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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189478 | Method for the optimized transmission of data bursts between a sending and a receiving network node The invention relates to an optical data burst transmission method. An emitted network node obtains, together with a confirmation signal, information regarding the length of time of after which blocking no longer occurs and/or information indicating when the connect... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189480 | Communication apparatus and communication method In a communication apparatus performing data communication through a network having a relay apparatus which relays data, a data-path establishment unit establishes a data-communication path between the communication apparatus and an opposite end of the data-communic... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189479 | Congestion control for wireless sensor networks A system for congestion control for a wireless sensor network comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to determine a level of congestion at one or more nodes and indicate an adjustment to network traffic in response to the level of congestion... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184541 | Method and system for link layer scheduling in a multiple access communication system A method and system is provided for link layer scheduling for networked applications in a coordinator-based communications system. A network-coordinating device receives a request from a networked application to establish a communications session. The request includ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174987 | Method and apparatus for implementing output queue-based flow control A method and apparatus for implementing output queue-based flow control is provided. The method includes: implementing queue scheduling and flow control by using an output port-based cell queue and by counting the number of cells from different angles. In this syste... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174986 | Method and apparatus for performing routing area updates Various embodiments are described for potentially reducing the impact of routing area updates on wireless system capacity. Logic flow diagram 10, in FIG. 1, depicts such functionality. In some embodiments, it is determined (12) whether a remote ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169913 | Communication-processing method on network-connected equipment and receiving apparatus A communication-processing method performs communication processing on any network-connected equipment. The method includes the steps of sending an identification signal through a network to every apparatus that is connected in an identical network circuit to identi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169914 | Method and node for transmitting data over a communication network using negative acknowledgment A method of transmitting data over a communication network using negative acknowledgment is presented. In the method, a stream of data packets is transmitted from a first node of the network to a second node of the network. All but at least two of the stream of data... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169912 | System for dynamic bandwidth adjustment and trading among peers A system is disclosed, that provides dynamic bandwidth sharing among a plurality of client nodes, which share network link resources in a communication network. Upon receipt of a bandwidth adjustment request from a requesting client node, the system adjusts bandwidt... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8144594 | Congestion management in a shared network A shared channel used to communicate between a cable modem termination system and multiple cable modems is managed to prevent and/or reduce the impact of congestion. If the average channel utilization is above a near-congestion threshold, a cable modem in an extende... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144593 | Method and apparatus for efficient routing in communication networks Methods and apparatus for efficient routing in communication networks. In an aspect, a method is provided for traffic routing between first and second nodes in a communication network. The method includes detecting traffic transmitted between the first and second no... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130653 | Deletion request after number of failed acknowledgements to addition requests Network circuitry and a method of operating the same in establishing and deleting a service flow in a wireless network. A network station receives a request, from an initiating network station, to establish a service flow. The network station receiving the request i... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130654 | Context-aware packet switching Embodiments of a communication system, a method, and a device for use with the communication system are described. Communication between the devices in the communication system may be enabled by the method. In particular, nodes or devices (henceforth referred to as ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130655 | Systems and methods for network congestion management using radio access network congestion indicators Systems and methods for managing communications network congestion are provided. In an embodiment, the system includes a radio access network (RAN) interface configured to receive RAN congestion indicators, a congestion correlator module configured to correlate RAN ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125910 | Communication system A communication terminal (1) on a transmission side comprises means (1-10) for detecting congestion, means (1-7) for detecting a sign of congestion with reference to an ideal congestion window size and a current congestion window s... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121038 | Backward congestion notification In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a network interface system having at least one input port configured for receiving frames and a logic system comprising at least one logic device. The logic system may be configured to perform the following functions: determ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111623 | Node, method and system for control of communication including a buffer A node configured to communicate with at least one further node. The node includes a buffer configured to receive data transmitted from the at least one further node. The node also includes an output configured to transmit data to the at least one further network el... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111622 | Signal routing dependent on a node speed change prediction A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for determining a node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route and routing wireless data along the determined node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107378 | Power managing method applied to a wireless network apparatus and power management thereof A power managing method applied to a wireless network apparatus includes the steps of periodically detecting whether the wireless network apparatus is operated in a non-link status to determine whether to enter a first power-saving mode when the wireless network app... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102773 | Continuous permission to send media A method, PT client device and PT server device for controlling transmission of media data, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes starting, by a PT server, a timer when a media burst revoke message is transmitted to a PT client; stopping, by... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094562 | Transmission of a continuous datastream through a re-clocked frame-based transport network A network interface to transport a continuous datastream over a frame-based transport network. The network interface includes a data input, an egress buffer circuit, a phase locked loop, and a data output. The data input receives frames carrying the continuous datas... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089883 | Method for controlling transmissions between neighboring nodes in radio communications system and access node thereof At least one request between neighboring access nodes in a radio communications system is transmitted after verifying a class of the at least one request being transmitted between the neighboring access nodes, where the class assigned by an access node indicates a p... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085669 | Session relay device and session relay method A session relay device which can reliably send a data packet from a source to a destination without the need for reconfiguring and dividing a segment is supplied. Session relay device 110, adapted to be disposed between terminals for transmitting and receivin... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081572 | Hierarchical packet scheduling A packet scheduler may include logic configured to receive packet information. The packet scheduler may include logic to receive an operating parameter associated with a downstream device that operates with cell-based traffic. The packet scheduler may include logic ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072888 | Controlling congestion in a packet switched data network A method of controlling congestion in a packet switched network includes transmitting a pause message to a node upstream of a congested node to instruct it to cease sending for a period of time. The congested node also sends information to the upstream node informin... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072887 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling enqueuing of packets in an aggregated queue including a plurality of virtual queues using backpressure messages from downstream queues Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling enqueuing of packets in an aggregated queue including a plurality of virtual queues are disclosed. According to one method, packets are received at the input side of a queuing system. Each packet is cla... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068427 | Dynamic channel quality reporting in a wireless communication system Techniques for reporting channel quality indicators (CQIs) are described. Data activity at a receiver may be determined, and CQI reporting by the receiver may be adjusted based on the determined data activity. In one design, CQI reporting may be enabled for a time w... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064345 | Optimisation process of the control of traffic in a packet telecommunications network The invention relates to a process for optimizing the control of the traffic in a packet telecommunications network comprising at least one transmitter terminal (2), at least one receiver terminal (4), and one traffic regulator (6) arranged betw... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059544 | Distance adaptive routing protocol A method of routing packets in an ad-hoc network is provided. The method determines a hop count for a route. Then, a redundancy value is calculated based on the hop count. A plurality of packets containing identical payload information is then sent down a number of ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059545 | Handover apparatus and method using relay node in cellular system Handover apparatus and method using a Relay Node (RN) in a cellular system are provided. The handover method includes receiving, at an RN, broadcast control information of a serving Base Station (BS) and a neighbor BS; network-encoding and broadcasting, at the RN, t... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059546 | Traffic flow scheduling techniques implemented on bonded channels of a shared access cable network Various techniques are disclosed for managing traffic flow for transport over a plurality of communication channels of a shared access cable network. According to various embodiments, one or more devices of the cable network (such as, for example, a Cable Modem Term... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050179 | Method and system for acknowledging frames in a communication network A communication device (1001) is provided. The communication device (1001) can include a transceiver (1003), for transmitting and receiving communications when operably connected to a communication network. Also, the communication device (100... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045473 | Tailored relief for congestion on application servers for real time communications Techniques for managing computational load in real-time communications include receiving usage data on a particular node of a packet-switched network. The usage data indicates an amount of computational resources consumed on that particular node by application layer... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040807 | QoS on bonded channels of a shared access cable network Various techniques are disclosed for managing traffic flow for transport over a plurality of communication channels of a shared access cable network. According to various embodiments, one or more devices of the cable network (such as, for example, a Cable Modem Term... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036127 | Notifying network applications of receive overflow conditions A method for notifying a packet destination that includes receiving a packet by a network interface card (NIC), where the packet destination is a destination of the packet, classifying the packet, forwarding the packet to one of a plurality of receive rings on the N... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036129 | System and method for avoiding stall using timer for high-speed downlink packet access system At least one timer is used to prevent a stall condition. If a timer is not active, the timer is started for a data block that is correctly received. The data block has a sequence number higher than a sequence number of another data block that was first expected to b... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036128 | Method for communicating backpressure messages in a data communications system A method for communicating backpressure messaging over a serial encoded link is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention enable advanced backpressure signaling to be retrofitted into legacy systems to achieve performance improvements and support new or enhanced servi... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027258 | Communication system and communication apparatus Communication time period measuring frames are simultaneously sent from an OAM adaptive device on a transmission side, to both a working path and a protection path. In an OAM adaptive device on a reception side, reception times of the frames having arrived from both... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8014289 | Method and apparatus for non contiguous sliding window A method that limits data flow between two network nodes to an amount within a window where a first portion of data within a first segment of the window is separated from a second portion of data within a second segment of the window by a third portion of data not w... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009569 | System and a method for maintaining quality of service through a congested network In flow control, such as in Ethernet communication, the data is divided into queues of different priorities so that, when transmission is enabled, quality of service may be provided by first transmitting data of high priority. A networking element, such as a switch,... | 08/30/2011 |
