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| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-8,009,602 |
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-8,009,591 |
Automatic overlapping areas that flood routing information In one embodiment, a method includes receiving on a first communication link at a local router all routing information at a certain level of detail for each... |
| US-8,009,577 |
Automatic data rate and power adjustment on communications uplink based on
communications activity on... An Internet Protocol (IP) telephone operates a communications uplink to a switch based on activity on a separate communications downlink (such as to a personal... |
| US-8,009,571 |
Method and system for PHY loop detection A method, system and apparatus are provided for detecting a loop-back in a physical layer on an Ethernet link. In the physical layer, a device sends a base page... |
| US-8,009,567 |
System and method for improved data transmission reliability over a
network In one example embodiment, an apparatus is provided and includes a network device that identifies a data type of a payload of a data packet to be transmitted.... |
| US-8,009,558 |
Pseudowire load balancing In one embodiment, a communications distribution process maintains at least two pseudowires through a network such that the pseudowires share a burden of... |
| US-8,008,960 |
Synchronous rectifier post regulator Methods and apparatus for regulating a synchronous rectifier DC-to-DC converter by adjusting one or more existing synchronous rectifiers in the converter are... |
| US-8,006,282 |
Method and system for tracking a user in a network A method and a system are provided for tracking a user in a network. The method and system includes a Network Management System (NMS) to receive notifications... |
| US-8,006,131 |
Activating correct ad-splicer profile in ad-splicer redundancy framework In particular embodiments, method and system for detecting a failure of a primary ad-splicer, conveying a failure information for the failed primary ad-splicer... |
| US-8,006,129 |
Detecting and preventing the split-brain condition in redundant processing
units In an example embodiment the occurrence of the split-brain condition in a High-Availability system, having active and standby processing units, is detected, its... |
| US-8,006,091 |
Method and apparatus to provide failover capability of cached secure
sessions A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing failover capability of cached secure sessions is presented. A cached secure session involving a... |
| US-8,006,011 |
InfiniBand boot bridge with fibre channel target A data storage system comprises an InfiniBand port, a fibre channel port, and a controller. The InfiniBand port is operable to connect the data storage system... |
| US-8,005,978 |
Method to optimize the load balancing of parallel coprocessors A technique for optimally balancing the load between a series of coprocessors that takes into consideration the load associated with each coprocessor. A cost... |
| US-8,005,954 |
System and method for managing end user approval for charging in a network
environment An apparatus for managing information in a network environment is provided that includes a content service gateway operable to communicate with an end user in... |
| US-8,005,912 |
System and method for presence notification for video projection status In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for communicating a presence notification to an end-point of a demand-based... |
| US-8,005,677 |
Source-dependent text-to-speech system A method of generating speech from text messages includes determining a speech feature vector for a voice associated with a source of a text message, and... |
| US-8,005,497 |
Floor control over high latency networks in an interoperability and
collaboration system Methods and apparatus for assigning floor control based upon when a floor control request was initiated are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes... |
| US-8,005,116 |
System and method for mitigating the effects of bit insertion in a
communications environment A method for communicating data is provided that includes receiving a plurality of bits associated with a communications flow and determining whether one or... |
| US-8,005,106 |
Apparatus and methods for hybrid fair bandwidth allocation and drop
precedence In one embodiment, apparatus and methods for apparatus and methods for fair bandwidth allocation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes (i)... |
| US-8,005,099 |
Selecting transport addresses to route streams between endpoints Selecting a transport address for a call session between a first endpoint of a first region and a second endpoint of a second region includes determining that... |
| US-8,005,098 |
Load balancing across multiple network address translation (NAT) instances
and/or processors Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with load balancing across multiple network address... |
| US-8,005,060 |
Beamforming techniques to improve ranging signal detection Ranging code detection techniques are provided. Energy is received at a plurality of antennas of a first wireless communication device and received signals are... |
| US-8,005,049 |
Methods and devices to support mobility of a client across VLANs and
subnets, while preserving the client's... The present invention relates to methods and devices that support mobility of a client across a campus, particularly mobility across VLANs and subnets, while... |
| US-8,005,030 |
WLAN diagnostics using traffic stream metrics Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to facilitating WLAN diagnostics and management using traffic stream metrics. In a data collection stage, according to... |
| US-8,005,000 |
Effective measurement/notification of SLA in a service oriented networked
environment In one embodiment, one or more network devices located on a call path for packets destined to a server running applications examines payloads included in the... |
| US-8,004,981 |
Methods and devices for the coordination of flow control between a TCP/IP
