Lucent Technologies Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Steven Anthony Falco

Ming-Hsu Tu

Stephen Gregory Strickland

Semyon B Mizikovsky

Adam L Berenzweig

Robert J Rance

Alex Matusevich

Donald J Youtkus

Sheng-Jen Tsai

Myles Patrick Murphy

Winston Edward Pekrul

Bernard McKay

A communications node admits the receive data message to the buffer memory if the receive arriving message falls within the capacity range of a class of the receive data messages and if the buffer memory is not congested. A state detector detects if the buffer memory is congested by evaluating the occupancy rate of the buffer memory, or otherwise. The capacity range determines the utilization of buffer memory by a particular class of data messages, which may be defined in accordance with an estimated economic value rating of the data messages.

Method for controlling data flow associated with a communications node

A method that selects one of a plurality of priority schemes for scheduling messages for one of cyclically repeating sets of time slots of a control channel based on at least one of a plurality of characteristics of the state of the control channel. The state of the control channel is all information regarding what has arrived, what is queued, and what has been transmitted. This includes the status of the queues, the messages awaiting transmission, along with their type and the time they have been waiting, the sequence of past transmissions, as well as other information.

Management of wireless control channel

A communications node predicts a transmission-departure time of a receive data message from an output upon reception of the receive data message at an input of the communications node. The communications node determines if the receive data message would remain stored within the communications node for a latent duration longer than a waiting-time limit based on the predicted transmission-departure time. The communications node admits the receive data message, for storage in a buffer memory of the communications node for prospective transmission over the output, if the receive data message would be transmitted prior to expiration of the waiting-time limit.

The synchronization system uses a TDMA or AMPS air interface to provide timing synchronization between previously unsynchronized base stations. The synchronization of base stations is critical between when determining the geographical position of a mobile because the geographical position is determined using a time difference of arrival method. In order to synchronize a remote base station with a serving base station, the remote base station receives a signal from the serving base station and measuring the receiving time of the signal at the remote base station in relation to the clock of the remote base station. The synchronization system determines the transmission time of the signal based on the reception time of the signal and the distance between the base stations, in relation to the clock signal of the second station, and synchronizes the clock of the remote base station to the clock of the serving base station based on the offset in the clock cycles at the time the signal was transmitted.

Providing an accurate timing source for locating the geographical position of a mobile

Disclosed is an encrypting speech processor architecture that provides enhanced security without the use of external cryptosync and with minimal speech degradation. This is accomplished by incorporating a block encryptor and a keystream generator (instead of a fixed secret mask encryption scheme, such as those implemented in voice ciphers) for encrypting blocks of encoded speech bits at a transmitter side. The block encryptor employs an invertible cryptographic algorithm and internal cryptosync to convert a first block of encoded speech bits into a first ciphertext block. The first ciphertext block is used to generate a keystream, which is then used to encrypt a second ciphertext block.

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Steven Anthony Falco