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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,587,634 |
System and method for intelligent mode switching in a communications
environment A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving data associated with a plurality of endpoints that are engaged in a video conference, and... |
| US-8,585,228 |
Viewing angle system for backlighted displays An apparatus to widen the light dispersion pattern of a light source shining through an overlay window from the viewing side of an electrical computer system.... |
| US-8,584,942 |
Systems and methods for network inventory management utilizing mobile
technology A system for streamlining a network management system (NMS) includes scanning, via a mobile device, a code on a hardware or software component; and determining,... |
| US-8,584,215 |
System and method for securing distributed exporting models in a network
environment A method is provided in one example implementation and includes identifying a plurality of exporters that are authorized to communicate data to a collector on... |
| US-8,584,207 |
Infrastructure-less bootstrapping: trustless bootstrapping to enable
mobility for mobile devices Methods and apparatus for supporting a session in Mobile IP are disclosed. A Mobile Node sends a first Mobile IP message identifying the Mobile Node to a Home... |
| US-8,583,978 |
Multicast message retransmission In one implementation, a method of distributing a multicast message in a wireless mesh network includes receiving a multicast message from a parent node of an... |
| US-8,583,914 |
Reducing processing load in proxies for secure communications In one embodiment, a method for providing secure communications using a proxy is provided. The proxy negotiates with a client and a server to determine a... |
| US-8,583,779 |
Root cause analysis approach with candidate elimination using network
virtualization Root cause analysis in a communication network includes eliminating candidate events using a computer-implemented method, comprising creating a virtual network... |
| US-8,583,771 |
Mapping human-meaningful parameters to network-meaningful parameters to
permit user to establish traffic... A method of describing highly valued traffic in a home network in terms that are meaningful for a human and that are translated to useful network parameters. |
| US-8,583,753 |
Service advertisements for a network In one example embodiment, a method may include receiving a service advertisement message from an advertising node via a ring-based network, determining a... |
| US-8,582,750 |
Connection recovery in a call center In one embodiment, a method includes detecting termination of a first connection between a first caller and a first agent during a communication session between... |
| US-8,582,741 |
Unification of rosters in a communication system In one embodiment, a method for unifying rosters is provided. A client receives an escalation request associated with a first roster and responds to the... |
| US-8,582,557 |
Fax relay tunneling A system comprising a first network gateway coupled to a circuit-switched network, the first network gateway to initiate a tunnel through the circuit-switched... |
| US-8,582,541 |
Appending a ranging waveform to a frame to maintain communication protocol
interoperability A technique is provided to enable a ranging-enhanced communication device that operates according to a legacy communication protocol to transmit a ranging... |
| US-8,582,517 |
De-correlation of sub-bands using cyclic shifts Techniques are provided to de-correlate sub-bands of a packet to be transmitted. At a communication device, a signal (packet or frame) is generated for... |
| US-8,582,473 |
Providing services to packet flows in a network A system and method for providing services to packet flows in a communication network. The services include enhanced charging, stateful firewalls, traffic... |
| US-8,582,469 |
Peer-to-peer network including routing protocol enhancement Methods, apparatuses and systems that enhance the operation of peer-to-peer networks with routing protocols. In a particular implementation, peer nodes of a... |
| US-8,582,468 |
System and method for providing packet proxy services across virtual
private networks A method is provided for proxy services between a public network and a private network. Such a method includes receiving a first packet having a destination... |
| US-8,582,465 |
System and method for facilitating network performance analysis A system for facilitating network performance analysis. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a first module capable of quantifying network... |
| US-8,582,438 |
Detecting and mitigating overload on switches by wireless mobile client
devices Techniques are provided to load balance point of presence traffic for a group of network devices, such as switches, that are configured to support network... |
| US-8,581,728 |
Inventory devices and methods In one implementation, a method includes determining first component data by a first aggregation device at a first time, the first aggregation device being... |
| US-8,581,691 |
Computer program controlled security mechanism An apparatus is provided in one example embodiment and includes a locking member configured to be coupled to a case that contacts an electronic component, the... |
| US-8,578,465 |
Token-based control of permitted sub-sessions for online collaborative
computing sessions In one embodiment, a client device may send one or more sub-session requests to one or more corresponding session controllers through a computer network to... |
| US-8,578,432 |
Policy control over switched delivery networks A method is described that includes receiving a program request from a transceiver that includes a program request to receive a video program at the... |
| US-8,578,421 |
Headend modeling of data A data modeling method for modeling data for an electronic program guide (EPG) at a broadcast headend is described. The method includes grouping receiver types... |
| US-8,578,054 |
