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7623545 Method and apparatus for extended control over a wireless medium between two or more devices  
Included are embodiments for protecting a Media Access Control (MAC) layer. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving first data from a communications device, the first data being...
7623542 Contention-free access intervals on a CSMA network  
A method of operating in a network in which stations communicate over a shared medium is described. The method provides regularly repeated contention free intervals, CSMA communication during times...
7623540 Method and apparatus for channel allocation in a wireless local area network (WLAN)  
The present invention provides a method for allocating channels in a wireless local area network (WLAN) among a plurality of clients. This method involves first assigning at least one client of the...
7623481 Hyper throughput method for wireless local area network  
A hyper throughput packet transmission method for a wireless local area network operating in burst and protection mode is provided. A first CTS frame is sent, comprising an NAV to reserve the...
7619977 Net-centric coordination channel (NCC)  
Methods and apparatus are provided for registering an unanticipated node into an ad-hoc network. A communication channel is dedicated as the link between a registry within the network and...
7613856 Arbitrating access for a plurality of data channel inputs with different characteristics  
A configurable buffer arbiter is provided that combines a time-slot based algorithm, a fairness-based algorithm, and a priority-based algorithm to meet the bandwidth and latency requirements of...
7613167 Method and system for upstream priority lookup at physical interface  
A traffic prioritization system performs a coarse classification of upstream bursts at the physical interface of a headend communications device. The headend device monitors and controls...
7609649 Methods and apparatus for improving network based virtualization performance  
Embodiments of the invention support improvements in network performance in networks such as storage area networks. This is particularly important in networks such as those implementing...
7606256 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...
7587212 System and method for allocating ranging slots in a broadband wireless access communication system  
A method for determining a number of ranging slots by a base station (BS) in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system. The method includes counting the number of mobile stations (MSs)...
7586881 MIMO wireless communication greenfield preamble formats  
A method for multiple input multiple output wireless communication begins by determining protocols of wireless communication devices within the proximal region. The method continues by determining...
7583644 Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program  
The present invention is to provide each communication station with a transmission prioritised period without any useless latency in an ad-hoc communication environment including no control...
7580394 System and method for collision-free transmission scheduling in a network  
A system and method is directed to enabling a collision-free transmission of a packet in a network by employing an access-point tree optimized MAC (ATOM) mechanism. The system enables a node in an...
7573911 Method of encoding a data packet  
The invention provides a method of encoding a data packet for encapsulation in one or more frames for communication from a transmitter to a receiver in a network interface. The method includes...
7573372 Multiple channel ballast and networkable topology and system including power line carrier applications  
Control systems and methods for independent control of power systems, particularly lighting network branches, and separate control of individual branch components. Multi-branch systems comprise...
7570654 Switching device utilizing requests indicating cumulative amount of data  
In general, in one aspect, a switching device includes a plurality of ingress ports to receive data from external sources and a plurality of egress ports to transmit data to external destinations....
7564823 Method and apparatus for communicating data upon multiple radio carriers  
Apparatus, and an associated method, for allocating communication resources in a data radio communication system, such as a communication system that provides for EDGE data communication services....
7555005 Area efficient implementation of the consecutive access counter  
An arbitration unit grants access to a shared resource to one of a plurality of devices. A consecutive access register corresponds to each device. A consecutive access counter is operable to load...
7548552 Method for polling in a medium access control protocol  
A method is provided for a master device ( 601 ) to allocate channel time. The master device sends a polling frame ( 240 ) to a current destination slave device ( 602 ) and a current polled slave...
7548548 System for low noise aggregation in DOCSIS contention slots in a shared upstream receiver environment  
A cable modem termination system is disclosed with flexible mapping of upstreams to downstreams and flexible mapping of downstreams to optical nodes and optical nodes to upstream receivers and the...
RE40745 Command processing method and radio communication apparatus  
A command processing method for a radio LAN system composed of a plurality of terminals and at least one base apparatus is disclosed which prevents users of the terminals from suffering from...
7542164 Common exchange format architecture for color printing in a multi-function system  
An image processing system as disclosed, including at least one input processing device functionally coupled to at least one output processing device, document information configured in a format...
7539206 Communication apparatus and method for supporting carrier sense multiple access/collision detection  
A communication apparatus and a method for supporting carrier sense multiple access/collision detection (CSMA/CD) are disclosed. In a home network having a plurality of peripheral apparatuses in...
7539204 Data and context memory sharing  
An off-load engine for processing a packet conveyed between a target and a network over a transport connection, the packet including a payload and a header. The engine includes a payload buffer,...
7539199 Switch fabric scheduling with fairness and priority consideration  
A scheduler for a packet switch in a high-speed network. In various embodiments, switch throughput and fairness is improved by operating on request data before arbitration. Other embodiments...
7535919 Wireless communication method adapting priority for transmitting packets in WPAN  
A wireless communication method in a network environment in which several devices are connected and wireless communications are performed through a channel synchronized by a sync signal that is...
