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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175095 | Systems and methods for sending data packets between multiple FPGA devices Application Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”) devices, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (“FPGAs”), may be interconnected using serial I/O connections, such as high speed multi-gigabit serial transceiver (“MGT”) connections. For example, serial I... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8098661 | Methods and apparatus for enabling communication between network elements that operate at different bit rates A method for enabling network elements (NEs) operating at a bit rate R1 to communicate with NEs operating at a bit rate R2 is described. A ratio of R2 to R1 is represented by a ratio M:N, M and N are positive integers, and... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8059648 | System and method for isolating network clients A network device includes at least one first network port, at least one second network port, a MUX unit and a switching unit. The MUX unit is connected to the at least one first network port. The MUX unit includes a trunk circuit and an output. The trunk circuit is ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7965712 | Methods and apparatus for enabling communication between network elements that operate at different bit rates A method for enabling network elements (NEs) operating at a bit rate R1 to communicate with NEs operating at a bit rate R2 is described. A ratio of R2 to R1 is represented by a ratio M:N, M and N are positive integers, and... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7782852 | Multiple modulation rate 10Gbase-T transmission A device and method of high-speed transmission is disclosed. The method includes computing a signal quality of a received signal, the received signal being transmitted with a modulation order required by a default transmission modulation format. The signal quality i... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7720068 | Method and system for a multi-rate gigabit media independent interface Disclosed is a UGMII system to interface multirate devices including 10 gigabit per second data exchange rates. Mode selection is enabled to provide for automatic detection and adaptation to any transmit rate including 10M, 100M, 1G, and 10G. Mode selection comprise... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7684399 | Optical transmission network with asynchronous mapping and demapping and digital wrapper frame for the same An optical transmission network is inherently asynchronous due to the utilization of a variable overhead ratio (V-OHR). The network architecture makes extensive use of OEO regeneration, i.e., deals with any electronic reconditioning to correct for transmission impai... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7660304 | Point-to multipoint network interface A point-to-multipoint network interface is provided that is simpler and less costly to implement than conventional Ethernet switches. The interface includes a plurality of downstream transmitters for transmitting data packets to a plurality of end user devices, a pl... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7489685 | Digital broadcast receiving apparatus Based on PIDs registered in a necessary-PID table, a second TS-packet extracting section extracts necessary packets from a second TS. Based on packets registered in the table, a detecting section detects unnecessary-packet areas in a first TS. A TS-packet overwritin... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489686 | Optical network unit for an access network employing IEEE 1394 Disclosed is an optical network unit of an access network for converging broadcast/telecommunication by employing IEEE 1394. The optical network unit processes the broadcast data and the communication data delivered from the optical line terminal according to each c... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7483425 | Method for reducing the amount of needed memory in a TDM switch system The present invention discloses an arrangement providing a better utilization of the bus buffer memory in a data node, e.g. a switch. By using one scheduler on both sides of the switch and one timer for each output and input lines in an inventive way for transferrin... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7444405 | Method and apparatus for implementing a MAC address pool for assignment to a virtual interface aggregate A method to implement an address pool is described. The method collects at least one address, the at least one address originally assigned as a unique address to at least one physical interface of a computer. Each originally assigned address is modified to be a plur... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440405 | Apparatus and method for packet forwarding with quality of service and rate control A system and method for forwarding data packets with quality of service and rate control. A plurality of data packets are received from a plurality of sources. The header information of each data packet is extracted and compared against a plurality of tables, and th... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7406036 | Radio communication apparatus, base station apparatus, communication terminal apparatus and transmission rate predicting method A radio communication apparatus, base station apparatus and communication terminal apparatus capable of predicting an accurate transmission rate before starting data communications to know download time and the like. In the apparatus, a packet CH demodulation sectio... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406077 | Generalized rate control for a wireless communications network An apparatus and method provide MAC logic enabling the use of two or more reverse link rate controls at the same time in one or more sectors of a radio base station. That enables the base station to control reverse link loading via reverse link rate control, while a... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7397792 | Virtual burst-switching networks A time-shared network comprising edge nodes and optical core nodes may be dynamically divided into several embedded networks, each of which covering selected edge nodes. At least one of the edge nodes may host an embedded-network controller operable to form multiple... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7369497 | Data communication speed control system, transmitter apparatus and receiver apparatus This invention aims to make it possible to realize data communication having excellent communication throughput and good quality even if the communication state fluctuates. According to the present invention, by sequentially adjusting the transmission speed of data ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366133 | Integrated, self-optimizing, multi-parameter/multi-variable point-to-multipoint communication system [II] A method and system for adaptive point to multipoint wireless communication. The method and system integrate adaptive and dynamic responsiveness for communication parameters related to multiple characteristics of wireless communication links, both for a single sende... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7352746 | Frame forwarding installation A frame forwarding installation on the side of a transmitting terminal refers to a header of a received frame and determines whether a host application is a real-time application. If the application is a real-time application, the received frame is sent to a plurali... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352765 | Packet switching fabric having a segmented ring with token based resource control protocol and output queuing control A packet switching fabric includes means forming a data ring, means forming a control ring, and means forming a plurality of data communication network links each having at least one network node coupled thereto. The fabric further includes a plurality of output que... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353004 | Multi-channel broadband content distribution system The system of a content head end of a distribution system includes a program multiplexer, a multi-channel modulating module, a channel multiplexer, a digital-to-analog converter and a frequency block-up converter, all arranged in a sequential configuration. Packets ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352697 | Network processing using fractional time stamp values Fractional or fuzzy time stamp values are used during processing network traffic. Handling fractional time stamp values permits scaling down of time stamp values, so that fewer bits, and memory, are needed to store each fractional time stamp value. According to a sp... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342929 | Weighted fair queuing-based methods and apparatus for protecting against overload conditions on nodes of a distributed network An improved network device that controls throughput of packets received thereby, e.g., to downstream devices or to downstream logic contained within the same network device. The network device comprises a scheduler that schedules one or more packets of a selected cl... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340269 | Uplink transmission power control method Disclosed is an uplink transmission power control method, by which a transmission power of an uplink signal is efficiently controlled while a terminal communicates with a plurality of base stations. The present invention includes the steps of computing command value... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336666 | Data transport for bit-interleaved streams supporting lane identification with invalid streams A method for generating a channel stream. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) transforming a plurality of data streams, wherein every data stream entering the channel stream experiences a unique transformation and (B) serializing the data streams as tran... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336709 | Method and apparatus for multi-rate encoding of video sequences A method and apparatus for multi-rate encoding of video sequences. The input data stream is received at a first bit rate. A domain transformation is performed on the input data and the transformed data is encoded into a series of output data streams each with a diff... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333450 | Power control of network part transmitter in radio system The invention relates to power control of a network part transmitter in a radio system. The method comprises: establishing a radio connection from the network part transmitter to a user equipment; sending a signal on the radio connection from the network part transm... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327403 | VSB reception system with enhanced signal detection for processing supplemental data A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319495 | VSB reception system with enhanced signal detection for processing supplemental data A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317933 | Method for measuring the time of arrival of a radio signal, receiver and system to carry out the method The method measures the time of arrival at a radiocommunication receiver of a received radio signal originating from a transmitting station. A received signal component is stored in a memory of the receiver. An estimation of the information bits carried by the signa... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317492 | VSB reception system with enhanced signal detection for processing supplemental data A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317684 | Method and apparatus for optimizing elastic flows in a multi-path network for a traffic demand The present invention provides a method for optimizing elastic flows in a multi-path network for a traffic demand by jointly determining a bandwidth for each flow in a set of flows that realize the traffic demand and an optimized path for the traffic demand by maxim... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317491 | VSB reception system with enhanced signal detection for processing supplemental data A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315901 | Method and system for network processor scheduling outputs using disconnect/reconnect flow queues A system and method of moving information units from a network processor toward a data transmission network in a prioritized sequence which accommodates several different levels of service. The present invention includes a method and system for scheduling the egress... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313815 | Protecting against spoofed DNS messages A method for authenticating communication traffic includes receiving a first request, such as a DNS request, sent over a network from a source address, to provide network information regarding a given domain name. A response is sent to the source address in reply to... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301941 | Multistage digital cross connect with synchronized configuration switching A digital cross connect comprises plural switching stages. Each stage has plural switches which receive plural frames of time multiplexed input data and which switch the data in time and space. Configurations of the switches change in frame synchronization at the st... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301971 | Method and apparatus for continuous synchronization of a plurality of asynchronous data sources An apparatus and method for continuous synchronization of a pair of independently clocked asynchronous data streams (100, 101) consisting of raster data from independent imaging acquisition systems comprises a means for acquiring individual rasters from a fir... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301956 | System and method for storing and retrieving multi-speed data streams within a network switch A system and method for retrieving multi-speed data streams is described. The data streams are stored within a central memory containing a plurality of memory modules. A first embodiment provides for creating multiple timeslots and segments for accessing a memory mo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295552 | Cluster switching architecture A network switch including at least one data port interface supporting a plurality of data ports, at least one stack link interface configured to transmit data between the network switch and other network switches, and a CPU interface configured to communicate with ... | 11/13/2007 |
