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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185946 | Wireless firewall with tear down messaging Methods of screening incoming packets are provided. A first firewall detects a tunnel formation. A second firewall maintains a list of open firewall sessions. Each tunnel has one or more associated firewall sessions. The first firewall detects variable situations, s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185642 | Communication policy enforcement in a data network A device is configured to receive authorization information from a first network device and to receive a request that data units sent to a destination device contain authorization information, where the request is received from a second network device. The device is... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185522 | Document scoring based on query analysis A system may determine an extent to which a document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the extent to which the document is selected when the document is included in a s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183844 | Switching power source (Problem) To provide a switching power source having a stable negative voltage output. (Means for Solving the Problem) A switching power source according to the present invention comprises a switching power source controller including a soft start circuit; an output... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181526 | Acoustic emission test sensor fixing device An acoustic emission test sensor fixing device, comprising a radial positioning mechanism, supporting mechanisms, bases, acoustic emission test sensor mounting mechanisms, and parallelism adjusting members, wherein the supporting mechanism comprises a main supportin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181525 | Universal acoustic emission test sensor fixing device A universal acoustic emission test sensor fixing device includes a radial positioning mechanism, supporting mechanisms, bases, acoustic emission test sensor mounting mechanisms, and parallelism adjusting members, in which the supporting mechanism includes a main sup... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180964 | Optimization of cache configuration for application design A system generates application code based on a received model, determines an optimal cache configuration based on the application code, executes the application code in a target cache environment, generates cache performance results based on the executed application... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180725 | Method and apparatus for selecting links to include in a probabilistic generative model for text Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that selects links while updating a probabilistic generative model for textual documents. During operation, the system receives a current model, which contains terminal nodes representing words and cluster n... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176245 | Dynamic disk throttling in a wide area network optimization device A network device may operate to increase application performance over a wide area network. In one particular implementation, the network device may monitor accesses to a disk drive from entities and determine whether an entity is accessing the disk drive in a manner... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176056 | Determining quality of linked documents A ranking component ranks documents, such as web pages or web sites, to obtain a ranking score that defines a quality judgment of the document. The ranking score of a particular document is based on the ranking score of the documents which link to it and based on af... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175339 | Scoring items A system identifies an image and determines whether the image contains inappropriate content based on first data associated with the image, second data associated with a document that contains the image or refers to the image, and/or third data associated with a gro... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175008 | Auto MEP ID assignment within CFM maintenance association A device may include a maintenance association endpoint configured to select a maintenance association endpoint identifier, transmit the maintenance association endpoint identifier to one or more other maintenance association endpoints, and automatically assign the ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174561 | Device, method and program for creating and displaying composite images generated from images related by capture position A system for presenting recorded data includes an electronic device and a database connectable to the electronic device over a communications network, the electronic device including a recording unit to record data from a first direction, a positional arrangement to... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171202 | Asynchronous distributed object uploading for replicated content addressable storage clusters A method is performed by two or more devices of a group of devices in a distributed data replication system. The method includes receiving, at the two or more devices, a group of chunks having a same unique temporary identifier, where the group of chunks comprises a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171048 | Ranking documents based on a location sensitivity factor Systems and methods improve search rankings for a search query by using location data associated with queries and documents related to the search query. In one aspect, a search query is received, a location score is determined, a topical score is determined, and an ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171027 | Clustering for additive trees A computing device-implemented method includes receiving an additive tree; assigning data associated with the additive tree to one or more initial clusters; partitioning the additive tree into one or more pairs of additive sub-trees corresponding to one or more bina... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170603 | Differentiated access to a data item store A portable electronic device includes an interface unit for connection to a removable storage medium; at least one data item store; a group of application handling units, at least one application handling unit in the group of application handling units providing an ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170219 | Size adjustable device and method One or more embodiments may provide for a size adjustable earphone that may include a foldable sleeve attached to an earphone housing. A first end of the foldable sleeve may embrace the earphone housing, where an opposite second end of the foldable sleeve may be ada... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170028 | Systems and methods for re-ordering data in distributed data forwarding A network device includes an input interface, at least one processing path and an output interface. The input interface receives data units on a plurality of streams and assigns a first sequence number to each of the received data units. The at least one processing ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169910 | Network traffic analysis using a flow table A device may receive a data unit at a line interface of a network device, convey the data unit to a first component in the line interface, update a flow table in the first component based on the data unit, send a message to a second component in the network device, ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166536 | Transformation of network filter expressions to a content addressable memory format A network device, such as a firewall, may be configured to filter network traffic. The filter may include regular expressions that are converted by the firewall into a format that can be stored in a ternary content addressable memory. In one exemplary implementation... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165308 | Arrangement and method for determining operational mode of a communication device A wireless electronic arrangement configured to connect to an earphone arrangement may include a signal generator to generate an electric signal to be sent over the earphone arrangement; a measuring arrangement to make at least one measurement of the electric signal... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165145 | Switching device A switching device in a network system for transferring data includes one or more source line cards, one or more destination line cards and a switching fabric coupled to the source line cards and the destination line cards to enable data communication between any so... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164392 | Error-free startup of low phase noise oscillators An isolation switch is used to isolate the output of an oscillator, during startup of the oscillator, from the circuitry that uses the periodic signal generated by the oscillator. In one implementation, a device may include an oscillator to generate a periodic signa... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161521 | Controlling network access by applying super security policies A device may monitor a security policy that governs a user access to a zone in a private network, propagate a change in status of the security policy to one or more devices that coordinate with each other to implement a super policy, detect whether conditions for tr... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161218 | Network adapter, method, and computer program product A network adapter for plugging into a host computer is provided. The network adapter may include an internal memory and connection means for connecting the host computer to a communications network. The network adapter may include resident application software store... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161072 | Systems and methods for sorting and displaying search results in multiple dimensions A system plots results of a data search. The system executes one or more search queries to search stored data. The system receives results of the executed one or more search queries, where the results are orderable by at least one search characteristic. The system d... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156481 | Profiler-based optimization of automatically generated code A device generates code with a technical computing environment (TCE) based on a model and information associated with a target processor, registers an algorithm with the TCE, automatically sets optimization parameters applied during generation of the code based on t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156102 | Inferring search category synonyms Systems and methods for inferring category synonyms from prior result data may include identifying prior query data including query information and category information relating to the prior result data; determining whether the query information is a synonym for the... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156099 | Interpreting local search queries A search query may be interpreted as a number of possible interpretations, and each interpretation may be explored before the results of the search are sent to a user. In one embodiment, a device may split the search query into partitions. Each of the partitions may... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155150 | Cooperative MAC learning/aging in highly distributed forwarding system A method may be performed by a device in a network, the device including multiple security process units (SPUs). The method includes receiving a packet over the network, the packet including a media access control (MAC) address, and assigning one SPU as the MAC addr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155042 | Method and arrangement relating communication devices A method for use in controlling transmit power of a radio transceiver for communication with a receiving and/or transmitting node is provided. The method may include transmitting a signal from the radio transmitter, the signal including a Transmit Power Control port... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154994 | Header conversion technique A header conversion device allowing reduced amount of hardware and memory and high-speed line switching is disclosed. In an ATM switching device having redundant incoming line systems, a header conversion table stores a set of header conversion information for one o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150860 | Ranking authors and their content in the same framework One or more server devices may simultaneously calculate first ranking scores for a group of users and second ranking scores for a group of comments authored by the group of users. The calculating may occur during a same process. The one or more server devices may fu... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149976 | Precise frequency estimation of short data bursts The invention performs frequency estimation over both the burst preamble, during which known symbols are transmitted, and also during the burst's data packet, which is subsequent to the preamble and extracted by the local detector. During the preamble, an initial fr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149970 | Multiple input, multiple output channel, digital receiver tuner The present invention teaches a compact and highly integrated multiple-channel digital tuner and receiver architecture, suitable for widespread field deployment, wherein each receiver demodulator channel may be remotely, automatically, dynamically, and economically ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148770 | Memory device with buried bit line structure A memory device includes a number of memory cells and a bit line structure coupled to a group of the memory cells. The bit line structure includes an upper portion having a first width, and a lower portion having a second width, where the first width is less than th... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146327 | Split crimper for heat sealing packaging material A split crimper for use in a crimping assembly for engaging and heat sealing overlapping layers of a packaging material includes a first crimper portion having a crimping surface and a second crimper portion that is secured to the first crimper portion to form a cri... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145746 | Using the TCP window size for identifying packets and debugging A device may distribute client packets to multiple servers, transmit health check packets with a specific window size to the multiple servers, capture the client packets and the health check packets, and extract the health check packets from the captured packets. In... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144705 | Systems and methods for recursively accessing a multi-bank SRAM A device may include multi-bank static random access memory (SRAM) logic that receives multiple addresses from a packet processor, and provides the multiple addresses to multiple SRAMs. The SRAM logic also reads intermediate data and final data from the multiple SRA... | 03/27/2012 |
