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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131222 | ELEPHANT FLOW DETECTION IN A COMPUTING DEVICE Example embodiments relate to elephant flow detection in a computing device. In example embodiments, a computing device may monitor a socket for a given flow. The computing device may then determine whether the flow is an elephant flow based on the monitoring of the soc... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131223 | Object-Based Transport Protocol Methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate providing an object-based transport protocol that allows transmission of arbitrarily sized objects over a network protocol layer. The object-based transport protocol can also provide association of metadata with the o... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120072612 | Method and an Arrangement of Identifying Traffic Flows in a Communication Network A method of identifying traffic flows is provided in a traffic generating node, where each traffic flow is being associated with an application process running on the traffic generating node. The method is configured to perform a mapping operation, such that an applicat... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054364 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHARACTERISING A DATA FLOW IN A NETWORK FOR TRANSFERRING DATA A method for characterising a data flow to be transferred over a network path of a network, whereby the network path has at least one network device susceptible of network congestion. The method includes the step of determining a footprint measure of the data flow. The ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047279 | Media-Aware and TCP-Compatible Bandwidth Sharing for Video Streaming Media-aware and TCP-compatible bandwidth sharing may be provided. In various embodiments, a network node may periodically update a virtual congestion level for a transmission stream in a network. The transmission stream may comprise at least one video stream and at leas... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120005368 | ADAPTIVE BIT RATE METHOD AND SYSTEM USING RETRANSMISSION AND REPLACEMENT An adaptive method and system for dynamically facilitating access to higher quality content in the event transport of the higher quality content requires a greater allocation of network resources when compared to transport of the same content at a lower quality.... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005276 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING APPLICATION UPDATE TRAFFIC IN CELLULAR NETWORKS An application proxy is disposed between a user device and an application server. The application server supports an application that is available on the user device. The user device registers with the application proxy for the application. The user device is prevented ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005361 | ADAPTIVE BIT RATE FOR DATA TRANSMISSION An adaptive bit rate system for use in transmitting data at adaptable bit rates. The bit rate may be adjusted according to historical behaviors and/or past operational settings, such as but not limited to adjusted a request bit rate to a different bit rate depending the... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110302320 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK CONTENT DELIVERY A content delivery system including a subscriber controller and cache, a source controller configured to transmit content to the subscriber controller and cache via a multicast transmission; and a network content delivery controller (NCDC) in communication with the subs... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110289204 | Virtual Machine Management Among Networked Servers Virtual machine management among networked servers coupled for data communications with a data communications network that includes a network device and a Virtual Machine Management Module (‘VMMM’), where VM management includes: monitoring, by the network device, ne... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110283016 | LOAD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, LOAD DISTRIBUTION METHOD, APPARATUSES CONSTITUTING LOAD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM A load distribution system that can further reduce load on a single apparatus and a network and that can distribute load for each process. The load distribution system of the present invention comprises: at least one packet forwarding apparatus comprising a packet forwa... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276715 | Communicating Data In Flows Between First And Second Computers Connected Over A Network A network arrangement includes a first computer connected over a network to a second computer. Data over plural flows is communicated over the network between the first computer and second computer, where the second computer has a resource remotely accessible by the fir... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270967 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING AN OVERLOAD IN A NETWORK A method and apparatus for managing an overload condition in a network are disclosed. For example, the method monitors the network for a traffic overload condition, and determines whether a more severe traffic overload condition or a less severe traffic overload conditi... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264822 | FILTERING AND ROUTE LOOKUP IN A SWITCHING DEVICE Methods and devices for processing packets are provided. The processing device may Include an input interface for receiving data units containing header information of respective packets; a first module configurable to perform packet filtering based on the received data... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264821 | Method And Devices For Performing Traffic Control In Telecommunication Networks A method is disclosed for performing traffic control in a network, the network comprising at least one link, the method comprising: —measuring the data traffic rate, the data traffic comprising at least one data flow, at at least one link which carries the data traffi... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258214 | Controlling Dynamically-Changing Traffic Load Of Whitespace Devices For Database Access A central node/database receives from each mth one of a plurality of M user devices at least one of geographic location information of the mth user device and type information of the mth user device. The node/database registers the M use... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110246634 | Internet Improvement Platform with Learning Module Redirecting DNS traffic includes receiving, at an Internet improvement platform, a DNS query issued from an Internet application running on a computing device. The Internet navigation platform determines an appropriate response to the DNS query. The response is then exe... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246666 | Method and System for Transparent TCP Offload (TTO) with a User Space Library Certain aspects of a method and system for transparent TCP offload with a user space library are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include collecting TCP segments in a network interface card (NIC) without transferring state information to a host system. When an event o... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238921 | ANTICIPATORY RESPONSE PRE-CACHING Interaction between a client and a service in which the service responds to requests from the client. In addition to responding to specific client requests, the service also anticipates or speculates about what the client may request in the future. Rather than await the... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239273 | NETWORK UTILIZATION AND RESOURCE CONTROL BASED ON TRAFFIC PATTERNS A device receives, from a user device, a request to access a network, determines whether to accept or deny the request to access the network, and monitors traffic provided to or from the user device via the network. The device also determines a traffic pattern for the u... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110219141 | Modification of Small Computer System Interface Commands to Exchange Data with a Networked Storage Device Using AT Attachment Over Ethernet A process executed by a computing device uses commands having a first format to exchange data through a network with a storage device configured to execute commands having a second format. A storage device controller identifies a command type associated with a command r... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110219142 | Path Selection In Streaming Video Over Multi-Overlay Application Layer Multicast A method and a tool based on achievable bandwidth as a metric are provided for selecting paths for overlay construction in an application layer multicast system. An in-band bandwidth probing tool according to the invention can estimate achievable bandwidth, i.e., the da... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110196971 | APPLICATION SESSION CONTROL USING PACKET INSPECTION Network devices, computer-readable media, and other embodiments associated with packet inspection are described. Packet inspection may be performed on data packets associated with a session, where a session can include multiple data channels and associated control chann... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110161489 | AUTOMATIC AGGREGATION OF INTER-DEVICE PORTS/LINKS IN A VIRTUAL DEVICE A virtual device includes multiple devices connected to operate as a single device. A first one of the devices is configured to determine that the first device connects to a second one of the devices via a first link; identify a second link; determine that the second li... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110153863 | DISTRIBUTING BANDWIDTH ACROSS COMMUNICATION MODALITIES Embodiments are configured to provide communication environments to communicating participants using a number of modality control features, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a system includes a communications manager to manage an amount of available communicatio... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153840 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GSLB MEP CONNECTION MANAGEMENT ACROSS MULTIPLE CORE APPLIANCES The present disclosure presents systems and methods for obtaining metric information by a multi-core GSLB intermediary device and providing global server load balancing services using the obtained information. A first core of a multi-core GSLB appliance establishes a tr... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153839 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVER SURGE PROTECTION IN A MULTI-CORE SYSTEM The present application is directed towards systems and methods for providing connection surge protection to one or more servers by an intermediary multi-core system. A packet processing engine of a multi-core device deployed as an intermediary between a plurality of cl... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153835 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PEER-TO-PEER CONNECTIONS The present invention relates to a system and method for controlling peer-to-peer connections in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming application for individual Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks over a localized overlay. The system may include a tracker local to a firs... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153810 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GSLB SPILLOVER The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for global server load balancing spillover. An intermediary device providing global server load balancing (GSLB) identifies a spillover threshold for a first GSLB virtual server of the intermediary device. Th... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153941 | Multi-Autonomous System Anycast Content Delivery Network A content delivery network includes first and second sets of cache servers, a domain name server, and an anycast island controller. The first set of cache servers is hosted by a first autonomous system and the second set of cache servers is hosted by a second autonomous... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110145708 | AUTOMATED AUDIO OR VIDEO SUBSET NETWORK LOAD REDUCTION A multimedia data stream including an audio data stream and a video data stream is received from a server at a computing device. An audio output signal for the audio data stream and a video output signal for the video data stream are generated. A user interface action t... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110145639 | Method and Apparatus For Controlling Traffic Entry In A Managed Packet Network A method for control of real-time traffic entry of a managed packet network includes the step of receiving, from a border element processor, a first message indicative of a new active registration request associated with a client. The border element processor is one of ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110138072 | Server-Side Rendering A solution for server-side rendering includes, at a server configured to store a video images representing states of users in a computer application, identifying future user actions based at least in part on a state of a user in the computer application. The solution al... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110131331 | ALTERNATIVE BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT ALGORITHM Methods, systems, and devices are provided that propose allocating bandwidth in a distributed network. According to a decentralized mode of operation, bandwidth between network devices is cooperatively shared and managed, allowing one or more call processing modules to ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110125920 | INTELLIGENT COMPUTER NETWORK ROUTING USING LOGICALLY CENTRALIZED, PHYSICALLY DISTRIBUTED SERVERS DISTINCT FROM NETWORK ROUTERS A route control architecture allows a network operator to flexibly control routing between the traffic ingresses and egresses in a computer network, without modifying existing routers. An intelligent route service control point (IRSCP) replaces distributed BGP decision ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110119397 | Protection of network flows during congestion in a communications network In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor for mapping packets associated with network flows to policy profiles independent of congestion level at the apparatus, and enforcing the policy profiles for the packets based on a congestion state. Packets associated ... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110099290 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING METRICS OF A CONTENT DELIVERY AND GLOBAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT NETWORK A method for determining metrics of a content delivery and global traffic management network provides service metric probes that determine the service availability and metric measurements of types of services provided by a content delivery machine. Latency probes are al... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110093607 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA STREAM SERVICE A method and system for providing a media stream service are provided. The method includes: receiving a request of providing a media stream service sent by a user terminal, the request carrying information of a Service Provider (SP); obtaining an ability strategy of the... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110093584 | System and method to prevent endpoint device recovery flood in NGN A mechanism is provided for recovering from a catastrophic failure that results in a large number of user endpoints attempting to come on line simultaneously after an NGN is restored. In an enhanced DNS load balancer, DNS queries from the user end points relating to a p... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110087768 | CODING METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR BROADCAST CHANNELS Methods and apparatus related to selecting and/or using different coding methods for a broadcast channel are described. The coding method to be used is selected as a function of an estimated level of congestion. Various methods and apparatus are well suited for use in p... | 04/14/2011 |
