| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7110375 |
Virtual private network identification extension |
September 19, 2006 |
| The present invention supports a virtual private network identifier for an information packet transmission on an IP mobility system. By identifying a virtual private network in this manner, the Foreign Agent will be able to properly route data packets even if two or more Mobile Nodes are |
| 7110351 |
Enhanced ARQ with OFDM modulation symbols |
September 19, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for error correction in a communication system employing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing. When a remote unit receives an OFDM symbol, a retransmission indicator bit is examined to determine whether the symbol is an original symbol or a r |
| 7107496 |
Method, apparatus, computer-readable media and user interface for annunciating problems in a sys |
September 12, 2006 |
| A method, apparatus, computer-readable media and user interface for annunciating problems in a system. The method involves producing signals for concurrently indicating a plurality of system problems and problem priority information associated with the system problems based on data r |
| 7107061 |
Adaptive cell gapping overload control system and method for a telecommunications system |
September 12, 2006 |
| Provided is a system and method for controlling overload in a telecommunications network. The network carries a traffic load that may exceed a maximum resource capacity and drive the network into an overload state. The method determines whether an overload state has occurred by compa |
| 7106966 |
Integrated photonic switch |
September 12, 2006 |
| The integrated photonic switch can be used in all-optical networks. incoming multiplexed signals from a number of input fiber ports are separated into their component wavelengths. Individual wavelengths are switched within the switch fabric towards the desired output, and the wavelen |
| 7106252 |
User terminal antenna arrangement for multiple-input multiple-output communications |
September 12, 2006 |
| Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems are able to provide wireless communications at increased data rates. These systems involve using a plurality of antennas on both the transmitter and receiver and the problem of how to accommodate such structures in user terminals, which a |
| 7103350 |
Scheduler with fairness control and quality of service support |
September 5, 2006 |
| The present invention provides a scheduler capable of maximizing aggregate throughput while achieving controlled amount of fairness among users and meeting Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. The scheduler is configured to select the next unit of data to transmit from multiple que |
| 7103325 |
Adaptive modulation and coding |
September 5, 2006 |
| The present invention selects a space-time encoding mode to use when transmitting with spatial diversity based on the receive diversity associated with a receiver device and the quality of the transmission channels based on information fed back from the receiver device. The selectabl |
| 7103310 |
Method of restricting the use of a radio terminal and an associated restriction device |
September 5, 2006 |
| A request to access the network sent by a terminal is intercepted and a selective restriction criterion is evaluated on the basis of parameters relating to the intercepted access request. A radio signal is sent to jam an acknowledgment signal sent by the network in response to the access |
| 7103288 |
Dynamic control of photodiode bias voltage |
September 5, 2006 |
| Accordingly, an aspect of the present invention provides a method of dynamically controlling a bias point of a photodiode of an optical receiver. According to the present invention a performance parameter indicative of an eye opening of an optical signal received by the optical recei |
| 7103282 |
All optical clock recovery |
September 5, 2006 |
| All optical clock recovery includes a transmitter for generating an optical timing signal. The transmitter includes a semiconductor laser for the production of a dynamically synchronizable timing signal, the laser having an external resonator for feedback of the timing signal to the |
| 7103003 |
Network planning tool |
September 5, 2006 |
| A communications packet network is planned by the use of a planning tool. The tool comprises an input for inputting requirements of the network; and an input for determining factors which effect the passage of packet based data through the network. A modelling module determines the p |
| 7099933 |
System and method for regulating web site access |
August 29, 2006 |
| A system and method are provided for regulating incoming traffic to a web site to prevent overload conditions from occurring. The system comprises a capacity determination unit for determining if a web site has additional capacity and a notification unit for notifying customers if no |
| 7099929 |
System and method for transferring information in a hypertext transfer protocol based system |
August 29, 2006 |
| A system and method for transferring information between an HTTP client and an HTTP server where a state object is stored on the HTTP client before making a request to the HTTP server. The state object may be sent to any HTTP server in any domain. In one embodiment, a particular state |
| 7099334 |
ATM over MPLS connection establishment mechanism |
August 29, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatus for establishing connections between network nodes across an MPLS domain. A data receive node transmits to a data transmit node the service label that the data receive node expects to receive embedded in packets originating from the data transmit node. Any packet |
| 7096043 |
Call origination control |
August 22, 2006 |
| The present invention provides for selectively blocking outgoing calls based on blocking criteria configured by a telephony subscriber or representative thereof. When a call is initiated, blocking criteria associated with the telephony terminal from which the call is being initiated |
| 7095740 |
Method and apparatus for virtual overlay networks |
August 22, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for directing messages through a network wherein multiple tables for directing messages through the network are maintained and provided. Each table corresponds to a virtual private network and contains routing information specific to that virtual private network. A |
