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7095724 System and method for using unused arbitrary bits in the data field of a special burst  
A system and method for reducing the unused capacity of a wireless communication channel utilize the data fields of an special burst (SB) in order to signal physical layer control signaling for...
7092372 Communication protocol for spread sprectrum wireless communication system  
A communication protocol for use in a mobile cellular communication system using time division duplex establishes a communication channel between a user station (e.g., a handset) and a base station...
7085541 Systems and methods for directional antenna power control in a wireless network  
A node ( 105 - 1 ) determines a power level for transmitting to a neighboring node ( 105 - 2 ) in a wireless network ( 100 ). The node ( 105 - 1 ) receives one or more messages indicating a...
7080789 Smart card including a JTAG test controller and related methods  
An integrated circuit for a smart card may include a transceiver for communicating with a host device and a Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) test controller for performing at least one test...
7068633 Enhanced channel access mechanisms for QoS-driven wireless lans  
A method and a system is disclosed for providing quality of service (QoS)-driven channel access within a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless network. A contention control (CC) frame is sent from...
7065059 Technique for restoring adjacencies in OSPF in a non-stop forwarding intermediate node of a computer network  
A technique restores adjacencies between a non-stop forwarding (NSF) router and its neighboring routers during reload of routing protocol software on the NSF router within a computer network. When...
7050459 Devices, methods and software for centralized session planning while in a DCF mode  
Devices, softwares and methods for centralized session planning while in a DCF mode. An access point plans centrally a schedule of individual sessions with each station. Then it announces to each...
7039032 Multipoll for QoS-Driven wireless LANs  
A method and a system are disclosed for providing quality of service (QoS)-driven channel access within a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless network. A point coordinator (PC) station determines...
7035363 Information signal reception and transmission apparatus and method  
A method and a system for reliably supplying information about an electronic device employed as a primary information signal receiver device to an electronic device employed as a primary...
7035235 System and method for communicating over a wireless time-division duplex channel  
According to the present invention, the bandwidth of a TDD channel is increased where multiple slave devices communicate with a master device over the channel. According to an aspect of the present...
7031287 Centralized contention and reservation request for QoS-driven wireless LANs  
A method and a system is disclosed for providing quality of service (QoS)-driven channel access within a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A contention control (CC)...
7024469 Medium access control (MAC) protocol with seamless polling/contention modes  
A high speed wireless network for the access market where a polling mode, a contention mode, a seamless transition between the two modes and an efficient contention resolution algorithm are...
7019635 Method and device for the detection of sources in a communications system  
A method for the detection of M 0 sources common to several observations u (t) and v (t) within a single array of sensors, the observations having different lengths N 1 and N 2 , comprises at...
7012546 Modular wireless fixed network for wide-area metering data collection and meter module apparatus  
A one way direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communications wide-area network is the data collection channel (uplink) of an automatic meter reading (AMR) system, and a paging network, or other...
7009960 Medium access control protocol for high rate wireless personal area network  
The MAC protocol of the present invention takes into account backward compatibility and conventional layering principles while introducing QoS parameters to describe and transport the QoS traffic....
7009518 RFID communication system and the search method thereof  
A radio frequency identification (RFID) communication system and the search method thereof are disclosed, which apply search instructions and reads instructions to communicate between a read and a...
6999426 Data bus control method for artificial satellite load and system thereof  
A periodical processing time band during which communication is periodically conducted between a plurality of communication terminals and a data bus control apparatus and a nonperiodical processing...
6996088 Distributed trunking mechanism for VHF networking  
A system and method for communicating between nodes in a communications network. The network includes nodes that broadcast and receive data packets over a radio channel. The system includes a...
6996063 Applicable PDU range test and calculation for window-based polling  
A transmitter is capable of transmitting protocol data units (PDUs). Each PDU has an n-bit sequence number. A polling determination method is provided that determines if polling should be performed...
6993049 Communication system  
A communications system comprises a primary station ( 100 ) and at least one secondary station ( 101 ). The primary station ( 100 ) is arranged to broadcast a series of inquiry messages, each in...
6993007 System and method for suppressing silence in voice traffic over an asynchronous communication medium  
A method and system for increasing the efficiency of providing bandwidth for voice traffic to a data provider via asynchronous communication mediums is provided. This is generally accomplished by...
6980542 Poll scheduling for periodic uplink and downlink traffic  
An apparatus and method for polling stations that transmit and receive periodic traffic streams are disclosed. The illustrative embodiment determines when to transmit a frame comprising a data...
6980541 Media access controller having pseudo-static guaranteed time slots  
A wireless network is provided that uses pseudo-static time slots. These time slots remain fixed in time unless and until a network controller specifically changes them and the network controller...
6975616 Batch round robin polling method for return link communications between a mobile platform and a base station  
A polling system and method for establishing forward and return communication links with a plurality of mobile platforms operating within a given coverage region, and further which provides...
6973070 System and method for transmitting subscriber data in a narrowband advanced messaging system using unscheduled message time slots  
There is disclosed for use in a narrowband wireless messaging network, a subscriber communication unit that uses a miscellaneous ALOHA message to transmit predefined messages and/or formatted...
