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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,947,493 |
System and method for alerting a participant in a video conference An example method is provided and includes identifying an active speaker of a video session; analyzing a signal from an originating endpoint associated with the... |
| US-8,943,310 |
System and method for obtaining a digital certificate for an endpoint According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of establishing a digital certificate on an endpoint includes establishing a connection between a... |
| US-8,943,205 |
Generalized coordinate system and metric-based resource selection
framework In one embodiment, an n-dimensional resource vector for each of a plurality of resources in a computer network is determined, each n-dimensional resource vector... |
| US-8,943,202 |
Network resource access using social networks A network controller is enabled to control a network that is administered by a network administrator. The network controller provides the network administrator... |
| US-8,943,184 |
Abstract representation and provisioning of network services A network management device connects to a device on the network, receives a trigger for an operation command, supplies to the device a command line interface... |
| US-8,943,000 |
Connectivity system for multi-tenant access networks A system may provide connectivity service in a multi-tenant network. A first node in the multi-tenant network can receive data packets, each of the data packets... |
| US-8,942,379 |
Timeslot encryption in an optical transport network An Optical Transport Network (OTN) frame comprises an optical channel payload unit that is divided into a plurality of timeslots. This OTN frame is received at... |
| US-8,942,368 |
Call notification with rich caller identification Communication systems and methods are described that include call notification with rich caller identification. Components of the communication systems are... |
| US-8,942,366 |
RFID for available resources not connected to the network Disclosed are apparatus and techniques for providing presence and location information from available media resources to participants in a media conference so... |
| US-8,942,301 |
Dynamic subcarrier utilization and intelligent transmission scheduling In one embodiment, a transmitting device monitors transmission activity of each of a plurality of subcarriers in a communication network, and determines a set... |
| US-8,942,242 |
Method and apparatus for self-learning of VPNS from combinations of
unidirectional tunnels in MPLS/VPN networks In one embodiment, a data packet is received at a network device. A layer-2 identification (L2ID) value is identified for the received data packet based on a... |
| US-8,942,230 |
Logical packet switching device with switching fabric extended between
multiple physical devices In one embodiment, a logical packet switching device has its switching fabric extended between multiple physical devices, such as, but not limited to, over one... |
| US-8,942,228 |
Shared feature controller election in distributed VOIP environment In one embodiment, a distributed, dynamic and call based feature controller election is executed in a distributed call processing system which is simple,... |
| US-8,942,112 |
System and method for providing selective mobility invocation in a network
environment A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes invoking a mobile access gateway function based on an end user requesting an Internet Protocol (IP)... |
| US-8,942,106 |
Method and apparatus for route optimization enforcement and verification In one embodiment, a best exit from an autonomous system (AS) for a controlled prefix is determined. A network device of the AS influences a route for the... |
| US-8,942,100 |
Real time and high resolution buffer occupancy monitoring and recording Presented herein are techniques for detection and characterization of buffer occupancy of a buffer in a network device. Packets are received at a network... |
| US-8,942,089 |
Method and apparatus for adaptive fast start in link aggregation In one embodiment, a period between periodic transmissions of protocol data units (PDUs) used to form or maintain a link aggregation group is initially set to a... |
| US-8,941,708 |
Method, computer-readable storage medium, and apparatus for modifying the
layout used by a video composing unit... In one embodiment, a method that includes providing, on a display, an object configured to be moved by a user along an axis, associating a plurality of... |
| US-8,941,261 |
System and method for providing collaborating power controllers A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a message associated with a detection of reactive power in an energy system and inducing a... |
| US-8,938,690 |
Intelligent social collaboration hover card In one embodiment, a method includes generating a hover card associated with an entity in response to a user of a software application hovering a pointer over a... |
| US-8,938,353 |
Ad-hoc mobile IP network for intelligent transportation system A method and system for intelligently managing a transportation network are provided. The method includes dynamically establishing an ad hoc data communications... |
| US-8,938,332 |
Startup control of devices Controlled startup of devices is based on dynamic statistical predictions. Timely startup of onboard associated vehicle devices is based on dynamic statistical... |
| US-8,938,216 |
Geographical location information/signal quality-context based recording
and playback of multimedia data from a... Playback of multimedia data associated with a recorded conference session is simplified, particularly for a person who participated in the conference session... |
| US-8,938,148 |
Variable optical attenuator In one embodiment, a variable optical attenuator includes a core configured to propagate optical data signals and a cladding surrounding at least part of the... |
| US-8,938,142 |
Silicon-based opto-electronic integrated circuit with reduced polarization
dependent loss A silicon-based opto-electronic circuit is formed to exhibit reduced polarization-dependent loss by strategically placing the photodetecting device as close as... |
