| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE40398 |
ATM telecommunications systems and method for routing narrow band traffic |
June 24, 2008 |
| A telecommunications system comprises an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network having uncommitted bandwidth, and a plurality of adaptive grooming routers (AGR) coupled to the network. The AGRs comprise a group adapted to function as a virtual transit exchange whose fabric and cont |
| RE39878 |
Method and apparatus for network initiated parameter updating |
October 9, 2007 |
| Disclosed is an apparatus for initiating an over the air parameter administration (OTAPA) of a mobile station without the need for interacting with a mobile station user. A unique service option number included with the initial page indicates to the mobile station that an update is b |
| RE38620 |
Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer |
October 12, 2004 |
| A monolithic version of optical multiplexer/demultiplexer with an improved spectral characteristics is provided by two diffraction gratings arranged optically in tandem and with a field stop in the coupling between them, the gratings also being arranged to provide free spectral ranges di |
| RE37301 |
Multiple access protocol |
July 31, 2001 |
| The mobile station to base station access in a cellular radio system is a classical problem of random multiple access using a shared common channel. Many multiple access protocols have been invented in the past with varied degrees of success in improving the throughput of the multiple ac |
| D564455 |
Circuit pack |
March 18, 2008 |
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| D523438 |
Optical network element panel |
June 20, 2006 |
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| D490803 |
Communications cabinet |
June 1, 2004 |
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| D475041 |
Communication cabinet |
May 27, 2003 |
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| D465215 |
Indoor communications cabinet |
November 5, 2002 |
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| D464956 |
Outdoor communications panel |
October 29, 2002 |
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| D464643 |
Outdoor communications cabinet |
October 22, 2002 |
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| D464043 |
Indoor communications panel |
October 8, 2002 |
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| D460753 |
Integrated communication access device |
July 23, 2002 |
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| D456241 |
Cable guide |
April 30, 2002 |
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| D454548 |
Bulging element on printed circuit board |
March 19, 2002 |
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| D437302 |
Outer periphery of a telephone base |
February 6, 2001 |
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| 7415534 |
Distribution of reachability information in data virtual private networks |
August 19, 2008 |
| In methods and apparatus for acquiring VPN reachability information at a node of a data network, a VPN reachability information request is transmitted from a requesting node. The VPN reachabinty information request comprises a VPN identifier. Other nodes of the data network receive t |
| 7414964 |
Dynamic sub-carrier assignment of OFDM systems |
August 19, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for selecting and signalling the identity of sub-carriers to be used for transmission of data in a radio communication system, and for using other sub-carriers. A remote unit determines which sub-carriers are acceptable for use in data transmission |
| 7412254 |
Power management and distributed scheduling for uplink transmissions in wireless systems |
August 12, 2008 |
| To schedule uplink transmission time slots for a collection of mobile. communication devices, a set of base station target interference patterns is associated with base stations. A time slot target interference pattern is assigned for each time slot and it repeats after several time slot |
| 7412168 |
MPLS application to optical cross-connect using wavelength as a label |
August 12, 2008 |
| A label switching routing protocol for establishing a datapath as a sequence of locally unique labels in an optical communications network, is provided. A wavelength on an optical cross-connect is considered as a label, or one portion of a label. Timeslots may be assigned to designated |
| 7411984 |
Method of providing tone information to nodes in a packet network |
August 12, 2008 |
| Telephone tones such as dialing tones and busy or engaged tones differ in different countries and in traditional telephone networks it has been possible to deal with this because national telephone networks have been used. However, with the advent of next generation communications networ |
| 7411916 |
Data forwarding method and apparatus |
August 12, 2008 |
| A method and an apparatus that reduce the burden on routers by removing the aggregation and physical Wide Area Network (WAN) interface functions from the router are provided. The aggregation and physical Wide Area Network interface transparently forwards traffic and routing information |
| 7409020 |
Technique for filter-enhanced clock synchronization |
August 5, 2008 |
