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| 8189471 | Method, system and optical network terminal for mapping a service flow into a service transmission channel A method for mapping a service flow to a service transmission channel includes: configuring determined configuration parameters for a message characteristic into an Optical Network Terminal (ONT); the ONT ensures that the received service flow matches the configured... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179798 | Reputation based connection throttling Systems and methods for reputation based connection determinations are provided. Systems used for reputation based connection throttling can include a communications interface, a reputation engine and a connection control engine. The communications interface can rec... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169907 | Method and system for delivering a multi-user packet A method, system, and computer readable media are provided for transmitting multi-user packets in an evolution data only (EVDO) network. Upon receipt of the data rate control requests of access terminals in the network, an access node can group particular access ter... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169906 | Controlling ATM traffic using bandwidth allocation technology A method and system for managing asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic in a computer system is disclosed. The computer system is used in sending, receiving, or sending and receiving a plurality of ATM flows. Each ATM flow has a plurality of ATM cells, a minimum A... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8159946 | Resource management method in wireless communication system Provided is a resource management method in a communication system, and more particularly, a resource management method based on priority in a wireless communication system. The resource management method in a wireless management network includes: setting a priority... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159945 | Sensor network system and data processing method for sensor network An overload on a communication path in a sensor network system is prevented while transferring information from a sensor node as close to real time as possible. When the transfer rate of events transferred from a boundary node (DR) toward a gateway (GW) exceeds a li... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159947 | Traffic engineering apparatus, network system, and traffic control method and program The present invention provides a traffic engineering apparatus which performs traffic engineering, including: an optimal branch point determination unit which determines an optimal branch point in a network to realize a predetermined policy; and a traffic flow regul... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155003 | Aggregate policing applying max-min fairness for each data source based on probabilistic filtering In one embodiment, a method comprises calculating a corresponding data packet arrival rate for each of a plurality of data sources supplying data packets destined for a prescribed destination, the prescribed destination within a machine and the prescribed destinatio... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149704 | Communication apparatus and data communication method A communication apparatus includes an arrival time estimation unit, connection selection unit, and network processing unit. The arrival time estimation unit estimates, for each block and each of a plurality of connections, an arrival time until a block generated by ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149705 | Packet communications unit To analyze traffic at an application level, a stream according to TCP or SCTP is required to be reconstructed and to be analyzed. When a packet is transferred to analyzing equipment using a port mirroring function with which a router and a switch are provided, trans... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149703 | Powerline network bridging congestion control In a powerline network, a power line node device coupled to a host bridge application detects a “jam packet” in response to an attempt to pass a frame to the host bridge application. The powerline node device uses internal logic to override a conventional ARQ re... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144584 | WRR scheduler configuration for optimized latency, buffer utilization A method includes receiving network information for calculating weighted round-robin (WRR) weights, calculating WRR weights associated with queues based on the network information, and determining whether a highest common factor (HCF) exists in relation to the calcu... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144583 | Network switch that is optimized for a telephony-capable endpoint A method is disclosed that enables the avoidance of a processor overload of a telecommunications endpoint device that is susceptible to traffic floods. An enhanced network switch sets the speed on one of its data ports as a specific function of the speeds of the dev... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134924 | Methods and apparatus related to scheduling in a wireless communications system using shared air link resources for traffic Methods and apparatus related to scheduling decisions of a peer to peer communications device for transmission into traffic intervals are described. A first peer to peer communications device maintains a set of information which allows it to base a scheduling decisi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130647 | Method and apparatus for managing aggregate bandwidth at a server A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for managing traffic in a network data processing system. Traffic for a plurality of network paths is monitored. In response a packet for a particular network path within the plurality of network paths causi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125906 | Capture RCDT and SNTT SAS speed negotiation decodes in a network diagnostic component Systems and methods for a network diagnostic device or component that is placed in-line between two nodes in a network to capture the value of a component of a speed negotiation signal. The network diagnostic component receives a speed negotiation signal from a firs... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125907 | Flow-based adaptive private network with multiple WAN-paths Systems and techniques are described which improve performance, reliability, and predictability of networks without having costly hardware upgrades or replacement of existing network equipment. An adaptive communication controller provides WAN performance and utiliz... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116201 | Routing in a mesh network An apparatus includes a processing system configured to establish a link with any one of a plurality of access points in a mesh network, each of the access points providing the apparatus with a different data path through the mesh network. The processing system is f... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116202 | Methods for allocating transmission bandwidths of a network Methods for allocating transmission bandwidths of a network are adapted to a network including an office terminal and peripheral terminals. The peripheral terminals communicate with the office terminal by time division multiplexing during a sequence of transmitting ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111621 | Method for configuring a telecommunication system The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matc... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107375 | Bandwidth projection for customer bandwidth usage A method of operating a bandwidth projection system is disclosed, wherein the method comprises determining an initial shared bandwidth projection for an access node having an initial bandwidth capacity, generating a plurality of guaranteed bandwidth projections for ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102767 | Systems and methods for dynamically allocating network bandwidth An improved system for allocating bandwidth allows a network customer to dynamically modify bandwidth settings for their private networks. Applicable modified bandwidth settings may include port speed, committed access rate, and Ethernet flow. Port speed determines ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8089878 | Allocating bandwidth in a resilient packet ring network by P controller Implementations and techniques for allocating bandwidth in a resilient packet ring network by a P-type controller are generally disclosed. ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8077617 | Method and system for proxy A/V bridging on an ethernet switch Aspects of a system for proxy A/V bridging on an Ethernet switch may include an AV switch enables reception of incoming PDUs from a legacy device via an AV block network, wherein each incoming PDU contains an AV stream identifier (which consists of a destination add... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059539 | Link throughput enhancer An apparatus and communication method that provide for communicating information on a standardized link compliant with a published standard and communicating information on a private link capable of operation at a throughput higher than maximum throughput of the pub... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059540 | Policy based and link utilization triggered congestion control An apparatus comprising a plurality of ingress ports coupled to a plurality of upstream nodes, the ingress ports having an incoming data rate; and a plurality of egress ports coupled to the ingress ports and an aggregated link comprising a plurality of links, the ag... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054747 | Method for mobile node registration management A mobile node registers with a wireless telecommunications network to obtain a mobile node registration having a registration time period. Before the registration time period expires, the mobile node's registration is renewed, if a renewal criterion is met. The rene... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054746 | Resource usage measurement technique for pricing in a communications network A method and apparatus are disclosed for measuring the usage of a communications network, based on a two level sampling and measuring technique. A sampling interval, T, represents the intervals at which the network resource is observed. In addition, during each samp... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045465 | Wireless mobile terminal and telecommunication system A wireless mobile terminal determining a size of an advertised window depending on a current data rate of a wireless downlink transmission is provided. The wireless mobile terminal receives from a transmission control protocol (TCP) sender a data packet comprising a... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040805 | Load control in a communication network A gateway apparatus for interfacing an access network 1 to a service network 3, the apparatus comprising an input for receiving access requests from the access network at a first flow rate, an output for forwarding access requests to a gateway controll... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036120 | Technique for admission control of packet flows A technique for admission control of packet flows is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for admission control of packet flows in a network. The method may comprise determining at least one flow rate associate... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036121 | Method of estimating quality degradation on network in communication network system In a quality degradation (QD) portion estimating method on a network, a passive measuring unit connected with a management target network measures E2E flow quality (FQ) data on a route from a transmitting terminal connected with a different network to a receiving te... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031602 | Estimating wireless processing device queue length and estimating signal reception quality in a wireless network The present invention may be used to estimate operational characteristics of devices that transmit and receive streams of information in a communication system. In one application, the level of occupancy of a FIFO buffer in a processing device such as a router or wi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031601 | Slow-start adaptive mechanisms to improve efficiency of bandwidth allocation Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to improving the efficiency of bandwidth allocation schemes by adapting to slow-start mechanisms associated with network communications protocols, such as the TCP/IP protocol suite. In one implementation, the present inventi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027257 | Traffic management for frame relay switched data service A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018850 | Wireless video transmission system A transmission systems suitable for video. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009565 | Switch with function for assigning queue based on a declared transfer rate In an asynchronous transfer mode switch, a plurality of queues is provided for accumulating transfer cells, and a queue assignment processing section, receives a message for establishing a connection and assigns to the connection one of the queues having a forwardin... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009564 | Transmitting apparatus and transmission rate control method In a communication of explicit multicast system used in SICC, the frequency of variation of the transmission rate is reduced to achieve a multimedia data transmission exhibiting a high quality. An available bandwidth estimating part (102) of a transmitting ap... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004985 | Communication terminal which perform low-delay communication by using a broadband line A communication terminal which sets a communication session between a plurality of communication terminals through a network to perform data transmission and reception includes a measuring unit which measures round-trip delay time (RTT) or one-way delay time between... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004984 | Routing control technique in MPLS This invention is to provide a technique enabling efficient routing in the entire network by totally viewing a state of the entire network from a specific server. An information processing method for managing paths between arbitrary nodes in a specific network accor... | 08/23/2011 |
