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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-6,941,457 |
Establishing a new shared secret key over a broadcast channel for a
multicast group based on an old shared... An optimized approach for arriving at a shared secret key in a dynamically changing multicast or broadcast group environment is disclosed. In one aspect of the... |
| US-6,941,388 |
Method and apparatus for handling connections in hot standby line cards A standby card is powered after an active card. A connection command is received by the standby card from the active card. The connection command is associated... |
| US-6,941,291 |
Method and device for a user profile repository A method and device for providing access, via a single point, to information stored on multiple data sources. One embodiment comprises a method in which first an... |
| US-6,941,079 |
Optical demultiplexer with multi-channel power control and tilt
compensation Systems and methods for controlling power of WDM channels in a WDM receiver. A preamplifier is provided prior to a demultiplexer in the WDM receiver chain. The... |
| US-6,940,972 |
Controlling echo cancellation Controlling echo cancellation includes receiving signals associated with a call. A signal of the signals is detected. Whether the detected signal is a high speed... |
| US-6,940,954 |
Arrangement for retrieving recorded audio announcements from a messaging
system for identification of a calling... An IP-based subscriber endpoint, for example a VoIP telephony device or an IP telephony user agent, is configured for retrieving recorded audio caller... |
| US-6,940,843 |
Selecting an access point according to a measure of received signal quality An apparatus for inclusion and a method for operation in a station (STA) of a wireless network. The method includes received data from at least one remote... |
| US-6,940,821 |
Method and apparatus for detecting a fault in a multicast routing
infrastructure A test monitoring device for detecting a fault in a multicast routing infrastructure includes a processor, a memory coupled with the processor, and a network... |
| US-6,939,161 |
Methods and apparatus for securing a cable connector to a device A connection system has a device, and a cable assembly having a cable and a cable connector disposed at an end of the cable. The cable connector is configured to... |
| US-6,938,182 |
System and method for providing reliable telephony web-based features In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method for maintaining telephony Internet services includes providing a first pointer, the... |
| US-6,937,576 |
Multiple instance spanning tree protocol A multiple instance spanning tree protocol (MI-STP) creates a plurality of active topologies (i.e., loop-free paths) within a computer network. These active... |
| US-6,937,569 |
Method and system for determining a relative position of a device on a
network A method and system for determining a relative location of a device on a network is provided. In this system and method, a list of landmark nodes provided on the... |
| US-6,937,568 |
Adaptive rate shaping to prevent overflow The rate at which a node transmits data is modified dependent on the receive rate by selecting one of a plurality of predetermined quantum values dependent on... |
| US-6,934,921 |
Resolving LBIST timing violations Resolving timing violations introduced by a logic built-in self test (LBIST) sub-circuit formed within an underlying integrated circuit includes analyzing a... |
| US-6,934,870 |
Clock management scheme for PCI and cardbus cards for power reduction A clock management scheme for an 802.11 MAC on a PCI or Cardbus bus that works in conjunction with industry standardized power mechanisms. The scheme involves... |
| US-6,934,766 |
Method and apparatus for exchanging event information between computer
systems that reduce perceived lag times... Mechanisms and techniques provide the system that allows a sending computer system to capture and store event information related to events that transpire on a... |
| US-6,934,760 |
Method and apparatus for resequencing of packets into an original ordering
using multiple resequencing components Methods and apparatus are disclosed for distributed resequencing of packets belonging to an original stream of packets in a computer or communications system.... |
| US-6,934,380 |
Method and system for automatic contact distribution utilizing presence
detection A method for automatic contact distribution includes receiving a contact for connection with an agent and distributing the contact to a first agent. The method... |
| US-6,934,340 |
Adaptive control system for interference rejections in a wireless
communications system An adaptive control system for controlling the effects of narrow to medium bandwidth interferers in a wireless communications system (e.g., wireless LAN devices)... |
| US-6,934,305 |
Method and apparatus for detecting errors in a backplane frame A method of generating a parity value is disclosed. The method includes reading a word from a data stream, determining if the word should be included in a parity... |
| US-6,934,293 |
Port aggregation load balancing The network switches and computer readable mediums of the present invention allocate port assignments based on load, that is, the amount of data being forwarded... |
| US-6,934,262 |
Method and apparatus for restricting the assignment of VLANs Restricting the assignment of VLANs so that a unique VLAN or set of VLANs must be assigned to each link for a particular network circuit (NC) or group of NCs.... |
| US-6,934,256 |
Method of detecting non-responsive network flows A network device identifies a non-adaptive flow as follows. The network device drops packets on a random basis using a Random Early Detection (RED) algorithm. A... |
| US-6,934,249 |
Method and system for minimizing the connection set up time in high speed
packet switching networks The present invention is directed to a high speed packet switching network and, in particular to a method and system for minimizing the time to establish a... |
| US-6,933,909 |