| A technique for filter-enhanced clock synchronization is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized by/as a method for filter-enhanced clock synchronization. The method comprises subjecting a clock error signal to a first exponentially weighted movin |
| 7408928 |
Methods and apparatus for setting up telephony connections between two address domains having ov |
August 5, 2008 |
| IP addresses are presently becoming a scarce resource, even in private IP address domains. Commonly therefore network address translators are used to map a large number of private addresses to a relatively small number of public IP address, or even map addresses between two different IP |
| 7406317 |
Maintaining a communications session with a mobile station |
July 29, 2008 |
| A mobile communications network includes various entities, such as a mobile station, a radio network, and a packet data node. In one implementation, the mobile station is enabled for an always-on service. In response to detecting that the mobile station is an always-on mobile station |
| 7406299 |
Wireless communications method, system and terminal therefor utilising a plurality of simultaneo |
July 29, 2008 |
| Capacity of radio links in an in-building cellular communication system is currently limited by bandwidth available for a communications link between a terminal and a single base station. The present invention mitigates this limitation by permitting the terminal to establish a number |
| 7406088 |
Method and system for ethernet and ATM service interworking |
July 29, 2008 |
| A method and system for service interworking between an Ethernet communication network and an ATM network, in which a first network interface is operable to communicate with the Ethernet communication network using an Ethernet communication protocol. A second network interface is ope |
| 7406060 |
Coverage improvement in wireless systems with fixed infrastructure based relays |
July 29, 2008 |
| Infrastructure relays are used to relay signals to multi-antenna receivers where the received signals are then processed using MIMO processing. The transmissions can use spatial multiplexing and/or space time block coding. |
| 7406033 |
Methods, devices and software for combining protection paths across a communications network |
July 29, 2008 |
| In a mesh communications network, in which working and protection paths may be established, channels used to carry protection traffic between nodes are shared across multiple protection paths. Channels need only be shared if sharing does not adversely impact network usage. If working and |
| 7405931 |
Floating heatsink for removable components |
July 29, 2008 |
| A floating heatsink is disclosed for components mounted within an electromagnetic enclosure. The floating heatsink includes an aperture within the enclosure wall against which a floating heatsink is disposed on the interior of the enclosure. The floating heatsink is dimensioned to ov |
| 7403570 |
Preamble design for multiple input--multiple output (MIMO), orthogonal frequency division multip |
July 22, 2008 |
| One or more preambles are inserted into frames of Orthogonal Frequency Multiplexing (OFDM)-Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) signals. The preamble is received by the antennas of a receiver, decoded and compared to known values to provide synchronization, framing, channels estimation |
| 7400888 |
Distributed multi-beam wireless system |
July 15, 2008 |
| A wireless network has nodes, which can be accessed by wireless terminals via wireless access links, coupled via wireless transit links using multiple directional antenna beams. The nodes are self-organizing and self-adapting as nodes are added and as other changes occur. A new node |
| 7400589 |
Method and apparatus for deriving optimal paths through a network subject to a subset sequence c |
July 15, 2008 |
| A routing tree that spans a graph representing a network is constructed by iteratively expanding the tree to include a node of the graph that is not in the tree, the node being chosen because an allowable path extends from a root of the tree to the node that is optimal in comparison with |
| 7400584 |
Method of controlling transmission of data and a control unit for implementing the method |
July 15, 2008 |
| A cellular mobile radio network includes base stations, a packet control unit capable of communicating with a radio terminal via two or more base stations, and routing means for routing data between a remote unit and the packet control unit. The data transmitted by the remote unit to the |
| 7400583 |
Determining and using value of traffic relying on a given component of a communications network |
July 15, 2008 |
| A system for monitoring a communications network generates a total value figure, using a store of value information. The system can identify which of the monitored flows of traffic rely on a given one or more of the components of the network, and generate a total value of all the ide |
| 7397864 |
Incremental redundancy with space-time codes |
July 8, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to space-time coding techniques capable of providing incremental redundancy in wireless communication environments incorporating spatial and temporal diversity. In general, a transmitter sends packets, via blocks of symbols, to a receiver with high bandwidth |
