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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7158486 | Method and system for fast computation of routes under multiple network states with communication continuation A system and method for network routing is provided where significant (those that impact optimal network routes) state changes of network components are considered. A set of optimal communication paths are generated for a number of actual and potential component fai... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154886 | Method and system for primary blade selection in a multi-module fiber channel switch A system and method for selecting a primary blade in a multi-module fibre channel switch with plural blades is provided. The system includes a state machine for sending exchangeable blade parameter(s) (“EBP”) to the plural blades; and determining if a primary bl... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152271 | Apparatus for adjusting a vacuum selector A vacuum selector is provided. The vacuum selector includes a housing having first and second faces, the first face including first and second openings, the second face including a primary opening that communicates with the first and second openings along a flow pat... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154861 | Method and system for a virtual local area network to span multiple loop free network topology domains A method and system is provided for a virtual local network to span multiple loop free network topology domains. According to one aspect of the invention, a network contains at least two loop free network topology domains and a virtual local area network spanning at... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154899 | Protecting the filtering database in virtual bridges A method for budgeted learning of link information in a network includes providing a database to contain the link information, for use by an entity connected to the network in transferring traffic over the network, and setting a maximum rate for addition of entries ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152113 | Efficient system and method of node and link insertion for deadlock-free routing on arbitrary topologies A system and method for adding routing information for a node to a routing table, which efficiently makes necessary changes to the routing table to support routing to and from the node, while maintaining the deadlock-free quality of the paths described by the routin... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152132 | Method and apparatus for improving buffer utilization in communication networks A method and a switch element for buffer utilization in a network are provided. The method includes, receiving plural frames in a first buffer, if the received frames are less than a full size frame and can be accommodated in the first buffer; sending an available b... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151752 | Method for the broadcasting of a data packet within a switched network based on an optimized calculation of the spanning tree Disclosed is a method for the broadcasting of a data packet, called a broadcast packet, within a switched network comprising a plurality of nodes connected to one another by a plurality of links, said broadcast packet being broadcast along a spanning tree of the net... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149214 | Dynamic unknown L2 flooding control with MAC limits A technique that may be used to limit the amount of flooding that occurs for a particular virtual local area network (VLAN) in a data network. Limits are established for VLANs processed by an intermediate node. Each limit indicates a number of forwarding database en... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146430 | Technique for enhancing effectiveness of cache server A path calculating section obtains a path suitable for carrying out an automatic cache updating operation, a link prefetching operation, and a cache server cooperating operation, based on QoS path information that includes network path information and path load info... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145878 | Avoiding overlapping segments in transparent LAN services on ring-based networks A method for eliminating loops in a communication network in which the nodes operate as virtual bridges, having virtual ports that link the virtual bridges over virtual connections, each of the virtual connections coinciding respectively with one or more segments of... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143196 | System and method for span port configuration A shared I/O subsystem for a plurality of computer systems. The shared I/O subsystem includes a plurality of ports that communicatively couple the computer systems to the shared I/O subsystem where each of the ports includes at least one corresponding bit in an adju... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143385 | Wiring design method and system for electronic wiring boards A wiring design system when applied to wiring boards having various wiring restrictions, has a rough wiring plan at the floor plan stage so as to complete a wiring design satisfying the wiring restrictions in a short period of time while evaluating the congestion de... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143173 | Autodetection of routing protocol version and type Methods and apparatuses to automatically configure network devices with respect to the routing protocol versions and types of each device on a link. The routing protocol is a dynamic, intradomain, distributed, flat, single path, distance vector routing protocol such... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142866 | Load leveling in mobile ad-hoc networks to support end-to-end delay reduction, QoS and energy leveling The method routes message data from a source node to a destination node in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). The MANET has a plurality of intermediate mobile nodes between the source node and the destination node, and a plurality of wireless communication links conne... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142654 | Method for high-speed registration of subscribers in a network management system by utilizing profile provision Disclosed is a method for processing port provisions for IDLC or xDSL subscribers provided at network elements in a network management system. In the method for high-speed registration of subscribers in a network management system by utilizing profile provision, pro... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142530 | Methods and systems of network management A network management system (NMS) automatically models a path for a customer's services from a terminating unit through elements typically on a link-by-link basis, across networks if appropriate, to a network service provider (NSP) or Internet service provider (ISP)... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139837 | Rule engine A rule engine for a computer network traverses a rule mesh having path nodes and path edges in form of a tree part and a graph part. The rule engine evaluates data packets flowing through a network to determine rules matched for every packet. Subsequent packets havi... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136390 | Communication apparatus, communication system, and communication control method A bridge is devised to easily divide a spanning tree domain and to divide only a spanning tree domain while avoiding division of a broadcast domain. A spanning tree domain of a bridged LAN is divided in such a manner that a plurality of bridge protocol entities are ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130262 | Method and apparatus for providing alternative link weights for failed network paths A data network wherein network links have an assigned service weight and a restoration weight that are used as factors for respectively determining an optimum primary data path and a back-up data path through the network. The restoration path is used in the event of... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130278 | Multi-layered cross-sectional diagram of a network A multi-layered cross-sectional diagram and a method of diagramming a network by using the multi-layered cross-sectional diagram are described. The multi-layered cross-sectional diagram exhibits sufficient modularity, scalability, and size flexibility to handle a wi... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127523 | Spanning tree protocol traffic in a transparent LAN A method for controlling a system of label-switched tunnels through a communication network, the method including pushing a signaling label onto a signaling frame at a first node in the network, and sending the signaling frame through the label-switched tunnels to o... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126923 | Method and system for inter-domain loop protection using a hierarchy of loop resolving protocols A method and system is provided for inter-domain loop protection using a hierarchy of loop resolving protocols. The method includes receiving messages from inter-domain switches. The inter-domain switches belong to a plurality of loop-free network topology domains. ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124409 | Automatic software installation on heterogeneous networked computer systems The present invention provides for automatically installing software on heterogeneous computer systems. In a distributed system having heterogeneous computer systems having dissimilar hardware or software components or dissimilar configuration information, such as d... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124189 | Spontaneous virtual private network between portable device and enterprise network An enterprise network opens a virtual private network tunnel with a data center by sending the data center a data request that includes a uniform resource identifier. The data center responds by sending the enterprise network ongoing reply data. A user wishing to ac... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123615 | Stacked network routers A cascaded stack of routing units each of which routes packets that it receives at its external ports and which conduct an election for a lead router that lends network and media access control addresses to the router interfaces of the other units in the stack. Thes... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123587 | System, device and method for limiting tunnel traffic in an information communication network There is disclosed an apparatus and method for limiting tunnel traffic in a network. Traffic engineering tunnels are used to direct traffic along a predefined path, which may differ from the path that internet protocol (IP) routing would determine. Interior gateway ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120120 | Method and system for topology construction and path identification in a two-level routing domain operated according to a simple link state routing protocol A method and system for extracting and building end-to-end route information in a two-level, multi-area Internet protocol (IP) autonomous system (AS) operated according to a simple link state routing protocol such as the Integrated System to Integrated System (IS-IS... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120119 | Management of protocol information in PNNI hierarchical networks Methods and apparatus are provided for managing protocol information in a PNNI hierarchical network. In a PAR-enabled device (1) of the network, topology indicators (HC, LC) are assigned to protocol information encapsulated in PAR PTSEs received by the PAR-en... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120733 | CAM-based search engines having per entry age reporting capability Integrated search engine devices include a content addressable memory (CAM) core that is configured to support at least one database of searchable entries therein and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to support reporting to a command host of data... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120711 | System and method for communicating over intra-hierarchy and inter-hierarchy links A system having an I/O interconnect topology utilizes internal packetized communications. The system includes a host system element, a plurality of switching elements, and a root complex to bridge communications between the host system and the switching elements. Th... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120679 | Configuration of headless devices using configuration service An arrangement is provided for configuring a headless device. A self-initiated configuration mechanism within a headless device issues a configuration request to a configuration service mechanism across network, requesting a configuration specification corresponding... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117265 | System for controlling communications in a network based on a previous place name and relocated place name displayed on terminals of current conversation participants A communication system is arranged to efficiently control communications as being conscious of location information of a mobile body. The communication system includes an address list managing unit, a data supplying unit, a call connecting unit, a display unit, and ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117264 | Method and system for peer to peer communication in a network environment A method for communicating among a plurality of peer nodes in a network environment is provided. A discovery command is communicated from a current peer node to at least one neighbor peer node, the neighbor peer node in communication with the current peer node. An a... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7114064 | System and method for accessing an advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) namespace nodal tree A system and method for accessing an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) namespace nodal tree in a computer platform employing an ACPI-compatible implementation is disclosed. ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113487 | Forwarding control protocol A forwarding element capable of forwarding protocol control information in an encapsulated form to a separate control element for processing. The forwarding element may include a proxy capable of intercepting protocol control information, encapsulating the protocol ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113508 | Security system for network address translation systems A system and method are provided for translating local IP addresses to globally unique IP addresses. This allows local hosts in an enterprise network to share global IP addresses from a limited pool of such addresses available to the enterprise. The translation is a... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110367 | Dynamic routing control system and method for radio access network A routing control system comprising a spanning tree producing portion provided in a master node of a radio access network. The spanning tree producing portion produces a spanning tree of the network whenever it receives connection information sent from slave nodes o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110404 | System and method for sending a packet to multiple destinations using a pipeline network processor In a pipeline network processor, a multicast echo feature ensures that a copy of a packet is sent to all downstream ports associated with an upstream port that delivers the packet. The pipeline network processor maintains a table of header information that is stripp... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111188 | Dynamically configurable fault tolerance in autonomic computing with multiple service points A method is described for configuring a system having a plurality of processors to provide the system with at least one cluster of processors, where each cluster has one service point. A distance is computed from each processor to other processors in the system. A p... | 09/19/2006 |
