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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7675855 | System and method for providing traffic flow control in a communication network The present invention provides a system and method for establishing a data transmission rate in a communication network for data transmission from a first communication module to a second communication module. Generally, the method comprises: (a) reading at the firs... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7602715 | Scheduling system and scheduling method for the same A scheduling system includes a read sequence management table that includes a group of elements and an allocation processor that converts the group of elements in the read sequence management table to a group of corresponding slots in a time slot. The scheduling sys... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7561516 | Packet relaying method and device In a network of a variable length packet system, a bps calculator colors an inputted packet based on a peak bandwidth or a committed bandwidth of a data bit number per unit time for every flow and a packet length of the inputted packet, a pps calculator colors the i... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7443882 | Data sharing system, transmitting terminal apparatus, transmitting terminal apparatus controlling method, receiving terminal apparatus, receiving terminal apparatus controlling method, and recording medium A data sharing system is disclosed together with a transmitting terminal apparatus and a receiving terminal apparatus interconnected and controlled so as to effect efficient data transfers and concomitant interlocking processes therebetween in keeping with network c... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433947 | System and method for determining real-time application verb response times A system, method and computer program product are provided for calculating application verb response times. Initially, packet data is received after which the packet data is aggregated into either an existent flow, or a new flow. In use, information is collected rel... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433369 | Controlling network traffic In an ATM exchange, a cell transmission control section transmits an ATM cell to a transmission path of an ATM network. A traffic monitor monitors traffic of the cell transmissions. A statistical process section performs a temporal statistical process on the result ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430198 | RF utilization calculation and reporting method for 802.11 wireless local area networks A radio frequency exchange utilization calculation method in wireless medium that comprises identifying a plurality of packet counters pertaining to each of a plurality of transmission speeds and to each of a plurality of components of the wireless medium, identifyi... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426221 | Pitch invariant synchronization of audio playout rates A method for adjusting audio playback is disclosed. The method includes storing audio packets in a jitter buffer, and playing out the audio packets at a first rate. The method further includes determining that a capacity parameter for the jitter buffer is out of com... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7418031 | Automatic baud rate determination The present invention provides an electronic device consisting of a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) having its transmit data output connected to a triggered timer and a computing means that computes the transmitted baud rate from the time measured... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418494 | Method and system for background replication of data objects In an embodiment, a system and method may manage network resources to provide a near zero-cost background replication of data. Such a system may be inhibited from causing interference with foreground data flows. Such a system may also utilize a large fraction of spa... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7391717 | Streaming of variable bit rate multimedia content Systems and methods for improved streaming of variable bit rate multimedia content are described. The described systems and methods solve some streaming problems by streaming the variable bit rate content at a constant bit rate that is negotiated between a server an... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7376084 | Method and apparatus of providing resource allocation and admission control support in a VPN Method and apparatus for effectively supporting resource allocation and admission control of a Virtual Private Network in a service provider network. ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369489 | Unbiased token bucket The present invention defines a method of unbiased policing of data flow in a network device. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the token bucket policer of the network device ‘permits’ (forwards) incoming packets even when the size of the toke... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369564 | Method and system for service flow mobility in a wireless network Traffic for a mobile device is queued in one of a plurality of class of service queues for the mobile device. An association of the class of service queues for the mobile device is altered from a first sector to a second sector in response to at least a sector chang... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370094 | Method and device for adjusting the maximum size of the information sequences transmitted in a telecommunication network In order to adjust the maximum size of the information sequences transmitted by a plurality of terminals in a network, according to a predetermined network protocol, between two subnetworks supporting different maximum sizes of information sequence: there is stored ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369491 | Regulating data-burst transfer The invention discloses methods and apparatus for regulating the transfer of data bursts across a data network comprising electronic edge nodes interconnected by fast-switching optical core nodes. To facilitate switching at an electronic edge node, data bursts are o... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370096 | Methods and systems to generate and implement a changeover sequence to reconfigure a connection-oriented network A method to reconfigure a connection-oriented network from an existing configuration to a desired configuration includes generating a sequence of configuration specifications for the connection-oriented network. The sequence specifies a plurality of intermediate con... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366154 | Forward error correction scheme for high rate data exchange in a wireless system A transmitter/receiver system for high data transfer in a wireless communication system includes a physical layer processor that comprises an FEC coder, a demultiplexer and a plurality of modem processors. The FEC coder applies error correction codes to the high dat... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363371 | Traffic flow management in a communications network Admission of rapidly varying traffic flows to a communications network is controlled by sampling the traffic flows each at an ingress, and sampling an aggregate flow of said flows at some or all of the resources used by the aggregate flow. From this sampling, a mean... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363385 | Routing of data transmission connection A problem with known data transmission networks is that the connection of the terminal equipment to the data transmission network is not flexible. The user must himself actively perform the choice and connection of access as well as its registration with the network... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359984 | Management of network quality of service In one embodiment, a router is deployed on a local area network (LAN) in addition to any routers deployed on a wide area network (WAN) coupled with the LAN having the router. A service management device is coupled between the two routers. The service management devi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359386 | Soft preemption feedback Systems and methods for preemption of Traffic Engineering LSPs such that preemption decisions are made in a coordinated fashion along the path of a new LSP and computation of a new path for a preempted LSP can take advantage of knowledge of newly unavailable links. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355971 | Determining packet size in networking A method of determining a maximum packet size for data packets sent along a network path. A sending computer sends a packet to a receiving computer through a sending interface. The packet is fragmented during transfer to a receiving interface. The fragments are anal... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356751 | Error handling and audience measurement in datacast network with return channel A data broadcast network with a return channel providing a guaranteed error-free data delivery simultaneously to multiple receiving devices. The network transmits data in packets and uses the return channel for audience measurement and packets recovery. Whenever a c... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356689 | Method and apparatus for tracing packets in a communications network A method for tracing packets in a communications network directed to tracing a stream of anonymous packets received at a given target host, in order to identify their source, in response, for example, to a Denial-of-Service (“DoS”) attack on the target host. Adv... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353284 | Synchronized transmission of audio and video data from a computer to a client via an interface A method for controlling data transmission between a computer and a video client via an interface, the method comprising: the computer polling the interface a first time to determine the size of the buffer on the interface; receiving a first buffer size value from t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349337 | Techniques for shaping data transmission rates Techniques are provided for altering a sender's network transmission rates. A sender transmits a network packet to a receiver. The receiver selectively delays sending an acknowledgment to the sender for the received network packet. The selective delay is based on th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350099 | Method and system for utilizing a logical failover circuit for rerouting data between data networks A method and system are provided for utilizing a logical failover circuit for rerouting data from a failed network circuit in a first data network to a second data network. The network circuit in the first data network includes a logical circuit for communicating da... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349333 | Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell resources Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell capacity in a communications system. The systems and methods assign priorities to each remote user device in the communications system. In response to a request for service for a remote user ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349331 | Procedure and system for scheduling a shared recourse between multiple information packet flows Each synchronous flow (h=1, 2, Ns) is associated to a respective synchronous capacity value (Hh) indicative of the maximum amount of time for which a synchronous flow can be served before relinquishing the token. Each asynchronous flow (I=1, 2,... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346698 | Webcasting method and system for time-based synchronization of multiple, independent media streams A method for time-based synchronization of multiple media streams transmitted over a communications network, such as the Internet, by multiple, independent streaming media sources. First and second media streams of data packets are received from first and second med... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342883 | Method and apparatus for managing network traffic Numerous embodiments of a method and apparatus for managing network traffic are disclosed. ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339911 | Selection between two different coding schemes and corresponding modulation schemes according to the allowable transmission delay of the data Transmitters comprising detectors (32) for detecting packet data to be transmitted are provided with selectors (34) for in response to detection results of real-time requirements selecting first coding schemes and first modulation schemes like convolut... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340023 | Auto baud system and method and single pin communication interface In an auto baud system and method, the baud rates between two communicating devices are synchronized by timing the transmission of a plurality of bits by counting the cycles of a reference clock. The number of cycles counted is then divided by the number of bits cou... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336613 | Method and apparatus for the assessment and optimization of network traffic A system for the assessment of network performance criteria, and applying this criteria to the classification of network addresses into appropriate ranges, using these ranges to consolidate performance measurements for the associated addresses, and applying these me... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334044 | Method for connection acceptance control and optimal multi-media content delivery over networks A method is disclosed for call and/or connection acceptance control and the optimal delivery of multimedia (audio/video) data over networks. This method involves the establishment and monitoring of certain criteria which may be used to maximize the number of simulta... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333580 | Pipelined parallel processing of feedback loops in a digital circuit Digital circuits and methods for designing digital circuits are presented. In an embodiment, a number of bits (B) of a bit-stream to be processed in parallel by a digital circuit is selected. A clocking rate (C) is selected for the digital circuit such that a produc... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330908 | System and method for processing packets using location and content addressable memories An apparatus and method for enhancing the infrastructure of a network such as the Internet is disclosed. A packet interceptor/processor apparatus is coupled with the network so as to be able to intercept and process packets flowing over the network. Further, the app... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327682 | Methods and devices for flexible bandwidth allocation Method and devices are provided for allocating network resources in a flexible manner. In some implementations, a customer's unused resources for a particular type of service are assigned to another type of service. In other implementations, a first customer's unuse... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324546 | Network router integrated onto a silicon chip A router is integrated onto a single silicon chip and includes an internal bus that couples multiple data receive and transmit channels to a central processing unit. The channels each have an external interface for connecting to different LAN or WAN networks. The se... | 01/29/2008 |