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US-7,983,180 |
Triggered announcement from a gateway An advantageous system, apparatus, and method for remotely managing or maintaining a Gateway, such as a residential router, are provided. In one example, the... |
US-7,983,174 |
Method and apparatus for diagnosing a fault in a network path A method of diagnosing a fault in a network path comprises the steps, performed at a diagnosing node, of initiating a path discovery test. The diagnosing node... |
US-7,983,173 |
System and method for detecting link failures A system and method monitors links in a computer network and rapidly detects failures of such links. Network entities disposed at opposite ends of a link are... |
US-7,983,162 |
Aggregate maximum throughput for groups of service flows A network device has a port to allow the device to communicate with user devices. The network device also has a processor to assign any user devices in... |
US-7,983,153 |
Fast reroute (FRR) protection at the edge of a RFC 2547 network In one embodiment, an edge device in a first routing domain is configured to communicate with a second routing domain via a data link. The edge device receives... |
US-7,979,983 |
Connection an integrated circuit on a surface layer of a printed circuit
board Techniques for optimizing application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and other IC pin assignment corresponding to a high density interconnect (HDI) printed... |
US-7,979,890 |
System and method for handling per subscriber application and bearer
authorization in a communications environment An architecture for handling per subscriber application and bearer authorization in a network environment is provided that includes an application element... |
US-7,979,889 |
Methods and apparatus providing security to computer systems and networks A system provides security to a computerized device by detecting a sequence of related processing operations within the computerized device and recording the... |
US-7,979,884 |
Methods and apparatus for allowing component interchangeability Methods and apparatus are provided for allowing an operating system to automatically configure and operate multiple types of the same component. According to... |
US-7,979,854 |
Method and system for upgrading software or firmware by using drag and
drop mechanism The invention relates to upgrading software or firmware in a network. The invention simplify the process of upgrading the software or firmware by using a drag... |
US-7,979,849 |
Automatic model-based testing Automatic model-based testing is disclosed, including receiving a set of objects associated with a computer program application under test; automatically... |
US-7,979,845 |
Test effort optimization for UI intensive workflows A system and method provide for determining optimal input combinations useable in testing program code that includes user interface intensive workflows. Various... |
US-7,979,694 |
Using TCP to authenticate IP source addresses A method for authenticating communication traffic includes intercepting a request directed over a network from a source address to open a connection to a target... |
US-7,979,577 |
Arrangement in a multi-homed transport endpoint for selecting a source
address based on source-destination... A multi-homed endpoint, having multiple interfaces with respective source addresses, selects a source address for transport of a message according to a... |
US-7,979,531 |
Method and system for network management data collection Methods and systems for network management data collection have been provided. Underutilized computers in the network are allocated as a Network Management Data... |
US-7,979,523 |
Deferred invocation of communication services In one embodiment, a network device determines one or more conditions for invoking one or more real applications to the network device for a session. This... |
US-7,979,496 |
Method and apparatus for measuring health and performance of a messaging
system Software agents perform a process to monitor the availability and/or performance of various functions of a messaging system. A call is initiated to an endpoint,... |
US-7,979,328 |
Method and system for interactive invoice inquiry A method and system for interactive invoice inquiry. In one method embodiment, the present invention receives an invoice. The present invention then stores the... |
US-7,978,842 |
Method and system for managing bandwidth in communication networks A method, system, apparatus and machine-readable medium for managing bandwidth in a communication network via a Turbo Button Service (TBS) are provided. The... |
US-7,978,725 |
Dynamic modification of contention-based transmission control parameters
achieving load balancing scheme in... Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to facilitating load balancing and bandwidth allocation in wireless mesh networks. Generally, according to one... |
US-7,978,718 |
Small group multicast in a computer network A data structure is stored in a memory of a router, the router located along a path between a source end station and a plurality of destination end stations in... |
US-7,978,708 |
Automatic route tagging of BGP next-hop routes in IGP A technique configures an intermediate network node to automatically determine whether a route advertised by a routing protocol is important for fast... |
US-7,978,703 |
Intelligent ALG functionality in networks supporting endpoints performing
network address translation In one embodiment, a signaling message is received from an endpoint. It is determined from the signaling message whether, prior to sending the signaling... |
US-7,978,688 |
System and method for converting packet payload size An apparatus is provided for enabling communication between telephony devices. The apparatus includes a queue operable to receive incoming media packets from... |
US-7,978,669 |
Methods and apparatus for efficient MPEG transmission over 802.11 In one embodiment, a method includes characterizing a first packet of a video stream as being associated with a first frame type, wherein the video stream is... |
