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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120002539 | HIERARCHICAL VIRTUAL PRIVATE LAN SERVICE HUB CONNECTIVITY FAILURE RECOVERY Techniques for recovering from hierarchical virtual private LAN service (HVPLS) hub connectivity failure are described herein. In one embodiment of the invention, a provider edge network element reuses an HVPLS spoke connectivity failure recovery mechanism in an MTU to ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110019540 | WIRELESS AD HOC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL, PROCESSING METHOD IN TERMINAL AND PROGRAM TO MAKE TERMINAL EXECUTE PROCESSING METHOD A wireless ad hoc communication system is provided in which in the case where an alternative route can not be discovered in a certain node, a restoration is attempted in an intermediate node instead of deleting all routes up to a transmission source. | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100260042 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Disclosed are a data transceiver and a method thereof in a wireless communication system, and particularly, is a data transceiver and method thereof using multiple routes in the wireless communication system. The data transmitting/receiving method using the multiple rou... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20090268712 | Method for Establishing a Multimedia Session With a Remote User of a Communications Network For establishing a multimedia session with a remote user's terminal, a terminal starts a signaling intended to establish the multimedia session addressed to the remote user's terminal. Predetermined acknowledgement messages indicate to the terminal and to the remote ter... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090086625 | Method and Apparatus For Providing a Distributed Control Plane for a Mobility Home Agent The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing a distributed control plane for a mobility home agent by enabling multiple home addresses associated with multiple home agents to be assigned to a mobile node contemporaneously. A first home agent assigns a fir... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20080074997 | Forwarding data in a data communications network An apparatus is described for forwarding data in a data communications network having as components nodes and links therebetween in which nodes obtain a reachability metric between a neighbor node and one or more other nodes in the network and in which a repair path is ... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080008089 | Optimal route selection in a content delivery network A routing mechanism, service or system operable in a distributed networking environment. One preferred environment is a content delivery network (CDN) wherein the present invention provides improved connectivity back to an origin server, especially for HTTP traffic. In ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080002572 | A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY MANAGING A VIRTUAL OUTPUT QUEUING SYSTEM A method and a system for automatically managing a virtual output queuing system in a switching fabric. The method comprises detecting if a link is one of a non-operational-link and an operational-link. The link enables communication between a first-switching-unit and a... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070248043 | Method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for dynamic resource allocation across FDD and TDD systems A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for dynamically assigning radio resources between a frequency division duplexing (FDD) carrier and a time division duplexing (TDD) carrier is provided. The method includes monitoring radio frequency conditions and traffi... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070091792 | Multiple endpoint paths for point-to-multipoint (P2MP) SPVC A method and system for implementing Multiple Endpoint Paths (MEP) for Point to Multipoint (P2MP) calls over Soft Permanent Virtual Connections (SPVC) are provided. When a condition is detected that requires a particular endpoint to be switched to an alternate endpoint,... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070081451 | Method for controlling redundancy and transmission device using the same A redundancy control method is disclosed that controls a first redundancy function that switches between a working line and a protection line in response to a detection of a line error and a second redundancy function that performs a path switching in response to a dete... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20060268688 | Radio ad hoc communication system, terminal, processing method in the terminal, and program causing the terminal to execute the method A wireless ad hoc communication system is provided in which in the case where an alternative route can not be discovered in a certain node, a restoration is attempted in an intermediate node instead of deleting all routes up to a transmission source. | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060250952 | TECHNIQUE FOR CONTROLLING SELECTION OF A PEEK ADAPTER OR A READ ADAPTER FROM MULTIPLE ADAPTERS CONNECTED TO A HIGH SPEED SWITCH A technique is provided for facilitating peeking and reading of messages from multiple adapters connected, for example, to a high speed switch in a distributed computing environment. The technique employs a first, relatively quick filter to initially test whether a prev... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060203719 | Method and apparatus for protection switching in virtual private networks Protection switching of a virtual private network is provided whereby working VPN paths and protection VPN paths are defined. The working VPN path is monitored for increased data traffic and failures, and in response, data is switched from the working VPN path to the pr... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060187820 | Vector routing-revised A device used to combine two or more diverse network paths to increase the amount of bandwidth available both to and from external networks and a local network by dividing traffic between the network paths and provide for redundancy in the event of a network path failur... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060077891 | Wiring closet redundancy Systems and method for providing redundancy of communications and/or inline power to a powered Ethernet device are disclosed. A redundancy device is configured to receive in-line data and/or power from a plurality of Ethernet relay uplinks and to monitor communications ... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20050201277 | Communication method and apparatus On a transmission side, phase information divided is sequentially inserted respectively into at least two predetermined bytes within a path overhead for each single frame of a transmission signal so as to compose a multiframe, and the transmission signal is branched int... | 09/15/2005 |