6973051 Method for assigning resources in a shared channel, a corresponding mobile terminal and a corresponding base station  
The invention relates notably to a method for assigning resources in a shared channel of a communication network including a master station and a plurality of slave stations communicating with the...
6967942 Communication infrastructure and method to speed uplink data setup  
To address the need for a communication infrastructure and method to speed uplink data setup, the present invention provides for the assignment of uplink packet data resources by basestation...
6956834 Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth in a wireless communication system  
A method and apparatus for requesting and allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system. The inventive method and apparatus includes a combination of techniques that allow a...
6950422 Interference reduction within a communication system  
When polled, a remote unit ( 113 ) provides a radio access network (RAN 101 ) with an acknowledgment message. The acknowledgment message contains information such as the current window size, the...
6920113 Transport of iscochronous and bursty data on a sonet ring  
A method and apparatus for using SONET technology to efficiently carry both data and voice traffic by Add/Drop Multiplexing of both isochronous traffic, such as voice and video, and non-isochronous...
6888816 Window-based polling scheme for a wireless communications protocol  
A transmitter is capable of transmitting layer 2 protocol data units (PDUs). Each PDU has an n-bit sequence number. A base sequence number VT(A) is obtained that marks a beginning sequence number...
6871081 Broadband wireless access system  
Typically it is expensive to add cable within an existing multiple dwelling units (MDUs) such as blocks of flats to provide additional services such as broadband internet access, video on demand...
6868064 Method for confirming receipt of protocol data  
A method of confirming a receipt of protocol data units (PDU) that can eliminate the starting point polling problem of the conventional window-based polling algorithm widely used in a radio link...
6859134 Data communication device  
Simplified data message terminals and data communicating voice terminals are described for providing additional functionality in a facility using a wireless data communication system. The...
6842433 System and method for communicating information from a computerized distributor to portable computing devices  
A method of transmitting information to a portable computing device comprises, using a first communication protocol, transmitting a client to the portable computing device. The client configures...
6807193 Cable modem with dribble grant access system and method  
A modem, communications system and method are provided with a transmitter and a receiver connected to a modem termination system (CMTS) by a medium. The modem has a memory forming a transmit queue...
6807159 Methodology for managing power consumption in master driven time division duplex wireless network  
A system, method, and computer program product for carrying out the method for managing power consumption in a master driven time division duplex wireless network comprising optimizing power...
6795418 Wireless MAC protocol based on a hybrid combination of slot allocation, token passing, and polling for isochronous traffic  
In this document, we proposed a hybrid MAC protocol that can utilize the precious wireless link bandwidth efficiently in the environment of a partially connected wireless network topology and VBR...
6791962 Direct link protocol in wireless local area networks  
A technique enabling enhanced stations to communicate with other enhanced stations that periodically or sporadically enter power save mode is disclosed. If a Q-station targeted for a direct link is...
6785252 Method and apparatus for a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol in a wireless communication system  
A method and apparatus for a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol in a broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. The self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol...
6784806 Electronic electricity meter  
An electronic electricity meter which, in one embodiment, includes a modem board, or unit, coupled to the meter microcomputer and exchanges information between the meter and a central computer is...
6747968 Methods and systems for weighted PCF polling lists for WLAN QoS support  
Methods and system for weighted polling of terminals in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Quality of Service (QoS) information related to WLAN terminals is obtained. A weighted polling factor...
6744780 Method and system for adaptively managing a communications network  
A system and method for managing a communications network establishes an initial polling interval for a corresponding network element. The network management system detects whether the network...
6737985 Remote metering  
A meter for use in a radio frequency remote metering system comprises an antenna; a transmitter for transmitting meter signals via the antenna; a receiver connected to the antenna for receiving and...
6721302 Apparatus, and associated method, for communicating packet data in a SDMA (Space-Division, Multiple-Access) communication scheme  
Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating SDMA (Space-Division, Multiple-Access) operation of a packet communication system in which packet data sizes are variable. Determinations are...
6714801 Radio transmission control method and radio transmission device  
A method and device whereby it is possible to transmit necessary information by using a minimum of radio transmission channels in a radio transmission network. In order that a network system using...
6701149 Handoff framework to support real-time delay-critical services in a next generation network  
A next generation wireless data network and method for handing off a mobile node is presented. The network includes a core network (CN) coupled to a plurality of radio access networks (RANs). The...
6694348 Data communication system and time slot allocating method  
In the data communication system, a terminal station includes a data buffer and a terminal station side finite state machine for, when data is accumulated at the data buffer, periodically making a...
6683864 Transmission method and transmission apparatus  
A transmission apparatus includes an inverse-Fourier-transforming device for inverse-Fourier-transforming predetermined transmission data at N (N is an arbitrary integer) points, a register ( 23 )...
6657987 Scheduling methodology for connections with quality of service (QoS) constraints in a polling based media access control (MAC)  
Media Access Control (MAC) Scheduling for Quality of Service (QoS) uses the bandwidth and delay requirements of a connection to calculate the polling interval, which is the maximum time that the...
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