US-7,978,620 |
Dynamically troubleshooting voice quality In an example embodiment, a method for dynamically troubleshooting voice quality. The method comprises generating a request to intercept a predetermined data... |
US-7,978,612 |
Two-hop relay for reducing distance vector routing information In one embodiment, a method for using a two-hop relay includes receiving an update message for a distance vector routing protocol from a first neighbor. The... |
US-7,978,599 |
Method and system to identify and alleviate remote overload A method and system to identify an overload state in a remote network device within a communications network in which a local network device can send at least... |
US-7,978,598 |
Connection replication A standby content switch module maintains a connection after failure of the active CSM by maintaining a replicate connection state of the connection state of... |
US-7,978,231 |
Method for automatic exposure control within a video capture device On embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for automatically computing exposure parameters for a digital video camera (DVC) system. The... |
US-7,978,216 |
Versatile conference adapter and method employing same A conference adapter. In an illustrative embodiment, the conference adapter implements a method for interfacing one or more conference endpoints with one or... |
US-7,978,215 |
System using mobile device for setting up and activating agent shortcut
operations to control electronic device... Embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, devices and systems for setting up an agent shortcut operation to be activated at an electronic device... |
US-7,976,346 |
Interface connection management using a removable adapter for
communications equipment An interface comprising a docking site having a first electrical connector adapted to interconnect a bus, and having at least one first retainer portion; and an... |
US-7,975,180 |
Method and apparatus for fault detection/isolation in metro ethernet
service Apparatus and method of detecting a fault in a network service includes an Ethernet access network domain in which a heartbeat message is broadcast at a... |
US-7,975,058 |
Systems and methods for remote access of network devices having private
addresses A proxy server according to an embodiment includes a memory and a communication unit. The memory is configured to store and retrieve a client device identifier... |
US-7,975,030 |
Remote configuration of devices using a secure connection Methods and systems for configuring a remote device are described. In one embodiment, a method of configuring a remote device while negotiating a secure... |
US-7,974,394 |
System and method for distributed IP telephony tracking A method of filtering telecommunication service includes receiving a call that includes a call identifier. The method also includes determining a filter status... |
US-7,974,390 |
Method and system for transferring audio content to a telephone-switching
system A method and system for transferring audio content to a telephone-switching system is provided. The telephone-switching system receives the audio content from a... |
US-7,974,285 |
Method and apparatus for identifying an egress point to a network location A method of identifying an egress point to a network location in a data communications network comprising a plurality of nodes and links there between comprises... |
US-7,974,277 |
System and method for routing calls Routing calls includes receiving a call request at a call manager from a first endpoint. The call request includes a uniform resource identifier that associates... |
US-7,974,218 |
Intersection-based configuration management A configuration management system and related methods are provided to facilitate intersection-based management of configuration information for network devices.... |
US-7,974,216 |
Approach for determining the real time availability of a group of network
elements The real time availability of a group of network elements is determined based upon both a real time availability value for each of the network elements and... |
US-7,974,201 |
Technique and apparatus for using node ID as virtual private network (VPN)
identifiers A technique is provided for managing VPN packet flows over shared access data networks. Each node in the shared access network typically has an identifier or ID... |
US-7,974,196 |
Method and system of using counters to monitor a system port buffer Methods and systems for using counters to monitor port buffers are described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving data packets into a system port... |
US-7,973,538 |
Power over ethernet system having hazard detection circuitry to detect
potentially hazardous cable conditions An apparatus includes power circuitry and hazard detection circuitry connectable to a multi-conductor cable. The power circuitry transfers electrical power from... |
US-7,971,440 |
Thermal pump module and temperature regulation A voltage regulator is configured to receive an input voltage from a power supply, measure a temperature associated with a heat transfer medium, produce an... |
US-D640,913 |
Cable management bracket for a networking module |
US-7,971,256 |
Mechanism to correlate the presence of worms in a network A method and a system for preventing a network attack, the attack being caused by the presence of worms in the network, is provided. The method includes... |
US-7,971,244 |
Method of determining network penetration A method of determining network penetration (which may be carried on a computer readable medium) and an apparatus for performing the method are disclosed. The... |
US-7,971,228 |
System and method for providing application-specific on-line charging in a
communications environment An architecture for A method for providing on-line charging in a network environment is provided that includes interacting with an application that is selected... |