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| 8189560 | Retransmission switch box An apparatus for use with a first data device, a second data device, and a third data device operable to generate one of directly and indirectly an interrupt signal and to disable one of directly and indirectly the interrupt signal. The apparatus includes a switch c... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189559 | Rate matching for hybrid ARQ operations A method of rate matching process of the hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuestion (HARQ) operation in which coded bits are selected for a transmission depends on whether the transmission is a first transmission of a new packet or a retransmission of an existing packet. In... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190630 | Data search device, data search system, data search method and data search program A range search of data is implemented, being a data search method to achieve a constant degree and a logarithmic hop count. A data search device that is located on a network and searches for data shared with another device, includes a dividing unit that divides a lo... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189562 | Method and system for providing dynamic speed-dial list Methods are provided for managing communications over a communications routing network. A data store is maintained of records of communications links established over the communications routing network between a first endpoint of the communications routing network a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189561 | Method and system for power-limited switching and/or routing in a network Communication devices may determine routes and/or may select a route for communicating data between a first communication device and a second communication device. The selected route may require the least power consumption. The determined routes may be ranked based ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184613 | Portable multi-media automatic authenticating router and method for automatically routing stored data A computer program product and automatic authenticating router device for automatically routing stored data from a single device to at least one remote storage location is provided. The router device includes the computer program product. The computer program produc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179881 | Method for allocating time and frequency resource for resource request indicator, method for transmitting resource request indicator and device thereof A method for allocating a time and frequency resource of a resource request indicator (RRI), a method for transmitting an RRI, and a device thereof are provided, which relate to a wireless communication technique and reduce the overhead of the time and frequency res... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175079 | Device and method for reestablishing a wireless connection in a wireless network A device and method enable reestablishing a wireless connection in a wireless network. A first wireless device detects that a previous wireless connection has been lost with a second wireless device that employs dynamic frequency selection (DFS). The first wireless ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175078 | Redundant pseudowires between Ethernet access domains A computer network includes first and second Ethernet access domain networks, each of Ethernet access domain networks including a user-facing provider edge (u-PE) device, and a stack group of network-facing provider edge (n-PE) devices coupled with the u-PE device, ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170002 | Systems and methods for indicating buffered data at an access point with efficient beacon handling Stations in standby mode periodically wake up to check for buffered data at the access points. Traditionally, the information is available by checking the periodic beacon frame for a traffic indication map (TIM). Unfortunately, the length of beacons has steadily inc... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165107 | Method and system for obtaining path information, path computation element A method and a system for obtaining path information as well as a PCE are disclosed herein. All the PCEs from the source PCE to the confluent PCE compute the shortest path from the source node to the egress border node of the domain covered by the respective PCE one... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160057 | Multi-channel optical transport network training signal Systems and methods are provided for multi-channel ITU G.709 optical transport network (OTN) communications. The transmission method accepts an ITU G.709 OTN frame including an OTU overhead (OH) section and an ODU section. A forward error correction (FEC) parity sec... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160054 | Methods and system for instant voice messaging and instant voice message retrieval A system for instant voice messaging comprising an IVM server operative to essentially simultaneously receive from an initiating user at least one voice message fragment and stream the at least one voice fragment to at least one target user; and a switch coupled to ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160055 | System and methods for identifying network path performance A pseudowire verification framework gathers and maintains status of individual pseudowires by aggregating the state of the individual node hops defining the pseudowire. The framework provides complete assessment of a network by gathering status feedback from network... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160056 | Systems, devices, and methods for network routing Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, which can comprise providing a preferred route for a predetermined block of traffic to a router. The predetermined block of traffic can be destined for a predetermined destination. The predetermined destination can be... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155108 | In-line content analysis of a TCP segment stream A method for submitting a TCP segment stream to a in-line content analysis comprises: receiving from a TCP emitter a first TCP data segments stream corresponding to a given TCP connection between the TCP emitter and a TCP receiver; extracting and re-assembling a fir... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149818 | Mesh network within a device A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144688 | System and method for discovering SCTP associations in a network Systems and methods for discovering SCTP associations between devices communicating in a network are described. A method comprises monitoring packets communicated among a plurality of source and destination devices, determining a combination of source EP address, so... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144687 | Method, apparatus and system for establishing a direct route between agents of a sender node and a receiver node In the present technique of a communication system (100), an address of a forwarding agent (114) linked to a receiver node (112) is detected to provide a discovered address. The discovered address is then used to establish a direct route with th... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144689 | Controlling asynchronous clock domains to perform synchronous operations A mechanism for controlling asynchronous clock domains to perform synchronous operations is provided. With the mechanism, when a synchronous operation is to be performed on a chip, the latches of the functional elements of the chip are controlled by a synchronous cl... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144686 | Method and systems for bandwidth scheduling and path computation for connection-oriented networks A connection-oriented network includes a control server. The control server receives requests to establish and utilize dedicated channels in the network. The control server utilizes various scheduling methods and algorithms to determine channels based on the request... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130748 | Transmitter circuit to compensate for influence of crosstalk noise in pre-emphasis scheme A transmitter circuit for transmitting parallel data, suitable for compensating for influence of crosstalk noise in a pre-emphasis scheme. The transmitter circuit includes first through Nth transmission lines configured to respectively transmit first thro... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130746 | System for distributing decoy content in a peer to peer network A system for generating and distributing decoy data for a work in a Peer to Peer network. The system is included in software providing a Peer to Peer connection for a processing system. The processing system receives data for a work over a Peer to Peer connection. T... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130747 | System and method of traffic inspection and stateful connection forwarding among geographically dispersed network appliances organized as clusters A peering relationship among two or more network appliances is established through an exchange of control messages among the network appliances. The peering relationship defines a cluster of peered network appliances, and at each network appliance of the cluster tra... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125978 | Method for establishing data transmission path and sensor network employing the same A sensor network system and method for establishing a data transmission path are is disclosed. The method for establishing a data transmission path of a sink node and the network system which includes a plurality of nodes including the sink node, includes a) request... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125979 | Multi-channel optical transport network training signal wrapper Systems and methods are provided for multi-channel ITU G.709 optical transport network (OTN) transmission and receiving. The transmission method accepts a canonical ITU G.709 OTN frame including an OTU overhead (OH) section, an ODU section, and a forward error corre... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121111 | Method and system for measuring latency A system and method for measuring latency of an optical transport network includes generating a time stamp, transmitting the time stamp in an optical transport network, and processing the time stamp to measure latency of the optical transport network. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| RE43163 | High-speed network of independently linked nodes A method of operating a network is beneficially conducted on a municipality or neighborhood level. The method in disclosed embodiments comprises installing a digital communications network within a limited selected geographical region. The network is formed from a h... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111684 | Path shortening in a wireless mesh network In one embodiment, a method includes a mesh point receiving mesh advertisement messages from advertising mesh points of a wireless mesh network having a mesh portal with a wired connection to a wired network. Each mesh advertisement message specifies a corresponding... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111685 | Communication network with co-routed multi-channel traffic Embodiments of the present invention route a wavelength division multiplexed signal across multiple communication paths using skew characteristics of at least some of the communication paths. The network is a wavelength division multiplexed optical transport network... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107458 | Power-based networking path allocation A method for routing network traffic in a data network having a plurality of network switches, the method including identifying network traffic to be routed in the data network, evaluating multiple options for allocating at least one data path in the data network to... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098648 | Load distributing method When path status information is updated, the time at which the update is effective is recorded. A packet arrival time in each path is predicted based on new status information and data transmission history after the effective time. The packet is transmitted to the p... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098650 | Apparatus and method for processing contents using routing table A routing apparatus includes: a routing table management unit for generating a routing table by receiving interest information of a user of a mobile node, and for broadcasting the routing table through the mobile ad hoc network; an effectiveness calculation unit for... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098649 | Using network transport tunnels to provide service-based data transport Service-based distribution paths that provide transport tunnels and control capabilities for data communication over a service are disclosed. Service-based distribution paths or transport tunnels include services mapped or bound to the transport tunnel. Encapsulatio... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8089952 | Intelligent call routing A call routing decision for connecting a call between source and target devices is based on the traffic type (e.g., facsimile, modem, voice). In some implementations, the traffic type is determined and stored (e.g., in a billing record). The traffic type can be used... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089953 | Method and system for network entity configuration A system for configuring a plurality of network entities by a central server, each of the network entities being associated with a unique identifier, and each of the network entities being associated with at least one service provider having configuration settings d... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085755 | Data driven route advertisement Various methods and systems for performing data-driven route advertisement are disclosed. One method involves inhibiting advertisement of a route that is associated with a data source. Advertisement of the route is then allowed in response to detecting data sent by ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081620 | System and method for supporting link aggregation and other layer-2 protocols primarily over unidirectional links Traffic through a bridge or other network device is directed in a manner that enables link aggregation and other layer-2 protocols to operate fully, even though the device may have as few as a single bidirectional link, with the remaining links being unidirectional.... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077699 | Independent message stores and message transport agents Multiple independent MTAs transmit messages such that if one of the MTAs fails, the other MTAs may continue to transmit messages. Multiple independent message stores are provided such that if one of the message stores fails, messages on the other message stores may ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068479 | System and method for hardware acceleration in a hybrid wired/wireless local area network Aspects of the invention may be found in a system and method for hardware acceleration in a hybrid wired/wireless local area network. In according with various embodiments of the invention, hardware acceleration may comprise creating at least one policy to be distri... | 11/29/2011 |
