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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189469 | Graceful degradation for communication services over wired and wireless networks A method for gracefully extending the range and/or capacity of voice communication systems is disclosed. The method involves the persistent storage of voice media on a communication device. When the usable bit rate on the network is poor and below that necessary for... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189468 | System and method for regulating messages between networks A system and method for interconnecting networks. In one embodiment, a message is received from a first network to be communicated to a target device of a second network. Data within the message is identified. A determination is made whether the data is allowable ba... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8174976 | Method and apparatus for controlling message traffic license The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling message traffic licenses. The method includes: controlling message traffic through an ordinary license; judging whether the triggering conditions of using the first extended license are fulfi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169901 | Method and apparatus for controlling access to a media port The present invention is directed to protecting media packet processors from rogue or malicious data packet flows. According to the present invention, feedback obtained from components of a media packet processor having information regarding media stream flows is us... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169902 | Wireless transmitter device and method thereof for keeping the total transmission time limited A wireless transmitter device has a predetermined upper limit of an accumulated data transmission time per predetermined duration corresponding to a predetermined maximum value. The wireless transmitter device includes a timer which starts keeping time when the wire... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8159942 | Method of selecting a profile of a broadband communication line The application discloses a system and a method of selecting a profile of a digital subscriber line. In a particular embodiment, the method includes setting a threshold for voice quality and determining a number of acceptable code violations that can occur without c... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155001 | Protocol offload transmit traffic management Transfer of data is facilitated between at least one application and a peer via a network. Data destined for the peer is provided from the at least one application for transmission to the peer via the network. Modulation event tokens are managed, and protocol proces... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149702 | Multi-mode bit rate processor An apparatus for processing signals in a wireless system includes a first memory module to receive input data from a set of physical channels, a first plurality of sub-modules to process the input data. Each of the first plurality of sub-modules is selected to funct... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144582 | Differentiating blade destination and traffic types in a multi-root PCIe environment Mechanisms for differentiating traffic types per host system blade in a multi-root PCI Express environment are provided. The mechanisms generate a first mapping data structure that, for each single-root virtual hierarchy in the multi-root data processing system, ass... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139484 | Unsolicited grant service class of IEEE 802.16/WiBro system Provided is a traffic class of an IEEE 802.16/WiBro system. The unsolicited grant service (UGS) scheduling method with regard to a subscriber station (SS) and a base station (BS) that are disposed in a network wherein an IEEE 802.16/WiBro system is realized, the met... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139485 | Logical transport resource traffic management A method for managing data packets passing through an Ethernet node having multiple ingress ports and multiple egress ports, the ingress ports receiving the data packets from at least one service, and the egress ports configured with at least one Logical Transport R... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139483 | Network traffic control in peer-to-peer environments A method and an electronic unit are disclosed for controlling traffic on a network, especially for controlling peer-to-peer related traffic. A filter unit is intercepting messages related to peer-to-peer application from a network line, irrespective of the messages'... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134922 | Reducing flooding in a bridged network Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with loss of reducing flooding in a bridged network, typically including a device directly connected to multiple upstream bridges. These bridges are configured su... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130644 | Mechanism for enabling load balancing to be achieved in a loop-free switching path, reverse path learning network A mechanism is disclosed for enabling load balancing to be achieved in a loop-free switching path, reverse path learning network, such as an Ethernet network. The network is divided into a plurality of virtual networks, with each virtual network providing a differen... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130645 | Method and architecture for a scalable application and security switch using multi-level load balancing A switch architecture and method provides scaling through multi-level load balancing of flows across data and application processing planes. An input/output module receives a communication session flow (forward) from a client device and selects one of a plurality of... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125903 | Wireless multicast for layered media A method and arrangement in a wireless communication network for optimizing data rates when communicating layered multicast data. In an initial probing phase, the receiving capability of each user equipment (UE) in each cell is collected. The optimal data rate for e... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125902 | Method and system for congestion avoidance in packet switching devices A method, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium for regulating packet flow through a device such as a router with a switch fabric. Congestion information, such as statistics on bandwidth utilization, is collected for each of a plurality of queues at an egre... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121031 | Structure for a multi-scale network traffic generator A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for at least one of designing, manufacturing, and testing a design is provided. The design structure includes a network traffic generation system. The system can include a Markov modified Poisson proce... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8107372 | Collision compensation in a scheduling system A system schedules traffic flows on an output port using a circular memory structure. The circular memory structure may be a rate wheel that includes a group of sequentially arranged slots. The rate wheel schedules the traffic flows in select ones of the slots based... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107370 | Network access device with restricted and unrestricted input ports Access devices and methods according to the invention interconnect digital devices and a network. Setting a parameter associated with each input port of an access device specifies whether the device connected with that port is restricted or unrestricted. When a part... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107371 | Apparatus and method for providing QoS of AV streams An apparatus and method for providing the QoS of AV streams is disclosed, in which a period for processing AV streams to provide the QoS of the AV streams is separately assigned at a predetermined time, and a plurality of AV streams are simultaneously processed. The... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102764 | Method and system for performance evaluation in communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor A system for evaluating performance of a network providing communication services by means of a generalized processor sharing packet scheduling discipline. The services may include classes of services having real time and non real time (i.e. “elastic”) requireme... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102765 | Correlation-based rate adaptation for communication networks A correlation-based rate adaptation scheme (CORA) is enabled for practical communication devices that provides for communication data rate adaptation in a complex and/or rapidly changing communication environment. Correlations may be determined between adjustable pa... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098580 | Priority scheduling using per-priority memory structures A system schedules traffic flows on an output port using circular memory structures. The circular memory structures may include rate wheels that include a group of sequentially arranged slots. The traffic flows may be assigned to different rate wheels on a per-prior... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094556 | Dynamic buffering and synchronization of related media streams in packet networks Mechanisms are disclosed for using two or more buffers, at a common receiving node, to reduce the effects of jitter, packet loss, and/or packet latency and/or synchronize different types of packets. Specifically, the two or more buffers can be used to temporarily st... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094555 | Dynamic weighted-fair load-balancing In one embodiment, a node identifies a plurality of equal cost best paths to a destination, the best paths having one or more associated links. The node receives dynamic link utilization information for the associated links, and determines an amount of traffic to th... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089875 | Network real time monitoring and control system A network real-time monitoring and control system includes several layers of components for generating a network traffic shaping control that is used to shaping network traffic flows for one or more network nodes. The layers of the network real-time monitoring and c... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089876 | Packet transmission apparatus and packet transmission method An aspect of the embodiments related to a packet transmission apparatus includes a user identification unit for identifying the user of an input user flow upon input of the user flow containing communication packets and maintenance packets, a maintenance packet extr... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085663 | Data processing apparatus and data processing method A data processing apparatus including: an adjusting section configured to receive a stream including packets and a start flag indicative of the beginning of each of the packets in the stream, adjust a rate of the stream to a certain rate, and output the adjusted str... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077615 | Multicast admission control A resource admission control entity and method in an administrative domain (AD). The AD has a topology view that comprises link capacity and link usage information. The resource admission control entity receives a request intended for a user to obtain a multicast co... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068420 | Temporal slaving device The invention relates to a device for temporal slaving in a packet data transmission network, each data packet comprising a time label, comprising means of temporary storage. According to the invention, the said device is such that:—the means of temporary storage ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059538 | CMON: an “always-on” monitoring platform for high-speed links Systems and methods are discussed for providing a continuous monitoring system for high-speed links. Data packets are passively read in a high-speed environment. Concurrent streams are created to handle the high-speed data packets and to manipulate subsets of data p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059537 | Quality of service support in a media exchange network Certain aspects of the invention for controlling transfer of media content in a communication network may comprise the step of receiving an input specifying at least one media file for transfer via a communication channel in the communication network. Based on a rec... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045461 | Method and device for implementing virtual-switch The present invention provides a method and a device for implementing a V-Switch. Through setting up a V-Switch correlation with respect to at least two VLAN tags, a DRE performs a V-Switch transmission on an Ethernet frame received according to the V-Switch correla... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045462 | Partitioning communication system A system and method for communicating data between two nodes defines a plurality of separate partitions on each node and assigns one or more subjects to at least one of the plurality of the separate partitions. The subjects in each node communicate data with each ot... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036118 | Inducing symmetry via multi topology routing In one embodiment, a technique for selecting a topology, in a multi-topology routing network, based on a source-destination pair of a packet is provided. The packet may be routed on a preferred path of the selected topology. By selecting the same topology for the so... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031598 | Flow-rate-regulated burst switches Burst-switching nodes using a common-memory or a time shared space switch and employing flow-rate control are disclosed. Within a switching node, data bursts are segmented into data segments of a fixed size with some segments containing information bits as well as n... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031599 | Statistical, signature-based approach to IP traffic classification A signature-based traffic classification method maps traffic into preselected classes of service (CoS). By analyzing a known corpus of data that clearly belongs to identified ones of the preselected classes of service, in a training session the method develops stati... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031597 | Method and apparatus for performing data communication between mobile communication terminal and wireline communication server A method of processing an error frame that occurs in packet data communication between a mobile station and a communication server which exchanges packets with the mobile station over a radio network may be carried out by a mobile station. The method carried out by ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027254 | Method of limiting bit rate in a telecommunications network A method of limiting the bit rate going to a network service having a target bit rate, data packet traffic to the service coming from at least one contributor, and a bit rate being associated with the portion of the traffic coming from said contributor. The method i... | 09/27/2011 |
