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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7733898 | Method and apparatus for preventing starvation in a slotted-ring network A method and apparatus for preventing starvation in a slotted-ring network. Embodiments may include a ring interconnect to transmit bits, with one of the bits being a slot reservation bit, and nodes coupled to the ring interconnect, with each node comprising a starv... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7369514 | Source credit based fairness scheme A method and apparatus for minimizing starvation of a station in a ring networked environment includes allocating a tax to each of the stations in the ring, and, for each packet that is to be transited though the ring, providing bandwidth to the station in the form ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366789 | System using weighted fairness decisions in spatial reuse protocol forwarding block to determine allowed usage for servicing transmit and transit traffic in a node A method and apparatus for servicing transit and transmit traffic in a node of a network. The network includes a plurality of nodes connected by first and second rings formed by two or more transmission media. The method includes receiving usage data from a downstre... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356613 | Routable application partitioning A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment determine the active partitions of an application and assign the active partitions among servers via a routing table. The routing table is sent to a client, who uses the routing table to se... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355978 | Method for implementing an OAM function by exchanging request-reply packets between stations of a RPR network, and corresponding packet frames Described is a method extending the OAM functionality in the RPR networks through a new OAM loopback procedure of request-reply type together with the definition of a new RPR OAM loopback frame. The OAM loopback function allows any RPR station to check the reachabil... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356770 | System and method of graphically managing and monitoring a compute environment Presented is a graphical interface for managing at least reservations and jobs within a compute environment such as a cluster or a grid. A user can graphically view reservations and jobs in the environment and interact with the interface to modify and create reserva... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352765 | Packet switching fabric having a segmented ring with token based resource control protocol and output queuing control A packet switching fabric includes means forming a data ring, means forming a control ring, and means forming a plurality of data communication network links each having at least one network node coupled thereto. The fabric further includes a plurality of output que... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7330431 | Multipoint to multipoint communication over ring topologies A method for assigning bandwidth in a network including nodes coupled by links arranged in a physical topology, the method including: defining between the nodes logical connections associated with a data transmission service to be provided over the network, the logi... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327742 | Communication system and method for sending isochronous streaming data within a frame segment using a signaling byte A communication system, network interface, and communication port is provided for interconnecting a network of multimedia devices. The multimedia devices can send streaming and/or non-streaming data across the network. The network accommodates all such types of data... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328017 | Resource negotiation in wireless communications networks and methods A method in wireless communications networks including transmitting a radio resource assignment (520) to a wireless communications device in response to a request (510), transmitting radio resource assignment time-out information to the wireless commun... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315830 | Method, system and computer program product for ordering merchandise in a global computer network environment An electronic shopping server formats and sends an electronic page, having an integrated shopping basket with drag and drop functionality, from a virtual catalog to a plurality of clients. The server includes an e-sessions controller that manages and tracks each ses... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310683 | Message relaying scheme based on switching in units of flows A message relay device suitable for contructing a ultra-high-speed message relaying system is disclosed. In the message relay device, a flow is detected by a prescribed condition, while a bypass channel capable of transferring messages with an amount of calculations... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310688 | Relative addressing for network elements A relative address protocol for communicating message packets along a linear chain network or quasi-linear chain network is disclosed. The protocol includes a relative destination address field that includes a counter having a preselected initial value at a source n... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7287080 | System and method for transmitting data via data networks, particularly the internet, using an asynchronous data connection To provide a bi-directional data connection via the Internet, even across firewalls and starting from a client which is not visible as a server on the Internet, a first connection request for establishing a first transmission channel is sent from a first data proces... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283749 | Fiber and wire communication system This invention provides a new architecture for a communication system between head-ends and end-users which expands bandwidth and reliability of the communication system. A mux-node receives communication signals from a head-end and forwards the received communicati... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283478 | Traffic engineering in bi-directional ring networks A method for traffic engineering in a communication system made up of network nodes arranged in multiple interconnected networks, including at least one bi-directional ring network having an inner ring and an outer ring. The bi-directional ring network is defined as... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280549 | High speed ring/bus A data communication bus and method of operation thereof, including a plurality of nodes connected to a respective plurality of media segments. A typical node includes an output port coupled to a media segment that it exclusively controls. And an input port coupled ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274968 | Method of serial communication method between NC device and a plurality of servo amps for servomotors A communication control system and method of communicating between a numerical control device and a plurality of servomotors, includes connecting the numerical control device to a plurality of servoamps of the plurality of servomotors in a loop configuration via bi-... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272361 | Method and device for transmitting burst signal in mobile communication system, information distribution method, and information distribution controller In a method and an apparatus of transmitting a burst signal when the burst signal is transmitted from a transmitting station to a receiving station at a transmission power value and/or a transmission rate determined in accordance with a state of a radio channel betw... