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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8401020 | Method for controlling access to TDMA wireless channel from nodes of network of either linear or tree topology Requests of resources of uplink flows towards a base station (BS) and/or downlink flows towards end nodes are computed by each requesting node on an end-to-end basis. Each requesting node issues a cumulative request given by summing up the same request for each link... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8306036 | Methods and systems for hierarchical resource allocation through bookmark allocation Methods and systems for efficient allocation of resources between child nodes of a parent node in a hierarchical system. The parent node has a limited number of resources available in a resource allocation phrase. The limited number of resources are allocated accord... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8289972 | Gigabit passive optical network strict priority weighted round robin scheduling mechanism A system, method, and computer readable medium for strict priority weighted round robin scheduling includes selecting a set of bandwidth allocation table filled entries having a common destination address, each filled entry associated with a received data packet and... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8254393 | Harnessing predictive models of durations of channel availability for enhanced opportunistic allocation of radio spectrum A proactive adaptive radio methodology for the opportunistic allocation of radio spectrum is described. The methods can be used to allocate radio spectrum resources by employing machine learning to learn models, via accruing data over time, that have the ability to ... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8233490 | Method for the distribution of a network traffic according to SLA and QoS parameters The invention relates to a method, a bandwidth broker and an edge node for providing a predefined quality of service between two communication partners, wherein the quality of service is provided by means of a plurality of connections and a decentralised admission c... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8189598 | Operations method in an ethernet passive optical network that includes a network unit with multiple entities A method for registration of multiple entities belonging to a specific optical networks unit (ONU). In one embodiment, the multiple entity registration method comprises checking by an optical line terminal (OLT) if a registration request message (400) receive... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8144713 | Telecommunications system Virtual dedicated voice connections between parties to a packet-switched system can be created by reserving capacity for such connections in the packet-switched system. The capacity reservable by any one party is limited to prevent over-subscription of resources in ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8089969 | Metro ethernet service enhancements Numerous enhancements to metro Ethernet network (MEN) services include an enhancement of the overall MEN Quality of Service (QoS) architecture, an enhancement to classification at the provider edge, the use of Ethernet QoS classes, enhancements to policing and marki... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8068498 | Computer readable record medium on which data communication load distribution control program is recorded and data load distribution control method Highly flexible trunking is actualized by using a switching hub without a trunking function. A computer generates a distribution algorithm notification packet including physical addresses of communication interfaces and a distribution algorithm used for distributing... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064463 | Method and system for allocating resources within a data communications network A method and system for allocating resources within a data communications network. A bandwidth manager regulates attached devices access to shared bandwidth. The manager ensures that a user has a predetermined amount of bandwidth available or a set speed of data tra... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059659 | Network having bandwidth sharing A communication system includes a plurality of devices, such as cable modems, in communication with a station, such as a cable modem termination system, that provides efficient upstream bandwidth sharing. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045562 | Estimating link interference and bandwidth A carrier sense relationship and an interference relationship between logical links in a shared, broadcast, medium network are determined. Bandwidth for each of the links is estimated based on the carrier sense relationship and the interference relationship. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045563 | Dynamically adjusted credit based round robin scheduler A credit based queue scheduler dynamically adjusts credits depending upon at least a moving average of incoming packet size to alleviate the impact of traffic burstiness and packet size variation, and increase the performance of the scheduler by lowering latency and... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036227 | Quality of service support for A/V streams An access control mechanism in a network connecting one or more sink devices to a server providing audio/visual data (A/V) in streams. As a sink device requests access, the server measures available bandwidth to the sink device. If the measurement of available bandw... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8014404 | Method and system for priority based routing A method and system for routing a data packet, intended for a destination node, from a source node to a first intermediate node in a network is useful for improving the efficiency of the network. The method includes determining a priority level for a user of the sou... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7957397 | Bandwidth allocation for video-on-demand networks A method and apparatus is provided for determining bandwidth allocation that includes initiating a transmission of a plurality of at least portions of content from a root node of a tree topology network along a path having a plurality of links connecting nodes to at... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7936765 | Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating bandwidth by hierarchical weight round robin Provided are method and apparatus for dynamically allocating unlink bandwidth in Ethernet PON. In the method and apparatus, report value, which are received for each logical link identifications (LLID), is controlled to be less than a maximum gate value set for each... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933276 | Dynamic bandwidth allocation processor A dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) processor comprises a DBA co-processor having DBA co-processor components and operative to perform and accelerate DBA functions, and a processing core logically coupled to the DBA co-processor through a processing bus and operati... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7912066 | Methods of allocating packets in a wireless communication system In a wireless communication system, a multi-source data multiplexing system (e.g., a media access control (MAC)) accepts information packets from a plurality of signal sources, evaluates the relative efficiencies of data transmission, and transmits the information p... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7843942 | Node and fair rate calculating method A topology database stores the number of RPR nodes which belong to an RPR network. A traffic rate measuring unit sends a variety of parameters for calculating a communication band available to a fairness controlled traffic packet to a fairness control unit. Upon det... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7813351 | Available bandwidth estimation Feature vectors for nodes in a network are computed based on a network metric. Clusters of the nodes are formed based on the feature vectors. A cluster head is selected for each cluster. Available bandwidths between the cluster head and nodes outside the cluster are... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7782869 | Network traffic control for virtual device interfaces Processes for the control of traffic and Quality of Service (QoS) over a switch fabric network comprised of application servers and virtual I/O servers. In the embodiment, an application server includes virtual device interfaces, a QoS module, and a network port con... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7706385 | Bandwidth management system and method for guaranteeing quality of service in voice over internet protocol network In a bandwidth management system and method for guaranteeing quality of service (QoS) in a Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network, bandwidth use information used to establish or terminate a call is provided, a bandwidth is reset when the bandwidth use informati... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701948 | Metro ethernet service enhancements Numerous enhancements to metro Ethernet network (MEN) services include an enhancement of the overall MEN Quality of Service (QoS) architecture, an enhancement to classification at the provider edge, the use of Ethernet QoS classes, enhancements to policing and marki... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7693157 | Quality of service support for A/V streams An access control mechanism in a network connecting one or more sink devices to a server providing audio/visual data (A/V) in streams. As a sink device requests access, the server measures available bandwidth to the sink device. If the measurement of available bandw... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7672312 | Connection release in a two-layer communication network The present invention is a method for releasing at least a part of a connection in a two-layer communication network that includes a first communication network layer adapted to establish or which establishes a communication channel to a terminal, and a second commu... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668175 | Dynamic power management for I/O resource pools Methods and apparatus for managing a pool of I/O interfaces associated with one or more I/O devices are disclosed. The I/O bandwidth utilization of the I/O devices is ascertained and compared with an upper threshold and a lower threshold. When the I/O bandwidth util... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7626989 | Capacity allocation for packet data bearers The present invention relates to a method in a radio communication system providing packet data services. A radio communication system providing packet data services and a packet data scheduler (PS) are also disclosed. In accordance with the method capacity is reque... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623524 | Scheduling system utilizing pointer perturbation mechanism to improve efficiency In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a switching device that includes a plurality of ingress ports to receive data from external sources and a plurality of egress ports to transmit data to external destinations. The switching device also includes a pl... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7623525 | Flexible multicasting in high-capacity switches In a communication system using multicasting, multicast packets are forwarded through a switch by destination ports after these ports receive the packets. A source node sends the multicast packet to a subset of nodes within the multicast group, which in turn, forwar... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7606237 | Sharing restoration path bandwidth in mesh networks A shared mesh data network (SMDN) for path-based recovery at the packet level. In one implementation, a first link in the network is part of two or more different protection paths, where each protection path corresponds to a different primary path. A network manager... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7602791 | Channel efficiency based packet scheduling for interactive data in cellular networks The present packet scheduling algorithm gives cellular network operators greater flexibility in adjusting the way resources are allocated among interactive best-effort data users. The present packet scheduling algorithm is capable of allocating radio resource dynami... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7564852 | Intelligent bandwidth allocation for ethernet passive optical networks A method and integrated hardware system for dynamic bandwidth allocation in EPONs which—in sharp contrast to the prior art—provides superior upstream transmission characteristics including QoS considerations consistent with any Service Level Agreement that exist... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7554990 | Static address reservation protocol in a data network A method in a data network where the data network includes multiple terminal points interconnected by one or more network intermediate devices includes transmitting an invitation message from a first terminal point where the invitation message is broadcast through t... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7545814 | Method and system for dynamic remapping of packets for a router The invention provides a method and system for relieving temporal overload conditions in a router when weighted queues are employed to forward packets to their next destination. Typically, a received packet is mapped to a weighted queue that is associated with the k... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7535912 | Bi-lateral bandwidth negotiation upon detection of a short-term traffic pattern change The present invention relates to a switching unit with a low-latency flow control. Queuing parameters of ingress queues, wherein the incoming traffic is backlogged, are measured to detect a short term traffic increase. An additional bandwidth is then negotiated to a... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7532627 | Wideband upstream protocol Some embodiments of the present invention may include a method to stream packets into a queue for an upstream transmission, send multiple requests for upstream bandwidth to transmit data from the queue and receiving multiple grants to transmit data, and transmit dat... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7486682 | Method and apparatus for grooming traffic demands according to mileage based tariffs A method and apparatus for grooming traffic demands according to mileage based tariffs. An Integer Linear Program (ILP) that captures the traffic grooming problem is defined, and such a linear program can in principle be solved by conventional linear program applica... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7474662 | Systems and methods for rate-limited weighted best effort scheduling Systems and methods for scheduling data packets in a network processor are disclosed. Embodiments provide a network processor that comprises a best-effort scheduler with a minimal calendar structure for addressing schedule control blocks. In one embodiment, a four-e... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7457297 | Methods and apparatus for differentiated services over a packet-based network Methods and apparatus for the provision of differentiated services in a packet-based network may be provided in a communications device such as a switch or router having input ports and output ports. Each output port is associated with a set of configurable queues t... | 11/25/2008 |
