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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120106346 | LOAD BALANCING TO PROVIDE A TARGET GRADE OF SERVICE (GOS) A method includes receiving metrics associated with traffic that complies with a grade of service (GOS) associated with a customer premises equipment (CPE) device, where the metrics identify a group of cells via which the traffic is received by the CPE device. The metho... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120051222 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD A communication apparatus and a communication control method are provided that can transmit a high-priority stream and interrupt a transmission of a low-priority stream when a network is busy, and control the transmissions of streams for each stream. The communication a... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044810 | WIRELESS TERMINAL A communication permitted slot setting section 12a randomly and equally divides one prescribed cycle for each wireless terminal and sets some of them, respectively, as permitted slots “p.” A communication assigning section 12b assigns the... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039176 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DOWNLINK FLOW CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Methods and apparatus for downlink rate control by a user equipment (UE) (e.g., when an overload condition happens at the UE) are provided. For example, the UE may experience CPU overload, CPU near-overload, memory overload, memory near-overload, overheating or near-ove... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110299399 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONGESTION CONTROL Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of congestion control. The method includes transmitting by a first apparatus to a second apparatus a packet stream corresponding to stream data generated by a variable data rate application, determining a round-trip-time of a p... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299400 | System for congestion control in packet networks Variable Rate Congestion Controllers and methods for implementing Variable Rate Congestion Control are presented. An efficient and systematic method for performing variable rate network congestion control is presented. A selection mechanism is selected such that the end... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299401 | ROUTING UNDER HEAVY LOADING According to the invention, a delivery network for assisting delivery of content objects over an Internet is disclosed. The delivery network includes a network outlet, an interface and a routing function. The network outlet is coupled to a plurality of full-route networ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292808 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SMS TERMINATION OVERLOAD PROTECTION In order to ameliorate the overload at an overloaded network node that is discarding some of the SMSs it is receiving, when a node is overloaded with received SMSs, it sends a message to the nodes from which it is receiving SMSs of that fact and includes a parameter ind... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292807 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIDEBAND COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE FOR SUPPORTING MANAGEABILITY OVER WIRELESS LAN (WLAN) A management controller in a network device may support performing management operations based on management traffic communicated wirelessly via a wireless network controller of the network devices. The management controller may perform the management operations and/or ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292805 | COMMUNICATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD A communication processing device includes: a judging section, a distributing section, a congestion rate calculating section, and a reading section. The judging section judges whether each of received packets is a diagnosing packet and that classifies the received packe... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292806 | SWITCHING DEVICE AND SWITCHING METHOD Each of a first switching processor and a second switching processor included in a switching device switches plural pieces of data to determined destinations. A controller bypass-transmits a determined number of pieces of data received by the first switching processor t... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110273989 | System for mobile broadband networking using dynamic quality of service provisioning A wireless networking system uses mobile and fixed transceivers to achieve a network with changing topology. A routing process includes quality-of-service considerations in the network to allow for features such as file or other data transfer, streaming audio and video,... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110273988 | Distributing decision making in a centralized flow routing system Local rules for managing flows devolved from a central controller are received at a switch. The central controller determines a global set of rules for managing flows. The switch receives a packet from a flow from a network and determines whether a metric for the flow s... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267952 | DYNAMIC LATENCY-BASED REROUTING A switch creates and dynamically updates a latency map of a network to adjust routing of flows. Further, the network is monitored to detect latency issues and trigger a dynamic adjustment of routing based on the latency map. In this manner, a flow can be routed along a ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110255410 | Congestion control method and devices A method for congestion response in a communication system that comprises routing capability over a first type network and a second type network is described. The method comprises: —receiving a congestion indication for resources on a route to a target through the fir... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252477 | Dynamic Load Balancing In An Extended Self Optimizing Network A method for performing load balancing in a wireless network. Operating conditions are determined in the wireless network. Network policies are dynamically adjusted based upon the operating conditions. Users are offloaded from an overloaded site to another site based up... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110249558 | Apparatus and Method for Dynamically Deploying a Network Node A Deploying Apparatus for dynamically deploying a Relaying Apparatus is described. The Deploying Apparatus includes an Evaluating Device and a Deploying Device. The Evaluating Device is adapted for determining an available network configuration and for determining a req... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110249559 | MAC AND TCP COORDINATION APPROACH FOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN IEEE 802.16e MOBILE BROADBAND ACCESS SYSTEMS A mobile device includes a communications protocol stack including a MAC layer and TCP layer separated by an IP layer. A cross-layer coordination module parallel to the communications protocol stack is coupled to both the MAC layer and TCP layer. The MAC layer generates... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110235518 | SOURCE-BASED CONGESTION DETECTION AND CONTROL Congestion control techniques based upon resource utilization information stored by a network device. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a network device is configured to identify a data source causing congestion based upon information stored by the ne... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110228677 | WIRELESS VIRAL MESH NETWORK AND PROCESS FOR USING THE SAME A sending subscriber system may participate in a wireless network by generating a message to transmit in a wireless network, identifying a local wireless subscriber system with which communications may be established, and determining whether to use the wireless local su... