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7620398 Method and apparatus for simultaneously communicating on a voice channel and broadcast channel  
A method and apparatus is provided for simultaneously accessing a broadcast channel which allows for maintaining registration on the broadcast channel and a second channel. The broadcast channel...
7620063 Method for clear channel assessment optimization in a wireless local area network  
A method and apparatus are directed toward optimizing clear channel assessment (CCA) parameters in a wireless local area network having an access point (AP) and at least one station. An upper bound...
7616762 System and method for authenticating/registering network device in power line communication (PLC)  
A method and apparatus for protecting privacy in power line communication (PLC) networks. Data transmitted on a PLC network is encrypted according to a network key and can be properly received only...
7616655 Avoiding exposed node problems in wireless local area networks  
A method, apparatus and computer program product for avoiding exposed nodes in Wireless local Area Networks is presented. The method includes maintaining at a node a first timer (NAV_RTS) for a...
7616606 Mechanism for avoiding triggering silent radio squelch circuits  
A ‘smart’ sub-channel hopping control mechanism executes one or more sub-channel selection discriminators to enable the communications controller of a spectral reuse transceiver to delineate on...
7613204 Communication timing control method and apparatus, node, and communication system  
Each node in a communication system transmits and receives state variable signals indicating internal node states or timings, generates transitions in its internal state or timing at a basic rate...
7613203 Method and device for managing a shared transmission medium based on a TDMA/TDD scheme  
There is disclosed a method and a device for managing a transmission medium shared between a set of wireless network devices which comprises a plurality of stations and a Radio Resource Management...
7609714 Programmable controller and duplexed network system  
A duplexed network system is formed with a plurality of programmable controllers and two different networks. Each of the programmable controllers includes a CPU unit, a primary communication unit...
7609712 Frequency offset differential pulse position modulation  
The present invention provides such a need by utilizing a frequency offset differential pulse position modulation scheme to transmit data between computing devices within a wireless network system....
7606257 Apparatus and method for transmission collision avoidance  
A method of minimizing collisions in a CSMA/CA wireless data communication system using an access point includes sensing the presence of a client desirous of communication with the access point. A...
7606213 Wireless MAC layer throughput improvements  
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for transmitting data packets in a wireless network over a multi-access channel involving sequentially sending a plurality of medium access control...
7602759 Wireless LAN system making quality of communication improve and a communication method therefor  
A wireless LAN system if formed by a base station, mobile stations and a controller. The controller receives a frame over wireless media, and a frame analyzer analyzes the received frame. A...
7602744 Detection of a simultaneous occurrence of an event at a plurality of devices  
The invention relates to a detection of a simultaneous occurrence of an event of a predetermined kind at a plurality of electronic devices. At least two devices detect the event and record at their...
7602707 Quality of service differentiation in wireless networks  
A method provides differentiated quality of service (QoS) by providing adaptive updates to media access control (MAC) layer parameters on a distributed basis. The method includes calculating a...
7593423 Quality of service differentiation in wireless networks  
A method provides differentiated quality of service (QoS) by providing adaptive updates to media access control (MAC) layer parameters on a distributed basis. The method includes calculating a...
7590386 Method for control of contention-based wireless access  
The present invention is a method for controlling access to a contention-based communication channel. Error types of a transmitted communication signal over the communication channel are classified...
7586932 Contention window adjustment methods capable of load-adaptive backoff in a network and machine-readable storage medium therefor  
A contention window adjustment method capable of load-adaptive backoff (LAB) function in a network. At least one middle contention window (CW mid ) is set for a station. If the contention window...
7580382 System and method for distributed channelized group formation in a mobile wireless communication network  
A method for forming channelized groups in a wireless communication network having a plurality of nodes. At least one node in the network is assigned to a first channel that is associated with a...
7577124 Relay apparatus, terminal apparatus and relay method  
A relay apparatus, terminal apparatus and relay method for relaying signals with a reduced scale of the apparatus, without temporally switching between transmission and reception and with reduced...
7570656 Channel access method for powerline carrier based media access control protocol  
A novel and useful media access control (MAC) protocol that is intended for use over noisy shared media channels. The MAC protocol provides layer 2 functionality over a network using a shared...
7567579 Multiple current limits for power over ethernet controller  
A power over Ethernet controller comprising: a control circuitry; at least one powering port, each of the at least one powering port comprising a unique means for controlling a switch associated...
7567540 Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method and computer program  
In order to realize low power consumption of a communicator and information transmission in short packets with a short latency in a network environment of a self-organized distribution type, each...
7567537 Point-to-point MAC protocol for high speed wireless bridging  
Systems and methods for improving throughput in point-to-point wireless communication links are provided. In one particular implementation, a media access control (MAC) layer of the IEEE 802.11...
7567526 System and method for asynchronous wireless collision detection with acknowledgement for ad hoc wireless networks  
The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for asynchronous busy-tone multiple access with acknowledgement for ad hoc wireless networks. In one example, the method includes...
