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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,519,598 |
Prioritizing network management traffic In a computer network, network management applications in a network management station manage and control managed elements connected to the network through the... |
| US-7,519,366 |
Collaborative beam forming of base transceiver stations for reducing
interference in a wireless multi-cell network A method of signal transmission and reception for a cellular wireless network is provided comprising detecting signal strength of signals transmitted or received... |
| US-7,519,081 |
Multi-carrier frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) architecture for high
speed digital service in local networks Disclosed herein are methods of providing a client with local area network connectivity and access to other services in a cable network. One such method... |
| US-7,519,080 |
Fibre channel frame-mode GFP with distributed delimiter A technique for providing multiple Fiber Channel frames in one frame-mapped GFP transport frame. GFP conventions are followed, except that a Distributed... |
| US-7,519,077 |
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... |
| US-7,519,071 |
Arrangement in a gateway for registering mobile routers of a mobile AD HOC
network to respective home agents A gateway, configured for providing connectivity between a wide area network and mobile routers within a mobile ad hoc network, is configured for registering the... |
| US-7,519,062 |
Method and apparatus for implementing forwarding decision shortcuts at a
network switch In one embodiment, a first packet is forwarded based on a network layer routing decision rendered by a router. A shortcut entry is generated based on a first... |
| US-7,519,006 |
Method and apparatus for measuring one-way delay at arbitrary points in
network Timestamps are inserted into trace packet expiration messages to identify delay in a network. A Time To Live (TTL) value in the trace packet is varied to... |
| US-7,518,987 |
Mechanisms for providing connectivity in NAT redundant/fail-over scenarios
in unshared address-space Disclosed are methods and apparatus for facilitating reliable session based communication with a local host via a subnet of redundant network devices that also... |
| US-7,518,981 |
Method and system for a graceful reroute of connections on a link A method and system for a graceful reroute of connections on a link are described. According to one embodiment, in a digital communications network, a method... |
| US-7,516,476 |
Methods and apparatus for automated creation of security policy An automated method and apparatus for creating a security policy for one or more applications is provided. The method includes exercising the features of the one... |
| US-7,516,475 |
Method and apparatus for managing security policies on a network Security policies that regulate communication packets on a network may be segmented into independent sets, where each security policy of an independent set does... |
| US-7,516,470 |
Locally-updated interactive program guide A method for providing an interactive program guide (IPG) includes receiving from a user a request for an IPG, and providing the user with an IPG that includes... |
| US-7,516,322 |
Copy protection built into a network infrastructure A method for a network infrastructure copy protection system. The method includes the step of applying a digital signature to a digital content file prior to... |
| US-7,516,240 |
Managing a content distribution system using virtual content-distribution
trees A technique can be used to obtain content (e.g., a live feed, pre-positioned content, etc.) from a content-originating device (a content source). The technique... |
| US-7,516,234 |
Transmitting streams over asynchronous networks A network stream transmitter receives a transport stream having content packets and packets to be filtered out and is adapted to selectively encapsulate content... |
| US-7,516,224 |
Pseudowire termination directly on a router A method, apparatus and computer program product for routing data within a packet-switched network using a PW wherein the PW is terminated directly on the... |
| US-7,516,211 |
Methods and apparatus to configure a communication port A data communication device automatically configures its own communication ports based on attributes of a remote device with which it communicates. The process... |
| US-7,516,198 |
Arrangement for providing content-based quality of service for a service
flow based on parsing XML tags... A network node, for example a router, is configured for assigning network parameters for an identified flow of data packets associated with an application... |
| US-7,516,184 |
Method and system for a method for evaluating a message based in part on a
registrar reputation A method and system for evaluating a message. A message including an originator is received. A registrar lookup for determining a registrar for the originator is... |
| US-7,516,174 |
Wireless network security mechanism including reverse network address
translation Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to preventing unauthorized access to internal network addresses transmitted across wireless networks. According to the... |
| US-7,515,940 |
Node dependent wireless transmit antenna selection technique A system and method for selecting a best transmit antenna for a transceiver using antenna diversity that caches the identity of the best transmit antenna for... |
| US-7,515,931 |
Frequency synthesizer and synthesis method for generating a multiband
local oscillator signal A phase locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer to produce a local oscillator signal for a transmitter for operation at a plurality of RF frequency bands that... |
| US-7,515,893 |
Error vector magnitude selection diversity metric for OFDM Described herein is an apparatus for inclusion in a station of a wireless network, and a method implemented in a station of a wireless network. The method... |
| US-7,515,884 |
Method and system for self-calibrating transmit power A small number of transmissions are performed at a sufficient number of frequencies and power levels so that a correlation between frequency, measured power, and... |
