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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7054422 | Methods and systems for accessing peg count information generated by signaling gateway or signal transfer point A routing node (100) includes a usage measurements module (134) for polling internal processing modules (106) and communication link modules (102, 104, and 106) for usage measurements collected by these modules and forwarding the u... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054309 | Ethernet automatic fiber/copper media selection logic A network device includes a media access controller (MAC) and a physical layer having an interface that communicates with the MAC. A first autonegotiation circuit attempts to establish a link using a first transceiver over a first media. A second autonegotiation cir... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054266 | Switch provided with capability of switching a path In order to avoid location of a buffer or a cache memory required for recovering a path trouble in the conventional storage unit, a new switch is provided between a computer and a storage unit. This switch manages a command to be relayed thereby, transmits to the co... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050505 | Aliasing and routing of plural MPEG data streams Aliasing and routing of plural MPEG data streams are disclosed. Disclosed apparatus embodiments include, e.g., a router or a cross-point switch that can route data packets from any source location(s) to any destination location(s). Such locations may be on multiple ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050437 | Wire speed reassembly of data frames A network interface device includes receive logic, which is coupled to receive from a network a sequence of data packets, each packet including respective header data. A protocol processor is coupled to read and process the header data so as to identify a group of t... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046661 | Scheduling the dispatch of cells in non-empty virtual output queues of multistage switches using a pipelined hierarchical arbitration scheme A pipeline-based matching scheduling approach for input-buffered switches relaxes the timing constraint for arbitration with matching schemes, such as CRRD and CMSD. In the new approach, arbitration may operate in a pipelined manner. Each sub-scheduler is allowed to... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044605 | Image-rendering device An image-rendering device including a body, a connector movably coupled to the body, wherein the connector is configured to electrically and structurally couple the body to the projection device such that the body is movable relative to the connector, and an image r... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042874 | Digital switching system and method of switching data of same A digital switching system includes a multiplexer for multiplexing time slots from a plurality of circuits, a switching memory for storing and switching the multiplexed data for one frame period, switching control equipment for directing the interchange of the time ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042873 | Conditionally non blocking switch of the circular-unimodal type Broadband switching including the implementation of and control over a massive sub-microsecond switching fabric. To effect the attributes of the switching fabric, conditionally nonblocking components are used a building-blocks in an interconnection network which is ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042842 | Fiber channel switch A Fiber Channel switch is presented that tracks the congestion status of destination ports in an XOFF mask at each input. A mapping is maintained between virtual channels on an ISL and the destination ports to allow changes in the XOFF mask to trigger a primitive to... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042735 | Fitting substrate for connection and fitting substrate for connection for use in disk array control apparatus The invention efficiently mounts substrates to back planes and accomplishes high quality signal transfer. Connectors to which N adaptor substrates are fitted and connectors to which M bus switch substrates are fitted are provided to a multi-layered back plane. Signa... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039705 | Representing capacities and demands in a layered computing environment using normalized values Method and apparatus for representing capacities and demands in a layered computing environment using normalized values for identifying optimal allocations of computing resources. A plurality of server models are established, with each server model including one or ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039686 | Music-data reproducing system using a download program A data card 101 with music data accumulated therein is inserted into a portable telephone 110 to fetch the music data into the portable telephone, and application software suitable for a music data format prescribed in association with the music data i... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039072 | Methods and apparatuses for time and space switching of SONET framed data Multiple streams of bits are received. One or more bits are selected from a stream of bits based, at least in part, on a space control register value and a time control register value. In one embodiment, a time control register stores a value indicating a selected b... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035930 | Method and framework for generating an optimized deployment of software applications in a distributed computing environment using layered model descriptions of services and servers Method and framework for identifying optimal allocations of computing resources in a complex, distributed data processing environment. A plurality of server models are established, with each server model including one or more server nodes and each server node having... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035502 | Signal interconnect incorporating multiple modular units An interconnect element incorporates a plurality of smaller, substantially identical, interconnect modules. Multiple identical elements can in turn be combined to form larger interconnect networks. Signal paths in the elements can be implemented with optical fibers ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035289 | Communications switching architecture Presently described is a system and method for switching multimedia data communications, including but not limited to Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony, cable TV, digital audio and video. The system utilizes a single, integrated device to provide all PacketCable-compli... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032078 | Shared memory multiprocessing system employing mixed broadcast snooping and directory based coherency protocols A multiprocessor computer system to selectively transmit address transactions using a broadcast mode or a point-to-point mode. Either a directory-based coherency protocol or a broadcast snooping coherency protocol is implemented to maintain coherency. A node is form... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7032013 | Reliability for interconnect fabrics A technique for providing reliability to an interconnect fabric for communication among a set of nodes. Ports associated with each node are partitioned into a first set of ports and a second set of ports. A first interconnect fabric is formed among the first set of ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031351 | Serial data mapping apparatus for synchronous digital hierarchy Disclosed is a serial data mapping apparatus and method for mapping DS serial data into VC parallel data which includes an STM-1 address generating unit for generating a mapping address; a VC mapping unit for mapping a DS asynchronous signal into a VC signal as byte... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031347 | Data communication link In order to enable high speed, high bandwidth data transfer between two ASIC devices, for example in a backplane, a wide parallel input data word is divided into a smaller number of words, and each smaller word is converted to serial form and then transmitted over a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031304 | Method and apparatus for selective packet Mirroring A method and apparatus for selectively packet mirroring is described. A method in a network element comprises selectively mirroring packets, the packets being associated with a first virtual path, the first virtual path indicating a first physical path and a first v... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031303 | Conditionally nonblocking switch of the upturned decompressor type Broadband switching including the implementation of and control over a massive sub-microsecond switching fabric. To effect the attributes of the switching fabric, conditionally nonblocking components are used a building-blocks in an interconnection network which is ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031296 | Method and apparatus for managing the flow of data within a switching device A method and apparatus for managing the flow of data within a switching device is provided. The switching device includes network interface cards connected to a common backplane. Each interface card is configured to support the maximum transfer rate of the backplane... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028134 | Crossbar integrated circuit with parallel channels for a communication device Communication circuitry is comprised of processing circuitry, parallel channels, and crossbar integrated circuits. The processing circuitry exchanges the communications between communication links and the parallel channels. The parallel channels transfer the communi... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027394 | Broadband system with traffic policing and transmission scheduling Hybrid fiber/coax networks employ the existing cable plant used for cable TV and transmit data signals in a frequency bandwidth above that which is used for cable TV. As this cable plant was deployed in a tree and branch topology, data transmissions may be susceptib... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023848 | Rearrangement of data streams A method and a system for errorless switching, in a telecommunication network, from a basic data stream to a copy of the basic data stream obtained by bridging of the basic data stream at a first network node, being characterized in that the switching is performed a... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023840 | Multiserver scheduling system and method for a fast switching element A scheduling system and methodology for use in a network switch element having multiserver, multiple-arbiter architecture. Ingress ports and egress ports coupled to the cross-connect fabric of the network element are provided with multiple ingress and egress arbiter... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023836 | Transport interface for time division frames A transport interface for time division frames, in particular SDH frames transmitted between telecommunications network nodes according to a specified transport protocol, said nodes comprising first circuit means (SM) for processing said time division frames (TRM, T... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020139 | Trunking and mirroring across stacked gigabit switches A method of handling data packets in a network switch is disclosed. The method includes placing incoming packets into an input queue and applying the input data packets to an address resolution logic engine. A lookup is performed to determine whether certain packet ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020131 | System and method for hierarchical switching A system and method have been provided for hierarchically arbitrating in a broadband information switching network. The method promotes the fair and efficient distribution of information packets across the switch fabric that ultimately permits the switch to maximall... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017083 | Method and device for testing the inhibit function of a network component transmission inhibiting device A method and a device are described for testing the inhibit function of a network component transmission inhibiting device that allows a transmission line from the network component to the network to be inhibited by an inhibit function which causes a logical signal ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016345 | Conditionally nonblocking switch of the expander type Broadband switching including the implementation of and control over a massive sub-microsecond switching fabric. To effect the attributes of the switching fabric, conditionally nonblocking components are used a building-blocks in an interconnection network which is ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016344 | Time slot interchanging of time slots from multiple SONET signals without first passing the signals through pointer processors to synchronize them to a common clock A SONET multiplexed system architecture that permits greater levels of integration. The architecture includes a time slot interchanger for routing information from at least one SONET input signal path associated with a respective first time slot to at least one SONE... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013355 | Device and method for improved serial bus transaction using incremental address decode An incremental or bit by bit address decode scheme allows each device on a serial bus to determine as soon as possible if it is the device being addressed by a master device. As each address bit is received serially into a device, it is immediately compared with a c... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013339 | Method to control a network device in a network comprising several devices A method to control a network device in a network comprising several devices includes a first controller that operates to prevent another controller from performing an unwanted overtaking of a network device that is currently controlled by the first controller. In o... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012895 | Packet-switching network with symmetrical topology and method of routing packets A mesh network for routing a plurality of data segments therethrough, each of the data segments containing address information. The network includes: a first, second, and third switch element each having a respective external input for routing data segments into the... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010802 | Programmable pattern match engine A communication device such as a cable modem that has a first interface for receiving data from a cable media, and a pattern matching engine that evaluates patterns in the data that is received at the first interface of the cable modem and that enables the determina... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009985 | Fibre channel arbitrated loop bufferless switch circuitry to increase bandwidth without significant increase in cost A switch, switched architecture and process for transferring data through an FCAL switch is disclosed. The switch uses multiple switch control circuits each coupled to one FCAL network and all connected to a crossbar switch. The switch control circuits are coupled t... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009976 | Method and apparatus for using barrier phases to synchronize processes and components in a packet switching system Methods and apparatus are disclosed for using barrier phases to synchronize processes and components in a packet switching system, including, for example, but not limited to the use of barrier phases in the coordinated timing of the sending of information (e.g., flo... | 03/07/2006 |
