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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131662 | Virtual local area networks in a virtual machine environment In one embodiment, a method includes identifying virtual machines operating at a network device and virtual local area networks associated with the virtual machines, creating an allowed list of virtual local area networks at the network device based on the virtual machi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131639 | SESSION REDUNDANCY AMONG A SERVER CLUSTER Systems and methods are provided for providing redundancy and failover for servers communicating via an authentication protocol. Mirroring is initiated at the beginning of a Diameter application session by an enhanced Diameter server, which continuously provides updates... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131377 | Support for Virtualized Unified Communications Clients When Host Server Connectivity is Lost Techniques are provided for establishing a Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) connection at a virtual desktop thin client (VDTC) device, between a VDI client in the VDTC device and a VDI server in a hosted virtual desktop server (HVDS). A unified communications (UC) contro... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131357 | POWERED DEVICE CLASSIFICATION IN A WIRED DATA TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK In a wired data telecommunication network power sourcing equipment (PSE) coupled to a powered device (PD) carries out an inline power discovery process to verify that the PD is adapted to receive inline power, then a plurality of classification cycles are carried out to... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131216 | Active-Active Multi-Homing Support for Overlay Transport Protocol Techniques are provided for active-active multi-homing support over an overlay transport virtualization protocol for an edge switch at a data center site. At an edge switch that is configured to operate in an active-active multi-homing mode with at least one other edge ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129525 | Enterprise Controller Handover Management of Wireless User Devices Between Radio Access Point Devices Techniques are provided for transmitting and receiving communications on behalf of wireless user equipment devices between a plurality of radio access point (RAP) devices and a gateway apparatus through a controller apparatus. A controller apparatus generates a pluralit... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128322 | Geographical Location Information/Signal Quality-Context Based Recording and Playback of Multimedia Data from a Conference Session Playback of multimedia data associated with a recorded conference session is simplified, particularly for a person who participated in the conference session from a mobile device. At a recording server that is in communication with a plurality of endpoints in a conferen... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127929 | 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 transmission. The packet or frame comprises a plurality of subcarriers in each of a plurality of sub-bands. Different ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127860 | Dynamic Flow Redistribution for Head of Line Blocking Avoidance An apparatus and related methods are provided to greatly reduce the negative impact of head of line (HOL) blocking. At a device (e.g., switch, router, etc.) configured to forward packets in a network, new packets that are to be forwarded from the device to other devices... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127857 | Dynamic Queuing and Pinning to Improve Quality of Service on Uplinks in a Virtualized Environment Techniques are provided for improve quality of service on uplinks in a virtualized environment. At a server apparatus having a plurality of physical links configured to communicate traffic over a network to or from the server apparatus, forming an uplink group comprisin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127262 | Automatic Layout and Speaker Selection in a Continuous Presence Video Conference Techniques are provided for managing display layouts for a continuous presence video conference. Each display layout has a fixed number of positions, and one of the display layouts has a maximum number of positions for display to participants in the video conference. Th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110602 | Community Sensor-Coordinating Entity In one embodiment, a method includes generating in a unified computing system (UCS) environment a first software process representing a person, a second software process representing a sensor associated with the person, a third software process representing a property a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110545 | ABSTRACTING TRANSFORMATION FOR MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE An example embodiment of the present invention provides a process for abstracting an implementation-independent model to an implementation-specific model during transformation in a MDA system. In the example embodiment, the MDA system comprises a transformation engine w... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110186 | Disaster Recovery and Automatic Relocation of Cloud Services Techniques are provided to move the services performed on one device to another device in a cloud computing system for a variety of reasons including failure, maintenance or upgrade of the device. A notification is received that services performed by an impacted device ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110185 | Distributed Hierarchical Rendering and Provisioning of Cloud Services Techniques are provided herein for distributed and hierarchical rendering and provisioning of cloud services. At a device in a cloud computing system comprising a plurality of hierarchical levels, a cloud service request is received for rendering and provisioning of a v... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110152 | REAL TIME PROTOCOL PACKET TUNNELING In one embodiment a method and apparatus are provided that automatically establish an real time protocol (RTP) tunnel between an originator node or router and a terminator node or router, wherein the terminator node is close to a remote RTP peer. A method includes detec... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109851 | Providing Sensor-Application Services In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a sensor-application-service provider sensor data from sensors associated with persons. The method includes, based on a service information model at the sensor-application-service provider, determining whether the sensor... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108287 | Scrambling Code Allocation and Hand-In for Wireless Network Radio Access Points Techniques are provided to allow more than a fixed number of radio access point devices to be deployed within a macro cell. At a controller apparatus, a registration request is received from a radio access point device configured to operate in a wireless network to serv... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106932 | Reconciling digital content at a digital media device In one embodiment, a method includes initiating recording a program at a digital media device, identifying at the digital media device, a missing portion of the program, generating and transmitting a request for the missing portion, receiving a media file containing the... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106401 | PREVENTION OF VOICE OVER IP SPAM In one embodiment, a system is provided to prevent VoIP spam. The system may store call data that is associated with a call to a phone number made over a Public Switched Telephone Network. Subsequently, the system may accept an Internet Protocol telephony connection in ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106395 | DETERMINING A ROUTE ADVERTISEMENT IN A REACTIVE ROUTING ENVIRONMENT In an example embodiment, a method and system is provided to determine and advertise a route advertisement in a reactive routing environment. In response to receiving a network address query with respect to a destination address at a routing device, an aggregate value, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106339 | Probing Specific Customer Flow in Layer-2 Multipath Networks Techniques are provided to enable a switch in a layer-2 multipath network to determine connectivity of a path to a destination switch. At a source switch, user flow parameters are determined for user flow packets to be transported in the layer-2 multipath network to a d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106326 | SYNCHRONIZED BANDWIDTH RESERVATIONS FOR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS A method of initiating a communication session includes transmitting, using a call signaling protocol, a call invitation from a first node over a network for receipt by a second node. The call invitation comprises a list of one or more codecs available to the first node... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105214 | Aggregating and Routing Sensor Data at a Community Sensor-Coordinating Entity In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from multiple sensors associated with multiple persons; for each of the sensors, identifying the person associated with the sensor; determining whether the sensor data are valid; and, for the sensor data that ar... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105201 | Validating Sensor Data at a Property Sensor-Coordinating Entity In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data with preamble information from a sensor at a property associated with a person. The preamble information includes user-identification (ID) information identifying the person; sensor-type information identifying ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105199 | Validating Sensor Data at a Community Sensor-Coordinating Entity In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from a source associated with a person; comparing the sensor data against a sensor information model of the person that includes a description of the person, a description of a sensor associated with the person,... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084639 | APPLICATION SERVER PROVIDING PERSONALIZED VOICE ENABLED WEB APPLICATION SERVICES USING EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE DOCUMENTS A unified web-based voice messaging system provides voice application control between a web browser and an application server via an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The application server, configured for executing a v... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084410 | Configuring Interfaces of a Switch Using Templates Configuring an interface of a switch includes sending an authentication request requesting authentication for an endpoint from a switch to an authentication server. The switch comprises interfaces and is operable to access templates, where a template is operable to gene... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083291 | Method and Apparatus for WLAN Location Services Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to providing location services in a wireless network. According to one implementation of the present invention, the wireless network infrastructure provides high-accuracy location information via location services to wireless cl... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083217 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTER BEAMFORMING A system and method are provided for improving the performance of a beamforming antenna array in a wireless communications system. By observing a predetermined times of channel spatial signatures, one or more test spatial signatures are generated based on statistical an... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082462 | Low Power Consumption Small Form-Factor Pluggable Transceiver A method is provided to lower the overall power consumption of small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceivers. The method includes receiving an indication to operate the SFP transceiver in a low power mode, and setting the SFP transceiver to a low power mode in response... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082262 | ADAPTIVE CLIPPING OF SYMBOLS BASED ON SIGNAL QUALITY Techniques are provided for crest factor reduction of a symbol to be transmitted by a communication device. The symbol may be an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) formatted symbol. In a communication device, samples of the symbol are clipped with a clippi... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082161 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRAFFIC OFFLOADING AT A ROUTER This disclosure relates to a system and method for offloading selected data traffic in logical tunnels to the Internet. The offloading provides another data path for selected data traffic that can relieve the burden on a mobile operator's network, such as the backhaul a... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082158 | IP ADDRESS VERSION INTERWORKING IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Systems and methods are provided for supporting IPv4-IPv6 interworking of SIP messages in wireless networks and IMS networks. The interworking can be provided to smooth migration to an all-IPv6 IMS network by allowing the use and support of existing legacy IPv4 infrastr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082155 | RETURNING DOMAIN IDENTIFICATIONS WITHOUT RECONFIGURATION In one embodiment, a technique for returning Domain IDs to a Fibre Channel fabric without a full build fabric (BF) phase is provided. A switch in the fabric may send a principal switch a message requesting the return of one or more Domain IDs assigned to that device. Th... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082154 | DATA DRIVEN CONFIGURATION OF CALL MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS A call manager uses a call management application in conjunction with a live dial database to control routing of calls for managed devices. To generate the live dial database, the call management application accesses configured route patterns and enters these patterns i... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082034 | DYNAMIC TE-LSP PRIORITY AND PREEMPTION In one embodiment, a node of a computer network receives a request to establish a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP). The node accesses a pre-defined range of preemption-priority values that may be used with the requested TE-LSP. The node determines a pr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082025 | PROTECTING MULTI-SEGMENT PSEUDOWIRES The protection of multi-segment pseudowires by utilizing backup paths is disclosed herein. Disclosed embodiments include methods that establish at least one backup path for multi-segment pseudowires, the establishing being performed prior to detection of failure in the ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072358 | CUSTOMER CARE REPLIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA In one implementation, customer service is managed by a contact center. The contact center includes a contact center server and an agent device. The contact center server monitors external social media to identify a social media post by a customer. The social media post... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A BLUETOOTH-ENABLED ETHERNET INTERFACE In one embodiment, a method includes determining when a relay arrangement is available to pair with an endpoint. The relay arrangement is arranged to wirelessly communicate with the endpoint and to communicate over a wired network. The method also includes authenticatin... | 03/22/2012 |
