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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7675853 | Communication system architecture and operating methods thereof To ensure an effective mechanism for disaster recovery, system migration and network enlargement, a communication system (FIG. 6) comprises a narrowband-to-broadband interface (300) having a plurality of network adaptors (302-306) interco... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672234 | Congestion avoidance within aggregate channels Network congestion avoidance within aggregated channels is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method first transmits a packet associated with a first channel of a plurality of related channels from a source protocol layer (e.g., a source IP layer) of a source through a... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672235 | System and method for buffering real-time streaming content in a peer-to-peer overlay network One embodiment provides a system and method for synchronously buffering real-time streaming content in a peer-to-peer overlay network to improve inter-peer-node synchronization. A requesting peer node identifies a partner peer node that transiently stages content se... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672233 | Traffic management for a passive optical network terminal Techniques are described for managing traffic flow to an optical network terminal (ONT) on a passive optical network (PON) to prevent an individual ONT from being overrun. Specifically, the techniques involve reducing a transmission rate of a unique traffic flow and... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672232 | Methods and systems for frequency and time division access Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for managing and allocating bandwidth in a communication medium. ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668087 | Hierarchical metering in a virtual router-based network switch Methods and systems are provided for applying metering and rate-limiting in a virtual router environment and supporting a hierarchy of metering/rate-limiting contexts per packet flow. According to one embodiment, multiple first level metering options and multiple se... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668088 | Handheld electronic device including voice over IP quality indicator, and associated method A method of placing a call from a handheld device to a receiving device using VoIP includes initiating the call, transmitting a plurality of voice data packets to the receiving device, determining whether the receiving device has detected one or more missing or dela... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668089 | Method and apparatus for terminating selected traffic flows A traffic management processor configured to selectively terminate individual traffic flows includes an instruction decoder to receive a termination instruction specifying which traffic flows are to be deleted, and a content addressable memory device having a plural... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668090 | Setting pre-congestion notification admission and preemption thresholds in computer networks A method and apparatus for setting admission and preemption thresholds in a computer network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving traffic information including a first bandwidth utilization on each link located between ingress nodes and egre... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668086 | Verification and correction of 10GBASE-X lane routing between nodes In a network having a first node and a second node, a method of verifying a lane routing between the first node and the second node. The first node and the second node operate according to a protocol in which: (1) a character is converted to code groups, (2) each co... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664025 | Packet network telecommunication system Packet network telecommunication systems, especially Internet Protocol (IP) telephony removes the need of explicit installing of TSP (TAPI service provider) software or other telephony software at each workstation. Application server software or corresponding contro... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664021 | Recording and reproducing apparatus and file transfer method A recording and reproducing apparatus includes a file recorder, an interface, and controller which, upon receipt of content file with copy control information, records the content file in the recorder by adding thereto identification information M requesting transfe... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664022 | Policy-based service management system A policy-based management mechanism is provided, whereby the mechanism provides for at least the controlling of access to network resources, the integration of different frameworks into a common open standard, and modular components for assembling integrated date an... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664019 | Method and apparatus for facilitating differentiated service qualities in an ethernet passive optical network One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for forwarding packets in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) which includes a central node and at least one remote node. During operation, the system associates a logical link identifier (LLID) to a l... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664018 | Methods and apparatus for switching fibre channel arbitrated loop devices Methods and apparatus for switching Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop Systems is provided between a plurality of Fiber Channel Loop devices. In one aspect of the invention, the system switches based at least in part on arbitrated loop primitives. An exemplary interconne... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664020 | Bandwidth allocation for video-on-demand networks Methods for the optimal allocation of bandwidth among a plurality of video-on-demand (VOD) programs available on each link of a VOD tree network, where a server at the root node of the tree network broadcasts the multiple VOD programs. Each node in the network has d... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664023 | Dynamic protocol construction A method includes advertising a policy characterizing communication properties supported by a node. The policy may be distributed to another node in response to a request for the policy. Policy expressions in the policy include one or more assertions that may be gro... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664017 | 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... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664024 | VoIP network system for multicasting packets and a method of constructing the same In a VoIP network system, when a host terminal detects a link with a network, a connection-time determiner determines the time required for reconnection from a disconnection time when a link with the network was disconnected before to an establishment time when a li... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660244 | Method and apparatus for quality-of-service based admission control using a virtual scheduler In a wireless network or other communication system, admission of users to the system involves use of a first scheduler, which makes actual scheduling decisions for admitted users, and a second scheduler, which emulates the operation of the first scheduler. The firs... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660243 | Method for management of voice-over IP communications Method for admitting new voice calls to a VoIP network. Various points in the network are polled to generate a link utilization parameter. Parameters denoting threshold values of link utilization in the network are compared to the link utilization parameter. A first... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660247 | Dynamic load-based credit distribution Methods and systems for dynamically adjusting credits used to distribute available bus bandwidth among multiple virtual channels, based on the workload of each virtual channel, are provided. Accordingly, for some embodiments, virtual channels with higher workloads r... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660245 | FEC architecture for streaming services including symbol-based operations and packet tagging In a packet communications system stream data is transported over a channel over which packet loss or corruption is possible, with forward error correction (“FEC”) information. A transmitter receives source packets comprising source data, generates FEC source pa... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660246 | Method and apparatus for scaling input bandwidth for bandwidth allocation technology A method and apparatus are provided for scaling an input bandwidth for bandwidth allocation technology. An original bandwidth count value of an input flow is received. A bandwidth scaler constant is provided and used for scaling the received original bandwidth count... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660242 | Call admission control system and method for interpreting signaling messages and controlling traffic load in internet protocol differentiated services networks A call admission control system and method for Internet Protocol (IP) Differentiated Services (DiffServ) network having at least one node for interpreting signaling messages and controlling traffic load in the network. The method consists of an initialization (60... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7656796 | Class-based detection of microcongestion on QoS-enabled links This is a method for use in detecting and measuring microcongestion on links where QoS is utilized to provide a prioritized packet delivery service. Microcongestion is a transient condition that occurs over extremely short periods of time and is generally invisible ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656797 | Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing a distributed router architecture An apparatus for providing a distributed router architecture includes a processing element and a resource availability element. The processing element may be configured to receive indications of receipt of data associated with a service for routing to a destination ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656798 | Service interface for QoS-driven HPNA networks An out-of-band signaling model media control (MC) terminal for an HPNA network includes a QoS management entity (QME) and an admission control entity (ACE) and provides end-to-end QoS by passing the QoS requirements from higher layer to the lower layers of the HPNA ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656794 | Method and apparatus for authenticated quality of service reservation A method and apparatus for providing authenticated quality of service reservation in a communication system. According to one embodiment of the invention a signaling controller distributes keys for use by a first quality of service server and a router for establishi... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656795 | Preventing duplicate sources from clients served by a network address port translator Preventing duplicate sources on a protocol connection that uses network addresses, protocols and port numbers to identify source applications that are served by a NAPT. If an arriving packet encapsulates an encrypted packet and has passed through an NAPT en route to... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7652992 | Two tier traffic shaper approach for resilient packet ring stations RPR traffic management concepts are extended to individual client flows while adhering to the station level traffic management functions by using a two tiered shaper approach. The first tier manages the client level SLAs and feeds the second tier which provides the ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652989 | Method of performing adaptive connection admission control in consideration of input call states in differentiated service network In the adaptive connection admission control method of the present invention, a corresponding ingress edge node performs connection admission control for a new connection within the amount of bandwidth initially allocated to each of paths between the ingress and egr... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652990 | Method and apparatus for providing quality of service level in broadband communications systems An access terminal having user applications identified by product keys used to determine a QoS level to be granted to invoked user applications for the establishment of connections by an access network. The access terminal invokes the user applications, identifies t... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652988 | Hardware-based rate control for bursty traffic A hardware-based rate control engine is designed to allow credits to be accumulated over multiple time-slices up to a maximum credit limit. The rate control engine is also allowed to dispatch packets up to a maximum drain rate during each time-slice as long as suffi... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652991 | Network with distributed authentication control A bridged network system (10). The system comprises at least one network server (NS) for receiving and responding to authentication session requests. The system also comprises a plurality of bridge nodes (BRNx). Each bridge node in the plurality of... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7649839 | Method and device for managing data rate in a communication system A method is provided for managing a data rate in a communication system that includes a first device. The first device receives (202) at least one data packet from a second device over a link, wherein the at least one data packet is sent at a first data rate,... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646711 | Policing device A policing device having a table storing monitored bandwidth, packet history information for each importance level, and the allocation weight of the monitored bandwidth for each importance level, a policing table control circuit for reading out these items of inform... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7646710 | Mobility in a multi-access communication network The present invention provides a terminal capable of establishing multiple communication sessions with a public network proxy through different access networks. The terminal actively communicates with the public network proxy to control which of the multiple communi... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7646712 | Using a signal route dependent on a node speed change prediction A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for receiving wireless data via a node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route and relaying at least a portion of the wireless data. ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643414 | WAN keeper efficient bandwidth management The present invention is directed to a call admission controller that is operable to: (a) determine at least one of (i) a bandwidth utilization level for a first path including a first link; (ii) an available bandwidth level for the first path; and (iii) one or more... | 01/05/2010 |