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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,966,551 |
Locating points of interest using references to media frames within a
packet flow In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a stream of transport packets encapsulating media packets, and generating a reference to the point-of-interest... |
| US-8,966,550 |
Home communication systems Systems and methods are disclosed of a network including a primary device, a plurality of remote devices, and a shared peripheral device. The network allows the... |
| US-8,966,495 |
Dynamic virtual machine consolidation At a first physical computing machine executing a plurality of virtual machines and connected to a network, one or more virtual machine metrics for each virtual... |
| US-8,966,297 |
Bidirectional inline power port A method and apparatus for bidirectional provision of inline power over data telecommunications cabling permits power to be received at a local powered device... |
| US-8,966,240 |
Enabling packet handling information in the clear for MACSEC protected
frames Techniques are provided to append packet handling information "in the clear" ahead of security related information in a packet to be routed over a network to... |
| US-8,966,234 |
Pluggable module subcomponent reset Techniques are provided for resetting a microprocessor-based subcomponent of a pluggable module. Specifically, a host device connected to the pluggable module... |
| US-8,966,113 |
Technique for dynamically restoring original TE-LSP attributes for
interdomain TE-LSPs A technique dynamically restores original attributes of a Traffic Engineering Label Switched Path (TE-LSP) that are provided in a source domain for a... |
| US-8,966,093 |
Seamless hand-off of combined unified communications and virtual desktop
infrastructure sessions A host device receives from a user at a first client device a first login request for hosted virtual desktop (HVD) services. A first virtual desktop... |
| US-8,966,089 |
Supporting proxy discovery In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an invitation request message at a first outbound proxy. The invitation request message is received from a first... |
| US-8,966,058 |
Network appliance with integrated local area network and storage area
network extension services Techniques and a network appliance apparatus are provided herein to extend local area networks (LANs) and storage area networks (SANs) beyond a data center... |
| US-8,965,380 |
System and method for providing access in a network environment A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes evaluating geolocation information associated with a mobile node and using the geolocation... |
| US-8,964,762 |
Timing re-synchronization with reduced communication energy in frequency
hopping communication networks In one embodiment, a battery-operated communication device "quick-samples" a frequency hopping sequence at a periodic rate corresponding to a substantially low... |
| US-8,964,741 |
Adjacency discovery through multicast and single-hop messaging A first node of a network may send a multicast discovery message comprising a domain identifier of the first node. The first node may also send a single-hop... |
| US-8,964,641 |
System and method for transporting digital baseband streams in a network
environment A method is provided in example embodiments that include receiving a radio signal stream and segmenting the radio signal stream into segments. The segments may... |
| US-8,964,574 |
Network accessibility to any network attached device during reboot and
power loss A data communication network (DCN) having a plurality of network devices coupled to the DCN with at least one of the network devices having a "boot once"... |
| US-8,964,570 |
Detecting failures of backup label switched paths in a network environment A method is provided in one example and includes communicating a first request message to a first network element functioning as a point of local repair for a... |
| US-8,964,566 |
Creating balanced link-disjoint topologies in a computer network In one embodiment, each node in a computer network determines a shortest looping ring back to the node through each of its neighbors. Each of these rings may... |
| US-8,964,564 |
Dynamic reroute of network traffic In an example embodiment, a method is provided that receives a broadcast of available bandwidth from a first routing device. A congestion of traffic is detected... |
| US-8,964,530 |
Increasing multi-destination scale in a network environment An example method for increasing multi-destination scale in a network environment is provided and includes receiving a packet at a pair of switches comprising a... |
| US-8,964,385 |
Air flow system An apparatus is provided in one example embodiment and includes a faceplate having a plurality of slots arranged on a front portion of the faceplate, a top... |
| US-8,964,056 |
Encoder-supervised imaging for video cameras A controller controls a camera that produces a sequence of images and that has output coupled to a video encoder. The camera has an operating condition... |
| US-8,963,986 |
System and method for scaling a video presentation based on presentation
complexity and room participants A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a first presentation material for a videoconference, wherein the first presentation... |
| US-8,963,793 |
Dual band antenna design Disclosed in an example embodiment herein is a dual mode patch antenna designed to operate in the TM02 mode. The antenna comprising a circular patch antenna... |
| US-8,963,692 |
Aggregating and routing sensor data at a community sensor-coordinating
entity In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from multiple sensors associated with multiple persons; for each of the sensors, identifying the... |
| US-8,963,573 |
