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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,023,879 |
Dynamic multi-hop ingress to egress L2TP tunnel mapping A method for dynamic ingress to egress tunnel mapping from a first communication network to a second communication network includes receiving a tunneled... |
| US-7,023,853 |
Access control list processing in hardware The invention provides for hardware processing of ACLs and thus hardware enforcement of access control. A sequence of access control specifiers from an ACL are... |
| US-7,023,810 |
Decoding using redundant packet selection information in wireless
communications systems A communications system includes a mobile unit that transmits coded content. The system also includes a number of base transceiver stations that receive the... |
| US-7,023,808 |
System and method for distributing route selection in an implementation of
a routing protocol A partial best path technique distributes route selection in a routing protocol implementation on a router. The technique also ensures that announced paths... |
| US-7,020,814 |
Method and system for emulating a Fiber Channel link over a SONET/SDH path A method and system for emulating an Fibre Channel link over a SONET transport path by which Fibre Channel data is transported across the SONET/SDH transport... |
| US-7,020,771 |
Controlling data security procedures using an admission control signaling
protocol Providing data security involves receiving a request message at an intermediate network node. The request message is associated with a number of data packets... |
| US-7,020,712 |
Reducing CPU overhead in the forwarding process in an inbound/outbound
controller for a router A method and system for transferring a queue of packets in a router between an inbound controller and an outbound controller is disclosed. The inbound controller... |
| US-7,020,376 |
Tool device for selectively extracting, installing and removing various
optical connectors A tool device for selectively extracting, installing, and removing a plurality of optical connectors is disclosed. The tool device has a prying end coupled to a... |
| US-7,020,164 |
System and method for special signaling with customer premises equipment A system and method are provided for special signaling with customer premises equipment. The system includes loop termination equipment coupled to a local loop... |
| US-7,020,140 |
Receive and transmit blocks for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell
delineation Receive and transmit blocks for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell delineation are disclosed. The receive block has a plurality of cell delineation blocks, a... |
| US-7,020,090 |
System and method for loadbalancing in a network environment using
feedback information A method for loadbalancing in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a request from an end user for a communication session at a central node.... |
| US-7,020,080 |
Method and apparatus for prevention of flow starvation with weighted fair
queuing Method and apparatus for queuing packets are disclosed. In one aspect, a method may comprise assigning each packet a first value; dynamically assigning each... |
| US-7,020,069 |
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-7,019,976 |
Methods and apparatus for thermally coupling a heat sink to a circuit
board component A heat sink has a flexure member attached to a base of the heat sink and located between the base and an associated circuit board component. As the heat sink... |
| US-7,017,185 |
Method and system for maintaining network activity data for intrusion
detection A method and system for maintaining network activity data for intrusion detection includes storing data representative of network activity in datasets. The... |
| US-7,017,176 |
Data transmission over multiple upstream channels within a cable modem
system A system and method are disclosed for transmitting upstream data from a cable modem within a cable television plant. One aspect of the invention pertains to a... |
| US-7,016,969 |
System using weighted fairness decisions in spatial reuse protocol
forwarding block to determine allowed usage... A method and apparatus for servicing transit and transmit traffic in a node of a network. The network includes a plurality of nodes connected by first and second... |
| US-7,016,964 |
Selectively passing network addresses through a server A method of securely communicating a network address of a client that issues service requests to a first server that proxies the service requests for a second... |
| US-7,016,958 |
Methods and apparatus for redirecting network cache traffic A method for routing a data request received by a caching system is described. The caching system includes a router and a cache, and the data request identifies... |
| US-7,016,947 |
Convenient configuration of an identifier of a segment of a virtual
circuit Configuring a segment identifier in a customer premise equipment (CPE) connected to a network. Several OAM loopback cells containing possible segment identifiers... |
| US-7,016,609 |
Receiver transponder for protected networks A receiver transponder that is implemented in an optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) is disclosed. The OADM is used in short haul type networks and receives... |
| US-7,016,351 |
Small group multicast in a computer network The invention solves the problem of overloading intermediate routers with state information as the number of multicast groups increases to millions of groups.... |
| US-7,016,343 |
PSTN call routing control features applied to a VoIP A system and method of sending and receiving voice calls over the Internet is described. The system includes a PSTN-derived intelligent call routing engine that... |
| US-7,016,337 |
System and method for multiple channel statistical re-multiplexing Methods and apparatus are provided for statistical re-multiplexing of multiple channels. Mechanisms are provided to manipulate and/or recode multiple compressed... |
| US-7,016,331 |
Method of handoff control in an enterprise code division multiple access
