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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185661 | Method and apparatus for header compression A packet compressor 12 operates under a reliable mode or an optimistic mode. A mode determination unit 31 counts the number of ACK packets or NACK packets received by a unit time X by an ACK/NACK packet receiver 14. When the counted number of NA... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8171169 | Method and apparatus for updating a graphical display in a distributed processing environment A system and method for updating a display unit remotely located from a computing system are described. The method includes copying display information from a video buffer of a computing device executing an application to generate a display update, calculating a siz... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161086 | Recording device, recording method, computer program, and recording medium There is provided a recording device for generating and coding metadata, the recording device including a metadata describing part for describing the metadata; and a coding part for coding the metadata described in the metadata describing part in a binary format, an... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151005 | System and method for adjusting a level of compression for computing clients A system and method for adjusting a level of compression for thin and chubby computing clients. End devices in a network can stream audio/video traffic over a network. Such a connection between the end devices can be reserved with guarantees of bandwidth and latency... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140709 | Two stage internet protocol header compression Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network system including one or more of the following: receiving a packet having a header and belonging to a flow; identifying a context identifier (CID) associated with the flow; morphing the header into ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135863 | Event notification network Data collected by sensors (10, 30) is transmitted to data collection points (31, 61) over a network using an epidemic protocol in which data received by a relay (3) is forwarded to a randomly-selected group of further relays (4, 5, 6) unl... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127044 | Method for the delivery of audio and video data sequences by a server The invention relates to a method for the delivery of audio and video data by a server device. A network can interconnect various media components in the same home. Such a network comprises a server, generally a computer, and clients, for example a decoder. This con... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8099520 | System and method for storing and accessing data This disclosure generally may disclose a web-based online network drive that may be utilized by many users. Furthermore, this disclosure may provide for an efficient, web-based file system, which may be available as a network drive on a local computer. ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8073974 | Object oriented mission framework and system and method A mission system includes a peer vector machine having a host processor and pipeline accelerator and including bridge objects that provide communication via signal objects, message objects, and mission objects. ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073824 | Data indexing and compression A method of indexing multidimensional data obtains (302) a data set (210) describing features defined over at least one dimension other than time. Index data (212) comprising at least one value corresponding to the at least one non-time dimensio... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073973 | Method of processing data packets There is described a method of processing data packets in a data stream in a communication system. In the method, a plurality of data packets from the data stream are analyzed in order to generate profile data which indicates how one or more parts of each of the plu... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065437 | Packet header compression system and method based upon a dynamic template creation Header compression system for compressing the header of the data packets of a flow transmitted from an ingress node to an egress node through a data transmission network comprising template creating means, in both ingress node and egress node, adapted for creating t... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046497 | Image forming apparatus and computer readable medium Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a communication section connected to a data processing apparatus through a communication line, the apparatus including: a plurality of storage sections each of which has a different free storage capacity and a differ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046496 | System and method for network data compression The present invention relates to a method of compressing data in a network, the data comprising a plurality of packets each having a header and a payload, the header comprising a plurality of header fields, the method comprising generating a classification tree base... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8024483 | Selective compression for network connections A system, apparatus, and method selectively provides content compression to a client based, in part, on whether the network connection from the client is determined to be a high latency, low-bandwidth connection. The present invention gathers one or more network met... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024484 | Caching signatures The performance of a network system having one or more requestor nodes, one or more provider nodes, and one or more intermediate nodes is improved by determining the digital signature of a received file, looking up the digital signature in an index of signatures, an... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019897 | Method for viewing, on a client-side device, documents requested from a server-side device A client-side handheld device requests a server to convert server-side documents into a compression format prior to transmission of said documents to the client. The server retrieves and converts the requested documents to a raster image that is then compressed acco... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010704 | Method of efficient compression for measurement data A method for compressing measurement data that includes grouping common data elements in common data messages. Sequential data elements in the groups are subtracted from each other to provide difference values. The difference values are compressed using a suitable c... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010705 | Methods and systems for utilizing delta coding in acceleration proxy servers The present invention relates to systems, apparatus, and methods of utilizing delta coding in acceleration proxy servers. The method including storing, at a proxy server, a plurality of dictionary pages within a page storage disk and indexing, at the proxy server, t... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005990 | Efficient decoding of mobile multimedia multicast system non real-time service files A technique for decoding code packets of file delivery protocol (FDP) and file delivery control protocol (FDCP) messages, the FDP messages comprising fields having values used to generate an indices of a data packets, the FDCP messages comprising a value of a minimu... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001277 | Determining, transmitting, and receiving performance information with respect to an operation performed locally and at remote nodes Further provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining, transmitting, and receiving performance information with respect to an operation performed locally and at remote nodes. Performance information is determined with respect to performin... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001278 | Network packet payload compression Methods and apparatus relating to network packet payload compression/decompression are described. In an embodiment, an uncompressed packet payload may be compressed before being transferred between various components of a computing system. For example, a packet payl... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7979584 | Partitioning a data stream using embedded anchors Selecting a segment boundary within block b is disclosed. A first anchor location j|j+1 is identified wherein a value of f(b[j−A+1 . . . j+B]) satisfies a constraint and wherein A and B are non-negative integers. A segment boundary location k|k+1 is determined whe... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975071 | Content compression in networks Described is transparently compressing content for network transmission, including end-to-end compression. An end host or middlebox device sender sends compressed packets to an end host or middlebox device receiver, which decompresses the packets to recover the orig... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966424 | Data compression Compression of streaming data is described. In an implementation, a method includes compressing data for communication in a terminal services environment by finding an index in a lookup table that matches an initial sequence in data. The lookup table includes a plur... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966425 | Header compression in messages Compression of message headers. A message including an uncompressed header, a message including a compressed header or a request to support header compression is received. In response, a determination of the impact of header compression on performance is determined.... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962654 | System and method for implementing application functionality within a network infrastructure A system and method for implementing functionality within a network on behalf of first and second computers communicating with each other through the network. A front-end computer is provided within the network having an interface for communicating data traffic with... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962653 | Methods for increased tolerance against packet reordering for the secure reference principle in robust header compression A method for improving the use of a secure reference principle in a header compression scheme over a channel that admits reordering of packets between a compressor and a decompressor includes transmitting a first plurality of non-context updating packets between a c... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958269 | Network camera having network failure recovery A network camera 1 comprises a camera block 10 for taking an image, a signal processing unit 20 supplied with an imaging output of the camera block 10, a communication interface unit 30 which connects to an external network to esta... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7945698 | System and method for partial data compression and data transfer The present invention provides a system and method for data transfer. The system may include a client having software adapted to display data; a storage; and client data. Further, the system may include a server having compressor data and information regarding data ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7930435 | Hub and spoke compression A method of compressing data traffic for transmission through a network, the method comprises computing, for each one of a plurality of contexts of data traffic within the network, a respective optimal dictionary for encoding data traffic; For each block of data to ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930436 | System and method for dynamically adjusting data compression parameters The present invention relates generally to a system and a method for dynamically adjusting data compression parameters. The process of dynamic transfer of data parameters from the sender to the receiver has four steps: determining optimal compression parameters, com... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930434 | System and method for managing communication and/or storage of image data A system and method are disclosed, that may include establishing communication between a first computer and a second computer over a communication link, the second computer having an image collection stored therein in the form of compressed image data; selecting a p... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7912985 | Method and device for processing a request or compressed digital data The invention relates to a method of processing a request coming from a first communication apparatus connected through a communication network to a remote second communication apparatus, the method comprising a step of receiving the request for obtaining digital da... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912986 | Secure block read and write protocol for remotely stored files A file transfer system including a client and a server capable of updating portions of the file stored on the server. The system is capable of uploading portions of a file before the file has been specified at the client side. The files are stored in raw at the clie... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908399 | Compression of repeated patterns in full bandwidth channels over a packet network A network device is disclosed. The network device includes a port to allow the device to communicate on a full bandwidth channel, a main processor to control reception and transmission of data and a compressor. The compressor identifies repeated fixed sequences in t... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7877517 | Determining whether to compress data transmitted over a network Provided are a method, system and program for determining whether to compress data transmitted over a network. A determination is made of compression performance for a compression algorithm to use to compress data to transmit to a target node over a network and of n... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873747 | Device and method for transmitting data An apparatus and method for transmitting data. The method for transmitting data includes compressing data to be transmitted and configuring a plurality of packets, arranging the packets such that the entropy mean between the packets neighboring in any one side appro... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865620 | Web server and web service method thereof A web server that compresses a web resource and provides the compressed web resource, the web server including: a compression unit to substitute strings including combinations of symbolic characters of different types for strings of a file of a web resource to compr... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861004 | System and method for analyzing data traffic A method of analyzing data traffic includes receiving a request at a data analysis system to store a string related to header information associated with a data packet. The method also includes applying a hash function to the string, thereby obtaining a 32-bit inter... | 12/28/2010 |
