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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189602 | Audio network system A plurality of partial networks can work independently from each other, and each partial network connects together several nodes including a connection node for transmission of audio signals. A connection network connects respective connection nodes of the respectiv... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184643 | Device, system, and method for transporting data using combined broadband and legacy network infrastructures The invention relates generally to data communications using multiple data networks to transport data to one or more end user devices. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179903 | Providing multiple levels of service for wireless communication devices communicating with a small coverage access point Local breakout is provided by one or more nodes (e.g., a local access point and/or a local gateway) in a wireless network to facilitate access to one or more local services. In conjunction with local breakout, multiple IP points of presence relating to different lev... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8165135 | Methods, computer networks, and computer program products that facilitate providing broadband services wirelessly to third party users via a mesh network of customer premise equipment Methods, computer networks, and computer program products that facilitate providing broadband service wirelessly to third party users via a mesh network of customer premise equipment are provided. A mesh network of customer premise equipment is connected to the cent... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160077 | Peer-to-peer communication pipes A system and method for establishing communications channels between and among peers in a peer-to-peer networking environment. Pipes may be used as communication channels for sending and receiving messages and other data between services or applications over input a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160078 | Inter-local peer group (LPG) routing method An on-demand method of routing data between a plurality of local peer groups (LPG). Each LPG includes a plurality of moving nodes. The method comprises transmitting a route request message from a source node, relaying the route request message to a native boundary n... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155127 | Autonomous dynamic spectrum access Communicating between a plurality of nodes includes: at one or more of the plurality of nodes, sensing spectrum activity on at least one channel; creating and maintaining at least one spectrum awareness table based at least in part on the sensed spectrum activity, d... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155128 | Method and apparatus for establishing and managing diameter associations The invention includes a method and apparatus for establishing DIAMETER associations between nodes of a network. The invention uses a DIAMETER application server disposed between DIAMETER nodes in order to establish DIAMETER associations between nodes and, further, ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8139588 | Method and apparatus to establish routes based on the trust scores of routers within an IP routing domain A router includes a management module and a routing module. The routing module can be used to route data around a network. The management module can be used to manage the operation of the routing module, including generating an integrity report for the router, which... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135021 | Routing in wireless ad-hoc networks A method of transmitting data in a communication system from a first node to destination node comprising transmitting the data from the first node to an intermediate node; determining if the intermediate node communicated with the destination node more recently than... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130765 | Method for processing data packets while communicating with a machine via one or more secondary networks An apparatus and associated methodology for processing at least one data packet received by a receiving entity from a machine after transmission via at least one data transmission network. Identification data is obtained of a device involved in the transmission of s... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121132 | Local area network for distributing data communication, sensing and control signals A network for carrying out control, sensing and data communications, comprising a plurality of nodes. Each node may be connected to a payload, which comprises sensors, actuators and DTE's. The network is formed using a plurality of independent communication links, e... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116323 | Methods for providing peer negotiation in a distributed virtual environment and related systems and computer program products Methods are provided that include recursively negotiating a boundary between a first virtual space controlled by a first peer and a second virtual space controlled by a second peer in a distributed virtual environment responsive to profile data of the first peer and... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116324 | Network resource allocation system and method of the same A network resource allocation system and method of the same are provided according to the present invention. The system and method are applicable to a wireless mesh network, the method including: programming traffic of connections between routers; exchanging data be... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111702 | Configuring route properties for use in transport tree building A mechanism is provided by which a transport tree identifier can be generated comprising both an opaque field, containing information that cannot be interpreted by core routers, and a non-opaque field, containing information that can be interpreted by core routers. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107483 | IPv4-to-IPv6 address transitioning methods and apparatus for systems that push information to wireless communication devices A front end of an IPv6 communication network includes a network entry point device and a plurality of tunnel servers which facilitate the communication of user information between a host computer of an IPv4 communication network and an IPv6 wireless communication de... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102861 | Data and voice messaging system A data messaging system includes a first Internet Protocol (IP) switch that includes a processor. The data messaging system also includes a first gateserver coupled to the first IP switch and coupled to a second IP switch. The data messaging system includes a second... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102862 | Radio link parameter updating method in mobile communication system A radio link (RL) parameter updating method of a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) system in a mobile communication system is disclosed. According to a radio channel situation of a terminal, an RL parameter applied to transmission and reception of control in... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8085791 | Using layer two control protocol (L2CP) for data plane MPLS within an L2 network access node The invention is directed towards techniques for forwarding subscriber frames through a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) aggregation network using MPLS labels. Layer two (L2) network devices, such as access nodes, of a service provider (SP) network implement MP... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086091 | Data recording system, data acquiring apparatus, and recording medium storing therein data acquiring apparatus control program A data recording system includes a data acquiring apparatus that acquires data externally and a data recording apparatus that is communicably connected to the data acquiring apparatus via a network, and records data transmitted from the data acquiring apparatus. The... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085793 | Traffic localization with proxy mobility A method and nodes are provided for localizing traffic between communication nodes receiving service from a same network. A local mobility anchor informs media access gateways providing access to two communication nodes of each other's addresses. Traffic exchanged b... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085792 | Traffic-oblivious load balancing protocol for sensor networks A sensor in a network to which to route a packet is selected, where the sensor is selected independently of energy status of the sensors included in the network, and the sensor is selected by a source sensor. The packet is routed from the source sensor toward the de... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081641 | Methods and apparatus for network coding One embodiment is directed to transmitting encoded data over a broadcast medium to improve network throughput. A sending node may identify a first packet to be transmitted to a first network node and a second packet to be transmitted to a second network node. The se... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072989 | Virtual volume transfer apparatus, virtual volume transfer method, and computer product A method of transferring a virtual volume established on a real volume includes acquiring transfer source virtual volume information from a transfer source, acquiring transfer destination real volume information from a transfer destination, generating transfer desti... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068503 | Network packet steering via configurable association of processing resources and netmods or line interface ports Methods and systems are provided for steering network packets. According to one embodiment, a mapping associates a processing resource with a network interface module (netmod) and/or a number of line interface ports included within the netmod. In one embodiment, the... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068502 | Method and apparatus for enabling persistent connections with wireless networks The invention comprises a method and apparatus for establishing a persistent connection between a user device and a service gateway. Specifically, the method comprises obtaining state information in response to a connection request, establishing a connection between... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064466 | Method for specifying input edge router A method of specifying an input edge router has: obtaining a first value of an input packet counter from each of input candidate edge routers having possibility to receive a specified packet passing through a specified area; transmitting a test packet having a desti... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059662 | System and method for controlling content and delivery of internet protocol television (IPTV) services A system and method supplies internet protocol television (IPTV) services to a subscriber. A content management subsystem processes and executes integrated workflow functionality for content management of video data to be delivered from a video headend to a subscrib... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045565 | Method and apparatus for an environmentally hardened ethernet network system In an environmentally hardened network, a data and power distribution cable is employed in connection with reliable end connectors, high performance physical layer transceivers clocked at a lower rate than is specified and full duplex switched packet transmission te... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040902 | Extending standalone router syntax to multi-chassis routers A multi-chassis router allows an administrator to deliver commands from a single interface. Additionally, the multi-chassis router presents a software image consistent with that of a standalone router and uses commands and configurations consistent with those used b... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036230 | System and method for providing single IP tunnel In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet at a network processor, and determining the packet is to be directed to a selected one of a plurality of traffic processors if a tunnel endpoint identifier of the packet is associated with a subscriber terminal... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8018953 | Adaptive, deterministic ant routing approach for updating network routing information An adaptive, deterministic approach for updating network routing information is disclosed. From among a set of routers, each of which is associated with an amount of time relative to a destination, the router that is associated with the lowest amount of time is sele... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014406 | System and method of inserting a node into a virtual ring There is provided a method and system for inserting a second node into a virtual ring, wherein the virtual ring comprises at least a first node, wherein the first node comprises a virtual ring manager for the virtual ring and wherein the first node is linked with a ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014407 | Distributing personalized content The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005098 | Load balancing across multiple network address translation (NAT) instances and/or processors Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with load balancing across multiple network address translation (NAT) instances and/or processors. N network address translation (NAT) processors and/or instances... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005097 | Integrated circuit and method of arbitration in a network on an integrated circuit The invention relates to an integrated circuit and to a method of arbitration in a network on an integrated circuit. According to the invention, a method of arbitration in a network on an integrated circuit is provided, the network comprising a router unit, the rout... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005096 | Network tunnelling MPLS labels can be used to tunnel data packets through IP networks. At a start point such as a router or network terminator, the IP destination address is examined and one or more labels are generated which relate to the topology of the network. The labels can inclu... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990982 | Methods and apparatus to bound network traffic estimation error for multistage measurement sampling and aggregation Methods and apparatus to bound network traffic estimation error for multistage measurement sampling and aggregation are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises determining a hierarchical sampling topology representative of multiple data sampling and ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7969991 | Session announcement system and method A cluster system and method. The cluster includes a first and a second interface and two or more nodes, wherein each node is connected to the first and second interfaces, wherein exactly one node includes a first redirector and wherein exactly one node includes a se... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969992 | Method and system for optimizing routing of data packets A method and system for determining a route for a packet traveling over at least one system from a source to a destination is disclosed. A first geographic area corresponds to the source and a second geographic area corresponds to the destination. The destination fu... | 06/28/2011 |
