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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189574 | Method and device for providing communication services Technology for providing subscribers with communication services in accordance with their agreements with a service provider, that comprises: a) determining a plurality of subscribers to be connected to the service provider via a distribution unit located in an acce... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8175088 | System for offering mobile telecommunication service using internet network with UTP cable Provided is a system for providing mobile telecommunication services using an Internet network built with a UTP cable. The system includes a main unit and a plurality of sub units. The main unit includes a plurality of input ports respectively connected to correspon... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160061 | Redundant network shared switch In one embodiment, a computer cluster network includes at least three switches communicatively coupled to respective at least one client nodes. At least one of the at least three switches communicatively couples together at least two other ones of the plurality of s... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155114 | Access device and method for communication between master shelf and slave shelf A method and apparatus for communication between the master shelf and the slave shelf of an access device is provided. The method includes these a main control board of the master shelf configures a Media Access Control (MAC) address for a main control board of the ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155113 | Processing data in a parallel processing environment An integrated circuit includes a plurality of tiles, and a plurality of interface modules coupled to the switches of a subset of the tiles. Each tile comprises a processor, and a switch including switching circuitry to forward data over data paths from other tiles t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144697 | System and method for networking computing clusters In certain embodiments, a method for networking a computer cluster includes communicatively coupling together each of a plurality of client nodes through one or more switches, each switch comprising a plurality of switch ports. The method also includes positioning a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130754 | On-chip and chip-to-chip routing using a processor element/router combination A system and method is shown for on-chip and chip-to-chip routing. The system and method includes a processor element residing on a processor die to process a data packet received at the processor die. The system and method also include a router residing on the proc... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8111689 | System for uplink scheduling packet based data traffic in wireless system A system for allocating bandwidth resources among various mobile stations which are wirelessly connected to a base station. The length of the data queue in each mobile station is determined and information regarding that length is placed in a field in the outgoing d... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098656 | Method and apparatus for implementing L2 VPNs on an IP network MP-BGP VPN infrastructure based on IETF RFC 4364/2547 is used to configure a layer 2 VPN on an IP network. VRFs for the VPN are configured on Ethernet switches and service IP addresses are associated with each configured VRF. The service IP addresses are exchanged t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094654 | Information transfer in electronic modules An electronic assembly includes electronic modules connected in a series circuit such that a particular number of input connections of one of the electronic modules is connected with the particular number of output connections of another of the electronic modules. E... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8068482 | Method and system for network switch element Method and system for a network switch element is provided. The switch element includes a plurality of megaports, each megaport uniquely identified by a unique megaport address identifier for network addressing. Each megaport includes a plurality of operational port... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064462 | Service processing switch Methods and systems for providing IP services in an integrated fashion are provided. According to one embodiment, a system includes a switch fabric and a line interface/network module, multiple virtual routing engines (VREs) and a virtual services engine (VSE) coupl... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059638 | Inter-node link aggregation system and method A method and apparatus for link aggregation in a data communications network. A dual-layer link aggregation is formed, including two peer nodes, each connected to at least a third node. The dual-layer link aggregation is formed of a peer link aggregation of ports fo... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050256 | Configuring routing in mesh networks A processor includes a plurality of processor tiles, each tile including a processor core, and an interconnection network interconnects the processor cores and enables transfer of data among the processor cores. The interconnection network has a plurality of dimensi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045546 | Configuring routing in mesh networks A plurality of processor tiles are provided, each processor tile including a processor core. An interconnection network interconnects the processor cores and enables transfer of data among the processor cores. An extension network connects input/output ports of the ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8023501 | Techniques for self-organizing activity-diffusion-based wireless sensor network Methods and wireless sensor nodes for aggregation-driven topology formation in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are provided. A method for aggregation-driven topology formation in a WSN includes aggregating sensor data by one or more first sensor nodes, sending, by e... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023500 | Methods for process control with change updates A system for process control comprises a server digital data processor and a client digital data processor that are coupled by a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server digital data processor, which is additionally coupled to a control/sensing devic... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018927 | Network element with multistage lower order switching matrix A network element for a transport network contains a multistage lower order switching matrix with at least an input matrix stage and an output matrix stage designed to switch lower order multiplex units and with a center stage capable of switching higher order multi... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8000323 | Method and system for announcing traffic engineering parameters of composite transport groups An approach is provided for announcing aggregate characteristics of a composite transport group (CTG) for traffic engineering. Information specifying characteristics of a plurality of component links of the CTG is received. An aggregate characteristic of the CTG is ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000322 | Crossbar switch debugging A crossbar switch having a plurality of ports that allows a debug process to be performed on the switch using one of the plurality of ports to output chip status information. The switch uses a debug block to store chip status information. ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995570 | Device for communication In a device, a method and a system for communication between a control module that can be associated with a local console of a medical modality, an examination module that can be associated with the medical modality, and an administration module that can be associat... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986686 | Techniques for distributing network provider digital content to customer premises nodes Techniques for distributing digital content include receiving provider content over a network connection at a customer premises node located on premises of a first customer. The provider content is offered by a network service provider different from the first custo... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978691 | Connectivity manager with location services A system and method are disclosed for managing the connectivity of a mobile device to a plurality of network connectivity locations. A mobile device comprising a network connectivity manager accesses a repository of predetermined network connectivity management info... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969970 | Switch device and communication network comprising such switch device as well as method for transmitting data within at least one virtual channel In order to provide a switch device (100; 100′) connecting at least one first point (10, 12), in particular connecting at least one source device and/or at least another switch device, to at least one second point (20, 22, 24), in particular t... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7944913 | Node, communication method, and program for node The present invention provides a node capable of preventing the problems caused by switching between traffic communication paths when a link failure occurs. According to an embodiment of the invention, among ports of a node 10, ports P1 and P2 c... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940755 | Lookup engine with programmable memory topology An architecture for a specialized electronic computer for high-speed data lookup employs a set of tiles each with independent processors and lookup memory portions. The tiles may be programmed to interconnect to form different memory topologies optimized for the par... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940754 | Message formation and distribution in heterogeneous networks A system is disclosed for communicating with a plurality of network processors, one or more of the processors having a different operating environment, includes receiving an application programming interface (API) call from a user application, the API call including... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940753 | Enhancing routing optimality in IP networks requiring path establishment A system and related method for enhancing routing optimality in IP networks requiring path establishment, including one or more of the following: first and second network clouds including a plurality of communication elements, ones of the plurality of communication ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7903645 | Methods, apparatus and systems configured for heterogeneous secure associations in Wi-Fi PAN An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for heterogeneous secure associations in Wireless Fidelity Personal Area Networks (WiFi PAN), comprising designating as a regular mobile node (MN) a MN which establishes a security association with a PAN Maste... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7894426 | Conduit port for network chips Network devices and methods are provided for device monitoring. One embodiment includes a network device having a processor, a high speed interconnect and a number of network chips. The number of network chips are coupled to one another through the high speed interc... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889725 | Computer cluster A computer cluster arranged at a lattice point in a lattice-like interconnection network contains four nodes and an internal communication network. Two nodes can transmit packets to adjacent computer clusters located along the X direction, and the two other nodes ca... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7848319 | Programmably sliceable switch-fabric unit and methods of use A programmably sliceable switch-fabric unit (PSSU) and methods of use are disclosed. An N×N′ switch matrix is programmably made to operate as if it were a plurality of S×S′ virtual switch slices, where S | 12/07/2010 |
| 7843909 | Packet communicating apparatus Bandwidth control over users accommodated under ONU in PON is achieved. BAS sets user bandwidth information obtained during user authorization in OLT. The OLT achieves bandwidth control on a user basis, using bandwidth information set from the BAS. The present inven... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843906 | Storage gateway initiator for fabric-backplane enterprise servers Storage gateway remote and local access to storage devices is provided in part via an initiator implementing bandwidth-controlled access to the devices. The initiator may be iSCSI-compatible, and may also optionally implement protection, security, and performance fe... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843908 | Scalable two-stage Clos-networking switch and module-first matching A configuration scheme for IQC switches that hierarchizes the matching process reduces configuration complexity by performing routing first and port matching afterwards in a three-stage Clos-network switch. This scheme applies the reduction concept of Clos networks ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843907 | Storage gateway target for fabric-backplane enterprise servers Storage gateway remote and local access to storage devices is provided in part via a target implementing bandwidth-controlled access to the devices. The target may be iSCSI-compatible, and may also optionally implement protection, security, and performance features.... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7835349 | System and method for benchmarking location determining systems Systems, methods, and software are described for benchmarking the location determination capabilities of a wireless communications network. A mobile communications device is configured to receive data identifying a reference location for the device. A communications... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7826445 | Message formation and distribution in heterogeneous networks A system and method is disclosed for communicating with a plurality of network processors, one or more of the processors having a different operating environment, includes receiving an application programming interface (API) call from a user application, the API cal... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7801121 | Serial communications systems with cyclic redundancy checking Integrated circuits such as programmable logic device integrated circuits are provided with transmitter and receiver circuitry for communicating over multi-lane serial communications links. Data is transmitted over the serial communications links in the form of data... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792099 | Method of setting multicast transfer route and method of multicast label switching for realizing the same A method of establishing a multicast transfer route is disclosed that can reduce the cost of entire route under a constraint on delay incurred between starting point and ending points. The method includes the steps of: computing the shortest route with respect to de... | 09/07/2010 |
