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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7903644 | Scalable central memory switching fabric A system receives a set of datagrams and forms frames based on the datagrams, where at least one of the frames includes data associated with multiple ones of the datagrams. The system writes the frames to memory to form superframes in the memory, where each of the s... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7856010 | Circulating switch A circulating switch comprises switch modules of moderate capacities interconnected by a passive rotator. Data is sent from a one switch module to another switch module either directly, traversing the rotator once, or indirectly through at least one intermediate swi... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7720052 | Radio protocol for mobile communication system and method Radio protocol for a next generation mobile communication system is disclosed including a radio link control layer for connecting to an upper layer through a service access point provided in advance and for connecting to a lower layer through a plurality of logic ch... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7710953 | Method and apparatus for operating fast switches using slow schedulers The invention includes an apparatus and method for switching packets through a switching fabric. The apparatus includes a plurality of input ports and output ports for receiving arriving packets and transmitting departing packets, a switching fabric for switching pa... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7639678 | Multimodal data switch A transit memory assembly of a rotator-based switching node is logically partitioned into two sections, one operated as a common-memory switch fabric and the other as a time-shared space-switch fabric. The composition of data received at input ports of the switching... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7590110 | Balanced high-capacity switch A high capacity switching node comprises a lattice structure of low-latency switch units and a plurality of balanced connectors interfacing electronic edge nodes to diagonal subsets of said switch units. The edge nodes may be collocated with the switch units or remo... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7577133 | Scalable central memory switching fabric A system receives a set of datagrams and forms frames based on the datagrams, where at least one of the frames includes data associated with multiple ones of the datagrams. The system writes the frames to memory to form superframes in the memory, where each of the s... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7554975 | Protocol agnostic switching In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a switch fabric, an adaptation processor to append a length field to a received packet, and a switch fabric to use information in the length field to switch variable-sized packets. ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7539181 | Balanced bufferless switch A high capacity distributed switching system comprises electronic edge nodes connected to a balanced bufferless switch which may be electronic or optical. The balanced bufferless switch comprises a balanced connector and a switch fabric. The balanced connector compr... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7457285 | TDM switching system and ASIC device In one embodiment, a switching system includes a backplane and multiple cards that each support multiple ASIC devices. Each ASIC device is associated with a subset of the network interfaces associated with the switching system. At least one ASIC device on a card may... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7450575 | Low redundancy data RAM architecture for monolithic time-space switches A non-blocking time and space switch is provided, based on specific memory method functions, called replica representatives, which shows a much lower data redundancy compared with the common RAM based approach as a consequence of multiple replica representatives. Th... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7373429 | Integrated IP network To provide an integrated IP network containing therein a plurality of separated IP networks with a variety of characteristics, such as IP telephone network, IP video network, IP electronic text network, best effort network, IP data multicast network and IP-based TV ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362750 | Switch module architecture A switching module has external ports for sending and receiving data packets and mesh interfaces for internal mesh connections with other modules. A switching engine directs packets to one or other of the mesh interfaces according to the port number of a ‘destinat... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362717 | Method and system for using distributed name servers in multi-module fibre channel switches A method for processing a Get Identifier (“GI_A”) command received by a switch module of a multi-module fiber channel switch with a plurality of switch modules is provided. The method comprises determining if a domain value in the GI_A command is that of the mul... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356030 | Network switch cross point A switching fabric having cross points that process multiple stripes of serial data. Each cross point includes a plurality of port slices and ports. Each port includes a plurality of FIFOs, a FIFO read arbitrator, a multiplexer, a dispatcher, and an accumulator. In ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355966 | Method and system for minimizing disruption in common-access networks A method and fibre channel switch element is provided for isolating a defective device that is coupled to a fibre channel arbitrated loop. The method includes, isolating a port if a loop initialization primitive (“LIP”) is detected from a device coupled to the a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356025 | Switching apparatus for switching data between bitstreams An apparatus for switching data between a first set of bitstreams and a second set of bitstreams, each of said bitstreams being divided into recurring frames and each of said recurring frames being divided into time slots, is disclosed. The switch comprises a first ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352701 | Buffer to buffer credit recovery for in-line fibre channel credit extension devices A method and system for credit recovery of lost frames and R_RDYs in an in-line credit extender is provided. The method includes, comparing received frame count and a programmable counter value when BB_SCs are received; loading the difference between the frame count... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352766 | High-speed memory having a modular structure A high-speed memory is provided, the memory having a write port and a read port and comprised of the following: a plurality of N memory modules for storing fixed size cells, which are segments of a variable size packet divided into X cells, the X cells being grouped... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349387 | Digital cross-connect Two or more cross-connect ICs are interconnected. Each IC directly receives some, but not all, of the system inputs, and outputs to some, but not all, outputs. Each cross-connect IC has a switch matrix that has the same number of inputs as the system, and a lesser n... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342922 | Multi-stage switching for networks Techniques for multi-stage switching in network elements are provided. The switching fabric can include three stages and as connections are being made through the stages, the connections are selected to minimize the difference in the number of signals between differ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339923 | Endpoint packet scheduling system A method of transmitting packets over a network includes steps of partitioning a transmission interval into discrete time slots and reaching agreement between a transmitting node and receiving node as to when the transmitting node will transmit packets. The intended... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340167 | Fibre channel transparent switch for mixed switch fabrics A method and a Fibre Channel switch element are provided that allows communication between a host system and a target device attached to a proprietary switch fabric in a network. The Fibre Channel switch element includes a first port that communicates with the targe... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336669 | Mechanism for distributing statistics across multiple elements According to one embodiment, a network is disclosed. The network includes a source device, a networking hardware machine coupled to the source device, and a destination device coupled to the networking hardware machine. The networking hardware machine receives data ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334046 | System and method for optimizing frame routing in a network A method for routing Fibre Channel frames in a Fibre Channel system is provided. The method compares a cost associated with a pre-programmed preferred route when the pre-programmed preferred route has been pre-programmed to route Fibre Channel frames between a sourc... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330428 | Grooming switch hardware scheduler A hardware scheduler for a grooming switch with at least three switching stages accumulates a list of connection requests that cannot be granted given currently granted connection assignments. At a designated time, two data structures are dynamically built: an xRAM ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330918 | Buffer memory management method and system A packet buffer management method and system are provided which enable maximum utilization of the hardware resources of the buffer memory, and which are optimum for the number of preset physical ports in use or for the number of service class (CoS) areas. In the buf... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328284 | Dynamic configuration of network data flow using a shared I/O subsystem A shared I/O subsystem having a forwarding table and a plurality of I/O interfaces. The forwarding table has a plurality of entries that correspond to each of the I/O interfaces. The shared I/O subsystem receives a data packet from one of the I/O interfaces where th... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324451 | Aggregated early message discard for segmented message traffic in a communications network A method and device for message discard of segmented message traffic in an aggregated message traffic stream of a communications network. The aggregated traffic stream has constituent traffic streams and each constituent traffic stream has segmented message traffic ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325082 | System and method for guaranteeing transactional fairness among multiple requesters A system and method for guaranteeing transactional fairness among multiple requesters contending for a common resource in a cache-coherent multiprocessor system is described. Batch processing is used to control servicing of multiple requests made by multiple request... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319669 | Method and system for controlling packet flow in networks A system and method for transmitting and bundling network packets is provided. The incoming network packet size is determined and if the remote buffer space is sufficient to hold the network packet it is transmitted to the destination port. If the remote buffer spac... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317725 | System and method for implementing combined packetized TDM streams and TDM cross connect functions Apparatus implements combined packetized time-division multiplexed (TDM) streams and TDM cross connect functions. The apparatus includes an input buffer, a reassembly state machine, a frame buffer, and a segmentation state machine. The frame buffer includes multiple... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315540 | Random access memory based space time switch architecture A data switching circuit (10). The data switching circuit comprises at least one input (10in) for receiving during a same time period a plurality of data streams (ICH0-ICH127). Each of the data streams comprises a plurality of ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310308 | Systems and methods for multiple mode voice and data communications using intelligently bridged TDM and packet buses Systems and methods by which voice/data communications may occur in multiple modes/protocols are disclosed. In particular, systems and methods are provided for multiple native mode/protocol voice and data transmissions and receptions with a computing system having a... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310319 | Multiple-domain processing system using hierarchically orthogonal switching fabric A multiple-domain processing system includes a multi-dimensional switching fabric to provide intra-domain and inter-domain communication within the system. ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304988 | Technique for building a large single-stage cross-connect using multiple devices without interleaving A digital cross-connect switching system that has a single-stage architecture, a scalable bandwidth, and reduced connection memory storage requirements. The scalable bandwidth digital cross-connect switching system includes a plurality of digital cross-connect build... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301952 | Terminal-to-terminal communication connection control method using IP transfer network Both a connection server and a relay connection server are installed in an IP transfer network; a function similar to a line connection control of a subscriber exchanger is applied to a connection server; a function similar to a line connection control of a relay ex... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301941 | Multistage digital cross connect with synchronized configuration switching A digital cross connect comprises plural switching stages. Each stage has plural switches which receive plural frames of time multiplexed input data and which switch the data in time and space. Configurations of the switches change in frame synchronization at the st... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296093 | Network processor interface system A heterogeneous and scalable bridge capable of translating a plurality of network protocols is adapted for coupling to a network switch fabric. The bridge uses at least one egress buffer interface and can perform port aggregation and bandwidth matching for various d... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295561 | Fibre channel implementation using network processors Network processors controlled by software are used to implement the FC-1 and FC-2 layer functions. Each Network Processor comprises a fabric processor, an executive processor, channel processors and associated serial data processors. Special ASICs are not required s... | 11/13/2007 |
