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| Patent # | Description |
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| 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... |
| US-8,271,663 |
System and method for multiple address of record registration using a
single implicit SIP request A method for registering multiple addresses of record comprises receiving a session initiation protocol register request, the session initiation protocol... |
| US-8,271,543 |
Creation of context for communications based on previous interactions In one embodiment, an identification (ID) of a person involved in a current communication is utilized to access a communication log to determine an active time... |
| US-8,270,831 |
Use of pre-validated paths in a WDM network Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving a resource request for optical resources within a... |
| US-8,270,593 |
Call routing using voice signature and hearing characteristics In an example embodiment, a system that appropriately routes calls to an agent at a contact center based on the agent's voice and/or hearing characteristics.... |
| US-8,270,495 |
Reduced bandwidth off-loading of entropy coding/decoding Techniques are provided herein to produce encoded video bitstreams and to similarly decode encoded video bitstreams according to a coding standard not supported... |
| US-8,270,488 |
Using black detection to improve video splicing In one embodiment, a network device analyzes an encoded video stream using black detection before splicing video into the encoded video stream. When black data... |
| US-8,270,413 |
Method and apparatus for self-learning of VPNS from combination of
unidirectional tunnels in MPLS/VPN networks A technique is provided for implementing deep-packet inspection (DPI) services in a MPLS/VPN configured computer network. The technique employs a novel... |
| US-8,270,401 |
Packet routing and switching device A method for routing and switching data packets from one or more incoming links to one or more outgoing links of a router. The method comprises receiving a data... |
| US-8,270,399 |
Crossbar apparatus for a forwarding table memory in a router A router including a lookup execution unit including a plurality of stages, a forwarding table memory arranged in hierarchy including addressable sectors,... |
| US-8,270,382 |
System and method for securing mesh access points in a wireless mesh
network, including rapid roaming Authentication in a mesh network controlled by a central controller, including using standard IEEE 802.11i mechanisms between a potential child mesh access... |
| US-8,270,381 |
Method for a simple 802.11e HCF implementation A Hybrid Coordination Function (HCF) implementation wherein an access point's existing (E)DCF transmit queues are augmented by at least one strict priority HCF... |
| US-8,270,329 |
Method for low power radio operation in a wireless packet network A system and method allows devices to send and receive packets while using power to do so to the extent needed, thereby conserving power. |
| US-8,270,314 |
Synthetic frame loss ratio An endpoint for determining a frame loss ratio is provided. The endpoint includes a processor and a memory coupled with the processor. The memory stores... |
| US-8,270,307 |
Network-adaptive preemptive repair in real-time video A network-adaptive error recovery method for real-time video transmission based on sending repair frames preemptively with a frequency that is based on observed... |
| US-8,270,171 |
Cooling arrangement for a rack mounted processing device To increase air flow, an air intake/outtake (i.e., intake, outtake, or both) is positioned on a front surface of a housing, such as a rack-mounted computer... |
| US-8,269,817 |
Floor control in multi-point conference systems In one embodiment, a conference with multiple end points is provided. At the locations, multiple screens may be configured to display video from a portion of... |
| US-8,269,814 |
System and method for single action initiation of a video conference A method is provided for configuring a video conference endpoint. The method comprises receiving session data that comprises endpoint connection data for remote... |
| US-8,266,696 |
Techniques for network protection based on subscriber-aware application
proxies Techniques for responding to intrusions on a packet switched network include receiving user data at a subscriber-aware gateway server between a network access... |
| US-8,266,472 |
Method and system to provide high availability of shared data A data storage system and method are described. The system may comprise a data repository to store data, and first and second storage controllers. The first and... |
| US-8,266,466 |
Globally synchronized timestamp value counter The present invention relates to a synchronized timestamp mechanism in a packet processing system. This synchronized timestamp mechanism provides a globally... |
| US-8,266,463 |
Negotiating power between power sourcing equipment and powerable devices The present invention provides a power negotiation protocol that enables PDs and PSEs to negotiate the amount of inline power that a PD consumes and the... |
| US-8,266,452 |
System and method for communicating confidential messages A method of recording messages includes recording audio data in a first file structured in accordance with a file format that defines a first portion and a... |
| US-8,266,431 |
Method and apparatus for performing encryption of data at rest at a port
of a network device Methods and apparatus for performing encryption for data at rest at a port of a network device such as a switch are disclosed. Specifically, when data is... |
| US-8,266,427 |
Secure mobile IPv6 registration In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving by an agent a request from a network node for generation of a secure IPv6 address for use by the network node,... |
| US-8,266,327 |
Identity brokering in a network element A network infrastructure element such as a router or switch performs brokering network user identity and credential information. An application or... |
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