7561592 Method and apparatus for fiber auto-negotiation  
A network comprising a first network device including a first physical layer device with a receiver and a first autonegotiation circuit having an ability detect state and including a bypass timer...
7561591 TDMA communications apparatus  
If own station detects that a slot S 2 previously reserved for own transmission has been occupied by another station when transmitting a message at a current slot S 3 , the own station sets the...
7558294 Time synchronization in a network  
A method and corresponding system for communicating between stations in a network is presented. The method includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from a coordinator station for...
7555004 Coordinating communications in a heterogeneous communications network using different signal formats  
A method communicates data between terminals in heterogeneous communications network. A coordinator broadcasts periodically a first beacon in a first signal format. The first beacon defines a start...
7554916 Automatic reverse channel assignment in a two-way TDM communication system  
To minimize overhead in the allocation of channels, forward and reverse link time slots are automatically assigned in pairs. In particular, rather than requiring a separate process for allocating...
7551561 Packet communication terminal  
The present invention discloses a communication terminal included in a network system in which a plurality of communication terminals are connected to a single transmission medium. A priority...
7548549 Method and apparatus for transmission of digital signals over a coaxial cable  
Ethernet packets are transmitted in full duplex mode over a single coaxial cable, such as RG6 and RG59. Symmetrical full duplex operation is achieved by separating the upstream and downstream...
7548531 Poll scheduling for periodic traffic sources  
An apparatus and method for polling stations that transmit periodic traffic streams are disclosed. The illustrative embodiment polls the station in accordance with a polling schedule that is...
7545781 Wireless packet communication method and wireless packet communication apparatus  
A transmit-side STA transmits a wireless packet using a wireless channel which has been determined to be idle by both a physical carrier sense for determining based on received power whether the...
7545749 High-accuracy packet pair for network bottleneck bandwidth measurement  
A novel packet filtering and processing mechanism solves bandwidth estimation problems related to cross-traffic, host limitations, and fabric-specific issues in order to accurately estimate...
7545740 Two-way link aggregation  
A method for communication includes coupling a network node to one or more interface modules using a first group of first physical links arranged in parallel. Each of the one or more interface...
7532639 System and method for message queue management in a power-save network  
A method and apparatus for communicating information between networked devices. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise, for example, a first networked device communicating...
7529266 Network traffic regulation  
The invention provides a traffic regulation technique for media that functions within access protocols by making a percentage of total communication capacity of the media unavailable to end-users...
7529265 Frequency self-organizing radio network system and method  
A system and method of determining an available frequency sub-band for radio traffic in a multiple node radio network is disclosed. The method and system provide for communication over a radio...
7525985 Apparatus for collision resolution among home networking stations using carrier sense signal  
An apparatus for collision resolution among home networking stations using carrier sense. More specifically, an apparatus for collision resolution among home networking stations using Media Access...
7525984 Method and apparatus for unifying MAC protocols  
A method and apparatus for unifying medium access control (MAC) protocols that can unify the various existed MAC protocols, e.g. slotted ALOHA protocol, carrier sense multiple access (CSMA)...
7522934 Apparatus, method, recording medium, and program for controlling power of wireless communication  
This invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program for transmitting an RTS frame at full power and data at low power....
7519076 Method and node for using a communication network in parallel for real-time applications and non-real-time applications  
The invention concerns a data transmission technique for real-time applications and non real-time applications in a communication network comprising several nodes connected by communication...
7519032 Apparatus and method for providing QoS service schedule and bandwidth allocation to a wireless station  
An apparatus and method is disclosed for providing a Quality of Service (QoS) service schedule and bandwidth allocation message to a wireless station in a wireless network. The apparatus of the...
7519031 System and methods of differential communication  
[Object] To provide a differential communication system that is preferable for performing differential communication in a dynamically configured network. [Solving Means] Portable terminals 100 ...
7519005 Single-wire communication bus for miniature low-power systems  
A single-wire serial communications bus has a master device and one or more slave devices. The slave devices are addressed according to a predetermined addressing scheme in an address space. The...
7515606 UWB-based wireless bridge  
An ultra wide band (UWB)-based wireless bridge converts wired serial data into a UWB signal with a quality of service, transmits it wirelessly, and inverts the UWB signal into wired serial data....
7512095 Multiple access communication system for moveable objects  
A non-complex low cost communication, navigation and identification system and method for use with moveable or stationery objects on the same frequency without interference. The present invention...
7508802 Method of controlling wireless local network medium access using pseudo-time division multiplexing  
The present invention provides a method of controlling Wireless LAN (WLAN) medium access using Pseudo-Time Division Multiplexing (PTDM) to improve the Quality of Service (QoS) of the WLAN. The...
7505761 Wireless terminal device, wireless communication method, and computer program  
An object of this invention is to allow a wireless terminal device to issue a request of connection using a distributed control method or central control method to a wireless control device in...
7502383 Apparatus and method of controlling transmission of response frame  
Briefly, a method and apparatus to able to set a back-off slot time value and a contention window back-off slots number of a channel access mechanism to control transmissions of two or more...