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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129559 | AUTOMATIC ACCESS POINT LOCATION, PLANNING, AND COVERAGE OPTIMIZATION A device receives distances between an access point, located on a floor of a building, and other access points located on the same floor, and determines, based on the distances, relative location information associated with the access point, where the relative location ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128004 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CENTRALIZED VIRTUAL SWITCH FABRIC CONTROL In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises a processing module, disposed within a first switch fabric element, configured to detect a second switch fabric element having a routing module when the second switch fabric element is operatively coupled to the first switch f... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110638 | POLICY-BASED CROSS-DOMAIN ACCESS CONTROL FOR SSL VPN A method may include generating a request that includes a host domain associated with a multiple-domain-to-one domain mapping, capturing the request before transmission of the request, rewriting the host domain, and transmitting the request.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110557 | AUTOMATED PARALLEL SOFTWARE CODE IMPACT ANALYSIS A server device is configured to receive a request to identify a manner in which changed code propagates within an application; generate a group of blocks that correspond to code associated with a parent function corresponding to the application and which includes the c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110206 | AUTOMATIC AGGREGATION OF INTER-DEVICE PORTS/LINKS IN A VIRTUAL DEVICE A virtual device includes multiple devices connected to operate as a single device. A first one of the devices is configured to determine that the first device connects to a second one of the devices via a first link; identify a second link; determine that the second li... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106359 | HEALTH PROBING DETECTION AND ENHANCEMENT FOR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING LABEL SWITCHED PATHS A method performed by a network device may include establishing performance-based Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) sessions for each link of a primary traffic engineering Label Switched Path (TE-LSP) and establishing performance-based BFD sessions for each link ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAST BRANCHING USING A PROGRAMMABLE BRANCH TABLE Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a programmable table which allows software to define a plurality of branching functions, each of which maps a vector of condition codes to a branch offset. This technique allows for a flexible multi-way b... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084426 | PACKET PROCESSING IN A MULTIPLE PROCESSOR SYSTEM Packet processing is provided in a multiple processor system including a first processor to processing a packet and to create a tag associated with the packet. The tag includes information about the processing of the packet. A second processor receives the packet subseq... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084396 | CONTEXT SWITCHED ROUTE LOOK UP KEY ENGINE A key engine that performs route lookups for a plurality of keys may include a data processing portion configured to process one data item at a time and to request data when needed. A buffer may be configured to store a partial result from the data processing portion. A... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082031 | DISTRIBUTED ADMISSION CONTROL A first network client requests initiation of a data transfer with a second network client. An admission control facility (ACF) responds to the initiation request by performing admission analysis to determine whether to initiate the data transfer. The ACF sends one or m... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072764 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK INFORMATION COLLECTION A network device may include logic configured to receive a problem report from a second network device, store and analyze data included in the problem report, filter data in the problem report to determine when the problem report is to be transmitted to a third network ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072459 | DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE AND ACCESS SYSTEMS A distributed system for content storage and access includes a storage platform having at least a first storage component, and an access platform having one or multiple access components. Each access component is associated with at least one access service. The access s... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069842 | MULTICASTING WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED CONTROL PLANE OF A SWITCH In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions configured to cause a processor to receive, from an access switch, a first signal including forwarding state information associated with a first peripheral processing d... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051367 | ATM CELL CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND ATM CELL CONVERSION METHOD Sending priority of plural stages is statically assigned according to a quality class and an output connection, and the sending priority is dynamically changed according to a state of sending request stacking every sending priority and a state of ATM cell conversion pro... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045206 | MULTI-CHASSIS ROUTER WITH MULTIPLEXED OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS A multi-chassis network device includes a plurality of nodes that operate as a single device within the network and a switch fabric that forwards data plane packets between the plurality of nodes. The switch fabric includes a set of multiplexed optical interconnects cou... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044947 | FLOODING-BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL HAVING DATABASE PRUNING AND RATE-CONTROLLED STATE REFRESH An enhanced, flooding-based link state routing protocol is described that provides pruning of link state data and, when needed, rate-controlled refresh of the pruned link state data from other routers of the flooding domain. A routing device comprises a network interfac... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044940 | FLOODING-BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL HAVING AVERAGE-RATE AND BURST-RATE CONTROL An enhanced, flooding-based routing protocol is described that provides burst-rate and average-rate flow control. A routing device comprises a network interfaces configured to send and receive packets over a layer-two (L2) communication medium. A flooding-based link sta... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042029 | HIGH-AVAILABILITY REMOTE-AUTHENTICATION DIAL-IN USER SERVICE A method may include receiving, in a first server from a second server, a request for a service of a network by a device; sending, from the first server to the second server, a response to the request for the service to permit access to the service; and sending state in... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039334 | VIRTUAL LOCAL AREA NETWORK (VLAN)-BASED MEMBERSHIP FOR MULTICAST VLAN REGISTRATION A network node that includes a memory to store a multicast forwarding table that contains entries that govern how multicast traffic is to be forwarded from a multicast virtual local area network (MVLAN) associated with the network node, to receiver VLANs associated with... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033661 | DISTRIBUTED IP-PBX SIGNAL PROCESSING Techniques are described by which an IP telephone system leverages the digital signal processing functions of end-user IP telephones by distributing signal processing tasks typically carried out by a centralized IP-PBX. The end-user IP telephones publicize their signal ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027019 | MAINTAINING PACKET ORDER USING HASH-BASED LINKED-LIST QUEUES Ordering logic ensures that data items being processed by a number of parallel processing units are unloaded from the processing units in the original per-flow order that the data items were loaded into the parallel processing units. The ordering logic includes a pointe... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023546 | DOMAIN-BASED SECURITY POLICIES An example network system includes a plurality of endpoint computing resources, a business policy graph of a network that includes a set of the plurality of endpoint computing resources configured as a security domain, a set of policy enforcement points (“PEPs”) con... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110280245 | NEXT HOP CHAINING FOR FORWARDING DATA IN A NETWORK SWITCHING DEVICE A route for a data unit through a network may be defined based on a number of next hops. Exemplary embodiments described herein may implement a router forwarding table as a chained list of references to next hops. In one implementation, a device includes a forwarding ta... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110280195 | INCREASING THROUGHPUT BY ADAPTIVELY CHANGING PDU SIZE IN WIRELESS NETWORKS UNDER LOW SNR CONDITIONS Feedback indicates low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions for a wireless communications link between a transmitter device and a receiver device. After attempting to achieve a target packet error rate (PER) by increasing transmission power for the wireless communicat... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110280150 | GLOBAL FLOW TRACKING SYSTEM A device may obtain a flow signature, identify a destination collector to which packets bearing the flow signature are sent, obtain a list of potential source collectors that may have sent the packets bearing the flow signature to the destination collector, and identify... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276752 | POWER EFFICIENT AND RULE MOVEMENT OPTIMIZED TCAM MANAGEMENT A network device allocates a number of blocks of memory in a ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) of the network device to each database of multiple databases, and assigns unused blocks of memory of the TCAM to a free pool. The network device also detects execution... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271319 | USING ENDPOINT HOST CHECKING TO CLASSIFY UNMANAGED DEVICES IN A NETWORK AND TO IMPROVE NETWORK LOCATION AWARENESS A device receives, from a managed device, endpoint information associated with an unmanaged device connected to the managed device in a network. The device also receives unmanaged device information that partially identifies the unmanaged device, and completely identifi... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271009 | INTERFACE GROUPING FOR MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL ADDRESS PINNING IN A LAYER TWO NETWORK An example network device includes a set of interfaces, a control unit, and a forwarding engine. The control unit includes an interface group information repository that stores data defining interface groups. Each interface group includes one or more interfaces. The for... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110268115 | MULTICAST OVER LAG AND IRB IN A ROUTING DEVICE Techniques for handling multicast over link aggregated (LAG) interfaces and integrated routing and bridging (IRB) interfaces in a network device are described in which interfaces, at which a data unit is to be transmitted, may be represented hierarchically in which the ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110267073 | VALIDATING HIGH SPEED LINK PERFORMANCE MARGIN FOR SWITCH FABRIC WITH ANY-TO-ANY CONNECTION ACROSS A MIDPLANE A system for testing link performance margin in a network device includes one or more daughter cards having a driver to transmit a signal and a receiver to receive the signal, and a midplane including a channel to transmit the signal from the driver to the receiver. The... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264822 | FILTERING AND ROUTE LOOKUP IN A SWITCHING DEVICE Methods and devices for processing packets are provided. The processing device may Include an input interface for receiving data units containing header information of respective packets; a first module configurable to perform packet filtering based on the received data... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110260769 | ERROR-FREE STARTUP OF LOW PHASE NOISE OSCILLATORS An isolation switch is used to isolate the output of an oscillator, during startup of the oscillator, from the circuitry that uses the periodic signal generated by the oscillator. In one implementation, a device may include an oscillator to generate a periodic signal an... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20120015541 | SELF-SECURING POWER CORD An alternating current (AC) power cord retainer is configured to be incorporated into or connected to a power cord, instead of the electronic device to which the cord may be connected. The power cord retainer is configured to be received within and engage the same recep... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120005746 | DUAL-MODE MULTI-SERVICE VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE An integrated, multi-service network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The multi-service client includes a VPN handler having an interface programmed to exchange the network packets with the security manager for application of the security service, wherei... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005745 | VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE HAVING DYNAMICALLY TRANSLATED USER HOME PAGE A virtual private network (VPN) client for cellular mobile devices is described. The VPN network client processes network packets for securely tunneling the network packets between the cellular mobile device and the remote VPN security device. Upon establishing the VPN ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005477 | MULTI-SERVICE VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE HAVING DYNAMIC FAILOVER An integrated, multi-service network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The multi-service network client can be deployed as a single software package on cellular mobile network devices to provide integrated services including secure enterprise virtual priv... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005476 | MULTI-SERVICE VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE HAVING INTEGRATED ACCELERATION An integrated, multi-service virtual private network (VPN) network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The multi-service network client can be deployed as a single software package on cellular mobile network devices to provide integrated services including ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005300 | SELF CLOCKING INTERRUPT GENERATION IN A NETWORK INTERFACE CARD A network interface card may issue interrupts to a host in which the determination of when to issue an interrupt to the host may be based on the incoming packet rate. In one implementation, an interrupt controller of the network interface card may issue interrupts to th... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002815 | VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE HAVING FAST RECONNECT A virtual private network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The VPN network client establishes a secure VPN connection with a remote VPN security device. The VPN network client establishes a secure control channel with the secure VPN gateway and, upon a s... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002814 | VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE HAVING DYNAMICALLY CONSTRUCTED DISPLAY FOR NATIVE ACCESS TO WEB MAIL An integrated, multi-service network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The multi-service network client can be deployed as a single software package on cellular mobile network devices to provide integrated services including secure enterprise virtual priv... | 01/05/2012 |
