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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,064,399 |
Attribute driven mobile service control logic The disclosed embodiments enable service policies to be provisioned for a Mobile Node dynamically. A network device receives a message including at least one of... |
| US-8,064,367 |
Multiple voicemail account support for a VoIP system In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at an IP private branch exchange (IP PBX), an event notification message from a user agent corresponding to a... |
| US-8,064,362 |
Wide area network optimization proxy routing protocol In an example embodiment disclosed herein, Wide Area Network optimization modules coupled to peers are configured to maintain peer routing tables. The peer... |
| US-8,063,782 |
Remote inventory of devices Mechanisms are provided to inventory groupings of components, e.g., the physical chassis of a networking device as well as the various cards, modules, and/or... |
| US-8,063,604 |
System for associating renewable energy sources and consumers In one embodiment, a system comprises: a renewable energy generator; a renewable energy availability server connected to the renewable energy generator, wherein... |
| US-8,060,623 |
Automated configuration of network device ports Methods and devices are provided for identifying end devices and automatically configuring associated network settings. Preferred implementations of the... |
| US-8,060,617 |
Reserving network resources during scheduling of meeting event In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a request for scheduling a meeting event between client endpoint devices in an Internet Protocol (IP) based... |
| US-8,060,615 |
Stream reservation protocol for bridged networks In one embodiment, a talker device may issue talker registrations to bridges of a network domain for a stream, the talker registration having at least a... |
| US-8,059,744 |
Frequency band extrapolation beamforming weight computation for wireless
communications Techniques are provided to facilitate the computation of beamforming weights used by a first communication device when sending a transmission via a plurality of... |
| US-8,059,668 |
Efficient end-to-end proposal/agreement messaging for spanning tree
convergence in a computer network In one embodiment, a bridge may receive a first convergence proposal on a root port from an upstream adjacent bridge of a computer network, and in response, may... |
| US-8,059,661 |
Methods and apparatus for using DHCP for home address management of nodes
attached to an edge device and for... Methods and apparatus for supporting the management of mobility and addresses by a Customer Premises Edge (CPE) router in a Mobile IP environment are disclosed.... |
| US-8,059,652 |
Method and apparatus for detecting support for a protocol defining
supplemental headers Various methods and systems for detecting whether a network device supports a protocol, which defines a supplemental header, are disclosed. One method involves... |
| US-8,059,620 |
Initiation of routing convergence by a mobile router in a mobile ad hoc
network in response to reaching a... Each mobile router in a mobile ad hoc network is configured for measuring a minimum interval of stable relative proximity (SProx.sub.MIN) between at least one... |
| US-8,059,546 |
Traffic flow scheduling techniques implemented on bonded channels of a
shared access cable network Various techniques are disclosed for managing traffic flow for transport over a plurality of communication channels of a shared access cable network. According... |
| US-8,059,533 |
Packet flow optimization (PFO) policy management in a communications
network by rule name In one embodiment, a method includes receiving packet flow optimization (PFO) configuration data that associates each rule name of multiple PFO rule names with... |
| US-8,059,527 |
Techniques for oversubscribing edge nodes for virtual private networks Techniques for operating a network interface include automatically determining whether communications are terminated over a particular attachment circuit on a... |
| US-8,056,105 |
Dynamic video-on-demand navigation and on demand ingest A technique for supporting over-the-top video-on-demand separates metadata ingest and real content ingest such that navigation needs only the metadata ingest to... |
| US-8,054,828 |
Call identification mechanism for multi-protocol telephones In one embodiment, a system identifies an Internet Protocol (IP) device as a calling party for calls from either a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) portion... |
| US-8,054,750 |
Virtual responder for the auto-discovery of a real responder in a network
performance test Particular embodiments provide a virtual responder that can be contacted by any number of senders. When a sender wants to perform a measurement test with a real... |
| US-8,051,346 |
Fault injection Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with programmable application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) fault injection are described. One example... |
| US-8,051,211 |
Multi-bridge LAN aggregation A method and system for multi-bridge LAN aggregation is disclosed. The method includes aggregating a plurality of LANs coupling a host to a first and a second... |
| US-8,051,203 |
Providing SCSI acceleration as a service in the SAN Techniques are disclosed for abstracting write acceleration techniques and tape acceleration techniques away from transport providers (e.g., away from an FC or... |
| US-8,051,170 |
Distributed computing based on multiple nodes with determined capacity
selectively joining resource groups... A network provides distributed computing services based on participation in respective resource groups by computing nodes, each resource group including a... |
| US-8,051,155 |
Method and apparatus for persisting SNMP variable values A method of persisting SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) variable values associated with SNMP object IDs for an SNMP managed network element across... |
| US-8,051,151 |
System and method for communicating with a network node behind a
