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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8077728 | Substitution call control system in a communication network A substitution call control system includes an ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) subscriber network of an ATM communication network. The ATM subscriber network includes a plurality of network terminators respectively connected with a plurality of subscriber terminals... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7688833 | Synchronous transmission network node In order to enable nodes with a single protocol switch core to be used in a synchronous transmission network carrying both SDH and SONET traffic then one option is to convert traffic between protocols at the various network nodes. For example, if the network node ha... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7680128 | Method and apparatus for interfacing applications to LCAS for efficient SONET traffic flow control The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for interfacing high-layer applications to Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) on Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) edge nodes. These applications include high-level contro... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7593411 | Bus interface for transfer of multiple SONET/SDH rates over a serial backplane A bus interface for transfer of SONET/SDH data that supports a plurality of SONET/SDH flows. The invention supports two line coding schemes: 8B/10B encoding of STS-12, and SONET scrambled coding for STS-12, STS-48, and STS-51. The invention additionally supports two... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7593410 | Substitution call control system in a communication network A substitution call control system includes an ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) subscriber network of an ATM communication network. The ATM subscriber network includes a plurality of network terminators respectively connected with a plurality of subscriber terminals... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7586921 | Method of transmitting synchronous transport modules via a synchronous transport network Network elements of a first synchronous transport network are to be connected to one another via a second synchronous transport network. For this purpose a frame (STM-4) to be transmitted, including the unchanged overhead sections (MS-OH, RS-OH, AU-PTR) there... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7515593 | Method and system for efficient flow control for client data frames over GFP across a SONET/SDH transport path A method and system for flow control of GFP-encapsulated client data frames over SONET/SDH transport networks is described. Transport interfaces, in the form of port cards, have FIFO buffers for receiving the GFP frames. In acknowledgment of the received frames, a t... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7508832 | Method and system for providing broadcast channels over an emulated subnetwork A method and system for communicating traffic on an emulated subnetwork of a telecommunications ring having a plurality of nodes interconnected by a transmission media includes obtaining traffic at a node on the telecommunications ring. The traffic is segmented into... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7447214 | Link capacity adjustment scheme A system and method provides the capability to provision and setup an end-to-end circuit that does not require the performance of extra, manual management link addition/removal procedures after all facilities and VT/STS cross connections have been provisioned. A met... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7408939 | Method and apparatus for transport of fractional datastreams over frame-based transport systems A method, system and transport unit to combine and transport multiple variable data rate LAN streams and fixed data rate voice streams through a plurality of transmission links used as a conduit for transmission of data between local area networks are disclosed. Com... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7391778 | Label switching router having internal channel share function over ATM, and method for sharing internal channel using the same A label switching router having an internal channel share function over an asynchronous transfer mode that sets up an internal channel in advance of the external channel and shares it when an external channel needs to be set up, and a method for sharing an internal ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7373401 | Label switched path OAM wrapper Methods and devices for logically segmenting an LSP so that OAM DTUs may be used to determine the performance and/or the status of LSP segments. To segment a previously determined LSP, a dedicated subpath (a logical LSP) within that predetermined LSP is defined betw... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370107 | Method for using the complete resource capacity of a synchronous digital hierarchy network, subject to a protection mechanism, in the presence of data (packet) network, and relating apparatus for the implementation of the method The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for using the complete resource capacity of a synchronous digital hierarchy infrastructure, with a protection system, in the presence of a data (packet) network, in which the complete SDH/SONET protection (sp... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369772 | Optical line terminal arrangement, apparatus and methods A wavelength division multiplexed optical communication system including a first optical line interface optically coupled to a first transponder and an optical demultiplexer through which the first optical line interface is not optically coupled to the first transpo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365772 | Communication method and monitoring camera system A monitoring camera system including a plurality of monitoring cameras, a plurality of monitors, a multiplexer for switching a connection between the monitoring camera and the monitor, and a plurality of controllers for remotely controlling the monitoring cameras th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362704 | Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating upstream bandwidth in passive optical networks One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates dynamic allocation of upstream bandwidth in a passive optical network which includes a central node and at least one remote node. Each remote node is coupled to at least one logical entity, w... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356035 | System and method for AAL5 enhanced encapsulation A system and method for AAL5 enhanced encapsulation is disclosed. The method, comprises receiving an AAL5 CPCS-SDU at a router; encapsulating the AAL5 CPCS-SDU into an AAL5 enhanced packet at the router; generating an MPLS packet from the AAL5 enhanced packet, where... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355978 | Method for implementing an OAM function by exchanging request-reply packets between stations of a RPR network, and corresponding packet frames Described is a method extending the OAM functionality in the RPR networks through a new OAM loopback procedure of request-reply type together with the definition of a new RPR OAM loopback frame. The OAM loopback function allows any RPR station to check the reachabil... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350050 | Disk controller with logically partitioning function To provide a storage system partitioned into logical partitions. A storage system includes: a plurality of disk drives; and a disk controller that is connected to the disk drives and reads/writes data from/into the disk drives, wherein the disk controller includes: ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349408 | Method and apparatus for handling out of inverse multiplexing for asynchronous transfer mode frame error conditions Methods and apparatus are disclosed for handling transient anomalies in a communications or computer device or system, such an inverse multiplexing for ATM (“IMA”) device. Such transient anomalies may include out of IMA frame (“OIF”) anomalies. In one implem... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349401 | Bonded G.shdsl links for ATM backhaul applications Systems and methods are described for deploying bonded G.shdsl links for ATM backhaul applications. A method includes transporting digital data including: coupling a first end of a plurality of unbundled network elements to a first modem; coupling a second end of th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339936 | Switching device for telecommunication networks A switching device for telecommunication networks, which comprises I/O ports, arranged by groups in I/O cards, for inputting incoming data streams and outputting outgoing data streams of arbitrary protocols, a switching fabric SF for handling internal data streams, ... | 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 |
