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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190766 | Across-device communication protocol A method for communicating data between network devices is disclosed. A transmission signal is sent over a port of one of the network devices, where the port is in communication with other network devices of the network devices. A data frame is also sent over the po... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180919 | Integrated circuit and method of employing a processor in an integrated circuit According to various embodiments of the present invention, an intelligent framer/mapper integrates the framer, mapper, and the controlling function of the host processor, implemented as either a soft processor or an embedded processor, into a single device, such as ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176200 | Distributed aggregation on an overlay network The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for distributed aggregation on an overlay network. Embodiments of the invention utilize tiers of nodes that are cascaded in a layered system. Each tier reduces the size of data by order... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166196 | Introducing cascaded intelligent services in a SAN environment Techniques are disclosed for redirecting fiber channel data transmitted between nodes in a fiber channel fabric. The redirection allows traffic sent from a host to a target in a storage area network (SAN) to flow through a cascade of applications provided by certain... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161183 | Distributing information in a markup language within a computer system Computer-based methods and systems are described wherein at least one content provider, a portal and a user are coupled to a communications network or content delivery network. The content provider provides means for generating information in a markup language and f... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156241 | System and method for compressing data transferred over a network for storage purposes Data is transferred over a network for storage purposes in a way that accommodates systems which are equipped to only handle a predetermined data block size. This is accomplished by transmitting the data using the same data block size regardless as to whether the da... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150995 | Receive window auto-tuning Methods of tuning a receive window. A receiving device and a sending device may be in communication over a network. The receiving device may advertise a receive window to the sending device. The size of the receive window may be adjusted over time based on one or mo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8131869 | Audio-on-demand communication system An audio-on-demand communication system provides real-time playback of audio data transferred via telephone lines or other communication links. One or more audio servers include memory banks which store compressed audio data. At the request of a user at a subscriber... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122146 | Intelligent switching of client packets among a group of servers The content-aware application switch and methods thereof intelligently switch client packets to one server among a group of servers in a server farm. The switch uses Layer 7 or application content parsed from a packet to help select the server and to schedule the tr... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108546 | Data packet encapsulation methods A data encapsulation system and related methods. Implementations may include: forming at least one frame having a data payload, a data sequence, and one or more control bytes; evaluating data to be stored in the data payload and setting a value of the one or more co... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108545 | Packet coalescing in virtual channels of a data processing system in a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture A mechanism is provided for packet coalescing in virtual channels of a data processing system. A first processor bundles original data into a data packet to be transmitted to a destination processor, the original data comprising payload data and overhead data. The f... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8073966 | Virtual interface A virtual interface is disclosed. A method may include allowing upper layer software to transparently access the capabilities of a network device via a virtual interface as if the network device were in a computing device in which the upper layer software is residen... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065431 | Method of data management for efficiently storing and retrieving data to respond to user access requests A method of data management for efficiently storing and retrieving data in response to user access requests. The method includes receiving a request from at least one client for a title not resident in a storage server, where the title includes a play track having a... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060648 | Method and system of allocating data for subsequent retrieval A method and system of allocating data for subsequent retrieval. The method and system optionally including allocating data to a plurality of devices for storage, associating the data with the device providing the storage thereof, and providing retrieval information... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8015313 | Method and apparatus for managing transmission of TCP data segments A communication device is arranged to transmit data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. In response to receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015314 | Method for configuring a network element having an unknown protocol address A method and system of simplified configuration of a network element. A network element having a direct access module and an arbitrary unknown address is coupled to a same physical subnet as a management node. The management node broadcasts a discovery broadcast to ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010695 | Web services archive An Web service (WS) archive is described. The archive includes components that define and describe the deployable WS such as the implementation classes of the WS, the WSDL of the WS, and descriptors that provide more detail than what is described in a normal WSDL th... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001265 | Method for transmitting a user data record to a user station A method for transmission of a user data record to a user station. The method features the following steps: (i) transmitting the user data record as a broadcast data record via a network system including at least two networks capable of data transmission, of which a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7987286 | Distributed situation awareness ping-based communication system (DAPICS) A communication method comprising the steps of: a) receiving object of interest detection data from a sensor that is operatively coupled to a first computer node in a wireless network of Unix-like computer nodes; b) transforming the object of interest detection data... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979572 | Data storage system having operation code in address portion for atomic operations A data storage system having protocol controller for converting packets between PCIE format used by a storage processor and Rapid IO format used by a packet switching network. The controller includes a PCIE end point for transferring atomic operation (DSA) requests,... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7912979 | In-order delivery of plurality of RDMA messages An RNIC implementation that performs direct data placement to memory where all segments of a particular connection are aligned, or moves data through reassembly buffers where all segments of a particular connection are non-aligned. The type of connection that cuts-t... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908291 | Technique for creating self described data shared across multiple services In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for sharing data across services. These mechanisms and methods for applications to share information even when the applications use different data formats make it p... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904584 | Source identifier-based trunking for systems of network devices A method of handling frames in a network device is disclosed. The steps include receiving a frame by a network device of an assembly of network devices, with the assembly of devices divided into a first side and a second side and the network device being on the firs... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904583 | Methods and systems for managing and controlling an automation control module system A web-enabled automation control module (ACM) system includes at least one network module configured to receive a request for a file from the network, a web server and database module located outside the network module and including a database configured to store th... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7890651 | Sending content from multiple content servers to clients at time reference points In an embodiment, a request is received from a client that includes a content identifier that identifies content. Content servers are determined that store the content, which is divided into frames. Time reference points and a time period are determined. The time pe... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890650 | Method and device for transmitting information in a network, as well as a corresponding network A method and a device for transmitting information in a network having at least three subscribers, as well as a corresponding network, the information being transmitted in at least a first frame of a predefined length and structure, and the first frame on a first tr... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7882260 | Method of data management for efficiently storing and retrieving data to respond to user access requests A method of data management for efficiently storing and retrieving data in response to user access requests. The method includes receiving a request from at least one client for a title not resident in a storage server, where the title includes a play track having a... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7882261 | Method and apparatus for realizing positioning play of content stream in peer-to-peer network A method of content transmission in peer-to-peer network includes the following steps: dividing contents to be transmitted into a plurality of stripes in time sequence (101); establishing one or more than one group(s) for clients which request for transmissio... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873742 | Providing content per delivery endpoint Selecting content for processing based on user device preferences and characteristics of the user devices. Embodiments of the invention include a notification having different content formatted for a plurality of different user devices. In this manner, the content p... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7849210 | Optimizing the responsiveness and throughput of a system performing packetized data transfers A mechanism for managing packetized data transfers in a system including a transmitting and a receiving device. The transmitting device may transmit data to the receiving device in a plurality of packets, each packet a predetermined number of data bytes wide. The tr... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840696 | Apparatus and method for classifier identification A method for classifying an incoming packet. The method includes maintaining a database associated with patterns of fields, where the fields can be network addresses. The database can be developed by mapping each pattern to a unique numeric identifier. The number of... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7818448 | Method for the insertion and processing of information for the control, by a node, of the broadcasting of a data stream going through a basic network of a heterogeneous network, and corresponding nodes A method for insertion of information for control of broadcasting of a data stream in a heterogeneous network, the network including an entry sub-network conveying first packets and a basic network conveying second packets. The sub-network is connected to the basic ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7802009 | Automatic reverse engineering of message formats from network traces A system for automatic inference of message formats from network packets is described. Each network message from a set of network messages is split into one or more tokens based on the types of bytes in the network messages. The set of network messages can then be c... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792986 | Relevance clause for computed relevance messaging The invention disclosed herein enables a collection of computers and associated communications infrastructure to offer a new communications process which allows information providers to broadcast information to a population of information consumers. The information ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7779150 | Enhanced channel access mechanisms for an HPNA network A method and a system is disclosed for providing access in a centralized manner to a communications medium that is suitable for allowing use of a plurality of Home Phoneline Network Association (HPNA) v2 frames. A plurality of messages are transmitted between a firs... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7779151 | Notification system and method for a mobile data communication device A scheme for replicating data items from a computer system to a mobile data communication device. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: automatically detecting arrival of the data items at the computer system; characterizing the data it... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7779149 | Compound contents delivery method and delivery system The present invention relates to a compound contents delivery method capable of reducing the network transmission quantity and of distributing the system processing load. The method according to the present invention comprises a compound contents element acquisition... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774493 | Frame structure and method for wavelength concatenated channel framing A method, device, and apparatus that provide a means for generating a network frame that provides information related to one or more super-channels for data transmission, which are comprised of one or more sub-channels for data transmission, over which the network f... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769883 | Communicating message request transaction types between agents in a computer system using multiple message groups A general input/output communication port implements a communication stack that includes a physical layer, a data link layer and a transaction layer. The transaction layer includes assembling a packet header for a message request transaction to one or more logical d... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7756996 | Embedding management data within HTTP messages A system for embedding messages within HTTP streams, including a gateway communicator, situated within a network gateway computer that communicates with at least one client computer, for receiving management data intended for the at least one client computer from a ... | 07/13/2010 |