Computing disjoint paths for reactive routing mesh networks In one embodiment, a reactive routing computer network may be partitioned into diverse logical topologies, and a source node may transmit route request (RREQ)... |
| US-8,578,022 |
Adaptive idle timeout for TCP connections in ESTAB state In various embodiments, a method may be provided comprising: determining a number of established TCP connections to a server; comparing the number of... |
| US-8,578,007 |
Performing an in-service software reload on a network device A software reload is executed. The hardware associated with the network device continues to forward network traffic during the software reload. Also, a kernel... |
| US-8,577,998 |
Systems and methods of detecting non-colocated subscriber devices In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving address configuration information for each of a plurality of subscriber devices associated with the same... |
| US-8,577,201 |
Buffering of prior displayed television channels upon accessing a
different channel Systems and methods are provided for managing a time-shift buffer (TSB) that is used for buffering video presentations. One such method includes receiving user... |
| US-8,576,915 |
Position coding for context-based adaptive variable length coding Particular embodiments include a method, an apparatus, and logic embodied in tangible computer-readable medium that when executed carries out a method of... |
| US-8,576,914 |
Integer transform video compression system, method and computer program
product A video coding/decoding system, method and computer program product employ an integer transform matrix for transforming to/from transform coefficients and... |
| US-8,576,857 |
Automatically identifying an edge-facing router Techniques for automatically identifying an edge-facing router in a network are provided. In one technique, data is obtained at a first router of a subscriber... |
| US-8,576,842 |
Transmission of multi-channel MPEG A system, and related methodology, are provided that are configured to receive, at a first network element such as a Universal Edge Quadrature Amplitude... |
| US-8,576,708 |
System and method for link protection using shared SRLG association In one embodiment, certain SRLGs associated with members of a bundle are deemed to be "risk-free SRLGs", i.e., SRLGs whose failure may not substantially impact... |
| US-8,576,272 |
Method and apparatus for using far end camera control (FECC) messages to
implement participant and layout... A method, an apparatus and a medium encoded with instructions for providing layout selection, participant selection, and/or participant-to-participant far end... |
| US-8,572,665 |
Selective distribution of cell based video streams over packet based
networks According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to allow selective distribution of video information over packet based networks. Video... |
| US-8,572,413 |
Methods and apparatus providing advanced classification for power over
ethernet A system conducts a plurality of cycles on the powered device. Each cycle has a detection phase and a classification phase. A classification voltage is applied... |
| US-8,572,381 |
Challenge protected user queries A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing challenge protected user queries on a local system is presented. A query is presented to a user.... |
| US-8,572,284 |
Method and apparatus for registering a mobile object on a foreign network A method and apparatus for registering a mobile object on a foreign network are disclosed. A first virtual machine at a first router on a foreign network... |
| US-8,572,283 |
Selectively applying network address port translation to data traffic
through a gateway in a communications network Network Address Port Translation (NAPT) may be selectively applied to data traffic through a gateway in a communications network. The data traffic may be... |
| US-8,572,225 |
Technique for graceful shutdown of a routing protocol in a network In one embodiment, a router generates a notification message that indicates the router is to be gracefully removed from service. The router sends the... |
| US-8,572,170 |
System and method for leaving and retrieving electronic message notes Methods and apparatus for allowing a message to be left for an expected user of a network application are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method... |
| US-8,571,600 |
Reducing power consumption of wireless devices Described in example embodiments herein are techniques that combine at least two network (communication) technologies (such as protocols, signaling methods,... |
| US-8,571,417 |
System and method for mitigating four-wave-mixing effects In one embodiment, a system includes at least one tone generator, a first transmitter, and a second transmitter. The at least one tone generator is operable to... |
| US-8,571,198 |
Handling redirect calls In a particular embodiment, a network device receives, from a first device, a first call request for a second device. The network device may then send the first... |
| US-8,571,189 |
Efficient transmission of audio and non-audio portions of a communication
session for phones In one embodiment, a server may obtain source data for a communication session having a combined audio portion and non-audio portion. As such, the server may... |
| US-8,571,187 |
Methods and apparatuses for dynamically recognizing terms utilized within
electronic mail messages In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a message; detect a message term within the message; search for a match between the message term and a... |
| US-8,571,117 |
Out of loop frame matching in 3D-based video denoising In one method embodiment, for a first temporal sequence of first plural frames, frame matching the first plural frames, at least a portion of the first plural... |
| US-8,571,030 |
System and method for computing cost metrics for wireless network links A system and method adds and manages entries on a list of entries of routing information to allow the top entry to be used for routing to a destination... |
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