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| 8111702 | Configuring route properties for use in transport tree building A mechanism is provided by which a transport tree identifier can be generated comprising both an opaque field, containing information that cannot be interpreted by core routers, and a non-opaque field, containing information that can be interpreted by core routers. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107483 | IPv4-to-IPv6 address transitioning methods and apparatus for systems that push information to wireless communication devices A front end of an IPv6 communication network includes a network entry point device and a plurality of tunnel servers which facilitate the communication of user information between a host computer of an IPv4 communication network and an IPv6 wireless communication de... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102861 | Data and voice messaging system A data messaging system includes a first Internet Protocol (IP) switch that includes a processor. The data messaging system also includes a first gateserver coupled to the first IP switch and coupled to a second IP switch. The data messaging system includes a second... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102862 | Radio link parameter updating method in mobile communication system A radio link (RL) parameter updating method of a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) system in a mobile communication system is disclosed. According to a radio channel situation of a terminal, an RL parameter applied to transmission and reception of control in... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8085791 | Using layer two control protocol (L2CP) for data plane MPLS within an L2 network access node The invention is directed towards techniques for forwarding subscriber frames through a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) aggregation network using MPLS labels. Layer two (L2) network devices, such as access nodes, of a service provider (SP) network implement MP... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086091 | Data recording system, data acquiring apparatus, and recording medium storing therein data acquiring apparatus control program A data recording system includes a data acquiring apparatus that acquires data externally and a data recording apparatus that is communicably connected to the data acquiring apparatus via a network, and records data transmitted from the data acquiring apparatus. The... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085793 | Traffic localization with proxy mobility A method and nodes are provided for localizing traffic between communication nodes receiving service from a same network. A local mobility anchor informs media access gateways providing access to two communication nodes of each other's addresses. Traffic exchanged b... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085792 | Traffic-oblivious load balancing protocol for sensor networks A sensor in a network to which to route a packet is selected, where the sensor is selected independently of energy status of the sensors included in the network, and the sensor is selected by a source sensor. The packet is routed from the source sensor toward the de... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081641 | Methods and apparatus for network coding One embodiment is directed to transmitting encoded data over a broadcast medium to improve network throughput. A sending node may identify a first packet to be transmitted to a first network node and a second packet to be transmitted to a second network node. The se... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072989 | Virtual volume transfer apparatus, virtual volume transfer method, and computer product A method of transferring a virtual volume established on a real volume includes acquiring transfer source virtual volume information from a transfer source, acquiring transfer destination real volume information from a transfer destination, generating transfer desti... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068503 | Network packet steering via configurable association of processing resources and netmods or line interface ports Methods and systems are provided for steering network packets. According to one embodiment, a mapping associates a processing resource with a network interface module (netmod) and/or a number of line interface ports included within the netmod. In one embodiment, the... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068502 | Method and apparatus for enabling persistent connections with wireless networks The invention comprises a method and apparatus for establishing a persistent connection between a user device and a service gateway. Specifically, the method comprises obtaining state information in response to a connection request, establishing a connection between... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064466 | Method for specifying input edge router A method of specifying an input edge router has: obtaining a first value of an input packet counter from each of input candidate edge routers having possibility to receive a specified packet passing through a specified area; transmitting a test packet having a desti... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059662 | System and method for controlling content and delivery of internet protocol television (IPTV) services A system and method supplies internet protocol television (IPTV) services to a subscriber. A content management subsystem processes and executes integrated workflow functionality for content management of video data to be delivered from a video headend to a subscrib... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045565 | Method and apparatus for an environmentally hardened ethernet network system In an environmentally hardened network, a data and power distribution cable is employed in connection with reliable end connectors, high performance physical layer transceivers clocked at a lower rate than is specified and full duplex switched packet transmission te... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040902 | Extending standalone router syntax to multi-chassis routers A multi-chassis router allows an administrator to deliver commands from a single interface. Additionally, the multi-chassis router presents a software image consistent with that of a standalone router and uses commands and configurations consistent with those used b... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036230 | System and method for providing single IP tunnel In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet at a network processor, and determining the packet is to be directed to a selected one of a plurality of traffic processors if a tunnel endpoint identifier of the packet is associated with a subscriber terminal... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8018953 | Adaptive, deterministic ant routing approach for updating network routing information An adaptive, deterministic approach for updating network routing information is disclosed. From among a set of routers, each of which is associated with an amount of time relative to a destination, the router that is associated with the lowest amount of time is sele... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014406 | System and method of inserting a node into a virtual ring There is provided a method and system for inserting a second node into a virtual ring, wherein the virtual ring comprises at least a first node, wherein the first node comprises a virtual ring manager for the virtual ring and wherein the first node is linked with a ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014407 | Distributing personalized content The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005098 | Load balancing across multiple network address translation (NAT) instances and/or processors Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with load balancing across multiple network address translation (NAT) instances and/or processors. N network address translation (NAT) processors and/or instances... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005097 | Integrated circuit and method of arbitration in a network on an integrated circuit The invention relates to an integrated circuit and to a method of arbitration in a network on an integrated circuit. According to the invention, a method of arbitration in a network on an integrated circuit is provided, the network comprising a router unit, the rout... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005096 | Network tunnelling MPLS labels can be used to tunnel data packets through IP networks. At a start point such as a router or network terminator, the IP destination address is examined and one or more labels are generated which relate to the topology of the network. The labels can inclu... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990982 | Methods and apparatus to bound network traffic estimation error for multistage measurement sampling and aggregation Methods and apparatus to bound network traffic estimation error for multistage measurement sampling and aggregation are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises determining a hierarchical sampling topology representative of multiple data sampling and ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7969991 | Session announcement system and method A cluster system and method. The cluster includes a first and a second interface and two or more nodes, wherein each node is connected to the first and second interfaces, wherein exactly one node includes a first redirector and wherein exactly one node includes a se... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969992 | Method and system for optimizing routing of data packets A method and system for determining a route for a packet traveling over at least one system from a source to a destination is disclosed. A first geographic area corresponds to the source and a second geographic area corresponds to the destination. The destination fu... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965720 | Method of selecting network path and communication system A method of selecting a network path for a network coding communication includes initializing a length of each of links; searching for an independent path from a source node to one of target nodes based on the length of each of the links; multiplying a predetermined... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961740 | Method and system of routing in a utility smart-grid network A wireless network has a server that includes a server controller that controls the receipt and transmission of packets via a server radio. The server controller selects a route to nodes in the wireless network, and provides communication between the wireless networ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961741 | Rapid dissemination of bulk information to widely dispersed network nodes Bulk information is transferred to nodes in a communication network having a plurality of widely dispersed nodes. The information can be an image, content, or configuration information. The information is uni-cast to a selection of nodes by a central node or server,... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957400 | Hierarchical network topology A network including a hierarchical structure of nodes is described. The structure of nodes includes n layers including n−1 layers of switch nodes and 1 layer of computational nodes. Each layer in the structure can include mn-L nodes grouped into units, ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948994 | Method and apparatus for routing and forwarding between virtual routers within a single network element A method and apparatus for routing and forwarding between virtual routers is described. A method in a single network element comprises peering a first virtual router to a second virtual router, wherein the first and second virtual routers have separate address space... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948995 | 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... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948996 | Communicating constraint information for determining a path subject to such constraints Path determination constraints may be encoded in the form of a program having one or more instructions. Each of instructions may include an operation code, and operands (or pointers to locations where operands are stored). In this way, an extensible, interoperable w... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944932 | Interconnect fabric for a data processing system A data processing system includes a plurality of processing units each having a respective point-to-point communication link with each of multiple others of the plurality of processing units but fewer than all of the plurality of processing units. Each of the plural... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940779 | Method and system for controlling mobility in a communication network, related network and computer program product therefor A communication network, such as a mobile IP network, includes at least one mobile terminal and a plurality of home agents adapted to provide, within working sessions, communication services to the above mobile terminal. In the network, there is an authentication, a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940780 | Data communication system enabling data communication between communication devices through a server A method and a system for speeding up session establishment are provided, wherein the time required to establish a session is reduced, even in the case where a session management server requires a large amount of time to process respective functions required for est... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936768 | Method for operating a decentralized data network A decentralized data network contains a plurality of network nodes. The network nodes are able to direct requests into the data network with the aid of checking values. The network nodes are each assigned one or more table entries in a value table distributed betwee... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933278 | Apparatus and method for providing network information A network-information-providing device including a control unit that extracts an object node whose network connection state is most stable by referring to network information of one or more nodes that comprise a network when receiving a network-connection request, a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7920576 | Packet ring network system, packet forwarding method and node Nodes 901 and 902 have the same address. Upon reception of a broadcast packet whose TTL value is not zero from a ringlet 910a, a forwarding circuit 51 of each of the nodes 901 and 902 copies and transits the packet, a... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916737 | Relaying device, network system, and network system controlling method The first relaying device uses the first port (the second relaying device) for the first priority in the first selecting mode, and uses a port other than the second port (the third relaying device) for the second priority. The first relaying device uses the first po... | 03/29/2011 |
