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| 8189484 | System for data archiving and system behavior prediction An electronic data analysis, storage, and retrievable system includes a verification capability for verifying the integrity of the system's operational health. An operation monitoring mechanism continuously monitors the system's operation. A collection mechanism con... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189483 | Method for measuring sensitivity of data packet signal receiver Methods for measuring the sensitivity of a data packet signal receiver are provided by varying the power level or modulation or both of a received data packet signal in a predetermined controlled sequence of data packet signals. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189485 | Method for allocating and configuring tandem connection monitoring (TCM) A method for allocating and configuring TCM in an embodiment of the present invention includes: configuring the domain that needs TCM in a network and the scope of the domain; determining the ODU service that needs TCM; and allocating TCM automatically according to ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184543 | Millimeter wave probing of components via a probe device and methods for use therewith Probe data is directly communicating between a probe device and a component of an external device via a wireless millimeter wave communication path. A probe application is executed in accordance with the probe data, for diagnostics and testing, to update component s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184542 | Methods, computer programs, and systems for verifying a customer premises connection to an integrated communication system Verifying a customer premises connection to a communication system having a plurality of ports, each of which serves a corresponding customer premises. A known quantity of data is transmitted to an address corresponding to a specific customer premises. A quantity of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179802 | Method and apparatus for managing audio contention in networks A method and an apparatus for managing an audio contention are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request by a device, and enters into a first state by the device, wherein the first state allows the device to use an audio channel in an upstream direction,... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179803 | Methods, systems and apparatus for monitoring and/or generating communications in a communications network A module for use in a communications network in which a plurality of signals are transmitted between respective first and second nodes, the module having an engine for receiving the plurality of signals over the network, for extracting protocol data therefrom and fo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179804 | Internal/external network identifier Methods, devices, and systems are provided for marking one or more entities of a call as internal/external such that certain call features can be invoked by servers and other devices residing behind a gateway. More specifically, entities of a call can be marked as i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174990 | Mechanism and system for programmable measurement of aggregate metrics from a dynamic set of nodes A method for measuring performance of system. The method includes the steps of retrieving a metric definition from a declarative metrics specification, obtaining a list of computing nodes from a database that are currently assigned to the metric definition, obtainin... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174991 | Methods and apparatus related to analysis of test packets In one embodiment, a processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to store a set of stream signatures representing a set of test streams. The code can be configured to cause the processor to r... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169918 | Received information monitor adaptive to multiple monitoring modes in a communication device An apparatus for monitoring of received information in a communication device comprises a first buffer having a plurality of storage elements adapted to store respective portions of the received information, a second buffer coupled to the first buffer and having a p... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169919 | Terminal device and relay node selection method of terminal device A terminal device and a relay node selection method of the terminal device are described. The terminal device may sequentially compare a threshold value and an output signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a plurality of relay nodes based on a set test order, and select a r... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169917 | Tandem connection monitoring method in MPLS network Disclosed herein are a Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM) method in an MPLS network and a data structure of a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) OAM packet for TCM. When data are provided to users through an LSP path comprising multiple network provider in an MPL... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165026 | Method and apparatus to report and manage cells in a multi carrier system Methods and apparatuses for facilitating managing cells in a multi-carrier system from an access terminal and base station are provided. The base station and access terminal communicate via an anchor carrier and a supplementary carrier. A triggering algorithm genera... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165027 | Test apparatus and test method There is provided a test apparatus for testing at least one device under test, including a packet list storing section that stores a plurality of packet lists each of which includes a series of packets communicated between the test apparatus and the at least one dev... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165025 | Method and apparatus for generating a unique packet identifier A method and apparatus for generating a unique packet identifier from receive packet header information accepts a series of packet words that make up a packet and selects a subset of a first packet word and a subset of a second packet word. The unique packet identif... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159957 | Hardware time stamping and synchronized data transmission Hardware time stamping and synchronized data transmission disclosed. In a method, a reference time stamp and a local time stamp are obtained. A synchronization offset is prepared based on the local time stamp and the reference time stamp. Instructions are received t... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159956 | Diagnostics for serial communication busses The serial communication device includes a first module coupled to a second module via a serial cable. Each of the first and second modules comprise one or more of: a power interface, a controller, memory, a first interface, and a second interface. The power interfa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155011 | Techniques for using dual memory structures for processing failure detection protocol packets Techniques are provided for assisting in the processing of failure detection protocol (FDP) packets. Techniques are provided that assist a CPU of a network device in processing incoming FDP packets. In one embodiment, only a subset of FDP packets received by the net... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155010 | Regional quality correlation for wireless communications A quality processing system comprises an interface and a processing system. The interface is configured to receive a first quality message from a wireless end device in the first region wherein the first quality message indicates a first quality metric of the first ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155012 | System and method for adapting a piece of terminal equipment In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a communication system (17) is provided for generating and monitoring data over pre-existing conductors (2A-2D) between associated pieces of networked computer equipment (3A-3 | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149719 | System and method for marking live test packets A system and method for preventing a packet of a test pattern from being communicated over a network. A congestion state of the network is determined. The packet is marked as being associated with a test pattern. The packet is determined to be associated with the te... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149721 | Test apparatus and test method There is provided a test apparatus for testing a device under test, including an obtaining section that obtains a packet sequence communicated between the test apparatus and the device under test, from a simulation environment for simulating an operation of the devi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149720 | Method and apparatus for QoS control A method, an apparatus and a system for operating Quality of Service, QoS, based on stream, are provided. The method may include: delivering a Real-Time Transport Protocol, RTP, data stream feature to a forwarding plane; learning a RTP packet which is delivered by t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149718 | Communication network management system for automatic repair of failures Disclosed is a management system for a communication network including a diagnostic module to determine a diagnosis based on information provided by network elements this diagnosis identifying a failure within the network. The management system also includes a repai... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144600 | Optimization for wireless access point management In one embodiment, wireless access point management is optimized. The data bandwidth and/or processing requirements for data indicating operation of the access point is baselined. For example, air quality or interference measurements are made at the access point on ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144599 | Binary class based analysis and monitoring The invention concerns binary class based analyzing and monitoring. Data relating to indicators relating to at least one of: a communications network resource, a communications network service, and a service provided over a communications network, is collected. Valu... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139494 | System for testing ethernet paths and links without impacting non-test traffic A system for testing Ethernet paths or links without adversely impacting non-test traffic. The system includes a test traffic generator that includes a scheduler that determines when a new test packet is generated. The test traffic generator includes a packet creato... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139493 | On-vehicle gateway device, method for controlling an on-vehicle gateway device, connection device and connection control method An on-vehicle gateway device connected to an information system network and a control system network of a vehicle executes monitoring the status of an information system via an information system access circuit taking charge of message transmission and reception to ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134927 | Apparatus and methods for capturing data packets from a network In one embodiment, data packets are captured from a network using a physical, network-connectable data capture probe. As the data packets are captured, the data packets are time-stamped with time-of-capture time-stamps. The time-stamped data packets are then stored;... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134926 | Method for monitoring and reporting events by media gateways A method for monitoring and reporting events by media gateways comprising presetting the events in the media gateways, monitoring the preset events by the media gateways and reporting the monitoring result to a media gateway controller during operation. The events c... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125912 | Inverse multiplexing of digital data In ATM networks, digital data in ATM cells are sent to a destination node over more than one transmission link in round robin fashion. This is called inverse multiplexing. At connection start-up, the source node informs the destination node of the specific round rob... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125911 | First-hop domain reliability measurement and load balancing in a computer network In one embodiment, probe messages may be transmitted from a local domain to a set of one or more responding probe targets located beyond a plurality of probed first-hop domains of the local domain, the probe messages transmitted via each of a plurality of probed fir... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116207 | Systems and methods for weighted monitoring of network services A method for determining service availability using a plurality of weighted monitoring agents includes: establishing, by an appliance, a plurality of agents, the plurality of agents monitoring a service executing on a server, and each agent having an assigned weight... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116208 | System and method for testing multiple digital signal transceivers in parallel A method for contemporaneously testing multiple digital data packet transceivers using predefined UL test sequences of synchronized data packets by pre-configuring test measurements, and multiplexing and interleaving portions of the data packets from the devices und... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111624 | Link adaptation telecommunication system The invention relates to a wireless telecommunication system including a transmitter and a receiver, said transmitter being used to transmit data packets to the receiver, said receiver including error detection means (220) in order to detect if a received pac... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102778 | Network management system and method for performing scalable loss measurements within an access network A network management system and a method are described herein that determine if one or more devices (e.g., consumer premises equipment(s)) are experiencing an unacceptable packet loss for downstream multicast traffic in an access network. In one embodiment, the netw... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102777 | Network diagnostic systems and methods for aggregated links A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a diagnostic module. The diagnostic module may include one or more statistics modules. The diagnostic module may include a routing module configured to route messages to the statistics modules. The m... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102776 | Methods and apparatus for generating simulated network traffic Embodiments of the invention relate to generating simulated network traffic. In some embodiments, simulated network traffic may be generated using a specification of a sequence of frames to be transmitted from the network testing device. The specification may specif... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098585 | Ranking the importance of alerts for problem determination in large systems A system and method for prioritizing alerts includes extracting invariants to determine a stable set of models for determining relationships among monitored system data. Equivalent thresholds for a plurality of rules are computed using an invariant network developed... | 01/17/2012 |
