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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,675,926 |
Hierarchical QoS behavioral model A hierarchical traffic management system and method (i.e., a QoS behavioral model) are disclosed herein. The system includes a classifier operable to identify... |
| US-7,675,918 |
Hash-based preemption Methods and systems for preemption in a network having a core device with at least one egress interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes... |
| US-7,675,912 |
Method and apparatus for border gateway protocol (BGP) auto discovery A method is disclosed for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) service auto discovery. A first message is received from a first BGP host. The first message comprises... |
| US-7,675,861 |
Active probe target management A technique manages targets to which probe packets are sent from a source of a computer network. The novel target management technique dynamically selects an... |
| US-7,675,860 |
Method and apparatus for determining a preferred backup tunnel to protect
point-to-multipoint label switch paths A method, apparatus and computer program product for determining a preferred backup path to protect a point-to-multipoint label switching path is presented. A... |
| US-7,675,851 |
System and method for synchronizing a back-up device in a communications
environment An apparatus for communicating data is provided that includes a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station and comprising a compression module... |
| US-7,675,848 |
Dynamic forwarding adjacency A technique treats a protected forwarding adjacency (FA) as a dynamic entity in that it allows a backup tunnel associated with the FA to carry traffic for the... |
| US-7,675,147 |
Methods and apparatus for providing a power signal to an area array
package An area array device has a grid array of primary electrical contacts coupled to a coupling surface of the device and configured to carry data signals between the... |
| US-7,673,336 |
Method and system for controlling access to data communication
applications A method and apparatus for controlling access to data communication applications is disclosed. According to the method, the DNS names of the servers of the data... |
| US-7,673,202 |
Single event upset test circuit and methodology A method, involving: inputting an initial data pattern into a scan chain circuit of an integrated circuit device; applying a particle beam to the integrated... |
| US-7,673,057 |
Hybrid connection admission control using combined model-based and
measurement-based estimators A method and apparatus are described for controlling connection admission for a connection request in a network. A first estimator estimates an equivalent cell... |
| US-7,673,048 |
Methods and apparatus for establishing a computerized device tunnel
connection A client device establishes a first tunnel connection or tunnel, through a public network, with a first gateway of a private network and establishes, through the... |
| US-7,673,025 |
Controlling access message flow Techniques are provided for controlling access message flow. The techniques include receiving one or more access messages; determining one or more sets of... |
| US-7,673,021 |
Automated provisioning of phones in packet voice networks Approaches for provisioning phones in packet voice networks are disclosed. One approach provides determining that an Internet Protocol (IP) phone has registered... |
| US-7,672,996 |
Methods and apparatuses for automatically reconnecting a participant to a
conference In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a conference; detect a connection between a participant and the conference; and automatically reconnect the... |
| US-7,672,459 |
Key distribution and caching mechanism to facilitate client handoffs in
wireless network systems Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to a key distribution and caching mechanism that facilitates roaming in wireless networks. In one implementation, the... |
| US-7,672,373 |
Digital watermarking of a media stream using coded macroblock types A method and a carrier medium instructing a processor to execute a method. The method includes accepting a compressed video stream compressed by a compression... |
| US-7,672,332 |
Map routing technique implemented in access networks An improved addressing scheme is disclosed for use in access networks. According to a specific embodiment, upstream and/or downstream channels may be grouped... |
| US-7,672,323 |
Dynamic and intelligent buffer management for SAN extension In a network system for transporting GFP-encapsulated Fibre Channel/FICON data across a SONET/SDH transport network between two Fibre Channel/FICON ports, a... |
| US-7,672,314 |
Scaling VLANs in a data network In one embodiment, a technique for processing data packets in a data network comprising a plurality of virtual local area networks (VLANs) is disclosed. A data... |
| US-7,672,253 |
Border router with selective filtering of link state advertisements An example embodiment of the present invention provides a process relating to the selective filtering of an LSA at a not-so-stubby-sub-area (NSSSA) border... |
| US-7,672,252 |
Method and system for resolving switch number conflicts in a stackable
switch system A method for resolving switch number conflicts in a stackable switch system includes communicating a message between switches in the stackable switch system and... |
| US-7,672,249 |
Configurable network appliance An Internet appliance accesses an HTML page on a Web site containing configuration information for the appliance, such as an Internet compatible telephone. Data... |
| US-7,672,244 |
Converting a network device from data rate traffic management to packet
rate A network device that manages the flow rate of a stream of packets traveling within a network is converted from managing based on data rate to managing based on... |
| US-7,672,230 |
Downstream channel change technique implemented in an access network A dynamic channel change technique is disclosed which may be implemented between nodes and a Head End of an access network. Initially a network device may... |
