple optical device comprising an optical demultiplexer structure and an optical multiplexer structure cascaded together wherein one of the structures exhibits n passband maxima and the other device exhibits n+1 passband maxima. |
| 7372875 |
Systems and methods for synchronization in asynchronous transport networks |
May 13, 2008 |
| Techniques for synchronizing the clock of a local telecommunications network connected to a remote clock source through an asynchronous transport network such as an Ethernet metropolitan area transport network. A basic holdover loop for retaining the current reconstructed clock frequ |
| 7372823 |
Method of transmitting broadcast-multicast services parameters messages in a wireless communicat |
May 13, 2008 |
| Rather than transmitting a large full Broadcast-Multicast Services (BCMC) Parameters Message (BSPM) containing a full set of BSPM parameters pertaining to all active BCMC flows within a sector on an infrequent basis, smaller-sized differential or partial BSPMs are instead transmitted |
| 7372819 |
Adaptive packet routing |
May 13, 2008 |
| A method of determining the latency of a route in a packet-switched network, a packet switch for use in such a method and network and a packet-switched network are disclosed. Preferably, each switch maintains a routing table that records the latency of the routes accessible by that s |
