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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128004 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CENTRALIZED VIRTUAL SWITCH FABRIC CONTROL In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises a processing module, disposed within a first switch fabric element, configured to detect a second switch fabric element having a routing module when the second switch fabric element is operatively coupled to the first switch f... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128006 | Method and Arrangement for Enabling Multimedia Services for a Device in a Local Network Method and arrangement in a home gateway (202) of a local network (200) for providing registration in an external multimedia services network (IMS) for one or more local devices present in the local network. When a local registration request is received (<... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128005 | NETWORK RELAY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY SETTING A NETWORK RELAY SYSTEM FSs (16a to 16h) are each connected to IFSs (14a to 14x). Each of the FSs (16a to 16h) transmits a setting frame (60) that includes an FS number to the connected IFSs (14 05/24/2012 | |
| 20120127989 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO COMMUNICATE MEDIA DATA ACROSS DIFFERENT NETWORKS Example methods and apparatus to communicate media across different networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves determining, with a processor, whether a second network device in a second network has a capability associated with a first descriptor in a fi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106558 | BRIDGE FOR IMPLEMENTING A CONVERGED NETWORK PROTOCOL TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL NETWORKS Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for a bridge for implementing a converged network protocol to facilitate communication between different communication protocol networks. A first adaptor implements a first communication protocol and a second a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106550 | VEHICULAR NETWORK WITH CONCURRENT PACKET TRANSMISSION A vehicular network is a closed network with known sources, destinations, and network connections that can be mapped in advance, and used to identify network resources needed to transmit a packet from a source to a destination. A network module can determine the source ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106559 | METHOD OF NETWORK-BASED COMMUNICATION IN VIRTUAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT In a plurality of virtual tunnel routers including a first virtual tunnel router and a second virtual tunnel router, the first virtual tunnel router and the second virtual tunnel router request virtual network prefix information from a tunnel mapping controller. When th... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106318 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING DUAL-HOMING The invention discloses a method for implementing dual-homing, including: setting each one of any two core control equipment as a standby for each other, connecting a network entity belonging to one of the core control equipment with the two core control equipment throu... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106563 | Method of Performing a Service Group Discovery Procedure in a Communication System and Related Communication Device A method of performing a Service Group (SG) Discovery procedure in a communication system is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting a Request message from a first personal network element (PNE) to a personal network (PN) gateway (GW) or the PN GW to a Converged Pe... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106561 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL STATION THEREOF AND COMMUNICATION METHOD A plurality of control stations supervise respective ones of different networks and multiple nodes belonging to each network perform redundant transmission of data. The number of communication paths for which the qualities of communication links between the nodes belong... | 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 |
| 20120106392 | NETWORK RELAY DEVICE A network relay device includes an internal storage unit, an external storage unit having greater storage capacity than the internal storage unit, an accumulation control module and a relay processing module. The accumulation control module compares a receiving rate rep... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106562 | ROUTER AND SWITCH ARCHITECTURE A packet switching system for a packet transfer network, the system having an architecture including a plurality of line cards, each including an ingress path pipeline, with processing elements, and an egress buffer, and an electro-optical In/Out (IO) interconnect coupl... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106560 | INTER-DOMAIN ROUTING IN AN N-ARY-TREE AND SOURCE-ROUTING BASED COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK Systems and techniques for processing and forwarding packets are described. Specifically, some embodiments can include a receiving mechanism, a determining mechanism, a generating mechanism, and a sending mechanism. The receiving mechanism can be configured to receive a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106411 | PORTABLE ROUTER A portable router comprises a memory unit, a network sharing port, an operating/processing unit connecting with the two components. The memory unit has an original parameter configuration area and an updated parameter configuration area. An originally-configured network... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082150 | GATEWAY APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM A gateway receives a predetermined request from a terminal via a network, identifies the type of the terminal, reads a stream or a file, which includes at least one of a video and an audio, from at least one of an equipment connected directly to the gateway and an equip... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082165 | CENTRALIZED TELECOM SERVER FOR DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGY NETWORKS Systems and methods are disclosed for providing service management across different technology networks. A centralized telecom serving system (TSS) includes a plurality of interface gateways, a central adapter, and a common interface. When in operation, a first interfac... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082166 | ANALOG FRONT END PROTOCOL CONVERTER/ADAPTER FOR SLPI PROTOCOL In an embodiment, an analog front end (AFE) bridge for a SLPI PHY includes: an AFE LINK-side circuit having at least one pair of differential LINK-side nodes which does not conform to SLPI PHY specifications; an AFE PHY-side circuit having a pair of differential PHY-sid... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082168 | COMMUNICATION MODULE AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A communication module mounted on a communication apparatus includes a communication apparatus main body including a plurality of slots, and being insertable into or removable from the slots, a plurality of apparatus side signal processing circuits for processing a comm... | 04/05/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20120069829 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PACING REAL TIME MEDIA TRANSMISSION OVER A BROADBAND CHANNEL USING MICRO BURSTING A wireless system for streaming media files includes a microburst gateway in which microbursts, comprising groups of buffered packets of the streamed media, are transmitted periodically to a user over a broadband channel over respective window periods, the bursts being ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069839 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK SWITCH ELEMENT Method and system for a network switch element is provided. The switch element includes a plurality of megaports, each megaport uniquely identified by a unique megaport address identifier for network addressing. Each megaport includes a plurality of operational ports, e... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069848 | CONFIGURABLE FAST ETHERNET AND GIGABIT ETHERNET DATA PORT An Ethernet switch has at least one ingress/egress port which is operable in two modes, in a first mode as a GE port and in a second mode as a plurality of FE ports. The port has 8 MAC interfaces each of which is capable of receiving/transmitting FE packets, and at leas... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069851 | Methods and apparatus for enabling communication between network elements that operate at different bit rates An apparatus and method for transmitting electronic data between two networks communicating at different bit rates, where the bit rate of the faster network divided by the bit rate of the slower network is a non-integer. The two networks communicate with each other thro... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072967 | IMS SERVICE PROXY IN HiGA The present invention relates to a communication system (SYS), a gateway apparatus (HiGA) and a method for allowing services of a first type provided by a communication server (IMS-S) to be provided to terminal devices (T1, T2, . . . Tn . . . TN) of a home... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051365 | Beacon For A Star Network, Sensor Nodes In A Star Network, Method For Initializing A Gateway In A Star Network And Method For Operating A Star Network A beacon for a star network comprising a gateway and at least one sensor node, where the beacon includes fields containing information on the length of a base time-slot and information on the number of used base time-slots per management time-slot, where the management ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051364 | DISTRIBUTED ROUTING ACCORDING TO LONGEST MATCH PRINCIPLE A network relay system includes a plurality of internal network relay devices. The network relay system learns multiple pieces of route information to an external network, creates a plurality of allocation route tables designed to allocate the learnt multiple pieces of ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051230 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AN OFFLINE RADIO RESOURCE IN AN INTEROPERABILITY SYSTEM In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining an indication that indicates that a donor radio is online with respect to an interoperability system, and determining if the indication is accurate. If the indication is not accurate, the method includes identifying a commu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044946 | ROUTER AND METHOD OF PASSING IPV6 DATA PACKETS THROUGH THE ROUTER In a router and a method of passing IPv6 data packets through the router, the router receives a data packet from a local area network or the wide area network. The router determines if the data packet is a IPv6 data packet or a non-IPv6 data packet . The router routes t... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044947 | FLOODING-BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL HAVING DATABASE PRUNING AND RATE-CONTROLLED STATE REFRESH An enhanced, flooding-based link state routing protocol is described that provides pruning of link state data and, when needed, rate-controlled refresh of the pruned link state data from other routers of the flooding domain. A routing device comprises a network interfac... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044948 | MULTIPLE CORE NETWORK DEVICE WITH CORE REDUNDANCY An embodiment of a network device includes a plurality of switch cores and a plurality of ports for receiving and transmitting data frames on a network disposed on a single integrated circuit, where switch core is coupled to a subset of the plurality of ports. The netwo... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044949 | ROUTE OPTIMIZATION OF A DATA PATH BETWEEN COMMUNICATING NODES USING A ROUTE OPTIMIZATION AGENT The invention relates to optimizing a data path between two communication nodes. A route optimization agent (ROA) is determined in the current network of the second communication node, preferably on the data path between the two communication nodes. Then, an IP tunnel i... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044945 | Mechanism for Implementation of System Signaling 7 (SS7) Layers as Microcontainer Beans in a Media Gateway A mechanism for implementation of system signaling 7 (SS7) layers as microcontainer beans in a media gateway is disclosed. A method of the invention includes implementing one or more System Signaling No. 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part (MTP) la... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044943 | Method and system for layer-2 pseudo-wire rapid-deployment service over unknown internet protocol networks An International Standards Organization (“OSI”) Layer-2 (“Ethernet”) Pseudo-wire (“OSI Layer-1 type service”) appliance, method, system and hub service is disclosed. The method and system facilitate the rapid deployment of Layer-2 Pseudo-wires over unknown a... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044819 | ROUTER AND METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING REAL-TIME PACKETS IN THE ROUTER A router and method distinguishes real-time packets in the router. The router reads information of reference packets and a packet length of a test packet. A packet arrival rate of the test packet, an inter-arrival time standard deviation of the test packet, and a packet... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044950 | ALLOCATION OF ROUTE TARGETS BASED ON SERVICE A network controller to allocate route targets for communication services provided on one or more corresponding virtual private networks, the route targets identifying service providers associated with the virtual private networks and the communication services provided... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044944 | System and Method for Carrying Path Information A routing bridge in a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) domain includes a link coupled to a device in the TRILL domain, and an Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) Traffic Engineering (TE) module that receives configuration information f... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120033620 | SYNCHRONIZATION FOR DATA TRANSFERS BETWEEN PHYSICAL LAYERS Various embodiments relate to a system and related method that enable transfer of control and data messages in a wireless communication network between devices operating on different physical layers (PHY). Control data and/or isochronous data and/or asynchronous data ma... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033672 | VIRTUAL IP INTERFACES ON MULTI-CHASSIS LINK AGGREGATES Aggregation Switches connected via a virtual fabric link (VFL) are each active and each coupled to a multi-chassis link aggregate group (MC-LAG), which is assigned to a multi-chassis link aggregate group virtual local area network (MC-LAG VLAN). A virtual Internet Proto... | 02/09/2012 |