subscriber station with an IP convergence... A system and method for providing service in a network having a wireless component is disclosed. The system and method comprise receiving a request for a... |
| US-8,050,622 |
Method and system for detecting messages using enhanced distributed
signaling A method and system are provided for detecting messages using enhanced distributed signaling in a wireless communication network that offers transmission... |
| US-8,050,408 |
Techniques for managing keys using a key server in a network segment The election of a key server is provided. The key server is a single device that broadcasts an encryption key to other devices in a network segment. Also,... |
| US-8,050,397 |
Multi-tone signal discriminator In one embodiment, a method for discriminating between a machine generated multi-tone signal and a simulated voice multi-tone signal is provided. The method may... |
| US-8,050,391 |
System and method for capturing accounting data for a communication
session A method for creating an accounting record in a communication network may include receiving a SIP message and matching service point triggers with data. The... |
| US-8,050,275 |
System and method for offering quality of service in a network environment A method for providing a quality of service in a network environment is provided that includes receiving communication session information associated with a... |
| US-8,050,267 |
Simple virtual private network for small local area networks In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a control channel across a wide area network (WAN) from a first gateway that has a first public internetwork... |
| US-8,050,183 |
System and method for implementing reflector ports within hierarchical
networks In some ring protocols, control messages are exchanged among ring nodes in order to implement certain behaviors, such as loop-free behavior and/or failure... |
| US-8,049,484 |
Controlling inline power at a powered device A powered device includes a first switch, a second switch, and a controller. The first switch is disposed between a center tap of the first transformer and a... |
| US-8,046,626 |
System and method for maintaining resiliency of subscriptions to an event
server A system and method for maintaining resiliency of subscriptions to an event server includes receiving a subscription request to establish a subscription to... |
| US-8,046,463 |
Method and apparatus for controlling double-ended soft permanent virtual
circuit/path connections A method and apparatus control a double-ended soft permanent virtual circuit (SPVC) connection coupling from a source end to a destination end via a... |
| US-8,046,430 |
Load balancing network access requests A method of load balancing network access requests comprises receiving a network access request from a serving node linked to a radio access network. The... |
| US-8,046,415 |
Throttling of mass mailings using network devices A system and method that effectuates dynamic mass mail throttling utilizing an upstream network device. The system and method includes intercepting messages... |
| US-8,045,998 |
Method and system for communicating using position information A method for communicating using position information includes communicating on a first communication network at a first location using one or more first... |
| US-8,045,959 |
Assigning a serving-CSCF during access authentication Assigning a serving-call session control function (serving-CSCF) to an access terminal includes receiving an access authorization request corresponding to the... |
| US-8,045,853 |
Mechanism for tracking wavelengths in a DWDM network without specialized
hardware In one embodiment, techniques provide a mechanism for tracking wavelengths in a DWDM network. In particular, embodiments of the present invention also provide... |
| US-8,045,558 |
Extensions to IPv6 neighbor discovery protocol for automated prefix
delegation In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a router, a first router advertisement message from an attachment router that provides an attachment link... |
| US-8,045,544 |
Method and system for operating a communication service portal A method of providing communication service, includes receiving user identification information and first communication service criteria. The user... |
| US-8,045,532 |
Location architecture for large scale networks In one embodiment, a method includes receive a connection event message including information identifying a wireless node, wherein the identifying information... |
| US-8,045,489 |
Method and system for the automatic configuration of conference resources A method for the automatic configuration of conference resources includes receiving a user request identifying at least one conference resource to be used in a... |
| US-8,045,480 |
Intelligent provisioning of DSP channels for codec changes A communication system in which a profile of codecs is loaded at the originating end. The originating end sends the profile of codecs to the terminating end and... |
| US-8,045,477 |
Smart protection escalation mechanism prevention Techniques are provided for detecting at a controller associated with a physical layer of a network an occurrence of a failure within the physical layer of the... |
| US-8,045,474 |
Method and apparatus for tracking layer-2 (L2) resource of a switch A method and apparatus for tracking at least one Layer-2 (L2) resource of a network device is provided. The method includes monitoring software operations on... |
| US-8,045,473 |
Tailored relief for congestion on application servers for real time
communications Techniques for managing computational load in real-time communications include receiving usage data on a particular node of a packet-switched network. The usage... |
| US-8,045,454 |
Multimedia data flow dropping The present invention introduces a congestion control mechanism for constant bit rate (CBR) multimedia data flows in cable operator IP networks. A flow drop... |
| US-RE42,868 |
Voice-operated services A method and apparatus accesses a database where entries are linked to at least two sets of patterns. One or more patterns of a first set of patterns are... |
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