Universal test system for testing electrical and optical hosts According to an example implementation, a universal tester includes a host interface slot connected to a first pluggable host card during an electrical test... |
| US-8,962,388 |
Method and apparatus for supporting a computer chip on a printed circuit
board assembly A printed circuit board assembly and method of assembly in which underfill is placed between a chip and substrate to support the chip. A trench is formed in the... |
| US-D723,089 |
Camera bracket |
| US-8,959,607 |
Group key management and authentication schemes for mesh networks According to one embodiment, techniques are provided to enable secure communication among devices in a mesh network using a group temporal key. An authenticator... |
| US-8,959,577 |
Automatic curation and modification of virtualized computer programs In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises receiving computer program data at a security unit having one or more processors; implementing one or more... |
| US-8,959,074 |
Unified communication audit tool Providing for dynamic auditing of components of a communication network is provided herein. By way of example, network components can be queried by way of... |
| US-8,958,687 |
Video trick mode mechanism A system and method for video trick mode playback is described, the system and method including a user actuated control operative to slide (130) a playback... |
| US-8,958,628 |
Image scaling The present invention relates to an apparatus, method for adjusting depth characteristics of a three-dimensional image for correcting for errors in perceived... |
| US-8,958,560 |
Efficient multivariate signature generation A cryptographic method and apparatus, including providing a public key that defines a multivariate polynomial mapping Q( ) over a finite field F, extracting a... |
| US-8,958,486 |
Simultaneous processing of media and redundancy streams for mitigating
impairments In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a primary stream of encoded frames and a separate stream of redundant frames. The method further comprises... |
| US-8,958,428 |
Method and system for configuring wireless routers and networks A method and system for configuring a wireless router and a wireless communications network includes establishing connectivity between a wireless router and at... |
| US-8,958,418 |
Frame handling within multi-stage switching fabrics Various techniques can be used to handle frames within multi-stage switching fabric. For example, in one method, a frame and an associated frame header are... |
| US-8,958,341 |
Systems and methods for selecting serving gateways to service user
equipment Some embodiments provide methods for selecting a serving gateway to service user equipment in communication with a network, including: receiving a message from... |
| US-8,958,329 |
Fabric load balancing In one implementation, a series of nodes in a network or a fabric communicate congestion values upstream against the flow of data packets. A current node... |
| US-8,958,327 |
Passive network latency monitoring A method measures a resident delay for each port in a node in a network and a peer delay between each pair of neighbor nodes in the network. From these resident... |
| US-8,958,318 |
Event-based capture of packets from a network flow An apparatus and method for event-based data capture from network flows are provided. At a network device, a network flow is received that comprises a plurality... |
| US-8,957,940 |
Utilizing a smart camera system for immersive telepresence Video content is received at a computing device that camera views provided by video cameras that are aligned to capture images of participants within a defined... |
| US-8,957,936 |
Method to preview caller in a video conference session The concept of caller identification (ID) may be enhanced by taking advantage of video by allowing a call recipient to see who is calling on an incoming video... |
| US-8,954,998 |
Application of an embedded instrumentation interface definition language A system and method provides a managed resource instrumentation application on a network device to instrument a managed network device component. The managed... |
| US-8,954,866 |
Messaging and presence protocol as a configuration and management bus for
embedded devices Techniques are provided herein for establishing at a network management server a presence on a network. A presence associated with one or more managed devices... |
| US-8,954,863 |
Intelligent social collaboration unified media In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information from a user in a collaboration network, the information including a unit of content, a title, an... |
| US-8,954,806 |
Single event-upset controller wrapper that facilitates fault injection A method that determines the system impact of single event upset (SEU) and a single event upset (SEU) wrapper that controls a SEU controller is disclosed. The... |
| US-8,954,591 |
Resource negotiation for cloud services using a messaging and presence
protocol Techniques are provided for sending from a client in a first network device a first session-initiate message to a second network device that is configured to... |
| US-8,954,582 |
Managing fate-sharing in shared-media communication networks In one embodiment, a management device receives one or more fate-sharing reports locally generated by one or more corresponding reporting nodes in a... |
| US-8,953,771 |
Method and apparatus to provide cryptographic identity assertion for the
PSTN The present application provides an authentication scheme that allows a device to provide additional authentication of a Publicly Switched Telephone Network... |
| US-8,953,770 |
Returning missed phone calls In one embodiment, a method is provided for returning missed phone calls. In this method, a missed phone call is detected and a phone number associated with the... |
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