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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189470 | Communication apparatus and device, communication apparatus control method Provided is a communication apparatus by which a user can simply set a transmission quality in a network and QoS control effectively functions. QoS type receiving sections (11, 21, 31, 41) are arranged in communication apparatuses (10, 20, 30, 40) on a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184535 | Flow control techniques for co-localized WLAN and bluetooth Flow control techniques for co-localized wireless local area network (WLAN) and Bluetooth (BT) allowing efficient sharing of radio medium are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes deriving an available medium time (TAV) for the WLAN device to co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184536 | Apparatus and method for error concealment for a digital wireless phone When there are unused data slots available, a system allocates redundant slots in a data frame to a single mobile unit. A receiving device calculates a quality of slot (QoS) score for each slot that it receives data for. After the QoS score is calculated, the system... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179796 | Method and node for providing a resource efficient connection in a communication network A method, a network node and a program unit for controlling the establishment or modification of a connection in a communication network are disclosed. The connection is to be established or modified between nodes that are adapted to employ a coding scheme selected ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179797 | Channel discovery and disconnection in networks over white spaces and other portions of the spectrum Functionality is described for discovering a channel within an environment in which non-privileged entities have subordinate access rights to spectrum compared to privileged entities. The functionality operates by investigating spectrum units within the spectrum for... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174977 | End-to-end flow control in a network A network node within a network includes a first receive buffer, first buffer management, a second receive buffer and second buffer management. The first buffer management performs link level credit based flow control for network packets that the first buffer manage... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169905 | Packet communication method and receiving-side apparatus A packet communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: starting, at a predetermined sublayer of a receiving-side apparatus, a reordering timer, when receiving a second packet before receiving a first packet in a case where a sequence... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169904 | Feedback for downlink sensitivity A method, system, and medium are provided for managing bandwidth associated with a communication session characterized by a plurality of data packets being transmitted from a sender to a receiver. The receiver can include functions that monitor communication session... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169903 | Managing traffic within and between virtual private networks when using a session border controller Methods and devices for managing traffic are described. Traffic from a source in a virtual private network (VPN) is received. The traffic is directed to a virtual interface that is designated to receive traffic from the VPN. The virtual interface is configured to as... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8159944 | Time based queuing Smart routing packet handling across multiple networks achieves end-to-end (ETE) quality of service (QOS) when complementing or replacing conventional priority-based scheduling algorithms. Packets are “tagged” with a time code that indicates a time is allotted f... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159943 | Method of forming protocol data units, protocol data units and protocol data unit generation apparatus A source host comprising a processing resource that supports a kernel space and a user space. A socket layer is supported by the kernel space and allows a measurement application residing in the user space to instruct a protocol layer to form a plurality of UDP test... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155002 | Method for automatically inflating the receive window size in TCP connections An intermediate network element/device intercepts TCP packets/segments from a client and alters them before forwarding them to a server. This facilitates an increase in effective receive window size value over that which is contained in the segments. One aspect alte... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8134923 | Discovery of virtual private networks A method is described of discovering at least one Virtual Private Network (VPN) automatically within a network comprising a plurality of network elements including the steps of: discovering the network elements which provide functionality for VPNs within the network... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130646 | Resource reservation method using multiple interfaces in mobile environments A resource reservation system and method in a multihoming environment are disclosed. The method includes: transmitting query messages from the mobile node to multiple adjacent access routers using a plurality of care of addresses (CoAs) stored in the mobile node; tr... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125905 | System and method for processing network packet flows A system and method provides a broadband network node for a best effort network such as the Internet or intranets which supports the inexpensive and rapid deployment of services to the best efforts network. Separate data path and control path mechanisms allow high-s... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125904 | Method and system for adaptive queue and buffer control based on monitoring and active congestion avoidance in a packet network switch Certain aspects of a method and system for an adaptive queue and buffer control based on monitoring and active congestion avoidance in a packet network switch are provided. When memory from a memory source is not available for allocation to one or more adaptive queu... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121032 | Efficient convergence of grouped VPN prefixes In one embodiment, one or more virtual private network (VPN) prefixes may be grouped at a network node into sets having shared network border node next-hop options, where each border node has a defined index value associated therewith. Also, a list of VPN labels ass... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116200 | Source routing approach for network performance and availability measurement of specific paths In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a first packet that has a first payload. The first payload identifies a first path between endpoints traversed by the first packet, and identifying information associated with a first node associated with the first path... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107373 | Method, device and system for realizing QoS guarantee in a MPLS network A method for realizing QoS guarantee in a MPLS network, a method for establishing a QoS data path, a method for terminating QoS data transmission, an edge router for a MPLS network and a MPLS network for realizing QoS guarantee are provided. The method for realizing... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107374 | Link adaption in wireless communications Methods and systems for providing generalized link adaptation in an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access wireless communications network can include determining a number of desired resource blocks (RBs) for each user of a plurality of users; calculating a m... