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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,039,604 |
Multi-vendor integration process for internet commerce A method for automatically processing electronic customer orders for configurable products. In one embodiment, a web site that is operable to access a vendor... |
| US-7,039,319 |
DWDM laser frequency control Highly efficient control of laser frequency is provided. An optical channel monitor is coupled to a composite WDM signal resulting from the multiplexing of... |
| US-7,039,313 |
Automatic protection system for an optical transmission system An optical communication system and method for starting up and shutting down the system to ensure safety during repair of a fiber break are disclosed. A... |
| US-7,039,180 |
Method and apparatus for enabling multiple protocol communication over a
network A method and apparatus for enabling multiple protocol communication over a network are disclosed. A first circuit communicates first signals in a first frequency... |
| US-7,039,175 |
Configurable digit collection for various signaling protocols A PSTN (Public Switching Telephone Network) device includes a Dynamically Configurable Signaling State Machine (DCSSM). The DCSSM can be programmed to recognize... |
| US-7,039,116 |
Methods and apparatus for embedding and format conversion of compressed
video data System and methods are provided for modifying a compressed video data stream to match the available video decoding capability of a target decoder. Compressed... |
| US-7,039,073 |
Bound mode technique for accommodating high-bandwidth data flow within an
intermediate network node A bound mode mechanism and technique efficiently accommodates high-bandwidth data traffic flow within an intermediate node of a computer network. The bound mode... |
| US-7,039,068 |
Packet assembly A dynamic packet consolidation algorithm for a wireless transmission regime. At least first and second packets of a plurality of packets are sampled. The... |
| US-7,039,055 |
Method and apparatus for creating and dismantling a transit path in a
subnetwork A system and method are disclosed for determining when to set up or tear down such a temporary transit path so that temporary transit paths are set up when they... |
| US-7,039,035 |
Arrangement in an access router for optimizing mobile router connections
based on delegated network prefixes An access router of a local mobile network includes a delegation resource for delegating address prefixes and a routing resource configured for parsing reverse... |
| US-7,039,014 |
Network-wide connection-based debug mechanism An improved mechanism for analysing connection establishment/teardown process or identifying failure points (i.e. nodes) in a PNNI network through the use of a... |
| US-7,039,008 |
Method and apparatus for maintaining connection state between a connection
manager and a failover device A system and method are disclosed for maintaining the state of a virtual connection supported by an active connection manager on a standby connection manager.... |
| US-7,038,842 |
Reduced four-wave mixing and Raman amplification architecture Raman amplifiers with improved signal to noise ratio and four-wave mixing product suppression are provided. In one embodiment, both co-propagating and... |
| US-7,036,143 |
Methods and apparatus for virtual private network based mobility Methods and apparatus for enabling VPN based mobility are provided. A VPN client having a client subnetwork address corresponding to a particular subnetwork can... |
| US-7,036,142 |
Single step network logon based on point to point protocol A method and apparatus for providing single-step logon access for a subscriber to a differentiated computer network having more than one separate access area. In... |
| US-7,036,119 |
Method and apparatus for creating a network topograph that includes all
select objects that are in a network A method is disclosed for creating a network topograph that includes all select objects that are in a network. A set of one or more non-select objects in the... |
| US-7,035,915 |
Method and apparatus for IP address assignment A method and apparatus for assigning an IP address, in a modular network system, to at least one client premise equipment device coupled by a communications link... |
| US-7,035,734 |
Method and system for communicating navigation information A method for communicating navigation information includes receiving destination information from a user. The destination information comprises a desired... |
| US-7,035,282 |
Wideband telephones, adapters, gateways, software and methods for wideband
telephony over IP network Wideband telephones, gateways, adapters, software, and methods are provided for implementing wideband telephony over a network. A WB IP telephone has a WB... |
| US-7,035,277 |
Priority-based arbitration system for context switching applications A priority-based arbiter for arbitrating access to a shared resource by at least two competing devices. The priority-based arbiter intercepts access request... |
| US-7,035,262 |
Software-based emulation of single SONET path layer A system and method are disclosed for using standard issue synchronous optical network (SONET) framers to comply with current automatic protection system (APS)... |
| US-7,035,230 |
System and method for bandwidth and conference resource reservation A system and method for reserving a network resource for a multipoint conference includes receiving a list of participants scheduled to participate in the... |
| US-7,035,217 |
Router-assisted multicast congestion control The invention provides a convenient and expandable method for transmitting one or more loss rate statistics determined in a distributed manner from a multicast... |
| US-7,032,167 |
Method and apparatus for a document parser specification The present disclosure presents a system for parsing based upon content type, and provides a content-rich set of parsing rules that can be optimized for a wide... |
| US-7,032,129 |
Fail-over support for legacy voice mail systems in New World IP PBXs An Integrated Communication System (ICS) with fail-over serial data connectivity is disclosed. In one aspect, an ICS may comprise a chassis including a System... |
| US-7,032,034 |
