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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111620 | Ability to provide quality of service (QOS) to an IPSEC tunnel in a foreign network Quality of Service (QoS) is provided to a secure data tunnel such an IPsec tunnel using information about the tunnel and the underlying data session to formulate a set of bandwidth requirements. A policy server operates to receive the information to create the set o... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107368 | Large packet concatenation in satellite communication system Upstream information arriving through a gateway from a user terminal in a satellite link subject to propagation delay is efficiently scheduled through a modified Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) algorithm such that arriving data packets arriving at the softwar... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107366 | System and method for using centralized network performance tables to manage network communications A system for centrally controlling packet network communications may include an input/output (I/O) unit configured to communicate data packets over a packet network with multiple network communications devices, a processing unit in communication with the I/O unit an... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107369 | Congestion and delay handling in a packet data network A method of managing a data packet queue in a buffer associated with the radio layers of a wireless network, the buffer storing packets prior to their transmission over the radio interface. The method comprises defining minimum and maximum threshold levels for the p... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107367 | Method for establishing adaptive mobile cluster network The invention discloses a method of establishing an adaptive mobile cluster network. The method comprises the steps of: (a) determining a network service requested by a mobile communication device; (b) according to the requested network service, determining at least... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102763 | Method, system and node for backpressure in multistage switching network The present invention provides a backpressure method, system, and intermediate stage switching node of a multistage switching network and an intermediate stage switching node. The method includes: (i) the intermediate stage switching node receives a first backpressu... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098578 | System and method for increasing granularity of prefix control in a computer network A technique dynamically increases the granularity of prefix control in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a routing table is populated with one or more reachable prefixes, e.g., learned or configured prefixes, and performance characteristics (e.g.... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098579 | System and method for adjusting the window size of a TCP packet through remote network elements A system for adjusting the window size of a TCP packet on a packet network including a receiving transport layer device configured to determine network performance information of the packet network; concatenate the network performance information into the data packe... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098577 | Method and device for managing simultaneous connections of a mobile telecommunications device to different networks Method and device for managing simultaneous connections of a mobile telecommunications device to at least a wireless local area network and a mobile telephone network via a single terminal of the mobile telecommunications device, the method including the steps of: (... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094553 | Base station, radio terminal and radio communication method According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided with a radio communication method using an OFDMA scheme for uplink communication from a plurality of radio terminals to a base station, including: detecting communication states of the radio terminal... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094552 | Adaptive buffer for frame based storage communications protocols Methods of managing a receive buffer in a receiving communications terminal are disclosed, the receive buffer including a data memory organized into a plurality of individually addressable data words and into a plurality of segments, each of which is larger than one... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094554 | Compressed mode operation and power control with discontinuous transmission and/or reception Techniques to support operation in a compressed mode and/or a continuous packet connectivity (CPC) mode are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may obtain an assignment of enabled subframes for the CPC mode and an assignment of transmission gaps for the c... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089872 | Efficient load balancing and heartbeat mechanism for telecommunication endpoints The present invention is directed to load balancing call signaling channels at the times that they are established, the use of variable frequency keep alive mechanisms depending on the state of the call signaling channel, and the establishment of a call signaling ch... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089873 | Method and system of managing QoS-guaranteed multimode fast mobility in wireless networks Disclosed herein is a method and system for managing QoS-guaranteed multimode fast mobility in wireless networks. The method includes the steps of (a) in response to a request for call establishment, registering a user ID, the unique IP address of a user, a currentl... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089874 | Node repair in a mesh network In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for sensing a change in a network topology using a discovery node in a mesh network; transmitting an explore frame, based at least in part on the sensed change, from the discovery node to a ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089871 | Method and apparatus for traffic control of dynamic denial of service attacks within a communications network A method and apparatus for providing traffic management for distributed denial of service (DDOS) traffic. Within a communications network, a DDOS detection system monitors network traffic to identify traffic that is designed to attack a particular server within the ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085661 | Control channel allocation apparatus, mobile communications system, and control channel allocation method A control channel allocation apparatus includes a memory portion that stores an identifier indicating a layer 1 control channel associated with a downlink data channel, and a physical channel parameter for transmitting an uplink layer 1 control channel... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085662 | Open network connections One or more logical network connection points are provided within an electronic communications network. The logical network connections are provided via an interface between one or more connectivity plane devices and a network connected application, service, or cont... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085659 | Method and switch for routing data packets in interconnection networks The invention falls within the technology of multistage interconnection network such as fat-trees, comprising at least one switch located at a stage (s) and configured to send, through an output port from a number (k) of output ports forming an ordered list, at leas... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085660 | System, method and computer readable medium for communicating with a zigbee device from a peripheral network In order to minimize traffic on a Zigbee network, a gateway of the Zigbee network represents end devices in communications with peripheral networks. The gateway receives messages, such as status request messages, from the peripheral network intended for an end devic... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081570 | High speed flow control methodology A method and apparatus for controlling data flow across a network performs a method which includes transmitting a packet request message from a first station to a second station, then determining if the packet request message is valid. A request acknowledge message ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081571 | Flow admission control in an IP network A flow admission control module for IP traffic types monitors network topology and usage. A new flow is not admitted if it is determined that the flow would push the utilization of available bandwidth reserved for the traffic type on a link in the associated path be... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081568 | Role determination for network devices Techniques for selecting authentication roles when establishing a link between devices in a secure network are provided. By assigning role levels to devices, devices may be more likely to assume a preferred role when establishing a link. For example, during a negoti... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081569 | Dynamic adjustment of connection setup request parameters The number of connection setup request packets that are accepted for processing by a network element are dynamically adjusted based on the run time capacity of the network element. The number of accepted connection setup request packets that can be initiated for pro... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081567 | Method and apparatus for detecting wireless data subscribers using natted devices A system and method for network based detection of wireless data subscribers using network address translation devices is provided. The method includes identifying a minimum number of devices showing the same internet protocol address. Packet identification sequence... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081566 | Method and apparatus for indicating congestion in a source routed network A packet header in a source routed network is augmented to include, with each hop identifier, at least one bit for indicating congestion at the particular hop. As the packet traverses from the source to the destination, when congestion is detected at a hop, a conges... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077609 | Method for providing quality-of-service based services in a packet network The disclosure provides a system and method for providing a service in a packet-switched network at a selected Quality of Service (QoS) level. The method includes receiving a request for a service from a customer gateway at server connected to the packet-switched ne... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077610 | Memory architecture for high speed network devices An embodiment of the present invention reduces certain memory bandwidth requirements when sending a multicast message from a network device such as a router, bridge or switch. Separate output buffers are provided for different groups of egress ports, and incoming me... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077612 | Apparatus, method and computer program product to configure a radio link protocol for internet protocol flow A radio link service profile is defined as a set of parameters for upper layer transport of an IP packet, and may be associated with a logical channel flow identifier. A data packet is sent over a wireless logical channel that is identified by the LCID between a bas... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077613 | Pinning and protection on link aggregation groups A device may assign a virtual local area network (VLAN) to one or more specific links in a link aggregation group (LAG), and send traffic from the VLAN on the assigned one or more specific LAG links. Traffic from the same VLAN may be sent on one link in the LAG by s... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077614 | Synchronizing wireless local area network access points In a wireless local area network, a first and second access point in which the RF coverage areas overlap are synchronized by positioning a monitor station within the overlap area. The monitor station receives beacon frames from both access points and records the arr... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077611 | Multilevel coupled policer A multilevel coupled policer is configured to police packets using at least two policing levels, including a first-level of class policers and a second-level aggregate policer. The multilevel coupled policer is configured to share bandwidth of the aggregate policer ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072882 | Method and apparatus for a graceful flow control mechanism in a TDM-based packet processing architecture A method and apparatus for improving packet processing employing a network flow control mechanism are disclosed. A network process, in one embodiment, suspends distribution of incoming packet(s) to one or more, packet processing engines (“PEs”) upon detecting a ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068417 | System, method, and computer program product for processing flow requests based on an associated preference using a single computation A router system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, a flow request is received. In addition, the flow request is processed based on one of a plurality of preferences using a single measurement and/or a single computation. Further, the one pref... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068414 | Arrangement for tracking IP address usage based on authenticated link identifier Link layer authentication information is supplied by a link layer authentication device to an access router for tracking IP address usage by a client device. The authentication information supplied to the access router includes an authenticated client identifier and... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068416 | System and method of communicating a media stream In an embodiment, a method of allocating media streams includes measuring real-time port usage data related to each of a plurality of physical ports associated with a link aggregation group. The method further includes selecting at least one, but not all, of the plu... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068418 | Information processing apparatus According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a dividing unit configured to divide coded audio data in unit of frame when the audio data is transmitted to an external device; a generating unit configured to ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068415 | Secure one-way data transfer using communication interface circuitry Network interface circuitry for a secure one-way data transfer from a sender's computer (“Send Node”) to a receiver's computer (“Receive Node”) over a data link, such as an optical fiber or shielded twisted pair copper wire communication cable, comprising se... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068419 | System and method for transmitting video, audio, and data content using a fiber optic network The present invention is directed to a system and method for controlling a data transmission network, and in particular, to a fiber optic broadcast quality video and audio transmission network, that can also provide customers, or users, the feature of accessing and ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064341 | Temporal-spatial burst switching Expanding the coverage of a time-shared network comprising electronic edge nodes interconnected by bufferless fast-switching optical nodes is enabled by combining spatial switching with temporal switching. The output side of each edge node preferably connects to a l... | 11/22/2011 |
