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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120051368 | Content Adaptive Data Path Logic Processing Adaptive data processing systems and methods, comprising functions of preparing a primary input from a preliminary primary input, preparing a secondary input from a preliminary secondary input, and producing an output from the primary and secondary inputs, wherein prepa... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044951 | ALIGNMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD An alignment apparatus for dynamically operating lanes in a high speed Ethernet device having multiple lanes, includes: a PCS (Physical Coding Sublayer) upper layer managing lane information regarding all of the lanes and operational lanes; a PCS transmission unit recei... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042357 | Secure one-way data transfer system using network interface circuitry Network interface circuitry for a secure one-way data transfer from a sender's computer (“Send Node”) to a receiver's computer (“Receive Node”) over a data link, such as an optical fiber or shielded twisted pair copper wire communication cable, comprising send-o... | 02/16/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120020374 | Method and System for Merging Network Stacks A system includes a network interface and a plurality of processing cores. The network interface includes a plurality of ports. A first one of the cores processes tasks relating to a native network stack owning a first one of the ports. A second one of the cores process... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014391 | DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A data communication method and a data communication apparatus are provided. The method mainly includes: receiving, by an adapter card, information elements sent by a first switching network board, in which a format of the information element is an information element f... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014284 | VIRTUALIZED SHARED PROTECTION CAPACITY The present disclosure relates a network, a network element, a system, and a method providing an efficient allocation of protection capacity for network connections and/or services. These may be for services within a given Virtual Private Network (VPN) or Virtual Machin... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120002673 | Distributing Packets to Line Cards of a Packet Switching Device Based on Bridge Indication Values Received Therewith A packet switching device maintains mappings of bridge identification values to line cards for each of multiple virtual bridges. When a packet is received that includes a bridge identification value, corresponding line card(s) are identified, with each being forwarded t... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002679 | PACKET FILTERING Ingress and egress port packets for a connection between a first node and second node are mirrored to a mirroring port on a network switch. A count of ingress and egress port packets associated with a handshake process is determined. Duplicate mirrored packets associate... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110299552 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MULTIPLE PATHS BETWEEN NETWORK NODES Aspects of the invention pertain to transmitting packet data across a computer network. The packets may be sent via one or more distinct routes from a source to a destination. Each route may employ multiple routers disposed along the network. Non-colliding routes are de... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292949 | Path management control method, path management control program, path management control device and path management control system The path management controller 1 refers to resource information 131 including reservation statuses of working paths and advance reserved paths that are set in every link, so as to calculate a route for setting a new path and set this path in this calculate... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110280255 | Locally unique node port identifiers In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a locally unique node port identifier at a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) node in communication with at least one other FCoE node through an Ethernet network, discovering a virtual node port at the other FCoE node, and ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110280256 | Dynamic Assignment of Signals to Ports in an Access Platform Signals may be forwarded to a variety of ports for transmission. The signals may be modulated for transmission. The forwarding of signals to ports may be accomplished by forwarding the signals to one or more signal modulators using a processing unit. The mapping of sign... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110274118 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR READING DATA FROM A PROTOCOL STACK OF TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL/INTERNET PROTOCOL A method and device for accessing data through a stack of Transmission Control Protocol and Internetwork Protocols (TCP/IP). The method includes: obtaining an identifier that designates a plurality of UDP data packets in the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) of the TCP/IP st... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110261832 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR EXCHANGING INPUT AND OUTPUT DATA A method for exchanging data using a controller includes selectively setting an exchange mode to one of a synchronous mode and an asynchronous mode, and determining whether to execute an input data exchange or an output data exchange. The input data exchange is based at... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255552 | FRAMED FLOWS OVER PACKET-SWITCHED FABRICS A networking device and a method provide switching of framed signals using a packet switch fabric. Framed input signals, which may be OTN signals, are received and converted to packets. The conversion includes striping the received signal into virtual lanes and segmenti... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249684 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE A data transmission device includes a unit that changes the number and combination of optical communication paths forming a virtual communication path. The data transmission device has functions of forming a virtual communication path by connecting only the number of op... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110235651 | NETWORK STREAMING OVER MULTIPLE PHYSICAL INTERFACES USING FEEDBACK INFORMATION The present disclosure is directed to using feedback information regarding a data stream being sent from a sending endpoint to a receiving endpoint. Both of the sending endpoint and the receiving endpoint each have multiple physical interfaces connecting the sending end... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110235650 | PROVIDING FEEDBACK INFORMATION WHEN NETWORK STREAMING OVER MULTIPLE PHYSICAL INTERFACES The present disclosure is directed to providing feedback information for a data stream being sent from a sending endpoint to a receiving endpoint. Both of the endpoints each have multiple physical interfaces connecting each endpoint to multiple networks, respectively. I... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110216777 | ROUTING DEVICE AND RELATED CONTROL CIRCUIT A control circuit for use in a routing device is disclosed including: an input/output interface; and a processor coupled with the input/output interface for setting address resolution information of a network protocol address of a first network section as unchangeable i... