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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7068608 | Automated method for connection discovery within consolidated network elements An automated method of detecting, and provisioning connections between interconnected nodes in a consolidated network element involves sending messages between the nodes. The messages are inserted into data frames sent from respective transmit ports through inter-no... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068605 | Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) providing interference reduction features and related methods A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) may include a plurality of mobile nodes each including a wireless communications device and a controller connected thereto operating in accordance with a multi-layer protocol hierarchy. More particularly, the controller may, at an upp... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068304 | Apparatus for assessing quality of a picture in transmission, and apparatus for remote monitoring quality of a picture in transmission In a transmission chain having series-connected a TSC unit, an encoder, a transmission path, a decoder, and an up-converter, characteristic value extracting units are connected to input/output points A, B, C, and D of these transmission processing units respectively... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065324 | Controlling performance measurements in a telecommunications network A network management system, for example for use in a telecommunications network, includes a performance measurement tool for carrying out one or more performance measurements relating to physical or logical components of the network. A performance management contro... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065200 | Method of detecting circular routing in No. 7 signaling A method of detecting circular routing in a No. 7 signaling network is provided which detects circular routing that occurs when operating the signaling network, thereby preventing congestion of links by circular routing and finding out any reasons for the link conge... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065052 | Cell stream replicating device The digital data stream (e.g. ATM cell stream) replicating device features an input port for receiving a continuous digital data stream at an input transmission rate; a broadcast mechanism for replicating the input digital data stream N times; N output ports for tra... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065037 | Method and apparatus to provide facility and module redundancy in telecommunication switching equipment A cross point switch is configured to select from one of a first stream of ATM cells and a second stream of ATM cells, the first stream and the second stream being identical, and is further configured to select and substitute the second stream for the first stream u... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061870 | Method and system of transmitting loopback cells through a switching node of an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network Method and system of transmitting a loopback cell of a connection established between a source ATM device and a destination ATM device of an ATM network, with the loopback cell being returned to one of the switching nodes located on the route used by the connection,... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062554 | Trace monitoring in a transport network An apparatus for monitoring a path or section trace identifier. The apparatus receives the trace identifier and subjects it to a transform algorithm to produce a transformed trace identifier. The apparatus then compares the transformed trace identifier with a corres... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061924 | Methods and apparatus for remote metering A monitoring system includes a central gateway. The central gateway is configured to interface the monitoring system to a WAN. The monitoring system also includes a network of radio telemetry devices. Each radio telemetry device includes a monitoring device, a radio... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061869 | Apparatus and method for graceful reassignment of out-of-kilter communications paths A method is disclosed that provides an ordered sequence of reassignments of communications paths to new routes. The network may have multiple excessively long communications paths, referred to as out-of-kilter paths, while other communications paths are of acceptabl... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058730 | Unique address space and method for a transport network A method and system for routing an externally generated message in a network includes receiving at an ingress port of a network a message from an external network. The message includes Internet protocol (IP) source and destination addresses and message data. The IP ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058704 | Method and apparatus for implementing a service-level agreement A method and apparatus is provided for generating, collecting, and manipulating useful information for validating or defining SLAs of web servers on a network. Web servers comprising a web farm on the network are adapted for logging detailed runtime information rega... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058024 | Automatic telecommunications link identification system A telecommunications network in accordance with the principles of the invention includes one or more controllers that automatically determine the physical interconnectivity between at least two ports adjacently situated in different network elements. Each end-point,... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058016 | Method and system for accelerating route calculation in link state routing protocols A method for performing route calculations in a link state routing protocol at a node within a computer network. The method includes evaluating existing routes of the node when new route information is received and recalculating routes for the node only when the new... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054557 | Technique for routing data within an optical network A technique for routing data within an optical network having a plurality of network nodes is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by receiving data at a first network node via a first optical signal having a first wavelength. The first wavelength... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054376 | High data rate ethernet transport facility over digital subscriber lines A facility transport system for transporting high speed Ethernet data over digital subscriber lines. The system, referred to as 100BaseS, is capable of transmitting 100 Mbps Ethernet over existing copper infrastructure up to distances of approximately 400 meters. Th... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054273 | Circuit integrity in a packet-switched network Techniques for performing a continuity check operation include sending a pattern of bits over a packet network connection through a first interface on a packet network to a second interface on the packet network. The first interface is monitored for return of the pa... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054263 | Synchronous change of switchplane A change of switch plane operation is performed in a multi-plane cell switching node (20) which has a first switch plane (22); a second switch plane (24); and plural switch port interface units (26). In response to detection of a fault in... