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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120106361 | System And Method For Detecting And Isolating A Remote Loop A system and method are provided for enabling a first network to detect a loop in a second network connected thereto. The first network runs a first instance of a Spanning Tree Protocol and the second network runs either a different instance or no instance. The method i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120069194 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, TELEVISION RECEIVER, VIDEO SIGNAL RECORDING APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD A communication apparatus is provided which is capable of easily detecting an error that is difficult to detect, in a communication cable. The communication apparatus performs communication using a communication cable including plural sets of paired wires each of which ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051231 | ENHANCING MTRACE TO DETECT FAILURE IN MULTICAST DIVERSE PATHS In one embodiment, a network device may receive an mtrace query, where the mtrace query identifies two or more multicast routing paths. The network device may generate two or more mtrace requests using at least a portion of information obtained from the mtrace query suc... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051233 | SYSTEM FOR TESTING ETHERNET PATHS AND LINKS WITHOUT IMPACTING NON-TEST TRAFFIC A system for testing Ethernet paths or links without adversely impacting non-test traffic. The system includes a test traffic generator that includes a scheduler that determines when a new test packet is generated. The test traffic generator includes a packet creator th... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051232 | VERIFICATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM OF PROGRAM A verification device that is used in a system in which a first device and a second device communicate using a physical communication path that includes at least one switch among switches included in a plurality of switch clusters and does not include a plurality of swi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044815 | INTERFERENCE COORDINATION FOR PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) COMMUNICATION AND WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN) COMMUNICATION Techniques for supporting peer-to-peer (P2P) communication in a wide area network (WAN) are disclosed. In an aspect, interference coordination between P2P devices engaged in P2P communication and WAN devices engaged in WAN communication may be performed based on a netwo... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039184 | NETWORK SYSTEM, LAYER 2 SWITCH, AND METHOD OF DETECTING OCCURRENCE OF A FAULT IN A NETWORK A network system comprises a first communication device being set up with a first address; and a second communication device connected with the first communication device via a network and being set up with a second address, wherein the first communication device includ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039186 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF DYNAMIC METRIC ADVERTISEMENT IN SMART GRID/SENSOR NETWORKS In one embodiment, a node in a computer network represented by a directed acyclic graph (DAG) may receive advertisements of smoothed path costs to a root node of the DAG, where the advertisements contain a field for a virtual gain factor (VGF) indicative of a difference... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120026896 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POWER CONTROL IN MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS SYSTEMS Methods and apparatus disclosed maximize the capacity of serving cells and minimize inter-cell interferences due to power emission from serving cells in a multi-carrier, multi-cell communication system. The control methods and apparatus take into account various factors... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120014261 | Monitoring A Flow Set To Detect Faults In certain embodiments, monitoring a flow set to detect faults includes identifying, by a first maintenance end point, a flow set comprising flows that utilize a paths from the first maintenance end point through one or more intermediate nodes to a second maintenance en... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SNOOPING CONNECTIVITY FAULT MESSAGES TO CONFIGURE MAINTENANCE END POINT FOR ALARM SUPPRESSION MESSAGES According to one embodiment, a method may include a given maintenance end point receiving connectivity fault management (CFM) messages (e.g., CCMs) at the provisioned maintenance level of the maintenance end point. Additionally the method may also include snooping CFM m... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008508 | Method and System for Removing Dead Access Control Entries (ACEs) Methods and systems have been provided for removing dead Access Control Entries (ACEs) in an Access Control List (ACL). In one embodiment, the dead ACEs can be detected for an egress as well as an ingress ACL. The ACEs that have a hit count above a user-specified hit co... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110310748 | COORDINATOR, WIRELESS NODE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A wireless communication system provides high reliability wireless communications even when large scale interference affecting the entire system has occurred in ad hoc wireless communication systems. The node, access point, and intermediate nodes are each equipped with ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110299407 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND RANK SETTING METHOD A base station apparatus, in a wireless communication system supporting band aggregation, able to limit drops in throughput while lowering the amount of control information for the rank of an added band; and a terminal device and rank setting method of the same. An adde... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299406 | PATH DETECTION IN TRILL NETWORKS One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for detecting a path between two nodes. During operation, the system transmits a network-testing request frame, which includes a time-to-live (TTL) field within a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRI... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292814 | COMMUNICATION PATH MONITORING METHOD AND TRANSMISSION APPARATUS A first transmission apparatus and a second transmission apparatus recognize the working path and the back-up path group from communication paths between the two apparatuses. The first transmission apparatus selects a measurement path from the back-up path group and tra... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110286339 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM The present communication device includes a transmission path state determination unit; a topology determination unit configured to classify a destination device into a first group when detected transmission path characteristic satisfies criteria, and to classify a dest... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110267965 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR CONNECTIVITY CHECK The present invention relates to the field of communication technologies and discloses a method, device, and system for connectivity check. The method includes the following: a Media Gateway (MGW) receives an Additional Connectivity Check message sent by a Media Gateway... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110255423 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A PROXY ARP AGENT IN SECURE NETWORKS HAVING EMBEDDED CONTROLLERS A method for detecting a proxy Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) agent in a network including at least a first machine with an IP address in a range of a first subnet, and at least one embedded controller with an IP address in a range of a second subnet. A router is als... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249570 | DATA PATH DIFFERENTIATOR FOR PRE-EMPHASIS REQUIREMENT OR SLOT IDENTIFICATION An apparatus and method is disclosed for generating path length information for two (usually redundant) receive paths in a receiving device such as a server blade so that the proper amount of equalization and/or pre-emphasis may be applied to receiver and driver circuit... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110235529 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM The present invention relates to a method and a communication network node for enabling automatic optimization of a random access preamble format usage in a communication network system. The network comprises the communication network node serving at least one cell to w... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110222414 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACTIVE PROBING OF TUNNELED INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) TRANSMISSION PATHS A method, apparatus, and system in an IP-based mobile communication network for actively probing a tunneled transmission path from a base station such as an eNB to a core network. A UE-emulator emulates a User Equipment (UE) and provides emulated NAS signaling to a Prob... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110216659 | MULTIUSER SCHEDULING IN WLAN SYSTEMS An apparatus for wireless communications is provided including a processing system. The processing system is configured to determine path-losses between the apparatus and a plurality of wireless nodes, to group the plurality of wireless nodes into sets based on the dete... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110211462 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SCHEDULING IN A VIRTUAL MIMO COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT A system and method for scheduling cooperative uplink transmissions a virtual multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication environment are provided. More specifically, both random and channel aware orthogonal scheduling techniques for identifying a sub-s... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205909 | METHOD, NODE AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING LINK AGGREGATION GROUP INFORMATION A method for obtaining link aggregation group (LAG) information, and a node and a system thereof are provided, which belong to the field of communication technologies. The method includes the following steps. An ingress node of a label switched path (LSP) sends an echo ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110194421 | System and Method of Controlling In-Bound Path Selection Based on Historical and Continuous Path Quality Monitoring, Assessment and Predictions A system and method of automatically controlling in-bound traffic from a first communications peer to a second communications peer based on an input from a historical path quality assessment and prediction system is disclosed. The second communications peer receives an ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110188383 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY IDENTIFYING CONNECTIONS OF A CROSS-CONNECT SYSTEM One embodiment is directed to a cross-connect system. The cross-connect system comprises a plurality of termination points configured to establish a plurality of physical information connections and a plurality of physical scanning connections. Each information connecti... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110182189 | Pseudowire status maintenance for static pseudowires In one embodiment, a method includes generating an aggregated pseudowire status message at a first network device in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, transmitting the aggregated pseudowire status message to a second network device on a Label Switched Pat... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110182190 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELF-TERMINATING A MEDIA SERVICE DUE TO AN OUT-OF-COVERAGE CONDITION A method and mobile device that self-terminates a media service if an out-of-coverage condition is detected. The media service operates on top of a connectionless peer-to-peer packet-based transport protocol. The out-of-coverage condition may relate to the mobile device... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110170426 | LSP PING AND TRACEROUTE FOR BYPASS TUNNELS A method performed by a network device may include assembling a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) echo request, the echo request including an instruction for a transit node to forward the echo request via a bypass path associated with the transit node, and an instruc... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110149748 | Path-continuity check method and transmission device Disclosed is a path-continuity check method for checking continuity of a path. The method includes transmitting a check frame by a node device on an upstream side and receiving the check frame by a node device on a downstream side; registering, by the node device on the... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110128861 | Method and Apparatus for Supporting Mismatch Detection The present invention relates to a method and a network node for service instance management in telecommunications network. According to the method a plurality of network paths are monitored. A number of network paths form a protection group associated with a service in... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110116388 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING APPARATUS USING THAT COMMUNICATION METHOD A method for communicating in a communication apparatus includes receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal transmitted from a base station, the OFDM signal including a plurality of carrier groups, each carrier group including a plurality of c... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110090802 | PATH TESTING AND SWITCHING A method may include forming a first path from a first node to a second node and transmitting data via the first path. The method also includes measuring a performance parameter associated with transmitting data via the first path and determining whether the measured pe... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110085449 | NETWORK PATH DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS A network analysis system invokes an application specific, or source-destination specific, path discovery process. The application specific path discovery process determines the path(s) used by the application, collects performance data from the nodes along the path, an... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110085450 | NETWORK PATH DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS A network analysis system invokes an application specific, or source-destination specific, path discovery process. The application specific path discovery process determines the path(s) used by the application, collects performance data from the nodes along the path, an... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110075573 | RING NETWORK SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION PATH CONTROL METHOD A control node includes: a monitoring packet transmission section for transmitting a monitoring packet; a monitoring packet reception section for receiving a monitoring packet; an adjustment section for selecting a redundant node from a non-control nodes; a packet gener... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075572 | ROBUST MULTICAST BROADCASTING A method and system for multicasting IPTV channels includes using both a designated and a redundant network routing device. When the designated routing device detects that an MCDN network connection to an IPTV multicast source is unavailable, the designated routing devi... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075574 | PATH PROTECTION BY SHARING CONTINUITY CHECK MESSAGES A method for managing protection of a plurality of defined paths in a communication system including listing the defined paths, each item in the list including a defined path identifier, a defined path ingress node, a defined path egress node, and a defined path protect... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069619 | CONGESTION AND THRU-PUT VISIBILITY AND ISOLATION Offering vertical services to subscribers and service providers is an avenue to immediately improve the competitiveness of digital subscriber line access service, for example of the type offered by a local exchange carrier. To deliver high-quality vertical services, how... | 03/24/2011 |
