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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189599 | Omni-protocol engine for reconfigurable bit-stream processing in high-speed networks A reconfigurable, protocol indifferent bit stream-processing engine, and related systems and data communication methodologies, are adapted to achieve the goal of providing inter-fabric interoperability among high-speed networks operating a speeds of at least 10 giga... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8165133 | Physical layer device with integrated switch Switching between communication ports of a notebook is typically accomplished using an off-chip local area network (LAN) switch or an off-chip high speed analog multiplexer. This off-chip component is disadvantageous for several reasons, including: added cost of an ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165134 | Monitoring control system, monitoring device, monitoring control method, and monitoring control program A monitoring control system including a monitoring device to monitor communication data communicated between communication terminals via a communication infrastructure. The monitoring device includes an address conversion table for storing a transmission source addr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160076 | Auto-discovery of multicast virtual private networks Principles of the invention are described for providing multicast virtual private networks (MVPNs) across a public network that are capable of carrying high-bandwidth multicast traffic with increased scalability. In particular, the MVPNs may transport layer three (L... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149847 | Initializing, provisioning, and managing devices A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes sending a customized configuration file to the cable modem. The configuration file contains service provisioning information and further includes info... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139587 | Method and apparatus for routing packets Packets may be routed in a heterogeneous communications network as follows: for a set of packets comprising at least one packet to be transmitted from a sending node, said sending node being able to handle communication according to at least two access technologies,... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8116319 | Method for supporting coexistence considering while subchannel allocation in a broadband wireless access system A method for supporting coexistence in a mobile station for supporting a coexistence mode of WiMAX and secondary wireless communication system while considering subchannel allocation, the method comprises, requesting a band adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) for a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8068499 | Optimized tunneling methods in a network A method for minimizing tunnels in a network, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium having computer readable code stored thereon for programming a computer to perform the method. The method includes the steps of: obtaining state information associated with ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059660 | Communications routing systems and methods Systems and methods for switching communications across different data link layer protocols are provided. A switch which supports a first data link layer protocol can support differentiated services for a second data link layer protocol without performing routing in... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054839 | Apparatus and method of processing stateful address auto-configuration protocol in IPv6 network Apparatus and method for processing a stateful address auto-configuration protocol in an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) network are provided. The method includes multicasting, at an IPv6 network, a Router Solicitation (RS) message, acquiring and managing flag va... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054838 | Method and apparatus of transmitting data via a multi-protocol single-medium network The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus of transmitting data via a multi-protocol single-medium network. The method includes initializing a network; transmitting messages in the network; setting up the size and the protocol of the messages and ass... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050279 | Method for accessing integrated services by an access network The present invention relates to a method for accessing integrated services by an access network, including: establishing at least one Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switch Path (LSP) in a broadband access network; MPLS encapsulating at a broadband acce... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045564 | Protocol-level filtering Mechanisms are disclosed for detecting protocols independently of the ports used by streams associated with the protocols or applications that may send out such streams. The detecting may entail using a content filter that is hosted on a networking stack, where the ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040899 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing automatic protection switching for media packets transmitted over an ethernet switching fabric Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing automatic protection switching for media packets, such as ATM cells or IP packets that carry media content, in a device that includes an Ethernet switching fabric are disclosed. According to one method... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8018949 | Apparatus and method for providing a network termination point Apparatus and method for providing a termination point for service emulation instances in an access network is provided. In an embodiment, the service emulation instances are implemented utilizing, for example, pseudowires. Communications to and from the access netw... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005093 | Providing connection between networks using different protocols A network entity located in a first network using a first protocol, the network entity supporting at least the first protocol of the first network and a second protocol of a second network. The network entity comprises a receiving unit for receiving data packets acc... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005094 | Method and apparatus for circuit emulation services over cell and packet networks Methods and apparatus are provided for circuit emulation services over cell and packet networks. A constant bit rate traffic stream is mapped to one of a cell and packet structure. The constant bit rate traffic stream is mapped to one or more cells and the one or mo... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995586 | Multi-protocol label switching in a network device A network device for processing data packets includes input logic, a register, route lookup logic and output processing logic. The input logic receives a data packet having at least one multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) tag, stores the packet and forwards a port... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983274 | Performance monitoring of pseudowire emulation A system may forward to a network device an advertisement label mapping message that requests an establishment of an active performance monitoring (APM) control channel. Further, the system may process a reply label mapping message that is sent from the network devi... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978712 | Method and apparatus for transporting client signal in optical transport network A method for transporting a client signal in an optical transport network (OTN) includes steps as follows. A byte number Cn of a client signal transported in a current OTN frame period is generated according to a client signal clock and a system clock. If the Cn of ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969989 | High performance ethernet networking utilizing existing fibre channel arbitrated loop HBA technology Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a device which may be used for communication through an Ethernet network. The device may comprise two modules. A first module may be based on an existing Fibre Channel arbitrated loop HBA technology. The second mo... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957399 | Array-based routing of data packets A method of load balancing data packets at an array is disclosed. The method includes receiving a data packet encoded in a first format at an input of the array. The received data packet is assigned to an assigned element of the array, and the data packet is routed ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7944928 | Method and apparatus for transporting local area network signals in optical transport network The method for transporting LAN signal in an OTN is provided by embodiments of the present invention includes mapping a LAN signal into an adaptation protocol frame; mapping the adaptation protocol frame into a virtual concatenation group comprising at least one 1 G... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7936766 | System and method for separating logical networks on a dual protocol stack An operating system, comprising a first component including a first protocol stack configured to process data packets of a first type, wherein the first component is initialized independently of other components in the operating system, a second component including ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7929548 | Weighted fair queue serving plural output ports A data communication apparatus includes a plurality of output ports and a scheduler for assigning priorities for outbound data frames. The scheduler includes one or more scheduling queues. Each scheduling queue indicates an order in which data flows are to be servic... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7916736 | System and method for translucent bridging A network bridge (160) is provided, comprising: a local interface (320) configured to transmit and receive local signals in a local network (305); a bridging interface (325) configured to transmit and receive bridging signals in a bridgin... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907619 | Method, system and program product for adapting to protocol changes A method, system and program product for overriding existing functionality provided in an application programming interface (API) for a local protocol implementation is provided. The method includes providing an API for a local protocol implementation having a raw i... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907618 | Telecommunications system According to the present invention there is provided a telecommunications system for providing a facility for communicating internet packet data in accordance with a first internet protocol (IPV6). The system comprises a user equipment, the user equipment including ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903668 | STS frame-ATM cell circuit emulation apparatus and frame length compensation method for the same A circuit simulation apparatus is disclosed by which, even if an STS-N frame of an abnormal length is detected by a reassembly buffer, the frame length can be compensated for while preventing an overflow of the reassembly buffer. When an STS-(N×M) frame formed by m... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899061 | Access device and service transmission method An access device includes a Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) connection management functional module for establishing a label connection and using the label connection for service transmission. The present invention also discloses a service transmission method,... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899062 | Layer 2/layer 3 interworking via internal virtual UNI A multi service platform having multiple layer switching includes a layer two switching component disposed within an enclosure of the multi service platform. A layer three switching component is disposed within and integrated together with the layer two switching co... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899063 | System and method for providing services through an integrated digital network A system and methods for providing services through an integrated digital network. The present invention embodies a system and methods for providing telecommunications services through an integrated digital network that provides the superset of all previous network ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894452 | Method and apparatus for the creation of TCP segments by simultaneous use of computing device components A method and apparatus for segmenting data into TCP data segments using a first network communication component, and transmitting TCP data segments over a second network using a second network communication component. TCP data segments may be created by a first netw... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7869438 | Pre-authentication across an 802.11 layer-3 IP network A method for pre-authentication in a wireless network is disclosed. The method begins by receiving, from a mobile client device, an Ethernet pre-authentication frame having an Ethernet address corresponding to a destination infrastructure device in the wireless netw... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860108 | Methods and devices for transferring and for recovering data packets There is disclosed a method of transferring input data packets from an upper layer to a lower layer of a stack of communication protocol layers, wherein the lower layer supports variable sized packets. One input data packet is received from the upper layer. This inp... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860109 | Host device interfacing with a point of deployment (POD) and a method of processing broadcast data A host device interfacing with a point of deployment (POD) and a method of processing a broadcasting data are disclosed. A broadband interface unit received a MPEG transport packet through a cable. A demodulator demodulates the received MPEG transport packet. An IP ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852856 | System and method for providing pooling or dynamic allocation of connection context data A method and system for providing pooling or dynamic allocation of connection context data may comprise receiving data associated with a first network protocol and receiving data associated with a second network protocol. A single shared context memory may be utiliz... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848332 | Method and apparatus for classifying a network protocol and aligning a network protocol header relative to cache line boundary Techniques for routing a payload of a first network protocol, which includes header information for a second network protocol, include communicating a packet. In a circuit block, a first type for the first network protocol and a second type for the second network pr... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7843944 | System and method to provide multiple private networks using MPLS A system and method are supplied to provide multiple private networks. The system can include an Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) interface configured to receive a plurality of data stream types from a packet switched network. A plurality of local area network ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7826459 | Coexistence of different network technologies In at least some embodiments, a communication device includes a plurality of network technology subsystems, each subsystem associated with a different network technology. The communication device also includes a controller coupled to the plurality of network technol... | 11/02/2010 |