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110211452 | RADIO BASE STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD A radio base station, comprising a DAP/RLSE/FLSE judging unit configured to judge whether the radio base station functions as both RLSE and FLSE, an application judging unit configured to judge whether the application running on the radio terminal is a specific applicat... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205900 | METHOD, NODE DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR DEVICE POOL MANAGEMENT A method, a node device, and a communication system for device pool management are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining autonomous loop configuration data which describes relations between a node device and its ancestor node device and between the node device and i... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110176425 | Load-Balancing Structure for Packet Switches and Its Constructing Method This invention provides a load-balancing structure for packet switches and its constructing method. In this method, the structure based on self-routing concentrators is divided into two stages, that is, a first stage and a second stage fabric. A virtual output group que... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110164503 | System and Method to Support Enhanced Equal Cost Multi-Path and Link Aggregation Group An apparatus comprising a small flow forwarding module configured to distribute and forward a plurality of packets that correspond to a plurality of small flows over a plurality of paths, a large flow forwarding module configured to distribute and forward a plurality of... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110164504 | GATEWAY NETWORK ELEMENT, A METHOD, AND A GROUP OF LOAD BALANCED ACCESS POINTS CONFIGURED FOR LOAD BALANCING IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK The present invention refers to providing of a load balancing, by use of a gateway network element comprising a group of load balanced access points. In particular, the load balancing is performed by selecting of an access point from said group of load balanced access p... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110141900 | System and Method for Location, Time-of-Day, and Quality-of-Service Based Prioritized Access Control A priority server for a provider network includes a traffic volume detection module, a traffic analyzer module, and a rules module. The traffic volume detection module receives operational information from the provider network and determines that a host is experiencing ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110128856 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING SERVICE BASED ON NETWORK DELAY An apparatus and method for determining a network delay and scheduling a service based on the delay are provided. The method includes determining information about a first time at which data is transmitted, determining information about a second time at which the data i... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110096667 | PACKET COMMUNICATION DEVICE, PACKET COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PACKET COMMUNICATION MODULE, DATA PROCESSOR, AND DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM A transmit packet generated by a CPU 1 is held in a buffer 100a (100b). From among packets received from Ethernet 820a (820b), a packet, a destination of which is a communication device 800, is held i... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096668 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE ADAPTIVE ROUTING A method for communication includes routing a first packet, which belongs to a given packet flow, over a first routing path through a communication network. A second packet, which follows the first packet in the given packet flow, is routed using a time-bounded Adaptive... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110090797 | METHOD OF DATA DELIVERY ACROSS A NETWORK The present invention relates to a method of managing congestion in a multi-path network, the network having a plurality of network elements arranged in a plurality of switch stages and a plurality of network links interconnecting the network elements, the method compri... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110075564 | Methods and Apparatuses for Establishing M3UA Linksets and Routes Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, are described for establishing M3UA linksets and routes. The method includes generating, at a signaling gateway, a linkset that includes a plurality of M3UA links between two or more IP hosts on the signaling... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL NETWORK DEVICE A control system and method for reducing the amount of power consumption of a communication network is provided. The amount of traffic usage and power consumption of communication equipment in the communication network is collected and energy efficiency of the communica... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110063979 | NETWORK TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a switch fabric. The switch fabric may be configured to assign packets to either a first flow set or a second flow set based on fields included in the packets. The sw... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110058478 | PROACTIVE LOAD DISTRIBUTION FOR 802.111-BASED WIRELESS LANS A wireless communication system is able to balance load in a wireless network based on radio frequency (RF) utilization, signal strength, quality of signal (QoS), and other measures. The load may be dynamically moved to other wireless access points within the wireless n... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110058480 | Core Network Processing Load Reduction A cellular radio communications network includes a core network with a core network node coupled to a radio access network (RAN) associated with a first radio access technology for communicating with mobile radio terminals. The RAN includes multiple RAN nodes. Each mobi... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110058479 | MOBILE TRANSPORT SOLUTION FOR OFFLOADING TO AN ALTERNATE NETWORK This disclosure relates to a system and method for offloading selected data to an alternate communication network. The offloading provides another route for selected packet traffic that can relieve the burden on a mobile operator's network, such as the backhaul and core... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110044173 | OPTIMIZED LAYER-2 NETWORK SWITCHING SYSTEMS AND METHODS An exemplary method includes monitoring a performance of at least one of a plurality of layer-2 network paths connecting a layer-2 network switch device to another layer-2 network switch device and selecting an optimal one of the plurality of layer-2 network paths over ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110038263 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF LOGICAL CHANNELS IN A FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates automatic adjustment of logical channels in a Fibre Channel (FC) network. During operation, the system receives FC data frames. A respective data frame is associated with a logical channel. The b... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110032824 | Radio Network Control In a radio access network, multiple radio network controllers are connected to several radio nodes using a network. The interconnected radio network controllers and radio nodes are addressable, and, therefore, each radio network controller can communicate directly with ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032821 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING DATA ON A PACKET NETWORK A system and method routing content over a packet network. A call request is received at a call control manager to communicate data packets including real-time over a packet network. A determination is made of at least one network node through which a call path for a ca... | 02/10/2011 |
