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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-9,686,383 |
Synchronization of traffic multiplexing in link aggregation Synchronization of traffic multiplexing in link aggregation is described. In an embodiment, a first link aggregator and a second link aggregator are associated... |
| US-9,686,194 |
Adaptive multi-interface use for content networking One embodiment provides a system that forwards a packet with a hierarchically structured variable-length identifier (HSVLI) in a network. An HSVLI indicates a... |
| US-9,686,187 |
Method and system for providing distributed allowed domains in a data
network Method and system for providing distributed domains in a fiber channel fabric including determining a domain configuration of a resource, retrieving one or more... |
| US-9,686,181 |
Selective service bypass in service function chaining In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a failure of a service function at a service node in a service chain, receiving a packet at the service node,... |
| US-9,681,260 |
Device selection for user interface A system including a processor to create a history database in a storage medium for storing signal strength history records, each history record including an... |
| US-9,678,762 |
Dynamic, automated monitoring and controlling of boot operations in
computers A network device manages multiple computers and connects the computers to boot devices that store boot programs used by the computers to boot. The network... |
| US-9,674,515 |
Endpoint information for network VQM Video quality management (VQM) may be provided. First, transmitter metrics corresponding to a video stream may be determined by a transmitting endpoint. The... |
| US-9,667,686 |
System and method for improving audio quality during web conferences over
low-speed network connections A method that includes: (1) transmitting, at a first transmit time point, a first probe packet over a network connection to a conferencing server immediately... |
| US-9,667,562 |
Method and apparatus for supporting variable bit-rate reservations In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a first message from an application associated with a variable bit-rate (VBR) media flow, the first message... |
| US-9,667,480 |
Consolidated information delivery in a Fibre Channel fabric Presented herein are techniques for collecting and delivering consolidated nameserver information in a merged Fiber (Fiber) Channel (FC) fabric. A principal... |
| US-9,667,439 |
Determining connections between disconnected partial trees Various implementations disclosed herein include systems, methods and apparatuses that determine connections between disconnected partial trees. For example, in... |
| US-9,660,922 |
Network assisted rate shifting for adaptive bit rate streaming Techniques are provided for adjusting or modifying content request messages in a video streaming environment. An aggregation device is configured to receive a... |
| US-9,660,877 |
Transaction management in multi-protocol SDN controller A multi-protocol software-defined networking (SDN) controller receives receiving from one or more applications one or more requests for services to be performed... |
| US-9,654,744 |
Frequency modulated burst mode transmitter and method The present invention is directed towards a frequency modulated (FM) burst mode optical system that allows optical signals having a common wavelength provided... |
| US-9,654,482 |
Overcoming circular dependencies when bootstrapping an RPKI site In one embodiment, a validation server in a computer network determines that an edge router of the computer network has blocked access to a desired server... |
| US-9,654,419 |
Fabric channel control apparatus and method A method for receiving packet data at a communication channel and transmitting the packet data over serial links of the communication channel. The packet data... |
| US-9,654,409 |
Method for scaling address lookups using synthetic addresses Various examples of the present disclosure provide methods for unifying various types of end-point identifiers, such as IPv4 (e.g., Internet protocol version 4... |
| US-9,654,390 |
Method and apparatus for improving cloud routing service performance In one embodiment, a method includes creating a logical router on a first router, the first router being supported on a first node, the logical router being... |
| US-9,654,379 |
Pseudowire (PW) switching type-length-value (TLV) A method and apparatus for providing information in a network by way of a Pseudowire switching TLV is presented. A second device in the network receives a first... |
| US-9,654,344 |
De-congesting data centers with wireless point-to-multipoint flyways In one embodiment, a source top-of-rack (ToR) switch may identify multiple destination ToR switches from a group of ToR switches to send data traffic to. The... |
| US-9,654,300 |
N-way virtual port channels using dynamic addressing and modified routing Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for dynamic addressing of virtual port channels is described. In some implementations, a... |
| US-9,648,615 |
Location measurement optimized off-channel scanning and grouping of access
points A plurality of time slots are allocated during which a location procedure is performed for one or more target wireless devices. Select ones of a plurality of... |
| US-9,648,569 |
System and method to facilitate small cell uplink power control in a
network environment A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include calculating, by one or more of a plurality of small cell radios, one or more sets of candidate... |
| US-9,648,543 |
System and method for accepting information from routing messages into a
list A system and method adds and manages entries on a list of entries of routing information to allow the top entry to be used for routing to a destination... |
| US-9,648,464 |
Efficient zone based client count forecasting An efficient process is provided that exploits features in historical and current client location data to forecast client counts of different zones up to... |
