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Multiplex Communications > Network Configuration Determination Network Configuration DeterminationNetwork Configuration Determination patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.01/24/08 - 20080019289 - Method for building ad hoc network, ad hoc network buiding program, and terminal Before software for a routing protocol in a second wireless terminal receives a routing packet between a first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal that are both included in an ad hoc network, stability determining software determines whether or not a link between the first wireless terminal, which is ... 01/17/08 - 20080013463 - Identifying and resolving problems in wireless device configurations Systems and methods for identifying and resolving problems in wireless device configurations in a wireless network. In one example embodiment, a method for resolving wireless device configuration problems includes various acts including identifying all wireless devices that are wired to a network, retrieving configuration information from each wireless device, retrieving ... 01/03/08 - 20080002596 - Method and apparatus for non-invasive discovery of relationships between nodes in a network A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for identifying nodes in a network data processing system. Cache data is received from a set of routers in the data processing system. The cache data includes an identification of the nodes sending data packets onto the network data processing system. The nodes on ... 12/27/07 - 20070297348 - Service curve mapping A method for configuring service curves for managing the output port of a networking device includes the following steps. A multitude of traffic classes is defined, each traffic class being characterized by a bandwidth and a delay priority. A multitude of traffic service curves is computed, each of the plurality ... 12/27/07 - 20070297346 - Method and system for monitoring and improving the quality of interconnecting cabling systems System for coordinating the use of a mapping system comparing the physical connection status of a cable link in a network with the administrative data about said cable link in the network administration. The coordinating system uses data from one or several existing databases. Based on an analysis of the ... 12/27/07 - 20070297345 - Method for implementing virtual network element and system thereof Disclosed is a method for implementing a virtual Network Element (NE), including: constructing type definition information of a virtual NE and a virtual board, which has all type parameters of an actual NE and board of the same type; obtaining the type definition information to construct a virtual NE entity ... 12/20/07 - 20070291664 - System for using at least one mobile terminal device in a motor vehicle A system for using at least one mobile terminal in a motor vehicle, such as a passenger automobile or a two-wheeled vehicle in particular, having at least one mobile terminal, a display device situated in the vehicle, an operating device provided in the vehicle, and a communication interface between the ... 12/13/07 - 20070286096 - Portable networking interface method and apparatus for distributed switching system An apparatus and method to provide a portable networking interface for distributed switching systems. Two Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are defined for communication to a Forwarding Database Distribution Library (FDDL). The FDDL sits between network client applications and the switch device driver in order to provide a uniform interface to ... 12/06/07 - 20070280142 - System and method for aggregating multiple radio interfaces into a single logical bridge interface In an example embodiment, a system and method for aggregating multiple wireless bridge interfaces into a single logical bridge interface. The system includes a master switch with multiple associated wireless modules. Each master switch wireless module selectively broadcasts an associated connection signal. The master switch has an associated aggregation port, ... 12/06/07 - 20070280141 - Hardware implementation of loop initialization protocol A device includes a loop port controlled by a loop initialization procedure in response to control flags. The device includes a programmable controller and a fibre channel loop port including a transmitter, a receiver, and a port control circuit. The port control circuit controls the loop initialization procedure in response ... 12/06/07 - 20070280140 - Self-optimizing network tunneling protocol A network includes a first plurality of routers that do not implement a desired protocol in communication with a second plurality of routers that implement at least the desired protocol and a tunneling protocol. Routers implementing the tunneling protocol are preferably implemented at the boundaries of domains, i.e., in those ... 12/06/07 - 20070280138 - Information broadcasting system and method Embodiments for a system and method of broadcasting messages to communication devices in a mobile communication network are described. The method includes registering at least one communication device configured to receive broadcast messages serviced by a base station, allocating at least one registered communication device as a primary communication device ... 12/06/07 - 20070280137 - Creation of non-wired communication network, by determining local topology information from the identifiers of communication appliances In order to create a non-wired network, a first communication appliance is provided with a list of identifiers of other communication appliances with which connections can be established. The first communication appliance determines information on the local topology of the non-wired communication network from the identifiers of the other communication ... 11/29/07 - 20070274232 - Method, communication device and system for detecting neighboring nodes in a wireless multihop network using ndp A method is presented for neighbor discovery in a wireless multihop packet based communication network using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) wherein the network is built up by client and/or server devices and/or infrastructure devices, network traffic is based on using NDP forwarding and rebroadcasting to locate devices in such ... 11/22/07 - 20070268841 - Methods and systems for configuring voice over internet protocol network quality of service Automated methods and systems for determining and setting router QoS adjustments to control the service level of VoIP voice communications in a packet switching network supporting both voice and data communications. Network topology and service level requirements are processed to determine QoS settings for each of the routers. The QoS ... 11/22/07 - 20070268840 - Association of a multi-access terminal to a communication network A method of associating a multi-access terminal (STA) with a communications network. The method includes sending data about the connection of the terminal to other networks from the terminal to an access point (AP) of the network. ... 