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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159950 | Determining processor occupancy of a cluster of home location registers Methods and computer readable mediums are provided for determining the processor occupancy of a cluster of HLR registers. A deterministic-based performance model is utilized to determine the processor occupancy based on a number of nodes in the cluster, a number of ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159949 | Linked-list hybrid peer-to-peer system and method for optimizing throughput speed and preventing data starvation A system and method is described for formulating a linked-list hybrid peer-to-peer sub-network that analyzes capabilities of a plurality of nodes, and creating at least two linked-list hybrid peer-to-peer sub-networks by forming a first group of nodes of the plurali... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7881196 | Resource reservation in a packet switched telecommunications network Resource reservation in a packed switched telecommunications network is provided. System and method are directed to make resource reservation especially in an Internet Protocol (IP) network for achieving Quality of Service (QoS) requirements controlling traffic pref... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7852766 | Detection method, detecting device, reference value calculating device and recording medium Communication quality values such as delay times of packets transmitted and received within a packet network are measured, and a threshold value is calculated based on the measured communication quality values. Further, a management reference value is calculated bas... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7813282 | Connection admission control method and apparatus in broadband wireless access system Provided are a Connection Admission Control (CAC) method and apparatus in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system. The CAC method includes checking a class of a requested service; converting the transmission request rate of the service into the number of required a... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7804778 | Method and apparatus for monitoring link diversity A method and apparatus for monitoring link diversity between two communication networks are disclosed. Physical diversity of communication links are important to guarantee service availability and reliability. Diversity monitoring can be achieved by using routing in... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7782776 | Shared weighted fair queuing (WFQ) shaper A network device includes a port, a buffer, a flow control module, and a service differentiation module. The port is configured to send and receive a packet, wherein the port is connected to a network entity. The buffer is configured to store the packet. The flow co... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7756032 | Method and apparatus for communicating data within measurement traffic The present invention is directed to using measurement packets to compute network performance. Embodiments that send, receive and both send and receive measurement packets are described. Some embodiments are described that compute statistics based at least partly on... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7668097 | Method of dormant data session reactivation A method for dormant data session reactivation may include a packet control function (118) in a radio access network (104) receiving a first data packet (150) having a source IP address (152), where the first data packet has a destination... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7649842 | Method of selective dormant data session reactivation A method of selective dormant data session reactivation in a radio access network includes calculating an activation rate threshold as a function of a first plurality of packets received over a first time interval, where the first plurality of packets are coupled to... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646715 | Method and a device for implicit differentiation of quality of service in a network Presented is a device for processing packets of flows on a network link. The device includes a scheduling module for scheduling packets in a queue in accordance with a fair queuing with priority algorithm. ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7596090 | Capacity-efficient flow control mechanism Techniques to control data transmissions to efficiently utilize the available air-link resources. In accordance with a method for controlling a data transmission between a transmission source (e.g., a base station) and a receiving device (e.g., a remote terminal), a... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7596091 | Unified congestion notification mechanism for reliable and unreliable protocols by augmenting ECN A unified congestion notification mechanism can detect congestion at a recipient device either directly, such as via an explicit indicator, or indirectly, such as via dropped packets. Such congestion can then be indicated to the sending device either by leveraging a... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7558203 | System and method for statistical control of power dissipation with host enforcement The power budgeter controls the rate of data flow in a transceiver. The power budgeter monitors transceiver activity (data flow) during a predefined period, and limits transceiver data transmit and receive rates during times when the aggregate transceiver activity w... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554913 | Resource allocation in a circuit switched network Allocating resources in a circuit switched data network, comprising receiving a request for a resource from a device coupled to the circuit switched data network and granting the resource to the requesting device if the resource is available. If the resource is not ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7545747 | Method, system and program product for actively managing central queue buffer allocation using a backpressure mechanism Method, system and program product are provided for packet flow control for a switching node of a data transfer network. The method includes actively managing space allocations in a central queue of a switching node allotted to the ports of the switching node based ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545746 | Computer system for controlling routed data amount A computer system having a work computer, first storage systems, and second storage systems also has a network, a network routing device, and a management computer. Upon receipt of the update data from the work computer, the first storage system stores the update da... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7463584 | System and method for hub and spoke virtual private network A method and system for providing a virtual private communication network to transport customer data between a set of customer devices coupled to a provider network. A committed information rate is advertised to a provider tandem. The provider tandem determines whet... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7450509 | Adaptive flow control method and apparatus The present invention provides a method of controlling data flow within a network device. The method includes the steps of snooping a data packet before the data packet is stored in a memory buffer of the network device to determine a packet size, aggregating the pa... | 11/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7383338 | Method for connection acceptance control and rapid determination of optimal multi-media content delivery over networks A system for allocating bandwidth between a server device and at least one client device. The system includes a call acceptance module operative to receive an incoming request for service; a flow regulator configured to deliver content at a modulated target flow rat... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383349 | Controlling the flow of packets within a network node utilizing random early detection A method and system for controlling the flow of packets within a network node is disclosed. The method comprises receiving packets that are intended for a queue, classifying each of packets into at least one of a plurality of traffic classes and applying class-speci... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372812 | Proxy FC port, FC network system, and FC transfer method used therefor Proxy FC ports in an FC network are connected between first and second FC (Fibre Channel) devices having reception buffers and first and second FC transfer apparatuses connected to each other through a WAN (Wide Area Network). The proxy FC ports transfer signals to ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362765 | Network traffic management system with floating point sorter A technique to implement a network traffic management system with an integrated multidimensional floating point sorter (306) is to store data such that it may be retrieved in a sorted fashion. Entries are stored (407) into a memory according to time st... | 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 |
| 7355969 | Line card port protection rate limiter circuitry An apparatus for link layer port-based hardware implemented acceptance rate limiting control is presented. The apparatus employs a single up-down counter tracking a receive port buffer occupancy level. The single up-down counter is incremented by a receive line rate... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7342881 | Backpressure history mechanism in flow control The backpressure flow control mechanism is widely used in telecommunications network. Actions of the flow control scheme are not instantaneous in that latency always exists between action and reaction, resulting in a flow control round trip time. This flow control r... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340744 | System and method for optimizing sessions and network resources in a loadbalancing environment A method for loadbalancing in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a create request from an end user for a communications link provided by a network node and communicating a response to the end user in order to establish a communication session.... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333434 | Dynamic optimization process of quality service in a data transmission network A dynamic optimization process of a quality of service (QoS) in a data transmission packet network. The data transmission packet network includes a plurality of sources and a plurality of destinations connected to a transit network by a plurality of access networks.... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333431 | Method for accelerating TCP flows in communication networks with dynamic control Predictions of congestion conditions for a traffic stream in a communication network are applied to modify an initial congestion window size for the traffic stream; and dynamic bandwidth control is thereafter applied to the traffic stream. This dynamic bandwidth con... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324452 | Weighted credit-based arbitration using credit history A system for managing data transmission from a number of queues employs a regular credit count and a history credit count for each queue. Generally, the regular credit count is used in arbitration. The count is decreased when data is transmitted from the queue and i... | 01/29/2008 |
