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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179800 | Elastic traffic marking for multi-priority packet streams in a communications network Routers in a communications network mark packets of a multi-priority stream to establish a drop precedence of the packets during network congestion. For each packet received, a router employs one of two types of packet-marking mechanisms to associate low drop preced... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8138665 | Liquid metal wetting of micro-fabricated charge-emission structures Described is a micro-fabricated charged particle emission device including a substrate and a plurality of charged particle emission sites formed in the substrate. A path extends between each emission site and a source of liquid metal. Each path is coated with a wett... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8106650 | System and method for measuring movement of a component from rings magnetized in a magnetically hard layer A position-sensing system includes a first component (e.g., a cylinder) and a second component (e.g., a piston rod) movably coupled to the first component for movement with respect thereto. A magnetically hard layer on the second component provides a recording mediu... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103801 | Marking and faulting input/output ports of an electronics system Described is an electronics system and method for marking and faulting I/O ports of an I/O module in the electronics system. Each I/O port has an associated light-emitting system that is capable of emitting a plurality of different colors. At least one color is blin... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8086569 | Asynchronous detection of local event based point-in-time state of local-copy in the remote-copy in a delta-set asynchronous remote replication A storage system executes a delta set asynchronous remote replication protocol, wherein writes to a local copy are aggregated into delta sets during successive delta cycles. The delta sets are sent to a remote storage system to be written to a remote copy. Independe... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8060759 | System and method of managing and optimizing power consumption in a storage system Described is a storage system and method for managing and optimizing power consumption in a storage system. Logical devices are mapped to physical disk drives. A plurality of power profiles is defined. Each power profile is associated with a mode of operation for a ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8037049 | System for automatic data retrieval based on context-traversal history A data retrieval system provides automatic retrieval of information based on a context-traversal history. A transferable object is identified in a first context while the user is operating in the first context. Information used to retrieve the transferable object is... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027347 | Border gateway protocol extended community attribute for layer-2 and layer-3 virtual private networks using 802.1ah-based tunnels Described are a network, network device, and method for a method of distributing routing information for a virtual private network (VPN) application through a packet-switched network (PSN) having fully meshed provider edge (PE) routers through Provider Backbone Brid... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019841 | Zoning for distance pricing and network engineering in connectionless and connection-oriented networks Described are a system and method for establishing zone-based pricing for services transported over connectionless and connection-oriented networks. The connectivity network supporting the service is partitioned into one or more zones. A node connected to a packet t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005176 | Architecture for systolic nonlinear filter processors Described are nonlinear filter processors having an array of polynomial nonlinear filters including a first polynomial nonlinear filter and a last polynomial nonlinear filter. The first polynomial nonlinear filter has an input terminal for receiving an input data sa... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7934032 | Interface for establishing operability between a processor module and input/output (I/O) modules Described are electronics systems and methods for distributing a limited number of lanes of a PCI Express-based processor (CPU) module among a plurality of PCI Express-based I/O modules with which the CPU module is in communication. The CPU module receives a code fr... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933955 | One-click universal screen sharing Described are systems and methods for screen sharing between computing systems. A guest system and a host system are coupled to a server over a network. The guest system automatically executes program code embedded in a web page received from the server. The program... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7890507 | System and method of joining data obtained from horizontally and vertically partitioned heterogeneous data stores using string-based location transparent search expressions Described are a system and method for accepting a string-based search expression, parsing the search expression into an expression tree, distributing the tree (or portion thereof) across heterogeneous repositories, and merging the results. The system is data-locatio... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7882373 | System and method of reducing power consumption in a storage system through shortening of seek distances Described is a storage system and method for reducing power consumption in a storage system by shortening seek distances associated with input/output (I/O) requests to a physical disk drive. A sweep direction is set. An offset of a new I/O request is evaluated to de... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7853574 | Method of generating a context-inferenced search query and of sorting a result of the query A method of generating a context-inferenced search query and of sorting a result of the query is described. The method includes analyzing an event associated with the user to determine a contextual setting, dynamically generating a search query based on the contextu... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843191 | System and method for measuring rotational movement of a component from regions magnetized in a magnetically hard layer of the component A position-sensing system magnetically senses the position of a piston rod moving with respect to a cylinder. A magnetically hard layer on the piston rod provides a recording medium. A track comprised of a plurality of magnetized regions is magnetized in the magneti... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840992 | System and method for environmentally aware data protection Described are a system and method for providing data protection. A storage management system in communication with first and second storage arrays is configured to implement a data protection procedure for protecting data stored in the first storage array using the ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7822798 | Dead reckoning for coordinate conversion Novel methods for converting coordinates for a position from a first coordinate system into coordinates in a second coordinate system are provided. Linear approximations of trigonometric functions are used to calculate values for the trigonometric functions when a p... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7821949 | Forwarding plane data communications channel for ethernet transport networks Described is a process and system for providing an extensible forwarding plane data communications channel adapted to selectively support operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) activity within one or more different domains of an Ethernet transport network.... | 10/26/2010 |
