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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,291,111 |
Responding to a DHCPLEASEQUERY message A technique is performed in a first device of a set of devices. The technique involves receiving a query message from a network node, the query message... |
| US-8,291,072 |
Method and apparatus providing device-initiated network management A method is disclosed for managing a network entity that is initiated by the network entity, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps performed at... |
| US-8,291,015 |
System and method for modeling video network reliability A program product for modeling video network reliability includes a computer-usable medium that encodes computer instructions. The computer instructions cause a... |
| US-8,290,139 |
Method and apparatus for maintaining dynamic queues in call centers using
social network information In one embodiment, a method includes connecting on a call with a caller and determining if social network information associated with the caller is available.... |
| US-8,289,901 |
Pinning and cascading avoidance in dynamic channel assignment for wireless
LANS Techniques are provided to determine channel assignments for wireless access point (AP) devices in a wireless local area network (WLAN). From each of a... |
| US-8,289,873 |
Method and apparatus providing automatic connection announcement from a
modular network device to a network... A method of provisioning modular network devices is described. A generic configuration is placed on a device; the configuration comprises commands for... |
| US-8,289,839 |
Scaling BFD sessions for neighbors using physical / sub-interface
relationships In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a physical port and a plurality of logical sub-interfaces under the physical port. The physical port and the logical... |
| US-8,289,369 |
Distributed real-time media composer A system and a method allowing simultaneous exchange of audio, video or data information between a plurality of units over a communication network, supported by... |
| US-8,289,367 |
Conferencing and stage display of distributed conference participants A system comprises a stage area and an audience area with a line of sight view of the stage area. The system also includes a first display that reproduces a... |
| US-8,289,362 |
Audio directionality control for a multi-display switched video
conferencing system In one embodiment, a method includes setting a target value for each audio source received from a plurality of remote participants to a telepresence conference,... |
| US-8,289,361 |
System and method for setting up and activating agent shortcut operations Embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, devices and systems for setting up an agent shortcut operation to be activated at an electronic device... |
| US-8,286,254 |
Behavioral learning for interactive user security A system for automatically handling requests to grant or deny access to resources in a network or computer system. In a preferred embodiment of the invention a... |
| US-8,286,183 |
Techniques for task management using presence Techniques for scheduling a task include receiving task data and quorum data. Task data describes tasks to be performed by one or more participants. Quorum data... |
| US-8,286,080 |
User navigation via vectors dynamically mapped to distinct media
attributes In one embodiment, a method comprises generating and displaying to a user a user selection interface, the user selection interface representing a plurality of... |
| US-8,285,874 |
Routing systems and methods for implementing routing policy with reduced
configuration and new configuration... In some embodiments, a method and routing system parameterize a routing policy and apply the parameterized-routing policy to a route. Parameters are assigned to... |
| US-8,285,848 |
IP address allocation in a network environment A network access server (NAS) provides a connection to a user in a data communications network, where the NAS is capable of communicating with a home gateway... |
| US-8,285,068 |
Combined deblocking and denoising filter An apparatus, a computer readable medium to instruct a process to implement a method, and a method of reducing blocking artifacts and/or noise in an image that... |
| US-8,284,920 |
Method and system for transferring a call at an automatic call
distribution system A method for transferring a call at an automatic call distribution system includes receiving from a caller a call for connection with one of a plurality of... |
| US-8,284,758 |
Path diversity index for use in route selection In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a network device information on paths to a destination node, determining a number of common nodes or links... |
| US-8,284,713 |
Wireless audio systems and related methods Systems and methods are provided to facilitate the distribution of audio signals over wireless networks. In one implementation, an audio system includes a head... |
| US-8,284,696 |
Tracking customer edge traffic In one embodiment, data from a first device is received. A second device is identified. A data flow is between the first device and the second device. A third... |
| US-8,281,383 |
Secured IPv6 traffic preemption In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by an access router, an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) packet that specifies a request for executing a... |
| US-8,281,343 |
Management and display of video content A method of transmitting video content between a computing device and display device. The method includes establishing a data connection between a receiver unit... |
| US-8,281,302 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically instantiating services using a
service insertion architecture A generic service node that operates in a first state while waiting for instructions to adopt a specific service. Upon receiving the instructions, the generic... |
| US-8,281,286 |
Methods and systems for automated testing of applications using an
