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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356628 | Packet switch with multiple addressable components An integrated circuit on which are implemented a number of devices that conform to the Rapidio network architecture. Included in the integrated circuit are two addressed RapidIO devices and switching devices which provide 24 switching ports. The devices have a packe... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356443 | Systems and methods for analyzing the selection of measurements of a communication network Representative embodiments are directed to systems and methods for analyzing the selection of measurements of events associated with a communications network. In one embodiment, the selection of measurements includes creating a representation of a network. After the... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355966 | Method and system for minimizing disruption in common-access networks A method and fibre channel switch element is provided for isolating a defective device that is coupled to a fibre channel arbitrated loop. The method includes, isolating a port if a loop initialization primitive (“LIP”) is detected from a device coupled to the a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356257 | Optical switching apparatus and optical communication network system An optical communication network system is disclosed, which includes an optical switching apparatus. The optical switching apparatus includes an optical switch for switching and setting routes of an optical signal without being converted, a control unit for instruct... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352694 | System and method for tolerating data link faults in a packet communications switch fabric A system and method are provided for tolerating data line faults in a packet communications switch fabric. The method comprises: accepting information packets including a plurality of cells, at a plurality of ingress port card ports, the plurality of information pac... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349903 | Apparatus, system, and method for an alternate lock facility connection path An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for an alternate lock facility connection path. A request module receives a connection request to establish redundant connection paths between a control unit and a host. A primary connection module establishes a first c... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350099 | Method and system for utilizing a logical failover circuit for rerouting data between data networks A method and system are provided for utilizing a logical failover circuit for rerouting data from a failed network circuit in a first data network to a second data network. The network circuit in the first data network includes a logical circuit for communicating da... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349962 | Signaling method for line terminal equipment health and status Line terminal equipment (30, 35) transmits health and status information (66, 68) to bearer payload processors (50-N). Each bearer payload processor (50-N) concatenates (96) the health and status information of the line terminal eq... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342892 | Controlled exception-based routing protocol validation An implementation of a routing protocol in a device is tested by testing how the device reacts to messages and message sequences having potentially adverse conditions. Examples include messages either having a specified message size which is intentionally out-of-con... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342874 | High-availability packet forwarding apparatus and method Failover protection is provided on the same facilities for a network connection passing through a high-availability router having shared resources managed by two control processors that respectively maintain a forwarding information bases (FIB). The two processors r... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339983 | Apparatus and method for detecting a power ratio between a traffic channel and a pilot channel in a mobile communication system An apparatus and method for detecting a power ratio between a traffic channel and a pilot channel in a mobile communication system. The apparatus is operable to generate a second signal by performing channel estimation using a second channel signal, and generate a f... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339925 | Telecommunications routing In a packet switched network, first said network address are allocated to a first mobile node being served via a communications link by a first access node, at least a first routing path in related infrastructure being directed to the first access node for the first... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330830 | Distributed commerce system A computer-implemented networked commercial interaction management method distributes information bundles that include values for a plurality of content attribute descriptors and information fields characterizing commercial interactions. The content attribute descri... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330889 | Network interaction analysis arrangement In a network through which service providing nodes are interconnected, one or more software elements at each service providing node process the network operations. A client interceptor coupled in an examine node to a selected software element intercepts transmission... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327686 | Generating processed traffic There is disclosed methods and apparatus for generation of processed traffic. An environment may include a traffic generator, a network, a gateway and a traffic receiver. The abilities of the gateway may be tested by generating traffic from the traffic generator and... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324454 | Router In a router supporting a packet relay function based on a routing table, and also a VPN (Virtual Private Network) function, an output port deciding portion decides an output port different from a normal output port indicated as an output port corresponding to a dest... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317734 | Method and apparatus for emulating ethernet functionality over a serial bus Applications can transparently use a bus, such as the IEEE-1394 serial bus, as if it were an Ethernet (IEEE 802.3). In a conventional Ethernet, each node is assigned a unique 6-byte MAC address in order to receive frames addressed to it over the LAN. According to th... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318116 | Control path failover in an automated data storage library A system, a method, and a computer program product to provide a failover procedure for an automated data storage library are provided. During the operation of a data storage library, a host computer issues control commands to the automated data storage library using... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316016 | Homogeneous monitoring of heterogeneous nodes A distributed and scalable architecture is described to facilitate reactive detection of operational state changes in diverse, heterogeneous objects, logging of detected state-changes, and generating alerts in response to detected state-changes for the purpose of re... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313635 | Method and apparatus for simulating a load on an application server in a network A method is disclosed for simulating a load on an application server in a network. The method intercepts data packets of a request from a sender to a receiver. The data packets to be intercepted can be selected according to specified criteria, such as communications... