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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-6,529,959 |
Method and apparatus for automatic routing of circuit switched data
connections based upon stored behavioral... A method and apparatus for automatic routing of multi-link circuit switched connections are shown. A routing processor monitors the behavioral characteristics of... |
| US-6,529,955 |
Proxy session count limitation A data communications network with a plurality of PoPs maintains a local database associated with each PoP and a central database somewhere on the data... |
| US-6,529,894 |
Communicating network information using universal resource locators A method and apparatus are provided for communicating network information among network devices using protocols based on Universal Resource Locators. In one... |
| US-6,529,498 |
Routing support for point-to-multipoint connections A distrubution tree for point-to-multipoint connections within a computer network may be dynamically created according to the number of connections shared by... |
| US-6,526,474 |
Content addressable memory (CAM) with accesses to multiple CAM arrays used
to generate result for various... The invention provides a method and system for operating a CAM with a variable size input tag. The improved CAM has multiple access sizes and is divided into... |
| US-6,526,452 |
Methods and apparatus for providing interfaces for mixed topology data
switching system Methods and apparatus for providing a source interface device and destination interface device are disclosed. A method of enabling communication between the... |
| US-6,526,450 |
Method and apparatus for domain name service request resolution A gateway is provided which resolves a DNS request in a manner that minimizes the time and bandwidth required to conduct a DNS search as well as increases the... |
| US-6,526,444 |
Using an authentication server to obtain dial-out information on a network A method for using an authentication server to obtain dial-out information about a network including the steps of receiving a destination network address to the... |
| US-6,526,210 |
Optical connector retainer panel and system A connector retainer panel provides a number of openings for connector adapters, where the number of openings is an integer power of 2. Each of the adapters is... |
| US-6,526,060 |
Dynamic rate-based, weighted fair scheduler with explicit rate feedback
option A service controller for a cell switched network services a plurality of connection queues within the network according to a fair rate which may be weighted for... |
| US-6,526,056 |
Virtual private network employing tag-implemented egress-channel selection A service provider's routers (PE1, P1, P2, PE2) provide connections between and share routing information with routers (CE1, CE2) of a customer virtual private... |
| US-6,525,697 |
Archimedes spiral array antenna A two-dimensional array design for an aperiodic array antenna. The design utilizes monopole or similar antenna elements that are arranged into the topology of an... |
| US-6,523,137 |
Method and system for remote testing of application program interfaces A system and method for remotely testing application program interface function calls within a software application under test which does not require a priori... |
| US-6,523,060 |
Method and apparatus for the management of queue pointers by multiple
processors in a digital communications... A method for managing a buffer queue that stores a data queue, wherein the data queue comprises a set of n data elements, n being at least zero. A head pointer... |
| US-6,522,742 |
System and method for normalizing private exchange output A system and method are provided for generating normalized events from nonstandard computer telephony interface (CTI) events generated by various private... |
| US-6,522,668 |
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-6,522,628 |
Method and system for managing transmission resources in a wireless
communication network A method and system for managing transmission resources in a wireless communications network includes receiving a packet and determining a time duration for... |
| US-6,522,554 |
Circuit card rail positioning system A railing system for printed circuit boards, an apparatus and method advantageously allow modular arrangements of printed circuit boards (PCBs) in a shelf and... |
| US-6,522,151 |
Digital communication system accepting both balanced and unbalanced data
signals and method for its use A circuit and method for connecting data lines in a digital communication system are disclosed. The circuit allows either a balanced data line or an unbalanced... |
| US-6,519,635 |
SNMP master agent that translates messages to a sub-agent proprietary
format using a translation table by the... A simple network management protocol (SNMP) manager communicates with an SNMP master agent using an SNMP data unit (PDU). The PDU includes identification data... |
| US-6,518,811 |
Software programmable delay circuit A phase adjustment circuit has a signal path having a plurality of phase adjustment elements coupled together. Each of the phase adjustment elements of the... |
| US-6,516,383 |
Techniques for efficient location of free entries for TCAM inserts Techniques for the efficient location of free entries for use in performing insert operations in a binary or ternary content addressable memory. As used in data... |
| US-6,516,345 |
Approaches for determining actual physical topology of network based on
gathered configuration information... Approaches for determining the actual physical topology of network devices in a network are disclosed. To determine a physical topology, a discovery mechanism... |
| US-6,515,991 |
Combined unicast and multicast scheduling A method and system for combined unicast and multicast scheduling. Data cells are assigned at each input to one unicast input queue for each output or to a... |
| US-6,515,969 |
Virtual local area network membership registration protocol for multiple
spanning tree network environments The invention relates to a method and apparatus for disseminating Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) membership information across computer networks defining... |