Multichannel access point with collocated isolated antennas A wireless telecommunications device is disclosed including a plurality of wireless antennas, each respectively for transmitting and/or receiving wireless... |
| US-6,931,441 |
Method and apparatus for managing a network using link state information A method is disclosed for managing a network having a plurality of network elements, where the network elements are configured to be interconnected to one... |
| US-6,931,103 |
Failover mechanisms for remote networked phones A method of providing failover service to network phones. A failure of communication between a network phone and a primary call manager is identified.... |
| US-6,931,101 |
Method and apparatus for inband testing of an echo canceller Provided is a method and apparatus for inband testing of an echo canceller. The apparatus includes a signal generator for generating an excitation signal... |
| US-6,931,028 |
Scaleable RSVP signaling between VoIP dial-peers for tandem voice solutions A method for high quality voice communication over an IP network. The method is implemented using an IP network device. Voice communication quality of service is... |
| US-6,931,022 |
Background test system for time division multiplexing switching systems A method for testing a transmission system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a time division multiplexed (TDM) stream on an input of the transmission... |
| US-6,930,999 |
Scalable voice over IP system providing independent call bridging for
outbound calls initiated by user... An IP telephony gateway and a user interface resource enable a subscriber to place an outgoing call according to the voice over IP (H.323) protocol to a... |
| US-6,930,989 |
Wide frequency offset correction using encoded interburst phase differences Systems and methods for wide frequency offset synchronization are provided. A synchronization data sequence is encoded onto a series of OFDM frequency domain... |
| US-6,930,982 |
Devices, software and methods for measuring packet loss burstiness to
determine quality of voice data... Devices, software, and methods measure a burstiness of packet loss episodes in transmissions of voice data through networks. At least one burstiness statistic is... |
| US-6,930,979 |
Method and system for multi-PHY addressing Multi-PHY addressing from source to destination in which n-number of channels or ports are used in a PHY layer device for communication with a link layer device.... |
| US-D508,493 |
Combined universal serial bus adapter and base |
| US-6,928,484 |
Method and apparatus for discovering edge-disjoint shortest path pairs
during shortest path tree computation A method for identifying and choosing a shortest path segment that has an alternate edge disjoint path segment. While routing Unidirectional Path Switched Ring... |
| US-6,928,482 |
Method and apparatus for scalable process flow load balancing of a
multiplicity of parallel packet processors... An apparatus for distributing processing loads in a service aware network is provided. The apparatus contains a controller and a plurality of packet processors... |
| US-6,925,585 |
Method and apparatus for checking level of SNMP MIB support by network
devices A method and apparatus for checking the level of SNMP MIB support by network devices. An input text file indicating the MIB variables and their associated... |
| US-6,925,504 |
Methods and apparatus for obtaining content from a content-originating
device within a computerized network 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-6,925,483 |
System for characterizing information from an information producer A system enables a consumer to generate a filtering program based on criteria set forth by a system operator during run time. During system operation, the... |
| US-6,925,265 |
System and method of high-speed transmission and appropriate transmission
apparatus Soliton or soliton-like optical pulses with characteristics adapted to propagation in an optical line for RZ type transmission are generated by modulating a... |
| US-6,925,081 |
MPLS device enabling service providers to control service levels in
forwarding of multi-labeled packets A MPLS device which receives configuration data identifying a group of multi-labeled packets and desired EXP (corresponding to the 3-bit experimental bit field... |
| US-6,924,437 |
Techniques for coupling an object to a circuit board using a surface mount
coupling device A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board which defines circuit board pads, a set of surface mount electronic components soldered to a first set of the... |
| US-6,922,549 |
Error vector magnitude selection diversity metric for OFDM Describe 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-6,922,396 |
System and method for managing time sensitive data streams across a
communication network A system and method for managing data streaming data include the capability to receive a plurality of packets, each packet associated with a data connection, at... |
| US-6,920,562 |
Tightly coupled software protocol decode with hardware data encryption An encryption mechanism tightly-couples hardware data encryption functions with software-based protocol decode processing within a pipelined processor of a... |
| US-6,920,498 |
Phased learning approach to determining closest content serving sites In order to direct content requests to an appropriate content serving site in a computer network, a phased learning approach is utilized to ensure that, as best... |
| US-6,920,205 |
System and method for interactive communications with an end-user An apparatus for interactive communications is provided that includes an interactive element, which includes a plurality of keys. One or more of the keys are... |
| US-6,920,156 |
Method and system for transporting synchronous and asynchronous traffic on
a synchronous bus of a... A synchronous bus for a telecommunications node includes a frame repeating at a defined interval. Each frame includes a plurality of service channels. In at... |
| US-6,920,112 |
Sampling packets for network monitoring The invention provides a method and system for collecting aggregate information about network traffic, while maintaining processor load relatively constant... |
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