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110216780 | Input/Output Request Packet Handling Techniques by a Device Specific Kernel Mode Driver The input/output request packet (IRP) handling technique includes determining if a received input/output request packet should receive a given handling. If the input/output request packet should receive the given handling, the input/output request packet is dispatched t... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110206058 | Automatic Determination of Groupings of Communications Interfaces A particular networked machine broadcasts packets from its interfaces resulting in patterns of returned copies of the sent broadcast packets received on its interfaces. Based on these patterns, a determination is made to identify groupings of one or more of the interfac... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110200055 | ENHANCED CMTS FOR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, AND SERVICEABILITY A Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) is partitioned into Line Cards, I/O Cards, and a midplane to provide enhanced Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability. Each I/O Card provides a cabling interface for coupling an assigned Line Card to other portions of a Hybr... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110188512 | CROSS-CONNECT USING ETHERNET MULTIPLEXORS FOR A SIMPLE METRO ETHERNET NETWORK A metro area network is provided that includes edge and core multiplexors each having a plurality of line ports and one or more uplink ports, a transport network carrying multiplexed traffic between the edge and core multiplexors. In a hard cross connect implementation ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110188511 | Ethernet node port virtualizer In one embodiment, a method includes defining a virtual node port proxy and virtual fabric port proxies at a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) bridge, the virtual node port proxy in communication with an FCoE forwarder, each of the virtual fabric port proxies in commun... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110164616 | Methods and apparatus for processing superframes Methods and apparatus for transmitting a plurality of packets in a switch having a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports are disclosed. Two or more packets are received at one or more of the plurality of input ports. One of the plurality of output por... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110158082 | GRID ROUTING APPARATUS AND METHOD A grid router for routing packets and a network containing the same. The router comprises ingress units (IE), mailbox units (MU), and egress units (EU) connected in a structure of succeeding layers, said layered structure being segregated such that units in a given laye... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110149990 | ENERGY EFFICIENCY WITH RATE ADAPTATION A system and method of rate adaptation is disclosed for energy efficiency. The system and method of rate adaptation for energy efficiency provides for parsing a heterogeneous network into rate-adaptation domains that are fully isolated with respect to the control of the... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110142065 | BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT SWITCHING CARD A bandwidth management card includes a switch control unit and multiple ports connected to one or more line cards that are separate from the bandwidth management card. The bandwidth management card further includes at least one switch, and multiple network ports, where ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110110381 | AUTOMATIC SWITCH PORT SELECTION Back pressure is mapped within a network, and primary bottlenecks are distinguished from dependent bottlenecks. Further, the presently disclosed technology is capable of performing network healing operations designed to reduce the data load on primary bottlenecks while ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110096791 | DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD A data communication system includes a data transmitting device and a data receiving device connected with the data transmitting device through a packet-switched network. The data transmitting device includes a data packet generating unit w... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110085568 | MAPPING LOGICAL PORTS OF A NETWORK SWITCH TO PHYSICAL PORTS A Layer 2 network switch is partitionable into a plurality of switch fabrics. The single-chassis switch is partitionable into a plurality of logical switches, each associated with one of the virtual fabrics. The logical switches behave as complete and self-contained swi... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110085570 | System and Method for Hierarchical Link Aggregation Systems and methods for hierarchical link aggregation are disclosed. A system for hierarchical link aggregation may include a network interface having a plurality of physical ports. A first plurality of the physical ports may be configured as member ports of a first lin... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110085569 | CREATION AND DELETION OF LOGICAL PORTS IN A LOGICAL SWITCH A Layer 2 network switch is partitionable into a plurality of switch fabrics. The single-chassis switch is partitionable into a plurality of logical switches, each associated with one of the virtual fabrics. The logical switches behave as complete and self-contai... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110080919 | LOW-POWER POLICY FOR PORT Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, a method may include determining, by a port processor, a buffer length based on an amount of data stored in a port controlled by the port processor, comparing the buffer length to a low-power... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110080920 | Flexibly Integrating Endpoint Logic Into Varied Platforms In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to an integrated endpoint having a virtual port coupled between an upstream fabric and an integrated device fabric that includes a multi-function logic to handle various functions for one or more intellectual property... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110075680 | Forwarding of Packets Based on a Filtered Forwarding Information Base A filtered Forwarding Information Base (FIB) (the “complete local FIB”) is used to determine how to forward packets, typically on line cards. The complete local FIB is generated by filtering (i.e., dropping or removing) extraneous entries in the standard global FIB ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069718 | INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH SEGREGATED REAL-TIME ETHERNET An intelligent electronic device segregates urgent data frames from non-urgent data frames on reception so that the urgent data frames may be handled with greater priority. A switching device is disposed between an external network interface and multiple internal networ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110058570 | PROGRAMMABLE CROSSBAR STRUCTURES IN ASYNCHRONOUS SYSTEMS Methods, systems, and circuits for forming and operating a crossbar structure in an asynchronous system are described. One or more input ports of a programmable crossbar structure may be connected to send data to one or more output ports. A group of output ports each re... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110013642 | Circuit arrangement, systems for transmitting a serial data stream, pixel matrix display and method for transmitting a serial data stream A circuit arrangement comprises an input circuit for reading in a serial data stream, which comprises a plurality of useful data bits, and for reading in a piece of information which indicates the start of the serial data stream. The circuit arrangement also comprises a... | 01/20/2011 |
