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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085763 | Method for protecting SIP-based applications A method for protecting SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)-based applications wherein SIP messages are analyzed and malicious SIP messages that potentially constitute a security risk for the SIP-based application are identified is discloses. Regarding a realization o... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7983252 | Enhanced frame aggregation in a wireless network system Variable-length information-containing frames (e.g., MPDUs) are aggregated into a bitstream using frame delimiters to distinguish the frames. Aggregation and frame extraction techniques are provided that support recovery from bit errors that may be present in a fram... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7936749 | Node device for transfering supervisory control information in photonic network A node device receives supervisory control information on a dedicated wavelength different from a wavelength of signal light, which is input from an input port together with the signal light, and extracts, from signal light to be output from an output port, informat... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7876746 | Remote management for network switches An apparatus includes at least one input circuit to receive frames of data, the frames of data comprising first frames each having first data, and a second frame having second data. The apparatus includes at least one output circuit to transmit the first frames; a f... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7724731 | Transmission network system In a transmission network system in which a path is set between a transmission node and a receiving node and which transmits a transmission signal between the nodes, crossconnect settings of the nodes are enabled while personal settings are minimized. A trans... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7688813 | Monitoring control system and method Disclosed is a monitoring control system and method that can minimize network delay between a local side PC and a phone side PC when monitoring a mobile communication device in real time. By consecutively sending a plurality of monitoring requests for monitoring the... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7613178 | Transmission network system In a transmission network system in which a path is set between a transmission node and a receiving node and which transmits a transmission signal between the nodes, crossconnect settings of the nodes are enabled while personal settings are minimized. A trans... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7539182 | Signalling in a telecommunications network A method of monitoring information associated with a given termination of a Context defined for a Media Gateway (MG) of a telecommunications network. The method comprises specifying an additional Topology Descriptor to define the relationship between a monitoring te... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7359353 | Access network and method for improved inter-PDSN dormant mode handoff Various embodiments are described herein to address the need to have a method and apparatus that improve the resource efficiency of inter-PDSN (142 to 141) dormant mode handoffs. Promptly after the completion of signaling (218) for PPP connectio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353418 | Method and apparatus for updating serial devices The present invention provides a method and apparatus for updating serial devices. The apparatus includes a plurality of serial registers. The apparatus further includes a device adapted to provide a signal and a plurality of parallel registers, wherein each of the ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346066 | Integrated broadband and narrowband SS7 signaling gateway with M3UA and point code mapping A method and system provide for using an integrated broadband and narrowband SS7 signaling gateway with M3UA and point code mapping. In general terms one embodiment of the system has: a single physical media carrying at least one bearer path and at least one signali... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7330542 | Method and system for establishing a multimedia connection by negotiating capability in an outband control channel The present invention relates to a method and system for establishing a connection to a terminal device, wherein a user capability information defining supported types of information streams is set in a compatibility information element within an outband signaling m... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7310356 | Automatic discovery of network core type Systems and methods for automatically discovering the configuration of network and/or communication facilities are provided. The determination generally involves receiving and/or sending at least one test message or packet with special characteristics that normally ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301953 | Method and system for transporting a secondary communication signal with a primary communication signal The method and system provide for transporting a secondary communication signal from a secondary carrier network with a primary communication signal from a primary carrier network. The method and system load the overhead from the secondary communication signal into ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298739 | System and method for communicating switch fabric control information A system and method are provided for communicating control information in a switch fabric. The method comprises: on a switch card, establishing a plurality of crossbars controlled by an arbiter; initiating a control message; and, distributing the control message on ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292687 | Capability negotiation in a telecommunications network A method of negotiating a call capability between signalling points in a telecommunications system. The method comprises sending a capability preference or prioritised list of preferences from an originating signalling point to a terminating signalling point or sign... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7243183 | SONET data byte switch A switch system including a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports for transferring data from one of the input ports to one of the output ports, and a plurality of memory devices is disclosed. The memory devices include a first memory bank configur... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239813 | Bit synchronization circuit and central terminal for PON systems A bit synchronization circuit composed of a multiphase data sampling unit for converting each received burst data sets to multiphase data trains, a phase determination unit for generating a control signal indicating an optimum phase data train, an output data select... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7206283 | High-performance network switch The present invention provides a high-performance network switch. A digital switch has a plurality of blades coupled to a switching fabric via serial pipes. Serial link technology is used in the switching fabric. Each blade outputs serial data streams with in-band c... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200143 | Intergrated services digital network private branch exchange capable of choosing synchronization clock source automatically An integrated services digital network private branch exchange, which is capable of automatically choosing a synchronization clock source. The integrated services digital network private branch exchange comprises a plurality of trunk chips, a plurality of subscribe ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187693 | Communication apparatus and method for setting line capacity thereof A communication apparatus that, in sending and receiving data between a LAN and a certain network, dynamically sets the capacity of a line used for sending and receiving data via the network based on the amount of use of a line used for sending and receiving data vi... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7161923 | System and method for establishing bluetooth communications A system and method have been provided for establishing communications with an existing Bluetooth protocol piconet. The master device of the piconet broadcasts a beacon frequency at a predetermined frequency. The beacon frequency includes the BD_addr of the master d... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158540 | Ring network element and the ring network architectures it enables A ring network element and the ring network architectures it enables. According to one embodiment of the invention, a single network element includes a full TDM cross-connect and a multiple ring unit. The full TDM cross-connect is coupled to every line card slot in ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7139479 | Method and apparatus for optical network administration An optical transmission network allows transmission monitoring zones to be set up or changed in a flexible manner, and allows simultaneous monitoring of communication quality for each of these monitoring zones. Also, provided is an optical transmission zone service ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139684 | High bandwidth real time oscilloscope A method and apparatus for digitizing a data signal, the method comprising the steps of receiving an input analog data signal, splitting the received input analog data signal into a plurality of split signals, and mixing at least one of the split signals with a pred... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7103278 | Virtual concatenation of optical channels in WDM networks A virtual concatenation method for optical channels in WDM networks. In transmission, the method includes providing for a plurality of frames, each frame including a byte reserved for a concatenation flag; writing the same predefined value in the concatenation byte ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7092393 | Method and apparatus for distributed reassembly of subdivided packets using multiple reassembly components Methods and apparatus are disclosed for distributed reassembly of large packets split into smaller packets. Larger packets are split into several smaller packets, which are marked with a sequence number, timestamp, or other ordering and reassembly indications, and s... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7054554 | Method and system for detecting network elements in an optical communications network An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a method of detecting network elements in an optical communications network. The method includes an initiating network element generating a neighbor discovery message including a requested hierarchy level at which neighbor... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7016378 | Method and system for automatically provisioning an overhead byte An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a communications device for use in a communications network. The communications device includes a plurality of interface ports, each of the interface ports receiving a first signal in a first format. A processor is coupled... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7002977 | Policy based accounting and billing for network services A system and method are disclosed for policy based accounting and billing for network services. In one embodiment, a packet forwarding device receives a packet to be forwarded over the network, accesses a policy table to identify a billing party associated with the ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6879603 | Processor-based voice and data time slot interchange system A technique for performing a time slot interchange in a processor. The TSI process is surrounded by a multiplexing/demultiplexing circuit for converting a plurality of PCM highways into a single input serial data stream. The mux/demux circuit includes elastic stores... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6587441 | Method and apparatus for transportation of data over a managed wireless network using unique communication protocol A wireless, redundant, secure, real-time, network for a proprietary interactive data transfer system having a remote terminal and a host data center, such as an automated teller banking system, is disclosed. Controllers for the remote terminal and the hos... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6445678 | Method and apparatus for implementing leaf node proxy in a network A method and a system for implementing leaf node proxy in a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a leaf node is switched to a standby state in response to a standby command. A leaf node self-identification ("self-ID") packet is synthesized in respons... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6442160 | General switch and a switching method In a general switch, a word oriented switch and a bit oriented switch are connected such that a common input signal included data appearing in time slots is provided to both switches. The general switch further includes a device for establishing, for each... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6370112 | Seamless path switchover in a connection-oriented packet network In a connection-oriented packet switching network, different paths through the network from one point to another are likely to have different delay. The invention is a method and network architecture for rerouting data packets from one path to another pat... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6240063 | 3-staged time-division switch control system A T-S-T 3-staged structure switching network control system in a digital switching system which avoids an entire switching system malfunction even a failure occurred in a space switch module, and guarantees a connection within a time switch module is real... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6125123 | Signaling method, switching system, storage medium and network A signaling method for a communication uses a signaling protocol, and includes the steps of making a re-connect request with respect to a receiving side end system from a certain system which is coupled to the receiving side end system, in place of a tran... | 09/26/2000 |
| 5948063 | Control system for a telecommunications system The present invention provides a client station and method for controlling a telecommunications system, the telecommunications system including a central station and a server station. The server station is arranged to maintain an object model thereon repr... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5909437 | Software download for a subscriber terminal of a wireless telecommunications system Software is down-loaded from a central station of a wireless telecommunications system to a remote subscriber station for configuring the remote subscriber station to permit wireless connection of user telecommunications equipment at the remote subscriber... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5867571 | Method and arrangement for establishing call connections in a telecommunications network using a virtual transport server A telecommunications network comprises a virtual transport server (VTS) for making network routing decisions and establishing call connections. Each VTS is interconnected to each signal transfer point in a common channel signaling (CCS) system associated ... | 02/02/1999 |
