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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127992 | Registering an internet protocol phone in a dual-link architecture A system and method for registering an internet protocol (IP) phone in a dual-link architecture is disclosed. The method comprises pre-registering the IP phone to establish a client link with a first telephony server and a second telephony server. The pre-registration c... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127993 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING BANDWIDTH USING MULTIPLE TIMERS An approach is provided for auto-bandwidth adjusting bandwidth allocations for traffic-engineered tunnels used to carry traffic along a network. Traffic over the tunnel is sampled at a first interval period and at a second interval period, where the second interval peri... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106319 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DATA PACKETS The invention proposes a method of encoding data packet by encoding type information and size information of said data packet into the same field. The invention also proposes a method of processing data packets received. The data packet comprises a header part and a mes... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106555 | LOW LATENCY CARRIER CLASS SWITCH-ROUTER Systems and techniques for processing and forwarding packets are described. During operation, a system can receive a packet on an input port. Next, the system can identify a set of bits in the packet that represents a route from a source node to a destination node in an... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106546 | Content based VLAN classification and framework for ethernet network to support content based bridging The preferred methodology for classifying VLANs based on the content of a packet arriving at the edge switch involves receiving a policy that defines content based classification of VLANs for packets from a network management station; assigning a VLAN to the packet rece... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106354 | SUPERSET PACKET FORWARDING FOR OVERLAPPING FILTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS Systems and methods are disclosed that allow for improved management and control of packet forwarding in network systems. Network devices and tool optimizers and a related systems and methods are disclosed for improved packet forwarding between input ports and output po... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082156 | TIMESTAMP PREDICTOR FOR PACKETS OVER A SYNCHRONOUS PROTOCOL A physical layer communication device (PHY) transmits and receives signal to and from a communication link using a synchronous protocol. The PHY communicates with a higher-layer device using a packet protocol. Timestamp values contained in timing-related messages in som... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082157 | UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION MULTIPLEXING ON THE PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL FOR LTE-A A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) on a user equipment (UE) is described. It is determined whether a collision between a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and a channel quality indicator/precoding matrix index/rank indicatio... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082167 | Method and Apparatus for Predicting Characteristics of Incoming Data Packets to Enable Speculative Processing to Reduce Processor Latency A system for processing data packets in a data packet network has at least one input port for receiving data packets, at least one output port for sending out data packets, a processor for processing packet data, and a packet predictor for predicting a future packet bas... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082146 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFLOADING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a data packet transported on a backhaul link at a first network element; de-capsulating the data packet; identifying whether the data packet is an upstream data packet; identifying whether the data pa... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082158 | IP ADDRESS VERSION INTERWORKING IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Systems and methods are provided for supporting IPv4-IPv6 interworking of SIP messages in wireless networks and IMS networks. The interworking can be provided to smooth migration to an all-IPv6 IMS network by allowing the use and support of existing legacy IPv4 infrastr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFLOADING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a data packet transported on a backhaul link at a first network element; identifying whether the data packet is an upstream data packet; identifying whether the data packet matches an internet protoco... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069843 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A communication system includes: a first communication device; and a second communication device; the first communication device including: an identification information addition unit that adds an identification information to identify data to the data to be transmitted... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072601 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) BASED SERVICES INDEPENDENT OF PLATFORM OR OPERATING SYSTEMS USING IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM (IMS) An apparatus and method for providing at least one Internet Protocol (IP) based service independent of platform or operating systems using IP multimedia subsystem (IMS), the method comprising implementing a call setup signaling and an end-to-end media transfer using an ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051357 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM A communication device includes a request receiving module and a response output module. The request receiving module receives a communication start request which is output from a given communication device and passes through a relay device. The response output module o... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044823 | TONE RELAY SYSTEM AND METHOD A tone relay system comprises a tone detector arranged to receive a sequence of signal samples and to provide a plurality of media descriptors, each media descriptor comprising a cell of one or more of the signal samples and a tone detection meta-information for the cel... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044935 | Relay control unit, relay control system, relay control method, and relay control program Communication allowance determination means determines, using information of a packet received by a packet relay unit and based on a policy which is information associating a match condition with communicability information, whether to allow or not to allow communicatio... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING NON-FRAGMENTATION FOR COMMUNICATION OF PACKETS A system and method for determining non-fragmentation for communication of data packets includes generating a plurality of packets and storing in a cell-list at least one cell-value indicating a transmission duration of at least one of the packets in units of cell-size,... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044918 | Method and Apparatus for Supporting Class of Service Over Bonded Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Links Class of service is supported over bonded lines by determining that packets of the same traffic class are to be sent over the same link and sending the packets over the same link without passing the packets through a fragmentation and reassembly layer.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042374 | EFFICIENT CLASSIFICATION OF NETWORK PACKETS Embodiments describe a system and/or method for efficient classification of network packets. According to an aspect a method includes describing a packet as a feature vector and mapping the feature vector to a feature space. The method can further include defining a fea... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039333 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROUTING AND FORWARDING BETWEEN VIRTUAL ROUTERS WITHIN A SINGLE NETWORK ELEMENT A method and apparatus for routing and forwarding between virtual routers is described. A method in a single network element comprises peering a first virtual router to a second virtual router, wherein the first and second virtual routers have separate address spaces an... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039332 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-LEVEL QUALITY OF SERVICE CLASSIFICATION IN AN INTERMEDIARY DEVICE The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing multi-level classification of a network packet. In some embodiments, network performance may be enhanced and optimized by providing QoS and acceleration engines with packet- or data-specific inf... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039331 | STORAGE AREA NETWORK PATH MANAGEMENT A path selection module selects at least two fibre channel paths between a fibre channel host and a fibre channel destination. A trace route module performs one or more fibre channel trace route procedures for each of the at least two fibre channel paths. The trace rout... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033663 | Discovery of Services Provided by Application Nodes in a Network An application node advertises service(s), using a routing protocol, that it offers to other network nodes. For example, the routing protocol used to advertise service(s) in a Service Provider Network is typically an link-state, Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), such as,... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033664 | Label Distribution Protocol Advertisement of Services Provided by Application Nodes An application node advertises service(s), using a label distribution protocol, that it offers to other network nodes and a corresponding label to use to identify these services(s). For example, a Targeted Label Distribution Protocol (tLDP) session may be established be... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033666 | E-SPRING SUPPORT OF ETHERNET PROTECTION A method of routing traffic through a packet network having a mesh physical topography. At least two types of network primitive are defined, each type of network primitive providing a respective model of traffic forwarding through at least two neighbour nodes of the net... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033665 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-CHASSIS LINK AGGREGATION Aggregation Switches connected to an edge node by a multi-chassis link aggregation group, wherein the Aggregation Switches are connected by a virtual fabric link that provides a connection for exchange of information between the Aggregation Switches regarding MAC addres... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027012 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A communication device acquires a first condition in a case where a request packet requesting establishment of a communication path is received from a second communication device in a state in which a communication path with a first communication device is established. ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027014 | Transport Multiplexer-Mechanisms to Force Ethernet Traffic From One Domain to Be Switched in a Different (External) Domain A network comprising a switch configured to switch traffic between a plurality of external interfaces via a plurality of virtual interfaces associated with the external interfaces, and wherein the traffic comprises a plurality of external virtual local area network (VLA... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020373 | PACKET FORWARDING USING MULTIPLE STACKED CHASSIS A stacked chassis comprising multiple physical switch/router chassis operates without any special stacking hardware or stacking channels. Instead, a stacking LAG is installed between front-end switch ports on the stacked chassis. The chassis controllers negotiate a mast... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020352 | FACILITATING NETWORK ROUTING USING VIRTUALIZATION A method of facilitating network routing using virtualization includes receiving, at a second device via a virtual machine for a network connection that virtualizes network capabilities of the second device, a packet transmitted by a first device, the packet including a... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020353 | TRANSMITTING PACKET FROM DEVICE AFTER TIMEOUT IN NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS UTILIZING VIRTUAL NETWORK CONNECTION A method of providing network communications includes spawning a virtual machine that virtualizes network capabilities of the device such that a virtual network connection is provided; using the virtual network connection, transmitting a packet to a first node using a f... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014384 | Method And System For Modularized Configurable Connector System For Ethernet Applications A first modular Ethernet connector and a coupled corresponding second modular Ethernet connector may communicate data based on Ethernet standards. The Ethernet connectors may be configurable and comprise at least twelve contact positions. Different connector configurati... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014386 | Delegate Gateways and Proxy for Target Hosts in Large Layer 2 and Address Resolution with Duplicated Internet Protocol Addresses An apparatus comprising a plurality of district boundary bridges (DBBs) in a plurality of second network districts configured to couple to a plurality of core bridges in a core network district and to a plurality of end-stations in the second network districts via a plu... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014385 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING BINDING RELATIONSHIP OF ASSOCIATED BIDIRECTIONAL LABEL SWITCHED PATH Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for updating a binding relationship of an associated bidirectional label switched path (Bidi-LSP). The method includes: sending a request packet to a destination node, where the request packet carries a parameter for... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014379 | DIFFERENTIATED PRIORITY LEVEL COMMUNICATION Provided are methods, apparatuses and systems for providing prioritized data distribution at a customer premise. A network access component may receive priority information from a trusted source, the priority information being indicative of an association between at lea... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013937 | COMPENSATION FOR FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION IN A PACKET SWITCHED NETWORK Communication network components can be synchronized for facsimile transmissions in the communication network. The synchronization may compensate for variations in transmission rates among the different network components or different paths taken by portions of the facs... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014265 | DATA PACKET ROUTING According to one example of the present invention, there is provided a method of routing data packets to a plurality of packet processors in a computer network. The method comprising obtaining workload data from the packet processors, determining a workload distribution... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008623 | Packet forwarding device A power-saving packet forwarding device realizing electric power that accords to the number of lines in which communication is performed and a traffic volume inputted from the lines. A header processing unit with which the packet forwarding device is equipped has a plur... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011007 | Mobile Payment Using DTMF Signaling Systems and methods are disclosed for mobile payment using dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signals. A mobile device equipped with at least a speaker and an input is used to connect to a server on the mobile network. Upon authentication of a user of the mobile device, t... | 01/12/2012 |
