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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-6,762,675 |
Method and apparatus for remote powering of device connected to network A network node determines the suitability of coupled devices for being remotely line powered before actually powering them. The node scan its ports to determine... |
| US-6,760,849 |
Event initiation bus and associated fault protection for a
telecommunications device A telecommunications device includes an event initiation bus, at least one card coupled to the bus that can execute an event, and at least one controller also... |
| US-6,760,813 |
Devices, softwares and methods for preemptively updating expiring entries
in a cache memory to anticipate... Devices, softwares and methods update preemptively entries in a cache memory that are expiring. Updating takes place at scheduled refresh times. Refresh times... |
| US-6,760,671 |
Method and apparatus of low power energy detection for a WLAN A method and implementation disclosed for detecting interference. A state machine controller is provided for establishing an interference detection cycle... |
| US-6,760,530 |
Fiber cable connector clip An apparatus for storing fiber optic cable including an add-on structure for holding fiber optic cable connectors that includes clips that are integral with the... |
| US-6,760,444 |
Mobile IP authentication Methods and apparatus for authenticating a mobile node are disclosed. A server is configured to provide a plurality of security associations associated with a... |
| US-6,760,334 |
Method and apparatus for oversubscription of permanent virtual circuits The method establishes a number of permanent virtual circuits to be configured on a multiservice access device. At least one of the permanent virtual circuits is... |
| US-6,760,331 |
Multicast routing with nearest queue first allocation and dynamic and
static vector quantization The invention includes a way to route multicast traffic through a switch or other device that uses input queuing. Basis vectors are associated with each virtual... |
| US-6,760,327 |
Rate adjustable backplane and method for a telecommunications node A rate adjustable backplane includes a set of switch slots configured to receive one or more switch cards forming a switch core and a plurality of line slots... |
| US-6,760,301 |
Automatic crossover configuration for serial data links One or more nodes of a data communication system is automatically switched between two or more possible node configurations, such as between a DTE configuration... |
| US-6,759,986 |
Stacked patch antenna A stacked patch antenna is disclosed which includes a first antenna element and a second antenna element for cooperating with the first antenna element. These... |
| US-6,757,901 |
Method and system for setting expressions in network management
notifications at an agent A method for generating notification based expressions includes identifying notifications supported by an agent and specifying objects for at least one of the... |
| US-6,757,897 |
Apparatus and methods for scheduling and performing tasks The invention provides unique mechanisms and techniques for a computing device to perform various tasks in a multi-tasking or time sliced environment. A general... |
| US-6,757,803 |
Distributed buffer recovery A memory usage data structure (MUDS) is maintained for each process executing in the computer system, the MUDS having a bitmap field having a bit corresponding... |
| US-6,757,791 |
Method and apparatus for reordering packet data units in storage queues for
reading and writing memory A method and system for reordering data units that are to be written to, or read from, selected locations in a memory are described herein. The data units are... |
| US-6,757,768 |
Apparatus and technique for maintaining order among requests issued over an
external bus of an intermediate... An apparatus and technique off-loads responsibility for maintaining order among requests issued over a split transaction bus from a processor to a split... |
| US-6,757,723 |
Methods and apparatus for remote configuration of an appliance on a network A network appliance is capable of remote booting and obtaining its configuration information from a source located far away. The network appliance can be shipped... |
| US-6,757,522 |
Technique for determining carrier-to-noise ratio of selected channels in an
access network A technique is disclosed for determining a carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) value for a selected channel of an access network. A background noise level on the... |
| US-6,757,372 |
User interface for a network-enabled telephone An interactive user interface displayed on a monitor as part of a telephone is disclosed. The interactive user interface allows a user to easily use basic and... |
| US-6,757,363 |
Method and apparatus for operating a telephone as an independent network
client A system (10) includes a packet-switched network (12). A plurality of telephones (21-26) are each coupled to the network. A call manager server (31) is also... |
| US-6,757,350 |
Redundant clock generation and distribution A system for the generation and distribution a plurality of coherently phased system clocks comprises a local clock generator and a plurality of remote clock... |
| US-6,757,301 |
Detection of ending of fax/modem communication between a telephone line and
a network for switching router to... A device is provided for coupling between a telephone line and the network, to exchange data between them. The invention includes software for the device, and... |
| US-6,757,298 |
VLAN trunking over ATM PVCs (VTAP) Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) trunking over Asychronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVC), defined as VTAP, allows for aggregation of... |
| US-6,757,284 |
Method and apparatus for pipeline sorting of ordered streams of data items According to the invention, resequencers are used to sort one or more sets of a plurality of streams of ordered data items. In certain implementations, these... |
| US-6,757,258 |
Method and apparatus for reducing OSPF flooding A method and apparatus for reducing OSPF flooding is provided for a router device. The flood reduction invention enables hello protocol communication while... |
| US-6,757,241 |