| 7095278 |
Power amplifier arrangement and method for memory correction/linearization |
August 22, 2006 |
| A device, system, and method are provided for a power amplifier arrangement. In embodiments of a Vdd modulated power amplifier arrangement, a memory correction block includes a Vdd predictor for predicting waveform distortions of a Vdd modulated power supply and a main-path corrector |
| 7092934 |
Method and apparatus for associating information with an object in a file |
August 15, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatus for associating information with an object in a file are disclosed. One method involves associating a search key with the object in the file, and scheduling a search for the information using the search key, for automatic future execution by a searching mechanism |
| 7092727 |
Apparatus and method for supporting differentiated packet data services within a wireless networ |
August 15, 2006 |
| A system and method manages Radio Access Network (RAN) resources to service packet data transmissions at Service Quality Levels (SQL) commensurate with packet data network SQLs. A Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) receives a data packet from a coupled packet data network. The data pack |
| 7092696 |
Accounting method and apparatus for communications network |
August 15, 2006 |
| An accounting framework is provided for a communications system having a plurality of service providers, including cellular service providers and/or data network service providers, e.g., Internet service providers. Accounting units containing accounting information are exchanged between |
| 7092673 |
Angle of arrival estimation in a wireless telecommunications network |
August 15, 2006 |
| The present invention relates to estimating the Angle of Arrival (AoA) of a signal from a user equipment received at a base station of a wireless telecommunications network where the base station has a multi-beam antenna. A signal received from a user equipment is received by the each |
| 7092356 |
Resource management in heterogenous QoS-based packet Networks |
August 15, 2006 |
| The invention relates generally to data communication networks and more particularly to a method of bandwidth management in a multiservice connection-oriented network which uses one or more overlooking factors and one or more overbooking models. The method allows an edge node which h |
| 7091774 |
Method and apparatus for combining multiple signals for high efficiency applications |
August 15, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatus are provided for efficiently combining and filtering a plurality of input signals into a single combined output signal. M number of input signals are received, combined and filtered by a filter/combiner. The filter/combiner has a plurality of input stages for ea |
| 7089476 |
Data transmission method with a level of error protection selected from among several pre-define |
August 8, 2006 |
| The invention relates to a method whereby the control unit produces a sequence of blocks, each comprising a header and data to be transmitted. Each block is transmitted to the destination terminal with a level of error protection which is selected from among several pre-defined levels, |
| 7089037 |
System and method for improving capacity gain while maintaining call performance in a wireless c |
August 8, 2006 |
| A system and method for maximizing throughput in a telecommunications system is disclosed. The system includes an antenna system using fixed narrow beams that transmits and allows improved capacity gain to be realized without degrading call performance. The system can include: formin |
| 7089009 |
Method and apparatus for setting up a communication with a target base station in a cellular or |
August 8, 2006 |
| Methods, systems and network elements are described to improve the speed of handover in a mobile radio telecommunications system. In one embodiment a mobile terminal (114) transmits a list of addresses of network nodes (102, 103, 105, 122, 125) to a target base station (106) in prepa |
| 7088919 |
Modular photonic switch with wavelength conversion |
August 8, 2006 |
| A switch for optical signals, including a plurality of external inputs, a plurality of external outputs, a wavelength conversion entity and a plurality of core switching entities. Each core switching entity is associated to a respective set of at least two wavelengths. The approach i |
| 7085501 |
Coherent optical receiver |
August 1, 2006 |
| A coherent optical intradyne receiver is described which comprises an optical image reject mixer capable of dividing, mixing and recombining signals from three inputs so as to produce an inphase and a quadrature channel. On each of the channels a same set of image products is cancell |
| 7085307 |
Methods and apparatus for transmitting data over a CDMA network |
August 1, 2006 |
| The use of cyclic prefixes with OFDM transmissions is known. Typically the prefix length is chosen to be at least as long as the duration of significant multipath in the transmission channel. However, OFDM has disadvantages in terms of DSP load and transmitter power amplifier specifi |
| 7085291 |
Network layer protocol aware link layer |
August 1, 2006 |
| An enhanced radio link protocol (RLP) in a wireless access network that is network aware is disclosed. The RLP increases radio link quality by various ARQ mechanisms. The RLP framing structure is included that supports and enables at least network layer packet boundary detection, dyn |
| 7085264 |
System and method for controlling media gateways that interconnect disparate networks |
August 1, 2006 |
| A system and method for controlling media gateways that interconnect disparate networks is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request for a circuit service call channel, the request comprising information identifying a media gateway selected out of |
| 7085249 |
Dynamic QoS for integrated voice and data CDMA/1XRTT networks |
August 1, 2006 |
| A method, system and program product which improves the QoS and GoS of voice and data traffic on an integrated communications network. An RF spectrum allocation application/algorithm provides initial allocation of a percentage of available spectral resources to current voice and data |
| 7082308 |
