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| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-8,963,692 |
Aggregating and routing sensor data at a community sensor-coordinating
entity In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from multiple sensors associated with multiple persons; for each of the sensors, identifying the... |
| US-8,963,573 |
Universal test system for testing electrical and optical hosts According to an example implementation, a universal tester includes a host interface slot connected to a first pluggable host card during an electrical test... |
| US-8,962,388 |
Method and apparatus for supporting a computer chip on a printed circuit
board assembly A printed circuit board assembly and method of assembly in which underfill is placed between a chip and substrate to support the chip. A trench is formed in the... |
| US-D723,089 |
Camera bracket |
| US-8,959,607 |
Group key management and authentication schemes for mesh networks According to one embodiment, techniques are provided to enable secure communication among devices in a mesh network using a group temporal key. An authenticator... |
| US-8,959,577 |
Automatic curation and modification of virtualized computer programs In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises receiving computer program data at a security unit having one or more processors; implementing one or more... |
| US-8,959,074 |
Unified communication audit tool Providing for dynamic auditing of components of a communication network is provided herein. By way of example, network components can be queried by way of... |
| US-8,958,687 |
Video trick mode mechanism A system and method for video trick mode playback is described, the system and method including a user actuated control operative to slide (130) a playback... |
| US-8,958,628 |
Image scaling The present invention relates to an apparatus, method for adjusting depth characteristics of a three-dimensional image for correcting for errors in perceived... |
| US-8,958,560 |
Efficient multivariate signature generation A cryptographic method and apparatus, including providing a public key that defines a multivariate polynomial mapping Q( ) over a finite field F, extracting a... |
| US-8,958,486 |
Simultaneous processing of media and redundancy streams for mitigating
impairments In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a primary stream of encoded frames and a separate stream of redundant frames. The method further comprises... |
| US-8,958,428 |
Method and system for configuring wireless routers and networks A method and system for configuring a wireless router and a wireless communications network includes establishing connectivity between a wireless router and at... |
| US-8,958,418 |
Frame handling within multi-stage switching fabrics Various techniques can be used to handle frames within multi-stage switching fabric. For example, in one method, a frame and an associated frame header are... |
| US-8,958,341 |
Systems and methods for selecting serving gateways to service user
equipment Some embodiments provide methods for selecting a serving gateway to service user equipment in communication with a network, including: receiving a message from... |
| US-8,958,329 |
Fabric load balancing In one implementation, a series of nodes in a network or a fabric communicate congestion values upstream against the flow of data packets. A current node... |
| US-8,958,327 |
Passive network latency monitoring A method measures a resident delay for each port in a node in a network and a peer delay between each pair of neighbor nodes in the network. From these resident... |
| US-8,958,318 |
Event-based capture of packets from a network flow An apparatus and method for event-based data capture from network flows are provided. At a network device, a network flow is received that comprises a plurality... |
| US-8,957,940 |
Utilizing a smart camera system for immersive telepresence Video content is received at a computing device that camera views provided by video cameras that are aligned to capture images of participants within a defined... |
| US-8,957,936 |
Method to preview caller in a video conference session The concept of caller identification (ID) may be enhanced by taking advantage of video by allowing a call recipient to see who is calling on an incoming video... |
| US-8,954,998 |
Application of an embedded instrumentation interface definition language A system and method provides a managed resource instrumentation application on a network device to instrument a managed network device component. The managed... |
| US-8,954,866 |
Messaging and presence protocol as a configuration and management bus for
embedded devices Techniques are provided herein for establishing at a network management server a presence on a network. A presence associated with one or more managed devices... |
| US-8,954,863 |
Intelligent social collaboration unified media In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information from a user in a collaboration network, the information including a unit of content, a title, an... |
| US-8,954,806 |
Single event-upset controller wrapper that facilitates fault injection A method that determines the system impact of single event upset (SEU) and a single event upset (SEU) wrapper that controls a SEU controller is disclosed. The... |
| US-8,954,591 |
Resource negotiation for cloud services using a messaging and presence
protocol Techniques are provided for sending from a client in a first network device a first session-initiate message to a second network device that is configured to... |
| US-8,954,582 |
Managing fate-sharing in shared-media communication networks In one embodiment, a management device receives one or more fate-sharing reports locally generated by one or more corresponding reporting nodes in a... |
| US-8,953,771 |
Method and apparatus to provide cryptographic identity assertion for the
