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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8130764 | Dynamic binding of network services A method and apparatus that dynamically binds one or more network interfaces of a plurality of virtual network machines is described. The apparatus instantiates the plurality of virtual network machines, where the plurality of virtual network machines are virtually ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8085790 | Ethernet layer 2 protocol packet switching In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an access node, and the access node includes ports. The access node is operable to perform downlink switching based upon a unique Provider Virtual Local Area Network tag (S-TAG) and a unique IEEE 802.1Q tag header (C-TAG) tha... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077730 | Method and apparatus for providing virtual ports with attached virtual devices in a storage area network Systems particularly a virtualization switch or a storage device, which include virtual ports connected to virtual devices with virtual worldwide names and virtual LUNs. Because Fibre Channel environment hosts can track worldwide names from one port to another and a... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7894454 | Special termination mobile announcement, for wireless VoIP customized ring back tone service In a communications network that provides customized ring back tone (CRBT) service to voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone calls, an announcement is played to a called party having CRBT service with VoIP telephony, after the called party answers a ringing s... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7813353 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing quality of service in a passive optical network Quality of Service (QoS) can be managed in a network that uses time division access, such as a Passive Optical Network (PON), by supporting provisioning of at least two scheduling precedence levels in the PON, none of the at least two precedence levels being associa... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7643495 | PCI express switch with encryption and queues for performance enhancement A switching interface comprising a switch having an input and a plurality of outputs, and a memory associated with the switch. The switch is adapted to receive a packet from the input, the packet to be forwarded to a destination device coupled to a one of the plural... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7606239 | Method and apparatus for providing virtual ports with attached virtual devices in a storage area network Systems particularly a virtualization switch or a storage device, which include virtual ports connected to virtual devices with virtual worldwide names and virtual LUNs. Because Fibre Channel environment hosts can track worldwide names from one port to another and a... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7561583 | Method of realizing communicating between modules of system devices The invention discloses a communication method for modules within device. The method sets a centralized exchanging and controlling unit in the device, and every module is connected with the centralized exchanging and controlling unit through its own communication co... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7522612 | Telecommunication network using the W-CDMA protocol with AAL-2 based termination points A telecommunication network using the W-CDMA protocol comprising a variety of base stations (BS) communicating with a central Radio Network Controller (RNC) by an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) based data connection via an IUB interface, whereby at least one of th... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7480304 | Predictive congestion management in a data communications switch using traffic and system statistics An apparatus and method for performing congestion management in a switch or router is disclosed. The apparatus acquires and or generates performance metrics for a plurality of switching module coupled via a switching fabric, generates a performance index based on th... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7440413 | Asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL) resource planning A system and methods to optimize the resource planning of ADSL services is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a network management system (NMS) communicates with an ADSL network to provision resources for participating users. The provisioning process yield... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7424025 | Methods and systems for per-session dynamic management of media gateway resources Methods and systems for per-session dynamic management of media gateway resources are disclosed. According to one method, the logical and physical resources in a media gateway are divided and dynamically managed at the Transport Layer (i.e. OBI Layer 4), whic... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415006 | Method and system for transporting data packets of a data stream For transporting data packets of a data stream between a packet-oriented network (LAN) and a channel-oriented data stream processing module (VMOD), a data stream controller (ST) is provided which, via a data channel allocation module (VMUX), accesses an interface mo... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411963 | Method for dissemination of non-routing information using the IS-IS protocol A method and apparatus for the dissemination of non-routing information to nodes of a network is provided. A new type of IS-IS packet (called a NRI IS-IS packet) is described that exclusively carries non-routing information. When the NRI IS-IS packet is received by ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408936 | Scalable VLAN grouping in a provider Metro Ethernet A method of routing packets in network system where the network system comprises a plurality of edge nodes and a plurality of core nodes. Selected core nodes are coupled to communicate with selected edge nodes. The network system also comprises a plurality of extern... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403484 | Switching fabrics and control protocols for them A network unit for use in a switching fabric stores for each network unit in the switching fabric a respective change identification number. In each unit this number is incremented on each change of state. The unit broadcasts protocol packets which indicates increme... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397806 | Method for integration of a packet-oriented network into a communication system A method for Integration of a packet-oriented network in a communication system has at least one central communication device embodied with an application interface for exchange of communication data with a computer system, with a number of communication control pro... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7376224 | Pay-per-use communication node capabilities A system and method are provided for enabling additional capacity or features on telecommunication nodes without requiring replacement of hardware. Service providers purchase hardware which is fully capable of providing a full suite of features and providing a large... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373407 | Communications system for establishing PPP connections between IEEE 1394 terminals and IP networks A packet repeater is connected between an IEEE-1394 host terminal and a PPP server. The host terminal transmits a PPP packet containing the physical address of an IEEE-1394 device. During a discovery stage of a PPP connection, the packet repeater receives a PPP pack... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373412 | Apparatus for selecting and sorting packets from a packet data transmission network The invention relates to the selection and sorting, by a device having access to one or more packet transmission networks, of the packets relating to it, from among the entirety of the packets made available by the networks, given that the packets respect at least t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372864 | Reassembly of data fragments in fixed size buffers A reassembly and/or a segmentation function is spread across (i.e. partially performed in) each of two (or more) network processors, with use of buffers in a storage device to temporarily buffer data that is received in one or more ingress data units. In using the b... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369574 | Multi-service segmentation and reassembly device that is operable in an ingress mode or in an egress mode A multi-service segmentation and reassembly (MS-SAR) integrated circuit is disposed on a line card in a router or switch. The MS-SAR can operate in an ingress mode so that it receives packet and/or cell format data and forwards that data to either a packet-based or ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370116 | Approach to minimize worst-case queuing delay for a switching communication system with transmission constraints An approach for minimizing queuing delay of packets is disclosed. M number of queues are configured to store packets. A memory stores a search order table that has table entries corresponding to the M queues. Specifically, the table entries store values that corresp... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366817 | Frame order processing apparatus, systems, and methods Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may bridge between a link layer and a transport layer in a multi-lane serial-attached small computer system interface (SCSI)-serial SCSI protocol (SAS-SSP) device. A lane number first-in first-out buffer (FIFO)... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366132 | Loss tolerant transmission control protocol Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting or receiving data packets in a data block in a communication network with a transport protocol. In one example, a loss tolerant TCP protocol is used in which a maximum segment size (MSS) may be adapted to a minim... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362763 | Apparatus and method for classifying traffic in a distributed architecture router A router for interconnecting N interfacing peripheral devices. The router comprises a switch fabric and routing nodes coupled to the switch fabric. Each routing node comprises: i) a plurality of physical medium device (PMD) modules for transmitting data packets to a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349411 | Economically expansible switching network A telecommunications switching node comprising a plurality of input and output (I/O) ports configured to receive and transmit telecommunications signals, a switching core comprising a plurality of switching networks and a backplane connecting each of the plurality o... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342942 | Multi-service segmentation and reassembly device that maintains only one reassembly context per active output port A multi-service segmentation and reassembly (MS-SAR) integrated circuit is disposed on a line card in a router or switch. The MS-SAR can operate in an ingress mode so that it receives packet and/or cell format data and forwards that data to either a packet-based or ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342922 | Multi-stage switching for networks Techniques for multi-stage switching in network elements are provided. The switching fabric can include three stages and as connections are being made through the stages, the connections are selected to minimize the difference in the number of signals between differ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339913 | Method and system of network management and service provisioning for broadband wireless networks A method and system for network management and service provisioning for broadband wireless networks. The method and system employ a network management system (NMS) to manage nodes corresponding to base stations (BS) and subscriber stations (SS). A service flow datab... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340167 | Fibre channel transparent switch for mixed switch fabrics A method and a Fibre Channel switch element are provided that allows communication between a host system and a target device attached to a proprietary switch fabric in a network. The Fibre Channel switch element includes a first port that communicates with the targe... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336650 | Arrangement for the provision of messages and dialogues in packet networks The invention relates to an exchange for a telecommunication network, with a message/dialogue device, whereby said message/dialogue device, comprises one interface each for a packet-oriented data transmission network and a line-oriented data transmission network and... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336674 | Bit clearing mechanism for an empty list A method and apparatus for managing packet memory is provided. The apparatus includes an empty list, a storage buffer and apparatus for updating the storage buffer and empty list. The empty list includes a multiplicity of single bit buffers. The storage buffer inclu... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333502 | Services processor having a queue operations unit and an output scheduler In a services processor, a queue operations unit controls the output of processed data packets from the services processor. In accordance with a hybrid list/calendar queue priority scheme, the queue operations unit uses a unique data structure comprising a tree of c... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328349 | Hash-based systems and methods for detecting, preventing, and tracing network worms and viruses A system (126-129) detects transmission of potentially malicious packets. The system (126-129) receives packets and generates hash values corresponding to each of the packets. The system (126-129) may then compare the genera... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327758 | Method of generating, transmitting, receiving and recovering synchronous frames with non-standard speeds To better utilize the variable bandwidth of wireless links, a network node in accordance with the present invention escapes rigid bandwidth hierarchy of conventional TDM protocols, which is not suited for fully using the available bandwidth of a wireless link. Speci... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327760 | Multi-service segmentation and reassembly device operable with either a cell-based or a packet-based switch fabric A multi-service segmentation and reassembly (MS-SAR) integrated circuit is disposed on a line card in a router or switch. The MS-SAR can operate in an ingress mode so that it receives packet and/or cell format data and forwards that data to either a packet-based or ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327747 | System and method for communicating data using a common switch fabric A communication system includes a first ingress content processor that receives information associated with a first traffic type. The first ingress content processor places the information associated with the first traffic type into a system cell having a common sys... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324536 | Queue scheduling with priority and weight sharing A Balanced Packet Transmit Opportunity (BPTO) mechanism allows balanced bandwidth traffic to be serviced while still maintaining the service levels desired for high priority traffic. The above embodiment achieved the result by distinguishing both queue types and slo... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324537 | Switching device with asymmetric port speeds In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a switching device that includes a plurality of ports. The ports operate at asymmetric speeds. The apparatus also includes a switching matrix to provide selective connectivity between the ports. The apparatus furth... | 01/29/2008 |
