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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155150 | Cooperative MAC learning/aging in highly distributed forwarding system A method may be performed by a device in a network, the device including multiple security process units (SPUs). The method includes receiving a packet over the network, the packet including a media access control (MAC) address, and assigning one SPU as the MAC addr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8126017 | Method for address translation in telecommunication features A method for address translation in telecommunication networks that reduces the feature-interaction problems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a module in a target region of a request chain is constrained in a way such that that module cannot change a source address ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8050294 | Method and system for transmitting in TDM mode A method for transmitting data in TDM mode is provided to solve the problem in the prior art that the data processing between a transmitter side and a receiver side could not be real time and the delay time during data transmitting would be longer. The method compri... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045588 | Method and apparatus for providing and receiving three-dimensional digital contents Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing three-dimensional (3D) digital content by using a conventional system for providing two-dimensional (2D) digital content. The method includes generating an elementary stream (ES) regarding first data of 2D digital... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7974311 | Configuring addresses in a communication network The present invention relates to a method for configuring addresses in a packet switched data communication system. The method comprises providing a logical network with at least two network elements, a network element comprising at least one sub-element. The method... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7944947 | Providing address information for reaching a wireless terminal The invention relates to a method of providing address information for reaching a wireless terminal, the wireless terminal being connected to a first wireless communication network, a varying public address being dynamically allocated to the wireless terminal, and t... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7852878 | Apparatus and method for supporting establishment of network address of communication apparatus An apparatus and method of setting an address of a communication apparatus is provided where when an access router transmits a Router Advertisement (RA) message to the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus sets an address establishment scheme of the c... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7738494 | Communication apparatus, communication method, and program A communication apparatus capable of using near field communication from various protocols, a communication method for use therewith, and a program for use therewith are provided. NFC communication apparatuses 1 to 3 capsulize an LLC packet of an LLC l... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7706411 | Handling oversubscribed mesh ports with re-tagging One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of handling oversubscribed ports between switches. An oversubscribed port is detected at a detecting switch. A set of paths exiting at the oversubscribed port is selected for retagging, and tags for the set of paths are i... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7693187 | Integrated information communication system using internet protocol The integrated information communication system is comprised of an access control apparatus for connecting a plurality of computer communication networks or information communication equipment to each, and a relay device for networking the aforementioned access cont... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7656903 | System and methods for documenting networks with electronic modules A documentation system for a network having a source device which is connected to a network path which is connected to a destination device, the documentation system comprising, a data port which includes an electronic module with an identification code on the netwo... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7633974 | System and method of ordering the transmission of data packets in a radio system A system and method is provided for reordering the transmission of data packets in a queue of a radio system when an error occurs during the transmission of a data packet to any device destination address. A transmission ordering component is provided that transmits... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7599397 | Obtaining multiple port addresses by a fibre channel switch from a network fabric Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to Fibre Channel (FC) switch interoperability and provide a novel and non-obvious data processing system, method and computer program product for obtaining multiple port addresses by a F... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7539216 | Method and system of determining last hop device addresses Method and system of determining addressing in a network environment where client devices are serviced by a number of last hop devices. The method and system including determining client device addresses serviced by the last hop devices as a function of last hop dev... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7444405 | Method and apparatus for implementing a MAC address pool for assignment to a virtual interface aggregate A method to implement an address pool is described. The method collects at least one address, the at least one address originally assigned as a unique address to at least one physical interface of a computer. Each originally assigned address is modified to be a plur... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440415 | Virtual network addresses Systems, methods and devices for virtual network addresses. A method comprises processing a request from a requestor to create a plurality of software network devices having a corresponding plurality of media access control (MAC) addresses. The MAC addresses may be ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440405 | Apparatus and method for packet forwarding with quality of service and rate control A system and method for forwarding data packets with quality of service and rate control. A plurality of data packets are received from a plurality of sources. The header information of each data packet is extracted and compared against a plurality of tables, and th... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436835 | Forced bearer routing for packet-mode interception A method of intercepting call content in a packet-based Internet Protocol (IP) network. The method includes targeting bearer packets containing the call content via a Softswitch controlling the redirection of the targeted bearer packets through a specified Intercept... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433351 | Isolation of data, control, and management traffic in a storage area network Switching data packets includes forwarding first data packets to a first port that is associated with a first domain. Second data packets are forwarded to a second port that is associated with a second domain. The first data packets are managed using a first managem... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430614 | Use of IP address blocks with default interfaces in a router The use of IP address blocks with default interfaces in a router is described herein. According to one embodiment, an exemplary method includes in response to a request for a first IP address received from a first client at an interface of the network element, assig... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430186 | Spatial-driven context zones for sensor networks and device infrastructures An apparatus, method and computer readable device for providing spatial information in a sensor network. The sensor network comprises a plurality of sensors and a plurality of actuators, each sensors and actuators have a unique id and a known spatial location within... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7411981 | Matching of radius request and response packets during high traffic volume A solution for matching RADIUS request packets with corresponding RADIUS response packets when the number of simultaneous outstanding requests is greater than 256 involves using a sixteen-octet authenticator field in each packet. For each response packet that arrive... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408920 | Active user registry An Active User Registry system includes a database which is integrated with the POTS network and a packet network to exploit the outstanding strengths of both of its constituents. The Active User Registry database is a dynamic data structure of all the ways in which... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400621 | Technique for achieving connectivity between telecommunication stations A technique for enabling a secure, point-to-point wireless connection between a secondary computer (e.g., a personal digital assistant, etc.) and a primary computer (e.g., a notebook, a desktop, etc.) is disclosed. The primary computer is associated with an extended... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394797 | Medium sensing histogram for WLAN resource reporting The admissibility of periodic traffic to a wireless medium can be estimated using a measurement report format that includes a field indicating the number of bins for a predetermined channel of the wireless medium that were busy during a measurement period, and a fie... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386881 | Method for mapping security associations to clients operating behind a network address translation device A method and system for mapping security parameters to a plurality of network sessions is provided. A responding computer maps the security parameters to the combination of packet parameters and a mapped port value used in each of the plurality of sessions. The pack... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385975 | Routing method and SIP server using the same A routing method. When implemented in a network system, the routing method ameliorates problems of media stream routing through a network address translation (NAT) device. First, whether a first terminal will correspond to different public address-and-port informati... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373407 | Communications system for establishing PPP connections between IEEE 1394 terminals and IP networks A packet repeater is connected between an IEEE-1394 host terminal and a PPP server. The host terminal transmits a PPP packet containing the physical address of an IEEE-1394 device. During a discovery stage of a PPP connection, the packet repeater receives a PPP pack... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370149 | Connection support method for disk array device Apparatus to navigate connection among a controller housing and disk device housings which constitute a storage device. The controller housing, the disk device housings, and the like are stored in a storage device housing and are connected by ENC cables according to... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362760 | Method for providing an internal server with reduced IP addresses The present invention relates to a method for providing internal server with reduced IP addresses, comprising: first, configure the corresponding relationship information between external address as well as other characteristic information and internal address as we... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363574 | Method and system for parallel CRC calculation A system and method for a parallel CRC calculation is provided. A set of parallel inputs are loaded into a control register, and this control register is then used with a parallel table look-up operation to look up CRC entries for each of the inputs using a single i... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359381 | Parallel hardware arrangement for correlating an external transport address pair with a local endpoint association An arrangement of data storage cells are accessed in parallel for correlating a transport address pair with a respective local association. In one embodiment, each cell may contain a transport address pair and a local association ID. In another embodiment, multiple ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359984 | Management of network quality of service In one embodiment, a router is deployed on a local area network (LAN) in addition to any routers deployed on a wide area network (WAN) coupled with the LAN having the router. A service management device is coupled between the two routers. The service management devi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359360 | Communication system supporting wireless communication of packet data and method and arrangement relating thereto A communication system supporting communication of packet data. It comprises a core network, which includes a number of packet data support nodes, a number of gateway nodes for communication with external packet data networks, and a number of radio networks. Each ra... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359989 | Addressing in wireless local area networks The invention relates to a method of transferring required messages for acquiring a temporary MAC address in a wireless local area network. In a first device in the local area network, a first identifier is determined to identify the first device. A message comprisi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356002 | Method for reserving a new care of address (CoA) in advance to achieve a fast handover under a mobile internet protocol version 6 (IPV6) environment A method is provided for reserving a new CoA in advance for a mobile node. The method for reserving the new CoA includes transmitting to the router a CoA reservation solicitation message including a link layer address of the mobile node from the mobile node; transmi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356628 | Packet switch with multiple addressable components An integrated circuit on which are implemented a number of devices that conform to the Rapidio network architecture. Included in the integrated circuit are two addressed RapidIO devices and switching devices which provide 24 switching ports. The devices have a packe... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352726 | Communication device, communication method and program for packet communications between two networks that conform to different standards A communication device, a communication method and a program can connect two different networks to form a single network without wasting MAC addresses. Address preparing section 15 prepares a pseudo MAC address that corresponds to the node ID stored in the or... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353004 | Multi-channel broadband content distribution system The system of a content head end of a distribution system includes a program multiplexer, a multi-channel modulating module, a channel multiplexer, a digital-to-analog converter and a frequency block-up converter, all arranged in a sequential configuration. Packets ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352773 | Relay apparatus and network relay method A relay apparatus according to an embodiment of this invention includes an ID acquisition unit configured to acquire the unique ID of a partner device connected to a predetermined network, and a control unit which controls various processes on the basis of the uniqu... | 04/01/2008 |