network and other networks Methods and devices are provided for implementing flow control coordination in a gateway between a TCP/IP network and a second network. The second network may... |
| US-8,004,976 |
Monitoring, controlling, and preventing traffic congestion between
processors A system for monitoring congestion at processors includes queues and a congestion monitor. The queues receive packets, and each queue is associated with a... |
| US-8,004,968 |
Provider edge-controlled redundancy using pseudo link aggregation control
protocol In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of provider edge (PE) devices, the PE devices having a plurality of ports; and a pseudo-link aggregation... |
| US-8,004,964 |
Restoring multi-segment pseudowires following failure of a switching PE
device In one embodiment, a protected switching provider edge (S-PE) and a backup S-PE may be operated, where the protected S-PE has at least one multi-segment... |
| US-8,004,960 |
Method and apparatus for forwarding label distribution protocol multicast
traffic during fast reroute A computer apparatus comprising a processor and a forwarding engine arranged to forward LDP multicast traffic along a multicast tree having a primary and a... |
| US-8,001,475 |
Method and apparatus for creating a network topograph that includes all
select objects that are in a network A method is disclosed for creating a network topograph that includes all select objects that are in a network. A set of one or more non-select objects in the... |
| US-8,001,269 |
Network address translation with IP redundancy Redundant gateway methods, apparatus and systems using more than one gateway device in a gateway device group for communications directed outside of a LAN.... |
| US-8,001,252 |
Psuedowire termination directly on a router A method, apparatus and computer program product for routing data within a packet-switched network using a PW wherein the PW is terminated directly on the... |
| US-8,001,248 |
System and method for providing quality of service to DSL internet
connections A method and system provides quality of service in a DSL network interfaced with the Internet. A connection engine determines whether a connection from an... |
| US-8,000,710 |
System and method for providing a handoff leg associated with a
preexisting leg in a network environment A method for facilitating communications between wireless networks is provided that includes communicating with a mobile station and transferring a... |
| US-8,000,456 |
Techniques for marking and manipulating voice message segments through a
telephone user interface In one embodiment, techniques for manipulating a voice message using a telephone user interface are provided. The telephone user interface receives a mark begin... |
| US-8,000,418 |
Method and system for improving robustness of interference nulling for
antenna arrays A method and system are provided for improving the robustness of interference nulling for antenna arrays in a wireless communication network. The method is... |
| US-8,000,347 |
Executing and supporting a multiple bandwidth reservation request In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a first message that includes at least a first bandwidth request that specifies a first bandwidth and a second... |
| US-8,000,339 |
Method and system for transparently transcoding a multicast stream A method and apparatus for transparently transforming a multicast stream is provided. The method includes transforming the multicast stream in a content engine.... |
| US-8,000,337 |
Runtime flow debugging a network device by examining packet counters at
internal points In one embodiment, the internal path traversed by packets between two user visible interface, selected by a user, is displayed. The path displayed includes... |
| US-8,000,308 |
Containment of rogue systems in wireless network environments Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating containment of the effects of rogue or unauthorized access points on wireless computer network environments.... |
| US-8,000,266 |
Shared virtual device ports In one embodiment, a solution is provided wherein multiple virtual devices may be configured on the same physical port of a network device. For example, a first... |
| US-8,000,251 |
Instrumenting packet flows Real-time customer packet traffic is instrumented to determine measured delays between two or more points along a path actually traveled by a packet, such as... |
| US-8,000,238 |
System and method for detecting and regulating congestion in a
communications environment An apparatus for communicating data is provided that includes a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station and operable to receive a plurality... |
| US-7,996,583 |
Multiple context single logic virtual host channel adapter supporting
multiple transport protocols Various embodiments provide methods and systems operable to receive a work queue pair from one of a plurality of host nodes, to scan the work queue pair for... |
| US-7,996,577 |
Automatically switching console connection A method and system for configuring a network device is provided. In one implementation the method and system may include directing, via a multiplexer, a group... |
| US-7,996,556 |
Method and apparatus for generating a network topology representation
based on inspection of application... A method is disclosed for generating a network topology representation based on inspection of application messages at a network device. According to one aspect,... |
| US-7,996,535 |
Proximity as an aid to caching and secondary serving of data A proximity-based content control method "propagates" or positions content based upon "proximity" between various nodes on a network. The nodes between which... |
| US-7,996,520 |
Behavioral classification of communication sessions using active session
initiation A method includes measuring behavioral characteristics of a plurality of communication sessions in a communication network. A subset of the sessions is... |
| US-7,996,502 |
Gracefully changing a node in a distributed computing network In one embodiment, a method includes determining to change a number of objects controlled by a particular node in a network. Each object is a resource provided... |
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