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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941047 | Method for engineering connections in a dynamically reconfigurable photonic switched network A method for engineering of a connection in a WDM photonic network with a plurality of flexibility sites connected by links comprises calculating a physical end-to-end route between a source node and a destination node and setting-up a communication path along this ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940766 | Multicasting unicast packet/multiple classification of a packet A switch and a method are described herein that are capable of performing the following steps: (a) receiving the unicast packet which is a L3 routed packet at a port in a first Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN); (b) routing the received packet to a loopback port in ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7747165 | Network operating system with topology autodiscovery The network operating system includes an embedded platform for controlling operation of an agile optical network at the physical layer level. At the module embedded level, each module (card-pack) is provided with an embedded controller EC that monitors and control o... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7653874 | Methods and devices for generating XML expressed management transactions New XML management transaction requests including XPath expressions are used, for example, to forward configuration changes on to a data network device. The generation and use of these new requests helps reduce the costs associated with designing or upgrading data n... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650424 | Supporting mobile hosts on an internet protocol network A subnet of an information network includes one or more mobile hosts, and a first interface of a home router. The first interface and the mobile hosts are assigned corresponding group addresses. Unicast addresses of packets received at a second interface of the home... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7643459 | Methods, devices and architectures for establishing peer-to-peer sessions Signaling paths and communication sessions, such as voice-over-IP sessions, can be established in substantially shorter and predictable time periods than previously thought possible over carrier-based, peer-to-peer networks (P2P). Instead of requiring a signaling pa... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7633417 | Device and method for enhancing the human perceptual quality of a multimedia signal A device is described herein that performs a digital-to-analog conversion on a digital multimedia signal in a manner that enhances the human perceptual quality of the resulting analog multimedia signal (e.g., musical passage). In one embodiment, the device operates ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630635 | Channel wavelength assignment with transient reduction In an automatically switched optical network operating according to a wavelength plan, the wavelengths are assigned to an optical path based on availability, performance and SRS wavelength coupling reduction. First, the wavelengths are grouped in static bins based o... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7620273 | Methods and devices for providing optical, serviced-enabled cross-connections A technique for improving optical cross-connections comprises placing a switch in front of a number of processing units. So configured, the units are no longer dedicated to a specific link or signal. When necessary, a unit is connected/disconnected to one or more op... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7610480 | System and method for controlling boot-up process in a communications network switch A system and method for controlling an Ethernet node's boot-up process. Upon detecting a system reset condition with respect to the Ethernet node, a link down condition is effectuated on at least a portion of the link ports of the Ethernet node. Initialization and c... | 10/27/2009 |
