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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7860120 | Network interface supporting of virtual paths for quality of service with dynamic buffer allocation A plurality of virtual paths in a network interface between a host port and a network port are managed according to respective priorities using dynamic buffer allocation. Thus, multiple levels of quality of service are supported through a single physical network por... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7548547 | Controlling the transfer of terminal server data The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling the transfer of terminal server data. In some embodiments, contending request to send terminal server data are resolved by a flow control module situated between a termi... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7440403 | Method and software for calculating rate constraints A method for determining and enforcing rate constraints on process flows in a network, the method comprising receiving at least one process flow. A flow rate vulnerability (FRV) factor and a required bandwidth (RBW) parameter are determined for the at least one proc... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428239 | Apparatus and method for priority queuing with segmented buffers Apparatus and methods for efficient queuing and dequeuing using segmented output buffers comprising sub-buffers and priority queues. Output buffers are monitored for empty sub-buffers. When a newly empty sub-buffer is discovered, a refill request is enqueued in a ra... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424026 | Method and apparatus providing continuous adaptive control of voice packet buffer at receiver terminal Disclosed is a device, a computer program and a method to receive and buffer data packets that contain information that is representative of time-ordered content, such as a voice signal, that is intended to be presented to a person in a substantially continuous and ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7376140 | System and method for assignment of ATM virtual circuits to queues in a DSLAM A method for distributing digital subscriber line (xDSL) data traffic includes receiving xDSL traffic at a DSLAM including a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output queues. Each input port includes a plurality of virtual circuits. Each of the plurality of... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366154 | Forward error correction scheme for high rate data exchange in a wireless system A transmitter/receiver system for high data transfer in a wireless communication system includes a physical layer processor that comprises an FEC coder, a demultiplexer and a plurality of modem processors. The FEC coder applies error correction codes to the high dat... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366106 | Radio communication terminal and communication method A radio communication terminal, being used in a radio communication systems in which the transmission rate varies depending on radio wave conditions and communication statuses of other users, comprises a reception module which receives packets transmitted by a base ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356631 | Apparatus and method for scheduling requests to source device in a memory access system An apparatus and method for scheduling requests to a source device is provided. The apparatus comprises a high-priority request queue for storing a plurality of high-priority requests to the source device; a low-priority request queue for storing a low-priority requ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356751 | Error handling and audience measurement in datacast network with return channel A data broadcast network with a return channel providing a guaranteed error-free data delivery simultaneously to multiple receiving devices. The network transmits data in packets and uses the return channel for audience measurement and packets recovery. Whenever a c... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352714 | Methods and apparatuses for allocating time slots to half duplex wireless mobile stations Methods and apparatuses for allocating control and data time slots to a plurality of wireless mobile stations in a wireless communication system using time division multiplexing. The methods and apparatuses assign such time slots by first placing the wireless mobile... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352695 | Switch and a switching method A switch at a transmission end of a system including a number of memory devices defining queues for receiving traffic to be switched, each queue having an associated predetermined priority classification, and a processor for controlling the transmission of traffic f... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352764 | Content addressable merged queue architecture for switching data A content addressable merged queue (camQ) architecture for switching data. The camQ architecture comprises a first array of priority cells for indicating a priority of a plurality of cells and a second array of destination cells for indicating a destination of the p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349406 | Method and apparatus for virtual network connection merging A method and apparatus are provided for performing a virtual network connection merge. In one example, the method assembles at least one data unit from data traffic of at least one network connection. A credit is calculated for each network connection. A chosen data... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349704 | Method and system for sharing over-allocated bandwidth between different classes of service in a wireless network A method and system for sharing over-allocated bandwidth between different classes of service in a wireless network. Traffic is transmitted for a first service class in excess of bandwidth allocated to the first service class using unused bandwidth allocated to a se... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350202 | Method for re-programming a firmware state machine during execution A method of reprogramming classification data in a packet classification state machine without interrupting the operation of the state machine is disclosed. Data relating to a plurality of new nodes from a starting node of the classification tree within a classifica... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349333 | Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell resources Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell capacity in a communications system. The systems and methods assign priorities to each remote user device in the communications system. In response to a request for service for a remote user ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339911 | Selection between two different coding schemes and corresponding modulation schemes according to the allowable transmission delay of the data Transmitters comprising detectors (32) for detecting packet data to be transmitted are provided with selectors (34) for in response to detection results of real-time requirements selecting first coding schemes and first modulation schemes like convolut... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336675 | Optimized back-to-back enqueue/dequeue via physical queue parallelism A method and apparatus to receive a plurality of packet from an inflow of a single packet flow. In response to receiving the plurality of packets, a plurality of packet pointers is enqueued into multiple physical queues. Each of the plurality of packet pointers desi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336930 | Interference cancellation in wireless relaying networks In accordance with the invention, signal information representative of a first set of information to be transmitted more than one time over at least one link is stored as a priori known signal information. This could be previously received and/or, detected informati... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333444 | Method and apparatus for creating a robust highly connected direct interconnection network One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating an interconnection network. During operation, the system associates an n-bit binary identifier with each node in the interconnection network. The system also groups the n bits of each binary id... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333429 | Method and apparatus for oversubscription of permanent virtual circuits The method establishes a number of permanent virtual circuits to be configured on a multiservice access device. At least one of the permanent virtual circuits is configured as an oversubscription (OS PVC). The OS PVC may be configured as a normal PVC with additional... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324537 | Switching device with asymmetric port speeds In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a switching device that includes a plurality of ports. The ports operate at asymmetric speeds. The apparatus also includes a switching matrix to provide selective connectivity between the ports. The apparatus furth... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321940 | Iterative architecture for hierarchical scheduling Conventional schedulers employ designs allocating specific processor and memory resources, such as memory for configuration data, state data, and scheduling engine processor resources for specific aspects of the scheduler, such as layers of the scheduling hierarchy,... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321553 | Methods and apparatus for asserting flow control at input ports of a shared-memory switch In a method of allocating a shared resource among a plurality of competing applicants, a share of the resource allocated to one of the applicants is limited on the basis of a current proportion of the resource allocated to the applicant and a total of respective sha... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317683 | Weighted fair queue serving plural output ports A data communication apparatus includes a plurality of output ports and a scheduler for assigning priorities for outbound data frames. The scheduler includes one or more scheduling queues. Each scheduling queue indicates an order in which data flows are to be servic... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315901 | Method and system for network processor scheduling outputs using disconnect/reconnect flow queues A system and method of moving information units from a network processor toward a data transmission network in a prioritized sequence which accommodates several different levels of service. The present invention includes a method and system for scheduling the egress... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313147 | Network device and its data transmission method A network device for transmitting data of a host system to a network including a buffer for storing the data, a first transmission interface providing a control signal to the host system, and a second transmission interface coupled to the buffer for transmitting the... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305507 | Multi-stage round robin arbitration system Round robin arbitration system includes a first round robin arbitration module and a second round robin arbitration module. The first round robin arbitration module has a first bit width. It is configured to partition a plurality of requests into a plurality of bloc... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301943 | QoS-oriented burstification method supporting various grades of burstification delay guarantee There is disclosed an QoS-oriented burstification method supporting various grades of burstification delay guarantee. For the arrival packets, the packets are sequentially inserted in a sequence of windows on weight basis, thereby forming a queue. The window size to... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302510 | Fair hierarchical arbiter A fair hierarchical arbiter comprises a number of arbitration mechanisms, each arbitration mechanism forwarding winning requests from requestors in round robin order by requestor. In addition to the winning requests, each arbitration mechanism forwards valid request... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298755 | Apparatus and method for communicating with a network and for monitoring operational performance of the apparatus An apparatus for communicating with a network comprises a data packet pipeline and a monitoring element. The data packet pipeline is configured to transfer data between a buffer and a network socket. The monitoring element is configured to provide an indication of a... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292594 | Weighted fair share scheduler for large input-buffered high-speed cross-point packet/cell switches A switching fabric connects input ports to output ports. Each input has an input pointer referencing an output port, and each output has an output pointer referencing an input port. An arbiter includes input and output credit allocators, and an arbitration module (m... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283558 | Distributed weighted fair arbitration and forwarding Multi-stage arbitration at a switching fabric. The switching fabric includes a traffic profiler that generates a request for a cell with a specified traffic class. The switching fabric includes a first stage arbitration between traffic classes of cells enqueued at t... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283487 | Transmission slot allocation method and map for virtual tunnels in a transmission line In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a map of transmission slots for a port of a network element includes a plurality of hierarchical sets of port transmission slots. The hierarchical sets include a plurality of parent sets. Each parent set ha... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281144 | Power management in communication devices Actual power savings achieved by using a power savings mode in a communications device may be increased by analyzing the effects of the power savings mode on delays and using the analysis on which to base a decision as to whether or not to enter the power savings mo... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280538 | Multicast concentrators A multicast concentrator to both concentrate and multicast packets, and the concomitant self-routing control mechanism for the switching of the packets in the multicast concentrator. An m-to-n multicast concentrator always guarantees that the total number of 0-bound... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277446 | Communication of digital data over a wireless transmission medium Data packets are received at a communications node. Each of the received data packets is associated with one of a set of different service classes. Packets corresponding to the received data packets are transmitted to recipients. The order in which the data packets ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274689 | Packet switch with one-stop buffer in memory with massive parallel access A broadband packet switch that handles all packets that arrive within the same frame time by simultaneously bit-pipelining the packets into different sections of the one-stop packet buffer through an input switch. Each packet remains in is selected section until its... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272149 | Bandwidth allocation systems and methods A system for shaping traffic from a plurality of data streams includes a queuing stage having a plurality of first-in, first-out shaping queues, the queuing stage being configured to classify incoming entries of traffic, and to assign an incoming element of traffic ... | 09/18/2007 |
