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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107376 | Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles Methods are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment, a policy engine of a VR defines services available to subscribers in terms of profile identifiers. A scalable subscriber profile database is established havi... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7961615 | Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles Methods are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a subscriber connection is created with a virtual router operable within a telecommunications system of a service provider. A connec... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7944832 | Method and device for realizing content flowing on P2P network This invention relates to a method and device for realizing content flowing continuously on P2P network, which is used for dividing the content to be transmitted into a plurality of blocks; detects connection state of all nodes performing the content transmission, c... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7911951 | Best-effort bandwidth allocating method and device A method is disclosed including: measuring sending amounts of packet data that are input from each of ports providing minimum bandwidth guarantee type and best-effort type communication service; calculating statistical information corresponding to an accounting subj... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907527 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for grooming traffic on a shared network facility based on a peak utilization analysis of the shared network facility A communication network is operated by monitoring a bandwidth utilization of a shared network resource, performing a statistical analysis to determine a mean utilization peak and/or a utilization peak coefficient of variance, monitoring a bandwidth utilization of li... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7876683 | Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles Methods are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment, subscriber services are modified without requiring a change to the subscriber's first-level profile identifier and without requiring the subscriber to reesta... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869361 | Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles Apparatus are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment, a router includes a subscriber manager, a database and a virtual interface. The subscriber manager is operable to receive a connection request from a subsc... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7822042 | Statistic multiplex transmission system The present invention is directed to obtain a statistic multiplexing effect in an image transmission system using terminals stipulated by H.310 of an ITU-T recommendation. In a network including a first local area ATM network, a second local area ATM network ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7808904 | Method and apparatus for managing subscriber profiles Methods and apparatus for managing subscriber profiles are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving, from a requester, a request to determine an operation to be performed on a data packet. The method also includes determining profile identi... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7756031 | Narrowband voice systems and methods Systems and methods for optimizing usage of an available bandwidth for VoIP communications include a communications system, such as the Internet, for carrying the VoIP communication signals. A switch and a bandwidth limiter connected to the switch restrict bandwidth... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751325 | Method and apparatus for sketch-based detection of changes in network traffic A sketch-based change detection technique is introduced for anomaly detection. The technique is capable of detecting significant changes in massive data streams with a large number of network time series. As part of the technique, we designed a variant of the sketch... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7738377 | Method and apparatus for volumetric thresholding and alarming on internet protocol traffic A method and apparatus for analyzing traffic arriving at and/or departing from a traffic aggregate defined as a given IP-related protocol, a given port associated with a given protocol, an IP address or subset of IP addresses, or by other traffic aggregation, during... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729251 | Asynchronous transfer mode switch The invention provides an ATM switch which realizes hierarchical shaping for each virtual channel and each virtual path with a simple configuration. Cells are sent from cell buffers of an ATM core switch by FIFO operation to output side connection information applic... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7706270 | Communication control method for recovering a communication failure due to a packet loop generated by an improper connection and communication system to which the same is applied In a communication system, transmission/reception of data can be performed between end hosts connected to a relay switch in a subnet even in an improper connection at a L2 level in the relay switch in a communication. Communication failure due to a packet loop gener... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701853 | Method for policing-based adjustments to transmission window size The invention includes a method for determining a window size for a connection. One method according to the invention includes determining a peak information rate for the connection, determining a round trip time for the connection, and determining the window size u... | 04/20/2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
