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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-9,113,243 |
Method and system for obtaining an audio signal A method and system for obtaining an audio signal. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a first sound signal at a first microphone arranged at a... |
| US-9,113,193 |
Video content item timeline In one embodiment, a method includes: querying a database for data related to a video content item currently being displayed on a display device, the video... |
| US-9,113,184 |
Delivering an audio video asset Delivering an audio video asset in a way that makes best use of different delivery mechanisms available. |
| US-9,113,037 |
Video conference virtual endpoints A method and a device providing one virtual endpoint dedicated to serve one particular real endpoint, and the virtual endpoint is typically installed on a... |
| US-9,112,816 |
Dynamic EQAM discovery in M-CMTS architecture In one example, an Edge Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (EQAM) communicates EQAM information to a Modular Cable Modem Termination System (M-CMTS) core using a... |
| US-9,112,805 |
Routing messages in a computer network using deterministic and
probabilistic source routes In one embodiment, a data packet message is provided which includes a routing header configured to accommodate both a deterministic source route and a... |
| US-9,112,788 |
Bicasting using non-congruent paths in a loop-free routing topology having
routing arcs In one embodiment, a method comprises creating, in a computing network, a loop-free routing topology comprising a plurality of routing arcs for reaching a... |
| US-9,112,787 |
First hop load balancing In an implementation, a packet is received from a network device. A group identifier is retrieved from the received packet. A plurality of layer-2 switch... |
| US-9,112,770 |
Method and system for detecting changes in a network using simple network
management protocol polling In an embodiment, methods and systems have been provided for detecting changes in a network using improved Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) polling... |
| US-9,112,746 |
Method and system for managing virtual talk groups A method for managing virtual talk groups includes facilitating communications from a plurality of endpoints via an interoperability system. The plurality of... |
| US-9,112,724 |
Minimum disruption MST reconfiguration (MDMR) In one embodiment, a first multiple spanning tree (MST) region configuration for an MST process may be maintained at a switch in a computer network, where the... |
| US-9,112,723 |
Service node using services applied by an application node Packets are encapsulated and sent from a service node to an application node for applying one or more Layer-4 to Layer-7 services to the packets, with... |
| US-9,112,713 |
System and method for efficient point-to-multi-point traffic engineering
(P2MP-TE) path protection A path protection method that includes: establishing a point to multi-point (P2MP) tree spanning from a head node to a plurality of tail nodes, the P2MP tree... |
| US-9,112,711 |
Optimizing OTV multicast traffic flow for site local receivers In one embodiment, a first Edge Device may join a multicast group via a multicast router, wherein the first Edge Device is in a local network and the multicast... |
| US-9,112,710 |
System and method for providing smart grid communications and management A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving phasor measurement unit (PMU) data in a first transmission; converting the first... |
| US-9,112,632 |
Supporting efficient and accurate sync/followup timestamps In one embodiment, a physical (PHY) layer (lower protocol stack layer) of a device may add a timestamp to a received frame, and pass the frame and timestamp up... |
| US-9,112,555 |
Transmit correlated array gain reduction Techniques are presented herein to achieve reduced array gain associated with a transmission made from multiple antennas of a wireless communication device. In... |
| US-9,111,340 |
Frequency-modulated watermarking A method for image processing includes storing a data string and applying a background modulation to an image. The modulation includes a periodic spatial... |
| US-9,111,138 |
System and method for gesture interface control A method is provided in one example and includes generating a histogram associated with at least one object; receiving image data; comparing the image data to... |
| US-9,111,013 |
Hierarchical associative memory-based classification system A system and method for efficiently searching long strings of data, such as network messages, is described. The system preferably includes an associative memory... |
| US-9,110,905 |
System and method for assigning network blocks to sensors A system includes a processor device. The processor device is configured to detect a physical topology of a network comprising hosts and sensors in the network.... |
| US-9,107,151 |
Wireless system with split control plane and data plane In one embodiment, a method includes identifying an access point joining a wireless controller in communication with a switch, establishing a control tunnel... |
| US-9,106,961 |
Method, system, and apparatus for marking point of interest video clips
and generating composite point of... A method is provided in one example and includes receiving an indication of a start of a point of interest associated with a portion of a video presentation,... |
| US-9,106,943 |
Sharing of subscriber-recorded digital video recorder content Digital data associated with recorded programs are uploaded to a Head End facility from user devices (e.g., set-top boxes) in a media distribution network. The... |
| US-9,106,793 |
Method and apparatus for motion based participant switching in multipoint
video conferences In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a memory that stores executable instructions and a processor that executes the instructions in order to determine, for... |
