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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7079545 | System and method for simultaneous deficit round robin prioritization A system and method have been provided for prioritizing queued information packets having a variable number of cells. A simultaneous deficit round robin (DRR) analysis occurs in the course of several selection cycles. Each queue has an associated increment value. Th... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079533 | Systems and methods for bypassing packet lookups A network device determines forwarding information for received data frames. The network device includes input ports, queuing logic, a forwarding engine, and a port filter. The input ports receive data frames. The queuing logic transfers at least some of the receive... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079537 | Layer 3 switching logic architecture in an integrated network switch 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 switching module for performing layer 2 and layer 3 (specifically Internet... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079638 | System and method for privacy screening with special information tones A system and method delivers an audible tone to an unidentified caller who places a call to a subscriber to a privacy screening service with special information tones (SITs). The service is initiated when an unidentified caller places a telephone call to a subscribe... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080162 | Reduced hardware network adapter and communication method The present invention provides a network interface adapter for connecting a client computer to a computer network that includes a reduced hardware media access controller (MAC) coupled through a physical interface (PHY) to the network physical link. A significant po... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076044 | Call queuing notification Call queuing is implemented in a telecommunications advanced intelligent network. After a call to a busy subscriber line in queued, a separate call to the subscriber is placed indicating status of the queued subscriber line access call. Call queuing and status notif... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075557 | Method of and apparatus for handling high bandwidth on-screen-display graphics data over a distributed IEEE 1394 network utilizing an isochronous data transmission format On-screen-display graphics data is transmitted from a source device to a display device over an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network utilizing an isochronous data format. The on-screen-display graphics data is generated by the source device and transmitted to a display... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075891 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data packets to avoid stall during re-sequencing of data packets In the method and apparatus for transmitting data packets, a source device places identifiers in data packets being transmitted. The identifiers identify data packets that the source device considers properly received by a destination device or identify data packets... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072345 | Programmable integrated circuit for use in a network switch A network switch includes an input layer to receive a data stream with a set of cells. Each cell includes data and a header to designate a destination device. The input layer includes a set of input layer circuits. A selected input layer circuit of the set of input ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068661 | Method and apparatus for providing control information in a system using distributed communication routing A method and apparatus for providing distributed communication routing includes a route computation engine operably coupled to a plurality of forwarding engines within a logically distributed router. Registration information is provided to the route computation proc... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069490 | Method for retransmission of lost packet in fading channels A method of retransmitting of a lost packet in a mobile communication system in which multiple copies plus delays occur i.e. after a transmitter has received from a receiver a negative acknowledgement (NACK) signal, which points to a specific data packet, multiple c... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068657 | Facilitating inverse multiplexing over asynchronous transfer mode via communication links having disparate data transmission rates A method for facilitating inverse multiplexing over asynchronous transfer mode is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a stream of sequentially aligned ATM cells via an originating end point logical communication link. A sequence identifier is associated ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068658 | Method and apparatus for resolving ambiguity in reception of multiple retransmitted frames A method and apparatus for resolving ambiguity in reception of multiple retransmitted frames includes ascertaining for each data frame received from a transmitter whether the frame is a retransmitted frame. If the frame is a retransmitted frame, the frame may be sto... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069038 | System and method for improved uplink signal detection and reduced uplink signal power System and methods for improved uplink signal detection where when a mobile device detects signaling indicating the presence of a packet for that mobile device from a network node, the mobile device may transmit one or more NACKs in a sub-frame before the one in whi... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065185 | Systems and methods for providing real-time conversation using disparate communication devices Systems and methods for providing real-time conversation among a plurality of disparate communication devices include receiving a first communication from a first communication device operating in a first communication mode, translating the first communication into ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065097 | Program information transmission apparatus that transits program information at a constant rate through a cycle A data reading control unit select packets to be transmitted so that the number of packets that are transmitted per unit time does not exceed the number of packets that can be transmitted per unit time. The data reading control unit performs this packet selection ac... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065068 | Multi channel stop and wait ARQ communication method and apparatus A method in a communication system (100) includes transmitting from a source user (101) a first data packet (111) over a first time frame (121) having a finite time period (131), transmitting from source user (101) a second ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065051 | Management and scheduling of data that is wirelessly transmitted between a base transceiver station and subscriber units The invention includes an apparatus and method for wirelessly transmitting data between a plurality of subscriber units and a base transceiver station. The method includes at least one subscriber unit transmitting a request to send data blocks to the base transceive... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058070 | Back pressure control system for network switch port A network switch port includes a cell memory, a queuing system, a data path controller and an output buffer. The data path controller stores incoming cells derived from network data transmissions in the cell memory. The queuing system generates the cell memory addre... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058065 | Method and apparatus for preventing undesirable packet download with pending read/write operations in data packet processing A logic system for resolving port contentions associated with memory-access requests in data packet routing is provided. The logic system comprises a determination logic for assessing and reporting port status of busy or not busy, a command mechanism for issuing com... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058057 | Network switch port traffic manager having configurable packet and cell servicing An input or output switch port for a network switch converts each incoming packet into a cell sequence stores each cell in a cell memory. The switch port includes a traffic manager for queuing cells for departure from the cell memory and then signaling the cell memo... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058068 | Session initiation protocol based advanced intelligent network/intelligent network messaging A method and system enables distributed transaction oriented telephony functionality for telephony services in a broadband packet network. Exemplary distributed transaction oriented telephony functionality includes Intelligent Network (IN) and Advanced Intelligent N... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054943 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING RESOURCES ASSIGNED TO PLURALITY OF CUSTOMERS, FOR MEETING SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS (SLAS) WITH MINIMAL RESOURCES, AND ALLOWING COMMON POOLS OF RESOURCES TO BE USED ACROSS PLURAL CUSTOMERS ON A DEMAND BASIS A method (and system) for managing and controlling allocation and de-allocation of resources based on a guaranteed amount of resource and additional resources based on a best effort for a plurality of customers, includes dynamically allocating server resources for a... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054304 | Method and protocol for managing broadband IP services in a layer two broadcast network A method and system for managing broadband IP servers in a layer two broadcast network includes an intermediate system, an end system, and a control system. The service information is advertised by each end system (server) on the layer two network. The same service ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051245 | System and method for handling out-of-order data supplied by a real-time feed A system and associate method handle out-of-order data supplied by a real-time feed, and ingests the real-time feed fast enough to keep up with the feed rate while storing the data in a database in a time-ordered or other sequential manner without discarding any dat... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050432 | Message logging for reliable multicasting across a routing network A technique for reliably multicasting a message within a router network is provided. At least one special router in the network has associated persistent storage for logging a message being routed to one or more clients. When a message is received at this logger nod... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046995 | Mobile application peer-to-peer security system and method The mobile application security system and method in accordance with the invention increases the overall level of security in using a mobile application. In a preferred embodiment, the system may use a peer-to-peer architecture wherein each host of a mobile applicat... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047453 | Method and apparatus for managing network traffic using cyclical redundancy check hash functions Methods, apparatus and systems are directed to managing network traffic using a variable length Cyclical Redundancy Check (CRC) index to hash an address header. The invention copies an address header of a data packet to a CRC generator. A CRC index is determined bas... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047376 | Backup system and method and program A remote site stores data received from a currently-used site and transfers the stored data to a proximal site. The proximal site stores the data received from the remote site and transfers the stored data to the currently-used site. The currently-used site crossche... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046688 | Packet scheduler There is provided a packet scheduler for managing output awaiting packets stored in a plural of queue blocks each having a weighting coefficient settled based on an output guaranteeing bandwidth, whereby an output order for the head packets is stored in respective q... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046643 | Method for dynamic multi-level pricing for wireless communications according to quality of service A method for pricing wireless communications services on a wireless network is described. A selection of a plurality of priorities available for transmitting a wireless communication transaction on a wireless network is provided, wherein the priority to be selected ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042892 | Voice-over IP communication without echo cancellation A highly flexible and scalable architecture implements TDM bridge and related functions for network to telecom interface applications like voice over Internet. A very small packet size minimizes packetization delay so that VOIP can be realized without expensive echo... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042885 | System and method for implementing a distributed service platform using a system-wide switchtag definition A system and method for configuring components of a distributed routing platform using switchtags. The distributed routing platform includes transport service modules that are configured to perform a service on packets. Each of the transport service modules is furth... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042842 | Fiber channel switch A Fiber Channel switch is presented that tracks the congestion status of destination ports in an XOFF mask at each input. A mapping is maintained between virtual channels on an ISL and the destination ports to allow changes in the XOFF mask to trigger a primitive to... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042837 | Automatic link failover in data networks Methods and apparatus are disclosed for enabling nodes in a data network having interconnect links to continue to transmit data when a link fails. This is done in realtime, in a manner transparent to upper-level clients, and at a hardware level without software inte... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042891 | Dynamic selection of lowest latency path in a network switch A system and method for low latency switching of data packets in a network switch. A network switch may include multiple input ports, multiple output ports, and a shared random access memory coupled to the input ports and output ports by data transport logic. Under ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039044 | Method and apparatus for early detection of DTMF signals in voice transmissions over an IP network A method and apparatus for early detection of in-band DTMF signals in voice transmissions over an IP network are disclosed. Using a digital signal processor, whenever any indication of signals possibly corresponding to the signals characteristic of DTMF tones are de... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039060 | System and method for extracting fields from packets having fields spread over more than one register Systems and methods that allow for extracting a field from data stored in a pair of registers using two instructions. A first instruction extracts any part of the field from a first register designated as a first source register, and executes a second instruction ex... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039068 | Packet assembly A dynamic packet consolidation algorithm for a wireless transmission regime. At least first and second packets of a plurality of packets are sampled. The respective throughput times of each first and second packet are then calculated. The first and second packets ar... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035894 | Method for retransmitting data efficiently in mobile communication system A method for retransmitting data between two sides including a reception side and a transmission side in a mobile communication system including one or more mobile stations and one or more radio networks includes the steps of: by the reception side, storing data rec... | 04/25/2006 |
