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| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,561,549 |
Wireless local area network context control protocol A Wireless LAN Context Control Protocol (WLCCP) is used to establish and manage a wireless network topology and securely manages the "operational context" for... |
| US-7,561,512 |
Method and system for enhancing crankback handling in multi-peer group
networks A method for enhanced crankback handling in a multi-peer group network. The method includes receiving a first connection request from a node of a first peer... |
| US-7,559,035 |
Method and system for navigating through a plurality of features A method, system and apparatus are provided for navigating through a plurality of features in a user interface. A user may choose from a plurality of features... |
| US-7,558,960 |
Network infrastructure validation of network management frames A detection-based defense to a wireless network. Elements of the infrastructure, e.g., access points or scanning-only access points, detect intruders by... |
| US-7,558,878 |
Optimal sync for rapid spanning tree protocol In one embodiment, a rapid spanning tree protocol (RSTP) is executed on an intermediate network device. The RSTP may designate a first port of the device to a... |
| US-7,558,863 |
Support IP pool-based configuration An address is allocated to a host device which is selected to obtain network access from any access point within a given communications system, while maintaining... |
| US-7,558,852 |
Tag location, client location, and coverage hole location in a wireless
network Determining the location of a radio tag or client station of a wireless network, and the location of coverage holes by receiving from a plurality of wireless... |
| US-7,558,775 |
Methods and apparatus for maintaining sets of ranges typically using an
associative memory and for using these... Sets of ranges typically are maintained using an associative memory and may be used to identify a matching range based on a query point or query range and to... |
| US-7,558,592 |
Radio planning for WLANS Described herein are a computer-implemented method of determining a power plan/frequency plan combination assigning transmit frequency channels and transmit... |
| US-7,558,553 |
Advance signaling for multi-stage tranceivers Systems and methods for advanced signaling between stages of transmitters and/or receivers in a digital communication system. One or more intermediate frequency... |
| US-7,558,291 |
Device and mechanism to manage consistent delay across multiple
participants in a multimedia experience A system and method provide for managing presentation delay for presenting media or control information to participants in a multimedia experience. Embodiments... |
| US-7,558,278 |
Apparatus and method for rate-based polling of input interface queues in
networking devices Controlling congestion in a networking device having a plurality of input interface queues comprises estimating, in each of one or more sampling states, a data... |
| US-7,558,276 |
System and method for retrieving computed paths from a path computation
element using a path key A technique retrieves computed path segments across one or more domains of a computer network in accordance with a stateful ("semi-stateful") path computation... |
| US-7,558,270 |
Architecture for high speed class of service enabled linecard A linecard architecture for high speed routing of data in a communications device. This architecture provides low latency routing based on packet priority:... |
| US-7,558,261 |
Architecture and method for accessing services in a data center An architecture, arrangement, system, and method for providing service access in a data center are disclosed. In one embodiment, an arrangement can include: an... |
| US-7,558,246 |
Selecting a routing mode for a call session Routing a call includes receiving a request to initiate a call session for a call from a caller endpoint to a callee endpoint, where the caller endpoint belongs... |
| US-7,558,224 |
Management of packet-based audio devices within acoustic spaces A system includes multiple packet-based communication devices that support audio output and other suitable functionality and an acoustic space management device... |
| US-7,558,218 |
Method and system for finding shared risk diverse paths A method and system for finding shared risk diverse paths is disclosed. The method includes receiving route information at a node and running a shortest path... |
| US-7,558,214 |
Mechanism to improve concurrency in execution of routing computation and
routing information dissemination A technique enables an intermediate network node to efficiently process link-state packets using a single running context (i.e., process or thread). The... |
| US-7,558,207 |
Modifying the bandwidth of an established ATM call in response to an
identification of the contents of the call Methods and apparatus are disclosed for changing the bandwidth or other traffic characteristic of an established packet call in response to an identification of... |
| US-7,558,192 |
Method to increase system availability of critical hardware components One embodiment of the invention includes a system for overriding an operation of an electronic device. The system includes an override hardware logic that is... |
| US-7,557,806 |
Method to protect display text from eavesdropping A system and method for displaying a glyph on a graphical user interface to protect the displayed glyph against eavesdropping. The method comprises providing... |
| US-7,555,783 |
Wireless network credential provisioning A credential provisioning technique is provided that is secure yet easy to administer. A credential provisioner such as a network AP is configured to leave a... |
| US-7,555,774 |
Inline intrusion detection using a single physical port In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method for inline intrusion detection includes receiving a packet at a physical interface of an... |
| US-7,555,536 |
Apparatus and methods for providing an audibly controlled user interface
for audio-based communication devices The invention is directed to techniques for providing an audibly controlled interface for a user of a limited audio-based communication device, for example, a... |