Method and apparatus for simulating large scalable networks Methods and apparatus are disclosed for testing the scalability size of a Unit Under Test (UUT) bridging a WAN and a LAN. The method may be repeated until a... |
| US-7,032,032 |
Method and apparatus for providing tandem connection, performance
monitoring, and protection architectures over... Methods and apparatus for providing tandem connection monitoring and performance monitoring capabilities in Ethernet and converged data link protocols are... |
| US-7,031,943 |
Digital license agreement A method and system for licensing intellectual properties. A user can acquire a license conveying rights in intellectual properties by accessing a designated... |
| US-7,031,613 |
Chromatic dispersion compensation by sub-band End of line dispersion compensation is applied on a sub-band by sub-band basis. Adequate end-of-line dispersion compensation may be provided for high data rate... |
| US-7,031,345 |
Method and system for rate adaptive ISDN communication A method for communicating data according to ISDN protocol includes connecting a first IDSL line interface to a second IDSL line interface at a location remote... |
| US-7,031,333 |
Reduced pin count media independent interface A system and method are disclosed for providing a method of communicating between a media access control (MAC) layer and a physical (PHY) layer. The method... |
| US-7,031,328 |
Arrangement for traversing an IPv4 network by IPv6 mobile routers A source IPv6 mobile router is configured for establishing an IPv4 tunnel with destination IPv6 mobile router using a synthetic tag address, specifying a... |
| US-7,031,324 |
Local area network/wide area network switch A local area network/wide area network (LAN/WAN) switch is presented which aggregates LAN traffic onto SONET/SDH transport streams in a programmable manner. The... |
| US-7,031,323 |
Method and apparatus for distributed bandwidth allocation for a
bi-directional ring media with spatial and... A system and method for locally determining a fair allocated bandwidth for a network node configured to send and receive packets in an upstream direction and a... |
| US-7,031,268 |
Call optimization in ad-hoc conference calls A method and system for adding a participant to a conference call. A feature of the method and system is that with respect to individual invitees to ad-hoc... |
| US-7,031,266 |
Method and system for configuring wireless routers and networks A method and system for configuring a wireless router and a wireless communications network includes establishing connectivity between a wireless router and at... |
| US-7,031,263 |
Method and apparatus for network management system A network management system has a bus and a system controller connected to the bus. The bus has a plurality of fixed ports, where each of the ports is capable of... |
| US-7,031,262 |
Reoptimization triggering by path computation elements A mechanism to alleviate bandwidth fragmentation in a network employing path computation element(s) to place MPLS Traffic Engineering tunnels. One application is... |
| US-7,031,253 |
Method and apparatus for computing a path through specified elements in a
network Methods and apparatus for automatically creating a circuit path that includes specified elements are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present... |
| US-7,031,252 |
Reflector communications channel for automatic protection switching An apparatus and method for a communications network including at least one interface circuit reads frame data received from the communications network and... |
| US-7,028,212 |
Network device and method of operation A network device to maintain resource management within a network may comprise an emulator or watchdog that may send an emulation request to a resource manager... |
| US-7,028,136 |
Managing idle time and performing lookup operations to adapt to refresh
requirements or operational rates of... Methods and apparatus are disclosed for, inter alia, managing idle time and performing lookup operations to adapt to refresh requirements and/or operational... |
| US-7,028,073 |
Method and apparatus providing distributed authorization management of
communication sessions A mechanism for authorizing a data communication session between a client and a first server is disclosed. When a request is received to establish a session with... |
| US-7,027,598 |
Residue number system based pre-computation and dual-pass arithmetic
modular operation approach to implement... A pre-computation and dual-pass modular operation approach to implement encryption protocols efficiently in electronic integrated circuits is disclosed. An... |
| US-7,027,597 |
Pre-computation and dual-pass modular arithmetic operation approach to
implement encryption protocols... A pre-computation and dual-pass modular operation approach to implement encryption protocols efficiently in electronic integrated circuits is disclosed. An... |
| US-7,027,456 |
System and method for providing multimedia jitter buffer adjustment for
packet-switched networks A system and method is disclosed for providing dynamic multimedia jitter buffer adjustment for packet-switched networks. The system temporarily stores an amount... |
| US-7,027,410 |
Method and apparatus for maintaining consistent per-hop forwarding
behavior in a network using network-wide... A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium configured for maintaining consistent per-hop packet forwarding behavior among a plurality of network devices... |
| US-7,027,397 |
Method and apparatus for accumulating and distributing traffic and flow
control information in a packet... Methods and apparatus are disclosed for accumulating traffic information and distributing flow control information in a packet switching system. Traffic... |
| US-7,027,393 |
TCP optimized single rate policer An extension to the conventional single rate microflow policer that provides dual rate policing with a minimum of extra resource utilization. Using the extended... |
| US-7,027,389 |
Fast failure detection using RTT time considerations on a non-retransmit
medium The present invention provides a method and apparatus to determine the state of a communications link between two nodes in a network. Typically, each node will... |
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