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313736 | Method and apparatus for aggregating alarms and faults of a communications network A distributed method and system of controlling a communications network having a plurality of spans of interconnected network elements some of which include a network element processor distributes network topology information to respective span databases; stores ori... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313100 | Network device having accounting service card A network device integrates accounting functionality for generation of flow statistics with packet intercept functionality to provide a comprehensive traffic analysis environment. The device comprises a set of network interface cards to receive packets from a networ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305461 | Method and system for network management with backup status gathering A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for management of a distributed data processing system. Resources within the distributed data processing system are dynamically discovered, and the discovered resources are adaptively monitored ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305466 | Network fault isolation Techniques are provided for improved fault isolation and fault reduction. A system for use with a data network includes multiple diagnostic units each adapted to communicate with the network including to a network user. A central controller is operatively connected ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301895 | Virtual path restoration scheme using fast dynamic mesh restoration in an optical network A method for restoring a virtual path, provisioned between a source and a target node, in a mesh zoned optical network is described. The method, in one embodiment, broadcasts or floods restore path requests in the network to expedite the identification of an alterna... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301941 | Multistage digital cross connect with synchronized configuration switching A digital cross connect comprises plural switching stages. Each stage has plural switches which receive plural frames of time multiplexed input data and which switch the data in time and space. Configurations of the switches change in frame synchronization at the st... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298695 | Method and apparatus for delaying start of restoration of low priority services The present invention relates generally to restoration of low priority services in a network. More particularly, the invention encompasses a method and an apparatus for delaying the start of the restoration of low priority services in a communication network. The in... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298739 | System and method for communicating switch fabric control information A system and method are provided for communicating control information in a switch fabric. The method comprises: on a switch card, establishing a plurality of crossbars controlled by an arbiter; initiating a control message; and, distributing the control message on ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289525 | Inverse multiplexing of managed traffic flows over a multi-star network A method for inverse multiplexing of managed traffic flows over a multi-star switch network includes a source node classifier. The source node classifier, using a traffic-engineering algorithm, classifies incoming traffic based on flow parameters, embeds the flow pa... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289516 | Universal interface A universal interface apparatus having a processor for receiving one or more Network Interface signals having a transport mechanism associated therewith. The transport mechanism may include Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Internet Protocol, Frame Relay, Integrated Servi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289513 | Switching fabric port mapping in large scale redundant switches A method and system for mapping logical fabric ports to line ingress queues. The system provides for the mapping of line ingress queues to logical destination ports instead of to physical fabric ports. The association of ingress queues with logical destination ports... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289384 | Method for writing to multiple banks of a memory device In a multi-bank memory system such as a synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), a method of writing data to the banks is provided. This method allows for writing to any number of banks. More particularly, this method allows for writing to a selected number... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289435 | Method and system for manifesting alarms in a telecommunication network A method and a Network Element (NE) for manifesting alarms by forming a so called combined Data Quality Byte (DQB) for a particular SDH/SONET data transmission stream. The DQB indicates status of alarms at a particular location of the telecommunication network, via ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289449 | Device and method for managing fault detection and fault isolation in voice and data networks The present invention provides a device and method for managing fault detection and isolation in voice and data networks. Specifically, the present invention is a device and method for fault detection and fault isolation that can be used to validate connectivity of ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289433 | Method and system for providing robust connections in networking applications A method for preventing information losses due to network node failure is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of operatively connecting at least one backup node to a primary node, followed by synchronizing the at least one backup node and the primary node. Nex... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286509 | Physical channel configuration signaling procedures A sequence of codes are provided for potential assignment to a user in a wireless hybrid time division multiple access (TDMA)/code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system. At least one timeslot is selected to support the communication. For each selected... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287192 | Identifying a failed device in a network A failed device is identified in a network that includes plural devices. To begin, an attempt is made at communication with a target device. If the attempt at communication with the target device fails, it is determined if the target device has an active neighbor. I... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284148 | Method and system for self-healing in routers A method and system for self-healing of routers within a distributed computer network. In response to a detected communication error at a local router over a primary communication path to a distant router, an alternate path is established. Thereafter, a diagnostic p... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281138 | Method and apparatus for controlling access to debugging software A software module includes a functional portion for day-to-day management and configuration of one or more network devices. During the development of the functional portion, the software module also includes a debugging portion, used primarily for debugging and trou... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281170 | Help desk systems and methods for use with communications networks A network management system includes a fault diagnosis system, a topology mapper, an impact analyzer and a help desk system. The a help desk system includes a user interaction module, and a fault diagnosis interaction module. The user interaction module is construct... | 10/09/2007 |
