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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090109845 | Packet Flow Optimization (PFO) Policy Management in a Communications Network by Rule Name In one embodiment, a method includes receiving packet flow optimization (PFO) configuration data that associates each rule name of multiple PFO rule names with a corresponding method for processing a data packet in a communications network based on data in a payload of ... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090086726 | Service Advertisement Framework (SAF) in a Communications Network In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first update message at a first forwarding node from a second forwarding node of the communications network. The first update message includes forwarded service type data that indicates a type of service available via the... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090086663 | Selecting Aggregation Nodes in a Network In one embodiment, a method includes determining, at a local node in a network of multiple nodes, a first neighbor node of one or more neighbor nodes with which the local node is in direct communication based on a first number of nodes with which the first neighbor node... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090059925 | Evaluation of Network Data Aggregation In one embodiment, a method includes receiving topology data that indicates multiple communication links and multiple intermediate network nodes in communication based on the communication links. The intermediate network nodes include multiple leaf nodes that terminate ... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090036157 | Protected Data Capture In one embodiment, a method includes receiving disposition data from a subscriber. The disposition data indicates a first particular condition predicate for performing a particular action on data associated with the subscriber and archived by a service provider. After r... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080285475 | Charging for Network Services based on Delivered Quality of Service In one embodiment, a method includes receiving quality if service difference data. Quality of service difference data indicates how a particular flow of data packets between a first end node of a particular subscriber and a different second end node differs from a parti... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080279200 | User Sensitive Filtering of Network Application Layer Resources In one embodiment, a method includes receiving authorization data at a local node of a network. The authorization data indicates a particular network address of a different node in the network and an authenticated user ID of a user of the different node. Resource profil... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080259820 | Creating Non-transit Nodes in a Link State Network In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first link state initiation (HELLO) message from a first neighboring router. The HELLO message requests that a recipient node send a unique identifier for itself in a link state routing protocol. In response to receiving ... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080247392 | Validating Internal Routing Protocol Information Passed Through an External Routing Protocol In one embodiment, a method includes receiving authenticated site data that includes site ID data and address data. The site ID data indicates a unique site ID for each site among multiple sites for a first network that uses an internal routing protocol. Multiple edge s... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080239997 | Distributed Real-time Data Mixing for Conferencing In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data that indicates a maximum number of end nodes with which to set up real-time data sessions that is less than a conference number of nodes whose data is mixed in a single real-time data conference. Real-time data session... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080240118 | Sending Routing Protocol Data on a Multi-Access Network Segment In one embodiment, a method includes setting a re-flood time to a non-zero first value. Update data that indicates a change to link data is received over a network interface from an updating node of multiple nodes on a multi-access segment connected to the interface. Th... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080225741 | Monitor for Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks In one embodiment, a method includes receiving label data that indicates all interface labels that belong to each path ID of multiple path IDs associated with corresponding multiple paths between provider edge nodes in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. Ea... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080219334 | Managing Bit Error Rates on Point-To-Point Wireless Links in a Network In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a decoder connected to a wireless receiver for communication with a remote apparatus, first error data that indicates a current error rate that corresponds to a first inbound data packet received from the remote appar... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080212585 | Preventing Loops during Recovery in Network Rings Using Cost Metric Routing Protocol In one embodiment, a method includes receiving advertised costs to reach a destination address from neighbor routers. Based on the advertised costs, a minimum first cost to reach the destination address from the local router through the neighbors is determined. The firs... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080215734 | Gracefully Changing a Node in a Distributed Computing Network In one embodiment, a method includes determining to change a number of objects controlled by a particular node in a network. Each object is a resource provided by the network and has a unique object position in a coordinate space of N dimensions. Each node has a unique ... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080130500 | Automatic Overlapping Areas that Flood Routing Information In one embodiment, a method includes receiving on a first communication link at a local router all routing information at a certain level of detail for each router of multiple routers communicating in a first flooding domain. A measure of distance is determined from a p... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080123915 | Techniques for Converting Analog Medical Video to Digital Objects Techniques for converting analog medical video data to digital objects include receiving a digital video signal. The signal is produced by converting an analog video signal from playing a legacy analog medical video medium on an appropriate analog video player. Without ... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080015896 | Hospital Pay for Performance Based on Gain-Sharing Techniques for determining payment to a particular health care facility for health care delivery include determining target adverse results rate (ARR) for treatment of a particular range of patient health conditions (RHC). A first actual cost is determined for treatment... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20080015418 | Techniques for Implementing Virtual Persons in a System to Train Medical Personnel Techniques for delivering medical care include receiving normal data that indicates normal conditions in a patient. Abnormality data is received and indicates an abnormal condition, if any, in a patient. An instance of a virtual patient is generated based on the normal ... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070288215 | Techniques for Determining the Effects on a System of a Component that has Four States Techniques for determining effects on a biological system include determining rate constants for a particular time interval starting at an initial time. Each rate constant indicates a rate of transition from one of four states to a different one of the four states for a... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070223936 | Broadband Analog to Digital Conversion using Analog Spectral Recording A method and apparatus for converting an analog waveform to a series of digital values includes receiving an input analog waveform to be digitized over a particular frequency band. A phase-sensitive frequency-domain representation of the input analog waveform is recorde... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070167784 | Real-time Elastic Registration to Determine Temporal Evolution of Internal Tissues for Image-Guided Interventions Techniques for indicating arrangement of moving target tissue in a living body include receiving first scan data based at least in part on a first mode of measuring with high spatial resolution over a first duration at a first time. Also received is second scan data rep... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070093260 | Method and System for Customizing Distributed Short Message Routing Short messages are formatted as control messages in a communication network but do not control the communication network. Techniques for dynamically distributing short messages include remotely reprogramming a control node that processes control messages for the communi... | 04/26/2007 |
