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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120014314 | METHOD FOR REALIZING DATA FORWARDING, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND DEVICE A method for realizing data forwarding, a network system, and a related device are provided. The method includes: receiving data sent from an external device; and judging whether the data is from or to a backhaul terminal, and directly forwarding the data if the data is... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120002680 | INTERRUPTION, AT LEAST IN PART, OF FRAME TRANSMISSION An embodiment may include circuitry to permit interruption, at least in part, of a first frame from a sender to an intended recipient in favor of transmitting, at least in part, a payload of a second frame from the sender to the intended recipient, and/or processing, at... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110262135 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING OVERALL AGGREGATE CAPACITY OF A NETWORK Example embodiments of the present invention relate to increasing an aggregate capacity of a network without using a centralized switch fabric. A method and corresponding apparatus in an example embodiment of the present invention relates to increasing overall aggregate... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110235652 | IMPLEMENTING ENHANCED LINK BANDWIDTH IN A HEADLESS INTERCONNECT CHIP A method and circuit for implementing enhanced link bandwidth for a headless interconnect chip in a local rack interconnect system, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. The headless interconnect chip includes a cut through switch and... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110194450 | CELL COPY COUNT HAZARD DETECTION The present invention is directed to a network device, method and apparatus for processing data. The present invention includes at least one ingress module for performing switching functions on incoming data. The invention further includes a memory management unit (MMU)... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110122889 | JUST-IN-TIME FORWARDING INFORMATION BASE A device may include a line card and a control module. The line card may include a memory that stores a local routing table. The line card may request a routing entry from a routing table, receive the routing entry, insert the routing entry in the local routing table, a... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110058571 | DATA SWITCH WITH SHARED PORT BUFFERS A communication apparatus includes a plurality of switch ports, each switch port including one or more port buffers for buffering data that traverses the switch port. A switch fabric is coupled to transfer the data between the switch ports. A switch control unit is conf... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110026406 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING DATA PACKETS FROM A NETWORK In one embodiment, data packets are captured from a network using a physical, network-connectable data capture probe. As the data packets are captured, the data packets are time-stamped with time-of-capture time-stamps. The time-stamped data packets are then stored; and... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110019686 | PATH SELECTION PROCEDURE IN MESH NETWORK AND FORMAT OF PATH REQUEST FRAME THEREFOR A method for selecting a transmission path from a source mesh point (MP) to a destination MP in a mesh network is provided. The source MP broadcasts a frame comprising a path request (PREQ) element. According to a power management state of an intermediate MP that receiv... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110007751 | TRANSPORT STREAM RECORDING AND TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF A partial transport stream (TS) is temporarily recorded in a recording medium before being transmitted to a network. Here, when the partial TS is generated, null packets (invalid packets) are inserted into some of positions of packets determined not to be recorded, at a... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110002343 | METHOD FOR DATA SYNCHRONIZATION WITH MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICES A system and method for utilizing non-interactive communications with wireless networks for a mobile wireless device such as a telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), laptop, or other mobile device configured for performing data transfers over a wireless network. B... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002344 | BUFFER CONTROL FOR MULTI-TRANSPORT ARCHITECTURES A system for automating connection management in a manner that may be transparent to any actively communicating applications operating in a Network on Terminal Architecture (NoTA). An application level entity may access another node by making a request to a high level c... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100260199 | GRACEFUL RESTART METHOD OF ROUTER, ROUTER AND COMMUNICATION NETWORK THEREOF A graceful restart (GR) method of a router, and a router and a communication network thereof are provided. The method includes the following steps. A control plane enters a GR state. Label switched path (LSP) packets sent by a neighbor router are received, and the label... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100254401 | Methods and Apparatus for Separating Home Agent Functionality MIP Home Agent (HA) architectures are described that decompose, e.g., split, packet forwarding control functionality from actual data packet forwarding operations performed by a conventional MIP HA. This places MIP routing control in a node which is distinct from the tu... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254385 | Service Insertion Architecture (SIA) in a Virtual Private Network (VPN) Aware Network Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with interworking a VPN and an SIA are described. One example apparatus includes a mapping data store to store a mapping between two logical groups of network devices having separate forwarding planes that are at least ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254400 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOWING TRANSMISSION DELAY IN HOME AGENT OF MOBILE IP NETWORK A method and apparatus for allowing transmission delay in a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network is provided. The method of allowing transmission delay in a home agent of a mobile IP network, the method including: storing data in a mobile router when disconnection with... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100246596 | CONTROL OF PACKET BUFFER USING TOKEN BUCKETS WITH DIFFERENT TOKEN BUCKET SIZES Control of readout of packets from a packet buffer is disclosed in which equal numbers of tokens are removed and used from token buckets having different bucket sizes; tokens are generated at token rates for the token buckets, wherein each token rate is preset such that... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100183023 | IDENTIFICATION FRAGMENT HANDLING A device stores forwarding information associated with fragments of a first data unit, stores information common to the fragments of the first data unit, receives fragments of a second data unit, and forwards the fragments of the second data unit based on the forwarding... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100142549 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIRECT DATA RECORDING A computer-implemented method for data recording includes defining a rule, the rule identifying data items exchanged between an originating endpoint and a recipient endpoint over a communication network, having nodes, as target data items for storage by a storage device... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100054272 | STORAGE DEVICE CAPABLE OF ACCOMMODATING HIGH-SPEED NETWORK USING LARGE-CAPACITY LOW-SPEED MEMORY A storage device is connected to a large-capacity low-speed memory, and divides a packet received via a network into a plurality of segments for storage. The storage device includes a small-capacity high-speed memory. A selector writes the first predetermined number of ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100054273 | Physically Segmented Logical Token Network Token authorized packet exchange between a plurality of store-and-forward nodes in a downhole networking environment and respective applications for data processing and communication are described herein.... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20090257442 | DISTRIBUTED ROUTER APPLICATION SERIALIZATION A router, which may be a wireless gateway, for routing messages between communications networks, including a persistent storage, and a transport interface for sending outgoing messages to communications devices associated with a first communications network, and receivi... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090245272 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR IMPROVING MEDIA TRANSMISSION QUALITY USING ROBUST REPRESENTATION OF MEDIA FRAMES In a method of improved media frame transmission in a communication network. Initially a plurality of “original” or regular media frames are provided for transmission. According to the invention, robust representations of the provided regular media frames are genera... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090245258 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORWARDING PACKET DATA An apparatus includes an input part, a plurality of output parts, and a switching part. The input part inputs a packet and builds at least one forwarding data block including a predetermined destination identifier and packet data extracted from the inputted packet. The ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090175290 | Flexray communications module, flexray communications controller, and method for transmitting messages between a flexray communications link and a flexray participant A FlexRay communications module for coupling a FlexRay communications link, over which messages are transmitted, to a participant, which is assigned via a participant interface to the FlexRay communications module. To provide a FlexRay communications module which will o... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090116476 | METHOD FOR FORWARDING AND STORING SESSION PACKETS ACCORDING TO PRESET AND/OR DYNAMIC RULES A system and method for recording and/or monitoring data by forwarding it, with or without analyzing or otherwise filtering the data itself are provided. According to embodiments of the invention, the system and method are operative over IP networks. According to an emb... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090092146 | System, method and computer readable medium for communication on a Zigbee network In a Zigbee network, reliable communications are provided by maintaining messages transmitted from a device in a message queue in the device. If no successful acknowledgement is received for a transmitted message, the message is re-transmitted when the message queue exe... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20080232388 | FORWARDING APPARATUS, FORWARDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT An apparatus for forwarding a frame according to a transfer condition includes a transfer-condition storage unit, a deleted-area data storage unit, and a transfer-condition searching unit. The transfer-condition storage unit stores therein, destination data that is like... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080212602 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR OPTIMIZING COMMUNICATION AND PROCESSING FUNCTIONS BETWEEN DISPARATE APPLICATIONS A method, system and program product for optimizing communication and processing functions between disparate applications. The method includes sending, from a contemporary application to a routing application, a condensed request message having a reduced data size for o... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080205425 | Methods and devices for generating and forwarding translated MAC addresses The number of MAC addresses and corresponding tables that need to be stored to forward messages in a network is substantially reduced. Conventional MAC addresses are converted to translated (sometimes called “virtual”) MAC addresses using a new hierarchical format w... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080175262 | DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONFIGURATION INFORMATION UPDATE METHOD, AND CONFIGURATION INFORMATION UPDATE PROGRAM A data communication apparatus stores each data received via a network and transfers each data in accordance with destination addresses of each data. The data communication apparatus includes a stop-control information generator, which upon updating of circuit configura... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080144638 | VOCABULARY RECOGNITION OF ANALOG TRANSMISSIONS IN A WIRELESS DIGITAL NETWORK Methods and systems in which vocabulary recognition enables routing of analog transmissions over digital networks are provided. In one embodiment, a method (200) of delivering analog transmissions over a digital network includes receiving (208) an analog t... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080137679 | Method for Transmitting Data in Messages Via a Communication Link of a Communication System, as well as a Communication Module, User of a Communication System, and Communication System for Implementing This Method The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data in messages via a communication link (101) of a communication system, as well as a communication module (100), users (102) of a communication system and a communication system for imple... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080095062 | Fastpath implementation for a double tagging loopback engine A network component for processing a packet can include a buffer configured to receive a packet, a forwarding unit configured to forward the packet received at the first buffer to a loopback port, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the packet out of the loop... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080062960 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PACKET FORWARD CONTROL Systems and methods for packet forward control. The system comprises a plurality of ports and a processing module configured to receive a packet. The processing module comprises a resource management module and a forward control module. The resource management module de... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080056145 | BUFFERING METHOD FOR NETWORK AUDIO TRANSPORT Systems and methods are described for transmitting audio and video messages between network terminals over a network. A communication link is established between a first network terminal and a second network terminal, and audio data and video data is transmitted concurr... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080049612 | Maintaining filtering database consistency Information is shared between switches such as bridges to facilitate efficient forwarding of data. In some embodiments consistency is maintained between information stored in filtering databases for IEEE 802.1D or 802.1Q bridges. When a switch does not have an entry in ... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080031269 | System and Method for Bypassing an Output Queue Structure of a Switch In particular embodiments of the present invention, a method for bypassing an output queue structure of a switch is provided. In a particular embodiment, a method for bypassing an output queue structure of a switch includes receiving a packet at an input port of a switc... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080031271 | Frame forwarding apparatus A frame forwarding apparatus comprises a receiving unit receiving a frame including a source address, a destination address and a VWAN identifier; a converting unit converting a VWAN identifier in the frame into one of degenerate VWAN identifiers that the number of adop... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080019274 | Notifying network applications of receive overflow conditions A method for notifying a packet destination that includes receiving a packet by a network interface card (NIC), where the packet destination is a destination of the packet, classifying the packet, forwarding the packet to one of a plurality of receive rings on the NIC, ... | 01/24/2008 |
