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| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,872,994 |
SIP out-of-dialog REFER mechanism for handoff between front-end and
back-end services In one embodiment, a method includes steps of verifying, by a first server, that a user associated with an endpoint is authorized to access a service provided by... |
| US-7,870,604 |
Methods and apparatus to configure network nodes supporting virtual
connections A computer system includes functionality enabling a provider edge router to determine whether network data such as VRF information is properly associated with a... |
| US-7,870,603 |
Method and apparatus for automatic filter generation and maintenance A method is disclosed for automatic filter generation and maintenance. From information transmitted on a network, a first device identifier and a second device... |
| US-7,870,600 |
Apparatus and method for secure configuration of shared powerline devices Client adapter and method simplify security deployment in an EPN, including the shared services electrical power lines of a premises. With direct coupling,... |
| US-7,870,590 |
System and method for fast start-up of live multicast streams transmitted
over a packet network A system for multicast streaming of programs over a packet network includes a node having a processor that conditions a video bitstream such that packets... |
| US-7,870,547 |
Method and apparatus for managing patchable software systems A method or corresponding apparatus manages deployment of a software patch ("patch") by creating a given patch comprising at least one file and associating... |
| US-7,870,389 |
Methods and apparatus for authenticating mobility entities using kerberos Methods and apparatus for generating and transmitting dynamically generated session keys are disclosed. A key distribution center generates a session key between... |
| US-7,870,306 |
Shared memory message switch and cache A method and apparatus are described to provide shared switch and cache memory. The apparatus may comprise a message switch module, a cache controller module,... |
| US-7,870,285 |
Mitigating subscriber side attacks in a cable network In one embodiment, a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) identifies an endpoint originating undesired traffic. Instead of dropping a bandwidth request for the... |
| US-7,870,282 |
Media sharing network A computer-readable medium has a computer program stored thereon. The computer program senses the presence of a physical medium loaded on a media-sharing network... |
| US-7,869,446 |
Optimized dynamic multipoint virtual private network over IPv6 network Method and apparatus including registering a first spoke router with a hub router, forwarding an Internet Protocol version Four (IPv4) data packet from the first... |
| US-7,869,436 |
Methods and apparatus for connecting to virtual networks using non
supplicant authentication A system allows a device to communicate using a virtual network the method by assigning a network address to the device. The network address is selected from a... |
| US-7,869,420 |
Method and system for in-band signaling of multiple media streams Methods and systems are provided for in-band signaling of at least two simultaneous digital media streams in a network, the two simultaneous streams being a part... |
| US-7,869,412 |
Point-controlled contention arbitration In an example embodiment, there is described herein a method for providing quality of service during a contention period. A tiered access protocol enables an... |
| US-7,869,397 |
Medium access control protocol for OFDM wireless networks A medium access contention protocol that is highly beneficial in wireless networks and particularly in wireless networks that employ a fixed minimum burst size... |
| US-7,869,386 |
Method and system for conveying media source location information A method for conveying media source location information includes receiving a first communication from a first endpoint and receiving location information... |
| US-7,869,351 |
Communication techniques and generic layer 3 automatic switching
protection In one embodiment, software code in a respective computer system such as one or more data communication devices establishes multiple layer 2 network links... |
| US-7,869,350 |
Method and apparatus for determining a data communication network repair
strategy A method is disclosed for determining a repair strategy for a data communication network. The data communication network has as components nodes and links. The... |
| US-7,869,345 |
Loop prevention techniques using encapsulation manipulation of IP/MPLS
field In one embodiment, an edge device communicates with a neighboring routing domain. A failure that prevents communication between the edge device and the... |
| US-7,865,915 |
Content discovery and differential advertising in video distribution
networks A method and apparatus for monitoring use patterns or services available information in video distribution networks. A network termination unit receives the... |
| US-7,865,774 |
Multiprocessor core dump retrieval In particular embodiments, a monitoring processor may receive an interrupt from status monitoring logic associated with a monitored processor that has... |
| US-7,865,729 |
Bidirectional authentication for HTML form processing A method of posting HTML form data securely is provided. Some embodiments may use an existing security protocol to send the sensitive information as an encrypted... |
| US-7,865,727 |
Authentication for devices located in cable networks An extensible authentication framework is used in cable networks such as Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) cable networks. The... |
| US-7,865,633 |
Multiple context single logic virtual host channel adapter Various embodiments provide methods and systems operable to receive a work queue pair from the host application, to add the work queue pair to a scheduler queue... |
| US-7,865,615 |
Maintaining IGP transparency of VPN routes when BGP is used as a PE-CE
protocol A technique maintains Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) transparency of Virtual Private Network (VPN) routes when Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used as a... |
