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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7823199 | Method and system for detecting and preventing access intrusion in a network A wireless computer network includes components cooperating together to prevent access intrusions by detecting unauthorized devices connected to the network, disabling the network connections to the devices, and then physically locating the devices. The network can ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7689678 | Method and apparatus for restoring the configuration of a network device A method and apparatus is provided to restore the configuration of a network device. A configuration manager in a network device saves a version of the configuration of the network device by storing the configuration data in an format that conforms to a standard mar... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7660894 | Connection pacer and method for performing connection pacing in a network of servers and clients using FIFO buffers A connection pacer and method for performing connection pacing in a network of servers and clients using a first-in-first-out (“FIFO”) buffer. ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657635 | Method and apparatus for converting network management protocol to markup language A method is provided to convert network management protocol request into a markup language representation. In one embodiment, the present invention includes receiving a network management protocol request at a network device, generating a plurality of markup languag... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7646773 | Forwarding database in a network switch device A layer-2 network switch device forwarding database implementation and method to access the forwarding database. A forwarding database (FDB) is implemented as a tree. A separate VLAN database is also structured as a tree. Each node in the tree represents a separate ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7606240 | Ethernet automatic protection switching Preventing a loop in a virtual network that spans at least two rings when there is a failure in two or more segments shared between the rings. A node connected to one of the shared segments is designated as the root blocker node and prevents transmitting data traffi... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7599292 | Method and apparatus for providing quality of service across a switched backplane between egress and ingress queue managers A method and system is provided to enable quality of service across a backplane switch. An egress queue manager on one blade communicates with an ingress queue manager on the same or on another blade where each blade is connected via a backplane switch. The egress q... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7584262 | Method of and system for allocating resources to resource requests based on application of persistence policies A system for and method of allocating a resource to a service request based on application of a persistence policy is described. In one embodiment, upon or after allocation of a resource to a resource request, an entry representing the allocation is made in a data s... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7581024 | Method and system for increasing participation in a standby router protocol A method and system is provided for increasing participation in a standby router protocol (SRP) without increasing the amount of network traffic due to SRP messaging. One or more domain master VLANs participate in an SRP on behalf of numerous member VLANs belonging ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7577996 | Apparatus, method and system for improving network security Devices, systems and related methods are disclosed for improving operational security of a network and/or network devices, such as wireless access points (APs). In the disclosed systems, a network device is not fully operational until it is attached to a network and... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7448045 | Method and apparatus to extend a program A program may be extended to another program in accordance with information stored in a meta data file. A parent program is associated with the meta data file, and a child program is associated with a child description file created to conform to the information prov... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447777 | Switching system Systems and related methods are described for handling one or more resource requests. A protocol engine receives a resource request in accordance with a prescribed protocol, and a classification engine determines a desired class of service for the request. An analys... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7408876 | Method and apparatus for providing quality of service across a switched backplane between egress queue managers A method and system is provided to enable quality of service across a backplane switch. An egress queue manager on one blade communicates with an egress queue manager on another blade where each blade is connected via a backplane switch. When a blade becomes congest... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400647 | Look up table (LUT) for point-to-point protocol identification (PPP ID) A Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) identifier (PPP ID) value of a PPP frame, including data, is converted to an associated Ethernet Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tag identifier (ID) value to enable the PPP ID value information to be communicated in an Ethernet fram... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7376951 | Method and apparatus for controlling process dependencies A method and system is provided to control and check run-time process dependencies. When a process manager receives a request to start a new process, the process manager accesses a configuration file to check if the new process depends on any other processes to be r... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372813 | Virtual load balancing across a network link Information is directed across the same corresponding virtual channels in both a first network switch and a second network switch. As a result, any congestion in the second network switch results only in packet dropping associated with the particular congested virtu... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7349228 | Ejector assembly for rack-mounted computing devices An ejector assembly for securing a blade in a rack and for ejecting the blade from the rack. The ejector assembly includes an ejector handle movable between a first position wherein the blade is secured in the rack and a second position wherein the blade can be remo... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343597 | Methods and apparatus for communication between an application and a device Methods and apparatus for communication between an application and a device. In one embodiment, a set of class mappings maps parameters between a parser and an application data model. The parser is reversible, and the parser can be used to both parse a received comm... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7321926 | Method of and system for allocating resources to resource requests A system and method of allocating a resource to a service request. Servers are virtually assigned through a hierarchy including groups of servers and super groups of the groups of servers. Each service request type is associated with a service index that determines ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310664 | Unified, configurable, adaptive, network architecture A network switch having a unified, adaptive management paradigm for wireless network devices is disclosed. The switch includes configurable ports for connecting devices. A software application running on the switch allows a network administrator to selectively confi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7298746 | Method and system for reassembling and parsing packets in a network environment A packet reassembly system includes a buffer for storing information elements included in one or more incoming packets, a memory for storing validity indicators corresponding to the information elements, a first logic circuit capable of setting the validity indicato... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7286552 | Method and apparatus for providing quality of service across a switched backplane for multicast packets A method and system is provided to enable quality of service across a backplane switch for multicast packets. For multicast traffic, an egress queue manager manages congestion control in accordance with multicast scheduling flags. A multicast scheduling flag is asso... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7245629 | Method and apparatus for a control communication channel in a packet-forwarding device A control backplane replaces the traditional shared bus with a dedicated communication channel using a high-speed protocol, such as Ethernet. The resulting system may conduct several concurrent control sessions with clients and devices associated with the network sw... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245619 | Method and apparatus for managing routes A method and apparatus for managing routes. A route manager receives a route to a destination, the route having been discovered by a routing protocol application. The route manager maintains the route in a route table and distributes the route to a second routing pr... | 07/17/2007 |
| D512697 | Housing for electronic device | 12/13/2005 |
