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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189465 | Deep packet inspection policy enforcement A data packet is selected from a flow of data traffic communicated between a wireless device and a network. An attribute of the data packet is inspected to associate the packet with a profile. Based on the profile, a network policy associated with the wireless devic... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189467 | Network resource control method and apparatus for guaranteeing admission rate of high-priority service Provided are a network resource control method and apparatus for guaranteeing an admission rate of a high-priority service. In the method and apparatus, the admission rate of the high-priority service is increased by differentiating between the high-priority service... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189466 | Messaging interchange system Machine-readable codes are read, decoded and resolved by a messaging system in order to perform a desired function. If the code is not native to that (home) messaging system, then a resolution request is made to a central messaging interchange system to determine wh... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184533 | Systems and method for quality of service control over multiple accesses Systems and methods for quality of service control over multiple accesses, more particularly quality of service control over multiple accesses via enhanced quality of service rules. A policy rules and charging function, or similar network entity, can include an indi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184530 | Providing quality of service (QOS) using multiple service set identifiers (SSID) simultaneously Quality of Service (QoS) is provided to a secure data tunnel such an IPsec tunnel using information about the tunnel and the underlying data session to formulate a set of bandwidth requirements. A policy server operates to receive the information to create the set o... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184532 | Estimation of interference variation caused by the addition or deletion of a connection A method for determining whether a connection event between a base station and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) should be accepted or rejected, comprises measuring the interference level I0 in a candidate timeslot; measuring the path loss L between... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184531 | Method of managing an interface comprising means for controlling remote terminals A method is provided for transmission within a telecommunication system, which includes a plurality of terminals that can exchange data flows therebetween. The method includes at least: a step of comparing a maximum throughput value offered by an interface with a cu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184534 | Systems and methods of providing proxy-based quality of service Systems and methods for dynamically controlling bandwidth of connections are described. In some embodiments, a proxy for one or more connections may allocate, distribute, or generate indications of network congestion via one or more connections in order to induce th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179795 | Communication terminal apparatus, distribution apparatus, error notification method, and error notification program A communication terminal apparatus (130) includes a receiving unit (132) that receives distribution data distributed through a unidirectional communication network (210), an OS/application unit (131) that accepts transmission data to a tu... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179791 | Sequentially calling groups of multiple communication devices based on user-specified lists of communication devices having assigned priorities The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a find-me service for VoIP. The find-me service allows a user to specify multiple communication devices. Further, the find-me service allows a callee to assign a priority to each communication device spec... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179793 | Method for managing data transmission according to a quality of service in a network assembly and a computer network system The invention relates to a new type of quality of service architecture for a network assembly and a corresponding computer network system. The Internet technology as approved by the IETF organization has defined different services. One is the integrated services (In... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179794 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing quality of service brokering in a network Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing quality of service brokering in a network. Methods include receiving a data packet at a router in an Internet protocol (IP) network. The data packet includes a data packet ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179792 | Packet de-duplication From a packet stream, a first packet, one or more intervening packets, and a second packet are received in the preceding order. The first packet is inserted into a buffer. The one or more intervening packets are inserted into the buffer after the first packet. At le... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174974 | Voluntary admission control for traffic yield management Embodiments are directed towards employing an admission controller (AC) network device to coordinate voluntary requests by traffic source devices (TSDs) to transmit traffic over a network. The TSDs submit voluntary requests to transmit network traffic during an allo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174970 | Methods of implementing dynamic QoS and/or bandwidth provisioning and related data networks, data service providers, routing gateways, and computer program products A method of operating a data network may include establishing a data path through the data network between a routing gateway for a subscriber of the data network and a service provider providing a data service. Moreover, the data service may be provided for use at t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174973 | Procedure for wireless network management and station supporting the procedure There is provided a procedure for wireless network management and a station supporting the procedure. In the procedure, non-AP station which wants to us a traffic filter service (TFS) transmits a TFS request message including one or more TFS request elements for def... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174975 | Network adapter with TCP support In general, in one aspect, described herein is a request to offload at least one TCP operation including offload of TCP transmit flow control. Also described is interception of at least some TCP acknowledgements and the handling of TCP flow control based on the TCP ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174971 | Network switch A network switch includes a media access controller (MAC) coupled to a plurality of ports, a receiver coupled to the MAC, and packet queuing control (PQC) coupled to the receiver. The PQC is configured to maintain a count of the number of receive packets stored in t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174972 | Software assisted multicast filtering A method is described including determining if a packet length parameter included in received data matches a first pre-determined value, determining if an address parameter included in received data matches an address of a receiving device, determining if a length p... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169900 | Increasing link capacity via traffic distribution over multiple Wi-Fi access points A method and system for combining the bandwidth available to a user communications device from multiple access points by switching output requests and corresponding replies to such requests among a plurality of such access points. In the simplest implementation the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169899 | Client device method and apparatus for routing a call A telecommunication method, server and system that route an outbound telephone communication initiated by a wireless remote device through an enterprise communication network. The system also routes an incoming call to a device associated with an enterprise communic... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165022 | Transmitting/receiving method and program and recording medium The present invention provides a transmitting/receiving method capable of selecting a combination of communication media of the own and its counterpart reflecting the preference of the user or an application for each of flows on communication terminals and capable o... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165021 | Policy-based resource management In one embodiment, a network device receives a request from a client in association with a connection, where the request indicates an amount of one or more resources that is requested to support the connection. The network device determines whether the amount of the... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159940 | Obtaining high availability using TCP proxy devices The present invention relates to increasing performance of Wide Area Network (WAN) communications and in particular to a redundant proxy device associated with one end of a transport layer connection that monitors packet traffic and selectively reroutes packets to a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159941 | In-band DPI media reservation modifications to RFC 3313 In various exemplary embodiments, a Deep Packet Inspection device is integrated into a provider edge router associated with a user agent client or provided externally. The DPI device monitors the exchange of packets between an originating proxy and a user agent clie... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155000 | Technique for enabling traffic engineering on CE-CE paths across a provider network In one embodiment, Traffic Engineering (TE) is configured on a provider edge device to customer edge device (PE-CE) link extending from a provider edge device (PE) in a provider network to a customer edge device (CE) in a customer network. TE information regarding t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154998 | Method and apparatus for resizing a trunk in a network A method and apparatus for resizing a trunk in a network are disclosed. For example, the method sets one or more target utilization levels for one or more trunks, and gathers trunk load data from one or more switches in the network in accordance with a pre-determine... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154999 | Packet forwarding apparatus with function of limiting the number of user terminals to be connected to ISP A packet forwarding apparatus for connecting a plurality of user terminals to an ISP management server has a management table indicating the relationship between a connection port identifier and specific header information in association with the MAC address of each... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149695 | Dynamic queue instantiation A Point to Point Protocol (“PPP”) link running PPP Multilink Protocol with multi-class extensions (“Multilink-Extension”) having both peers on the PPP link support a number of egress priority queues negotiated during the Multilink-Extension negotiation. Each... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149701 | System, method, and computer readable medium for creating a video clip The present invention provides a system, method, and computer readable medium for creating a video clip. In one embodiment, a method, comprising creating a copy of a still image by a first module, the copy of the still image comprising reduced dimensions of the stil... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149696 | Methods and system for admission control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks Methods and system for admission control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks are provided. The method for admission control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks for different class of flows C1, C2 and C3 is provided where said admission control mechanis... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149694 | Enforcing fairness in ad hoc mesh networks A self-adaptive algorithm to enforce fairness executes on nodes in an ad hoc wireless network. Each node is configured to measure or estimate the utilization of the RF channel in its neighborhood and then share this information with its neighboring nodes. In this wa... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149697 | System, method, and computer program product for discovering services in a network device According to one embodiment, a method for discovering services within a social network is provided. The method includes receiving a request from a requesting node for one or more services provided by an originating node, each service comprising an access ticket for ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149699 | Method and apparatus for controlling traffic according to user There is provided a method and apparatus for controlling traffic according to user that includes a statistics processing unit measuring traffic volume used according to user, calculating a traffic variation ΔV by using the measured traffic volume, and updating a tr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149698 | Providing a schedule for active events to be processed by a processor A switch that interconnects networks provides a scheduling algorithm that determines a number of active events to be processed by a processor in the switch. The active events involve processing of bearer traffic. A schedule tailored to the number of active events is... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144581 | System and method in an inter-carrier network interface A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a PE-ASBR (Provider Edge-Autonomous System Boundary Routers) having a controller to receive new routing information without an attribute of origin, insert a site of origin of th... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144580 | Method and apparatus for communicating data over a data network and controlling an amount of bandwidth a user can transmit or receive over a DSL connection A management device for automatically provisioning a Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS) for use in connecting Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) to an Internet Protocol (IP) network via a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexor (... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144579 | Wireless performance improvement via client-free forward error correction Packets are duplicated, delayed, and spread in time as a form of forward error correction. If a client device receives duplicate packets, they can be discarded. If one of the duplicate packets is lost, then the duplication provides forward error correction with no c... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139482 | Method to implement an L4-L7 switch using split connections and an offloading NIC A method of operating intelligent network interface circuitry includes the network interface circuitry coupling a core processor to a network to facilitate communication over the network between the core processor and at least a first peer and a second peer. A first... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134921 | CMTS upstream channel bandwidth scheduler In one embodiment, a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) generates a bandwidth grant message corresponding to a time segment. The CMTS identifies a portion of the time segment to be assigned according to received bandwidth request messages originating from downstr... | 03/13/2012 |