wireless system A wireless office communication system including a wireless internet base station (WIBS) encompassing a base station controller (BSC), a mobile switch controller... |
| US-7,016,322 |
Generating graded packets for packet voting in wireless communications
systems A wireless communications system includes a core packet network coupled to multiple base transceiver stations, each station providing wireless services to mobile... |
| US-7,016,313 |
Methods and apparatus for generating network topology information According to a specific embodiment of the present invention, methods and apparatus are disclosed for generating network topology information. A first link state... |
| US-7,016,309 |
Method and apparatus for calculating packet loss for a communication
circuit A method and apparatus for accurately calculating packet loss along a communication channel using data in a pair of measuring packets is disclosed. The invention... |
| US-7,016,305 |
Method and apparatus for distributing information within a packet
switching system Methods and apparatus are disclosed for distributing flow control information in a packet switching system. In one packet switching system, flow control... |
| US-7,016,301 |
Fair multiplexing scheme for multiple input port router The present scheme provides a mechanism for preventing traffic on one ore more LAN ports from dramatically affecting performance on other LAN ports of a router... |
| US-7,016,193 |
High efficiency counter-flow shelf cooling system Techniques for cooling electronics assemblies are provided. A divider, such as an electronic card, is utilized to define flow channels through the chassis of the... |
| US-7,015,740 |
Self-adjusting programmable on-chip clock aligner A circuit including a sensing circuit, which includes a first delay circuit and a tuning circuit. The tuning circuit includes a sense counter and a reference... |
| US-7,013,399 |
Power supply apparatus to detect power failure and use signaling voltages
to issue network alert A power supply consumes mains power and has first outputs which produce an operational voltage for controlling a CPU and a primary link interface. The primary... |
| US-7,013,389 |
Method and apparatus for creating a secure communication channel among
multiple event service nodes An approach for establishing secure multicast communication among multiple event service nodes is disclosed. The event service nodes, which can be distributed... |
| US-7,013,347 |
Distance vector extension to the address resolution protocol A method and device thereof for managing messages received at a bridging device. A bridging device receives a first message comprising a first contact... |
| US-7,013,267 |
Method and apparatus for reconstructing voice information A communication system includes a destination that receives voice samples and a voice parameter generated by a source. The destination uses the voice samples and... |
| US-7,013,157 |
Method for multicast delivery with designated acknowledgment A packet format for multicast messages which designates a single receiver to send an acknowledgment to the multicast message. The designated receiver responds to... |
| US-7,012,901 |
Devices, software and methods for generating aggregate comfort noise in
teleconferencing over VoIP networks Devices, software and methods are provided for generating aggregate comfort noise for teleconferencing over IP networks. A transcoding component includes a... |
| US-7,012,891 |
Method and apparatus for applying quality of service to multicast streams
transmitted in a cable network A method and apparatus for providing quality of service parameters for transmissions of multicast streams on a cable network is provided. A cable network headend... |
| US-7,012,889 |
Method and apparatus for controlling input rates within a packet switching
system Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for controlling the rate at which packets are sent from a first to a second component of a packet switching system. In one... |
| US-D517,055 |
Multiple antenna cluster |
| US-7,010,700 |
Data scanning network security technique A system and method are disclosed for providing enhanced computer network security by scanning data, specifically electronic mail messages, sent to the network... |
| US-7,010,600 |
Method and apparatus for managing network resources for externally
authenticated users A method is disclosed for managing network resources in multiple administrative domains. According to the method, a user is authenticated in a first... |
| US-7,010,579 |
Direct data routing system A system of data transfer between a first processing device and a second processing device which speeds data transfer by eliminating intermediate storage steps.... |
| US-7,010,571 |
Copy server for collaboration and electronic commerce Systems and methods for collaborating over the Internet (or an intranet) in which two or more parties, such as a user and an agent, can share dynamic content... |
| US-7,010,232 |
Removable optical interface modules An optical line interface assembly for insertion in a slot of a communications equipment rack includes a board having serial interfaces formed to couple to... |
| US-7,010,231 |
System and method of high-speed transmission and appropriate transmission
apparatus At a receiver a 20 Gbit/s soliton bit stream (20) is demultiplexed into two 10 Gbit/s bit streams (22a, 22b) using a 2-way splitter (6), a clock extraction... |
| US-7,010,049 |
OFDM channel estimation in the presence of interference Systems and methods for estimating channel response in the presence of interference. Interference and/or noise present on received training symbols is estimated.... |
| US-7,009,976 |
Method and apparatus for using barrier phases to synchronize processes and
components in a packet switching system Methods and apparatus are disclosed for using barrier phases to synchronize processes and components in a packet switching system, including, for example, but... |
| US-7,009,969 |
Local area network and message packet for a telecommunications device A telecommunications device includes a sender coupled to a local area network. The sender generates a message packet including an arbitration code and a data... |
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