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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7051113 | Method and apparatus for computing a primary path while allowing for computing an alternate path by using a blocked list Methods and apparatus for creating a primary path such that the ability to create a corresponding alternate path, if one exists, is effectively ensured are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for creating a circuit path includes sel... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050432 | Message logging for reliable multicasting across a routing network A technique for reliably multicasting a message within a router network is provided. At least one special router in the network has associated persistent storage for logging a message being routed to one or more clients. When a message is received at this logger nod... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046962 | System and method for improving the quality of range measurement based upon historical data A system and method for applying an algorithm to distance measurements between nodes in an ad-hoc communications network. The algorithm is located at an individual node of the ad-hoc network and processes collected data via a multi-path filter to ensure that range m... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042867 | System and method for determining physical location of a node in a wireless network during an authentication check of the node A system and method for providing security to a wireless network by using a mobile node's location as a parameter for deciding if access is to be given to the node. The system and method employ access points, wireless routers and mobile nodes, each including at leas... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043250 | Systems and methods for forming and operating a communications network Methods are provided for forming and operating mesh communications networks. A primary application of these methods would be for a network for interconnecting telephone central offices. Compared to current networks, a network based on these methods may provide highe... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039007 | System and method for improving reliability of a packet network A system and method for improving reliability of a packet network are described. Data is transmitted on a first virtual circuit in the network. A message signaling a failure in receipt of the data is received on a second virtual circuit in the network. Finally, tran... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039706 | Session admission control for communication systems that use point-to-point protocol over ethernet A server system provides admission control for a communication system where Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet (PPPOE) user systems transfer requests to use the communication system and transfer bandwidth usage information indicating their respective bandwidth us... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039055 | Method and apparatus for creating and dismantling a transit path in a subnetwork A system and method are disclosed for determining when to set up or tear down such a temporary transit path so that temporary transit paths are set up when they are needed and torn down when they are no longer needed. A temporary transit path is set up when the bit ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039009 | Control of optical connections in an optical network A method for lightpath restoration in a reconfigurable optical network comprises the steps of naming each network addressable element in said reconfigurable optical network, determining current topology in said reconfigurable optical network, determining current res... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035282 | Wideband telephones, adapters, gateways, software and methods for wideband telephony over IP network Wideband telephones, gateways, adapters, software, and methods are provided for implementing wideband telephony over a network. A WB IP telephone has a WB telephone, a codec for encoding voice into voice data bits, and a packetizer for encoding groups of the voice d... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035225 | Method of and apparatus for calculating transit traffic in individual routers In a method of calculating transit traffic in a router including interfaces, a transit traffic matrix matching with the total number of subject interfaces whose transit traffic should be calculated is generated and initialized. The IF traffic matrix of each of the s... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031262 | Reoptimization triggering by path computation elements A mechanism to alleviate bandwidth fragmentation in a network employing path computation element(s) to place MPLS Traffic Engineering tunnels. One application is a multiple Autonomous System or multiple area network employing distributed computation of MPLS Traffic ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031307 | Packet routing apparatus having label switching function A packet routing apparatus holds at the least one policy condition, and at the least one label corresponding to the respective policy condition. The packet routing apparatus receives a packet, and determines whether any layer information included in the packet infor... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031706 | Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) availability detection A method is disclosed for providing information related to an Internet Protocol (IP) Multi-Media (IM) Subsystem (IMS) to a mobile terminal. The method includes storing the information into a memory that is readable by the mobile terminal, and reading the stored info... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023820 | Method and apparatus for communicating data in a GPRS network based on a plurality of traffic classes In a GPRS core network, MPLS-based Label Switched Paths (LSPs) between Serving GPRS Support Nodes (SGSN) and Gateway GPRS Support Nodes (GGSN) are established for different types of traffic across the core network during a traffic engineering phase. The queuing and ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023857 | Method and apparatus of feedback control in a multi-stage switching system The present invention focuses on the aggregation of flows belonging to different classes of non-guaranteed-delay traffic into a single FIFO queue in a downstream stage of the multi-stage switch. These include the guaranteed flows requiring bandwidth reservation, the... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020164 | System and method for special signaling with customer premises equipment A system and method are provided for special signaling with customer premises equipment. The system includes loop termination equipment coupled to a local loop and comprising a signal generator. The system also includes customer premises equipment coupled to the loc... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020084 | Communication system, a communication method and communication terminal A service of reducing the number of tunnels in exchange for a specified service fee. A communication system, which generates tunnels in physical lines and multiplexes a plurality of sessions on the physical lines, comprises a monitor unit for monitoring the state of... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016306 | System and method for performing multiple network routing and provisioning in overlapping wireless deployments A system and method for transmitting data in a wireless network is provided. Routing table information includes a system weight associated with each available node. An optimal node is selected based at least in part on the system weight, quality of service requireme... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016679 | Mobile network domain having a voice capable serving GPRS support node A mobile telephone network provides a network operator domain in which the output from a radio network controller (RAN) is processed by a voice capable serving GPRS support mode (VC-SGSN). The VC-SGSN consists of the combination of a voice service box (VSB) and a se... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012898 | Telephony communication via varied redundant networks A switched telephone network is arranged in a manner to enable packet voice communication between telephone terminals via multiple redundant packet switched networks. The packet switched networks may utilize different protocols, be operated by different entities, an... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012895 | Packet-switching network with symmetrical topology and method of routing packets A mesh network for routing a plurality of data segments therethrough, each of the data segments containing address information. The network includes: a first, second, and third switch element each having a respective external input for routing data segments into the... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010102 | Method and apparatus of detection of inter-carrier looping Method and apparatus for detecting inter-carrier call looping using a modified Hop Counter parameter. ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010592 | Method for collecting statistical traffic data As shown in FIG. 2, when the SYN segment is detected, the amount of transmitted segment from the side which sent the detected SYN segment is obtained by counting the continuously detected DATA segments for collecting the traffic in a certain direction where i... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009934 | Method and apparatus for rerouting an optical network upon fault A system and method for automatically generating a topology of a network having synchronous optical network (SONET) switches. Switches in the network pass information about itself to other switches in the network so that every switch can maintain a topology of the n... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006520 | System and method of operation for managing data communication between physical layer devices and ATM layer devices A system for managing data communication between physical layer devices and ATM layer devices in a cell based ATM network is disclosed. A plurality of low speed physical layer devices a high speed physical layer device are connected to a bus. A bus interface device ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006433 | System and method for transporting in/ain signaling over an internet protocol (IP) network A system and method for transporting IN/AIN signaling (e.g., SS7 signaling) over an IP-based network using Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), wherein a peer-to-peer protocol adaptation (PPA) structure is provided at a signaling node. The PPA structure incl... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006518 | Method and apparatus for scheduling static and dynamic traffic through a switch fabric A method and apparatus for scheduling static and dynamic traffic through a switch fabric are described. The method comprises for each switch slice in a distributed switch fabric, scheduling static traffic by reserving time slots for transmission of the static traffi... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002906 | Method for extending the crankback procedure to any Asynchronous Transfer Mode system Method for extending the crankback procedure in an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) system composed of at least a first data network (10) comprising a plurality of switching nodes interconnected by connection lines and including end switching nodes each being... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002980 | System and method for router queue and congestion management In a multi-QOS level queuing structure, packet payload pointers are stored in multiple queues and packet payloads in a common memory pool. Algorithms control the drop probability of packets entering the queuing structure. Instantaneous drop probabilities are obtaine... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002917 | Method for path selection in a network A method for finding a path in a network is disclosed. The network includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links and each one of the plurality of nodes is coupled to at least one other of the plurality of nodes by at least one of the plurality of links. Suc... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002909 | Zero data loss network protection A system and method for protecting from the loss of data in an optical data network includes receiving the data over a service optical fiber line, delaying reception of the data over a protection optical fiber line by a first delay amount with respect to the recepti... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999448 | Internet protocol standards-based multi-media messaging A method and apparatus for interfacing a communications server for use with a circuit based telephony system with an Internet protocol telephony system are provided. The present invention enables service providers to service both tip-ring telephony type communicatio... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999459 | System and method for facilitating recovery from communication link failures in a digital data network A network comprises a plurality of switching nodes interconnected by communication links for transferring digital packets. At least one switching node in the network pre-establishes a bypass virtual circuit through the network to bypass an element of the network, su... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999420 | Method and apparatus for an architecture and design of internet protocol quality of service provisioning An architecture, design, and realization for providing Quality of Service (QoS) to Internet Protocol (IP) networks based on a three-class differentiated service scheme where the service provider uses a resource management system and a schedule optimizer to enable th... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996630 | Integrated network system An integrated network gives priority to message traffic associated with a first network over message traffic associated with a second network. This arrangement allows a private network, such an emergency network, to be integrated with a public network, such as a cel... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996564 | Proactive internet searching tool A system and method for providing an Internet user that has no pre-conceived notion of the specific subject matter he or she wishes to initially view, with a graphical user interface which assists the user in locating a web site of interest by first displaying a var... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6987734 | Provision of digital data via multiple broadcasts Internet access is provided through bandwidth available in broadcasted digital television signals, such as the digital television signals produced by terrestrial broadcast towers. Bandwidth is dynamically allocated or provisioned among clients, and is managed in par... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6985443 | Method and apparatus for alleviating traffic congestion in a computer network A method is provided for alleviating congestion in a computer network. The network includes a plurality of nodes interconnected by communication links, which communicate in accordance with at least an optical layer protocol and a second protocol layer. The method be... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6980517 | Method and apparatus for congestion control for packet-based networks using call gapping and rerouting in the peripheral domain The invention pertains to methods and apparatus for determining when and how to perform communications network congestion control tactics with respect to packet-based networks that are used to interconnect other networks, particularly time division multiplexed (TDM)... | 12/27/2005 |