| US-9,106,714 |
Plug and play provisioning of voice over IP network devices Techniques are provided for sending from a client in a network device a request message configured to request configuration parameters to allow the network... |
| US-9,106,674 |
Increasing the number of domain identifiers for use by a switch in an
established fibre channel switched fabric The number of domain identifiers is incrementally increased for use by a switch in an established fiber channel switched fabric. In other words, the number of... |
| US-9,106,593 |
Multicast flow reordering scheme An example system and method for multicast flow reordering in a network is provided and includes receiving a data packet at an egress of a node, the data packet... |
| US-9,106,574 |
Supporting quality of service differentiation using a single shared buffer An example method, system, and switching element are provided and may provide for an egress port to be configured to receive a plurality of data packets, each... |
| US-9,106,555 |
Troubleshooting routing topology based on a reference topology In one embodiment, a computing device (e.g., border router or network management server) transmits a discovery message into a computer network, such as in... |
| US-9,106,525 |
High availability transport protocol method and apparatus A system and method supporting efficient, scalable stateful switchover of transport layer connections in a telecommunications network element. One method... |
| US-9,106,516 |
Routing and analyzing business-to-business service requests In one embodiment, a central service request management system for managing service requests across a plurality of ticketing systems. The central service... |
| US-9,106,510 |
Distributed demand matrix computations In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet at a first network device, logging the packet into a demand corresponding to a cell of a demand matrix,... |
| US-9,106,484 |
Low latency NX10G form factor module to an enhanced small form-factor
pluggable uplink extender to maximize... A system, method and apparatus is provided for optimizing network data communications. At an extender device, a data signal is received at a host link port... |
| US-9,106,443 |
Forwarding table optimization with flow data In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a server, flow data for a plurality of flows at a network device, the flow data comprising for each flow, a... |
| US-9,106,435 |
Efficient data transmission within MoCA Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a... |
| US-9,106,432 |
Data stream classification Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with data stream classification are described. One example method includes identifying packets associated... |
| US-9,106,407 |
Key generation using multiple sets of secret shares A cryptographic method, including generating, using a meta-secret, a first plurality of cryptographic keys, each cryptographic key associated with a respective... |
| US-9,106,348 |
Using unscheduled automatic power save delivery to achieve coexistence
with interfering sources In an example embodiment, there is disclosed a technique that enables a wireless device to achieve coexistence with an interfering source. The wireless device... |
| US-9,105,786 |
Thermal treatment of silicon wafers useful for photovoltaic applications Efficiency of silicon photovoltaic solar cells is increased by an annealing process for immobilizing oxygen formed in Czochralski-grown silicon. The annealing... |
| US-9,104,836 |
Dynamically mapping network trust relationships In an embodiment, the method is comprising, receiving an access request, from an authenticator device, to grant a supplicant device access to a data network;... |
| US-9,100,940 |
System and method for extended wireless access gateway service provider
Wi-Fi offload A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) discovery signal at a wireless network... |
| US-9,100,579 |
Modification of a video signal of an object exposed to ambient light and
light emitted from a display screen A method that includes obtaining a video signal of an object by a camera, obtaining an ambient light signal representing ambient light, obtaining a display... |
| US-9,100,548 |
Feature enablement at a communications terminal In one embodiment, a method for electronic enablement of features at a communication device that includes receiving a feature token, validating the feature... |
| US-9,100,425 |
Method and apparatus for detecting malicious software using generic
signatures Novel methods, components, and systems for automatically detecting malicious software are presented. More specifically, methods, components, and systems for the... |
| US-9,100,407 |
Method and system to enhance performance of a session initiation protocol
network and its elements In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, a communication apparatus includes a communication unit configured to send and receive... |
| US-9,100,371 |
Highly scalable architecture for application network appliances A highly scalable application network appliance is described herein. According to one embodiment, a network element includes a switch fabric, a first service... |
| US-9,100,366 |
Early policy evaluation of multiphase attributes in high-performance
firewalls A policy is established comprising a condition having a multiphase attribute of a multiphase transaction. Phase specific policies are established for each phase... |
| US-9,100,350 |
Extended subnets There is provided a router for use in a datacenter, the router including a frame receiving module operative to receive a traffic frame and a frame forwarding... |
| US-9,100,346 |
Commmon agent framework for network devices Techniques are provided for automating a common framework for network devices. In one example, a network device (e.g., switch, router, etc.) is configured to... |
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