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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7366184 | SVC/SPVC with L3 IP forwarding In a multi-service network, layer 2 traffic such as IP traffic according to the invention is carried over ATM SVCs or SPVCs. Methods of setting up such connections using the PNNI protocol are also discussed. Using enhancements to the standard ATM SPVC/SVC signaling ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362744 | Database management system and method of using it to transmit packets A forwarding table, in a network device such as a router, used to forward packets in a communications network includes indicia whose state determine whether information contained in the forwarding table or information contained in the header portion of a packet is t... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362703 | Method for deflection routing of data packets to alleviate link overload in IP networks The present invention provides methods for deflecting the routing data packets in an IP network to avoid overloaded links and to alleviate link congestion. One method in accordance with the present invention is, when the next link on the shortest route path is conge... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362728 | Handover control apparatus, relay router, gateway apparatus, access router base station, mobile communication system, and handover control method A mobile communication system 100 according to the present invention comprises handover control apparatus 1 and radio terminal unit 10. The handover control apparatus 1 controls handover of a radio terminal unit 10 between access r... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362745 | End-user systems for communication services over peer-to-peer internet protocol connections between service providers An end-user communication device comprises a telephony interface, network interface, and control circuitry. The telephony interface exchanges telephony signals with a telephone connection to a telephone. The network interface exchanges Internet Protocol (IP) packets... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362758 | Data distribution apparatus and method Embodiments of the invention are concerned with data distribution apparatus, for use on each of a plurality of machines in distributing a set of data over a network amongst said machines. The apparatus comprises: i) multicast appar... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363419 | Method and system for terminating write commands in a hub-based memory system A memory hub receives downstream memory commands and processes each received downstream memory command to determine whether the memory command includes a write command directed to the memory hub. The memory hub operates in a first mode when the write command is dire... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363386 | Method for estimating a traffic matrix in a communication network using non-stationary data The present invention comprises methods for increasing the rank of the routing matrix of an IP network by systematically altering link weights in the IP network. A full rank routing matrix may be used with further methods in accordance with the present invention to ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363367 | Systems and methods for robust, real-time measurement of network performance Methods and apparatuses for obtaining delay, jitter, and loss statistics of a path between server and an end user coupled via an internetwork are described. The server may comprise a web server in communication with the end user via the Internet. Statistics are obta... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363371 | Traffic flow management in a communications network Admission of rapidly varying traffic flows to a communications network is controlled by sampling the traffic flows each at an ingress, and sampling an aggregate flow of said flows at some or all of the resources used by the aggregate flow. From this sampling, a mean... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363404 | Creation and management of destination ID routing structures in multi-host PCI topologies System and method for managing routing of data in a distributed computing system, such as a distributed computing system that uses PCI Express protocol to communicate over an I/O fabric. A physical tree that is indicative of a physical configuration of the distribut... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363036 | Procedure for registering a new subscriber in a radio system through routers On registration of a new subscriber in a radio system with a central system and a plurality of subscribers the new subscriber first sends a search telegram to all the subscribers that it can reach in its radio range and selects from the subscribers that respond a fi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359383 | Load balancing with mesh tagging One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of load balancing traffic in a switching mesh. A packet is received at a switch of the mesh. A MAC destination address is gathered from the packet. An entry in a MAC address table is found with the MAC destination address... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360010 | Method and apparatus for storage command and data router An interconnecting unit and method for data communication between a plurality of computer hosts and a plurality of storage devices. The interconnecting unit couples the hosts to the storage devices and enables the data communication. The interconnection includes a p... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359358 | Method and apparatus for routing data A method of operating a wireless network with a base station and a plurality of outstations comprises transmitting a broadcast signal from the base station and in response to reception of the broadcast signal, transmitting an acknowledgement signal from an outstatio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359320 | Method for supporting quality of service features in heterogeneous communications networks The method is essentially carried out by a gateway device, which is logically divided up into a gateway controller and one or, if required, more user data gateways. Quality of service signaling is evaluated by the gateway controller and, depending thereon, quality o... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359323 | Bi-directional ring network having minimum spare bandwidth allocation and corresponding connection admission controls The present invention provides for a method for reserving spare bandwidth for a link in a communication network including a plurality of links. The method provides for monitoring the volume of traffic routed through each link of the communication network. A single l... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359340 | Method and device for automatically attributing addresses to a plurality of modules interconnected by a communication network with complex topology The invention concerns a method whereby each module is determined from the address of the module located immediately upstream in the networked relative to the central unit, the detected address being transmitted by the upstream module in an attribution message, whic... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359368 | System and method for routing calls using dialing partitions A method of routing calls using dialing partitions includes receiving a call request at a first call manager from a first device coupled to a packet-based network. The call request includes a telephone number that is associated with a second device coupled to the pa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359214 | Backplane with routing to reduce layer count An electronic system having a backplane designed for efficient routing of signal traces. The system includes two or more daughter cards that are connected to multiple other daughter cards in the system. These daughter cards are mounted centrally to the backplane in ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359339 | Smart access point The present invention provides a “smart” AP, whereby the AP periodically checks its connection with a network and, if a determination is made that the connection between the AP and the network server has been lost, an indication of this loss of connection is mad... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356050 | System for transmission of data on a bus A system for transmitting data between a transmitter and a receiver on a communication network connecting a number of components, especially in a motor vehicle, has a CAN transceiver which converts logic signals into bus data signals downstream of each transmitter. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355968 | Method of stateless group communication and repair of data packets transmission to nodes in a distribution tree Disclosed is a method for stateless group communication based on constructing and encoding sender based trees. The headers obtained by encoding the distribution trees are inserted in each communication packet. The encoding allows partial or full decoding of the dist... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356609 | Method and system for optimizing interfaces for non-routed PPP sessions using PPP global interface An optimized interface for handling routed and non-routed point-to-point sessions is provided. According to one exemplary aspect, when a PPP session is established for a client, an interface data structure or module is dynamically created for the client correspondin... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356613 | Routable application partitioning A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment determine the active partitions of an application and assign the active partitions among servers via a routing table. The routing table is sent to a client, who uses the routing table to se... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355991 | Method and apparatus for message flooding within a communication system A method and apparatus for message flooding is provided that takes advantage of the availability of node locations. The transmission of a flood message by a node is based on location information of neighboring nodes. In particular, each node within the communication... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356043 | Network channel access protocol—slot scheduling Network channel access protocol is disclosed. More particularly, a distributed, locally determined, channel access protocol that adapts to load, avoids interference and controls access by a group of nodes to a set of shared channels is disclosed. Shared channel spac... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356030 | Network switch cross point A switching fabric having cross points that process multiple stripes of serial data. Each cross point includes a plurality of port slices and ports. Each port includes a plurality of FIFOs, a FIFO read arbitrator, a multiplexer, a dispatcher, and an accumulator. In ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356033 | Method and apparatus for performing network routing with use of power efficient TCAM-based forwarding engine architectures A multi-stage (e.g., two-stage) packet-based lookup process using a Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) divided into partitions. The result of a first stage lookup is used to selectively search one of a plurality of TCAM partitions during the second stage. A s... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355980 | Costs in data networks A method for deriving a set of efficient path costs for a group of nodes comprising a source node and a plurality of destination nodes in a data communications networks, wherein the path costs for paths between nodes in the group are defined in the network and each ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356035 | System and method for AAL5 enhanced encapsulation A system and method for AAL5 enhanced encapsulation is disclosed. The method, comprises receiving an AAL5 CPCS-SDU at a router; encapsulating the AAL5 CPCS-SDU into an AAL5 enhanced packet at the router; generating an MPLS packet from the AAL5 enhanced packet, where... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356001 | Method and system for diverting wireless network communications A private wireless network is able to provide wireless telecommunication services to subscriber mobile stations that also subscribe to a public wireless network. The private wireless network includes a private base transceiver station (BTS), a private mobile switchi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353320 | Memory hub and method for memory sequencing A memory module includes a memory hub coupled to several memory devices. The memory hub includes at least one performance counter that tracks one or more system metrics—for example, page hit rate, prefetch hits, and/or cache hit rate. The performance counter commu... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352692 | Resource reservation scheme for path restoration in an optical network A method for reserving resources for restoration of a failed virtual path in a mesh optical network is defined. The method in one embodiment, defines multiple classes of service for the virtual path by allocating certain path performance, path implementation and pat... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353278 | System and method for event notifications in a multimedia network A communication system comprising a multimedia network and an entity that is external to the multimedia network and arranged to subscribe to the multimedia network for notifications regarding events that associates with at least one other entity of the communication... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353294 | Method for estimating a traffic matrix in a communication network using stationary data The present invention comprises methods for increasing the rank of the routing matrix of an IP network by systematically altering link weights in the IP network. A full rank routing matrix may be used with further methods in accordance with the present invention to ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349983 | Receiver driven distribution of data using address data of a peer node The invention relates to a device for either generating or maintaining an organic data network having an dynamic topology, comprising a data processing unit at least one data connection to a data network to which s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349994 | Method and apparatus for coordinating routing parameters via a back-channel communication medium Systems and methods are described for enabling routers to coordinate via a back-channel communication medium. The information exchanged over the back-channel is used to increase the number of paths considered for the routers during route optimization. The Decision M... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350073 | VPN enrollment protocol gateway A virtual private network (VPN) enrollment protocol gateway is described herein. The protocol gateway is implemented as a registration authority that operates as an intermediary between routers and a certificate authority, allowing routers operating in accordance wi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349414 | System and method for maximizing the traffic delivery capacity of packet transport networks via real-time traffic pattern based optimization of transport capacity allocation A system and method for maximization of the global throughput of packet transport networks via traffic-load-adaptive TDM or WDM channelization. Architecturally the packet transport network is formed of logical packet transport buses that are configured in the networ... | 03/25/2008 |