| US-7,672,223 |
Method and apparatus for replicating a transport layer protocol stream Network connection switchover is accomplished through a method comprising receiving information defining a first connection between a first network device and a... |
| US-7,669,321 |
Methods for verifying correct counter-bore depth and precision on printed
circuit boards A test site is incorporated on a circuit board having a set of test connections passing through a test via on respective test connection layer, the test... |
| US-7,669,244 |
Method and system for generating user group permission lists A method and apparatus for generating user group identifiers using a permissions matrix is disclosed. The permissions matrix includes an entry that is associated... |
| US-7,669,228 |
System and method for changing network behavior based on presence
information A system and method for changing network behavior based on presence information includes detecting one or more presence indicators. The one or more presence... |
| US-7,668,971 |
Dynamic path computation element load balancing with backup path
computation elements In one embodiment, a first path computation element (PCE) operates between first and second network domains, and is adapted to service requests from path... |
| US-7,668,953 |
Rule-based network management approaches A method is disclosed for detecting symptoms in a network infrastructure, combining one or more symptoms into a problem, then optionally applying detailed... |
| US-7,668,919 |
Scalable IP-based notification architecture for unified messaging A notification architecture utilizes multiple processes configured for managing notification operations based on reception of SMTP-based messages within IMAP... |
| US-7,668,557 |
Methods for ring tone supression informing and for informing a cellular
telephone with configuration data Methods for suppressing ring tones in cellular telephones and for informing a cellular telephone with configuration data are described. The method for informing... |
| US-7,668,555 |
Method for computing beamforming weighting vectors with collaborated
uplink sounding A method and system are provided for computing beamforming weighting vectors with collaborated uplink sounding in a wireless communications network. The method... |
| US-7,668,523 |
Adaptive AGC in a wireless network receiver An apparatus, a carrier medium storing instructions to implement a method, and a method for controlling the gain of a radio receiver for receiving packets of... |
| US-7,668,178 |
Methods and apparatus for implementing VPN services Implementation of a VPN service such as a VPLS (Virtual Private Local area network Service) is performed utilizing a two-stage process. A first stage of the... |
| US-7,668,174 |
Methods and apparatus for home address management at home agent for NAI
based mobile nodes The present invention provides methods and apparatus for managing an IP address assigned to a Mobile Node. In one embodiment, the Mobile Node appends an... |
| US-7,668,166 |
Peer-model support for virtual private networks having potentially
overlapping addresses A method for operating a router has the following steps. First, the router receives a data packet to be forwarded, the data packet having an indication that it... |
| US-7,668,163 |
Transparent network service enhancement Embodiments of the invention may be used to optimize communications between a first routing device and a second routing device. The first routing device may... |
| US-7,668,161 |
Classifying data packet protocol values An apparatus for classifying data packet protocol values in a packet architecture comprising a packet header and a packet payload including an extension header... |
| US-7,668,158 |
Packet-switched telephony with circuit-switched backup A packet voice switch 60 and method for its operation are disclosed. The switch comprises a network switching means, preferably implemented within its host... |
| US-7,668,120 |
Virtual IP-based A/V inputs for universal media servers In one embodiment, a universal media server (e.g., a set-top box) has zero or more physical audio and/or video (A/V) inputs configured to receive A/V data, and... |
| US-7,668,119 |
Ad hoc network formation and management based on aggregation of ad hoc
nodes according to an aggregation hierarchy Each mobile ad hoc node has an assigned hierarchy position within an identified tree-based aggregation group. Each ad hoc node is configured for selectively... |
| US-7,668,116 |
Root node shutdown messaging for multipoint-to-multipoint transport tree In one embodiment, a method comprises registering, by a first label switching router having been identified as a root of a prescribed transport tree for... |
| US-7,668,111 |
Determining traffic flow characteristics in a storage area network Methods and apparatus are provided for determining traffic characteristics and statistics for storage area network flows. An intelligent line card associated... |
| US-7,668,101 |
ARQ in a point to multipoint network The systems and methods for incorporating an automatic retransmission mechanism into a point to multipoint network MAC layer that does not already incorporate... |
| US-7,668,090 |
Setting pre-congestion notification admission and preemption thresholds in
computer networks A method and apparatus for setting admission and preemption thresholds in a computer network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving... |
| US-D610,600 |
Digital video camera with built-in connector |
| US-7,664,897 |
Method and apparatus for communicating over a resource interconnect A resource interconnect architecture and associated descriptor protocol provides more efficient communication between different resources in a data processing... |
| US-7,664,879 |
Caching content and state data at a network element Methods are disclosed for caching content and state data at a network element. In one embodiment, data packets are intercepted at a network element. An... |
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