7529268 Multi-point electronic control system protocol  
A generic software protocol allows communication between multiple devices within an electronic control system as well as between an electronic control system and an external monitoring device. The...
7525986 Starvation prevention scheme for a fixed priority PCI-Express arbiter with grant counters using arbitration pools  
Method and apparatus for arbitrating prioritized cycle streams in a manner that prevents starvation. High priority and low priority arbitration pools are employed for arbitrating multiple input...
7525981 Glare resolution  
An embodiment of the invention provides a method for glare resolution in a network. The method first designates a master node and a slave node. The method prevents the slave node from initially...
7523202 Method, system, and storage medium for resolving contention issues during channel program execution  
An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for resolving contention issues by a channel in a fiber optic switch environment that occur during channel...
7519077 Token registration of managed devices  
A communication system includes a controller for managing a number of communications devices. The controller receives registration requests from the devices and selectively registers the devices...
7512729 Method and apparatus for a high efficiency two-stage rotating priority arbiter with predictable arbitration latency  
A scalable, two-stage rotating priority arbiter with re-circulation and bounded latency for use in multi-threaded, multi-processing devices. An apparatus implementing the two-stage arbiter includes...
7512148 Weighted round-robin arbitrator  
A weighted round-robin arbitrator for a plurality of data queue includes an arbitration table comprising a plurality of entries. Each entry represents a time slot for the transmission of one data...
7508776 Controlling method and device for data transmission  
A controlling method and device for data transmission including the steps of providing a system bus for connecting a first transmission channel and a second transmission channel with a command...
7502354 Mesh networking using point coordination function  
A system and methods for wireless computing devices to become mesh member nodes within a self-configuring mesh network includes mechanisms for neighbor discovery and sharing of a common topology...
7499468 Method of adapting an optical network to provide lightpaths to dynamically assigned higher priority traffic  
A system and method for dynamically establishing lightpaths in an optical telecommunications network. The system implements tokens which are used to advertise the availability of receivers...
7496080 System and method for priority communication management in a hybrid TDMA-SS system  
A method and system for managing Priority Messages in a hybrid TDMA-Spread Spectrum (TDMA-SS) communication system is provided. The method and system include a HUB for generating a HUB TDMA epoch,...
7486686 Method and apparatus for scheduling data on a medium  
A bandwidth guaranteeing, BW, process transmits data from a first group of queues to a medium. When none of the queues of the first group wishes to transmit data via the bandwidth guaranteeing...
7486626 Partitioning a network element into multiple virtual network elements  
Techniques for partitioning a network element into multiple virtual network elements are provided. Resources of the network element are allocated to the virtual network elements and a virtual...
7480270 Method and apparatus for a reverse link supplemental channel scheduling  
A method and apparatus provide for scheduling reverse link transmission for a mobile station in a timely manner. A base station ( 101 ) may transmit on a forward link high rate channel and a...
7480266 Interference adaptation apparatus, systems, and methods  
Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to detect radio-frequency energy at a frequency associated with at least one wireless networking channel and to transmit a data...
7474671 System and method for resolving contention among applications requiring data connections between a mobile communications device and a wireless network  
A mobile communications device ( 30 ) includes a wireless transceiver ( 34 ) operable to conduct at least two data connections between the mobile communications device ( 30 ) and a wireless network...
7474670 Method and system for allocating bandwidth  
The present invention is directed to methods and systems for allocating bandwidth (or other shared resource) among multiple masters. According to an aspect of the present invention, an arbiter...
7466676 Method and apparatus for multi-channel MAC protocol using multi-tone synchronous collision resolution  
A multi-tone synchronous collision resolution system permits communication nodes within a MANET to contend simultaneously for a plurality of available channels. The communication nodes contend for...
7463646 Method and system for fibre channel arbitrated loop acceleration  
A fibre channel switch element with an acceleration device that connects plural fibre channel devices in an arbitrated loop and monitors frames sent during a loop initialization process is...
7460555 Terminal apparatus  
When operating as a control terminal and recognizing interference from another logical network, a terminal apparatus determines whether or not a logical network to be controlled is unified with the...
7460501 Method for enabling interoperability between data transmission systems conforming to IEEE 802.11 and HIPERLAN standards  
Mechanisms, in a transmission channel shared by 802.11 systems and HIPERLAN/2 systems are provided to prevent 802.11 terminals from transmitting during time periods allocated to HIPERLAN, so that a...
7457271 Wireless local area network ad-hoc mode for reducing power consumption  
A wireless station communicates with at least one other wireless station in a local area network (LAN). A media access control (MAC) device controls transitions between an active mode and a low...
7454220 Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating initiation of channel allocation to communicate data in a radio communication system  
Apparatus ( 48 ), and an associated method, for facilitating operation of a mobile node ( 12 ) operable in a communication system ( 10 ) to request allocation of communication capacity upon which...
7450974 Peer-to-peer communication in a radio network  
A mobile radio network comprises a plurality of communication points, each of which are capable of communicating with any other communication point. Each communication point has a proximity sensor,...