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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175016 | Systems, methods and computer readable media for energy conservation in sensor networks Systems, methods and computer readable media consistent with the present invention address this and other needs by providing mechanisms for minimizing an energy cost within a wireless network having a plurality of nodes, including a plurality of transmitting nodes a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170018 | No-sight routing for ad-hoc networks A system comprising a plurality of nodes forming a network, the plurality of nodes comprising source nodes and destination nodes; wherein a propagation limit restricts the travel of link-state information transmitted by the sources nodes to a subset of destination n... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8144595 | Variable translucency no-sight routing for AD-HOC networks A system comprising a plurality of nodes forming a network and a link-state packet capable of being transmitted by a source node in the network to a destination node in the network over a communication link; wherein the source node subtracts a transmission cost asso... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8126016 | Method and apparatus for information dissemination A system and method for transmitting information to a group of recipient devices according to a transmission schedule is provided. A sequence of M blocks of information are transformed into N transformed blocks, where M and N are integers and N≧M. Each of the N tr... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125898 | Method and system for detecting attack path connections in a computer network using state-space correlation A method of determining correlated flows in a network may include obtaining times of arrival and corresponding flows for data units in the network (1020) and assigning weights to a set of data units based on respective times between the set of data units and ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122478 | Method and system for interactive multimedia A high capacity interactive multimedia system is provided that can deliver large number of concurrent video on demand and high speed data streams in an integrated fashion to a plurality of subscribers located at one or more subscriber sites. A video server module in... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122242 | Method and apparatus for controlling the flow of data across a network interface The present invention performs “flow control” based on the remaining encryption capacity of an encrypted outbound network interface link of a network routing device, such as a router or switch. As the encrypted link begins to run low on encryption key material, ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121563 | Configurable patch panel system A patch panel system (100) includes interface units (120) and radio units (130). The interface units (120) connect to user devices (110) via corresponding ports. The radio units (130) are associated with radio channels. Comb... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8091130 | Geographical intrusion response prioritization mapping system Systems and methods for geographically mapping an intrusion into a network having one or more network points include receiving intrusion information identifying a intrusion into a point of the network, correlating the intrusion information with location information ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085910 | Method and system for call center screening Methods and systems are provided for call center screening that enable a network service provider to dynamically control service request traffic directed to selected service centers. An Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) service is configured to intercept calls orig... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082506 | Geographical vulnerability mitigation response mapping system Systems and methods for geographically mapping a vulnerability of a network having one or more network points include receiving vulnerability information identifying a vulnerability of a point of the network, correlating the vulnerability information with location i... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082444 | System and method for adding new network devices to an existing network A system and method for adding a new network device to an existing network is described. An existing network has at least one master network device that acts as the gatekeeper for adding new network devices to the network. The master network device receives a reques... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8037530 | Method and apparatus for providing adaptive self-synchronized dynamic address translation as an intrusion detection sensor A translator is provided for translating predetermined portions of packet header information including an address of a data packet according to a cipher algorithm keyed by a cipher key derived by a key exchanger. A mapping device is also provided for mapping the add... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7995479 | Systems and methods for visualizing a communications network A system facilitates the visualization of a network having multiple nodes. The system collects information from at least one of the nodes (510). The information describes network operation over a period of time. The system then reconstructs the network operat... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983670 | Wireless fallback for subscribers of wirelined networks Techniques are disclosed for implementing wireless fallback of wireline service. Network interface units [405] may be installed in subscriber buildings in a residential or business neighborhood. The NIUs [405] may include a wireless transceiver [407... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7958556 | Intrusion and misuse deterrence system employing a virtual network A method and apparatus is disclosed for increasing the security of computer networks through the use of an Intrusion and Misuse Deterrence System (IMDS) operating on the network. The IMDS is a system that creates a synthetic network complete with synthetic hosts and... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7926104 | Methods and systems for network attack detection and prevention through redirection Methods and systems for detection and/or prevention of network attacks can include the use of multiple and/or time-dependent addresses coupled with filtering by the directory or naming service. The directory service can respond to requests for the address of a resou... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921285 | Means of mitigating denial of service attacks on IP fragmentation in high performance IPsec gateways Embodiments of the invention reduce the probability of success of a DOS attack on a node receiving packets by decreasing the probability of random collisions of packets sent by a malicious user with those sent by honest users. The probability of random collisions ma... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921161 | Routing T-37 E-mail over an H 323 (VOIP) network Disclosed are methods and systems for routing T-37 E-mail over an H 323 (VOIP) network. The methods and systems facilitate the obtaining and utilization of data from Gatekeepers with respect to the utilization of Gateways to be utilized to transmit the E-mail from t... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920876 | System and method for evaluating accuracy of an automatic location identification system A method (38) and system (56) evaluate the accuracy of an Automatic Location Identification (ALI) system (36) deployed within an environment (20) and configured to location a wireless communication device (24) originating an emerge... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920507 | Time division multiple access for network nodes with multiple receivers A system facilitates communication among nodes in a wireless network. A timeslot is assigned to each of a group of nodes (201) in the wireless network (400, 800, 1200, 1300). The timeslot is a time for a corresponding node to receive messages transmitt... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917953 | Methods and systems for reducing the spread of files on a network Methods and systems can reduce the spread of computer files or data on a network by obtaining and tracking times of arrival for chunks of data transmitted on the network. The times of arrival for a node can be transformed into time-series and periodograms computed f... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7900194 | Kernel-based intrusion detection using bloom filters Kernel-based intrusion detection using Bloom filters is disclosed. In one of many possible embodiments for detecting an intrusion attack, a Bloom filter is provided and used to generate a Bloom filter data object. The Bloom filter data object contains data represent... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7865568 | Systems and methods for controlling appliances via a network A remote control device (140, 600) controls the operation of an appliance. The remote control device (140, 600) includes a receiver (320) or transceiver (620), a controller (330, 630), and a transmitter (350, 650). The recei... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7853803 | System and method for thwarting buffer overflow attacks using encrypted process pointers A method (200) and program (100) for inhibiting attack upon a computer (120) is provided. The address (104) of a process (106) is produced (612), and encrypted (616) to produce an encrypted address (518), which... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7831825 | Packet-based and pseudo-packet based cryptographic communications systems and methods The disclosed technology provides a system and method of securely communicating data. An encryptor located at a transmitter can provide encrypted data to the transmitter. The transmitter can maintain a packet number indicating a particular packet for carrying the en... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7815106 | Multidimensional transaction fraud detection system and method A system and method for detecting transaction anomalies and information reflecting potential fraudulent activities is disclosed. Data is collected from transactions carried out in a number of business applications such as computer systems, telecommunication systems ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7810123 | Method and system for interactive multimedia A high capacity interactive multimedia system is provided that can deliver large number of concurrent video on demand and high speed data streams in an integrated fashion to a plurality of subscribers located at one or more subscriber sites. A video server module in... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7768943 | No-sight routing for ad-hoc networks A system comprising a plurality of nodes forming a network, the plurality of nodes comprising source nodes and destination nodes; wherein a propagation limit restricts the travel of link-state information transmitted by the sources nodes to a subset of destination n... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7742577 | Tone around test adapter A splicing method and apparatus is provided to facilitate efficient identification of cable wires to be spliced. Multiple wires are coupled to a test circuit, and a test signal is selectively applied to wire pairs with a switch. The wire carrying the signal in the c... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739497 | Method and apparatus for anonymous IP datagram exchange using dynamic network address translation Methods, apparatus, system and computer program are provided for concealing the identity of a network device transmitting a datagram having a network layer header. A unique local identifier and broadcast address are determined in accordance with a next-hop address. ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7680662 | Systems and methods for implementing segmentation in speech recognition systems A speech recognition system (105) includes an acoustic front end (115) and a processing unit (125). The acoustic front end (115) receives frames of acoustic data and determines cepstral coefficients for each of the received frames. The pr... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7624351 | Methods and apparatus for controlling a plurality of applications Methods and apparatus are provided to control a plurality of applications on a computer having a graphical user interface using a control application installed in addition to an operating system of the computer. An object, representing the control application and ha... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7613185 | Packet header compression for lossy channels An uncompressed packet header can be compressed in size to form a smaller, compressed packet header, such that the compressed header can include values that can be used to reproduce the uncompressed header. A compressed header can include at least two such values. A... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7610309 | Method and system for electronically viewing multi-page documents while preserving appearance of printed pages An electronic Yellow Pages viewer shows the pages of a Yellow Pages directory as they appear in the bound version. The print queue used to print the bound version is intercepted, and each page is rasterized into a JPEG file. The page/header/advertisement data are pa... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7573889 | Systems and methods for efficient buffering and metering of high-speed flows Systems and methods are disclosed in which one or more cells are buffered in a communication system. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a cell; classifying the cell as one of a set of flows; transmitting the cell to one of a set of queues of static mem... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7565401 | Page aggregation for web sites Disclosed is a method and device and computer storage medium for determining whether two pages linked on the World Wide Web are a part of the same World Wide Web site. The method involves examining and comparing the IP addresses of the Web pages, and can also be ext... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7389233 | Self-organizing speech recognition for information extraction A system is provided that trains a speech processing device to recognize any spoken language. The speech processing device is trained by receiving a group of speech frames (302). The group of speech frames is grouped into a group of segments (304). A m... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386795 | System and method for providing a graphical representation of a frame inside a central office of a telecommunications system A method is provided of presenting to a user a visual representation of a frame 275 resident at a central office 20 of a telecommunications system. The method includes the steps of: accessing a database including data as to a current condition of the f... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376584 | Systems and methods for fulfilling orders using location-based abbreviated dialing A system (100) configured to facilitate ordering of goods or services from a vendor (150) by a customer may include one or more base stations (130) configured to receive an abbreviated dialing sequence that corresponds to an order from a mobile ... | 05/20/2008 |