| US-8,937,955 |
System and method for scaling IPv6 addresses in a network environment An example method is provided and includes receiving, at an ingress switch in a network, a packet from an attached host that is coupled to a destination host,... |
| US-8,937,953 |
System and method for routing using path identifiers In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first packet sent by a first node. The packet includes a first Layer 3 source address, a first Layer 3... |
| US-8,937,927 |
Seamless mobility handover Seamless mobility between public and private WLANs may be provided. First a Mobile Node (MN) may be registered for privileged network access via a first access... |
| US-8,937,888 |
Audio sequestering and opt-in sequences for a conference session In one embodiment, a method includes electronically prompting, in response to a triggering event, a participant connected to a conference session via a... |
| US-8,937,886 |
Dynamic reroute scheduling in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) In one embodiment, a particular node joins a directed acyclic graph (DAG) in a computer network at a parent node, and determines its grade based on a topology... |
| US-8,937,864 |
Channel quality aware transport flow compensation Channel quality of an airlink is assessed at an edge router of a radio-access communication network. Based on the assessment, the cause of lost data is... |
| US-8,935,583 |
Removing scan channel limitation on semiconductor devices A method to perform component testing by supplying test patterns to a serial input pin coupled to an IEEE 1149.6 boundary-scan cell that is associated with an... |
| US-8,935,336 |
Optimizing program requests over a wide area network In various embodiments, data processing apparatus, software, or machine-implemented methods can optimize NFSv3 asynchronous write requests or MSRPC calls that... |
| US-8,935,313 |
Quick session setup for video on demand with information caching A technique for managing session setup for video on demand sessions involves caching information related to session setup for a session manager and then... |
| US-8,935,274 |
System and method for deriving user expertise based on data propagating in
a network environment A method is provided in one example and includes receiving data propagating in a network environment, separating the data into one or more fields, evaluating at... |
| US-8,934,553 |
Creation of composite images from a plurality of source streams One system described herein, among others, comprises receiving a plurality of slice groups created by converting a plurality of video stream using flexible... |
| US-8,934,540 |
Video compression using multiple variable length coding methods for
multiple types of transform coefficient blocks Classifying a series of quantized transform coefficients of a block of image data into one of a pre-defined plurality of classes for entropy coding, and entropy... |
| US-8,934,496 |
Reactive and proactive routing protocol interoperation in low power and
lossy networks In one embodiment, a border node between a reactive routing network and a proactive routing network may receive an inter-domain route request (RREQ) from a... |
| US-8,934,486 |
System and method for implementing multicast over a label-switched core
network Various devices and methods for implementing multicast over a label-switched core network are disclosed. For example, an edge node can include a physical... |
| US-8,934,476 |
Enabling AD-HOC data communication over established mobile voice
communications In one embodiment, a first PC may receive a trigger to establish a data communication session with a second PC over an established voice call between first and... |
| US-8,934,475 |
Distributed SIP-based transfer feature In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) routing a primary call from a transferor to a transferee; (ii) routing a consultation call from the transferor to a... |
| US-8,934,420 |
Multiple wired client support on a wireless workgroup bridge A method is provided to receive and transmit network frames across a network. A wireless access point device is configured operate as a wireless bridge (e.g.,... |
| US-8,934,369 |
Direction aware neighbor list infrastructure assisted roaming The direction of movement of a wireless local area network client device, determined based on data generated by one or more sensors onboard the client device,... |
| US-8,934,366 |
Distributed node migration between routing domains In one embodiment, a device connected to a network receives at a network interface a first network size indicator for a first network and a second network size... |
| US-8,934,026 |
System and method for video coding in a dynamic environment A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a camera dynamic parameter; determining a reference transform parameter based on the... |
| US-8,930,511 |
Physical resource life-cycle in a template based orchestration of
end-to-end service provisioning In one embodiment, the system may identify a virtual network, the virtual network including a plurality of virtual entities and connections among the plurality... |
| US-8,930,435 |
Exponentiation system A method for computation, including defining a sequence of n bits that encodes an exponent d, such that no more than a specified number of successive bits in... |
| US-8,929,706 |
Fiber optic cable storage enclosure In one embodiment a fiber optic storage enclosure (FOSE) includes a fiber tray configured for coupling with a fiber optic device having a connector and a cover... |
| US-8,929,689 |
Optical modulator utilizing unary encoding and auxiliary modulator section
for load balancing An optical modulator is configured to include multiple modulating sections formed along each arm and create a unary-encoded optical output signal by driving the... |
| US-8,929,360 |
Systems, methods, media, and means for hiding network topology Systems, methods, media, and means for hiding network topology are provided. In some embodiments, methods for hiding network topology are provided, the methods... |
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