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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8145789 | Method providing a single console control point for a network device cluster A cluster console user interface provides a single console control point for a network device cluster comprising a first switch device, a plurality of active routers, one or more standby routers, and a second switch device. Using the cluster console, a network admin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135858 | Isolation switch for fibre channel fabrics in storage area networks An isolation switch blade Fibre Channel switch presents F_ports to form a first Fibre Channel fabric and N_ports to a second Fibre Channel fabric to appear as node devices. The isolation switch blade may be used to connect a plurality of blade servers to a Fibre Cha... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8122151 | Storage system for optimally controlling a plurality of data transfer paths and method therefor Provided is a storage system, which includes: a storage medium for storing data; a plurality of ports for connection to a network; and a control section, and in which: the network is connected to another storage system; the plurality of ports include a first port; t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112547 | Efficiently hashing packet keys into a firewall connection table A method for increasing the capacity of a connection table in a firewall accelerator by means of mapping packets in one session with some common security actions into one table entry. For each of five Network Address Translation (NAT) configurations, a hash function... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8065434 | Method and device for maintaining routes A method, system, and device for maintaining routes are provided. A communications network includes multiple point of presence (PoP) groups, where each of the PoP groups includes one or more PoP nodes. PoP nodes within the same PoP group issue routing information of... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060650 | Diagnosing a path in a storage network Described herein are exemplary storage network architectures and methods for diagnosing a path in a storage network. Devices and nodes in the storage network have ports. Port metrics for the ports may be ascertained and used to detect link problems in paths. In an e... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055794 | Isolation switch for fibre channel fabrics in storage area networks An isolation switch blade Fiber Channel switch presents F_ports to form a first Fiber Channel fabric and N_ports to a second Fiber Channel fabric to appear as node devices. The isolation switch blade may be used to connect a plurality of blade servers to a Fiber Cha... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051205 | Peer-to-peer distributed storage A system and method are provided for peer-to-peer distributed file storage in a network of connected clients. The method transmits data file peer-storage information from a first peer node to a network-connected backup manager. The backup manager creates a mapping p... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8032656 | Fast handover using SIP A method of handling a data stream during a handover in a communications network comprising a first user agent having a fixed address, a proxy server and a second user agent, said method comprising the steps of: mapping at the proxy server the fixed address with a d... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024480 | Complex event processing cloud A distributed system of CEP Services hosted by a CEP Cloud where the CEP Cloud is composed of a network of CEP Engines connected by an IPC Protocol is provided. CEP Services interact with each other via a series of Event Streams transported by an IPC protocol betwee... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010700 | Workflow decision management with workflow modification in dependence upon user reactions Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a workflow scenario in ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7984183 | Distributed database system using master server to generate lookup tables for load distribution A state change in a network comprising a master server among a plurality of servers is determined, at the master server, a first lookup table is calculated, said first lookup table indicating respective partitions of a second lookup table distributed among active se... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970935 | Network system, information processor, and information processing program recording medium A content distribution system in which content is distributed from a broadcasting station via a plurality of nodes connected in a hierarchical tree structure, including: a base tree obtained by connecting the plurality of nodes in a hierarchical tree structure using... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970934 | Detecting events of interest Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for detecting events of interest. In one aspect, a method includes generating a network traffic model that includes forecasted time series data representative of a frequency of actions related to ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966420 | Enhance fault tracing in multi-tiered Ethernet/MPLS network Techniques for providing connectivity fault management (CFM) for a multi-tiered network are described herein. In one embodiment, a link trace message (LTM) is received at a provider edge (PE) router and originated from a first Ethernet node and destined to a second ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7937493 | Connection pool use of runtime load balancing service performance advisories Runtime connection load balancing of work across connections to a clustered computing system involves the routing of requests for a service, based on the current operational performance of each of the instances that offer the service. A connection is selected from a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7882075 | System, method and program product for forecasting the demand on computer resources An automated system and method for predicting a future resource utilization tendency by analyzing a change in resource usage on the basis of a real operation condition in a computer system. A CPU utilization estimating unit acquires a resource log and a transaction ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877512 | Isolation switch for fibre channel fabrics in storage area networks An isolation switch blade Fiber Channel switch presents F_ports to form a first Fiber Channel fabric and N_ports to a second Fiber Channel fabric to appear as node devices. The isolation switch blade may be used to connect a plurality of blade servers to a Fiber Cha... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7849216 | Channel assignment for a multi-channel dual-radio mesh backhaul In an example embodiment, a method for determining backhaul channel assignments for multi-channel dual radio mesh nodes. The method comprises acquiring collision domain data for each access point of an associated mesh network. A cost function is calculated for each ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7827308 | Optical wavekey network and a method for distributing management information therein Optical link related wavekey information and other vendor specific information is distributed in a WDM network using an extension of the standard OSPF routing protocol. The extension makes use of a vendor attribute Link State Advertisement (LSA) which is a new type ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7779157 | Recovering a blade in scalable software blade architecture A system and method for servicing user accounts are disclosed. The system includes one or more blades for servicing the user accounts, where each blade includes software components and hardware components, and each blade serves a group of user accounts, a blade mana... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7756999 | Method and system for routing service requests based on throughput of teams of servers A method and system are disclosed for creating portfolios of requests so as to reduce or minimize the variance in the workloads generated by those requests. The invention also takes into account the throughput of the servers that are servicing the requests. In a pre... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752333 | Methods and apparatus for local network address acquisition, analysis and substitution A local network is interfaced with one or more external network elements via a gateway that implements an address substitution mechanism for ensuring that communications between devices attached to the local network are not routed through an external network as a re... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7734816 | Method and apparatus for redirecting network traffic Methods and apparatus are described for intelligently redirecting and/or processing traffic. In one embodiment, a method of facilitating redirection of traffic sent from a first processing device (e.g., a client) to a second processing device (e.g., a server) is dis... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730208 | Method and system for centrally exchanging terminal information over a meshed network An approach is provided for communicating in a meshed network including a first terminal and a second terminal. A request from the first terminal for obtaining address information of the second terminal is submitted to a hub. The hub generates a response including t... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7716367 | Network performance monitoring in a content delivery service A network architecture or framework that supports hosting and content distribution on a truly global scale allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world. The inventive framework compri... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707309 | Isolation switch for fibre channel fabrics in storage area networks An isolation switch blade Fibre Channel switch presents F_ports to form a first Fibre Channel fabric and N_ports to a second Fibre Channel fabric to appear as node devices. The isolation switch blade may be used to connect a plurality of blade servers to a Fibre Cha... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7694015 | Connection control system, connection control equipment and connection management equipment With respect to a communication operation between networks having no connection permission, a connection control apparatus calculates a communicatable detour communication path from a connection policy database, and in such a case that a communication operation can ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7694016 | Composite DNS zones A plurality of separate DNS zones are combined to form a composite DNS zone. The composite DNS zone is viewed as a single DNS zone by other elements on the network. Each of the separate DNS zones becomes a component DNS zone within the composite DNS zone but can sti... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7653743 | Protocol for throttling high volume messages A scalable messaging system for data transmission between the network devices, such as set top boxes, and a central system server, such as a server which maintains a database of event logs for the network. Individual routers at the data center broadcast an announcem... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7640359 | Method, system and computer program product for facilitating the design and assignment of ethernet VLANs A method for facilitating the design and assignment of Ethernet VLANs. The method includes receiving a VLAN name, a class of service and two or more access ports. The switches and trunks associated with the access ports are determined. A VLAN database is searched fo... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7594029 | System and method for external resolution of packet transfer information When a packet transfer equipment receives a packet, it extracts several types of information contained in the received packet such as the destination IP address and the destination port number and, using the extracted information as the key, inquires of a packet tra... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7584301 | Host-level policies for global server load balancing In a network, a user can configure host-level policies usable for load balancing traffic to servers of a domain. A global server load balancing (GSLB) switch provides load balancing to the servers, and is configured with the GSLB host-level policies. Users can defin... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7581024 | Method and system for increasing participation in a standby router protocol A method and system is provided for increasing participation in a standby router protocol (SRP) without increasing the amount of network traffic due to SRP messaging. One or more domain master VLANs participate in an SRP on behalf of numerous member VLANs belonging ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7548992 | Method for preparing a decision tree for packet processing The invention relates to methods for processing data packets according to a set of rules, and especially for preparing of decision trees for selecting the correct rule for processing of a data packet. In preparation of a decision tree, a splitting point within a dim... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7519736 | Non-invasive latency monitoring in a store-and-forward replication system A method for monitoring replica servers in a networked computer system is provided, in which each server in the system has a replica partner vector table that includes state information about other servers in the system. The replica partner vector table includes dat... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7480736 | Method of discovering and operating a payload node A method of discovering and operating a payload node (104) includes in a computer network (100) having a central node (102) coupled to a payload node slot (110), coupling the payload node to the payload node slot. The payload node executi... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7437470 | Tunneling IPv6 packets Methods, systems, and products are provided for tunneling IPv6 packets. Embodiments include receiving, by an origin IPv6 border router from an origin IPv6 host, an IPv6 packet having an IPv6 destination address; receiving, by an origin IPv6 border router from an ori... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428597 | Content-based routing system and method Systems and methods for routing messages between applications in a network are disclosed. Messages are routed from a sending application to one or more receiving applications according to one or more routing rules. Each routing rule is used for determining the one o... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428586 | System and method for discovering undiscovered nodes using a registry bit in a point-to-multipoint network Various embodiments and techniques are described for discovery in a network, and for automatically discovering one or more nodes of the network. In an embodiment a discovery loop may be implemented to detect new nodes that may have been added to the network. The dat... | 09/23/2008 |