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051252 | Ibist identification loopback scheme A method and mechanism for testing communication links. A transmitter contact, or transmission point, is assigned a unique identifier. During a given test, the transmitter conveys a test pattern to a receiver via a link. Following this test pattern, the transmitter ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051240 | Diagnosis of data packet transfer faults using constraints Method for diagnosing data packet transfer faults in a system under test (SUT) are provided. A representative method includes: identifying at least some portions of the data transmission paths of the SUT capable of introducing errors in data packet transfer; providi... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050815 | Deriving location information about a communicating entity Location information about a communicating entity (41), in particular a mobile entity, is derived by identifying intermediate nodes (42) along the communication path being used by the entity, and then looking up, in a database (44), the geograph... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046634 | Method and apparatus for selecting maximally disjoint shortest paths in a network A method for selecting two maximally disjoint shortest paths between a source node and destination node in a network is provided. The method comprises determining a first explicit route between the source and destination nodes by using an original link cost for each... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047449 | Method for providing cable isolation in a fibre channel test environment using a software driven PCI device A cable isolator is provided for automatically performing cable breaks for testing of host bus adapters. A workstation includes a host bus adapter, such as a Fibre Channel storage controller, to be tested. The host bus adapter is connected to one or more storage mod... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047346 | Transparent fiber channel concentrator for point to point technologies A data processing system for transferring data from a first plurality of data links to a second plurality of data links is provided. A data bridge is initialized. The data bridge is functionally connected on a first end to the first plurality of data links and on a ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047290 | Storage controller and computer system for managing information related to connection port A storage controller determines a difference between a control table containing fiber channel port configuration of an upper node device and security information, and information fetched from a name server, thereby detecting replacement of a fiber channel port and c... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047176 | Method and system for hardware simulation A system and method for simulating a networked system for testing of embedded software on an emulated hardware device. The system provides for automated generation of a simulated hardware and facilitates testing of embedded software response to simulated error condi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046692 | Node supporting links having the ability to transfer longer messages than according to current MTP level 2 A node, which supports enhanced link sets, which includes two signaling point codes such that one of the signaling point codes is used to identify functions and MTP users which can make full use of a longer and unsegmented message length (i.e., in excess of 255 octe... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042881 | Asynchronous transfer mode system and method to verify a connection A method, and apparatus to transmit an ATM data message from a source node to a destination node, and reflect at least a portion of the data back t where it is compared to the transmitted data. The destination node includes a reflection circuit service located at a ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042847 | Telecommunications transport network comprising elements having a performance monitoring facility and method of operating the same A telecommunications transport network is described in which a plurality of network elements each has a performance monitoring facility operative to report overall error rate at the element in each network path using the element. The network includes one or more man... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042984 | Method for inspecting transmission channels in a communications system having peripheral modules Transmission channels indicated as occupied in a communications system having peripheral modules are inspected for preparing subscriber-side transmission channels. A test sequence transmitter on the system side transmits a test sequence to a control unit for a selec... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042983 | Method and apparatus for bridged tap impact analysis A method and system for qualifying telephone lines for high speed data services. The system takes measurements on a line under test and matches those measurements to a model of a line. The model of the line is used to predict whether the line will support data servi... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042887 | Method and apparatus for non-speculative pre-fetch operation in data packet processing A system is provided for enabling a non-speculative pre-fetch operation for processing instructions to be performed in the background ahead of immediate packet processing by a packet processor. The system comprises a packet-management unit for accepting data packets... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035204 | Method and apparatus for rerouting telecommunications signals The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for rerouting high-speed telecommunications signals within a network element (NE). Data circuits are defined as the interface cards within the NE that receive a particular data stream. In the event that one or m... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035223 | Method and apparatus for detecting unreliable or compromised router/switches in link state routing Method and apparatus for detecting whether router status information sent from a first router is unreliable, includes structure and/or steps for storing a router status database. Structure and/or steps are provided for receiving a first signal corresponding to a fir... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035210 | Media stream delay monitoring for node A node (20, 20-2) of a packet switching network has a chain of processing units (30) through which a media stream of packets is routed for sequentially processing of each packet of the media stream. Each of the plural processing units of the cha... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035209 | Control communications in communications networks A communications network has data and dedicated control network communication links between nodes. The control network is automatically and reliably created by each node determining each of its neighbor nodes to which it has a direct data link, each node having at l... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035202 | Network routing using link failure information Link failure messages are sent through a network to accelerate convergence of routing information after a network fault. The link failure messages reduce the oscillations in routing information stored by routers, which otherwise can cause significant problems, inclu... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031298 | Method of transmitting signaling data To solve the problems of sending signaling signals (4) between exchanges (1, 6) which are interconnected by links (7) which have no facility for sending signaling signals conforming to the ISDN standard, the necessary signaling channel is simula... | 04/18/2006 |
| 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 |
