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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6980823 | Intermediate wake mode to track sleep clock frequency in a wireless communication device Various techniques for improving a wireless communication device are described. The techniques may include reducing power in a wireless communication device for a first sleep period and then increasing power in the wireless communication device for an intermediate w... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977927 | Method and system of allocating storage resources in a storage area network A system for allocating storage resources in a storage area network is described. A logical unit number (LUN) mapper receives at least one storage request parameter and maps the storage request parameters to at least one physical LUN. The LUN mapper includes at leas... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6978379 | Configuring computer systems An apparatus (22,44) is described for use in generating configuration information for a computer system (12) employing hierarchical entities. A policy template (24) is employed which contains a definition of an abstract high-level policy,... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977888 | Hybrid ARQ for packet data transmission A hybrid ARQ scheme is used incremental data packet combining. In an example embodiment, the hybrid ARQ scheme with incremental data packet combining employs three feedback signaling commands: ACK, NACK, and LOST. Using these three feedback commands, the hybrid ARQ ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977897 | System and method for jitter compensation in data transfers A system and method for compensating for differences between a recovered receive clock and an internal transmit clock in an elastic buffer and thereby preventing corruption of data. In one embodiment, the system comprises a circularly accessed buffer coupled to read... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977929 | Method and system for facilitating relocation of devices on a network Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a Supernet, a private network constructed out of components from a public-network infrastructure. The Supernet provides flexible and dynamic mobility support. When a destination node moves to a new lo... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977941 | Shared buffer type variable length packet switch A packet switch having a structure of writing a variable length packet received from each of input lines into a shared buffer memory on a fixed length data block unit basis, wherein a buffer controller forms an input queue for each input line and, when the last data... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977865 | Method and circuit for controlling operation mode of PSRAM The present invention discloses a method and circuit for controlling an operation mode of a pseudo SRAM (PSRAM), a PSRM having the same, and a method for performing an operation mode thereof. When a clock is toggled and inputted in a synchronous mode in a chip-enabl... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975711 | Method and system for forecasting telephony traffic trends using local number portability databases A method and system for forecasting telephony traffic trends on a network of a given service provider includes storing local number portability (LNP) record portions in a LNP database. Each LNP record portion contains information regarding a corresponding telephone ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975876 | System and method for performing throttle control in a SMPP gateway A system and method is disclosed for providing throttle control in the context of a short message point-to-point gateway. The method enables the control of a message sent from a message source, such as an external source message entity (ESME) to a message-receiving ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973080 | System for using indirect memory addressing to perform cross-connecting of data transfers A data switch uses indirect memory addressing to perform switching of digital data streams in a network. Incoming data is organized into timeslots. Each timeslot's data is stored into a predefined location in buffer memory. Indirect addressing is implemented in a cr... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970454 | Sliced crossbar architecture with inter-slice communication A method and apparatus includes identifying an address portion of a first message in an address slice of a switch, the first message associated with a first priority, the address portion of the first message including a first routing portion specifying a network res... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970467 | Transfer scheme for speech and voice band signals and ISDN digital signals using reduced transmission bandwidth over ATM A transfer scheme for speech and voice band signals and ISDN digital signals which is capable of reducing a transmission bandwidth required for communications of speech, FAX, voice band data and ISDN digital signals that are to be entered from the STM network to the... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970477 | Data transmission circuit and method A data transmission circuit has an internal circuit for providing data, a register electrically connected to the internal circuit for temporarily storing the data transmitted from the input internal circuit, and a control circuit for controlling operations of the da... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968391 | Switch with compressed packet storage A compressed switch data storage for a network system is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of network channels to transfer data, and devices coupled to the plurality of network channels. The devices provide or receive data. The system also includes a switch... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967962 | Linking crossbar controller A data network including at least one crossbar, wherein each crossbar comprises N ports and a plurality N of devices each associated with and connected to one port of one of the crossbars. Each one port of one crossbar includes an input buffer, a plurality N−1 of ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967955 | Virtual path merging in a multipoint-to-point network tunneling protocol A computer network includes frame- or packet-based subnetworks connected by switches, the switches being interconnected by high-capacity trunks using a connection-based data transfer protocol similar to Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Some of the trunks include a ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967963 | Telecommunication method for ensuring on-time delivery of packets containing time-sensitive data A telecommunication method for providing packets to at least one of a first and a second network are described. A telephone set connects the first network to the second network. The telephone set forwards packets received from one network to the other network, gener... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965606 | Method and apparatus for byte rotation A scheme is described for distributing data operations on an irregular data stream over multiple stages of a data aligner to generate a regular data stream having continuous filled byte positions. In one particular embodiment, data alignment may involve the predicti... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965602 | Switch fabric capable of aggregating multiple chips and links for high bandwidth operation A switching fabric capable of supporting high bandwidth switching operations is disclosed. In one aspect, multiple switching chips and multiple links thereto are used to provide a high bandwidth switching fabric. In another aspect, payload data is transmitted follow... