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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8437344 | Telecommunication distribution device with multi-circuit board arrangement A telecommunications apparatus includes a switching matrix. The telecommunications apparatus also includes a plurality of conductive user output locations and a plurality of conductive network input locations. For any given user output location there exists a conduc... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8428054 | Daisy chaining device servers via ethernet A device server intended for attaching serial devices to a network includes Ethernet communications, an Ethernet switch, and serial communication capability so that multiple device servers are connected in a “daisy chain” or series pattern. Galvanic isolation of... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8411676 | Reconfigurable compute engine interconnect fabric A reconfigurable compute engine interconnect fabric includes a reconfigurable interconnect layer (24, FIG. 2) between an application layer (22) and a physical layer (26) which identifies the input and output pins for the engine and their ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8358651 | Switch device having a plurality of processing cores A switching device comprises a plurality of switch cores, each switch core having a plurality of ports associated with the switch core. Each switch core is configured to perform ingress processing of a data frame using a local source port indicator corresponding to ... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8340087 | Storage subsystem Deadlock is avoided in a grid storage system having superior scalability. Provided is a storage subsystem connected to a host computer for receiving a write or read access from the host computer. This storage subsystem includes a plurality of modules respectively ha... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8340086 | Methods and apparatus to protect and audit communication line status Methods and apparatus to protect and audit communication line status are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a set of available communication lines from a media gateway, associating a plurality of destination numbers with respective ones of the available... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8331359 | Flexible counter update and retrieval A network device includes one or more processing units and an external memory. Each of the one or more processing units includes a centralized counter configured to perform accounting for the respective processing unit. The external memory is associated with at leas... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8315254 | Bandwidth management switching card A bandwidth management card includes a switch control unit and multiple ports connected to one or more line cards that are separate from the bandwidth management card. The bandwidth management card further includes at least one switch, and multiple network ports, wh... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8284768 | Dynamic bus-based virtual channel multiplexing device driver architecture Dynamic bus-based virtual channel multiplexing may be accomplished by establishing one or more virtual channels with a multiplexing device function driver and a multifunction device coupled to a bus, determining one or more functions to be activated on the device, a... | 10/09/2012 |
| 8279862 | Centralized service control for a telecommunication system A communication system includes a switching system and a service control system. The switching system receives and processes a communication request to transfer a query message. The service control system receives and processes the query message to generate and tran... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8274972 | Communication system with switchable connection A communication system is provided, including a first master device to operate as a master of a communication according to a first protocol, a second master device to operate as a master of a communication according to a second protocol, a common slave device to ope... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8270398 | System and method for signal processing A plurality of systems for routing signals are described. The system includes a cross point switch that can couple any one of a plurality of input terminals to a plurality of output processor terminals. Signals received at the input terminals are coupled to correspo... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8250055 | Non-linear dynamical search engine A dynamical search engine for searching a database is also provided. The dynamical search engine includes an array of nonlinear dynamical elements. The nonlinear dynamical element information items in a manner that confines the state of each element on a fixed point... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8189573 | Method and apparatus for configuring at least one port in a switch to be an upstream port or a downstream port A method and apparatus are described herein for configuring at least one port in a switch to be an upstream port or a downstream port based, at least in part, on a control signal. If a component includes both a switch and an endpoint, the method and apparatus suppor... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8175086 | Switching fabrics and control protocols for them A network unit for use in a switching fabric includes multiple units collectively constituting a single network entity, each having ports for the reception and forwarding of data packets. The network unit has at least one fabric port for connection to a partner port... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8135002 | Method and apparatus for horizontally slicing a multi-stage switch fabric A method and apparatus are provided for horizontally slicing a multi-stage switching fabric having transmission inputs and transmission outputs to and from the switch fabric. The switching fabric includes switch elements arranged in at least first and second stages,... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125986 | Method for enabling secure usage of computers using a mechanism lockdown A computer-implemented method for selectively enabling and disabling at least one of a plurality of functions of a host operating system and for selectively enabling and disabling at least one of a plurality of host components includes the following steps: activatin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116305 | Multi-plane cell switch fabric system A multi-plane cell switch fabric system prevents a decrease of the effective switching capacity when switching the variable-length packets. Distribution units classify input variable-length packets for each address, arranges the packets by a first division length un... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8081625 | Method and system for utilizing a 10/100/1G/10G base-T PHY device for single channel and shared channel networks Aspects of a method and system for utilizing a 10/100/1G/10GBase-T PHY device for single channel and shared channel networks are provided. In this regard, at least one switching element may be utilized to configure an Ethernet over twisted pair PHY device for commun... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8045545 | Intelligent database exchange for OSPF The present invention relates to systems and methods for eliminating unnecessary link state database exchanges and processes when two OSPF routers are forming a full adjacency. In particular, the invention provides methods and mechanisms for deducing information abo... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8023499 | Communication network control system, communication terminal, and communication network control method To guarantee continuation of communications of the level of the applications, and implement smooth and seamless switching between communication terminals that execute the service. Provided are mobility management means (120) for performing call control... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018923 | Method and apparatus for establishing a link over a preferred media in an ethernet network A physical layer device comprises an interface that communicates with a media access control (MAC) device. A first circuit attempts to establish a first link using a first transceiver over a first medium. A second circuit attempts to establish a second link using a ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014388 | Using a dual purpose physical layer interface for a flexible chassis-based server Methods and apparatus for selectively routing traffic from a port in a switch for use in a chassis-based server are provided. The switch may include a flexible physical layer component, allowing traffic from a channel (e.g., an Ethernet channel) to be routed to a co... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005078 | Packet processor, packet control method, and packet control program A packet processor having one or two or more packet processing units is provided with a packet detector which detects whether or not a packet exists in a packet processing unit, and outputs a packet detection signal indicating a result of the detection, and a clock ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995568 | Capturing user interface switch states The invention is directed to the capturing of user interface switch states. A method according to an embodiment of the invention includes: adding a state attribute to a UI switch control, the state attribute containing an expression; evaluating the expression relati... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7978690 | Method to operate a crossbar switch A method is described to operate a crossbar switch comprising a crossbar fabric with N sending and M receiving ports, with port cards connected to at least one sending and/or receiving port each of the crossbar fabric, said crossbar switch further comprising a contr... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974272 | Remote control of a switching node in a stack of switching nodes A methods and apparatus for remote management of switching network nodes in a stack via in-band messaging are presented. Switching nodes in the stack default to reserved switching node identifiers and stacking ports default to a blocking state upon startup, restart,... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965706 | Communication control apparatus A communication control apparatus that manages a media condition and a communication state of communication terminals in an integrated manner and optimizes a communication terminal environment according to events of various types is provided. A communication control... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7933264 | Serial multiplexer module for server management A serial multiplexer module for server management includes a first, a second and a third switching devices in circuit connection with a baseboard management controller, a serial transceiver and an input/output controller respectively. Each of the switching devices i... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933265 | Time switch Provided is a time switch capable of allowing a user to readily set up or change a schedule. For this purpose, a chassis 30 of the time switch 10 has same size (i.e., two-row-module size) as that obtained by arranging two three-module sized implanted t... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7907605 | Method and apparatus for selecting a media for communication in a network A method and apparatus for selecting a media for communication in a network. The method includes (i) using a first autonegotiation circuit to attempt to establish a link over a first media of a first type, and (ii) simultaneously using a second autonegotiation circu... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7889724 | Multi-station media controller A system including a plurality of software-controlled broadcast stations each having at least one media asset, and a controller to allow a user to link a first media asset of a first one of the stations to a second media asset of a second one of the stations. When t... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7869427 | System for switching data using dynamic scheduling The invention includes systems and methods for improving the performance of non-blocking data switching systems. One embodiment of the invention includes a method comprising routing data from a plurality of inputs to a plurality of outputs through a switching core a... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869426 | Intelligent patching system and method A telecommunications network manager includes a network scanner, a scanner interface unit, and intelligence activation units. The intelligence activation units are used with cable connection modules including insulation displacement contacts for connecting to cables... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7852835 | Time switch Provided is a time switch capable of allowing a user to readily set up or change a schedule. For this purpose, a chassis 30 of the time switch 10 has same size (i.e., two-row-module size) as that obtained by arranging two three-module sized implanted t... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848317 | Communication module system having an interface module and interface module A communication module system has an interface module for interconnection with at least one communication module, the interface module containing an input, via which the interface module receives first data and/or messages, a first transmission path and a second tra... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7835348 | Method and apparatus for dynamic anomaly-based updates to traffic selection policies in a switch Techniques and architectures to dynamically modify policies used to determine how data in switched network traffic is selected for security inspection. One embodiment of the invention modifies policies used to determine how data in network traffic is redirected from... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7826444 | Leader and follower broadcast stations An apparatus includes a plurality of software-controlled broadcast stations, each station capable of operating in a leader mode or a follower mode during a simulcast. Each station in the follower mode is configured to broadcast the same programs as a station in the ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817626 | Storage subsystem Deadlock is avoided in a grid storage system having superior scalability. Provided is a storage subsystem connected to a host computer for receiving a write or read access from the host computer. This storage subsystem includes a plurality of modules respectively ha... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7801120 | Method and system for efficient queue management Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for efficient queue management, and device implementations that incorporate these methods, for systems that include two or more electronic devices that share a queue residing in the memory of one of the tw... | 09/21/2010 |
