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| 8107372 | Collision compensation in a scheduling system A system schedules traffic flows on an output port using a circular memory structure. The circular memory structure may be a rate wheel that includes a group of sequentially arranged slots. The rate wheel schedules the traffic flows in select ones of the slots based... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107370 | Network access device with restricted and unrestricted input ports Access devices and methods according to the invention interconnect digital devices and a network. Setting a parameter associated with each input port of an access device specifies whether the device connected with that port is restricted or unrestricted. When a part... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107371 | Apparatus and method for providing QoS of AV streams An apparatus and method for providing the QoS of AV streams is disclosed, in which a period for processing AV streams to provide the QoS of the AV streams is separately assigned at a predetermined time, and a plurality of AV streams are simultaneously processed. The... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102764 | Method and system for performance evaluation in communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor A system for evaluating performance of a network providing communication services by means of a generalized processor sharing packet scheduling discipline. The services may include classes of services having real time and non real time (i.e. “elastic”) requireme... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102765 | Correlation-based rate adaptation for communication networks A correlation-based rate adaptation scheme (CORA) is enabled for practical communication devices that provides for communication data rate adaptation in a complex and/or rapidly changing communication environment. Correlations may be determined between adjustable pa... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098580 | Priority scheduling using per-priority memory structures A system schedules traffic flows on an output port using circular memory structures. The circular memory structures may include rate wheels that include a group of sequentially arranged slots. The traffic flows may be assigned to different rate wheels on a per-prior... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094555 | Dynamic weighted-fair load-balancing In one embodiment, a node identifies a plurality of equal cost best paths to a destination, the best paths having one or more associated links. The node receives dynamic link utilization information for the associated links, and determines an amount of traffic to th... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094556 | Dynamic buffering and synchronization of related media streams in packet networks Mechanisms are disclosed for using two or more buffers, at a common receiving node, to reduce the effects of jitter, packet loss, and/or packet latency and/or synchronize different types of packets. Specifically, the two or more buffers can be used to temporarily st... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089875 | Network real time monitoring and control system A network real-time monitoring and control system includes several layers of components for generating a network traffic shaping control that is used to shaping network traffic flows for one or more network nodes. The layers of the network real-time monitoring and c... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089876 | Packet transmission apparatus and packet transmission method An aspect of the embodiments related to a packet transmission apparatus includes a user identification unit for identifying the user of an input user flow upon input of the user flow containing communication packets and maintenance packets, a maintenance packet extr... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085663 | Data processing apparatus and data processing method A data processing apparatus including: an adjusting section configured to receive a stream including packets and a start flag indicative of the beginning of each of the packets in the stream, adjust a rate of the stream to a certain rate, and output the adjusted str... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077615 | Multicast admission control A resource admission control entity and method in an administrative domain (AD). The AD has a topology view that comprises link capacity and link usage information. The resource admission control entity receives a request intended for a user to obtain a multicast co... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068420 | Temporal slaving device The invention relates to a device for temporal slaving in a packet data transmission network, each data packet comprising a time label, comprising means of temporary storage. According to the invention, the said device is such that:—the means of temporary storage ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059538 | CMON: an “always-on” monitoring platform for high-speed links Systems and methods are discussed for providing a continuous monitoring system for high-speed links. Data packets are passively read in a high-speed environment. Concurrent streams are created to handle the high-speed data packets and to manipulate subsets of data p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059537 | Quality of service support in a media exchange network Certain aspects of the invention for controlling transfer of media content in a communication network may comprise the step of receiving an input specifying at least one media file for transfer via a communication channel in the communication network. Based on a rec... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045461 | Method and device for implementing virtual-switch The present invention provides a method and a device for implementing a V-Switch. Through setting up a V-Switch correlation with respect to at least two VLAN tags, a DRE performs a V-Switch transmission on an Ethernet frame received according to the V-Switch correla... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045462 | Partitioning communication system A system and method for communicating data between two nodes defines a plurality of separate partitions on each node and assigns one or more subjects to at least one of the plurality of the separate partitions. The subjects in each node communicate data with each ot... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036118 | Inducing symmetry via multi topology routing In one embodiment, a technique for selecting a topology, in a multi-topology routing network, based on a source-destination pair of a packet is provided. The packet may be routed on a preferred path of the selected topology. By selecting the same topology for the so... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031598 | Flow-rate-regulated burst switches Burst-switching nodes using a common-memory or a time shared space switch and employing flow-rate control are disclosed. Within a switching node, data bursts are segmented into data segments of a fixed size with some segments containing information bits as well as n... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031599 | Statistical, signature-based approach to IP traffic classification A signature-based traffic classification method maps traffic into preselected classes of service (CoS). By analyzing a known corpus of data that clearly belongs to identified ones of the preselected classes of service, in a training session the method develops stati... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031597 | Method and apparatus for performing data communication between mobile communication terminal and wireline communication server A method of processing an error frame that occurs in packet data communication between a mobile station and a communication server which exchanges packets with the mobile station over a radio network may be carried out by a mobile station. The method carried out by ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027254 | Method of limiting bit rate in a telecommunications network A method of limiting the bit rate going to a network service having a target bit rate, data packet traffic to the service coming from at least one contributor, and a bit rate being associated with the portion of the traffic coming from said contributor. The method i... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027255 | Method and apparatus for prioritizing packets for use in managing packets in radio access networks The invention includes a method and apparatus adapted for managing packets within a Radio Access Network (RAN). A method includes receiving a packet within the RAN, determining a packet priority assigned to the packet, and managing the packet within the RAN based on... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8014282 | Hashing packet contents to determine a processor The disclosure includes a description of an apparatus having circuitry to determine a first hash value for a first packet tuple of a first packet traveling in a first direction of a duplex connection and determine a processor for the first packet from a set of multi... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009563 | Method and system for transmit scheduling for multi-layer network interface controller (NIC) operation Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for multi-layer network interface controller (NIC) operation. An aspect of the invention may utilize a two (2) level work-conserving scheduling system for network interface controller operation... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7990860 | Method and system for rule-based sequencing for QoS Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for communicating data over a network to provide Quality of Service. The method includes receiving data over a network, prioritizing the data, and communicating the data based at least in part on the prio... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986624 | Quality of service enhancements for adaptive coding and modulation A process is described to build frames for transmission with a modcode adapted to the signal quality of a destination terminal. The order of transmission may be based, at least in part, on the age of a packet as defined by a timestamp. Data packets assigned to the s... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983160 | Method and apparatus for transmitting a coded video signal A method and apparatus for transmitting a digitally encoded video image in real time via a data network wherein the video image is digitally encoded using a compression algorithm having a variable bit rate, e.g., JPEG2K, to provide an encoded data stream, the encode... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983161 | Control management of voice-over-IP parameters A control management system for managing voice-over-IP parameters includes a network traffic shaping control state model for a network traffic shaping control. The network traffic shaping control state model defines state sets that contain states. The state sets may... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978603 | Traffic optimization in a heterogeneous wireless cabin network A method for transmitting signals, consisting of receiving a plurality of signals generated in an isolated region, the signals encoding respective individual payloads and payload envelopes. At least two of the signals operate under different protocols. The method in... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969880 | Device and method for relaying packets Computing process with a computational expression is executed using seed information including at least one of destination information and source information associated with a received packet. It is preferable to select a physical port for transmission of the receiv... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969878 | Quality guarantee for real-time applications over shared networks A shared wireless channel may serve real-time traffic and non-real-time traffic. Depending on channel conditions, the real-time traffic may experience variable levels of quality. The present invention contemplates systems and methods for guaranteeing bounded access ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969879 | Supporting network self-healing and optimization A method of managing a network includes configuring nodes and applications of the network to refer to the same framework of predefined network capabilities. Each of the applications is configured to implement one or more of the capabilities. Each of the applications... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965631 | Methods and systems for load-adaptive backoff for WiMAX ranging Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide an adaptive technique to determine size of a ranging back-off window according to a load of ranging channel. By applying an adaptive increase of the back-off window size, a probability of collision between rangin... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961612 | Limiting transmission rate of data An improved solution for limiting the transmission rate of data over a network is provided according to an aspect of the invention. In particular, the transmission rate for a port is limited by rate limiting one of a plurality of queues (e.g., class/quality of servi... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957286 | Method for estimating optimized transmission bit rate in wireless local area network system The present invention relates to a method for estimating an optimized transmission bit rate in a wireless local area network (LAN) system, which is to provide an accurate data transmission bit rate according to channel status when block data are transmitted in the w... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953007 | Excessive flow detection device, excessive flow detection circuit, terminal apparatus and network node A packet information extraction circuit derives predetermined key information (for example, destination information or transmission source information) from a received packet. A HASH result computation circuit generates m (a plurality of) pseudo-random numbers (HASH... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953006 | Handling multiple point-to-multipoint services For enabling multiple point-to-multipoint (PTM) services in a radio communication network system, when joining sessions relating to multiple PTM services is requested by a user equipment first, a first context between the user equipment and network elements providin... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7944830 | Methods and appratus for evaluating a utilization of a system that provides connections using a normalized bandwidth scheme Methods and apparatus are provided for evaluating the throughput limit of a communication system, such as a network node or system. A throughput limit of a communication system is evaluated by receiving a request to allocate at least one connection of a given data t... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944829 | Mechanism for managing access to resources in a heterogeneous data redirection device A system and method for policing of access to resources in a heterogeneous data redirection device is disclosed. The invention utilizes Random Early Detection to determine whether or not a given packet should be dropped or accepted into the resource. The invention u... | 05/17/2011 |
