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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120106539 | Coordinating Communications Interface Activities in Data Communicating Devices Using Redundant Lines A parallel data link includes a redundant line. The redundant line permits one line to be calibrated while the others carry functional data, a switching mechanism enabling each line to be selected in turn for calibration. Control information for controlling the link, wh... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120039262 | CARRIER-DRIVEN BEARER PATH SELECTION The disclosed subject matter provides for systems, devices, and methods facilitating carrier-driven bearer path selection. Carrier-driven bearer path selection enables a carrier to assert bearer path selection policies. Bearer paths available to UEs can be checked for c... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120020349 | ARCHITECTURE FOR A ROBUST COMPUTING SYSTEM A computer system may include N rack unit switches and 6N processing rack units, where N is a positive integer. Each rack unit switch may include four switching units and each switching unit may include at least M2/2 ports. Each processing rack unit may inclu... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014374 | Method, Device, and Computer Program Product for Adaptive Routing of Communications Across One or More Networks Communications are adaptively routed across at least one network. Responsive to a dynamic user request for routing of communications at a particular service level, available routes within the network are determined for routing the communications. Route quality character... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110249658 | PRESENCE-BASED COMMUNICATION ROUTING SERVICE AND REGULATION OF SAME Systems, methods, and user interfaces are provided for customized communication routing and regulation thereof. The routing of an incoming communication to a device, wireless or wireline, is based on a routing preference and a presence condition of a mobile device in a ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110236022 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A network including nodes configured to provide auto-discovery and those that do not are provided in a network. The nodes that do not provide auto-discovery may be provided as end points or terminating nodes in the network. A path or circuit identifier is entered into a... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110216768 | Communication terminal, network device, communication system and communication method There is provided a communication terminal, a network device, a communication system and a communication method which can minimize the time required for exchange of network addresses at the time of data transmission-reception between network devices. The communication t... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110206034 | ROUTE ALLOCATION APPARATUS AND METHOD A route allocation apparatus includes a route calculation section and a route allocation controller. The route calculation section calculates a route between an outgoing edge node and incoming edge node within a network. The route allocation controller allocates the rou... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110206035 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR SESSION ROUTING IN HOME NETWORK SYSTEM Relating to a home network system, methods for configuring sessions in a home network system and setting up optimized paths of the configured sessions and apparatuses for supporting the same. According to an embodiment, the method for computing a routing path includes t... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110170536 | Network path finding apparatus, method, and program To perform a path finding for a network by traversing mutually connected links by means of a link destination table that is a data configuration for representing the network. The link destination table contains, for link IDs of each of the links in the network, a node I... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110164489 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING FEATURES OF UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS Methods and apparatuses for configuring and transmitting Reference Signals (RS) accompanying data signals from User Equipments (UEs), such that Sounding Reference Signals (SRS) are transmitted from some UEs over a part of a possible transmission bandwidth, with or witho... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110158138 | DATA TRANSFER METHOD AND APPARATUS One example of the invention provides a data source apparatus that in use provides data of one or more types to a sink device via a data transport communications link, the data source apparatus selecting the types of data to be provided to the sink device in dependence ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110113462 | FAILOVER WITH REDUNDANT MULTICASTS FOR SWITCHED DIGITAL VIDEO A method and system for delivering content is provided. In one example, responsive to a request by a client device identifying a video program, the system is configured to determine different first and second network paths for delivery of the video program from a conten... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110075652 | RELAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTINUING SERVICE A relay device that relays a message transmitted from a terminal device to a server through a communications network. When a message is received from the terminal device, the relay device obtains attribute information related to the user of the terminal device, obtains ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075549 | FAST PROTECTION PATH ACTIVATION USING CONTROL PLANE MESSAGES A method, performed in a network that includes a group of nodes, includes identifying a path through a set of the nodes, where each node, in the set of nodes, has a data plane and a control plane; establishing a control plane tunnel, associated with the path, within the... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069698 | Method and apparatus for safety-related communication in a communication network of an automation system The invention relates to communication between safety-related modules in a communication network of an automation system. The object of the invention is to simplify installation and development of safety-related modules in an automation network. To this end, the safety ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20100284691 | OPTICAL ROUTING DEVICE AND OPTICAL NETWORK USING SAME The invention pertains to methods, apparatus, and systems optical of networking using tunable receivers, optical blocking elements selectively placed in the network, and optical routing elements comprised of passive elements, such as optical couplers and splitters. The ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100278126 | RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION PATH SETTING METHOD Loss in a transmission path cost, transmission delay of user data, and load applied on a transmission path are suppressed between a transmission device and a base transceiver station to be selected for every call at the time of originating communication. There is provid... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100254264 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR DYNAMICALLY RATE LIMITING SLOWPATH PROCESSING OF EXCEPTION PACKETS The subject matter described herein includes methods and systems for dynamically rate limiting slowpath processing of exception packets. According to one embodiment, a method includes monitoring processing resources in a packet forwarding device used for performing slow... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100232298 | MULTI-STATION PHYSICAL LAYER COMMUNICATION OVER TP CABLE Wired data telecommunications networks can make advantageous use of a communications capability between and among more than two network devices. Such capabilities may be utilized in providing redundancy of data and/or inline power capabilities from a pair of network dev... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100232416 | Method and System for Multi-Layer Network Routing Each node of a telecommunications network determines a connection type attributes available for each signal type supported by the node. Each signal type represents a different connection routing layer within the telecommunications network. Adaptation costs involved in t... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100218236 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ESTABLISH ROUTES BASED ON THE TRUST SCORES OF ROUTERS WITHIN AN IP ROUTING DOMAIN A router includes a management module and a routing module. The routing module can be used to route data around a network. The management module can be used to manage the operation of the routing module, including generating an integrity report for the router, which can... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100208721 | ROUTE CALCULATION APPARATUS AND ROUTE CALCULATION METHOD A route calculation apparatus calculates an intra-domain route in a target domain assigned with the route calculation apparatus. The intra-domain route is a part of a route for a target path in a network divided into plural domains. Each of the plural domains includes a... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100208722 | NETWORK SYSTEM, PATH CALCULATION METHOD, AND PATH CALCULATION PROGRAM A route decision system is arranged in each domain of a multi-domain network. The route decision system comprises a topology information collecting unit which collects topology information, a route calculation request responding unit which receives a route calculation r... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100150132 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Enabling Non-IMS Queries of a Common Telephone Number Mapping System Methods of routing a non-IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) message from a first user terminal that has telecommunications service provided by a first carrier to a second user terminal that has telecommunications service provided by a second carrier are provided. Pursuant to... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100103924 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS MULTI-HOPPING COMMUNICATION A method (400) and system (100) for a wireless multi-hopping communication system is provided, wherein the system (100) includes an access point (102), a source node (CR1), and a plurality of nodes. The source node (CR1)... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100100960 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING DATA OF NETWORK USERS A system and method for protecting data of network users are provided. A user end device is connected to a routing device. Then, the routing device directs data packets of the user end device into a data protection device connected to the routing device in series, accor... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100074194 | RADIO AND BANDWIDTH AWARE ROUTING METRIC FOR MULTI-RADIO MULTI-CHANNEL MUTLI-HOP WIRELESS NETWORKS A method and system are described for establishing an end-to-end route for data to traverse a wireless network, including calculating a link cost function, calculating a quantized link cost function using the calculated link cost, function, calculating a quantized cost ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100067518 | Multicast Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products Systems, methods, and computer-program products enable multicasts. Data corresponding to a multicast from a source is received from a native multicast address. Other data corresponding to the multicast from the sources is also received from a mesh network. The data and ... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100061366 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LINK SHARING AMONG LOGICAL ROUTERS An approach is provided for sharing capacity among multiple logical routers. A request from one of a plurality of logical routers is received for reserving bandwidth corresponding to a port shared by the logical routers. Reservation of the bandwidth is confirmed within ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100040045 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING MEANS FOR USING INTRINSIC LATENCIES OF THE SYSTEM The present disclosure relates to a method for routing data between a sending unit and a receiving unit linked by a network in a processing system comprising several units, the method comprising steps of routing data in the network between the sending unit and the recei... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100027527 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED MAPPING AND ROUTING A system and method for improved mapping and routing. A request for the determination of a route is received over a network. The request comprises an identification of a requesting user, and at least one objective. Spatial, temporal, topical, and social data available t... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100020787 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND NETWORK ELEMENT FOR CLOCK TRACING A clock tracing method includes: determining a shortest path to each source network element, and selecting a best source network element among all the source network elements; determining a shortest path to the best source network element according to the shortest path,... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100014859 | Optimized Dynamic Routing in a network, in particular in an optical telecommunication network A routing method for a network including a first type of nodes and a second type of nodes, in particular an optical telecommunication network including transparent codes and regenerating nodes, includes: constructing a simplified network topology including the given nod... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100002581 | Method for Inter-Router Dual-Function Energy- and Area-Efficient Links for Network-on-Chips The present invention provides methods for connecting routers and transmitting data along inter-router links within Nework-on-Chip (NoC) architectures.... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090324220 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK WITH NODE BYPASSED CO-ROUTED MULTI-CHANNEL TRAFFIC Embodiments of the present invention route a wavelength division multiplexed signal across multiple communication paths using skew characteristics of at least some of the communication paths. The network is a wavelength division multiplexed optical transport network. Th... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090323681 | POLICY-BASED ROUTING IN A MULTI-HOMED COMPUTER Policy-based routing system and method for a multi-homed computer. Policy-based routing permits or blocks usage of system level route(s) based on user credentials and/or network application(s) associated with a data transfer. The credentials can include information asso... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090316681 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE PRESENCE INFORMATION BASED ON ROUTING RULES Techniques to manage presence information based on routing rules are described. An apparatus may comprise a presence management component operative to manage presence information for a presentity. The presence management component comprises a presence interface module o... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090316682 | NETWORK WATERMARK A network communications method utilizing a network watermark for providing security in the communications includes creating a verifiable network communications path of nodes through a network for the transfer of information from a first end node to a second end node; v... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090303982 | Systems and Methods for Data Acquisition and Transmission In a system for a field asset site having a plurality of field assets, a first transport module interfaces with a first field asset, the first transport module operable to communicate via a first transport with a communication center outside of the field asset site. A s... | 12/10/2009 |
