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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,254,984 |
Speaker activation for mobile communication device In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a mobile communication device configured for operation in a first operating mode wherein a speaker function is off and... |
| US-8,254,905 |
Service monitoring and disconnection notification in a wireless gateway
device A gateway apparatus configured to wirelessly communicate with and provide a service to a wireless client device includes a wireless access point module, a... |
| US-8,254,882 |
Intrusion prevention system for wireless networks In one embodiment, a method includes receiving security context information relevant to a connection between a wireless network infrastructure component and a... |
| US-8,254,845 |
Combined beamforming and nulling to combat co-channel interference Techniques are provided to improve receive beamforming at a wireless communication device that receives energy in a frequency band at M plurality of antennas,... |
| US-8,254,557 |
Supervisor intercept for teleagent voice over internet protocol
communications A system for transferring a call from one teleagent to another in response to a loss of voice quality in a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) communication... |
| US-8,254,552 |
System and method for providing a recovery mode in a session initiation
protocol (SIP) environment A method to be executed in a session initiation protocol (SIP) environment is provided that includes detecting, by a first agent, a potential lost connection... |
| US-8,254,412 |
Implementing priority based dynamic bandwidth adjustments A method that includes receiving a reservation request from a first endpoint that comprises a bandwidth list identifying a plurality of bandwidth levels... |
| US-8,254,409 |
User isolation between network devices In one embodiment, a network device may have its network interfaces identified as either network-to-network interfaces (NNIs) configured to communicate with... |
| US-8,254,396 |
Fast border gateway protocol synchronization A checkpointing approach enables BGP peers to reduce the number of UPDATE messages that are exchanged and processed after a router restarts. A router receives... |
| US-8,254,394 |
Technique for providing constant bit rate (CBR) service over a
time-slotted access channel According to specific embodiments of the invention, a technique is described for providing constant bit rate (CBR) service over shared access channels in a... |
| US-8,254,357 |
Maintaining network availability for wireless clients in a wireless local
area network In an example embodiment, there is described herein a technique that provides network availability to wireless clients (e.g., wireless clients running mission... |
| US-8,254,273 |
Tracing connection paths through transparent proxies In one embodiment, a method for tracing a connection path from a source node to a destination node through a network having one or more transparent proxies... |
| US-8,254,272 |
Operations administration management for path computation element chains In one embodiment, an interested node (e.g., a path computation client or "PCC", network management node, etc.) may send a path computation element (PCE)... |
| US-8,254,271 |
Point-to-multipoint connectivity verification Improved connectivity verification is disclosed. A root in a point-to-multipoint network can establish parameters for a connectivity-verification session with... |
| US-8,254,256 |
System and method for performing distributed policing Various systems and methods that synchronize local copies of a variable used in a distributed algorithm, such as that used in distributed policing, are... |
| US-8,253,771 |
Video call management apparatus and associated methodology of controlling
voice and video response An video call management apparatus and associated methodology of controlling interactive voice and video responses is provided. A calling party is identified as... |
| US-8,250,647 |
Method and apparatus for automatic filter generation and maintenance Automatic filter generation and maintenance comprises detecting, from network packets, an IP address and a first MAC address; the IP address and the first MAC... |
| US-8,250,634 |
Systems, methods, media, and means for user level authentication In some embodiments, a gateway in a communications network is provided including a subscriber interface and a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) registrar;... |
| US-8,250,630 |
Detecting unauthorized computer access A machine executed method comprising at a first computer, receiving from a second computer a request to gain root-administrator access to an operating system... |
| US-8,250,359 |
Method and apparatus for distributing group data in a tunneled encrypted
virtual private network A packet forwarding process, on a data communications device, forwards a packet to a plurality of destinations within a network from that data communications... |
| US-8,250,175 |
Techniques for remapping content requests Techniques for routing content requests are provided. In one embodiment, a first device at a network device sends a request from a first device at a first site... |
| US-8,250,167 |
Distributed network communication system which enables multiple network
providers to use a common distributed... A system and method for providing access and/or roaming features on a network system. The network system includes a plurality of wireless and/or wired access... |
| US-8,250,141 |
Real-time event notification for collaborative computing sessions In one embodiment, a determination is made that a specified event of a collaborative computing session has occurred. In response to the specified event, a... |
| US-8,249,953 |
Methods and apparatus for determining the status of a device Methods and devices are provided for determining the status of a networked device, e.g., a networked RFID device. In some embodiments of the invention, a... |
| US-8,249,596 |