| 7397762 |
System, device and method for scheduling information processing with load-balancing |
July 8, 2008 |
| Packets are spread among a number of packet processors with load-balancing. The incoming packets are logically divided into a number of packet flows, where the number of packet flows is greater than the number of packet processors. Each packet flow is assigned to a particular packet |
| 7395068 |
Calling non-PSTN numbers via a mobile terminal |
July 1, 2008 |
| The present invention allows mobile terminals to initiate calls to either PSTN or non-PSTN addresses through a cellular interface. In operation, the mobile terminal will determine a terminating address to which a call is to be initiated based on user input or selection. The mobile termin |
| 7394985 |
Wavelength access server (WAS) architecture |
July 1, 2008 |
| A wavelength access server (WAS) architecture provides aggregation of traffic streams of diverse data communication protocols as well as provision of wavelength resources in an optical transport network. The WAS provides functions such as service traffic adaptation, traffic aggregati |
| 7394860 |
Combined space-time decoding |
July 1, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to decoding space time coded (STC) signals transmitted from a number of transmit antennas. First, a separate detection technique is used to determine initial decoding solutions corresponding to the symbols transmitted from each of a number of transmit an |
| 7394832 |
Technique for synchronizing redundant network elements |
July 1, 2008 |
| A technique for synchronizing redundant network elements is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method that comprises: transmitting a checkpoint indication signal to a primary element and at least one backup element, wherein each of the |
| 7394811 |
Establishing connections across a communications network |
July 1, 2008 |
| On receipt of a request for a communication session over a communications network, such as an Internet Protocol communications network, a path for the session is established. In a preferred example the communications network is an MPLS network and the method uses a modified version of th |
| 7394806 |
Distributed space-time-space switch |
July 1, 2008 |
| A wide-coverage, high-capacity, switching network is modeled after a classical space-time-space switch. In the switching network, each of the space stages comprises geographically distributed optical space switches and the time stage comprises a plurality of geographically distributed |
| 7394777 |
Method and apparatus for base station transmitting broadcast multicast service(s) on traffic cha |
July 1, 2008 |
| In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus of performing traffic mode broadcast multicast is implemented by leveraging the existing traffic channel structure and infrastructure. In one embodiment, a method and apparatus is presented for providing |
| 7394233 |
High efficiency modulated power supply |
July 1, 2008 |
| A modulated power supply comprises a power switching stage having at least one power switching device for generating a power signal in response to an input modulating signal. A current source is positioned in parallel with the power switching stage and continuously generates an output |
| 7391793 |
Tandem connection monitoring implementing sink functionality on egress without an egress pointer |
June 24, 2008 |
| A method of transmitting path overhead data between an ingress section and an egress section of a network element is described. A portion of the path overhead data is inserted into one or more predetermined bytes of the transport overhead of the data frame before transmission to the |
| 7391779 |
Scheduling method and apparatus for combined code division multiplexing and time division multip |
June 24, 2008 |
| A combined CDM/TDM (code division multiplexing/time division multiplexing) transmitter and method are provided which employ fractional slot assignment by assigning fractional CDM channel gains to multiple slots for at least one packet with a goal that a sum of fractional CDM gains as |
| 7391760 |
Method and apparatus for efficient protocol-independent trunking of data signals |
June 24, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for protocol-independent extension of data services through a broadband packet network packs legacy data streams associated with the data services into containers which are in turn encapsulated in protocol data units (PDUs) that are launched into the broadband pack |
| 7391752 |
Method for generation of unique mobile station IDs in a 1.times.EVDO network |
June 24, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus are presented for generating unique MSIDs for access terminals (AT) that do not present an MSID to the access network controller (ANC). The electronic serial number (ESN) of the AT is first converted to an ASCII character string representing the unsigned decimal |
| 7389337 |
Management of network elements using a proxy agent |
June 17, 2008 |
| A proxy agent for communicating data components between a Network Management System (NMS) which supports a first network management protocol, for example Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and one or more network elements which support a second protocol, for example Transacti |