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7254660 | Data transfer method and data transfer device A data transfer method which is capable of transferring a predetermined amount of data in one transaction at only one time, and preventing the number of ports of a master chip and the number of signal lines connected between the master chip and slave chips from bein... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7231471 | System using fairness logic for mediating between traffic associated with transit and transmit buffers based on threshold values of transit buffer A method and apparatus for servicing transit and transmit traffic in a node of a network. The network includes a plurality of nodes connected by first and second rings formed by two or more transmission media. The method includes receiving usage data from a downstre... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7216217 | Programmable processor with group floating-point operations A programmable processor that comprises a general purpose processor architecture, capable of operation independent of another host processor, having a virtual memory addressing unit, an instruction path and a data path; an external interface; a cache operable to ret... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212490 | Dynamic load balancing for dual ring topology networks A method and apparatus for servicing transmit traffic in a node of a network where the network includes a plurality of nodes connected by first and second rings formed by two or more transmission media. The method includes receiving transit delay data associated wit... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209488 | Method for assigning a data channel to multiple data links for simultaneous data transmission via a single data channel A method for data transmission via several data channels in a network linking several units to one another, where the units can function as data sources, data sinks or transceivers, includes the steps of arbitrarily assigning a first data channel to a first predeter... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203142 | Multi-source surround audio apparatus A DVD audio signal reproducer reproduces a DVD to generate a DVD reproduced audio signal. A reproduced signal determiner determines whether the DVD reproduced audio signal is a 5.1-channel digital surround audio signal or a 2-channel digital audio signal, and genera... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7177268 | Packet distributing device Packets of different priorities are efficiently distributed to a plurality of links of different qualities. When transmitting a low priority packet, the load on a higher quality link is examined, and if the load is not greater than a predetermined value, the low pri... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177971 | General input/output architecture, protocol and related methods to provide isochronous channels An enhanced general input/output communication architecture, protocol and related methods are presented. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170859 | Media converter with integrated local information transmission function and fault alarm signal transmission system There is provided media converter having an integrated local information transmission function and a fault alarm signal communication system for transmitting local information using a frequency outside the communication frequency bands for data signals. In the subsc... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167442 | Hitless protection switching The invention provides a method and apparatus for providing hitless protection switching in a synchronous transmission system. A switching apparatus is arranged to receive data signals on at least two transmission paths and to output data from a selected one of said... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7151742 | Flow control for communication ring access control Ring access control circuitry comprises a receive interface, a host interface coupled to the receive interface, a mate interface coupled to the host interface, a flow control agent coupled to the mate interface, a transmit interface coupled to the flow control agent... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7133911 | Response time analysis of network performance A system and method are described for analyzing the performance of a network while processing an application. The method involves measuring and calculating the amount of time nodes are active processing and sending frames, as well as the amount of time that frames s... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130629 | Enabling services for multiple sessions using a single mobile node Methods and apparatus for performing registration on behalf of a session associated with a mobile node are disclosed. The mobile node composes a registration request including a NAI identifying a userID and a sub-NAI that uniquely identifies a session associated wit... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126910 | Load balancing technique for a resilient packet ring A technique for load balancing in resilient packet ring (“RPR”) networks, including wavelength division multiplex RPR (“WDMRPR”) networks is described. In one embodiment, the present technique comprises implementing on every node a QoS/BB monitor, which is c... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7092540 | Automation of signal processing apparatus Process for accurately timed automatic alteration of electrical signals stored on a signal carrier (1) during the transmission of the original signal to a signal receiver (8, 10) in which process, for the exact dynamic alteration of the original signal... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7093187 | Variable code rate and signal constellation turbo trellis coded modulation codec Variable code rate and signal constellation turbo trellis coded modulation (TTCM) codec. A common trellis is employed at both ends of a communication system (in an encoder and decoder) to code and decode data at different rates. The encoding employs a single TTCM en... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088675 | Wrap path for communication ring access control Ring access control circuitry comprises a receive interface, a host interface coupled to the receive interface, a mate interface coupled to the host interface, a flow control agent coupled to the mate interface, a transmit interface coupled to the flow control agent... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085898 | Coherency management for a “switchless” distributed shared memory computer system An apparatus and method is disclosed to manage storage coherency in a symmetric multiprocessing environment having a plurality of nodes, each of which contain a multitude of processors, I/O adapters, main memory and a system controller comprising an integrated switc... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7068937 | Fiber and wire communication system This invention provides a new architecture for a communication system between head-ends and end-users which expands bandwidth and reliability of the communication system. A mux-node receives communication signals from a head-end and forwards the received communicati... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068686 | Method and apparatus for efficient transmission of multimedia data packets A transmission efficient packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed. The transmission efficient interface includes a bi-directional auxiliary channel arranged to transfer information between ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062700 | 16 QAM and 16 APSK TTCM (Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation) with minimum bandwidth efficiency of 3 bit/s/Hz using a rate 2/4 constituent encoder 16 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) and 16 APSK (Asymmetric Phase Shift Keying) TTCM (Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation) with minimum bandwidth efficiency of 3 bit/s/Hz (bits per second per Hertz) using a rate 2/4 constituent encoder. Various encoder designs are p... | 06/13/2006 |
