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| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,190,091 |
Selectable source input power supply A selectable source input power supply is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a power supply is provided comprising an input stage including an input... |
| US-D538,273 |
Phone adapter |
| US-7,188,363 |
Method and apparatus for adding and updating protocol inspection knowledge
to firewall processing during runtime A method and apparatus for adding and updating protocol inspection knowledge/information to a firewall system during operation and without interrupting firewall... |
| US-7,188,260 |
Apparatus and method for centralized power management The invention describes a system and method for arranging to provide power to a power monitor device. The disclosure describes the system and method receiving a... |
| US-7,188,253 |
Wireless authentication protocol A wireless authentication protocol. Access to a network is managed by providing a challenge-handshake protocol within the Extensible Authentication Protocol for... |
| US-7,188,194 |
Session-based target/LUN mapping for a storage area network and associated
method A storage router having an internet protocol (IP) port for coupling to a network supporting IP packets, a fibre channel port for coupling to a fibre channel... |
| US-7,187,770 |
Method and apparatus for accelerating preliminary operations for
cryptographic processing A method and apparatus for cryptographic data processing, includes determining a first modulus having up to a first number of binary digits. A large integer is... |
| US-7,187,683 |
Statistics data collection mechanism for distributed, high-speed data
processing environments A statistics data collection mechanism for distributed, high-speed data processing environments is described. According to one embodiment, an update message... |
| US-7,187,681 |
Method and apparatus for traffic quality and billing authorization by
request token insertion Internet services are differentiated by including user-reflexive data with a user request. The user-reflexive data may specify a quality of service to be... |
| US-7,187,651 |
Overload reduction in a communication system Reducing overload conditions of a node of communication system comprises storing one or more sets of overload range values, where each set represents a range of... |
| US-7,187,650 |
Fibre channel frame-mode GFP with distributed delimiter A technique for providing multiple Fibre Channel frames in one frame-mapped GFP transport frame. GFP conventions are followed, except that a Distributed... |
| US-7,187,563 |
DC/DC converter with multiple mutually-isolated power sources An electronic circuit includes a first power source, a second power source, a load, and a converter connected to each power source and the load. The converter... |
| US-7,187,560 |
Method and apparatus for supporting a cable connected to a circuit board
assembly A circuit board assembly has an attached support assembly. The support assembly includes a support, such as a handle, and a lip substantially perpendicular to... |
| US-7,185,821 |
Method and apparatus for delivering high-current power and ground voltages
using top side of chip package substrate An electronic interconnection system for delivering high-current power and ground voltages using a non-bottom side of a chip package substrate. The system... |
| US-7,185,224 |
Processor isolation technique for integrated multi-processor systems A processor isolation technique enhances debug capability in a multiprocessor circuit. A bypass register has a bit location which may indicate that a processor... |
| US-7,185,221 |
Method and system for signaling a system fault A method and system for signaling a system fault. In one method embodiment, the present invention receives an error advisory pertaining to a fault within a... |
| US-7,185,217 |
Method and apparatus for providing a clock signal to a plurality of
destination receivers in an integrated... A method for processing data is provided that includes receiving a clock signal at a source driver and communicating the clock signal to a plurality of... |
| US-7,185,107 |
Redirecting network traffic through a multipoint tunnel overlay network
using distinct network address spaces... A method and apparatus for redirecting network traffic through a multipoint tunnel overlay network using distinct network address spaces for the overlay and... |
| US-7,185,100 |
System and method for determining a preferred mirrored service in a
network by evaluating a border gateway protocol An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method for selecting a mirrored service in a network, such as the Internet, by utilizing a Border Gateway... |
| US-7,185,079 |
Automated management of network addresses in a broadband managed access
environment A method for automatically managing network addresses in a managed access environment is described. A managed access environment is defined as one in which a... |
| US-7,185,077 |
Methods and apparatus for managing the arrangement of nodes in a network The invention is directed to techniques for managing a network of nodes by automatically configuring the arrangement of nodes in the network. A network manager... |
| US-7,185,073 |
Method and apparatus for defining and implementing high-level quality of
service policies in computer networks A computer network having multiple, dissimilar network devices includes a system for implementing high-level, network policies. The high-level policies, which... |
| US-7,185,067 |
Load balancing network access requests A method of load balancing network access requests comprises receiving a network access request from a serving node linked to a radio access network. The network... |
| US-7,185,061 |
Recording trace messages of processes of a network component A method for tracking a process is disclosed. Requests are received from process threads according to a time order. A request requests a buffer entry operable to... |
| US-7,185,027 |
Evolving entries within persistent stores in a scalable infrastructure
environment A method of providing evolvable entries in a persistent store is described. The method includes receiving an entry from an agent destined for the persistent... |
| US-7,184,936 |
