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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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