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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189459 | Method and system for guiding packet data protocol activation The invention discloses a method and system for guiding a packet data protocol activation. The method includes determining whether a packet data protocol is activated and if the determination result indicates that the packet data protocol is not activated because of... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189458 | Monitoring system, monitoring device, monitored device, and monitoring method A monitored device in a monitoring system sends a notification indicating device ID of a real computer and a real-MAC address thereof in advance to a monitoring device. The monitored device determines the real-MAC address corresponding to the computer in advance on ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184526 | Systems and methods for Connectivity Fault Management extensions for automated activation of services through association of service related attributes The present disclosure provides systems and methods for Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) extensions to provide a CFM messaging mechanism for support of information exchange and the like, in addition to end-to-end connectivity and fault management. In an ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184525 | Method and apparatus for detecting and fixing faults in an inline-power capable ethernet system Methods and apparatus are disclosed for detecting ground faults in an Ethernet system. An Ethernet switch is configured to provide inline power to a plurality of ports each having positive and negative rails. Current is injected into selected rails of a port and gro... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184527 | Method for conducting redundancy checks in a chain network The present invention relates to a method for conducting redundancy checks in a chain network, wherein the two ends of the chain network are equipped with a first switch and a second switch respectively, and a port of the first or second switch used for communicatin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179784 | Method and apparatus for recovering a communications connection A method and apparatus for recovering a communications connection by storing a state variable that pertains to the status of a connection. When there is a need to restore the connection, the state variable is retrieved and used to restore the state of a protocol sta... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174962 | Global broadcast communication system A global broadcast communication network system having a plurality of subnets. The system may incorporate a building and automation control network (BACnet) protocol. Each subnet may have a one active BACnet broadcast management device (BBMD) for broadcasting messag... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169892 | HARQ failure indication over IUB-interface The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for improving the performance of an uplink communication utilizing a hybrid automatic repeat protocol (HARQ) by an HARQ failure indication over Iub-interface (e.g., from a no... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169891 | Apparatus and method for handling lost cells in a communications system A method of processing cells in a communication system includes obtaining a cell, causing it to be stored, determined if it is associated with a loss event, and if so, causing it to be tagged with a lost cell indicator. An apparatus for processing cells includes a c... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165011 | Real-time network measurement A method of operation within a device coupled to a network. A first set of data is received from the network. A first set of measurement information, for use in determining a quality of the network, is then identified from the first set of data. A second set of meas... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165012 | Protection mechanisms for a communications network A method of path protection for a connection-oriented packet switched communications network is described using a protection hub in communication with a worker hub via a core protection path. Both the worker hub and the protection hub communicate with at least one p... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159934 | Reporting dial up access problems using a real-time automated system A server for automatically handling dial-up connectivity problems via a voice connection can include a controller to interface with a caller during a voice call, query a network operations center using a data connection to determine whether a dial-up number associat... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154987 | Self-isolating and self-healing networked devices Techniques for self-isolation of a network device that has been identified as potentially harmful. The network device may be isolated from the network except for an out-of-band communication channel that can be used for management purposes to restore or repair the d... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154990 | Less loss in-order delivery protocol for fibre connection architecture Methods and apparatus for providing in-order delivery in Fibre Channel (FC) fabric are disclosed. A topological change between a first switch and a second switch is evaluated to determine whether the topological change may result in out-of-order delivery. If it is d... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154988 | Delivery of streams to repair errored media streams in periods of insufficient resources In one embodiment, a method includes ingesting a program stream from a program source on a first channel. The method also includes storing the program stream, and receiving notification from a client of unrecoverable error in a stream received at the client. The unr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154989 | Recovering a shared channel within a network from a deadlock state A method of processing data within a controller for a network can include identifying frames within a data stream within the network (1110) and detecting a deadlock state according to a number of consecutive frames comprising at least one set control bit (... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154991 | Arrangement and a method for handling failures in a network The present invention relates to an arrangement comprising an Ethernet carrier network, managed by a management system (100) and comprising a number of levels of management domains, each comprising a number of edge nodes (10, 20, 30, 40) and a number o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154986 | Method for fast converging end-to-end services and provider edge equipment thereof A method for fast converging an end-to-end service and a Provider Edge (PE) includes: setting routing information of at least two tunnels in a double-ascription PE of a remote Customer Edge (CE), wherein, the two tunnels are from the double-ascription PE of the remo... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149687 | Intra-node fault recovery within a multi-stage switching architecture A system, apparatus and method for dynamic intra node rerouting is described. In one embodiment of the invention, a multi-stage architecture within a network node is provided in which various module cards, including intermediary module cards, are interconnected with... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149688 | Method and system for identifying faults in communication networks In order to locate malfunction in a communication network, the elements therein are configured for generating alarm and to propagate a malfunction signalling to at least one other element in said set. Those elements in the network to which the malfunction signalling... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139475 | Method and system for fault and performance recovery in communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor A system for fault and performance recovery in a communication network includes a set of network apparatuses as well as a plurality of sites connected by means of connections having a given topology. The network also includes routers for implementing given routing p... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134916 | Stateless, affinity-preserving load balancing The invention relates to an architecture that facilitates load balancing among a plurality of hosts and preserve session affinity to a given host. An incoming stream of data packets that include packet sessions is input to one or more forwarding mechanisms for forwa... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134915 | Method and apparatus for providing network redundancy According to one embodiment, providing network redundancy includes configuring a session registrant database to have one or more virtual standby states. Each virtual standby state corresponds to an active router. The session registrant database receives session info... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130633 | Method for transferring data in a wireless network The invention is directed to a process for transferring data packets through a protocol stack employed by the device for transmitting packets on a packet connection to a wireless network, said wireless network operating at least two, distinct wireless access technol... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130635 | Network access nodes A communication system, method and program, the system comprising: one or more wireless access nodes of a first communication service provider and at least one server associated with a second communication service provider, interconnected via a packet-based network;... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130634 | Fast re-route in IP/MPLS networks and other networks using SONET signaling A provider device determines that a failure has occurred in a link or path and notifies a customer device of the failure. The notifying causes the customer device to become aware of the failure in less than one second. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125890 | Connectivity fault management in a provider backbone bridge traffic engineering (PBB-TE) domain A system and method for providing Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) in a Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) telecommunication network utilizing Ethernet-based packet transport. PBB-TE point-to-point and point-to-multipoint services are identifie... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125891 | Method and system for multi-layer network routing Each node of a telecommunications network determines a connection type attributes available for each signal type supported by the node. Each signal type represents a different connection routing layer within the telecommunications network. Adaptation costs involved ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125892 | Method and apparatus for facilitating machine-type communication A method and apparatus are provided to facilitate communications with MTC devices. An apparatus may include processing circuitry configured at least to receive a broadcasted triggering message and to determine whether the triggering message identifies a machine-type... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125889 | Method, system and device for recovering invalid downlink data tunnel between networks Described herein is a method for processing an invalidation of a downlink data tunnel between networks. The method includes the following steps: (1) a core network user plane anchor receives an error indication of data tunnel sent from an access network device, (2) ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125888 | Session initiation protocol survivable server This document discusses, among other things, a telephony network having a server configured to provide selected communication functions following failure of a primary server. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111610 | Flagging of port conditions in high speed networks A non-intrusive condition flag is introduced into high-speed data network for flagging a fault condition without interrupting the normal operation of the network. The condition flag is chosen to be one that is relatively not germane with respect to disrupting the be... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111611 | Bidirectional forwarding detection on multilink bundled interfaces Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) on multilink bundled interfaces. A packet switching device communicates with another packet switching device through... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102759 | Sensor network The present invention provides a method for finding a backup node for a node in a sensor network. Firstly, determining a node which is in a state of waiting for being an agent node among a plurality of nodes adjacent to the node to be backed up for using the agent n... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102758 | Analyzing virtual private network failures The specification provides information for determining any impacted customers, virtual private networks, circuits, and devices following a path failure. The specification uses an information-gathering component to find system information and uses the system informat... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098572 | Interface monitoring for link aggregation The present invention provides network interface monitoring and management that may be employed with link aggregation technologies. Multiple network interfaces may be aggregated into a single bond and data may be transferred to and from a backbone network via this a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098573 | Bridge, system, bridge control method and program recording medium A bridge according to an exemplary aspect of the invention comprises a BPDU-receiver which receives a BPDU packet of an STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) including failure information and an error-handler which performs error handling according to the failure information... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098571 | Stack manager protocol with automatic set up mechanism A stack switch for performing pass-through forwarding operations, assigning stack switch identifiers to a plurality of stack switches, temporarily disabling supervision messages exchanged by stack switches, and electing a primary master stack switch is disclosed. In... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094548 | Transmission format, communication control apparatus and method, recording medium, and program JPEG-2000 data is formatted into RTP packets for transmission through the Internet. A priority field is provided in the format, and a value indicating the importance of a code stream included in a packet is stored therein. A type field indicates a payload type of a ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089861 | Data verification using signature A system processes packets in a network device and includes a memory for buffering the packets. The memory may store the packets in memory in data cells. To expedite packet processing, portions of the packet are extracted and placed in a notification, which is then ... | 01/03/2012 |