Location based handoff A method includes determining a coverage area for each of a plurality of base stations. The method also includes receiving a first location parameter indicative... |
| US-8,249,538 |
Offset direct conversion receiver An offset direct conversion receiver apparatus and corresponding receiving method are provided. A received wireless signal is directly downconverted and... |
| US-8,249,509 |
Dynamic channel estimation based on channel conditions A dynamically adaptive channel estimation process is provided for use in a wireless communication device. At a first device, a wireless transmission is received... |
| US-8,249,070 |
Methods and apparatuses for performing scene adaptive rate control In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a network bandwidth; detect a sequence of frames; determine a motion based on the sequence of frames; set... |
| US-8,249,069 |
Forwarding multi-destination packets in a network with virtual port
channels In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a multi-destination packet at a switch in communication with a plurality of servers through a network device,... |
| US-8,249,065 |
Destination MAC aging of entries in a Layer 2 (L2) forwarding table In one embodiment, entries in an address table of the forwarding engine in a linecard or supervisor are updated to a current time value when the MAC address in... |
| US-8,249,049 |
Clock synchronization In an example embodiment, a method for synchronizing clocks between a plurality of clocked devices where one of the plurality of clocked devices is not directly... |
| US-8,249,025 |
Methods and systems for providing improved handoffs in a wireless
communication system Methods and systems are provided for using a PDSN in a wireless communication network that includes multiple IP addresses and multiple corresponding physical... |
| US-8,248,953 |
Detecting and isolating domain specific faults A method for detecting and isolating domain specific faults includes comparing a first media quality report for a communication from a first node with a second... |
| US-8,248,942 |
Monitoring of real-time transport protocol (RTP) packet flow along RTP
path Techniques are provided herein to enable monitoring of a real-time transport protocol (RTP) packet flow in devices along the path that the RTP packet flow... |
| US-8,248,920 |
Alternate spanning tree for faster indirect link failure recovery Methods and apparatus that form the basis of an alternate spanning tree protocol that may be used, for example, to identify rings within a properly converged... |
| US-8,248,446 |
Rich media communication client device, method and computer program
product A method, computer program product, and system for initiating, routing and scheduling video conferences. A dial URL is introduced with a prefix unique for... |
| US-8,248,233 |
Location filtering based on device mobility classification In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining location information associated with a remote device, and processing the location information. Processing the... |
| US-8,245,278 |
Apparatus and method for secure configuration of shared powerline devices Client adapter and method simplify security deployment in an EPN, including the shared services electrical power lines of a premises. With direct coupling,... |
| US-8,245,255 |
Program guide navigation Systems and methods that provide a first electronic program guide (EPG) screen having a plurality of channel identifiers, program information, and an icon... |
| US-8,245,141 |
Hierarchical collaboration policies in a shared workspace environment In one embodiment, a first administrative entity having first members may initiate an operated shared workspace having a policy control engine. The first... |
| US-8,245,014 |
Thread interleaving in a multithreaded embedded processor The present invention provides a network multithreaded processor, such as a network processor, including a thread interleaver that implements fine-grained... |
| US-8,244,110 |
Upgrading media content quality for media content based on detecting
upgraded media presentation device In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting a user selection of media content having a prescribed quality and that is authorized for presentation to the... |
| US-8,243,895 |
Communication system with configurable shared line privacy feature A PBX system with a shared line connected to a plurality of telephone devices includes one or more processors that control a connection for an incoming call... |
| US-8,243,746 |
Ethernet node port virtualizer In one embodiment, a method includes defining a virtual node port proxy and virtual fabric port proxies at a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) bridge, the... |
| US-8,243,734 |
System and method for providing deterministic routing in a network
environment A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a packet that is part of a flow, and identifying parameters within the packet for mapping... |
| US-8,243,717 |
Providing telephony services using intelligent end points A system includes telephony devices that provide services and applications through the execution of scripts in web pages. |
| US-8,243,681 |
Methods and apparatus for broadcast optimization in mobile IP Methods and apparatus for supporting broadcast traffic in Mobile IP are disclosed. When a Mobile Node registers via a Foreign Agent supporting Mobile IP, the... |
| US-8,243,671 |
Distributed channel assignment Disclosed, in example embodiment herein, is an apparatus comprising an interface and channel selection logic coupled to the interface. The channel selection... |
| US-8,243,643 |
Active multicast information protocol In the disclosed active multicast information protocol, a first edge router of a network receives a data packet from a source, wherein the data packet comprises... |
| US-8,243,619 |
Smart mechanism for multi-client bidirectional optical channel protection
scheme Methods and apparatus for efficiently allowing protection switch information to be communicated on bidirectional lines are disclosed. According to one aspect of... |
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