| US-7,515,712 |
Mechanism and apparatus for encapsulation of entitlement authorization in
conditional access system A method for determining whether the terminal is authorized to receive the selected service is practiced in a terminal of a conditional access system in which a... |
| US-7,515,600 |
Synchronizing portions of a database with different databases on different
nodes of a network Techniques are disclosed for synchronizing a database related to a first node in a network with multiple nodes. Each node includes a database different from a... |
| US-7,515,593 |
Method and system for efficient flow control for client data frames over
GFP across a SONET/SDH transport path A method and system for flow control of GFP-encapsulated client data frames over SONET/SDH transport networks is described. Transport interfaces, in the form of... |
| US-7,515,551 |
Techniques for reducing adjacencies in a link-state network routing
protocol A method and apparatus are presented supporting shortest path first (SPF) routing of data packets over a network by establishing link-state data at an router.... |
| US-7,515,549 |
Managing devices across NAT boundaries An address management scheme allows a Network Management System (NMS) to manage devices in a private network operating behind a Network Address Translator (NAT)... |
| US-7,515,542 |
Broadband access note with a virtual maintenance end point A broadband access node includes a port for connection with a Digital Subscriber Line and a processor to run code that implements a virtual maintenance end point... |
| US-7,515,535 |
Technique for efficiently managing bandwidth for multipoint-to-multipoint
services in a provider network A technique efficiently manages bandwidth (BW) for multipoint-to-multipoint (MP2MP) services in a provider network of a computer network. According to the novel... |
| US-7,515,529 |
Efficient mechanism for fast recovery in case of border router node
failure in a computer network A technique protects traffic (IP) against the failure of a border router between two domains in a computer network using Fast Reroute and backup tunnels. The... |
| US-7,515,525 |
Cooperative TCP / BGP window management for stateful switchover A system and method for performing stateful switchover with reduced data, such as only metadata about a TCP window state. The metadata comprises a size of TCP... |
| US-7,515,413 |
Fan field replaceable unit A fan device includes a connector, a fan, and an attachment assembly. The fan is configured to provide cooling to circuitry when the fan receives a power signal... |
| US-7,515,107 |
Multi-band antenna An antenna comprising: (a) a conductive ground plane; and (b) a rod shaped monopole element having a conductive surface, oriented out from the ground plane and... |
| US-7,513,791 |
Adjustable power cord retainer and method of use A retainer for use with a conventional cord to stabilize the cord within a plug of an electronic device is provided. The retainer includes a bushing for... |
| US-7,512,970 |
Host credentials authorization protocol A protocol, method, apparatus and computer program product for providing and utilizing a host credential authorization protocol (HCAP) is presented. The protocol... |
| US-7,512,964 |
System and method for archiving multiple downloaded recordable media
content A recordable media content archiving system in a subscriber network. The recordable media content archiving system comprises, among other elements, a memory for... |
| US-7,512,870 |
Method and system for improving the performance of a trellis-based decoder Method and system are provided for improving the performance of a trellis-based decoder. States with reduced uncertainty (SRUs) are defined for one or more... |
| US-7,512,702 |
Method and apparatus providing highly scalable server load balancing A method and apparatus providing highly scalable server load balancing are disclosed. Data packets from a client are routed through one or more routers to a... |
| US-7,512,336 |
Optical failure detection using polarization Systems and methods for evaluating an optical communication link are provided. The evaluation is based on a polarization analysis of received optical power. Such... |
| US-7,512,315 |
Managing time shift buffers Systems and methods are provided for managing a time-shift buffer (TSB) that is used for buffering video presentations. One such method includes receiving user... |
| US-7,512,123 |
Fibre channel fabric and switches with flexible prefix addressing A way to assign flexible prefixes to Switches in Fiber Channel Fabrics while using the currently defined FC_ID address space. This allows end devices in... |
| US-7,512,115 |
Telephone-based hypertext transport protocol server A telephone is provided for delivering content to a client that is coupled to a communications network. The telephone includes a processor and a network... |
| US-7,512,106 |
Techniques for distributing routing information using multicasts Techniques for sending routing data include sending first routing data in a first multicast packet to a number N of adjacent nodes. It is determined whether... |
| US-7,512,088 |
Routing data packets to a mobile node Routing data packets to a mobile node includes registering a mobile node with a home agent associated with the mobile node. The home agent establishes that the... |
| US-7,512,065 |
Reducing overhead when setting up multiple virtual circuits using
signaling protocols Setting up a group of virtual circuits using a single set up message request. In an embodiment, fewer than all of the virtual circuits in the group are... |
| US-7,512,064 |
Avoiding micro-loop upon failure of fast reroute protected links A technique incorporates an efficient means for avoiding micro-loops on a backup path associated with a failed protected link. An intermediate node delays... |
| US-7,512,063 |
Border router protection with backup tunnel stitching in a computer
network A technique protects against the failure of a border router between two domains in a computer network using Fast Reroute and backup tunnels. According to the... |
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