| 7330424 | Node device in network, and network system The present invention provides a node device for connecting a plurality of networks. The node device comprises a plurality of input units for respectively inputting data from first transmission lines installed in each of the networks, a plurality of output units for... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327732 | Method and apparatus for combined framing and packet delineation Incoming bit stream is processed by a single state machine into a circular buffer. Circular buffer accumulates subunits of data to form a major data unit. State machine recognizes the start of major data unit and flags the location of the major data unit in the circ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324524 | Pseudo synchronous machine A method and apparatus is disclosed for interfacing an asynchronous network with a synchronous network and in particular for efficiently utilizing available bandwidth of a synchronous network transmit opportunity. In one embodiment asynchronous traffic arrives via a... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324539 | Method and apparatus for processing channelized and unchannelized data within a signal A method and apparatus for processing channelized and unchannelized data within a signal are described. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving in a network element, data packets within a number of channels, wherein each of the number of channels are channel... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320132 | Software methods of an optical networking apparatus with multiple multi-protocol optical networking modules An API is provided to an optical networking apparatus to facilitate uniform access, control or interaction with its multi-protocol optical networking modules (MPONM) by its applications. Each of the MPONM has a number of function blocks having corresponding service ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319701 | Modem relay protocol redundancy for reliable low speed modem communications over IP networks with substantial packet loss Minimized Wave-zone Buoyancy is a new approach to oil and gas platform design with superior construction and performance characteristics compared to state-of-art off-shore drilling and production platforms. Minimized Wave-zone Buoyancy platforms capitalize on low cr... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319700 | Communicating constraint information for determining a path subject to such constraints Path determination constraints may be encoded in the form of a program having one or more instructions. Each of instructions may include an operation code, and operands (or pointers to locations where operands are stored). In this way, an extensible, interoperable w... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317728 | System and method for increasing provisionable bandwidth in time-division multiplexed communication links A system for and method of, increasing provisionable bandwidth in a multiplexed communication link and a network management system incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a defragmentation calculator that calculates a defr... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315900 | Multi-link routing The invention is directed to techniques for supporting multi-link protocols within a computer network. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a set of data blocks from a plurality of links in one or more interface cards according to a multi-link protocol and... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313600 | Arrangement for emulating an unlimited number of IP devices without assignment of IP addresses A protocol emulator includes an executable emulation application configured for promiscuously detecting IP frames on a network interface. The executable emulation application generates response IP frames for each corresponding detected IP frame. The protocol emulato... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310310 | Multi-link SAR for bonding ATM cell-streams Systems and methods are described for bonding asynchronous transfer mode permanent virtual circuits using a multi-link segmentation and reassembly sublayer. A method includes: transforming a plurality of streams of asynchronous transfer mode cells into a stream of b... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304998 | Fixed length data processing apparatus A fixed length data processing apparatus has a registration holding unit holding registration information necessary to identify fixed length data that is an object of a processing commonly to transmission routes, and a data processing unit identifying whether receiv... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298744 | Method and apparatus for centralized processing of contiguously and virtually concatenated payloads A method and apparatus for processing at least two types of payloads received at varying intervals in a communications network using a single processing path is provided. The two types of payloads may include virtually and contiguously concatenated payloads accordin... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7293091 | Method and apparatus for disruption sensitive network data management Numerous embodiments of a method and/or apparatus for disruption sensitive network data management are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, a determination is made of the network resources available to a computing system for exchange of data complying with a par... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283518 | Combining narrowband applications with broadband transport The combination of narrowband applications with broadband transport may be enabled with a communications architecture, in which one or more Media Gateways (MGs) that include broadband switching fabric are controlled by a Media Gateway Controller (MGC) that includes ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266110 | Apparatus and method for hybrid telecommunications switching A hybrid telecommunications switch includes synchronous transfer mode (circuit), and packet switch fabrics. A controller within the hybrid switch determines the type of traffic that is to be switched in either switch fabric. Real time traffic, such as voice traffic,... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260099 | Processing of arbitrarily formatted client signals to achieve compatibility with existing transport networks A client signal received at an ingress interface is adapted to a higher-rate transport signal. Clock frequency acceleration is achieved by an M/N-multiplying PLL where the magnitude of M and N can be restricted without causing the rate of the resulting transport sig... | 08/21/2007 |