HLR mated-pair auto cutover |
July 25, 2006 |
| A location register for a mobile communications network is coupled by an SS7 network for passing messages, has a mated location register at a different location to provide geographical redundancy, and has a status detector for detecting a status of the associated register, by sending a |
| 7082302 |
Methods and systems for combining data frames in diversity hand-off |
July 25, 2006 |
| An apparatus produces a combined data frame in DHO (Diversity Hand-Off) from data frames each having one or more payload sequences. Each payload sequence has associated with it one or more quality indicators. The quality indicators may be for example a CRCI (Cyclic Redundancy Code In |
| 7082132 |
Universal edge node |
July 25, 2006 |
| A universal electronic switching node serves as an edge node in a high-capacity network with an optical core. The universal edge node may handle a variety of traffic classes and may control traffic admission, connection definition, connection routing and core node configuration. The |
| 7082116 |
Methods and systems implementing mobility support in a packet-based wireless access network |
July 25, 2006 |
| An object-based framework for a wireless access network is provided. Several applications of the proposed framework to enable multicasting and RSVP in the wireless access network are also provided. The object-based framework solves the problem of micro-mobility, in which a mobile host |
| 7082114 |
System and method for a wireless unit acquiring a new internet protocol address when roaming bet |
July 25, 2006 |
| In a wireless network system having a wired backbone network with two or more sub-networks, each having one or more access points for communicating with wireless units via a wireless transmission medium, a system, apparatus and method for a wireless unit to determine whether a candid |
| 7081793 |
High-efficiency amplifier, converter and methods |
July 25, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatus are provided for efficiently amplifying or converting a signal. An input signal is decomposed into a plurality of two state signals, each two state signal having a respective on level and off level. This may involve sigma-delta modulation and phase splitting. Fo |
| 7080158 |
Network caching using resource redirection |
July 18, 2006 |
| A caching technique uses an interceptor situated between the client and the destination server to redirect client requests to a cache server. Specifically, the client transmits a request message that includes a reference to the intended destination server. The interceptor receives th |
| 7079772 |
Optical signal generator with stabilized carrier frequency output |
July 18, 2006 |
| Method and apparatus for stabilizing an optical carrier frequency of a generated carrier signal with respect to a target carrier frequency. The apparatus includes a multi-channel optical filter for filtering the generated carrier signal, thereby to provide a first filtered optical si |
| 7079640 |
Method and apparatus for implementing an extensible range of communications services in telephon |
July 18, 2006 |
| Service features are enabled in a next generation telephone network using a content/service provision node and subscriber access control equipment enabled to deliver content and/or service feature messaging to associated subscriber lines. |
| 7079499 |
Internet protocol mobility architecture framework |
July 18, 2006 |
| A communications architecture for enabling IP-based mobile communications includes a Local Service Function (LSF) component configured to serve as an IP-based serving area network for a set of x-Access Networks, and a Network Service Function (NSF) component configured to serve as an |
| 7079489 |
Method and devices for transmitting data with acknowledgement mechanism |
July 18, 2006 |
| A first unit successively transmits data blocks destined for a second unit. For at least some of the transmissions of blocks, the second unit returns an acknowledgement signal indicating whether the data block transmitted has been correctly received. The first unit transmits a redund |
| 7076316 |
Method and apparatus for controlling an operative setting of a communications link |
July 11, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for controlling an operative setting of a communications link is provided. The communications link is capable of acquiring a plurality of operative settings. Audio quality in the communications link under different operative settings is compared and an operativ |
| 7076038 |
Methods and systems for enabling charging land-line long-distance calls to wireless subscriber's |
July 11, 2006 |
| Disclosed is a method of and apparatus employing the method for automatically enabling long-distance calls on the land-line public telephone switched network and debiting the wireless subscriber's account an amount for the long-distance call. The method includes the steps of providin |
| 7075935 |
Engineering operations channel provision |
July 11, 2006 |
| A VDSL service is provided to a subscriber over a twisted pair loop. An engineering operations channel (EOC) providing control functions is carried in AAL2 minicells. This facilitates multiplexing of messages associated with various network management layers over the EOC. |
| 7075931 |
Method and apparatus for ATM address resolution |
July 11, 2006 |
| In a generic, end-to-end address resolution methodology, destination addresses in one format are translated into local addresses of different formats for purposes of routing calls across a plurality of interconnected networks which use different address formats. Translation of addres |
| 7075913 |
Hybrid data rate control in CDMA cellular wireless systems |
July 11, 2006 |
| A method for servicing high-speed data communications in a cellular wireless communication system includes the wireless transmission of data at a higher data rate than is supportable considering constraints of the prior art. The cellular wireless communication system determines a sup |
| 7072961 |
Data session service initialization for wireless devices |
July 4, 2006 |
| A system and method of the present invention include a gateway device that serves as an interface between a high speed wireless data packet network and an application server placed within a wireline data packet network such as the Internet. The gateway device generates network performanc |
