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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120106333 | Network Aware Global Load Balancing System and Method An apparatus comprising a network aware (NA) global load balancing (GLB) component configured to associate with a local data center (DC), couple to an end user via a network, select a server in the DC or in one or more remote DCs coupled to the network based on applicat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120054366 | BLADE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A SHORTEST PATH TO TRANSMIT PACKETS AMONG BLADE SERVERS OF THE BLADE SYSTEM A blade system and method establishes a shortest path to transmit packets in blade servers of the blade system. The blade system reads status information of each blade server using a shelf manager and connection information among the blade servers. A shortest path among... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120030150 | Hybrid Learning Component for Link State Routing Protocols In a network that executes a link state routing protocol, a network node receives periodic disseminations of link state information from other network nodes. The link state information includes neighboring node identity and link cost metrics. The network node calculates... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120005308 | IMAGE PROCESSING IN A COMPUTER NETWORK A computer system connected to a communication network processes image files. A second computer connected to the network includes the image files and the program for processing the image files. The first computer includes a costing program for determining a time cost fo... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110314180 | VIRTUAL SERVER RECIRCULATION In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) classifying a packet in a server load balancer (SLB) for determining if the packet is destined for a virtual Internet protocol (VIP) address hosted on the SLB; (ii) selecting a server from a group of servers representing the ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314119 | MASSIVELY SCALABLE MULTILAYERED LOAD BALANCING BASED ON INTEGRATED CONTROL AND DATA PLANE Method and system for load balancing in providing a service. A request for a service, represented by a single IP address, is first received by a router in the network. The router accesses information received from one or more advertising routers in the network. Each of ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307628 | Communication system, node, control server, communication method and program A communication system comprises a node that receives a packet with a process rule sequence including a plurality of process rules that should be set in a process rule storage unit of a node on a data transfer network, and sets a process rule in the process rule storage... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302321 | DATA REDIRECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR A data redirection system and method comprises a first and second redirector in one or more embodiments. The first redirector may receive and respond to requests for a network service by redirecting a client's request to the second redirector. The second redirector may ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296053 | APPLICATION-LAYER TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION SERVICE SPANNING MULTIPLE NETWORKS Using the ALTO Service, networking applications can request through the ALTO protocol information about the underlying network topology from the ISP or Content Provider. The ALTO Service provides information such as preferences of network resources with the goal of modi... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295942 | APPLICATION-LAYER TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION SERVICE MAP UPDATES Using the ALTO Service, networking applications can request through the ALTO protocol information about the underlying network topology from the ISP or Content Provider. The ALTO Service provides information such as preferences of network resources with the goal of modi... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289235 | Distributed processing system and distributed processing method A distributed processing system 100 includes: a plurality of application servers 1031 to 103n that execute a plurality of applications 1321 to 132n and detect a communication state between a client 105 and the appl... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110276719 | TRADING MECHANISM The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for buying connectivity. A routing engine 103 may receive a buyer request for a connectivity path wherein the buyer request includes a buyer criteria. The routing engine 103 may identify one or more co... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276718 | Decreasing latency in anonymity networks According to one embodiment, a method of decreasing latency in an anonymity network includes filtering a list of anonymity routers for a client device based on one of (i) loads of the anonymity routers on the list and (ii) distances of the anonymity routers from the cli... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110258342 | CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK A content delivery system for providing content from a content delivery network to end users may include a plurality of delivery servers that host one or more content items and an inventory server having an inventory of content. The inventory of content can indicate whi... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258341 | PATH CONTROL APPARATUS, PATH CONTROL METHOD, PATH CONTROL PROGRAM, AND NETWORK SYSTEM A path control apparatus of the present invention includes: a status change detecting unit that detects a status change of a network; a path calculating unit that decides a path in accordance with the status of the network; and a calculation execution node deciding unit... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110219143 | PATH CALCULATION ORDER DECIDING METHOD, PROGRAM AND CALCULATING APPARATUS A path calculation order deciding method that is implemented by a calculating apparatus (1) which calculates, by use of calculated shortest path between a node pair about a network comprising a plurality of nodes, a shortest path between other node pair comprises... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110173344 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF REDUCING INTRANET TRAFFIC ON BOTTLENECK LINKS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK A system, method and node of masquerading remote hosts at the remote end of the bottleneck link without breaking layer 2 transparency using a cache mechanism. A local edge node stores specified objects of the remote host. Upon request of an initiator host, the edge node... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110138073 | CONNECTION DESTINATION SELECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF A connection destination selection apparatus, in a network in which one reception device receives data distributed from a data distribution device and transfers the data received to another one of a plurality of reception devices which is connected to the one reception ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110137973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEBSITE PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION AND INTERNET TRAFFIC PROCESSING A system for optimizing the performance of a website that runs on one or more HTTP servers and is configured to receive HTTP requests from one or more clients via user agents and provide HTTP responses to the one or more clients includes an intermediary component config... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110138404 | REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL (RPC) BIND SERVICE WITH PHYSICAL INTERFACE QUERY AND SELECTION A service module that provides for discovery of one or more network interfaces connecting a prospective remote procedure call (RPC) client, facilitates the provision of RPC programs in a network including multi-horned systems. When a request for a network address to an ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110131645 | LOAD BALANCING AND FAILOVER OF GATEWAY DEVICES Methods and systems for load balancing and failover among gateway devices are disclosed. One method provides for assigning communication transaction handling to a gateway. The method includes receiving a request for a license from a computing device at a control gateway... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110119483 | Computing System With Off-Load Processing For Networking Related Tasks A method is described that comprises executing a service selection method on an off load processor of a computing system to select an available network service for handling traffic sent to/from a handheld device. The execution of the service selection method is performe... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110113155 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADAPTIVE ROAD NETWORK HIERARCHY AND ROUTING A system and method for computing routing on a road network are described. One embodiment includes pre-processing routing data for one or more environmental profiles integrated into a hierarchy, dynamically adding links to the hierarchy in response to real-time data on ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110093616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-LINK COMMUNICATION IN HOME NETWORK A client in a home entertainment network can communicate with other components, including the server, over both a wired and a wireless link, with the particular path being selected based a component preference, and/or a bandwidth capability, and/or an occupancy ratio. B... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110072156 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK ROUTING Systems and methods are provided for routing data through a network. In one system, a first node is enabled to overhear packet transmissions from a second node. The cost of transmitting packets from the first node to the second node is updated based on each overheard pa... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110066754 | Intelligent Device and Media Server Selection for Optimized Backup Image Duplication Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are disclosed for a computer system determining a transport path for a data duplication job. A data duplication job request, being a request that data stored on a source device be duplicated, may be received. A plura... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110060844 | Method and Apparatus for Selecting Between Multiple Equal Cost Paths Each equal cost path is assigned a path ID created by concatenating an ordered set of link IDs which form the path through the network. The link IDs are created from the node IDs on either set of the link. The link IDs are sorted from lowest to highest when creating the... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110022727 | HANDSET CRADLE An embodiment of a handset cradle includes a base component and a handset component configured to couple with the base component. The handset component provides an interface with a particular type of handset selected from a plurality of handset types. This interface ena... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022726 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAFFIC FORWARDING IN A STACKING APPARATUS Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for traffic forwarding in a stacking apparatus which includes multiple member devices. The method includes: obtaining, by a member device, a forwarding table size of each member device in the stacking appa... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100318650 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AGILE COMPUTING A method for operating a group of nodes in a system for agile computing comprising a coordinator node and a first computation node communicating via a connection, and wherein the first computation node is adapted to perform a task for the coordinator node is provided. T... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100299451 | IMS DIAMETER ROUTER WITH LOAD BALANCING A Diameter router (20) is presented for performing load balancing and initial Diameter message routing in an IMS network, where clients in network elements (10) are provisioned with the address of the router and send an initial Diameter request message ( 11/25/2010 | |
| 20100299452 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NETWORK AND ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR UTILITY SERVICES A method and system for providing a network and routing protocol for utility services are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises discovering a utility network, wherein a utility device (for example, a constant powered meter) sends network ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100293294 | PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION OPTIMIZATION A peer-to-peer communication optimizer uses both peer locality and content diversity in a peer group to reduce network usage cost associated with using remote peers in a peer-to-peer system while reducing impact on the download time relative to peer-to-peer protocols op... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100198985 | AUTOMATIC NETWORK CLUSTER PATH MANAGEMENT Automatic network configuration of cluster paths to access data within a cluster is described. Each node of the cluster presents to clients an image of the cluster as a single system. Each node also stores information regarding what node has particular data, as well as ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100185794 | FAILOVER AND LOAD BALANCING Provided are techniques for static load balancing implemented in a filter driver. The filter driver determines a data quota for each of multiple data paths. The filter driver identifies a maximum number of commands for a target logical unit. The filter driver selects a ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100174814 | Connectivity, adjacencies and adaptation functions Example embodiments are directed to a method of publishing an element template from a first service provider to an administrative owner to determine an optimal end-to-end connectivity path from a source to a destination across at least one resource domain for data trans... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100153523 | SCALABLE INTERCONNECTION OF DATA CENTER SERVERS USING TWO PORTS Large numbers of commodity servers in a data center may be inexpensively interconnected using low-cost commodity network switches, a first network port on each commodity server, a second network port on each commodity server, and a traffic-aware routing module executed ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100153562 | METHOD FOR DISCOVERY AND ROUTING USING A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE IN THE FORM OF APPLICATION PROGRAMME WITHIN MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORKS A mobile ad-hoc network device includes application software. The device constructs its routing table, listing reachable devices with the same application software. The routing table knowledge is dynamic, as devices enter and leave the network or their parameters change... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100131635 | AGE BIASED DISTRIBUTED COLLISION RESOLUTION WITHOUT CLOCKS A method resolves collisions in a networking system that includes a plurality of entities operable to transmit an intention to reserve a resource. A first request to reserve resources, which includes a listing of the resources along the first transmission path and a fir... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100088427 | Selective Routing of Data Transmission Between Clients A method for selective routing of data transmission between clients is provided to select a better communication channel from a direct P2P channel and a relay channel according to routing hop counts of the pats. The method obtains a first routing hop count from a first ... | 04/08/2010 |