application independent GUI map Methods and systems for the automated testing of applications using an application independent GUI map are disclosed. A method includes receiving a command to... |
| US-8,281,165 |
Inline power controller An inline power controller includes at least one analog interface circuit module (AICM) having a first analog input node for receiving an inline power port... |
| US-8,281,049 |
Host-daughtercard configuration with double data rate bus A double data rate bus system includes a host-network interface card configuration wherein the host is configured to recognize the network interface card to... |
| US-8,280,962 |
Service communication list A method for displaying communication events is provided. The method includes collecting past, present, and future communication events from two or more... |
| US-8,280,961 |
Method and system for providing a camp-on service for a network service A method for providing a camp-on service for a network service includes detecting a request from a user for access to a network service and detecting that the... |
| US-8,280,426 |
Adaptive power balancing and phase adjustment for MIMO-beamformed
communication systems Techniques are provided for improving performance of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system. At a first wireless communication... |
| US-8,280,052 |
Digital signature of changing signals using feature extraction In one embodiment, a signal transmission authentication apparatus includes an input operable to receive a changing signal, a first extractor operable to extract... |
| US-8,280,027 |
Method to collect and manage smart dialplan for session initiation
protocol devices Methods and apparatus for dialing numbers using a session initial protocol device are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method... |
| US-8,279,926 |
Dynamic streaming with latticed representations of video In one embodiment, a method that partitions a first sequence of pictures into plural representations, encodes each of the plural representations independently... |
| US-8,279,891 |
Techniques for ethernet optical reach improvement According to another general aspect, an apparatus may include a receiver, a decoding engine, an envelope generator, an error code generator, and a transmitter.... |
| US-8,279,749 |
Failure protection for P2MP tunnel head-end node In one embodiment, a primary head-end node (PHE) and one or more backup head-end nodes (BHEs) receive traffic from a common multicast network. The PHE... |
| US-8,279,262 |
System and method for providing a perception of a continuous surface in a
telepresence system A method for preventing movement in a telepresence system, includes a plurality of cameras. Each camera has a respective field of vision for viewing one or more... |
| US-8,276,010 |
Network based system to control and monitor power consumption of networked
elements In an example embodiment, a technique for network based power management for power consuming devices associated with a network. A power control strategy is... |
| US-8,275,898 |
Reporting status of remote media ingest In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a content receiver, a concurrent streamer coupled to the content receiver, and a protocol engine coupled to the... |
| US-8,275,892 |
Low-level remote sharing of local devices in a remote access session
across a computer network In one embodiment, a device is connected to a first computer via a first local communication port of the first computer. If the device is configured to... |
| US-8,275,860 |
Dynamic configuration of access point names in gateways Methods and apparatus for maintaining access point names (APNs) at a centralized location for distribution to gateway nodes are disclosed. According to one... |
| US-8,275,257 |
Differential quadrature phase-shift keying transmission system with
variable transmission rate Methods and apparatus for varying the transmission rate of a signal transmitted within a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) system or network are... |
| US-8,274,993 |
Fibre channel dynamic zoning Zone information is automatically and dynamically configured and managed in a fiber channel storage area network upon detection of network events. Some examples... |
| US-8,274,977 |
Distributing packets to line cards of a packet switching device based on
bridge indication values received... A packet switching device maintains mappings of bridge identification values to line cards for each of multiple virtual bridges. When a packet is received that... |
| US-8,274,973 |
Virtual service domains In one embodiment, layer-2 (L2) ports of a network device may each be assigned to a particular virtual service domain (VSD). One or more virtual service engines... |
| US-8,274,968 |
Restriction of communication in VoIP address discovery system In one embodiment, a system is provided to restrict VoIP communication. The system may validate a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call initiation message... |
| US-8,274,919 |
System and method for implementing multiple ring networks using a common
link Various systems and methods for implementing virtual ports within ring networks are disclosed. For example, one method involves allocating a logical port that... |
| US-8,272,067 |
Protecting commercials within encoded video content In one embodiment, a method comprises identifying an identifiable video object from a video picture of a digital video having video content and commercial... |
| US-8,272,046 |
Network mobility over a multi-path virtual private network Methods and apparatus for applying a single virtual private network (VPN) address to tunnels or connections associated with different access interfaces are... |
| US-8,271,775 |
Layer two encryption for data center interconnectivity Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with layer two (L2) encryption for data center interconnectivity are described. One example system includes a... |
| US-8,271,687 |
Streaming network coding In one embodiment, a method comprises supplying, by a network node to a peer network node, a randomization seed assigned to the network node for generating a... |
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