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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095684 | Intelligent device and media server selection for optimized backup image duplication Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are disclosed for a computer system determining a transport path for a data duplication job. A data duplication job request, being a request that data stored on a source device be duplicated, may be received. A p... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8078757 | Rewritten URL static and dynamic content delivery Systems and methods of the present invention provide for returning website content after being requested by a client. A dynamic component and a rewritten URL may be requested and a static component may be requested, which may be updated. The combination of static an... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073970 | In-line static and dynamic content delivery Systems and methods of the present invention provide for returning website content after being requested by a client. A static component may be requested, which may be updated, and a dynamic component may be requested. The combination of static and dynamic website c... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069266 | Integrated static and dynamic content delivery Systems and methods of the present invention provide for returning website content after being requested by a client. A static component may be requested, which may be updated and a dynamic component may be requested. The combination of static and dynamic website co... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055793 | Method and apparatus for reducing delay of media playing A method for reducing delay of playing media includes: a user node obtaining information on a list of nodes that can provide a desired program content; selects a best node among the nodes that can provide the program content corresponding to one or more time segment... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7996558 | Methods and systems for a routing protocol A method for routing data, using a stateless routing protocol includes communicating data between a source host and a destination host in a network with a plurality of hosts. Each host in the network has a unique numerical address. The method comprises determining a... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987288 | Method and arrangement for routing data packets in a packet-switching data network The invention relates to the routing of data packets comprising a target address in a packet switching data network. According to the invention, a first and second transmission path are assigned respective traffic distribution weightings in a routing table for indiv... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984182 | Node device, information transfer processing program, and network participation processing method and the like A node device which participates in an overlay network formed by participation of all or part of a plurality of node devices which are connected to each other via a communication device. The node device includes a search information transmission device, a reply info... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979580 | Content delivery and global traffic management network system A content delivery and global traffic management network system provides a plurality of caching servers connected to a network. The caching servers host customer content that can be cached and stored, and respond to requests for Web content from clients. If the requ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975069 | Routing method in consideration of power and transmission delay in wireless ad hoc network and terminal device adopting the same A routing method in consideration of the power and transmission delay in a wireless ad hoc network and a terminal device adopting the same are provided, which can reduce the power consumption and packet delay by considering both the power consumption and packet dela... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962650 | Dynamic component placement in an event-driven component-oriented network data processing system Method, system and computer usable program code for dynamic component placement in an event processing system having producers, consumers, a plurality of nodes between the producers and the consumers, and a flow graph representing computational components to be exec... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7925785 | On-demand capacity management Dynamically upsizing and/or downsizing a network farm in response to network demand. An application message router routes messages to the network farm. When the network farm approaches or is anticipated to be approaching capacity, a group of one or more servers may ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7890656 | Transmission system, delivery path controller, load information collecting device, and delivery path controlling method A transmission system, having a plurality of delivery server side routers which communicate with a plurality of delivery servers for delivering a content; and a client side router which communicates with a client device for receiving the content, is configured to in... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7870292 | Network node and associated methodology of expanding a network topology through peer selection The network topology generation method can reduce a network delay fairly and minimally, upon generating a new network topology, by considering a network condition in a physical layer. The network topology generation method includes establishing a virtual connection ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865614 | Method and apparatus for load balancing with server state change awareness A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for load balancing in a cluster. In response to receiving a notification of an impending state change event in the server, a weight adjustment value for a server is identified to form an iden... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7840704 | Method and apparatus for performance and cost optimization in an internetwork Systems and methods are described for supporting routing intelligence for evaluating routing paths based on performance measurements. The routing intelligence may include processes executed in a self-contained device. This device may control one or more edge routers... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7814227 | Computation of a shortest inter-domain TE-LSP across a set of autonomous systems A technique calculates a shortest path for a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) from a head-end node in a local domain to a tail-end node of a remote domain in a computer network. The novel path calculation technique determines a set of different rem... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7792991 | Method and apparatus for advertising a link cost in a data communications network A method is described of advertising a link cost in a data communication network having as components nodes and links. A node detects a change of state of an adjacent component. The change of state can be between an activated and a deactivated state or vice versa. T... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7788404 | Access and control system for network-enabled devices A publicly addressable control infrastructure includes a plurality of connection servers and a load balancing server. The load balancing server assigns connection servers to particular communication sessions based on a number of variables. A computer at a private ad... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7747777 | Optimizing network resources usage within an administrative boundary In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises logic for optimizing network resources usage. The logic is operable to store IGP information, where the IGP information includes a set of attribute values associated with each of a set of content servers. When the logic rece... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7734815 | Global load balancing across mirrored data centers The invention is an intelligent traffic redirection system that does global load balancing. It can be used in any situation where an end-user requires access to a replicated resource. The method directs end-users to the appropriate replica so that the route to the r... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7689714 | Load balancing computations in a multiprocessor system A system and method for load-balancing routing of a computation within a multiprocessor system. The computation includes multiple branches of execution, not just a linear sequence of steps, and thus cannot be efficiently routed by existing minimum-delay routing sche... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685310 | Computer system and dynamic port allocation method Either a controller in a storage system, or a management computer monitors a bandwidth used in each I/O port in the storage system, and a bandwidth used by each host computer connected to each I/O port, and redirects a host computer using a bandwidth close to a diff... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7676598 | Method of controlling communication between a head-end system and a plurality of client systems A method of controlling communication between a head-end system and a number of client systems through a network, wherein, for each receiver, only a nearest one of the multicast router systems in the network is configured to forward a copy of a message addressed to ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7620732 | Apparatus for and method of setting communication path An apparatus is for setting a communication path between a communication terminal device connected through a first network and a plurality of second networks. The apparatus includes a name resolution request generator, a destination determiner, and a path setting un... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7613829 | Proximity enforcement in heterogeneous network environments The invention provides an enforcement mechanism for limiting the propagation of content to a predefined proximity in a heterogeneous network. The protection mechanism determines the distance associated with wireless links of the heterogeneous networks and verifies t... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7606937 | Next site for distributed service connections Registering a client with a distributed service. A method may be practiced, for example, in a network computing environment including a client at a local site and a number of distributed services at a number of remote sites. The method includes pinging one or more d... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7594027 | Data access using a machine-readable card A communication system is disclosed comprising a communication network and a communication device. The communication device reads machine-readable information from a card, wherein the information on the card corresponds to data hosted by a content provider in the co... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7526570 | Advanced switching optimal unicast and multicast communication paths based on SLS transport protocol An embodiment of the present invention may comprise a method to calculate current bandwidth usage by existing connections in a switching fabric between endpoints in a device, calculate available bandwidth for a new connection, and select a path from the multiple pat... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7496683 | Maximization of sustained throughput of distributed continuous queries A system, method, and computer readable medium for optimizing throughput of a stream processing system are disclosed. The method comprises analyzing a set of input streams and creating, based on the analyzing, an input profile for at least one input stream in the se... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7484002 | Content delivery and global traffic management network system A content delivery and global traffic management network system provides a plurality of caching servers connected to a network. The caching servers host customer content that can be cached and stored, and respond to requests for Web content from clients. If the requ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480735 | System and method for routing network traffic through weighted zones A system and method for routing between nodes in a network or subnet. An end node is associated with multiple identifiers for routing purposes, and therefore multiple paths may exist between two end nodes. Network nodes and components (e.g., switches) are grouped in... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7444506 | Selective encryption with parallel networks Methods, devices, and systems for efficient secure parallel data transmission are disclosed. Data from a local source is divided, with one portion being encrypted and then sent over an open public network, and another portion being sent over a private network withou... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444428 | Method and apparatus for estimating relative network proximity in the presence of a network filter A method and apparatus for estimating relative network proximity between request routing agents and client agents are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes a proximity estimation unit to send a first number of probe messages to a client agent with... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440458 | System for determining network route quality using sequence numbers A system and method for determining route quality in a network in which multiple routes exist between a transmitting end-point and a receiving end-point. Initially, a routing sequence number is associated with each transmission sent on a route in the network, such t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441044 | Countrytagging A method that iteratively determines which web pages and web sites are of interest to a particular user in accordance with that user's geographic location or country. The described embodiment of the present invention determines zero or more countrytags for each web ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441045 | Method and system for balancing load distribution on a wide area network A system and method for balancing the load on virtual servers managed by server array controllers at separate data centers that are geographically distributed on a wide area network such as the Internet is described. The virtual servers provide access to resources a... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437476 | Optimizing flooding of information in link-state routing protocol A router executes a flooding algorithm. The router maintains a list of neighbors within an area data structure. When a new neighbor arises on an interface belonging to an area served by the router, the router updates the neighbor data structure describing that adjac... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433965 | Packet transmission system, packet transmission method, packet transmission device, home agent, mobile terminal, and access router A packet transmission system is provided to achieve a higher throughput in downlink packet transmission to a mobile node. When there is a packet call directed to the mobile node, a transmission node in a network in this packet transmission system retrieves informati... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433968 | Methods and systems for management and control of an automation control module An automation control module (ACM) includes an ACM central processing unit (CPU) and a file transfer system electrically connected to the ACM CPU. The file transfer system is embedded within the ACM, and is configured to receive at least one update for at least one ... | 10/07/2008 |
