Bizarre Patents
Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184641 | Method and system for providing secure communications between proxy servers in support of interdomain traversal An approach provides interdomain traversal to support packetized voice transmissions. A request is received and specifies a directory number for establishing a communication session from a first endpoint to a second endpoint. The first endpoint is behind a first net... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8125996 | Mechanism for enabling layer two host addresses to be shielded from the switches in a network Methods and systems for shielding layer two host addresses (e.g., MAC addresses) from a network are provided. According to one embodiment, a border component of a network of switches receives a first packet intended for a first host having a first L2 address and a f... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121130 | Determining an optimal route advertisement in a reactive routing environment In an example embodiment, a method is provided. In this method, a network address query is received. A first network address of a known apparatus is retrieved from a routing table, in response to the network address query. A second network address may be determined ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8077729 | MPOA system and its shortcut communication control method, and shortcut communication control program An MPOA system for establishing communication by using layer 3 protocol on an ATM network, in which data about the layer 3 address of a source of data packets is added to an address resolution request packet which is transmitted in order to establish a shortcut VCC ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059661 | Methods and apparatus for using DHCP for home address management of nodes attached to an edge device and for performing mobility and address management as a proxy home agent Methods and apparatus for supporting the management of mobility and addresses by a Customer Premises Edge (CPE) router in a Mobile IP environment are disclosed. When a network prefix is allocated by a DHCP router to the CPE router, the CPE router divides the network... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7953097 | Neighbour discovery protocol mediation The invention is directed to providing NDP mediation over an IP interworking VLL. ICMPv6 Neighbor Discovery and Inverse Neighbor Discovery messages are intercepted by provider edge (PE) devices to learn both IPv6 interface addresses and link-layer addresses of custo... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7948993 | Address resolution optimization procedure to effect a gradual cutover from a provider bridge network to a VPLS or provider backbone bridging network A method and apparatus that operates two bridging protocols in a hybrid bridging node is described. The operation of the two bridging protocols in the hybrid node allows for an incremental transition of a provider bridging network from operating a legacy bridging pr... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7924850 | System and method for managing and controlling communications performed by a computer terminal connected to a network The present invention provides a system which maintains a function of monitoring and controlling a network regardless of an increase of data to be downloaded by a computer whose access to the network is restricted. The system includes: a first interface for transmit... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920575 | Address acquisition In a GPRS system, a method of a mobile station acquiring an IP network address. The method comprises the steps of: the mobile station generating a link identifier and sending it to a gateway over a wireless link in a network address request together with a re... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912072 | Communication with a remote device The present invention relates to communications between computing devices. Particularly there is provided a method for enabling communication between a local device of a first network having a predetermined upper layer address space, and a remote device having an up... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7869439 | Varying packet switch behavior based on a quantity of virtual interfaces associated with a virtual switch Packet switch operating methods and packet switches compare a quantity of virtual interfaces associated with a virtual switch to a threshold. If the quantity of virtual interfaces is not greater than the threshold, and the packet switch is configured to learn forwar... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864780 | Apparatus and methods for handling name resolution over IPV6 using NAT-PT and DNS-ALG Methods and apparatus for processing a DNS query by a NAT device are disclosed. A NAT device (e.g., NAT-PT device) receives the DNS query from a node. The NAT device then sends two DNS queries to a DNS server. Specifically, each of the DNS queries requests an IP add... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864782 | Packet processing apparatus and method In a packet processing apparatus and method in an ethernet switching system, an introduced packet is discarded by switching to a dummy port instead of trapping the packet until a layer 3 table of an ethernet switch chip is updated, thereby operating an Address Resol... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864781 | Information processing apparatus, method and program utilizing a communication adapter One aspect of the embodiments utilizes an information processing apparatus connected to another information processing apparatus via a transmitting path. An embodiment includes a communication request generation unit generating a communication request to the other i... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860110 | Auto-addressing system and method A modular distributed I/O system that allows one or more modules of an island to be omitted without requiring reconfiguration of the system and a method for auto-addressing the system. The island includes a network interface module that is operably connected to a us... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7792124 | Data forwarding in a layer three satellite network Method and system for providing access layer satellite architecture in a data network including receiving a data packet from an access layer network device, the data packet including a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identifier associated with a port on the access... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7773605 | MPOA system and its shortcut communication control method, and shortcut communication control program An MPOA system for establishing communication by using layer 3 protocol on an ATM network, in which data about the layer 3 address of a source of data packets is added to an address resolution request packet which is transmitted in order to establish a shortcut VCC ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7756140 | Relay device, path control method, and path control program The relay device, comprising an address correspondence holding section which holds, for each of the terminals, the IP address and real MAC address of the terminal and a virtual MAC address being a MAC address that is virtual; a proxy reply section which, when a firs... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7746869 | Method and apparatus for network address translation based on pure hardware architecture The present invention provides a method and apparatus for network address translation (NAT) based on pure hardware architecture. The method includes that when receiving a packet, the first MAC circuit will translate the address of the packet directly and store the a... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7715409 | Method and system for data link layer address classification A method and system for data link layer address classification. Data link layer address information is received from a device over a local area network (LAN), wherein the LAN is partitioned into a plurality of domains. The data link layer address information is clas... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7701952 | Packet communication method and apparatus and a recording medium storing a packet communication program A packet communication method and a packet communication system capable of making an IPv4-compatible application operating on an information processing apparatus communicate with another information processing apparatus connected to an IPv6 network without using an ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7684412 | Device for communication and program used for such device There is provided a device connected to a network to which nodes are connected. The device is provided with a first storage unit in which information is registered, a request unit configured to transmit a request for device information concerning a name and an addre... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7633948 | Relay device and server, and port forward setting method The present invention has an object to provide a relay device capable of performing dynamic port forward setting to open a port even if performing a connection in two stages and being connected to a network and a port forward setting method, and relates to a router ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7620056 | Flexible scheduling of network devices within redundant aggregate configurations A protocol is provided for backing up ATM network devices should they fail. The protocol is implemented in a system running ATMARP and supporting IP over ATM. In the protocol, multiple ATM network devices are combined in a “standby group” and share a common IP a... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7567573 | Method for automatic traffic interception A technique for connecting New Network Devices (NNDs) to an existing communication network. The NND caches the MAC address of an Original (or “Old”) Network Device, then gratuitously transmits Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) responses on behalf of the OND, but... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561581 | Method of allocating IP address and detecting duplication of IP address in an ad-hoc network environment Disclosed herein is a method of allocating an Internet Protocol (IP) address and detecting the duplication of the IP address in an ad-hoc network environment. In the method of the present invention, a terminal allocates an IP address to itself and efficiently detect... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558274 | Interworking OAM between Ethernet and ATM/frame relay networks The present invention provides a network architecture that interworks OA&M (Operations, Administration and Maintenance) failure notification data from the ATM Domain to the Ethernet Domain and vice versa. Failure indications or notifications are typically routed fro... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7496101 | Network topology aware configuration of network addresses in wireless personal area networks In a method for configuring the network address for a node in a IP wireless network a network address is selected out of an available range of network addresses. At least one address resolution request (ARP) is sent over the network. A response to the ARP requests i... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492772 | Method and system for dynamically updating ARP cache tables in an ad hoc network A method and system for dynamically updating information registered in ARP cache tables of other terminals in a case where a protocol address of a terminal existing in an ad hoc network changes. The method includes detecting whether protocol addresses of terminals a... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7447215 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for classifying a packet based on a destination address A packet is classified by associating a network layer address with a service, obtaining the data link layer address for that network layer address, and associating a packet with that service if the data link layer destination address associated with the packet match... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443862 | Apparatus connected to network, and address determination program and method A network-capable device stores an address of another device. The network-capable device determines whether or not a connected network has been changed. If it has not been changed, then an address other than the address of the other device stored is determined as an... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436783 | Method and apparatus for detecting a router that improperly responds to ARP requests One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects a non-compliant router that incorrectly responds to all address-resolution-protocol (ARP) requests, including ARP requests for link-local IP addresses. This is accomplished by sending an ARP requ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433356 | Methods and apparatus for creating addresses In a first aspect, a first method is provided for creating a media access control (MAC) address for a device. The first method includes the steps of (1) obtaining one or more identifiers; (2) obtaining a first MAC address; and (3) creating at least a second MAC addr... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428233 | IP voice call surveillance through use of non-dedicated IP phone with signal alert provided to indicate content of incoming call prior to an answer as being a monitored call Surveillance of IP telephony may be performed through the use of conventional telephone equipment, according to principles of the invention while preventing giving indication to the monitored phone by alerting the user of the monitoring phone to such surveillance us... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7415028 | Method and system for optimizing routing table changes due to ARP cache invalidation in routers with split plane architecture A method for optimizing routing functions in a router is provided. The router has a split plane architecture including a control plane and a data plane. The control plane includes an Address Resolution Protocol cache and the data plane includes a programmable forwar... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406085 | Auto configuration for asynchronous transfer mode based access device A method for obtaining virtual path identifier, virtual channel identifier, and encapsulation values in an asynchronous transfer mode access device for a network using either non-static or static internet protocol address assignments and asynchronous transfer mode a... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400897 | Implementing a web server on a mobile station A system and method are provided for implementing a web server on a mobile station. A first mobile station may include a database of information. A network address for the first mobile station may be transmitted to a second mobile station to enable the second mobile... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7385989 | Packet communication method and apparatus and a recording medium storing a packet communication program A packet communication method and a packet communication system capable of making an IPv4-compatible application operating on an information processing apparatus communicate with another information processing apparatus connected to an IPv6 network without using an ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385935 | IP address parameter setting method of remote network apparatus The present invention is to provide an IP address parameter setting method to prevent from setting incorrect parameter and interrupting the operation of a remote network apparatus when setting up the IP address parameter of the remote network apparatus again, which ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7366894 | Method and apparatus for dynamically securing voice and other delay-sensitive network traffic A request is received for secure network traffic from a device having a private network address at a source node. The private network address of a requested destination device is obtained at a destination node from a route server based on signaling information assoc... | 04/29/2008 |
