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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8428514 | Asymmetric and asynchronous energy conservation protocol for vehicular networks An asymmetric and asynchronous energy conservation protocol for vehicular networks is provided. In one aspect, an a-quorum may be defined for one or more members for the one or more members to establish asymmetric links to contact the cluster head. An s-quorum for t... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8406423 | Multi-bit cryptographically secure encryptor for M-ary spectral phase encoder optical code division multiple access A system and methods are provided for transmitting an encrypted data word of two or more bits. This involves identifying a random key word comprising two or more bits for encrypting the data word and identifying a set of unique orthogonal codes. This also involves s... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8397065 | Secure content based routing in mobile ad hoc networks Methods and systems for information dissemination in mobile ad hoc networks founded on Content Based Routing. The method comprises encoding, via an encoding logic within the source node, a plurality of information categories associated with the content in a header o... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8397063 | Method for a public-key infrastructure for vehicular networks with limited number of infrastructure servers A system, and method related thereto, for providing a vehicular communications network public-key infrastructure. The system comprises a plurality of communications infrastructure nodes and a plurality of vehicles each having a communications component. The communic... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8387126 | Systems and methods for authenticating a server by combining image recognition with codes A system and method is provided for authenticating a first device to a second device. This involves providing images to the second device, receiving an indication of selected ones of the images as authenticating images, and identifying an authenticating code associa... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8386853 | System and method for a staggered execution environment A staggered execution environment is provided to safely execute an application program against software failures. In an embodiment, the staggered execution environment includes one or more probe virtual machines that execute various portions of an application progra... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8385940 | Modified overhead adjustment function A MOAF algorithm is used to resize cells for balancing capacity. The MOAF algorithm bases its decision on a cell and all other cells which the algorithm decides are sufficiently close in a propagation sense to affect the results. The MOAF algorithm also automaticall... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8370895 | Social network privacy by means of evolving access control A method and software product for limit privacy loss due to data shared in a social network, where the basic underlying assumptions are that users are interested in sharing data and cannot be assumed to constantly follow appropriate privacy policies. Social networks... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8364033 | Differential eye diagrams Changes in a signal are detected. The signal is repeatedly sampled in a synchronous manner during a predetermined interval to generate a captured eye diagram. At least one of a positive differential eye diagram or a negative differential eye diagram is generated fro... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8363832 | Vehicle segment certificate management using shared certificate schemes The present invention advantageously provides techniques to solve problems with combinatorial anonymous certificate management by addressing critical issues concerning its feasibility, scalability, and performance. Methods and procedures to manage IEEE 1609.2 anonym... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8355495 | Multi vendor NPAC administration peering An architecture and accompanying method and apparatus for providing multi vendor administration of telephone numbers being ported from one service provider to another. ... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8351799 | Multiscale sampling for wide dynamic range electro-optic receivers A method for multiscale sampling for wide dynamic range electro-optic receivers is presented. The method comprises obtaining a signal, reproducing the signal into first and second signals, scaling one signal with respect to the other, modulating both signals with th... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8351417 | Methods for efficient organization of vehicle peer groups and efficient V2R communications The present invention provides methods for efficient control message distribution in a VANET. Efficient flooding mechanisms are provided to fulfill the objective of flooding (delivering a message to every connected node) with a limited number of re-broadcasting by s... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8320274 | Distributed method for equitable bandwidth allocation for content distribution in a network A distributed method is presented for determining equitable bandwidth allocations in a content distribution tree network, where the root of the tree has a server that broadcasts multiple programs throughout the tree. The intensive computations in the distributed met... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8315966 | Scalable and interactive method of generating and modifying network configurations to enforce compliance with high-level requirements A system and method provides a solution to the problem of applying end-to-end requirements of connectivity, security, reliability and performance to configure a network and ultimately assign network components to the network. All requirements are modeled as constrai... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8315186 | System for extracting and combining information from IP device configurations, inventory systems, and real-time network monitoring The inventive system and method for improving network security, availability, and regulatory compliance, and maximizing a network comprises a network configuration component, a network inventory component, a network monitoring component, and a network assessment com... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8301744 | Systems and methods for QoS provisioning and assurance for point-to-point SIP sessions in DiffServ-enabled MPLS networks Systems and methods for efficiently provisioning and assuring Quality of Service (QoS) between user networks communicating over a DiffServ-enabled network, with QoS management transparency to SIP user agents. The system comprises user networks communicating via a co... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8301026 | Network restoration under dual failures using path protecting preconfigured cycles The design of optical telecommunication networks is such that there is provision of end-to-end path restoration to specified demands under up to two links or nodes failures. Restoration routes are provided on Path Protecting Preconfigured Cycles (PP-PCs), where each... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8296675 | System and method for capturing, aggregating and presenting attention hotspots in shared media A method and system for providing an attention hotspot in temporal media is provided and executes following explicit or implicit user actions. The method comprises identifying at least one event related to playback or browsing of the temporal media, deriving the sig... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8295257 | Scalable disruptive-resistant communication method A method for transmitting data in vehicular network comprising determining a communication window between at least two nodes, grouping a plurality of fragments of content together into an aggregate fragment block, forwarding the aggregate fragment block to a target ... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8290371 | OCDM-based all optical multi-level security A high data rate optical signal is inverse multiplexed into a multitude of lower-rate tributaries, each of which is coded by its unique OCDM code, and the combined coded tributaries are injected into a common phase scrambler. Coherent summation of these optically en... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8290367 | OSS support for control plane technology The OSS provides unique and automated provisioning, activation, fallout management and monitoring of SONET and WDM networks comprising control plane mesh and traditional SONET/WDM Rings/Chains. Resource discovery and dynamic provisioning provides for increased use o... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8289872 | System and method for assigning information categories to multicast groups A system and method for determining an efficient assignment of information categories to multicast addresses is described. In one embodiment, the assignment takes into account the overlapping info cation needs of the subscriber nodes and the network bandwidth that w... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8281397 | Method and apparatus for detecting spoofed network traffic A method and apparatus for detecting spoofed IP network traffic is presented. A mapping table is created to indicate correlations between IP address prefixes and AS numbers, based on routing information collected from a plurality of data sources. At each interface o... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8280835 | Method for automated distributed diagnostics for networks A method for distributed computations for fault-diagnosis in a system whose fault propagation model has deterministic couplings between faults and symptoms includes creating a ‘relation graph’ in which the nodes correspond to the potential faults, with two nodes... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8280378 | Method and system to support user-centric selection of point of attachment through momentary interactive multimedia experience conveyance and through correlation of web links to quality and experience metrics A system and method for improving quality of experience (QoE) of using a mobile device can comprise utilization of stored information relating to RANs of service providers and QoE ratings, receiving an event related to the RANs or to mobile Web browsing actions, rec... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8275260 | Network restoration under link or node failure using preconfigured virtual cycles The design of telecommunication networks is such that there is provision of end-to-end path protection to multiple demands under a single link or node failure in the networks. Restoration routes are provided on Preconfigured Virtual Cycles (PVC's), where each demand... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8274910 | Adaptation protocols for local peer group (LPG) networks in dynamic roadway environments A method and system for determining a size of a local peer group (LPG) network in a dynamic roadway (mobile) environment is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises measuring a roundtrip time between a first node and a second node, and utilizing the measure... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8255505 | System for intelligent context-based adjustments of coordination and communication between multiple mobile hosts engaging in services A system and method for intelligent, context-sensitive enhancement of transactions among a plurality of mobile hosts, each having a local coordinator, engaging in services comprising an actual coordinator and an intelligence coordinator that determines context regar... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8254301 | Group-header based method to organize local peer group of vehicles for inter-vehicle communication A method for establishing and maintaining the network and a corresponding ad-hoc moving-device to moving-device network having a plurality of moving-devices grouped into a Local Peer Group (LPG) is disclosed. A group header node (GH) is selected from the plurality o... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8234522 | Computing diagnostic explanations of network faults from monitoring data A system and method for network fault diagnosis in a network having network elements is presented. The method comprises creating a network causality model, generating Boolean expressions from the network causality model, converting the Boolean expressions into SAT s... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8214876 | System and method for statistical analysis of border gateway protocol (BGP) configurations Routing and connectivity in the Internet is largely governed by the dynamics and configuration of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). A configuration analysis toolkit enables network operators to discover, analyze and diagnose their BGP configuration, policies and pe... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8199683 | Full-duplex wireless communication using a single transmitter A system for fall-duplex communication using a single transmitter is presented. The system comprises a base station with a signal and data processor, peripheral detectors each placed at a distance from the transmitting antenna, and a mobile device having at least a ... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8195984 | System and method for a staggered execution environment A staggered execution environment is provided to safely execute an application program against software failures. In an embodiment, the staggered execution environment includes one or more probe virtual machines that execute various portions of an application progra... | 06/05/2012 |
| 8189789 | Intrusion-tolerant group management for mobile ad-hoc networks An inventive system and method for intrusion-tolerant group management for a network is presented. The method comprises a client broadcasting a message request to controllers and validating the rekey messages received from the controllers, and controllers validating... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8171410 | Method and system for generating and presenting mobile content summarization This invention involves a system and method to construct a visual representation of multidimensional data that works especially well for video. The system comprises an application on a mobile device having a screen, an assignment module assigning the media segments ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171283 | Vehicle segment certificate management using short-lived, unlinked certificate schemes The present invention advantageously provides a system and method for management of cryptographic keys and certificates for a plurality of vehicles. Each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles generates public/private key pairs, requests multiple time-distributed cert... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169897 | Achieving high-rate multi-hop data delivery in vehicular networks A method for high rate data delivery in a multi-hop vehicular network comprises at each source vehicle, initiating a packet having a flow tag, assigning an identifier of the content and the current location to the flow tag, and forwarding the packet; at each destina... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160078 | Inter-local peer group (LPG) routing method An on-demand method of routing data between a plurality of local peer groups (LPG). Each LPG includes a plurality of moving nodes. The method comprises transmitting a route request message from a source node, relaying the route request message to a native boundary n... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8116269 | Methods for optimal multi-channel assignments in vehicular ad-hoc networks A communications path is established among an ordered sequence of moving nodes, representing vehicles. Available channels may differ from one node to the next node and a node cannot use the same channel for both receiving and transmitting information. Three methods ... | 02/14/2012 |