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965443 | Communication apparatus and storage medium A communication apparatus that reduces the number of procedural steps that need to be performed by a user in attaching facsimile data to an e-mail and transmitting the e-mail, includes a CPU of a personal computer that starts a transmission program for performing a ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965558 | Method and system for protecting a network interface A method and system for protecting data transfers between a switch and physical network ports transfers data from a master network interface to a slave network interface, synchronizing the data transfer through a protection first in first out circuit that references... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965592 | Distributed signaling system 7 (SS7) message routing gateway A distributed gateway includes distributed gateway routing elements co-located with SS7 network elements. Each distributed gateway routing element performs an SS7 routing function, such an MTP level 3 routing function. The distributed gateway routing elements commun... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963577 | Packet Switch A packet switch includes an input buffer memory unit having a logic queue corresponding to an output line, a control module for a first pointer indicating a scheduling start input line, a control module for a second pointer indicating a scheduling start output line ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963534 | Methodology for improving the performance of asynchronous data traffic over TDD/TDMA wireless networks The present invention relates to a computer implemented system for transferring data over a master driven TDD/TDMA based wireless network operating with minimum delay in end-to-end transmission by achieving optimum time slot utilization by minimizing the number of b... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963563 | Method and apparatus for transmitting cells across a switch in unicast and multicast modes The present apparatus and method of use comprises a system that enables a cell of data to be transmitted one time over a high speed data bus to an switch system where it is then distributed to each of the destinations for which it is intended. A fabric access device... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963565 | Apparatus and method for identifying data packet at wire rate on a network switch port A network switch, configured for performing layer 2 and layer 3 switching in an Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) network without blocking of incoming data packets, includes a network switch port having a filter (i.e., a packet classifier module) configured for evaluating an in... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961011 | Data compression system A data compression scheme implemented based on V.42bis implemented in hardware within mobile units of a cellular system is disclosed. The data compression scheme includes a number of hardware state machines that perform data compression and decompression functions. ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961338 | Demultiplexer for handling different multiplexed data formats A demultiplexer for separating different format packets from a multiplexed data stream. Each packet format has a different type of header which is analyzed based on micro-codes read out in sequence from a command memory. By using micro-codes, the demultiplexer minim... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959406 | Block error ratio measurements Block error rate (BLER) measurements are made on a mobile telephone handset without imposing an undesirable processing burden on the handset. An information block flow is maintained by sending repeated message blocks from a test set which are defined at a selected l... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6959004 | Data driven information processing apparatus A data packet, having a flag for determination of its processing content, a tag field and a data field, is sequentially transferred between pipeline registers according to pulses from C elements. A determination is made as to whether the tag field of the data packet... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6959003 | Serial transmission path switching system A serial transmission path switching system includes a matrix switch section for switching N×M lines at a fixed rate. An optical receiving section is connected to receive an optical signal from an optical transmission path, photoelectrically convert it, and supply ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6959328 | Method and system for improving email traffic using a digital imaging device A method and system for improving email traffic which can involve portable digital imaging devices is disclosed. In first and second aspects, the method and system allow a portable digital imaging device to receive an attachment associated with an email message. A f... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6957374 | Method of acknowledging receipt of data packets A method of acknowledging receipt of data packets, where each data packet has an identification number. A counter is set to the identification number of the first data packet expected. A data packet is then received. If the data precedes the expected data packet the... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954523 | Method for providing a service in a telecommunication network and a corresponding infrastructure manager The invention relates to a method for providing services in a telecommunications network comprising at least a service switching unit able to access a service control plane comprising at least a service specific unit supporting services and at least a service infras... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954458 | System and method for message transport and segmentation A node, and a system including a first node, supporting message transport and segmentation in a communications network having a plurality of nodes, comprising a memory including a database for storing a plurality of segmentation support capability test results, wher... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6952424 | Method and system for network processor scheduling outputs using queueing A system and method of moving information units from a network processor toward a data transmission network in a prioritized sequence which accommodates several different levels of service. The present invention includes a method and system for scheduling the egress... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950395 | Method and apparatus for a token bucket metering or policing system with a delayed filling scheme Methods and apparatus are disclosed for a token bucket metering or policing system with a delayed filing scheme which may be used, inter alia, in a computer or communications system, such as a packet switching system, router, or other device. The token bucket scheme... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6950508 | System and method for providing an away-from-home calling service An away from home calling service allows users to use telephones other than their home telephone as if they were using their home telephone. When traveling away from home, subscribers access the service and are prompted to provide authentication and validation infor... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6950430 | Switch fabric with path redundancy A method of forwarding data in a network switch fabric is disclosed. An incoming data packet is received at a first port of the fabric and a first packet portion, less than a full packet length, is read to determine particular packet information, the particular pack... | 09/27/2005 |