| US-7,865,599 |
Methods and apparatus for supporting transmission of streaming data A gateway application in a content engine multiplexes requests for real-time content to servers that, in turn, service the requests by streaming appropriate... |
| US-7,865,559 |
Message delivery coordination among multiple messaging media Presently disclosed are apparatus and methods for coordinating the delivery of messages and/or message notifications among multiple messaging media and message... |
| US-7,865,552 |
Rich-media instant messaging with selective rich media messaging broadcast In one embodiment, a method for sending a video message and a text message in a communication session is provided. The method includes determining when a... |
| US-7,865,410 |
Aggregation of user usage data for accounting systems in dynamically
configured networks A method and apparatus for providing an aggregated account metering system to a computer network service provider resulting in comprehensive detailed subscriber... |
| US-7,865,155 |
Wireless communication system with signal selection and combination Portion-by-portion selection and/or combination of signals received from multiple base transceiver stations (BTSs) is used to improve the quality of reception in... |
| US-7,864,944 |
Optimal call speed for call center agents A system and method for handling a call from a caller to a call center includes an automatic call distributor (ACD) to receive the call and to route the call to... |
| US-7,864,818 |
Multinode symmetric load sharing In one embodiment, a load-balancing algorithm ensures that both network nodes at endpoints of a group of physical links aggregated into a logical channel are... |
| US-7,864,791 |
Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture An architecture for a line card in a network routing device is provided. The line card architecture provides a bi-directional interface between the routing... |
| US-7,864,785 |
Method and apparatus for creating bundle of soft permanent virtual
circuits A method and apparatus create a bundle of soft permanent virtual circuits (SPVCs) coupling form a source end to a destination end via a communications network.... |
| US-7,864,780 |
Apparatus and methods for handling name resolution over IPV6 using NAT-PT
and DNS-ALG Methods and apparatus for processing a DNS query by a NAT device are disclosed. A NAT device (e.g., NAT-PT device) receives the DNS query from a node. The NAT... |
| US-7,864,773 |
Virtual circuit auto-configuration for customer premises equipment The present invention pertains to a method and device for automatically configuring a virtual circuit (VC) of a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) device and... |
| US-7,864,771 |
Parsing out of order data packets at a content gateway of a network In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a local node of a network, a sequenced data packet of a flow made up of multiple sequenced data packets from a... |
| US-7,864,770 |
Routing messages in a zero-information nested virtual private network A mechanism for generating an address of a cyphertext component of a VPN router in a nested VPN system using an address of a plaintext domain so that a PTX... |
| US-7,864,766 |
Directory number mobility utilizing dynamic network distributed dial-peer
updates Methods, logic, apparatus, and systems are provided to support cross cluster directory number (DN) extension mobility (EM) using dynamic network distributed... |
| US-7,864,712 |
Preventing loops in networks operating different protocols to provide
loop-free topology A method and system for preventing loops in a network including network devices operating different protocols for providing loop-free topology are disclosed. In... |
| US-7,864,708 |
Method and apparatus for forwarding a tunneled packet in a data
communications network A method is described for forwarding a tunneled packet in a data communications network. A header of the tunneled packet is removed at a forwarding node... |
| US-7,864,686 |
Tunneling scheme for transporting information over a cable network A cable network includes a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) set-top gateway (DSG) server connected to an Internet Protocol (IP) network... |
| US-7,864,669 |
Method of constructing a backup path in an autonomous system A method of constructing a backup path in an autonomous system (AS) for failure of an inter-AS link is described. The method comprises identifying an alternate... |
| US-7,861,137 |
System for identifying localized burst errors A system for detecting one or more localized burst errors in a receiving message comprised of a plurality of codewords. The system comprises a trellis code... |
| US-7,861,109 |
Method and system for optimized switchover of redundant forwarding engines A method of failure recovery in a network element is disclosed. The method includes indicating to a number of forwarding engines that a forwarding engine has... |
| US-7,861,076 |
Using authentication server accounting to create a common security
database A common security database is maintained by a RADIUS server based on the attributes the RADIUS server receives through accounting packets. When the common... |
| US-7,861,000 |
Dial-out link selection via static route redistribution Dial-out route service is forwarded by a gateway to reduce congestion in a data communication network. The first gateway determines availability of it ports to... |
| US-7,860,967 |
Network processor system including a central processor and at least one
peripheral processor The present invention consists of a general purpose, software-controlled central processor (CP) augmented by a set of task specific, specialized peripheral... |
| US-7,860,959 |
Configuration objectification and version control A technique maintains configurations of an intermediate node in a version control system. Entities within the intermediate node are represented by objects. Each... |
| US-7,860,957 |
System and method for managing network services in a distributed system A system includes a network and multiple network devices. The network devices run instances of various services. If a particular network device becomes... |
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