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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7463639 | Edge devices for providing a transparent LAN segment service and configuring such edge devices A transport LAN segment service is provided over a transport network. The transport network will include edge devices configured to support one or more transparent LAN segments. Configuration is simplified by advertising TLS-port-label information, layer 2 address l... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460480 | Dynamically adapting the transmission rate of packets in real-time VoIP communications to the available bandwidth A system and method for dynamically adapting the transmission rate of packets in real-time voice over IP communications to the available bandwidth. A real-time bandwidth monitor (RTBM) for VoIP applications senses the call path bandwidth between two endpoints of a V... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460555 | Terminal apparatus When operating as a control terminal and recognizing interference from another logical network, a terminal apparatus determines whether or not a logical network to be controlled is unified with the other logical network. When unification is determined, the terminal ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7453878 | System and method for ordering of data transferred over multiple channels A multiple channel data transfer system (10) includes a source (12) that generates data packets with sequence numbers for transfer over multiple request channels (14). Data packets are transferred over the multiple request channels (14) t... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453798 | Active flow management with hysteresis The present invention provides for a computer network method and system that applies “hysteresis” to an active queue management algorithm. If a queue is at a level below a certain low threshold and a burst of packets arrives at a network node, then the probabili... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453794 | Channel estimation and synchronization with preamble using polyphase code A preamble for an OFDM signal synchronizes (104) and estimates (106) the sub-channels with only one code. One polyphase code sequence is used repeatedly for the preamble. The preamble is spread out over the bandwidth, which is the same as an OFDM symbo... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453882 | Apparatus and method for asynchronously controlling data transfers across long wires One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that asynchronously controls the sending of data items from a sender to a receiver. The system includes a data path between the sender and the receiver, a first control path between the sender and the receive... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453885 | Network connection device A network connection device bridges a first network that uses a negotiated packet delivery scheduling scheme and a second network that uses an empirically determined packet delivery scheduling scheme. The network connection device translates a request to communicate... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453825 | Apparatus and methods for point-to-point links in robust networks One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of operating a network switch to provide wireless redundancy in a network. A keep-alive control packet is periodically transmitting over a wireless link, wherein the keep-alive control packet has a destination MAC address... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450508 | Dynamic quality-of-service mapping apparatus and method through hybrid monitoring in digital home service A media server coupled to a service network by means of a media gateway provides network-adaptive media streams through hybrid monitoring for the digital home service. Clients coupled to the service network measures a network state of the service network and system ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447198 | Link trunking and measuring link latency in fibre channel fabric In a communication network system having a multi-switch Fiber Channel fabric, adjacent switches are communicatively coupled together by a plurality of links. The links are selectively determined to join a trunked group for enabling frames received at one switch to b... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443827 | Mobile communication system, multicarrier CDMA transmitter, and multicarrier CDMA receiver A transmitting apparatus adds a common pilot symbol and known series for each data slot of a subcarrier group. A receiving apparatus combines SIR calculation values obtained for each subcarrier group, and averages the SIR calculation values. Based on this, it is pos... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443877 | Method for coding a sequence of data bits, in particular for transmission via an air interface A method for coding a sequence of data bits (B1-B5), at least one of said bits having a logical on value or a logical off value. The data bits are organized in a sequence of time slot frames (Fr1-FR5). At least one time slot frame has a p... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443863 | Cell switching method and system A cell switching method and system are disclosed that divide an input ATM cell into ATM adaptation layer (AAL) 2-type common part sublayer (CPS) packets. The divided CPS packets are stored in different first storage areas, in accordance with virtual paths/virtual ch... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443816 | Packet transmission method, base station and mobile station A packet transmission method in which packets are transmitted between a base station and a mobile station communicating with the base station includes the steps of: recognizing the size of each of the packets to be transmitted; determining a transmission rate for ea... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7430172 | Method for allocating transmission bandwidth in a packet-oriented communications facility The packet-oriented communications facility comprises at least one token-bucket unit, which comprises a time-bucket unit and of a byte-credit unit. Data volume tokens, which each represent a predetermined data volume, are stored in the byte-credit unit. A token gene... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7423962 | Redundancy and load balancing in a telecommunication unit and system The invention relates to backing up a network element (NE) in a telecommunications system. The network element (NE) comprises at least two cluster nodes (A, B, C) that are redundancy units of each other. Each cluster node (A, B, C) contains virtual nodes (a1,... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423977 | Smoothing algorithm for round trip time (RTT) measurements A smoothing algorithm for round trip time (RTT) measurements is provided to a network device to effectively deal with variations or other potential anomalies that may occur in RTT measurements. The algorithm involves: first determining what should be considered a ve... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420921 | Aggregated fragment acknowledgement in local area network Aggregated fragment acknowledgement in a LAN. A transmitter sends a data packet to a receiver. The receiver then constructs an AFAF and sends that AFAF back to a transmitter. The transmitter is then able to determine the success and/or failure, in full or in part, o... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417957 | Method and apparatus for a rate control in a high data rate communication system A method and an apparatus for rate control in a high data rate (HDR) communication system are disclosed. An exemplary HDR communication system defines a set of data rates, at which an access point (AP) may send data packets to an access terminal (AT). The data rate ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415048 | Differential delay compensation An alignment logic together with an MFI extractor are adapted to compensate for differential delays. The MFI extractor extracts the MFI disposed in the path overhead of each constituent time-slot. The alignment logic uses the extracted MFI to align corresponding dat... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7408957 | Selective header field dispatch in a network processing system A method and structure is disclosed for dispatching appropriate data to a network processing system comprising an improved technique for extracting protocol header fields for use by the network processor. This technique includes basic classification of a packet acco... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403534 | Method of implementing IP telephone gatekeeper group and gatekeeper system The present invention provides an IP telephone gatekeeper system and an implementation method thereof, characterized in that two or more individual gatekeepers are connected each other, so as to forming a gatekeeper system that can be regarded as a single gatekeeper... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403530 | Scalable router A router with a routing layer that supports single or multiple routing protocols. The routing layer has at least two routing protocol computing entities, namely a first and a second routing protocol computing entities. Each routing protocol computing entity includes... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400645 | Multicast routing method and an apparatus for routing a multicast packet A communication unit is connected to both an IPv4 network and an IPv6 network for converting an IPv4 multicast packet into an IPv6 multicast packet. The communication unit, which has held the IPv6 multicast addresses, holds the IPv4 multicast addresses of a multicas... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400646 | Multicast routing method and an apparatus for routing a multicast packet A communication unit is connected to both an IPv4 network and an IPv6 network for converting an IPv4 multicast packet into an IPv6 multicast packet. The communication unit, which has held the IPv6 multicast addresses, holds the IPv4 multicast addresses of a multicas... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397798 | Method and apparatus for processing blocks in a pipeline Method in a pipeline processing stage in a processor, includes the steps of: receiving a first block from a first register and a first execution parameter associated with the first block from a second register, the execution parameter having a first value; inspectin... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391719 | Redundant network interface for ethernet devices A redundant network interface for ethernet devices is disclosed. The redundant network interface provides connections between one or more Ethernet devices and two or more independent networks. The redundant network interface device also tests an active primary Ether... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388839 | Methods, apparatus and computer programs for managing performance and resource utilization within cluster-based systems Disclosed are methods, apparatus and computer programs for improving performance and resource utilization of cluster-based data processing systems. The number of persistent connections between first and second data processing units of a system is adjusted according ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388691 | Method of operating a double-sided scanner An operating method for a double-sided scanner is provided. A light source of one particular color inside a first group of light sources and a light source of a different color (or the same color) inside a second group of light source are lit to scan the front and b... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388830 | Automatic side selection in double-ring topologies Connecting a new node to a double ring network or establishing a new network having a double ring network is greatly simplified by automatic mapping of logical interfaces to physical interfaces to conform to a mapping or polarity observed by other nodes in the netwo... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382473 | Program and method of print instruction for printer with PDF direct printing function A print instruction program and method for allowing a network terminal device to send print instructions to a PDF direct-printing printer in a communications network in an efficient and advantageous manner. The program and method includes the capability to obtain PD... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382477 | Information processing apparatus capable of transferring print job to another information processing apparatus, and its control method There are disclosed an information processing apparatus and its control method, which can proceed to execute a process of an incomplete print job upon receiving an end process request while an incomplete print job is present. In an information processing apparatus a... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382502 | Image processing method and apparatus for recovering reading faults An image processing apparatus for recovering reading faults produced in time of scanning photographic film due to imperfections present on the film such as scratches, dust or stains. The apparatus comprises a defective pixel detecting unit (11) for detecting ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379444 | Method to recover from node failure/recovery incidents in distributed systems in which notification does not occur Epoch numbers are maintained in a pair wise fashion at a plurality of communication endpoints to provide communication consistency and recovery from a range of failure conditions including total or partial node failure and subsequent recovery. Once an epoch state in... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375853 | Image processing apparatus and method A separating unit determines, for an image data, whether there exists black data, and generates density data from the black data when the black data exists, and generates color data from data other than the black data. A multinarizing unit converts the color data in... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369277 | Image processing apparatus, drawing processing method, and computer program A drawing instruction processor refers to a bit map line table that shows whether the bit arrays in the row unit are the same in the order of concentrations. The drawing instruction processor decides whether dither patterns to be used for the adjacent specified draw... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369279 | System and method to restrict copying, scanning and transmittal of documents or parts of documents A document-security system, methodology, resulting secured documents, and related matters, regarding establishing flexible and versatile control over the acts of scanning, copying, faxing, e-mailing, or otherwise reproducing or converting into another data format, s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365872 | Client computer system, method and computer readable medium comprising executable instructions for rendering printable documents in a native printer language on the network In a network facilitating print functions, a means for rendering a print job intended for a remote printer on a client computer using stored administrative settings is provided. Transparently to the client's applications, the client computer keeps the stored remote ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362354 | Method and system for assessing the photo quality of a captured image in a digital still camera A method for assessing the photo quality of a captured image in a digital camera comprises the steps of checking in-camera the photo quality of the captured image to determine if the photo quality is acceptable, and providing a corresponding photo quality feedback t... | 04/22/2008 |
