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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120106557 | DYNAMIC NETWORK IDENTITY ARCHITECTURE In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving indication of an event at a platform operating in shared address mode, the platform having an auxiliary entity, in response to the indication of the event, switching operation of th... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106556 | COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE IN NETWORK INCLUDING LAYERED RELAY APPARATUSES This method includes: obtaining first data including identifiers of selected computers for invocation of parallel processes among plural computers connected to lowest-layer relay apparatuses in a network including relay apparatuses in plural layers, wherein the network ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106564 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING DATA AND STRUCTURE FOR SWITCHING DATA A method and structure for switching data is provided. An output port scheduler obtains state information of VOQs and available state information of input port data channels and output port buffers. The output port scheduler sends scheduling request information to a FIC... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082169 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FAST PASSING THROUGH SERVICES FOR SYNCHRONOUS DIGITAL HIERARCHY DEVICE The present invention provides a method for fast passing through services in a SDH device including: a protection switching module compresses first pass-through time slots between adjacent protection ports to a second pass-through time slot; when an action of pass-throu... | 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 |
| 20120069850 | NETWORK PACKET STEERING VIA CONFIGURABLE ASSOCIATION OF PACKET PROCESSING RESOURCES AND NETWORK INTERFACES Methods and systems are provided for steering network packets. According to one embodiment, a dynamically configurable steering table is stored within a memory of each network interface of a networking routing/switching device. The steering table represents a mapping th... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051236 | Mechanisms for Discovering Path Maximum Transmission Unit Mechanisms are provided for determining a path maximum transmission unit of a path between a source node and a destination node of the path. These mechanisms transmit an echo request packet from the source node to the destination node along the path. The mechanisms furt... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044942 | SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM, RELAY APPARATUS, AND CHIP CIRCUIT Highly efficient and low latency network transmission in consideration of a difference in the traffic characteristic and a memory access load which changes moment by moment is realized. A relay device transmits data on a networked communication bus between a bus master ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044941 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE A source device includes a transmission unit selecting at least one destination device among a plurality of devices for transmitting data to the selected at least one destination device through a multiport switch and serial buses. The transmission unit includes a transm... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044940 | FLOODING-BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL HAVING AVERAGE-RATE AND BURST-RATE CONTROL An enhanced, flooding-based routing protocol is described that provides burst-rate and average-rate flow control. A routing device comprises a network interfaces configured to send and receive packets over a layer-two (L2) communication medium. A flooding-based link sta... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039339 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RELAY APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD A relay apparatus including: a plurality of communication interfaces; and a processor configured to detect a collision, at which a second communication interface receives a second control packet group from a second communication apparatus while a first communication int... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033673 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PARA-VITUALIZED DRIVER IN A MULTI-CORE VIRTUAL PACKET ENGINE DEVICE The present invention is directed towards methods and systems for communicating packets between network interface hardware of a multi-core device and a plurality of virtualized packet processors executed by one or more cores of the multi-core device. A first virtualizat... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033674 | DYNAMIC ESTABLISHMENT OF VIRTUAL CIRCUITS MULTISEGMENT PSEUDOWIRES The present invention provides a technique for automatically establishing a virtual circuit from one edge device to another through a core network. The virtual circuit may comprise one or more pseudowire segments. These pseudowire segments extend between adjacent edge a... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033678 | MULTI-CHASSIS INTER-PROCESS COMMUNICATION Aggregation Switches connected via a virtual fabric link (VFL) are each active and able to communicate via an inter-process communication (IPC) using an IPC Virtual Local Area Network (IPC VLAN). A sub-set of Customer-facing ports (CFPs) of each Aggregation Switch are c... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026917 | SERVER-CENTRIC HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR MODULAR DATA CENTERS Disclosed are systems and methods for network architecture that is a server-centric network architectural design.... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026889 | PROVIDING NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS USING VIRTUALIZATION BASED ON PROTOCOL INFORMATION IN PACKET A method of providing network communications includes receiving, at a second device via a virtual network connection that virtualizes network capabilities of the second device, a packet transmitted by a first device, the packet including protocol information; determinin... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020363 | System and Method for Routing Internet Traffic Over Internet Links An apparatus and method for routing IP traffic in real time from at least one network user to a plurality of internet links. Embodiments include assigning different ranks to different internet links based on network monitoring. In one embodiment, a system for routing tr... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020361 | Switch network system, controller, and control method A controller has an entry control block and a flow table setting block. In a case where an action of a target entry in a flow table is to be changed to “forwarding of a reception packet to the controller”, the entry control block forecasts a load when packets matchi... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020359 | METHOD FOR FORWARDING DATA PACKET, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE A method for forwarding data packet, a communication system, a Carrier Grade Network Address Translation (CGN) device, and an access gateway are provided. The CGN device communicates with the access gateway through an Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) network and is us... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020362 | PARTITIONING OF DIGITAL OBJECTS FOR TRANSMISSION Disclosed are systems and/or apparatuses of transmitting digital objects to a destination. In particular, disclosed are systems and/or apparatuses of facilitating bidding for the business of forwarding digital objects in a data transmission network.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014390 | PROCESSOR TOPOLOGY SWITCHES A first processor has a processor port for peer-to-peer processor communications. A switch provides for switching communications from a path between said first processor and a second processor to a path between said first processor and a third processor (and vice-versa)... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014278 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SYSTEM NODE POSITIONS Various methods for determining a configuration of a communications system are provided, including methods for determining system node positions. One example method includes generating a node attribute information segment, and adding the node attribute information segme... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014388 | Path selection method, information processor, network system, and path selection program A path selection method, an information processor, a network system, and a path selection program are provided which rapidly determine a path that has no loop when determining the path by using a control server to probabilistically select a pass node. A network having a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014387 | Virtual Layer 2 and Mechanism to Make it Scalable An apparatus comprising a service network and a plurality of Layer 2 networks at a plurality of different physical locations coupled to the service network via a plurality of edge nodes at the Layer 2 networks, wherein the edge nodes are configured to maintain a plurali... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008633 | BRIDGE APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD A bridge apparatus including a first line card and a second line card is provided. The first line card includes a first memory storing an association between a line card and a destination address, a first receiver receiving a frame from the second line card including a ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002675 | PROVIDING A BUFFERLESS TRANSPORT METHOD FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MESH TOPOLOGY In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining whether a packet received in an input/output (I/O) circuit of a node is destined for the node and if so, providing the packet to an egress queue of the I/O circuit and determining whether one or ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002676 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, DESTINATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS A transmission system including: transmission apparatuses; and a destination management apparatus including: first ports which are coupled to the transmission apparatuses; and a first processor configured to manage an address entry which indicates a relation between the... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110286463 | HIGH PERFORMANCE HARDWARE LINKED LIST PROCESSORS In one embodiment, a reassign command is received for reassigning a first node identified by a first global identifier (GID) from a first context identified by a first context ID (CID) to a second context identified by a second CID, the first and second contexts represe... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286464 | TRAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TRAIN COMMUNICATION METHOD A train communication system includes a communication relay device that is installed in each vehicle and a communication terminal device that is connected to the communication relay device. The communication relay device acquires vehicle information indicating an in-for... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110280246 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM A communication system includes a plurality of communication terminals including a first communication terminal to broadcast a route request message to a third communication terminal via a second communication terminal, the second and third communication terminals creat... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110274114 | FCoE ISOLATED PORT CHANNELS AND FCoE SESSION RESYNCHRONIZATION IN vPC/MCEC ENVIRONMENTS USING DCBXP Methods and apparatus for automatically configuring an aggregated link between a device supporting Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and two or more FCoE Forwarders (FCFs) configured as a virtual switch in an effort to isolate FCoE traffic from FCoE Initialization Prot... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110274113 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATION OF A CHANGE IN PATH CONDITION An approach is provided for notifying a change in path condition. A change in condition of a label switched path connecting a first node and second node is detected. A notification message is generated for transmission to the first node. The notification message specifi... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110268036 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TUNNEL MANAGEMENT SERVER, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, TUNNEL SETUP METHOD, AND PROGRAM A communication system comprises a first communication device that transmits a setup request that causes a tunnel to be set up such that a first tunnel address of said first communication device and a second tunnel address of a second communication device are tunnel int... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110268126 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NODE DEVICE, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM A node device of an information communication system using an overlay network formed by a plurality of the node devices connected via a network, the node device comprises a reception unit configured to receive a control message for controlling the information communicat... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110261722 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FORWARDING NODE, PATH MANAGEMENT SERVER, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM A communication system comprises a path management server that configures forwarding path information that is configured by arranging link IDs for identifying communication interfaces provided in respective forwarding nodes in a forwarding path of a data transfer networ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261748 | COMMUNICATION RELAY SYSTEM, SERVER, AND METHOD FOR SAME The present invention relates to the formation by a communication relay server of a communication pathway between a terminal and a service provider server. It relates to a communication relay system, server and method for same, wherein, when a terminal accesses a servic... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261692 | METHOD FOR BALANCING LOADS IN MOBILE WIRELESS AD-HOC NETWORKS The invention relates to a method for balancing the traffic load without affecting the performance or efficiency or efficiency in Pocket Switched Networks, comprised within the so-called Delay-Tolerant Networks. The method introduces the concepts of strength and affinit... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261825 | OpenFlow COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND OpenFlow COMMUNICATION METHOD An OpenFlow switch controls transmission and reception of a packet according to a flow entry. Each of the flow entries contains a matching condition showing a communication flow of the packet and an action showing processing on the packet. An OpenFlow controller generat... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255546 | CLOCK FOR A NODE OF A PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORK, AND ASSOCIATED SYNCHRONISATION METHOD A method for synchronising a plurality of clocks (1, 5, 6, 7, 8) arranged within a plurality of nodes (11, 15, 16, 17, 18) of a packet-switching network comprising the steps consisting in comparing parameters relating to the clocks in order to determine ma... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110255547 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM In an information processing system in which a plurality of modules are connected to a ring bus, data transfer efficiency is enhanced by deleting an unnecessary packet from the ring bus. This invention relates to an information processing system in which a plurality of ... | 10/20/2011 |
