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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110029511 | KEYWORD ASSIGNMENT TO A WEB PAGE A method, system and apparatus for a assigning keywords to a web page using keyword data from the web page itself, web pages having links pointing to the web page, and web pages pointed to by a link in the web page, wherein the keyword data from the multiple web pages i... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110010337 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREMENTAL QUANTILE TRACKING OF MULTIPLE RECORD TYPES A method and apparatus are provided for incrementally tracking quantiles in the presence of multiple record types. A method for performing incremental quantile tracking includes receiving a first data record of a first record type having a first data value, determining ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110010327 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREMENTAL TRACKING OF MULTIPLE QUANTILES A method and apparatus for incremental tracking of multiples quantiles is provided. A method for performing an incremental quantile update using a data value of a received data record includes determining an initial distribution function, updating the initial distributi... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110007705 | MOBILITY ACCESS GATEWAY A gateway for mobile access includes a foreign agent that receives user profile data and session state data from a home authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) system of a mobile node, and a dynamic packet filter that performs multi-layer filtering based on t... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100332755 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A SHARED RING BUFFER TO PROVIDE THREAD SYNCHRONIZATION IN A MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM An apparatus and method for improving synchronization between threads in a multi-core processor system are provided. An apparatus includes a memory, a first processor core, and a second processor core. The memory includes a shared ring buffer for storing data units, and... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329677 | Symbol Timing Recovery in Polarization Division Multiplexed Coherent Optical Transmission System A method, apparatus and system for providing clock and data recovery in a receiver for receiving a high speed coherent polarization division multiplexed optical signal using a digital signal processing block including a spectral domain spatial combiner are provided.... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329145 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE FLOW RECORD GENERATION AND ANALYSIS A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for generating a mobile flow record for a mobile flow of a mobile node are provided. A method includes receiving information associated with signaling traffic of the mobile node, receiving information associated ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329133 | NETWORK DETECTION OF REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS USING INCREMENTAL LINEAR REGRESSION Method and apparatus using incremental linear regression to derive a traffic flow signature indicative of a particular application within a packet stream.... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329123 | DETECTION OF ACCESS POINT LOCATION ERRORS IN ENTERPRISE LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS Method and apparatus for validating location information associated with an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) by subjecting neighborhood node proximity information retrieved from an AP and neighborhood node location information retrieved from a d... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100302730 | USE OF VORTEX GENERATORS TO IMPROVE EFFICACY OF HEAT SINKS USED TO COOL ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRO-OPTICAL COMPONENTS Use of vortex generators to improve efficacy of heat sinks used to cool telecommunications, electrical and electro-optical components.... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100293423 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIRTUAL IN-CIRCUIT EMULATION A virtual In-Circuit Emulation (ICE) capability is provided herein for supporting testing of Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) hardware. A Virtual ICE Driver is configured for enabling any debug software to interface with target hardware in a flexible and scalable manner. ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100292995 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREMENTAL QUANTILE ESTIMATION A method and apparatus for incremental quantile estimation is provided. A method for performing incremental quantile estimation using an estimated cumulative distribution function includes receiving a record, identifying an entity with which the received record is assoc... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100269024 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTISET MEMBERSHIP TESTING USING COMBINATORIAL BLOOM FILTERS A method and apparatus providing improved set membership determination and group membership identification of candidate data elements using a single Bloom filter programmed to provide a plurality of non-zero f-bit binary vectors, where each of the f-bit binary vectors i... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265945 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FAULT-RESILIENT MULTICAST AND UNICAST IN TRANSPORT NETWORKS A capability is provided for supporting fault-resilient propagation of traffic in networks using redundant multicast trees (RMTs). Fault-resilient propagation of traffic from a first node to a second node is supported using one or both of a pair of RMTs rooted at the fi... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100247278 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EJECTING A PAYLOAD FROM A MOBILE UNIT An apparatus and method for deploying a payload at a location are provided. The apparatus includes a mount adapted to be attached to a mobile unit while allowing normal operation of the mobile unit, and a deployment mechanism. The deployment mechanism supports a payload... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247113 | PHASE ERROR CORRECTION IN A COHERENT RECEIVER A method and apparatus for correcting of phase errors in a coherent optical receiver are disclosed. Embodiments include a method for calculating a phase error between in-phase and quadrature-phase component signals, multiplying the phase error by one of the component si... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246128 | Circuit Pack Cooling Solution An improved apparatus and system are provided for heat dissipation in a bank of circuit components using heat pipes and/or vapor chambers, wherein the heat pipes and/or vapor chambers efficiently transport heat away from high heat components.... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100238839 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIP MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing SIP message prioritization between network elements along at least a portion of an end-to-end path between a SIP client and a SIP server. The method includes determining a SIP message prioritization policy and ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100229210 | REAL-TIME MULTI-MEDIA STREAMING BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT A multi-media method, system and apparatus are provided to optimize a network bandwidth and enhanced video experience. Each of a plurality of environmental views are encoded and the encoded multi-media streams are subsequently transcoded in accordance with respective en... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100229058 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM TESTING USING SCAN CHAIN DECOMPOSITION A method is provided for testing a portion of a system under test via a scan chain of the system under test. The method includes decomposing the scan chain into a plurality of segments, generating a set of instructions for testing the portion of the system under test, a... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100229042 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM TESTING USING MULTIPLE PROCESSORS An apparatus is provided for performing testing of at least a portion of a system under test via a Test Access Port (TAP) configured to access the system under test. The apparatus includes a first processor for executing instructions adapted for controlling testing of a... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100229036 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM TESTING USING MULTIPLE INSTRUCTION TYPES An apparatus for use in testing at least a portion of a system under test via a Test Access Port (TAP) is provided. The apparatus includes a memory for storing a set of instructions of a test instruction set architecture and a processor executing the set of instructions... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100228610 | ADDING TEXT OR GRAPHICS TO AN ADVERTISEMENT USING DTV CLOSED CAPTIONING A mechanism to controllability overlay text and/or graphics over advertisements within the context of a DTV system using a closed captioning (CC) processing ability of set-top boxes within the DTV system.... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100217869 | TOPOLOGY AWARE CACHE COOPERATION A content distribution network (CDN) comprising a hierarchy of content storage nodes (CSNs) or caches having storage space that is allocated between local space for storing locally popular content objects and federated space for storing a portion of the less popular con... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100217866 | Load Balancing in a Multiple Server System Hosting an Array of Services A method and system for load balancing in a multiple server system supporting multiple services are provided to determine the best server or servers supporting a service with the best response time. An induced aggregate load is determined for each of the multiple servic... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100215374 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DATA VIA POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING Systems, apparatus and method for modulating digital data onto an optical carrier to produce a modulated optical carrier in which symbol-modulated optical signals of orthogonal polarizations are temporally interleaved and adapted to be processed by electronic time-divis... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100205612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PROTOCOL MESSAGES FOR MULTIPLE PROTOCOL INSTANCES The invention includes a method and apparatus for processing protocol messages for multiple protocol instances. In one embodiment, a method for processing protocol messages includes receiving a plurality of messages for a plurality of processors where each received mess... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100146623 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PATTERN MATCHING FOR INTRUSION DETECTION/PREVENTION SYSTEMS A packet is compared to a pattern defined by a regular expression with back-references (backref-regex) in a single pass of a non-deterministic finite automaton corresponding to the backref-regex (backref-NFA) that includes representations for all backref-regex's back-re... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100138885 | Prioritized Retransmission of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) Packets A method and system for improved error resiliency in Internet protocol Television (IPTV) are provided. Received media stream is encoded in a real-time protocol. The RTP media stream is then reordered in a homogeneous arrangement (e.g., video packets together, audio pack... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100119195 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A WAVELENGTH INSENSITIVE 90-DEGREE HYBRID DEVICE Various embodiments include means of reducing wavelength dependency of an optical device by causing oscillating modes within at least one terminal associated with the device.... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100115350 | DETERMINISTIC WAVELET THRESHOLDING FOR GENERAL-ERROR METRICS Novel, computationally efficient schemes for deterministic wavelet thresholding with the objective of optimizing maximum-error metrics are provided. An optimal low polynomial-time algorithm for one-dimensional wavelet thresholding based on a new dynamic-programming (DP)... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100111197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FAST CHANNEL CHANGE Providing a fast channel change function in a digital television system by hierarchically modulating each channel to provide both high priority (long interleave) and low priority (short interleave) signals, wherein a receiver may rapidly demodulate and use information w... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100110936 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING DATA PACKETS Embodiments of the invention provide a method for building a classification tree based on a plurality of rules. Each rule includes multiple fields having different priority levels. The classification tree is built to provide for single pass classification of a received ... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100103144 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED COMPUTER MONITORING PAD POINTING DEVICE A monitoring pad assembly is provided for use with a graphical user interface including a monitoring pad and a signal assembly, at least one of which may be adapted to be worn on at least one of a user's digits, wherein movement of the signal assembly relative to the to... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100091765 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENABLING OPTIMIZED GATEWAY SELECTION FOR INTER-WORKING BETWEEN CIRCUIT-SWITCHED AND INTERNET TELEPHONY An optimized gateway selection process of the present invention is based on a universal mobility manager (UMM), a component for inter-technology location management. The UMM is capable of holding location information for diverse cellular networks, as well as for Interne... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100085868 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED MULTICAST STREAMING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing media content. The method includes duplicating each packet of an original packet stream for which an associated importance level satisfies an importance condition, inserting each duplicate packet within the ori... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100083189 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPATIAL CONTEXT BASED COORDINATION OF INFORMATION AMONG MULTIPLE DEVICES The invention includes a method and apparatus for coordinating transfer of information between ones of a plurality of devices including a coordinating device and at least one other device. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting selection of an item available at ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100080153 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRIORITIZING PACKETS FOR USE IN MANAGING PACKETS IN RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS The invention includes a method and apparatus adapted for managing packets within a Radio Access Network (RAN). A method includes receiving a packet within the RAN, determining a packet priority assigned to the packet, and managing the packet within the RAN based on the... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100080123 | Method and Apparatus for Signaling Proprietary Information Between Network Elements of a Core Network in a Wireless Communication Network The invention includes a method and apparatus for signaling proprietary information between network elements of a core network (CN) of a wireless communication network. A method for signaling proprietary information within the CN includes encoding the proprietary inform... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100080120 | PROTECTED-FAR-NODE-BASED SOLUTION FOR FAULT-RESILIENT MPLS/T-MPLS MULTICAST SERVICES A system and method providing fault resilient multicast services using a network topology in which a source node communicates with a plurality of receiver nodes via at least two disjoint paths in which at least one receiver node is provisioned according to a 1+1 protect... | 04/01/2010 |
