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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7222210 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222255 | System and method for network performance testing A system and method for network performance testing are developed. One system includes a control network device configured to send network test performance settings configure at least one data generator and network switches so that each data generator sends test dat... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221652 | System and method for tolerating data link faults in communications with a switch fabric A system and method are provided for tolerating data line faults in a packet communications network. The method comprises: serially transmitting information packets from at least one traffic manager (TM); at a switch fabric, accepting information packets at a plural... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218629 | Methods for initiating telephone communications using a telephone number extracted from user-highlighted content on a computer Systems and methods for monitoring, making, managing and controlling telephone communications with a computer call assistant with an integrated voice/data communications system are disclosed. A call assistant computer application preferably runs on a personal comput... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218900 | Radio transmitter and receiver A broadband signal radio communication device which is capable of transmitting audio signals in a frequency band wider than a normal transmission band from 0 to 4 kHz in a radio system such as Bluetooth which employs a radio communication link through weak radiowave... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215676 | Method of converting ATM cells in ATM network system A method of converting AAL2 cells that includes an original user data set into AAL5 cells and another method of converting AAL5 cells that includes an original user data set into AAL2 cells are disclosed. In the method of converting AAL2 cells, the length of the dat... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216268 | Method and arrangement to estimate transmission channel characteristics A channel characteristic of a transmission channel between a remote terminal and a central office is estimated by collecting information in the remote terminal, transferring this information from the remote terminal to the central office and matching the received in... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213082 | Memory hub and method for providing memory sequencing hints A memory module includes a memory hub coupled to several memory devices. The memory hub is also coupled to receive a memory packet from a system controller containing a memory hint indicative of the subsequent operation of the memory devices. The memory module uses ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213189 | Method for iterative decoder scheduling A method for scheduling a decoding process of coded data blocks transmitted over a link in a communication network. According to the method the coded data block is stored in a queue (71) if all decoders of a cluster (72) of iterative parallel decoders ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209451 | Apparatus and method for efficient detection and suppression of corrupted fibre channel frames in a protected transmission medium An apparatus and method for detecting and suppressing corrupted data frames transported from a SONET network to a receiver utilizing the SOF frame indicator to manage the buffer-to-buffer credit count. By verifying the integrity of the SOF frame indicator prior to f... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209435 | System and method for providing network route redundancy across Layer 2 devices Systems and methods are described for providing network route redundancy through Layer 2 devices, such as a loop free Layer 2 network having a plurality of switching devices. A virtual switch is coupled to the loop free Layer 2 network, the virtual switch having two... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209434 | Path modifying method, label switching node and administrative node in label transfer network In a label transfer network, an ingress node positioned at an upstream side end of a partial section of a first data transfer path (old path) transmits a path modify request, and an egress node positioned at a downstream side end of the partial section returns a lab... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7210059 | System and method for on-board diagnostics of memory modules A memory hub includes an on-board diagnostic engine through which diagnostic testing and evaluation of the memory system can be performed. The memory hub includes a link interface for receiving memory requests for access to memory devices of the memory system and a ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209453 | System and method for tolerating control link faults in a packet communications switch fabric A system and method are provided for tolerating control link faults in a packet communications switch fabric. The method comprises: accepting information packets including a plurality of cells, at a plurality of port card ports, the plurality of information packets ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7210069 | Failure recovery in a multiprocessor configuration A multiprocessor configuration includes a plurality of processing groups connected to form both a first and second communication path, and an interpath connection connecting the first and second communication paths. The first and second communication paths and the i... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206887 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206287 | Method and system for isolation of a fault location in a communications device The present invention provides a system and method of identifying a failure location in a datapath in a communication element, the datapath traversing from an ingress point through at least a first component to an egress point. In an embodiment the method comprises:... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203173 | Distributed packet capture and aggregation A system is described for monitoring and testing enterprise networks that tend to have a number of geographically dispersed devices and interconnected sub-networks. The system includes a plurality of distributed agents to capture packets from a network. The system f... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200024 | System and method for optically interconnecting memory devices A memory device includes a semiconductor substrate in which memory circuitry has been fabricated. An address converter and a control signal converter are coupled to an address decoder and control logic, respectively. The address and control converters are operable t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200118 | Identifying faulty network components during a network exploration A network exploration is performed to initialize one or more network elements of the network. If during the network exploration a failure is encountered, a systematic and deterministic approach is used to accurately and particularly identify the faulty network compo... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200157 | Detection and compensation of ingressing frame offset discontinuities for tandem connection trails A method and system are provided for the detection and compensation of frame offset discontinuities for tandem connection trails in general and especially to frame offset discontinuities occurring at the entrance of a network element in a Synchronous Digital Hierarc... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197558 | Methods and systems for network element fault information processing Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for network element fault information processing. In an embodiment, a network element identifier and a network element fault information processing instruction are received. A query for network eleme... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197010 | System for real time voice quality measurement in voice over packet network In assessing the capability of an IP based network to support toll telephony service, objective measurements of Speech Quality are taken. A module is used with Voice over Packet equipment that allows performance of voice quality measurements in real-time without usi... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194661 | Keep alive buffers (KABs) An online system monitoring technique quickly and efficiently identifies failures or other system errors arising during operation of an intermediate network node, such as a network switch. The technique comprises Keep Alive Buffer packets/cells (“KABs”) that exe... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191934 | Technique for creating incident-specific credentials at the scene of a large-scale incident or WMD event An incident management system includes a check-in computer system and a portable data terminal. The check-in computer system is utilized to read information from a plurality of pre-existing identification (ID) cards and utilize at least a portion of the information ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194593 | Memory hub with integrated non-volatile memory A memory hub having an integrated non-volatile memory for storing configuration information is provided. The memory hub includes a high-speed interface for receiving memory access requests, a non-volatile memory having memory configuration information stored therein... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188219 | Buffer control system and method for a memory system having outstanding read and write request buffers A memory controller and method for managing the issuance of read and write requests to a system memory is provided. The number of outstanding read requests and write requests issued to the system memory are separately monitored and further issuance of read and write... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188201 | Storage system The present invention unitarily manages the configuration change of a storage system so as to know the latest configuration, and evaluates the reliability in advance when the configuration is changed so that the generation of a failure is suppressed. When the host | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187653 | Method and system for performing a logical loopback test Systems and methods for obtaining logical layer information in a frame relay and/or asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network are described. In an exemplary embodiment, a physical layer test system, such as an integrated testing and analysis system, communicates with... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185079 | Automated management of network addresses in a broadband managed access environment A method for automatically managing network addresses in a managed access environment is described. A managed access environment is defined as one in which a service provider delegates responsibility for a portion of their address space to an access provider, which ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184396 | System, device, and method for bridging network traffic A system, device, and method for bridging network traffic between a first communication interface and a second communication interface uses a pre-computed bridged routing table to enable a bridge to be established quickly. The pre-computed bridged routing table incl... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185099 | Apparatus and method for communicating between computer systems using a sliding send window for ordered messages in a clustered computing environment A clustered computer system includes multiple computer systems (or nodes) coupled together via one or more networks that can become members of a group to work on a particular task. Each node includes a cluster engine, a cluster communication mechanism that includes ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184407 | Detecting, reporting and mitigating hidden nodes in a wireless data network A method for automatic hidden node detection that includes observing frame exchange sequences that conform to a MAC standard such as the IEEE 802.11 standard. The method includes detecting a hidden node upon receiving a response frame without previously receiving th... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180522 | Apparatus and method for distributed memory control in a graphics processing system A distributed memory controller memory system for a graphics processing system having addressable memory areas each coupled to a respective memory controller. The memory controllers are further coupled to each other through a memory controller bus upon which a memor... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180866 | Rerouting in connection-oriented communication networks and communication systems A Private Network-Network Interface (PNNI) network including interconnected nodes is defined as a single rerouting domain (“global domain”) and the global domain is further defined by multiple divided domains (“local domains”). Each of the local domains is d... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180913 | Transparent error count transfer method and apparatus It is proposed that currently unused portions of transport overhead in frames sent on a high-speed outgoing channel be used to carry error count information from each of four low-speed input channels. At a 4:1 combiner, error monitoring bytes are extracted from tran... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177267 | Hardware monitoring and configuration management A transmission system is provided. The system includes a hardware monitor adapted to collect performance information about associated hardware components, a system information database adapted to refresh based on the collected performance information and to generate... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177268 | Packet distributing device Packets of different priorities are efficiently distributed to a plurality of links of different qualities. When transmitting a low priority packet, the load on a higher quality link is examined, and if the load is not greater than a predetermined value, the low pri... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174479 | Method and system for rollback-free failure recovery of multi-step procedures Disclosed is a rollback-free method for performing multi-step procedures in the presence of possible failure. As the procedure proceeds from its initial state through transitions to its final state, its constituent transitions are monitored for failure. If a failure... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174409 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 02/06/2007 |