| US-9,648,141 |
Token delegation for third-party authorization in computer networking In one embodiment, first content is served by an application server to a client computer through an Internet service provider network. The first content... |
| US-9,648,005 |
Method and system for extending network resources campus-wide based on
user role and location A method, system, and computer readable medium is disclosed which utilizes the LISP control plane to increase communications and access to enterprise resources... |
| US-9,647,944 |
Segment routing based wide area network orchestration in a network
environment An example method for segment routing based wide area network (WAN) orchestration in a network environment is provided and includes monitoring a segment routing... |
| US-9,647,929 |
Opaque profile identifiers for path computation element protocol Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling centralized path definition and policy with distributed path setup, and centralized path setup control with... |
| US-9,647,923 |
Network device mobility According to one example embodiment, an EID-NOTIFY packet is defined for use with the Location/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP). A first-hop network... |
| US-9,647,849 |
"Slow-start" problem in data center networks and a potential solution Systems and methods are provided for a multicast based solution to solving the slow-start problem that ensures both optimal (1-hop) and in-sequence delivery of... |
| US-9,647,723 |
Data center management using device identification over power-line In one embodiment, a first device (e.g., a host device or power distribution unit) stores identification information of the first device, and determines, over a... |
| US-9,647,696 |
Forward error correction with turbo/non-turbo switching A forward error correction and differentially encoded signal obtained via a communication channel is supplied to a soft-input soft-output (SISO) differential... |
| US-9,647,494 |
Fast network formation using a battery-backed network backbone In one embodiment, a device in a network detects a power outage event in the network. The device causes an unprotected node in the network to use a first... |
| US-9,641,416 |
Operations analysis of packet groups identified based on timestamps In one embodiment, operations analysis of packet groups identified based on timestamps is performed. One embodiment includes sending a plurality of sent... |
| US-9,641,351 |
Jitter removal in deterministic networks In one embodiment, a method includes receiving packets in a flow at a network device in a deterministic network, wherein at least one of the packets is... |
| US-9,634,934 |
Dynamic host configuration protocol relay in a multipod fabric A packet is generated at a first network connected device for transmission to a destination network device through a network comprising a plurality of pods. At... |
| US-9,634,929 |
Using context labels to scale MAC tables on computer network edge devices In one embodiment, an access component of a local network edge device receives traffic, and generates a frame for the traffic that includes a remote context... |
| US-9,634,927 |
Post-routed VLAN flooding A hierarchical lookup forwarding model to induce a Layer (L2) forwarding look up in a post-routed virtual local area network (VLAN). In one example, a line card... |
| US-9,634,919 |
Multipath data stream optimization In one implementation, a source endpoint and a destination endpoint communicate using multipath. A data stream may be transmitted using a primary path. The... |
| US-9,633,270 |
Using speaker clustering to switch between different camera views in a
video conference system A video conference endpoint includes one or more cameras to capture video of different views and a microphone array to sense audio. One or more closeup views... |
| US-9,633,131 |
HTML network service tags used with web browsers for controlling network
elements A web browser configured to execute on a network element receives a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document including HTML network service tags. The network... |
| US-9,632,930 |
Sub-area FCID allocation scheme Certain embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to allocating a sub-area of Fiber Channel addresses (FCIDs) to a device. A range of addresses may... |
| US-9,632,335 |
Electro-optical modulator with a vertical capacitor structure An optical modulator may include a leftmost waveguide, a rightmost waveguide, and a dielectric layer disposed therebetween. In one embodiment, the waveguides... |
| US-9,628,518 |
Linking a collaboration session with an independent telepresence or
telephony session An independent collaboration session is established through an existing media session. A computing device identifies a request for a collaboration session from... |
| US-9,628,435 |
Duplicate address detection based on distributed bloom filter In one embodiment, a method comprises: generating, by a first network device in a network, a Bloom filter bit vector representing device addresses of devices... |
| US-9,628,416 |
Photo avatars In one implementation, endpoint computing devices communicate using one or more instant messages. A user interface of an endpoint receives text input from a... |
| US-9,628,400 |
Interest forwarding for interactive client anonymity In one embodiment, an intermediate node in a communication network receives a client interest with an indication of a client-requested reverse private path. The... |
| US-9,628,391 |
Recursive load balancing in a loop-free routing topology using routing
arcs In one embodiment, a method comprises creating, in a computing network, a loop-free routing topology comprising a plurality of routing arcs for reaching a... |
| US-9,628,334 |
VLAN tagging in a virtual environment VLAN tagging in a virtual environment is described, including configuring a set of VLAN tagging parameters for each virtual network device to be used by the... |
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