PSTN The present application provides an authentication scheme that allows a device to provide additional authentication of a Publicly Switched Telephone Network... |
| US-8,953,770 |
Returning missed phone calls In one embodiment, a method is provided for returning missed phone calls. In this method, a missed phone call is detected and a phone number associated with the... |
| US-8,953,758 |
Terminating a call according to reverse signaling data An incoming call is communicated to a first endpoint and a second endpoint. A call redirection message comprising a redirection number is received from the... |
| US-8,953,629 |
Blade router with NAT support A blade router for increased interface scalability is provided. The blade router may address interface scalability by having each of the linecards manage its... |
| US-8,953,624 |
Intelligent host route distribution for low latency forwarding and
ubiquitous virtual machine mobility in... Techniques are presented for distributing host route information of virtual machines to routing bridges (RBridges). A first RBridge receives a routing message... |
| US-8,953,604 |
Root node redundancy for multipoint-to-multipoint transport trees A mechanism is provided to configure a plurality of transport trees in a transport network, each of which correspond to a native tree (e.g., a bidirectional... |
| US-8,953,486 |
Global auto-configuration of network devices connected to multipoint
virtual connections A method involves receiving information identifying one or more virtual connections (VCs) available within a network and one or more IP subnets. The information... |
| US-8,953,470 |
System and method for enhancing network stability by selectively
controlling adjacency formation A system and method for facilitating connecting a switch to a network to improve network performance. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a first... |
| US-8,953,452 |
Enhancing performance of rapid channel changes and other playback
positioning changes in adaptive streaming Content is received within a network by a content receiver based upon fetch requests by the content receiver to a content source, where the fetch requests for... |
| US-8,952,974 |
Latency reduction in a display device A display device may reduce the latency of the display of a digital signal by reducing the latency that the display device adds to the digital signal. After a... |
| US-8,952,523 |
Integrated circuit package lid configured for package coplanarity An integrated circuit package apparatus includes a packaging substrate, an integrated circuit coupled to an upper side of the packaging substrate, an array of... |
| US-8,949,959 |
Reduced authentication times for shared-media network migration In one embodiment, a management device in a computer network determines when nodes of the computer network join any one of a plurality of field area routers... |
| US-8,949,952 |
Multi-stack subscriber sign on A system includes a multi-stack subscriber, a gateway, and a web portal. The web portal determines whether the subscriber is authenticated to access the... |
| US-8,949,938 |
Mechanisms to use network session identifiers for software-as-a-service
authentication Techniques are provided for authenticating a subject of a client device to access a software-as-a-service (SaaS) server. A network access device receives a... |
| US-8,949,931 |
System and method for monitoring application security in a network
environment A method includes determining an application role in a distributed application in a network environment, generating a role profile for the application role from... |
| US-8,949,891 |
Customized zapping A method and apparatus is described to display a customized video sequence during a channel change interval. The method includes displaying a first channel;... |
| US-8,949,883 |
Signalling buffer characteristics for splicing operations of video streams In one method embodiments, providing a transport stream to a client device, the transport stream comprising a head stream and a tail stream, the head stream and... |
| US-8,949,866 |
Object-oriented class hierarchy for workflow execution targets A method is provided for managing an application program interface and may include identifying a creation of a new target type in an orchestrator, wherein the... |
| US-8,949,662 |
Logical partitioning of a physical device In one embodiment, an indication of a fault condition is received relating to a first service running on a physical device in a computer network. The first... |
| US-8,949,586 |
System and method for authenticating computer system boot instructions
during booting by using a public key... Various systems, processes, and products may be used to authenticate computer system boot instructions. In particular implementations, a system, process, and... |
| US-8,949,410 |
Server load balancer scaling for virtual servers Techniques are provided herein for receiving information at a device in a network indicating a load level for one or more server load balancers that are... |
| US-8,949,383 |
Volume hierarchy download in a storage area network In one embodiment, a solution is provided wherein a volume hierarchy may be received at a network device in a storage area network. Once the network device is... |
| US-8,949,346 |
System and method for providing a two-tiered virtual communications
architecture in a network environment An example method is provided and includes receiving information indicative of a marking on an electronic display. Data related to the marking is communicated... |
| US-8,948,813 |
Cellphone video imaging A system for forming and transmitting a plurality of video images, at an image transmission rate of at least 1-3 images per sec, from a first cell phone to a... |
| US-8,948,609 |
Pre-distortion techniques for optical modulators to improve constellation
point separation According to a first aspect, techniques are provided to optimize a Mach-Zehnder modulator drive waveform by distorting the outer modulation levels of the... |
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