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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8103794 | Backup and recovery system and method In a system and method for backing up user data of a first hardcopy device in a second hardcopy device, the user data in the first hardcopy device is identified. The second hardcopy device is identified, and the user data from the first hardcopy device is copied int... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7987290 | Security modes for a routing table distributed across multiple mesh nodes A mesh is joined by a node, wherein the mesh includes a Distributed Routing Table (DRT) for determining addresses of nodes in the mesh. A DRT message is processed in accordance with a security mode of the DRT. ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7958262 | Allocating and reclaiming resources within a rendezvous federation The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for allocating and reclaiming resources within a rendezvous federation. Embodiments of the invention include formulating and routing messages in accordance with cached two-way agreement... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949784 | Peer-to-peer data relay Methods and apparatus for relaying data in a peer-to-peer network. In one implementation, a wireless device includes: an antenna; a wireless communication interface connected to said antenna and supporting wireless communication across a wireless connection provided... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941558 | Loop elimination in a communications network Loop-elimination in a network is provided by establishing a physical topology based domain within the network and restricting protocol data units that are received within the physical topology based domain from being consumed at a network node outside of the physica... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7725599 | Peer-to-peer data relay Methods and apparatus for relaying data in a peer-to-peer network. In one implementation, a wireless device includes: an antenna; a wireless communication interface connected to said antenna and supporting wireless communication across a wireless connection provided... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7657654 | Hashing assist for network processors A resource unit has a request interface to allow the unit to receive a request and associated data. The resource unit also has a hashing engine to create a hash of the associated data, a modulo engine to create a modulus result, a read engine to perform a memory rea... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7624194 | Establishing membership within a federation infrastructure The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing and maintaining membership within a federation infrastructure. A joining node submits a join message to an existing federation infrastructure. The federation infrastruc... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7574527 | Distributed network data storage system and method A system for distributed file storage includes a plurality of servers providing, to a plurality of clients, file access services for accessing files stored on the plurality of servers. A list of neighbor servers is maintained by each server. The neighbor servers are... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7523220 | Metaspace: communication middleware for partially connected mobile ad hoc networks A system is presented for providing a middleware communication space that provides asynchronous message delivery service for partially connected mobile ad hoc networks. Embodiments of the present invention use mobile devices to bridge separated islands of networks a... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519735 | Single board routing arrangement A network router employs a single board architecture that includes both a forwarding engine and an interface card concentrator. All of the circuits involved in routing are incorporated into a single board, reducing the system cost of the router. A single processor p... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7496684 | Developing portable packet processing applications in a network processor A method processing packets for network processor applications. The method includes receiving a packet at an ingress connector of a docking platform from a network processor application, wherein the ingress connector is not specific to the network processor applicat... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7436954 | Security system with an intelligent DMA controller A security subsystem is provided with at least a first security engine, a first set of registers and a control portion to perform a first security operation for each of a first number of data blocks of each of a first number of data segments of a first data object. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421495 | System and method for monitoring network devices A method and system for monitoring hardware information associated with a network device in an enterprise system are provided. In one embodiment, a method for monitoring hardware information associated with a network device in an enterprise system includes retrievin... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421516 | System and method for multi-vendor authentication to remotely activate a software-based option A system and method are provided to remotely activate options resident on a multi-vendor supported device. The technique includes receiving, at a centralized facility, an activation key sent from a first location and configured to activate an option of an in-field d... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418479 | Peer-to-peer name resolution protocol (PNRP) security infrastructure and method A security infrastructure and methods are presented that inhibit the ability of a malicious node from disrupting the normal operations of a peer-to-peer network. The methods of the invention allow both secure and insecure identities to be used by nodes by making the... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406075 | Crossbar switch, method for controlling operation thereof, and program for controlling operation thereof A small cost-effective crossbar switch is provided. A switch circuit is disposed in each of a plurality of nodes which are cascade connected with each other in a plurality of stages. Each switch circuit receives from a node of a previous stage a designated address t... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398097 | Dual-mesh network and communication system for emergency services personnel A communications system is provided for emergency services personnel that includes a plurality of portable devices and a base station. The portable devices are configured to be carried by emergency services personnel while at an emergency site. The portable devices ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7389340 | Execution sets for generated logs A network administration system for triggering commands in response to receipt of error logs, comprising a user interface for programming execution sets of commands in association with predetermined error logs, and means for receiving error logs and for each of the ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386606 | Self-organizing overlay networks In an unstructured overlay network, each node in the network periodically tests logical network links among neighboring nodes to determine whether the links should be reorganized. A Metropolis scheme is used to determine the probability with which the links are reor... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385503 | Self powered son device network A network includes a plurality of wirelessly interconnected self-organizing network (SON) devices for relaying signals in a self-organizing network and a field device for originating output signals. The sensor is configured to transmit the output signals to at least... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385982 | Systems and methods for providing quality of service (QoS) in an environment that does not normally support QoS features Systems and methods for providing fractional bandwidth communication channels in classes of service that do not normally support these types of channels. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving one or more frames, wherein each frame contains non-QoS header i... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379958 | Automatic and dynamic service information delivery from service providers to data terminals in an access point network A system and method for dynamically updating service information from a service provider to a data terminal in an access point network wherein an access point requests service information from a local server; in response, the access point receives service informatio... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7377835 | Personal multimedia communication system and network for emergency services personnel A personal multimedia communication system and network for emergency services personnel includes a plurality of personal communication systems linked together and to a base station in a network. Each personal communication system includes a PDA device mounted on a P... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373401 | Label switched path OAM wrapper Methods and devices for logically segmenting an LSP so that OAM DTUs may be used to determine the performance and/or the status of LSP segments. To segment a previously determined LSP, a dedicated subpath (a logical LSP) within that predetermined LSP is defined betw... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373653 | Channel merging method for VOD system A channel merging method for a VOD system, said method comprises the steps of: in response to requests from a plurality of clients for a video program, establishing a root channel (S1) and at least one sub-channel (S11), said root channel (S1) b... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373412 | Apparatus for selecting and sorting packets from a packet data transmission network The invention relates to the selection and sorting, by a device having access to one or more packet transmission networks, of the packets relating to it, from among the entirety of the packets made available by the networks, given that the packets respect at least t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370089 | Autonomic learning method to load balance output transfers of two peer nodes Disclosed are a system, a method, and a computer program product to provide for the optimization of the output transfer load balance between the peer computers transferring data to one or more storage devices. The peer computers receive, organize and transfer the da... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367052 | Access list key compression Methods and apparatus for implementing an access list key for accessing information associated with a packet from an access list are disclosed. The packet includes an IP source address field and an IP destination address field, the IP source address field including ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359984 | Management of network quality of service In one embodiment, a router is deployed on a local area network (LAN) in addition to any routers deployed on a wide area network (WAN) coupled with the LAN having the router. A service management device is coupled between the two routers. The service management devi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359985 | Method and system for high-performance delivery of web content using high-performance communications protocols to optimize a measure of communications performance between a source and a destination The present invention provides a method and apparatus for increasing the performance of world-wide-web traffic over the Internet. A distributed network of specialized nodes of two types is dispersed around the Internet. A web client's requests are directed to a node... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359383 | Load balancing with mesh tagging One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of load balancing traffic in a switching mesh. A packet is received at a switch of the mesh. A MAC destination address is gathered from the packet. An entry in a MAC address table is found with the MAC destination address... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356798 | Semiconductor integrated circuit routing method and recording medium which stores routing software A method including receiving, for respective terminals, wiring enable/disable information which sets a region where a connection of a wiring line is enabled and a region where a connection of a wiring line is disabled, and storing the wiring enable/disable informati... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355970 | Method and apparatus for enabling access on a network switch A data switch for network communications includes a data port interface which supports at least one data port which transmits and receives data. The switch also includes a CPU interface, where the CPU interface is configured to communicate with a CPU, and a memory m... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353360 | Method for maximizing page locality A method for maximizing page locality within a networking system operationally attached to a plurality of processing entities wherein each processing entity either shares or includes a corresponding memory hierarchy wherein each memory hierarchy has a table of pages... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353484 | Methods and apparatus for variable latency support Methods and apparatus are provided for interconnecting primary components with secondary components on a programmable chip. Control, data, and address lines are automatically generated to connect primary components and secondary components with an interconnection mo... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352746 | Frame forwarding installation A frame forwarding installation on the side of a transmitting terminal refers to a header of a received frame and determines whether a host application is a real-time application. If the application is a real-time application, the received frame is sent to a plurali... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352603 | Apparatus and methods for optically-coupled memory systems Optically-coupled memory systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system memory includes a carrier substrate, and a controller attached to the carrier substrate and operable to transmit and receive optical signals, and first and second memory modules. The module ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349986 | Method for data distribution Stream data is transmitted from a distribution server to a client without any loss of data. The capacity of a reception buffer to be prepared at the client can be made small and the network bandwidth necessary for data redistribution can be narrowed. A relay server ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349994 | Method and apparatus for coordinating routing parameters via a back-channel communication medium Systems and methods are described for enabling routers to coordinate via a back-channel communication medium. The information exchanged over the back-channel is used to increase the number of paths considered for the routers during route optimization. The Decision M... | 03/25/2008 |
