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...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110063986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOAD BALANCING TRAFFIC IN A MPLS NETWORK A method and system for managing traffic between a first provider edge and a second provider edge in a network. The network includes logical paths between the first provider edge and the second provider edge. For each logical path, jitter, packet delay, and packet loss ... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110063985 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MONITOR TUNNELS WITHIN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING/FAST REROUTE ENABLED NETWORKS Example methods and apparatus to monitor tunnels within traffic engineering/fast reroute (TE/FRR) enabled networks are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a message interface to receive from a router a change alert notification for a traffic engineering (T... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110038267 | System and Method for Monitoring the Connectivity of a Path Between Nodes in a Network A method and system for determining a path between nodes in a network are disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for determining a path between nodes in a network comprises a destination node and a link aggregation group (LAG) th... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110002226 | Method for Discovering Routes in Wireless Communications Networks A method and system discovers a route in a wireless communications network, FIG. 1, including multiple nodes (101-103). A RREQ frame (115) is broadcast by a first node (101). The RREQ frame is generated to discover a route. A second no... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002227 | 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... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100322084 | Method and Device for Transport Delay Analysis The present invention relates to a method and a device for analyzing transport delay between a sender device and a receiver device in a communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for estimating transport delay in a communication syste... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322083 | DETECTION AND REMOVAL OF ROUTING LOOPS IN A MOBILE INTERNET PROTOCOL NETWORK A method and a node are provided to detect routing loops in mobile Internet Protocol networks. A legitimate mobile node may register at a home agent by sending a binding message carrying a home address and a care-of address. The home agent stores the addresses in a bind... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100315958 | METHOD FOR NON-COOPERATIVE MEASUREMENT OF NETWORK DATA-PATH QUALITY A method and apparatus for measuring network path quality in a non-cooperative manner, which involves sending a probe consisting of a plurality of probe data packets to a remote node and receiving a response consisting of at least one response data packet therefrom. Bot... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100290349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING A BROADBAND INTERNET CONNECTION This invention relates to a method and apparatus for testing a broadband internet connection, in particular, but not limited to, the suitability of the broadband internet connection for providing access point base station services. An embod... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100284284 | VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VoIP) ACCESS TERMINAL An access terminal includes a processing system configured to determine whether a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) communication channel is available. The processing system is also configured, upon entry into a VoIP-enabled communication environment, to provide witho... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100271959 | Discovery channel and discovery beacon for peer-to-peer devices in wireless communications network In a multi-channel wireless communications environment, at least one of the channels may be used for the purpose of allowing devices to discover each other so that they may subsequently communicate with each other on another channel. In some embodiments a special discov... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271961 | Method and Apparatus for Documenting Network Paths Methods and apparatus for documenting network path connectivity are described that allow a network management system/revision management system (NMS/RMS) to determine what equipment and ports support a network path by interrupting and restoring Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271960 | TRACING ROUTES AND PROTOCOLS A computer-readable medium may include computer-executable instructions. The computer-executable instructions including instructions for receiving a request to trace a route, in a network, from a source device to a target device and to identify protocols that are associ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100265831 | PACKET FORWARDING DEVICE AND CONTROL CIRCUIT THEREOF A packet forwarding device includes a storage that stores a path selection table in which link numbers of a Work path and a Protection path for each flow number of a transfer packet, a flag that indicates whether the link is made up of a plurality of physical lines, a l... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100260040 | ETHERNET RING SYSTEM AND A MASTER NODE AND AN INITIALIZATION METHOD THEREOF The present invention provides an Ethernet ring system and the master node and the initialization method thereof, comprising the following steps: Step 1, a master node of an Ethernet ring protection domain is generated from nodes on a ring; Step 2, the mas... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100246411 | System and Method for Sending Packets Using Another Device's Network Address A network analyzer gets configuration information, usually in the form of a configuration packet sent from a network monitor. The configuration information comprises a second device network address and a third device network address. The second device network address is... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246413 | TRANSMISSION LINE SIMULATOR A method and apparatus to simulate a length of telecommunications line. One or more bi-directional constant input impedance low pass or pole/zero filters are coupled in series with an attenuator to simulate a length of telecommunications line. The one or more filters ar... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246412 | ETHERNET OAM FAULT PROPAGATION USING Y.1731/802.1AG PROTOCOL Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable medium including one or more of the following: receiving a first indication of the existence of a fault in a connection related to a service provided by the node on which the ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246415 | NETWORK TESTING METHOD AND SYSTEM In order to preliminarily perform a load test or the like of an IP network, a test apparatus instructs a test packet transmitting device to transmit a test packet having a specified multicast address and instructs a test packet receiving device to receive the test packe... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246414 | NETWORK RETRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS USING A PROXY NODE One embodiment relates to a method for communicating over a transmission medium shared between a plurality of nodes including a source node, a proxy node, and other nodes. In the method, a transmission data unit is transmitted from the source node to the proxy node and ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100238788 | Connection verification for MPLS label switched paths and pseudowires In one embodiment, a connection verification (CV) message is initiated from an initiating maintenance end point (MEP) for an MPLS LSP, the CV message carried in a packet having a time-to-live (TTL) value of 1. Each maintenance intermediate point (MIP) along the MPLS LSP... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100238811 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR ASSURING PREFIX CONSISTENCY AMONG MULTIPLE MOBILE ROUTERS The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement in communication systems utilising network mobility (NEMO). In moving networks comprising a plurality of mobile routers, MRs, it needs to be assured that two or more MRs sharing the same prefix, belong to the ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100226260 | SPANNING TREE RING PROTOCOL A plurality of network devices such as routers are included in an instance of a spanning tree. The network device creates a ring context on a port that it identifies as both a blocking port and configured to run a spanning tree protocol. The ring context can be comprise... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100220602 | 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... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220601 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING TRANSMISSIONS IN SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS NETWORK SYSTEMS An apparatus for communications including a processing system configured to generate a plurality of spatial streams for communicating with a plurality of nodes, the processing system being further capable of determining an allocation of the spatial streams to each of th... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100195508 | Method for checking ring network redundancy A method for checking a ring network redundancy includes a first exchanger and a second exchanger. When the first exchanger is set as a master, the plurality of second exchangers serve as the ring members; the first exchanger has a connection port, which is set as block... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100182913 | CONNECTIVITY FAULT MANAGEMENT FOR ETHERNET TREE (E-TREE) TYPE SERVICES A Maintenance Association and corresponding method for configuring maintenance entities for Ethernet Tree (E-Tree) type service instances. A root MEP communicates with each of a plurality of leaf MEPs. Remote MEP state machine instances are activated within the root MEP... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100177642 | CORRELATIVE ANTICIPATORY DELTACASTING Methods, apparatuses, and systems for improving utilization of a communications system (e.g., a satellite communications system) are provided through techniques referred to herein as “deltacasting.” Some embodiments use a server-side optimizer to intercept and creat... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100177643 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUALITY OF SERVICE DETERMINATION A method of estimating bandwidth capacity, available bandwidth and utilization along a path in an IP network is disclosed. ICMP time-stamp requests are sent from a source host on the edge or inside the network to all routers on the end-to-end path to a desired destinati... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100149998 | IDENTIFYING ANALOG ACCESS LINE IMPAIRMENTS USING DIGITAL MEASUREMENTS The preferred embodiments include a method, system or computer-readable storage medium for identifying analog access line impairments in a communications network. The embodiments include determining a ping packet loss count and a ping failure count from digital packet l... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100149997 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO VERIFY A COMMUNICATION PATH BETWEEN A FIELD DEVICE AND A PROCESS CONTROLLER IN A PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM Example methods and systems to verify a communication path between a field device and a process controller in a process control system are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes transmitting via a first wireless communication path to a first portion of a process... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100135164 | MILLIMETER WAVE PROBING OF COMPONENTS VIA A PROBE DEVICE AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH Probe data is directly communicating between a probe device and a component of an external device via a wireless millimeter wave communication path. A probe application is executed in accordance with the probe data, for diagnostics and testing, to update component softw... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100118711 | Tools that facilitate diagnostics for mobile backhaul networks A diagnostic tool is provided for calculating the availability of multi-segment pseudowires within an internet protocol (IP)-based mobile backhaul network. A control message is transmitted from an originating node towards a destination node within the IP-based mobile ba... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100118712 | Systems and Methods for Notifying Users of a Network Resource Outage Systems and methods are disclosed for a network switch that periodically determines whether there are connectivity problems with first ports and a second port independently of responding to requests from computer systems. Information to be sent to the computer system th... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100110904 | IDENTIFYING IMPROPER CABLING OF DEVICES A system and method are disclosed for identifying an improper cabling of control system devices connected to redundant communication networks of a distributed control system, such as a substation automation system. As proposed in the standard IEC 62439 (Parallel Redunda... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100097943 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING REACHABILITY TESTING WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CUSTOMER VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS In one embodiment, the invention comprises a method and apparatus for verifying connectivity in a network comprising a plurality of provider edge routers and a plurality of customer edge routers facilitating communication within at least one customer virtual private net... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100097942 | SERIALIZER/DESERIALIZER TEST MODES Serializer, deserializer, and/or serdes ICs are configured to support one or more test modes to enable end-to-end testing in communication links in which the ICs are implemented. To support the end-to-end testing, the ICs can include a multiplexing stage with means for ... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100080131 | Validation of Routes Advertised by Border Gateway Protocol Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with validation of routes advertised by Border Gateway Protocol. One embodiment validates or invalidates a route received in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update me... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100074121 | WIRELESS DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING AND MONITORING WIRELESS DEVICE A wireless device connected to a plurality of wireless control devices connecting with a monitoring device, and controlled and monitored by the monitoring device via the wireless control device, the wireless device includes a transmitting and receiving unit transmitting... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100061253 | Tracing connection paths through transparent proxies In one embodiment, a method for tracing a connection path from a source node to a destination node through a network having one or more transparent proxies includes generating a trace packet at the source node, transmitting the trace packet over the network towards the ... | 03/11/2010 |
