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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7143159 | Method for correlating and presenting network management data NIC collected network statistics are captured by agent devices resident on Host machines of a network. A probe (software or hardware) retrieves the collected statistics from one or more monitored hosts (each host on the network, for example) and places them in RMON ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7089580 | Method for improved cable modem ranging in a data-over-cable system Methods for improved cable modem ranging in a data-over-cable system. One method includes receiving a value that characterizes how equipment in the network is configured. Using this characteristic value, a cable modem may estimate loss in its upstream path from a me... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7065670 | Server monitoring and failover mechanism Access of a malfunctioning server to a data storage facility is blocked. Characteristics such as IAmAlive signals from a server are monitored and when out of profile a malfunction is indicated and data access of that server is inhibited. Characteristics continue to ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062569 | Cascade control architecture and operation for packet-based communication systems A control device for a unit in a cascade connection of network units includes control logic which increments a count of active units and passes the count to the next control device. The count is initiated and terminated by an absence of control messages at the down ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7042889 | Network switch with parallel working of look-up engine and network processor A network switch which allows a network processor to process resultant data from a look-up engine while the look-up engine proceeds to deal with a subsequent packet. The look-up engine stores the resultant data in registers from which the resultant data is written b... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7023873 | Network device including detection of link status employing auto-negotiation A network device is arranged to transmit a specific identification such as the device's MAC address in Next Pages of auto-negotiation and to determine a link status to be ‘down’ if ‘Next Pages’ containing that address are received by the same port. The inven... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024464 | Dynamic content management for wireless communication systems A method and system for dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device. In one embodiment, the present invention begins by retrieving information from a network. In one embodiment the information is web-based content, and the network is the Internet. The p... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024478 | Method and system for providing secure user access to public or private telephone and internet systems A public telephone and Internet access system that comprises Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) that are connected to an ethernet or other Local Area Network by a network cradle, and a number of ethernet telephones connected to the same Local Area Network. The PDAs s... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024690 | Protected mutual authentication over an unsecured wireless communication channel A process for mutual authentication of users and networks over an unsecured wireless communication channel. In one embodiment, sensitive information (e.g., passwords) is not communicated over the unsecured channel. Rather, hashed representations of user identifiers,... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023809 | Intelligent concentrator usage The present invention relates to a computer network and a method for using the network The network and method employ powered multiplexing connection devices which electronically couple two or more network devices to the network. The signals from the network devices ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7002932 | Method and system for providing network connectivity and mobility while roaming A method and system for providing network connectivity and mobility for a roaming client. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, an access point (AP) is enabled with a smart agent and associated protocol. The smart agent is capable of monitoring t... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999452 | Ethernet units adapted for loop configuration and method of operating same A packet-switched network system comprises a multiplicity of multi-port network units each of which has first and second ports and other ports and transmission links coupling the first and second ports of said unit in a closed ring. The first and second ports and tr... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996621 | Method for supporting secondary address delivery on remote access servers The present invention provides a method to support the delivery of the IP address of a secondary address server to a dial-up remote access client. The secondary address server may be an RSIP server, with which the client may perform an RSIP negotiation resulting in ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6990116 | Method and system for improving throughput over wireless local area networks with mode switching A method and system for increasing the overall network throughput over a wireless local area network (WLAN). Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, the dynamic switching between the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) and Point Coordination Fu... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6977821 | Backplane apparatus and board for use therewith A backplane has a plurality of interface slots that each couple to a number of buses. Depending upon the embodiment, these buses include a power distribution bus, a digital ground bus, an earth ground bus, a system timing bus, a time division multiplexed bus, a syst... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6978302 | Network management apparatus and method for identifying causal events on a network A network management apparatus and method for identifying an event which is indicative of the underlying cause of more than one of a plurality of events detected by a network management station on a network is described in which the management station has knowledge ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6973513 | Method for efficient use of a transmit engine A method for providing efficient use of a transmit engine in transmitting packet directing information. In one embodiment, two linked lists are used to submit packets and packet directing information to a transmit engine. When there is no packet to send, both lists ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973077 | Method and apparatus for auto-detection of LAN, Modem, or ISDN utilizing a common connection to a peripheral component A method and apparatus for allowing multiple types of connections to be made to a peripheral component. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a peripheral component with a receptacle having a number of electrical connecting lines. At least one of the ele... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970921 | Network interface supporting virtual paths for quality of service A plurality of virtual paths in a network interface between a host port and a network port are managed according to respective priorities. Thus, multiple levels of quality of service are supported through a single physical network port. Variant processes are applied... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967963 | Telecommunication method for ensuring on-time delivery of packets containing time-sensitive data A telecommunication method for providing packets to at least one of a first and a second network are described. A telephone set connects the first network to the second network. The telephone set forwards packets received from one network to the other network, gener... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965932 | Method and architecture for a dynamically extensible web-based management solution A framework for extending a network management platform, including an object manager that retrieves an entire class hierarchy including any code or other functionality needed to retrieve data about a server or other network device (e.g., code needed to retrieve actu... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965577 | Identifying an edge switch and port to which a network user is attached An edge switch of a packet-based communication network, the edge switch having a port to which a specified user is connected is identified. A unicast request packet is sent from a policy server to the specified user, the unicast request packet including destination ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965942 | Method and system for improving throughput over wireless local area networks with a dynamic contention window A method and system for increasing the overall network throughput over a wireless local area network (WLAN). Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, the dynamic selection of an initial value for a contention window in the Distributed Coordinated Fu... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963921 | Method and apparatus for hardware assisted TCP packet re-assembly A hardware packet accelerator parses incoming packets to retrieve header data for building a frame status and for verifying the incoming packets are part of an established connection with a host. The accelerator includes a connection database that allows retrieval o... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963829 | Method and apparatus for interfacing a spectrum digital incorporated TMS470 evaluation board with a spectrum digital incorporated TMS320LC54X evaluation board A bridge board connects a TMS470 processor evaluation module and a TMS320C54XX processor evaluation module. The bridge board performs translation of signal formats on both of the boards and also synchronizes the signal formats on both boards so that both boards are ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6954785 | System for identifying servers on network by determining devices that have the highest total volume data transfer and communication with at least a threshold number of client devices A method and apparatus for identifying a device acting as a server on a network is disclosed which uses network data representing communications on the network. The network data contains source device, destination device, data transfer protocol and data volume infor... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954786 | Method and architecture for a high performance cache for distributed, web-based management solutions An architecture for a management information system includes a backend that services information requests from a front end. The backend retrieves data from management information base(s) (MIBs) and prepares a response to the information requests. The backend maintai... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6945461 | Compact multifunction card for electronic devices An apparatus and method for enhancement of the functionality of electronic devices. In one embodiment, the present invention is comprised of an intermediary apparatus. The intermediary apparatus is adapted to be communicatively coupled with an electronic device. In ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944881 | Method for using an initial maintenance opportunity for non-contention ranging A method of preventing collisions when a cable modem re-registers with a cable modem termination system on a cable television network following failure of a primary communications channel between the cable modem and the cable modem termination system. The method pro... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940818 | Selectable bandwidth facility for a network port Traffic through a port of a network switch is monitored and controlled by a token bucket system having a duplex mode in which the bandwidths available for incoming and outgoing packets are controlled by a single token bucket and a half-duplex mode in which the bandw... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6940836 | Method and apparatus for indicating quality of service to a radio access network Level of service information for a given user of a radio access network (10) is determined at a Packet Data Serving Node (18) and provided to the radio access network for use in determining a particular level of service to provide to the given user. Th... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937624 | System for manintaining inter-packet gaps in cascade transmission system for packet-based data A unit for receiving and re-transmitting data signals comprising multi-byte packets separated by multi-byte inter-packet gaps includes a FIFO store, a first, write, state machine for controlling the writing of packets into the FIFO and a second, read, state machine ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6934263 | Spanning tree with protocol for bypassing port state transition timers Mechanisms for use on designated ports in spanning tree protocol entities allow such ports to transition to a forwarding state on the basis of actual communication delays between neighboring bridges, rather than upon expiration of forwarding delay timers. The logic ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6928059 | Efficient method of deducing network topology including endstations A technique for discovering the topology of a computer network and which relies on initially resolving the positions of end stations on the network and subsequently resolving the topology of remaining devices. This technique specifically involves querying a port of ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6925078 | Network adaptor driver with destination based ordering A network transmitter (driver or adaptor/driver combination) reorders packets received for transmission from a higher layer protocol based on packet destinations. The invention reduces bottlenecks at the transmitter and potentially throughout network intermediate sy... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6921296 | Card cage and electronic card apparatus and system One or more keys (101, 102, 103) can be integrally formed of a card cage and positioned to extend into the card-receiving openings of the card slots that comprise the card cage. The cards can then have key-receiving openings (112, 114, 116) that accomm... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6920559 | Using a key lease in a secondary authentication protocol after a primary authentication protocol has been performed The present invention provides a method and system for using a key lease in a secondary authentication protocol after a primary authentication protocol has been performed. In one embodiment, the primary authentication protocol comprises a strong, secure, computation... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6920172 | Dual purpose spread spectrum radio receivers with controlled frequency rejection A receiver for a direct sequence spread spectrum signal subject to interference from a locally transmitted or received frequency-hopped spread spectrum signal includes a programmable notch filter which is controlled in accordance with the code sequence of a frequenc... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6915448 | Storage disk failover and replacement system A storage assembly includes a plurality of multi-unit storage device is provided with a failover procedure that does not require hot-swap capability. Individual units are aggregated into a storage array by an aggregation procedure such as RAID. When a failure occurs... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912589 | System and method for efficiently handling multicast packets by ignoring VLAN context A method and system for efficiently handling forwarding of multicast packets by ignoring VLAN (virtual local area network) context during lookup. In one embodiment, the present invention receives, at an intermediate device, multicast registration information for a c... | 06/28/2005 |
