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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7139247 | Broadband system with topology discovery 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... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139842 | Method and apparatus for intersystem cut/copy and paste An apparatus in accordance with the invention includes a switch-box, where the switch-box includes a memory buffer to which information is copied from a computing system selected via the switch-box from two or more computing systems coupled with the switch-box as a ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139266 | Configuring equivalent multi-stage interconnection networks in the bit-permuting style Equivalence among bit-permuting networks and the mechanisms for the conversion between equivalent networks. Multistage switching networks in the bit-permuting type and banyan-type can be classified into equivalence classes. One network can usually be replaced by ano... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136379 | Multiple-interface port multiplexer A device for interconnecting and multiplexing a plurality of interfaces is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, three serial communications ports are interfaced such that any two may be interconnected for communications. A novel circuit comprising a plurality of ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136357 | Transmission path controlling apparatus and transmission path controlling method as well as medium having transmission path controlling program recorded thereon The present invention relates to distributing the load between the set routes among a plurality of routes between a communication apparatus which serves as a start point to another communication apparatus which serves as an end point. An apparatus provided in a rout... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133399 | System and method for router central arbitration A centralized arbitration mechanism provides that a router switch fabric is configured in a consistent fashion. Remotely distributed packet forwarding modules determine which data chunks are ready to go through the optical switch and communicates this to the central... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130269 | Method for timing the output of data packets from network nodes, a network node, and a network A method for timing the output of data packets from network nodes, in which the current fill level of the buffer memory of a queue of the network node is first determined. The determined fill level of the buffer memory is compared with a predetermined lower limit fo... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130408 | Service logic context cache for signaling events A method for sharing signaling event data in a telephony system can include receiving within a first service logic component an event from a telephony signaling network. An event context can be determined for the event and asynchronously stored within an event conte... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7131023 | Programmable clock management component reconfiguration upon receipt of one or more control signals to be able to process one or more frequency signals One or more programmable clock management components of an apparatus in one example are coupled with a backplane. The one or more programmable clock management components comprise a reconfigurable clock management component. Upon receipt of one or more control signa... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130274 | Method for detecting connection polarity of network transmission lines and associated detection circuit A method and associated detecting circuitss for detecting and correcting a connection polarity of a network transmission line include two network clients and a network transmission line. One network client utilizes a detecting circuit to count and compare the number... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126907 | Label switched communication network, a method of conditioning the network and a method of data transmission A communication network is provided having source and destination switching routers connected by two different communication paths. A primary label switched path is established on one of the communication paths and a secondary label switched path is established on t... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126920 | Performance of lifetest using CMTS as a proxy A system and method for performing Lifetest over a cable network system is provided which minimizes bandwidth usage by the Lifetest procedure while increasing the number of devices that the EMS may support. In accordance with the system and method, the EMS obtains d... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127542 | Hot-plugging nodes in a modular system having redundant power supplies Substantial reduction or total elimination of switching transients (glitches) in an information handling system caused by inserting and/or removing hot-pluggable nodes having large power requirements is achieved with a plurality of power supplies having spare power ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7116634 | TCP sequence number recovery in a redundant forwarding system Disclosed are methods and apparatus for facilitating recovery of a data connection that was established between an active router and a host. The data connection is a type of connection that tracks the sequence of data sent between the router and the host. This recov... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7114161 | System and related methods for reducing memory requirements of a media processing system A method of generating a development project including at least a matrix switch and one or more adjacent objects is presented comprising establishing an initial rendering of the development project, and negotiating buffer size and attributes between an input/output ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7114070 | System and method for automatic digital certificate installation on a network device in a data-over-cable system A system and methods for automatic digital certificate installation on network devices in a data-over-cable network are developed. One of the methods includes sending a digital certificate request from a cable modem to a predetermined network server upon determining... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113506 | Butterfly network with switches set for two node disjoint paths and method for forming the paths In a butterfly network, a number of switches are set to provide two paths that are independent of each other, from a first switch to a second switch, and from the first switch to a third switch respectively. Identification of switches to be set from among all switch... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110513 | System and method for determining characteristics of international calls A system for providing termination information for an international telephone number includes a centralized database of terminating characteristics. The system may also include request processing logic that receives an international telephone number from a user. In ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111245 | System and method for smart graphical components A system and method in which a graphical component determines its appearance and runtime behavior based upon the type of container to which it belongs is provided. The container type corresponds to an implementation construct such as a class in C++ and Java, or a st... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110409 | Internal ATM-based multi-terminal client installation and method of operating same A broadcaster broadcasts all network cells received via a receive channel of a telecommunication line serving the installation to digital loops including terminals. A collector collects ATM cells produced by the terminals and transmits them in an emit channel of the... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107326 | Method and system for integrating IP address reservations with policy provisioning A method and system for policy provisioning and access managing on a data-over-cable system. One method includes receiving a first message on a first network device such as a CMTS from a second network device and marking the first message with an identifier of a net... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107495 | Method, system, and product for improving isolation of input/output errors in logically partitioned data processing systems A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for improving isolation of I/O errors in logical partitioned data processing systems. A machine check is generated that indicates that an I/O error has occurred in the system. The PCI host bridge (PHB) tha... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106729 | Switching control mechanism based upon the logical partitioning of a switch element A switch element is configured to extend communications between data lines. The switch element includes a set of ingress devices, a set of center stage devices, and a set of egress devices. Each center stage device is connectable to each ingress device and to each e... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103504 | Method and system for monitoring events in storage area networks A method and system for monitoring events in a storage area network is provided. The system includes a threshold monitoring module that receives a message from plural monitoring agents indicating if a parameter varies from a threshold value, and in response to the m... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103644 | Systems for an integrated data network voice-oriented service and non-voice-oriented service converged creation and execution environment Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems for converged service creation and execution. In an embodiment, a system includes an application server and service session manager logic, where the service session manager logic is in communication with the app... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103274 | Cross-connect apparatus An apparatus having n-number of working cross-connects for cross-connecting an n-bit input signals arriving from a plurality of input paths on a per-bit basis; n-number of first logic circuits for calculating the exclusive-ORs of each said n-bit and applying outputs... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103059 | Scalable 2-stage interconnections Modifications to the 2-stage interconnection to allow flexible scalability. Different switching fabrics having a range of different sizes can be constructed out of the same set of I/O switching nodes through this modified 2-statge interconnection, which can further ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103673 | System for transmitting reservation data and completing the transmission by transmission completion time An ATM I/F for transmitting data to a data transmission destination via a communication network, a data transmission server, and a data transmission managing device for calculating a network necessary for data transmission on the basis of the data quantity of the da... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103807 | Systems and methods for isolating faults in computer networks A system or a method is designed to detect and suppress faults on network elements located in various logical groups. The system and method of fault status suppression in a communications network includes receiving fault data from a detector identifying fault status... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103010 | Application independent telephone call initiation There are disclosed methods and apparatus for telephone call initiation. An application program causes a telephone number to be displayed. A user activates the displayed telephone number. A telephone call module recognizes the activation of the displayed telephone n... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103056 | Scheduling the dispatch of cells in multistage switches using a hierarchical arbitration scheme for matching non-empty virtual output queues of a module with outgoing links of the module A multiple phase cell dispatch scheme, in which each phase uses a simple and fair (e.g., round robin) arbitration methods, is described. VOQs of an input module and outgoing links of the input module are matched in a first phase. An outgoing link of an input module ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103041 | Optimization of number of transceivers used in a switch A switch. The switch includes a port card. The switch includes a network connected to the port cards. The network having transmitters and receivers that communicate with each other and have assignments between each other. The switch includes a fabric connected to th... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099338 | System and method for insuring dynamic host configuration protocol operation by a host connected to a data network A system and method for ensuring a connection to a configuration server by a customer premises equipment. The customer premises equipment is connected to a data network via a network connection. The data network includes a connection to the data network. A temporary... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099315 | Method and apparatus for enabling L3 switching by a network switch in a stacking environment A method of handling data packets in a series of network switches is disclosed. An incoming data packet is received at a data port of a first switch of the series of network switches and a stack tag is resolved from a header of the incoming data packet. It is then d... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093942 | Preset key for a projection device A method for optimizing an appearance of a projected image. The method includes providing a first configuration having a plurality of preset projection device settings for a first type of projected image and providing a second configuration having a plurality of pre... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095735 | System and method for a control services link for a multi-shelf node in a communication switch A connection system for a communication switch is provided. The switch comprises a controller and shelves providing communication capabilities for the switch. The controller is able to communicate with each shelf shelves utilizing categories of communication signals... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092387 | Method and switch controller for easing flow congestion in network A method for easing data transmission congestion in a switch device having a plurality of ports. The switch device includes a shared buffer capable of dividing into a plurality of buffering units. The method comprises the steps as follows. A plurality of output queu... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092502 | System and method for reporting and delivering calls A method and apparatus for arranging, reporting, and delivering call record information to customers. The communication records of each customer includes call transaction data corresponding to call transaction activity of the customer. The call transaction data is r... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7093160 | Method and system for implementing MPLS redundancy The present invention relates to a method and system for implementing protocol redundancy in a router. In particular, the invention relates to providing redundancy of multi protocol label switching (MPLS). In one aspect, the present invention provides MPLS redundanc... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088678 | System and method for traffic shaping based on generalized congestion and flow control A system and methods are shown for traffic shaping and congestion avoidance in a computer network such as a data-over-cable network. A headend of the data-over-cable system includes a traffic shaper configured to calculate a packet arrival rate from a cable modem an... | 08/08/2006 |
