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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110110382 | Distribution of Packets Among PortChannel Groups of PortChannel Links PortChannel groups are disclosed which include multiple PortChannel links of a PortChannel. Further, the selection of a particular PortChannel group, and possibly a PortChannel link within a selected PortChannel group, for a packet is provided by user-programmable match... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110103396 | SELECTIVE LINK AGGREGATION IN A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT A method, system, and computer usable program product for selective link aggregation in a virtualized data processing environment are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A data packet is received at a switch. An identifier associated with the data packet is determ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110032825 | MULTIPATH DISCOVERY IN SWITCHED ETHERNET NETWORKS A network switch device receives a communication packet having a source MAC address s and a destination MAC address d at a switch port p. Then, the network switch device determines whether a valid routing table entry (s, p) exists, there by indicating that the source MA... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110026541 | LARGE-SCALE PACKET SWITCH A switching node comprises edge nodes interconnected by independent switch units. The switch units are arranged in at least one switch plane and the switch units of each switch plane are arranged in a matrix having several rows and several columns. Each edge node has a ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026540 | MESSAGE RING IN A SWITCHING NETWORK A switching network for efficiently receiving and transmitting data packets having both frames and messages includes a crossbar switch with a plurality of surrounding ports for exclusively switching frames which normally consist of large data streams of 40 to 60 bytes. ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100195521 | Adaptive Rate Control in a Communications System The invention relates to a method for controlling a bit-rate of a session in a packet-switched communications system where multiple sessions are set-up via a shared resource. A current bit-rate of the session is compared to a bit-rate range valid for the session to dete... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100061394 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO ANY-TO-ANY CONNECTIVITY WITHIN A DATA CENTER In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a switch core that defines a single logical entity and has a multi-stage switch fabric physically distributed across a plurality of chassis. The multi-stage switch fabric has a plurality of ingress ports and a plurality of egress... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20090185575 | PACKET SWITCH APPARATUS AND METHOD A packet switch apparatus for switching a packet between a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports includes a plurality of input buffers for storing a packet inputted to the input port, a plurality of output buffers for storing a packet outputted to the... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090129294 | Systems and methods for multi-customer access to high speed data optimization applications over TCP/IP WAN and internet The present invention allows multi-customer access to the common high speed carrier for contracting customers. The customer initiates a data transfer utilizing a registered address that activates high speed encapsulation to accelerate the data transmission. This change ... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090092145 | Network system A network system includes a switch device and a plurality of communication terminals. The switch device has a plurality of ports. The switch device receives a packet at its one port and transmits the packet from another port corresponding to the packet's destination. Th... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20080317025 | SWITCH MATRIX A switch system comprises a switch matrix providing a configurable, protocol agnostic, packet switching core, the switch matrix providing a non-blocking switch connecting a configurable number of ports together.... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080298246 | Multiple Link Traffic Distribution In one embodiment, a node comprises a plurality of interface circuits coupled to a node controller. Each of the plurality of interface circuits is configured to couple to a respective link of a plurality of links. The node controller is configured to select a first link... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080253282 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A DATA FLOW VIA BUNDLED NETWORK ACCESS LINKS AS WELL AS AN AUXILIARY TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER DEVICE AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING METHODS THEREFORE The present invention relates to a system for transmitting a data flow (a) from a transmitter device (1) to a receiver device (2) via a network (3) with a packet-based transmission protocol, in particular via the TCP/IP-based internet, with the devi... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080240137 | Methods and Apparatus for Fibre Channel Interconnection of Private Loop Devices Methods and apparatus for Fibre Channel interconnection is provided between a plurality of private loop devices through a Fibre Channel private loop device interconnect system. In the preferred embodiments, the Fibre Channel private loop device interconnect system is a ... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080170583 | Method of Supporting an Open Provider Backbone Network An apparatus comprising a first interface configured to transmit or receive backbone traffic, a second interface configured to transmit or receive non-backbone traffic, and a third interface in communication with the first interface and second interface, the third inter... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080123679 | ROUTING TABLE ARCHITECTURE A system and method for routing a packet between ports for use in a router having a plurality of ports, including a first and a second port, wherein each port includes a plurality of look-up tables (LUTs) and a look-up table select connected to the LUTs. Routing informa... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080095171 | Method and system for confirming connection of layer-1 label switched path(L1-LSP) in GMPLS-based network Provided is a method and system for confirming label switched path (LSP) connection in a global multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS)-based network. The method includes: collecting LSP hierarchy information; selecting one of a plurality of paths between first and secon... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080049778 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RELAYING PACKETS Packets are relayed using a network relay device including a plurality of interface units. Each of the interface units includes one or more physical ports for connection to a line, and a bandwidth controller configured to control transmission bandwidth for packets recei... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20070263651 | DISTRIBUTED DSLAM ARCHITECTURE DSLAMs and associated methods of installing DSLAMs are disclosed where the components of a DSLAM are distributed in a DSL network. A distributed DSLAM as provided herein includes digital signal processing components implemented in a centralized system (e.g., a central o... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070140130 | System method and software for user customizable device insertion Disclosed is a system method and software for user customizable device insertion. A new device is to be inserted in a loop based network such as an FC-AL network. The network is facilitated by a dedicated networking element, such as a switch. In order to ensure that the... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070127514 | PACKETS SWITCHING SYSTEM FOR TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK NODE In order to switch selectively via a packets switching matrix waiting in the input modules (IMi) to address output modules, an arbitration function (CSC) selects by successive cycles, from all the pairs of input and output modules, separate subsets. Each cycle comprises... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070098002 | Media center operating mode selection control method and system A media center operating mode selection control method and system is proposed, which is designed for use with a media center system to provide an easy-to-use operating mode selection control procedure, which is characterized by the provision of all possible operating mo... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070098001 | PCI express to PCI express based low latency interconnect scheme for clustering systems PCI Express is a Bus or I/O interconnect standard for use inside the computer or embedded system enabling faster data transfers to and from peripheral devices. The standard is still evolving but has achieved a degree of stability such that other applications can be impl... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070081557 | Multiple aggregation protocol sessions in a daisy chain network Various systems and methods that allow multiple aggregation protocol sessions to be established in a daisy chain network are disclosed. One method involves sending a first aggregation protocol packet and a first session identifier associated therewith to a first network... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20070002883 | Methods and devices for networking blade servers Some embodiments of the present invention provide blade servers having blade switches that function as switches in the data plane, but do not have a Domain_ID. Control plane switching functions are performed by a fabric switch (e.g., a core switch) to which the blade se... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060251096 | PCI express switch with encryption and queues for performance enhancement A switching interface comprising a switch having an input and a plurality of outputs, and a memory associated with the switch. The switch is adapted to receive a packet from the input, the packet to be forwarded to a destination device coupled to a one of the plurality ... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060159115 | Method of controlling information processing system, information processing system, direct memory access control device and program In a method of controlling an information processing system in which an information processing device is connected to each of a plurality of input/output ports provided in a routing device and having a first property or a second property, for conducting data transmissio... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060062245 | Fabric enabled storage module A multi-service platform system, includes a backplane (104), a switched fabric (106) on the backplane, and at least one of a VMEbus network and a PCI network coincident with the switched fabric on the backplane. A payload module (102) has one of a 3... | 03/23/2006 |
| 20060018331 | Inter-module communication apparatus The inter-module communication apparatus comprises: a first module and a second module which operate individually on a processor; a common memory interposed between the first module and the second module for functioning as a communication medium; a plurality of communic... | 01/26/2006 |
| 20050281282 | Internal messaging within a switch A queuing mechanism is presented that allows port data and processor data to share the same crossbar data pathway without interference. An ingress memory subsystem is dividing into a plurality of virtual output queues according to the switch destination address of the d... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050259674 | Provisioning of cross domain telecommunication services through dynamic label differentiation Apparatus and method are provided for distributing labels between domains of different technologies or administrations, thereby facilitating establishment of cross-domain services. Each label includes a Service label having end-to-end consistency, and a Local label used... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050249229 | Dynamically scalable edge router The present invention provides a dynamically scalable edge router, wherein multiple data cards are connected to multiple input/output (I/O) cards via a dynamically configurable cross point. The cross point can be reconfigured to establish different connections between t... | 11/10/2005 |
| 20050243852 | Variable packet-size backplanes for switching and routing systems The present invention provides switches and routers, preferably with fully-connected mesh fabrics, that transmit data through the switch fabric in variable-size data units. Variable-size data units allow switches and routers to provide throughputs close to hardware capa... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050074056 | Wireless data interface system for fixed point-to-point communications A system for transmitting process control information from remote sites is disclosed. In one embodiment, data is collected by a remote monitoring device or devices and transmitted to a first Cellular Digital Packet (“CDPD”) modem via one or more RS232 interfaces. Th... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050025044 | Economically expansible switching network A telecommunications switching node comprising a plurality of input and output (I/O) ports configured to receive and transmit telecommunications signals, a switching core comprising a plurality of switching networks and a backplane connecting each of the plurality of I/... | 02/03/2005 |
