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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-6,735,625 |
System and method for automatically determining whether a product is
compatible with a physical device in a network A system and method for interfacing with a component located in a network environment is provided. A user in a network environment can connect to a device on the... |
| US-6,735,548 |
Method for automated network availability analysis A method for automated network availability analysis. A network availability analysis system receives a network topology specified by a user. The network... |
| US-6,735,289 |
Devices, methods and softwares for telecommunication service provider to
receive fax on behalf of subscriber on... A routing switch made according to the invention is controlled by a Telephone Service Provider ("TSP"). Voice telephone calls of a subscriber with the new... |
| US-6,735,288 |
Voice over IP voice mail system configured for placing an outgoing call and
returning subscriber to mailbox... An IP telephony gateway and a voice mail resource enable a voice mail subscriber to place an outgoing call to a destination party from a voice mail session via a... |
| US-6,735,207 |
Apparatus and method for reducing queuing memory access cycles using a
distributed queue structure To reduce the number of memory access cycles required to process each data element in a data networking device having one or more queues and a corresponding set... |
| US-6,735,201 |
Efficient network multicast switching apparatus and methods Efficient switched network multicasting techniques are provided. Incoming multicast packets are processed by a central forwarding engine (CFE) in a network... |
| US-6,735,198 |
Method and apparatus for updating and synchronizing forwarding tables in a
distributed network switch A mechanism and technique updates and synchronizes forwarding tables contained on line cards that are interconnected by a switch fabric of a distributed network... |
| US-6,735,197 |
Concatenation detection across multiple chips An apparatus and method for detecting concatenation of payload data for an communication circuit is disclosed, wherein the payload data is dispersed over a first... |
| US-6,735,173 |
Method and apparatus for accumulating and distributing data items within a
packet switching system Methods and apparatus are disclosed for accumulating and distributing information in a packet switching system. For example, it is desirable in certain packet... |
| US-6,735,169 |
Cascading multiple services on a forwarding agent A system and method are disclosed for providing a plurality of network services. The method includes receiving at a forwarding agent a plurality of matching... |
| US-6,732,187 |
Opaque packet handles Systems and methods for managing packet memory. Various clients in a router need to read from and/or write to the contents of individual packets. In one... |
| US-6,732,178 |
Forced network portal A system manages communications between a user and a network by receiving a user request for access to a network file during a user network connection session... |
| US-6,732,163 |
System for selecting the operating frequency of a communication device in a
wireless network A system for automatically selecting communication frequencies for wireless communication devices (e.g., base unit, access point, and controller) being added to... |
| US-6,731,644 |
Flexible DMA engine for packet header modification A pipelined linecard architecture for receiving, modifying, switching, buffering, queuing and dequeuing packets for transmission in a communications network. The... |
| US-6,731,627 |
Virtual loop carrier system A loop carrier system includes a home local area network having plural telephone modules and a hub coupled to in-home telephone wiring. The telephone modules and... |
| US-6,731,425 |
Modular Raman pump double-multiplexer Optical amplification bandwidth is improved by providing an economical and practical way of multiplexing together multiple Raman pump energy sources at disparate... |
| US-6,729,929 |
Method and apparatus for controlling wireless networks A communications system extending over a cellular region and formed of a plurality of wireless cells. The communications system extends over a cellular region... |
| US-6,728,876 |
Method and apparatus to use non-volatile read/write memory for bootstrap
code and processes by relocating write... A method and apparatus for significantly reducing the number and types of non-volatile memory used on a typical motherboard is disclosed. While there are... |
| US-6,728,857 |
Method and system for storing and retrieving data using linked lists An method for storing and retrieving data in memory includes receiving the address of a first memory location in the data memory storing a first portion of the... |
| US-6,728,839 |
Attribute based memory pre-fetching technique An enhanced prefetching technique enables control of internal activities of a cache memory by a processor without relying on conventional algorithms. The cache... |
| US-6,728,773 |
System for controlling and regulating distribution of intellectual
properties using internet protocol framework A method and system thereof for controlling and regulating the distribution of intellectual properties using Internet Protocol and a plurality of controlling... |
| US-6,728,767 |
Remote identification of client and DNS proxy IP addresses A network operator identifies an address of a network element used by a particular client to obtain IP addresses. The client sends a test message to a test URL... |
| US-6,728,723 |
Method and system for verifying configuration transactions managed by a
centralized database A method and system for verifying router configuration transactions carried out by a centralized information provider or database system. The centralized... |
| US-6,728,465 |
Semi-reconfigurable subband OADM A partially configurable optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) is provided. Fixed single channel and wideband tunable fiber Bragg gratings may be used in... |
| US-6,728,211 |
Method and apparatus for delaying packets being sent from a component of a
