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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7373665 | Propagation of viruses through an information technology network Requests to send data from a first host within a network of hosts are monitored against a record of destination hosts who have been sent data in accordance with a predetermined policy. Destination host identities not the record are stored in a buffer. The buffer siz... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372814 | Network system with color-aware upstream switch transmission rate control in response to downstream switch traffic buffering A network system (10). The system comprises a first network node (N6), and the node comprises an input (30IN) for receiving packets. During operation, the first network node operates as a downstream node when receiving packets at ... | 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 |
| 7372862 | Rate adaption within a TDM switch using bit stuffing The present invention discloses a method and an arrangement providing transmission of data through a node, e.g. a switch, having different input and output line interfaces in a wide range of data speed, without introducing any loss of bits, but still maintaining the... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369662 | Maintaining end-to-end synchronization on a telecommunications connection A method and an arrangement maintain end-to-end synchronization on a telecommunications connection transmitting data in frames substantially in real time and using synchronized end-to-end encryption, wherein at least a part of the telecommunications connection is a ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369575 | Bandwidth matching device and method for operating the same Broadly speaking, a bandwidth matching device is provided for transforming a number of incoming data streams each having a first bandwidth into an outgoing data stream having a second bandwidth. More specifically, the bandwidth matching device provides an assembler ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369506 | Method and apparatus for enabling the detection of transparent defects The present invention enables the network to determine the true state of events that appear normal but produce service disruptions by periodically probing the status of all network elements and endpoints and comparing this status to historical graphs of the network.... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369564 | Method and system for service flow mobility in a wireless network Traffic for a mobile device is queued in one of a plurality of class of service queues for the mobile device. An association of the class of service queues for the mobile device is altered from a first sector to a second sector in response to at least a sector chang... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369565 | Wireless communication system and method using the same A wireless communication system has a queue information search unit for searching a queue-status information provided in a packet unit, a communication priority decision unit for deciding communication priority of external devices based on the queue-status informati... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369969 | Holding device for a sensor signal, method for forwarding a sensor signal and computer program A holding device for a sensor signal comprises a signal input receiving a sensor signal, a signal output and a storage device coupled to the signal input and output. The storage device is designed to store a signal value in a first state and to update it based on th... | 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 |
| 7370117 | Communication system and method for communicating frames of management information in a multi-station network A method of communicating frames of management information includes loading a frame of management information from one of a plurality of stations into a respective one of a plurality of buffers. Whether the frame contains more than a predetermined number of bytes is... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369489 | Unbiased token bucket The present invention defines a method of unbiased policing of data flow in a network device. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the token bucket policer of the network device ‘permits’ (forwards) incoming packets even when the size of the toke... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369498 | Congestion control method for a packet-switched network The present invention relates to a method and network for controlling congestion in a packet-switched network, comprising traffic sources, traffic destinations and network nodes, wherein a packet queue length in a network node is determined and a congestion notifica... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369500 | Dynamic queue threshold extensions to random early detection A buffer memory may be configured to temporarily store data in a number of queues. A processor may be configured to measure a fullness of the buffer memory. The processor may also be configured to assign sizes to the number of queues based on the fullness of the buf... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370126 | System and method for implementing a demand paging jitter buffer algorithm An apparatus for providing storage is provided that includes a jitter buffer element. The jitter buffer element includes a primary jitter buffer storage that includes a primary low water mark and a primary high water mark. The jitter buffer element also includes a s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367042 | Method and apparatus for hyperlinking in a television broadcast A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a region, and can be transmitted in encoded form,... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366802 | Method in a frame based system for reserving a plurality of buffers based on a selected communication protocol A method according to one embodiment may include reserving a plurality of buffers having an aggregate capacity, receiving a frame having a size less than the aggregate capacity, and releasing at least one of the plurality of buffers that is unused to store the frame... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366813 | Event queue in a logical partition An information processing system is provided which includes a plurality of system resources, and an event queue having a predetermined number of entries. An event recording mechanism of the information processing system is operable to make entries regarding events i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366865 | Enqueueing entries in a packet queue referencing packets Provided are a method, system, network processor, network device, and article of manufacture for enqueueing entries in a packet queue referencing packets. When adding a packet to a first memory area, an entry is written to a packet queue in a second memory area refe... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366803 | Integrated circuit for buffering data by removing idle blocks to create a modified data stream when memory device is not near empty A circuit for buffering data is disclosed. The circuit comprises a first circuit which is coupled to receive a stream of data blocks using a first clock signal. The first circuit removes data blocks, such as idle data blocks or a sequence ordered set of a pair of co... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366193 | System and method for compensating packet delay variations A system improves reconstruction of real-time data in a packetized network. The system includes the following elements. A play-out buffer receives packets from the network. A playback element, coupled with the play-out buffer, retrieves packets from the play-out buf... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366785 | Communication control apparatus, communication control method and communication control program product A communication control apparatus includes a storage device configured to store corresponding weighted values for each of a plurality of predetermined portions of a sender address, a connection request receiver configured to receive a connection request packet inclu... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366175 | ATM packet scheduler A packet scheduler controls dispatch of packets containing constant bit rate (CBR) or real time variable bit rate (rt-VBR) at an ingress operation of multiplexing the packets into payloads of an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) bearer virtual circuit connection. Pac... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366171 | Network switch A network switch for switching packets from a source to a destination includes a source port for receiving an incoming packet from a source, a destination port which contains a path to a destination for the packet, and a filter unit for constructing and applying a f... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366092 | Hash and route hardware with parallel routing scheme A multiprocessor switching device substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described in connection with a parallel routing scheme for calculating routing information for incoming packets. Using the programmable hash and route routing scheme, ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366151 | Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mob... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366167 | Apparatus and method for hairpinning data packets in an Ethernet MAC chip A router for interconnecting N interfacing peripheral devices. The router comprises routing nodes coupled to one another via switching circuitry. A first routing nodes comprises: 1) a physical medium device (PMD) module for transmitting data packets to and receiving... | 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 |
| 7366194 | Fibre channel zoning by logical unit number in hardware The present invention provides a system and a method for filtering a plurality of frames sent between devices coupled to a fabric by Fiber Channel connections. Frames are reviewed against a set of individual frame filters. Each frame filter is associated with an act... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362772 | Network processing pipeline chipset for routing and host packet processing A novel network architecture that integrates the functions of an internet protocol (IP) router into a network processing unit (NPU) that resides in a host computer's chipset such that the host computer's resources are perceived as separate network appliances. The NP... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362771 | Reduced latency FIFO A First-In-First-Out (FIFO) block to buffer a packet having a size is presented. The FIFO block includes a receiver to receive a data frame including the packet and overhead information, and to extract the packet from the data frame. A buffer has a plurality of memo... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362770 | Method and apparatus for using and combining sub-frame processing and adaptive jitter-buffers for improved voice quality in voice-over-packet networks A method and apparatus for using and combining sub-frame processing and adaptive jitter-buffers for improved voice quality in voice-over-packet networks. Data is placed in a jitter buffer, where the data has a frame-length consisting of a plurality of samples. Some ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362749 | Queuing closed loop congestion mechanism An exemplary queuing congestion mechanism and method are disclosed that provide congestion management at an egress port of a packet switch. The queuing congestion mechanism includes at least a first, a second and a third queue, which each have an input, an output, a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7362751 | Variable length switch fabric Variable length switch fabric for switching variable length data packets between input and output transmission paths in a communication network. In one embodiment of the invention, apparatus is provided for switching variable length data packets between input and ou... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362765 | Network traffic management system with floating point sorter A technique to implement a network traffic management system with an integrated multidimensional floating point sorter (306) is to store data such that it may be retrieved in a sorted fashion. Entries are stored (407) into a memory according to time st... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363367 | Systems and methods for robust, real-time measurement of network performance Methods and apparatuses for obtaining delay, jitter, and loss statistics of a path between server and an end user coupled via an internetwork are described. The server may comprise a web server in communication with the end user via the Internet. Statistics are obta... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363404 | Creation and management of destination ID routing structures in multi-host PCI topologies System and method for managing routing of data in a distributed computing system, such as a distributed computing system that uses PCI Express protocol to communicate over an I/O fabric. A physical tree that is indicative of a physical configuration of the distribut... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362769 | Fibre channel arbitrated loop bufferless switch circuitry to increase bandwidth without significant increase in cost A switch, switched architecture and process for transferring data through an FCAL switch is disclosed. The switch uses multiple switch control circuits each coupled to one FCAL network and all connected to a crossbar switch. The switch control circuits are coupled t... | 04/22/2008 |
