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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189607 | Interface selection in a moving network Method for establishing a traffic route for a mobile network node attached to a mobile router, wherein the mobile router has a plurality of upstream interfaces, by sending, from the mobile router to the mobile network node, identifiers of the interfaces and their pr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189606 | Network device and method for local routing of data traffic The present invention is related to a network device for serving a local network being in connection with a mobile network. The network device comprises interfaces for exchanging a data packet and further comprises a packet filter arranged for being connected to a l... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189604 | Use of wireless circuit-switched connections for transferring information requiring real-time operation of packet-switched multimedia services A system includes a terminal, a wireless access network, a multimedia core network and a network device, which connects the wireless access network to the multimedia core network, expanded location updating to the registration procedure of the multimedia core networ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189608 | Wireless extender secure discovery and provisioning According to embodiments of the invention, a first wireless access point discovers a second wireless access point, the first wireless access point tunes its radio and privacy settings, without user input, based upon parameters automatically exchanged in response to ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189603 | PCI express to PCI express based low latency interconnect scheme for clustering systems PCI Express is a Bus or I/O interconnect standard for use inside the computer or embedded system enabling faster data transfers to and from peripheral devices. The standard is still evolving but has achieved a degree of stability such that other applications can be ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189605 | Separation of data and control in a switching device A method and apparatus for switching a data packet between a source and destination in a network. The data packet includes a header portion and a data portion. The header portion includes routing information for the data packet. The method includes defining a data p... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184644 | WiMAX R6 management protocol Within an access services network (ASN) operable for providing wireless access services to an access terminal and including a base station communicatively coupled to an ASN gateway, a new management protocol is provided for managing the R6 communications. The protoc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184645 | Communication system, gateway device and adapter device A gateway device which mutually converts communication protocols among a subscriber network including a base station wirelessly housing a mobile terminal and an Internet Protocol processor to bring an interface from the base station into an Internet Protocol process... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184647 | Network element configuration scheme In a configuration scheme for one or more network elements, a network management entity determines a set of at least one parameter value from a set of operable parameter values and sends the determined set to a network element. The network element then selects a par... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184646 | Telecommunications system and method A telecommunications system includes a packet radio network comprising a core network and a radio network that communicate internet packets in accordance with a configuration of the core network and the radio network. The mobile node establishes a communications bea... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179909 | Method and system for harmonizing QoS in home networks Packet in a multimedia stream has and associated standard priority level specified by standard protocols. The standard priority level in input packets received by a home gateway is converted to a harmonized priority level. Then, the input packets are processed in th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179904 | Packet transfer device and transfer control method thereof A first issue is to provide a packet transfer device for identifying a connection such as a TCP connection linked to a bandwidth control means, and provide a proxy acknowledgment for each identified connection such as TCP. A second issue is to provide a packet trans... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179910 | Method and system for an asymmetric PHY operation for ethernet A/V bridging and ethernet A/V bridging extensions A network device comprising asymmetric, multi-rate, Ethernet MAC and asymmetric, multi-rate, Ethernet PHY communicates signals via a network utilizing A/V bridging services. Higher bandwidth A/V signals are communicated and lower bandwidth signals are received or vi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179907 | Routing data packets in a communication network Routing data packets includes receiving data packets from a network element at a routing gateway. The data packets are determined to be destined for a mobile node. A location of the mobile node is obtained. The data packets are forwarded to the mobile node according... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179905 | Method and apparatus for providing communication for virtual private networks A method and apparatus for providing communication for virtual private networks in networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) are disclosed. The present method enables Service Border Routers (SBRs) to perform mappi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179906 | Communication network elements with application stacking A communication network element comprises an I/O interface, memory, processing circuitry, and bus structure. The I/O interface receives and transfers a user packet. The memory stores the user packet, management software, and communication applications. The processin... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179908 | Packet network system with session changing function and implementation method and device thereof The present invention provides a method for session changing. The method for session changing is designed for session changing during interworking between a first UE and a second UE in a packet network, and includes: reserving, during setup of an initial session bet... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179911 | Extended call handling functionality using multi-network simulcasting A system for handling calls using simulcasting of multimedia information via a gateway device communicatively coupled to a wide area network, the system including at least one processor for use in an access device, the at least one processor arranged to communicate ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175105 | Pushing documents to wireless data devices A system pushes documents to one or more wireless data devices. The system receives a push request from a user to push a specified document to one or more identified wireless data devices. The system then constructs a wireless gateway server request for each identif... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175104 | Home gateway expansion As described herein, a gateway device may include one or more expansion ports to add functionality. The added functionality can be of any desired type, such as adding telephone call routing capabilities, or high-definition radio capabilities. The added functionality... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175103 | Dynamic networking of virtual machines The invention is directed to the use of Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) technology with Shortest Path Bridging, also called Provider Link State Bridging (PLSB) technology in the context of data centers and virtualized physical servers infrastructures. Virtual serve... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170035 | Data frame processing A method and apparatus for bridging network protocols is disclosed. In one embodiment, a data frame is received and stored in a dual-port memory queue by hardware logic. An embedded processor is notified of the data frame once a programmable number of bytes of the d... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170038 | Two-layer switch apparatus to avoid first layer inter-switch link data traffic in steering packets through bump-in-the-wire service applications Link-level data communications carried out in a link-level data communications switching apparatus that includes modular link-level data communications switches; the switching apparatus is configured as two layers of link-level data communications switches; all the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170037 | Devices and methods for a virtual internet protocol television (VIPTV) A communication system according to various exemplary embodiments can include a broadcast station. At least one encoder can be coupled to the broadcast station, wherein the at least one encoder is configured to encode in real-time signals generated from the broadcas... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170036 | Systems and methods of voice chat Systems and methods of exchanging voice chat information are provided. Voice chat information is received and the received voice chat information is placed into one or more packets. A control channel is selected and the one or more packets are transmitted over the s... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170034 | Packet forwarding system and packet forwarding device In a forwarding device connected to a network including a plurality of communication nodes connected to each other, in which a plurality of communication routes, each for forwarding a signal through at least one of the communication nodes can be present between arbi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165141 | Method for configuring a node of an industrial wireless network A method for joining a wireless node of a field device such as a sensor or actuator to a wireless network connected to an industrial monitoring or control system. A handheld wireless device is utilized including hardware and software for communicating with the wirel... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165142 | Handling of multimedia call sessions and attachments using multi-network simulcasting A method and apparatus supporting the handling of multimedia information using simulcasting using a broadband access gateway are disclosed. A broadband access gateway supporting both a personal area network and a broadband network may receive multimedia information ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165136 | Virtual port based SPAN Methods and apparatus for performing SPAN for a virtual port are disclosed. Specifically, a frame is received from a first port. The frame or a copy thereof is transmitted to a second port, where the second port is identified in a header of the frame. At least one o... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165137 | Fast database migration A system, method, and computer readable medium for fast database migration, that comprises, establishing a socket connection directly between intelligent processor unit nodes of the originating system and the terminating system, transferring home location register s... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165138 | Converged infiniband over ethernet network A method of providing a converged InfiniBand over Ethernet (IBOE) network. An IBOE switch receives a data packet. If the data packet is received by the IBOE switch from the InfiniBand network, a translation utility looks up an Ethernet media access control (MAC) add... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165139 | Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for communicating via a mobile wireless communication device Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for communicating via a mobile wireless communication device (MWCD). According to exemplary embodiments, a message is generated for a customer premises equipment located at a customer premises. The message i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165140 | Network address translation gateway for local area networks using local IP addresses and non-translatable port addresses A network address translation gateway provides normal network translation for IP datagrams traveling from a local area network using local IP addresses to an external network, but suspends source service address (port) translation when the port is reserved for a spe... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165143 | Routing protocol apparatus, systems, and methods Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to traverse intermediate nodes in a network during message routing operations to determine an original routing path for a source message by using proactive routing between clusters of nodes in the network, and both proacti... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160080 | Implementation of reliable synchronization of distributed databases A method of controlling a plurality of forwarding databases provided in an Ethernet bridge having a plurality of devices. The method includes aging a first set of entries in a first forwarding database maintained by a first one of the plurality of devices. The first... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160081 | Apparatus and method for sharing content using digital living network alliance (DLNA) network and computer-readable medium thereof A method for sharing content using a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network is disclosed. The method includes the steps of creating a DLNA VPN (Virtual Private Network) between an inside-home DLNA network and at least one outside-home DLNA device, and delive... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160082 | Data distribution by proxy A communication device communicates with an originating device during an originating session and receives originating data from the originating device over a wireless communication link and then communicates with a receiving device during a receiving session and sen... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160083 | Method and apparatus for implementing bearer path A method and apparatus for implementing a bearer path are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: a Media Gateway (MG) reports a preset Path Request (PR) event to a Media Gateway Controller (MGC) according to a received request message related to a beare... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160079 | Local communication agent The present invention provides a local agent operating in association with a communication client. The local agent acts on behalf of the communication client to enable capabilities the communication client is not capable of providing, by serving as a liaison between... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155129 | Suspending operation of border gateway protocol A checkpointing approach enables BGP peers to reduce the number of UPDATE messages that are exchanged and processed after a router restarts and to pause and suspend BGP sessions when mobile nodes leave a BGP domain. In an embodiment, a router is configured for recei... | 04/10/2012 |