| US-7,555,222 |
Multiformat transmitter Methods and apparatus for supporting a plurality of modulation formats using a single transmitter are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present... |
| US-7,555,060 |
Spatio-temporal processing for communication A space-time signal processing system with advantageously reduced complexity. The system may take advantage of multiple transmitter antenna elements and/or... |
| US-7,554,996 |
Controlled distribution of inter-area routing information A technique controls distribution of reachability information for a tail-end node of a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) to a head-end node of... |
| US-7,554,959 |
Apparatus and method for cluster network device discovery A group of network devices, such as Ethernet switches, are logically configured as a single cluster, with one commander device and one or more member devices.... |
| US-7,554,928 |
Clustering methods for scalable and bandwidth-efficient multicast A method, system, computer program product, and apparatus for reducing wasted bandwidth due to supercasting multicast cells through a router switch fabric is... |
| US-7,554,921 |
Method and apparatus for generating routing information in a data
communication network A method and apparatus are disclosed for generating routing information in a data communications network. A first network element (such as a router) receives... |
| US-7,554,918 |
Fair multiplexing scheme for multiple input port router The present scheme provides a mechanism for preventing traffic on one or more LAN ports from dramatically affecting performance on other LAN ports of a router... |
| US-7,554,914 |
System and method for adaptively balancing network traffic over router
output ports A method and system for determining an output port upon which to transmit a packet in a router having a plurality of output ports adapted to be coupled with an... |
| US-7,554,907 |
High-speed hardware implementation of RED congestion control algorithm A pipelined linecard architecture for receiving, modifying, switching, buffering, queuing and dequeuing packets for transmission in a communications network. The... |
| US-7,554,903 |
Method and system for router redundancy in a wide area network A method for selecting an active router in a communication device includes providing multiple routers in the device, coupling the routers to a single physical... |
| US-7,552,464 |
Techniques for presenting network identities at a human interface Techniques for presenting identification of a remote network entity to a human user include determining one or more vectors of presentation elements that are... |
| US-7,552,344 |
Hardware-based encryption/decryption employing dual ported key storage A system for the encryption and decryption of data employing dual ported RAM for key storage to accelerate data processing operations. The on-chip key storage... |
| US-7,552,268 |
Method for improving bus utilization using predictive arbitration A PCI bridge device includes an arbiter that uses state information comprised of knowledge of the bus protocol and a history of recent transactions to predict... |
| US-7,552,234 |
Arrangement for establishing a bidirectional tunnel between a mobile
router and a correspondent node A mobile router and a correspondent router, each configured for routing services for nodes within their routing prefixes associated with their respective routing... |
| US-7,552,200 |
Apparatus and methods for requesting an event notification over a network The invention is directed to techniques for providing an event notification string over a network to a notification server. An application server includes a... |
| US-7,551,948 |
Uniform power save method for 802.11e stations A power-save QSTA notifies an Access Point (AP) that its operating in a automatic power-save delivery (APSD) mode and negotiates a periodic wakeup schedule and a... |
| US-7,551,682 |
Method for improving the performance of a wireless network utilizing
beamforming weighting vectors Techniques are provided for selecting one or more downlink beamforming vectors for a wireless channel to create beamformed signals between a first wireless... |
| US-7,551,640 |
Method and apparatus for errorless frame timing adjustment A frame timing adjustment apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an ingress framing unit, an egress framing unit coupled to the ingress framing unit, and... |
| US-7,551,632 |
Arrangement for traversing an IPv4 network by IPv6 mobile routers A source IPv6 mobile router is configured for establishing an IPv4 tunnel with destination IPv6 mobile router using a synthetic tag address, specifying a... |
| US-7,551,617 |
Multi-threaded packet processing architecture with global packet memory,
packet recirculation, and coprocessor A network processor has numerous novel features including a multi-threaded processor array, a multi-pass processing model, and Global Packet Memory (GPM) with... |
| US-7,551,609 |
Data structure for storing and accessing multiple independent sets of
forwarding information Stored in the leaf nodes of a data structure that can be used for identifying the longest prefix matching an address are corresponding values from multiple... |
| US-7,551,603 |
Time-sensitive-packet jitter and latency minimization on a shared data
link A system and method are disclosed for interleaving time-critical packets and lower-priority packets onto a common data link. A packet arrival prediction... |
| US-7,551,578 |
Medium access control protocol for OFDM wireless networks A medium access contention protocol that is highly beneficial in wireless networks and particularly in wireless networks that employ a fixed minimum burst size... |
| US-7,551,577 |
Access point provisioning and mapping in dual mode devices A system and method are provided for provisioning and updating wireless local area network (LAN) access point and/or hotspot information on a wireless dual mode... |
| US-7,551,573 |
Method and system for maintaining video connectivity According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for maintaining video capability includes receiving at a device from a source a plurality of packets... |
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