| US-6,515,967 |
Method and apparatus for detecting a fault in a multicast routing
infrastructure A method and system for detecting faults in data packet routing devices in a computer network capable of routing messages using a multicast protocol is... |
| US-6,515,963 |
Per-flow dynamic buffer management The present invention provides a per-flow dynamic buffer management scheme for a data communications device. With per-flow dynamic buffer limiting, the header... |
| US-6,513,153 |
Automatically integrating and executing application software modules A method and apparatus are provided for automatically integrating and executing application software modules. An application selects those software modules from... |
| US-6,513,108 |
Programmable processing engine for efficiently processing transient data A programmable processing engine processes transient data within an intermediate network station of a computer network. The engine comprises an array of... |
| US-6,512,769 |
Method and apparatus for rate-based cell traffic arbitration in a switch A method and apparatus for rate-based cell traffic arbitration in a switch are provided, wherein arbitration is provided between eight traffic sources in the... |
| US-6,512,768 |
Discovery and tag space identifiers in a tag distribution protocol (TDP) A tag-switching router on a tag-switching network establishing a single tag distribution protocol (TDP) session with a peer for the advertisement of tag bindings... |
| US-6,512,766 |
Enhanced internet packet routing lookup The invention provides a method and system for routing information lookup for packets using routing protocols such as IP or IP multicast (IGMP), or MPLS... |
| US-6,512,744 |
Virtual-channel merging A merging ATM switch forwards to a common downstream ATM switch ATM data cells that it receives from a plurality of upstream ATM switches. The merging ATM switch... |
| US-6,512,743 |
Bandwidth allocation for ATM available bit rate service An ATM switch, and method for operating such a switch, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the switch detects ABR VCs that are likely bottlenecked elsewhere in... |
| US-6,512,672 |
Modular air flow distribution system A modular air flow distribution system that provides directional control of cooling air intake and exiting exhaust air for computer housings and circuit board... |
| US-6,512,419 |
Method and apparatus to tune and calibrate an on-chip oscillator in a
wireless transceiver chip A local oscillator calibrator comprises a main charge pump that drives a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) through a loop filter. A second, replica charge pump... |
| US-6,511,009 |
Fiber optic cable spool A cable storage apparatus including a spool for holding cable. The spool having an S shaped cable pathway for connecting a first circumferential cable pathway... |
| US-6,510,414 |
Speech recognition assisted data entry system and method A speech recognition assisted data entry system includes a computing system and a speech recognition application operable to run on the computing system. The... |
| US-6,510,160 |
Accurate computation of percent utilization of a shared resource and fine
resolution scaling of the threshold... A method and apparatus for determining a percent utilization of shared resource and fine resolution scaling of a threshold based on the utilization is described.... |
| US-6,510,156 |
Method and apparatus for data stream optimization A method and apparatus for data stream optimization is provided. Optimization is achieved by reducing the amount of redundant data that needs to be sent over a... |
| US-6,510,154 |
Security system for network address translation systems A system and method are provided for translating local IP addresses to globally unique IP addresses. This allows local hosts in an enterprise network to share... |
| US-6,510,144 |
Network layer support to enhance the transport layer performance in mobile
and wireless environments In a router or packet processing node supporting Mobile IP, a method for causing packets to be retransmitted from a sender to a mobile node is disclosed. A... |
| US-6,510,067 |
System, method and apparatus for protecting consumer electronic devices
from brownouts and short duration power... A self-contained power supply module operating from utility power and having short term energy storage in the form of a battery or capacitor is adapted for... |
| US-6,507,855 |
Method and apparatus for extracting data from files A system and method are disclosed for creating or modifying a documentation output object that describes a portion of computer code. A documentation input object... |
| US-6,507,849 |
Methods and apparatus for accessing a data storage system The invention is directed to techniques for accessing a data storage system having both a filesystem and directory system. In one arrangement, an apparatus has... |
| US-6,507,817 |
Voice IP approval system using voice-enabled web based application server A web-based voice messaging system uses an application server, configured for executing a voice application defined by XML documents, that accesses subscriber... |
| US-6,507,592 |
Apparatus and a method for two-way data communication The present invention provides an apparatus and a method which facilitate a flexible management of data packets in a Time Division Multiplexed System for data... |
| US-6,507,565 |
Method and system for managing remote resources in a telecommunications
system A resource management station for a distributed system includes a managed resources store operable to store for each of a plurality of remote managed resources a... |
| US-6,507,563 |
Methods and apparatus for controlling congestion within diverse protocol
stacks Disclosed is a method for transmitting a packet from a data queue through a protocol stack. The protocol stack is associated with one or more linked data... |
| US-6,505,269 |
Dynamic addressing mapping to eliminate memory resource contention in a
symmetric multiprocessor system A dynamic address mapping technique eliminates contention to memory resources of a symmetric multiprocessor system having a plurality of processors arrayed as a... |
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