Timing variation measurement system and method The present invention is a system and method that facilitates measurement of timing variations (e.g., timing delays) in a semiconductor chip. The timing... |
| US-7,184,722 |
Maintaining constant power over a wide range of temperatures employing a
power amplifier with adjustable... A system and method for transmitting data communications through air using a radio. The invention allows the user to select from a number of predetermined output... |
| US-7,184,443 |
Packet scheduling particularly applicable to systems including a
non-blocking switching fabric and homogeneous... Methods and apparatus are disclosed for scheduling packets, such as in systems having a non-blocking switching fabric and homogeneous or heterogeneous line card... |
| US-7,184,407 |
Detecting, reporting and mitigating hidden nodes in a wireless data
network A method for automatic hidden node detection that includes observing frame exchange sequences that conform to a MAC standard such as the IEEE 802.11 standard.... |
| US-7,184,403 |
Hardware load balancing through a single fabric The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for balancing loads in a switching fabric. The switching fabric comprises a plurality of data ports... |
| US-7,184,402 |
Method for multi-link load balancing to improve sequenced delivery of
frames at peer end A distribution pattern is established to distribute multilink frame relay (MFR) fragments. The distribution pattern includes a sequence of link entries... |
| US-7,184,397 |
Real-time source activated shaping A network device. The network device includes an input port to receive input data and a transmission port to transmit data. The device also includes a detector... |
| US-7,181,620 |
Method and apparatus providing secure initialization of network devices
using a cryptographic key distribution... Registration of non-configured network devices in a distributed network is facilitated by a method of distributing cryptographic keys. A non-configured first... |
| US-7,181,612 |
Facilitating IPsec communications through devices that employ address
translation in a telecommunications network A method and apparatus for facilitating Internet Security Protocol (IPsec) communications through devices that employ address translation in a telecommunications... |
| US-7,181,551 |
Backward-compatible parallel DDR bus for use in host-daughtercard
interface A host-daughtercard interface is pin compatible with a legacy interface but redefines a subset of pins to implement a high-bandwidth double data-rate (DDR) bus.... |
| US-7,181,530 |
Rogue AP detection A method of detecting a rogue access point is disclosed. A message is directed from a supplicant to a network through an access point. A network response message... |
| US-7,181,522 |
Method and apparatus for call setup within a voice frame network The method involves transmitting plural endpoint probes to produce plural endpoint probe results indicating the preparedness of the endpoints for calls routed... |
| US-7,181,504 |
System and method for selecting a modem for service An access server includes a plurality of modems, a memory, an allocation module, and a telecommunications interface. Each modem is associated with a modem... |
| US-7,181,490 |
Method and apparatus for mapping network events to names of network
devices A method of automatically subscribing a network device to a plurality of events applicable to a logical group, of which the network device is a member, is... |
| US-7,181,436 |
Automatically generating replication topology information for use by a
directory service A method for automatically generating a network topology for a directory service is provided, wherein the topology represents network sites and site links in a... |
| US-7,181,137 |
Subband spectrum analysis for optical multiplex section protection The spectrum of a received WDM band or subband is analyzed to detect failure of, e.g., fiber or amplifiers along a line. In one implementation, measurements are... |
| US-7,181,095 |
Low loss, noise filtering multiplexer/demultiplexer for reconfigurable
OADMs Agile OADM structures having a range of tradeoffs between costs and flexibility are disclosed. In certain implementations, cyclic AWGs (arrayed waveguide... |
| US-7,181,027 |
Noise suppression in communications systems A communications system contains a network linking a number of communications devices participating in a communications session. During the communications... |
| US-7,181,014 |
Processing method for key exchange among broadcast or multicast groups
that provides a more efficient... An approach for arriving at a shared secret key in a multicast or broadcast group environment is disclosed. The key exchange protocol permits nodes within a... |
| US-7,181,009 |
Generating message digests according to multiple hashing procedures Generating a message digest includes selecting a first hashing procedure or a second hashing procedure for a message having words. If the first hashing procedure... |
| US-7,180,997 |
Method and system for improving the intelligibility of a moderator during
a multiparty communication session A system and method for improving the intelligibility of a moderator during a multi-party communication session includes receiving a plurality of participant... |
| US-7,180,993 |
Associating call appearance with data associated with call A distributed telephone answering system has intelligence distributed to a plurality of workstations. Each workstation may connect to a plurality of long... |
| US-7,180,952 |
Coding rate reduction for turbo codes Systems and methods for precisely controlling the amount of redundancy introduced by a turbo encoding process. Bits having predetermined values are introduced... |
| US-7,180,911 |
System and method for communicating data packets A method for communicating data packets is provided that includes receiving a data packet at a first processor. A packet handle and interface handle are attached... |
| US-7,180,899 |
Multi-tiered Virtual Local area Network (VLAN) domain mapping mechanism A system maps network messages between a customer Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) domain and a provider VLAN domain. Specifically, one or more ports of an... |
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