System for interference cancellation A spatial processor that exploits signals that arrive via multiple outputs of a communication channel to provide soft decision values useful to a trellis or... |
| US-6,754,871 |
Method and apparatus for using fire decoder to correct burst errors in a
real-time communications system Error bursts are detected and corrected in a communication system using shortened cyclic codes, such as shortened Fire codes. Data is loaded into a first error... |
| US-6,754,714 |
Multilink point-to-point protocol network access server channel allocation
method and apparatus In a multilink point-to-point protocol (PPP) network access server, a method is provided in one aspect of the invention allocating ports among various users that... |
| US-6,754,712 |
Virtual dial-up protocol for network communication A layer two forwarding protocol (L2F) provides virtual direct dial-up service into private networks through public internet service providers. An authorized... |
| US-6,754,711 |
Customer care control over voice application state An application server includes an application runtime environment configured for receiving a first HTTP request having a session identifier that specifies a... |
| US-6,754,703 |
Network management using abstract device descriptions A method and apparatus are disclosed for creating and storing information that defines one or more network devices for use with a network management system. In... |
| US-6,754,693 |
Method and apparatus to allow users and representatives to conduct
simultaneous voice and joint browsing sessions Methods and apparatus are described whereby Internet content is coordinated with audio communications, such that two or more parties can view the same media... |
| US-6,754,492 |
Method and apparatus for communicating a subscriber message A communication system includes a radio access network (RAN) and a core packet network that allows registration of mobile devices. A temporary mobile device... |
| US-6,754,342 |
Method and apparatus for concealing mute in an IP-based telephony system A method and apparatus for improving the mute function of an IP telephone is disclosed, where the method comprises determining, by a transmitting IP telephone,... |
| US-6,754,335 |
Call center with location queuing and dispatching A system and method to queue, dispatch, send announcements to incoming calls to an emergency response center (ERC) is disclosed. The present invention employs... |
| US-6,754,242 |
TDM format optimized for multiple high speed links to a communications
controller A highly interleaved Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) format allows for high data density transfer for a given port at a communications controller. The port is... |
| US-6,754,232 |
Dynamic codec speed selection and bandwidth preallocation in a voice packet
network method and apparatus Dynamic compressor/decompressor (codec) speed selection includes monitoring a call in a telephone system to determine the type of codec being used thereon and to... |
| US-6,754,224 |
Method and apparatus for multicast call signaling in packet network Multicasting and telephony call signaling are combined to perform multicast call signaling. Several IP endpoints in a packetized network subscribe to a multicast... |
| US-6,753,886 |
Methods and apparatus for communicating messages in a computer display The invention is directed to techniques for communicating messages between windows or frames in a computer display. A computer system suited for use with the... |
| US-6,751,746 |
Method and apparatus for uninterrupted packet transfer using replication
over disjoint paths A method of operating a fault tolerant connection in a network is described. The network includes a number of network elements and a number of links. Each of the... |
| US-6,751,743 |
Method and apparatus for selecting a first clock and second clock for first
and second devices respectively... A method and apparatus for synchronizing clocks is provided that is flexible and compensates for process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations and other... |
| US-6,751,662 |
Policy engine which supports application specific plug-ins for enforcing
policies in a feedback-based, adaptive... A feedback-based adaptive network is described wherein at least a portion of the network elements report operating information relating to network conditions to... |
| US-6,751,660 |
Network management systems that receive cross connect and/or other circuit
information from network elements A network management systems (NMS) queries network elements (NEs) and receives information on cross connects set up at the NEs and other circuit information.... |
| US-6,751,259 |
System and method for transcoding multiple channels of compressed video
streams using a self-contained data unit A system for transcoding multiple channels of compressed video streams using a self contained data unit such as an autonomous frame includes an autonomous frame... |
| US-6,751,236 |
Configurable channel associated signaling ("CAS") line signaling using
plain text strings An apparatus for configuring CAS line signaling using plain text strings includes at least one configurable CAS plain text line signal template having... |
| US-6,751,233 |
UTOPIA 2--UTOPIA 3 translator A system for an interface between a physical layer and a communication network. The system comprises a UTOPIA 3 physical layer receiver (23) operable to receive... |
| US-6,751,191 |
Load sharing and redundancy scheme Methods and apparatus for providing a device for forwarding packets in a network are disclosed. A first router and a second router having a shared set of... |
| US-6,751,190 |
Multihop nested tunnel restoration A network communications tunnel is established by assigning a unique label to each communications link between adjacent nodes in a pre-defined network path. A... |
| US-6,751,188 |
Method and apparatus for a graceful controller switchover A method and apparatus for switching from a primary network controller to a secondary network controller. A switchover request is received. Messages accepted by... |
| US-6,750,687 |
Method and apparatus for phase aligning two clock signals utilizing a
programmable phase adjustment circuit An apparatus, method, communications device and computer readable medium for phase aligning two clocks and providing a graceful switch between active and standby... |
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