| RE41749 | Electrical connector and circuit card assembly Described is an electrical connector assembly with an electrical connector having a connector body that includes a receptacle connector portion at a first end and a plug connector portion at a second end opposite the first end. The receptacle connector portion has e... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7783818 | Modularized interconnect between root complexes and I/O modules Described are electronics enclosures having an I/O (input/output) module, a CPU (central processing unit) module having a root complex, and a pluggable, field-replaceable interconnect module electrically connected to the root complex of the CPU module by a first set... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783715 | Scheduled electronic mail deletions A method of managing electronic mail messages in an email account includes displaying an open email message to a user on a display screen of a device. While the open email message is displayed to the user, intent of the user to perform an action that will result in ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7737685 | Compositions for a magnetically hard layer on a piston rod Described is a piston rod position-sensing system having a cylinder and piston rod arranged in the cylinder for movement with respect thereto. A magnetically hard layer is formed on the piston rod to provide a recording medium. The magnetically hard layer is made of... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725476 | System and method for automated data retrieval based on data placed in clipboard memory A data retrieval system and method of the invention provide automatic retrieval of information based on data placed into, for example, a Windows™ clipboard. A user highlights and cuts (or pastes) data into the clipboard during execution of an application program. ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7716315 | Enclosure configurable to perform in-band or out-of-band enclosure management Described is an enclosure that is configurable to perform either in-band or out-of-band enclosure management. The enclosure includes a midplane, a processor blade, and a management module. The processor blade has program code for collecting management information fr... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7685395 | Spanning virtual arrays across multiple physical storage arrays Described are a storage network and method of presenting a virtual array in the storage network. The storage network includes a first storage array and a second storage array. At least one of the first and second storage arrays has one or more logical units of stora... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684961 | Light path diagnostics Described is an electronics system having an individually replaceable electronics module installed therein. The individually replaceable electronics module includes a component, a light-emitting device (LED) disposed near the component, a processor module for perfor... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7607172 | Method of protecting a computing system from harmful active content in documents Described are a system and method for protecting a computing device from potentially harmful code in a document. One or more definitions of potentially harmful active content are provided in an editable text file. The document is compared with each definition of pot... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7592926 | Light-emitting diode assembly for use in heads-up display systems of propeller-driven aircraft Described is a heads-up display system for an aircraft having a rotating propeller assembly. The heads-up display system includes an electrical interconnection sheet and a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) electrically connected to the electrical interconnec... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590933 | Method for displaying an annotated file A method and system for displaying an annotated file are described. The method includes associating an annotation with a programming module of a baseline file and displaying in a window of a graphical user interface the baseline file as a tree structure having a plu... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7590136 | System and method for routing traffic in an optical network A system and method for routing operations, administration, and maintenance traffic for an optical network are described. A subset of a routing information set is transmitted to tributary cards of a network element. The tributary cards route operations, administrati... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7590054 | Protection switching in an ethernet packet-switched network Protection switching in an Ethernet packet-switched network includes establishing first and second virtual circuits. The first virtual circuit carries packet traffic associated with a different service instance from packet traffic carried by the second virtual circu... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7590049 | System and method for configuring a network element to support protection switching in an optical network A system and method for configuring a network element to support protection switching in an optical network are described. The network element can operate according to the SONET, SDH, or both optical transport standards. Each tributary card of the network element ha... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7585005 | Locking mechanism for securing bezels A bezel has a locking mechanism that allows bezel designs to locate the bezel lock anywhere along the length of the bezel. The bezel includes a bezel frame, a first plunger mechanism, and a second plunger mechanism. Each plunger mechanism is moveably coupled to the ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7582858 | Apparatus and method of moving micro-droplets using laser-induced thermal gradients Described are an apparatus and method of moving micro-droplets. A surface has a liquid phase thereon. In the liquid phase is a droplet. Focused at an edge of the droplet is a beam of light. The light beam produces a thermal gradient sufficient to induce the droplet ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7574558 | Sector-edge cache Software that writes to storage disks using a differently sized sector format than that of the storage disks can require sector edges to be read from sectors of the disks before the write operation can occur. Write operations can consequently incur a performance pen... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7552280 | Asymmetrically interleaving access to redundant storage devices Described is a process and device for accessing data stored in multiple logical volumes. The data are replicated on first and second storage elements, such as the redundant hard disk drives of a disk mirror. The multiple logical volumes are divisible into a first lo... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7536543 | System and method for authentication and authorization using a centralized authority The invention features a system and method for authenticating and authorizing a user to log onto a network element in a telecommunications optical network. The administration of security for the network is handled by a centralized authority. The centralized authorit... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7519769 | Scalable storage network virtualization Described are a storage system and method for providing networked access to a plurality of storage devices. The storage system includes a virtualization controller coupled to a network. The virtualization controller produces a mapping of a virtual target to one or m... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518982 | System and method of communicating status and protection information between cards in a communications system Described are a system and method of communicating status and protection information between cards in a communications system. The system has a plurality of cards connected to a backplane. The plurality of cards includes a tributary card and a cross-connect card for... | 04/14/2009 |