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102766 | Method and system for managing time-sensitive packetized data streams at a receiver According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing time-sensitive packetized data streams at a receiver includes receiving a time-sensitive packet of a data stream, analyzing an energy level of a payload signal of the packet, and determining whether... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094557 | Adaptive fast retransmit threshold to make TCP robust to non-congestion events Mechanisms are disclosed for adjusting a fast re-transmit threshold (FRT) value for transmitting data streams over a computer system. One embodiment includes receiving, by a sender, a current fast re-transmit threshold value for a packet from a receiver. Further, th... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089877 | Method, system, program, and readable storage medium for providing service quality guarantee to network service A method for guaranteeing a service quality of a network service is disclosed that includes the steps of storing a historical record of a network service quality, inputting an acceptable maximal service delay of the network service, inputting a desired control level... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085664 | Bi-directional and reverse directional resource reservation setup protocol A wireless user equipment (UE) configured to initiate a packet based session includes a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator configured to transmit a RSVP PATH message. The RSVP PATH message includes a direction indication. The direction indicator ind... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077616 | Data transmission apparatus and data transmission method In a data transmission apparatus, provisions are made to be able to trace the result of processing or discarding of a specific packet from outside the apparatus. More specifically, in a data transmission apparatus that receives data having a header and, based on inf... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072883 | Internet small computer systems interface (iSCSI) distance acceleration device An Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) distance acceleration device accelerates data transfers between an iSCSI initiator and an iSCSI target over a network, such as the Internet or a wide area network (WAN). The acceleration device resides in a commun... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8045464 | SIP-based VoIP traffic behavior profiling method With the widespread adoption of SIP-based VoIP, understanding the characteristics of SIP traffic behavior is critical to problem diagnosis and security protection of VoIP services. A general methodology is provided for profiling SIP-based VoIP traffic behavior at se... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045463 | Path estimation in a wireless mesh network In example methods and algorithms, a node in a wireless mesh network calculates an estimated cost for a packet flow through the node. The estimation may be based on the back-log at the node and the cost of downstream neighbor nodes for the flow. Further, selection o... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040802 | Method of controlling congestion for wireless communications An exemplary method of controlling communications includes determining a total congestion window size for a router device. An allocation of at least a portion of the determined total congestion window size to allocated at least one mobile station that communicates w... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040803 | Using packet-transport metrics for call-admission control Methods and systems are provided for using packet-transport metrics for call-admission control. In an embodiment, a base station provides packet-data service to mobile stations, which comprises (a) providing wireless service over an air interface in a wireless cover... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040804 | Method of flow control for IUB-interface, apparatus and base station A method of flow control for an IUB-interface, an apparatus, and a base station are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: a frame loss rate of a service is acquired according to the number of lost frames in a predetermined period. A congestion conditio... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036119 | System and method of providing bandwidth on demand An improved system and method of providing bandwidth on demand for an end user and/or enterprise is disclosed. In one example, the method includes receiving, by a controller positioned in a network, a request for a high quality of service connection supporting any o... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031600 | Method and related apparatus for performing status report procedure in a wireless communication system A method for performing a status report procedure in a receiver of a wireless communication system includes forming a STATUS PDU in an RLC layer, forming a Data PDU with a flexible size when a mode of flexible RLC PDU size is configured, combining the Data PDU with ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027256 | Multi-port network device using lookup cost backpressure In one embodiment of a network device, multiple packet sources contend for access to a packet processing pipeline. The packet processing pipeline tracks the usage of lookup resources by each of the multiple packet sources. When a packet source is detected to be usin... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018849 | Flow control in a parallel processing environment The flow of data in an integrated circuit is controlled. The integrated circuit comprising a plurality of tiles, each tile comprising a processor, a switch including switching circuitry to forward data over data paths from other tiles to the processor and to switche... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014283 | System and method for topology constrained QoS provisioning A system and method for topology constrained Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning between a plurality of sites in a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is disclosed. The method comprises enabling graphical definition of relationships between the plurality of sites of the... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004982 | Method and system for choosing communication services A method and system for determining one or more desired communication services for an application. The method and system includes determining at least one application operating parameter, at least one communication operating parameter, at least one cost factor, and ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004983 | Methods to improve transmission control protocol (TCP) performance over large bandwidth long delay links TCP options are provided to address TCP performance problems during data exchanges over large bandwidth long delay communication links. These options address problems such as in sequence tail drops, inaccurate estimations of available bandwidth over a communication ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004981 | Methods and devices for the coordination of flow control between a TCP/IP network and other networks Methods and devices are provided for implementing flow control coordination in a gateway between a TCP/IP network and a second network. The second network may be any type of network, including another TCP/IP network. In some implementations, the throughput of the TC... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000238 | System and method for detecting and regulating congestion in a communications environment An apparatus for communicating data is provided that includes a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station and operable to receive a plurality of packets associated with a communications flow, the packets including a plurality of subrates. The cell... | 08/16/2011 |