packet switching system Methods and apparatus are also disclosed for responding to received flow control messages indicating a previously congested port is now in a non-congested state.... |
| US-6,728,104 |
Methods and apparatus for cooling a circuit board component The heat sink of the present invention includes a device portion, a bend portion, and a support portion that thermally couples the circuit board component to a... |
| US-6,728,028 |
Low noise figure optical amplifier for DWDM systems with per sub-band power
control Improved systems and methods for optical amplification of WDM signals are provided. Multiple sub-bands of a WDM signal are amplified in a first common... |
| US-6,725,411 |
Iterated soft-decision decoding of block codes Systems and methods for augmenting the performance of iterative soft decision-in soft decision-out decoding of block codes with extrinsic information based on... |
| US-6,725,326 |
Techniques for efficient memory management for longest prefix match
problems Techniques for efficient memory management that enable rapid longest prefix match lookups in memory. In general, the present invention is efficacious wherever... |
| US-6,725,264 |
Apparatus and method for redirection of network management messages in a
cluster of network devices A method manages a cluster of network devices each having an intra-cluster identifier. The method includes (a) selecting a plurality of network devices to form a... |
| US-6,725,218 |
Computerized database system and method A computerized database system and method are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, database records are associated with respective unique identification... |
| US-6,724,865 |
Arrangement for measuring response times in a voice response system using a
bulk call generator A bulk call generator is configured for measuring the response time of a telephony-based interactive response system by detecting the presence of prescribed... |
| US-6,724,862 |
Method and apparatus for customizing a device based on a frequency response
for a hearing-impaired user A method and apparatus for customizing a device based on a frequency response for a hearing-impaired user are disclosed. The device receives an identifier... |
| US-6,724,758 |
Stage specific dilation in multi-stage interconnection networks Speed-up is implemented only in one or more portions of a network that would otherwise experience contention (i.e. when operated without speed-up). For example,... |
| US-6,724,757 |
Configurable network router A signal router, configured to receive information carried by a first signal and transmit the information on a second signal, is described. The signal router,... |
| US-6,724,756 |
Method for introducing switched virtual connection call redundancy in
asynchronous transfer mode networks A method for sharing a call record between a first controller and a second controller is disclosed. The method comprises the step generating the call record in... |
| US-6,724,728 |
Method and system for distributed processing of traffic in a
telecommunications node A method and system for distributed processing of traffic in a telecommunications node includes receiving a traffic stream at a line card of the... |
| US-6,724,724 |
System and method for resolving an electronic address A system and method according to an embodiment of the present invention for translating an electronic address is presented. The system and method comprises... |
| US-6,724,721 |
Approximated per-flow rate limiting A method and apparatus to limit the throughput rate of non-adapting aggressive flows on a packet-by-packet basis. Each packet of an input flow is mapped to an... |
| US-6,721,824 |
Method and apparatus for assisting communication of information between two
processes A method and apparatus assists communication between a writer of a shared file and the reader of the shared file without requiring the use of a shared file. When... |
| US-6,721,808 |
Real-time creation of distributed object shell commands A client system having a unique object interfacing command shell is disclosed, where the object interfacing command shell allows users to dynamically specify... |
| US-6,721,796 |
Hierarchical dynamic buffer management system and method Multi-level buffer system dynamically allocates storage for data units arriving at network gateway, and retrieves stored data units according to hierarchical... |
| US-6,721,793 |
Intellectual property over non-internet protocol systems and networks A method and system thereof for implementing and controlling the electronic distribution of intellectual property using protocols other than the Internet... |
| US-6,721,580 |
Ensuring emergency availability of communications devices A communications apparatus includes an energy storage device, such as a backup battery, that provides power in certain circumstances, such as when an external... |
| US-6,721,353 |
Network compatibility A method for improving network compatibility, said method including but not limited to the following: receiving a first-protocol data-link layer packet having a... |
| US-6,721,316 |
Flexible engine and data structure for packet header processing A pipelined linecard architecture for receiving, modifying, switching, buffering, queuing and dequeuing packets for transmission in a communications network. The... |
| US-6,721,276 |
Automated microcode test packet generation engine A routing chip test case generator operable to generate test cases for testing microcode allows test cases to be directed to specific operations, such as those... |
| US-6,721,272 |
Method and apparatus for generating an RSVP message for a non-RSVP-enabled
network device A method and apparatus for providing RSVP capability for senders that either cannot or do not initiate RSVP processes is provided. An RSVP proxy is connected... |
| US-6,721,190 |
Board alignment tab A card based telecommunications system, which includes a chassis. A plurality of card guides positioned in an operable relationship within said chassis. A tab... |
| US-6,718,467 |
Password based protocol for secure communications A method for a first participant to establish a shared secret with a second participant, where the first participant and the second participant share a... |
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