11/15/07 - 20070263553 - Efficient discovery and verification of paths through a meshed overlay network The present invention provides an efficient system and method for routing information through a dynamic network. The system includes at least one ingress point and one egress point. The ingress and egress point cooperate to form a virtual circuit for routing packets to destination subnets directly reachable by the egress ... 11/15/07 - 20070263552 - Method and system for bidirectional data transfer A system and method for managing data transfer between a configurable device and a management system including generating device data, detecting a polling request, transmitting, in a first common communications session and in response to the polling request, at least a portion of the device data and a configuration request, ... 11/15/07 - 20070263551 - Range equalization transceiver system and method of using same A range equalization transceiver system (100) for increasing efficiency of a continuous duty communications link includes a first transceiver (105) for transmitting data traffic over a broadband traffic channel and a second transceiver (107) for determining routing information using a discovery channel based on link quality. A controller (103) is ... 11/08/07 - 20070258389 - 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 each other via a communication means, including: a search information transmission means for transmitting search information to thereby search a node device transmitted to an ... 11/08/07 - 20070258387 - Network element discovery using a network routing protocol A data processing apparatus comprises instructions to perform sending and receiving one or more messages conforming to a network routing protocol, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF); obtaining one or more information elements that specify one or more capabilities of the apparatus; creating a particular routing protocol message comprising ... 11/01/07 - 20070253345 - Method of connecting a new device to existing network In a centralised radio network consisting of several devices one device acts as master or network coordinator and has a transmission range. Basically, other devices of the network are able to adopt the role of a coordinator. This ability is used to enlarge the area of the network to a ... 11/01/07 - 20070253343 - Methods and apparatus for managing rf elements over a network A graphical management system includes a web browser application communicatively coupled to a web service and a graphical management module over a network and a plurality of wireless devices (e.g., RFID readers, access ports, etc.) coupled to the network and having one or more associated antennae. The wireless devices are ... 11/01/07 - 20070253342 - System for automatically configuring a communication interface module A system for automatically configuring a communication interface module is disclosed. The communication interface module may include a plurality of data link ports and auto-configuration logic. The auto-configuration logic may be configured to determine a data link type for a data link connected to at least one of the plurality ... 10/25/07 - 20070248027 - Providing a configuration utility for a remote terminal unit Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a configuration utility. The systems and methods may include receiving, at the remote terminal unit, a first request for a page. The page may include a link associated with the configuration utility that may be transmitted from the remote terminal unit. The configuration ... 10/25/07 - 20070248026 - System, method, and computer program product for concept network based collaboration A method including steps of receiving a first concept network having a plurality of connected nodes; receiving a second concept network having a plurality of connected nodes; and generating a third concept network, the third concept network having a plurality of connected nodes being a combination of the first and ... 10/18/07 - 20070242621 - Dynamic carrier sensing thresholds Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate communication in a wireless network environment. In particular, access points can dynamically adjust transmit power and/or carrier-sensing thresholds to allow multiple access points to communicate concurrently. In aspects, access points exchange node information, including RSSI and node addresses, of nearby nodes. The node ... 10/11/07 - 20070237096 - Proximity-based user interaction Techniques are described for providing location-based information and functionality to people and computing devices in various ways. In at least some situations, the techniques include enabling multiple people in a common geographic area to interact in various ways, such as via devices capable of communications (e.g., cellular telephones, computing devices ... 10/11/07 - 20070237095 - System and method for improving network performance and security by controlling topology information A system for optimizing the performance of a network. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a memory containing one or more data structures data structures. A first module determines transit-only information. A second module selectively omits the transit-only information from the one or more data structures. In a more ... 10/11/07 - 20070237094 - Method for enhancing the communication capability in a wireless telecommunication system A method (400) for establishing a first communication link between a communications network (105) and a network node (115) in accordance with a first wireless communications protocol. The method also can include evaluating a signal parameter for a signal transmitted between a station (110) and the network node. In response ... 10/11/07 - 20070237093 - Methods and apparatus for providing an access profile system associated with a broadband wireless access network Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing an access profile system associated with a broadband wireless access network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ... 10/11/07 - 20070237092 - Method of establishing and maintaining distributed spectral awareness in a wireless communication system In an ad hoc network in which nodes communicate directly with each other or through another node, hole exchange messages are transmitted on an ongoing basis from one node to one or more other nodes. The spectrum hole message transmitted by a node provides a current view of the frequency ... 10/04/07 - 20070230368 - Method and node for discovering topology structure in multiprotocol label switching ring network Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a node for discovering topology structure automatically in a Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) ring network. The method includes: when receiving a topology discovering message, determining, by a node in the MPLS ring network, whether the topology discovering message is sent ... 09/27/07 - 20070223398 - Method for implementing grouping devices and interacting among grouped devices The present invention discloses a method for implementing device grouping and interactions between grouped devices. In a network, a device creating a device group sends an advertisement message carrying identification information of a device group to which it belongs, to the network. After receiving the advertisement message, a network device ... 09/27/07 - 20070223397 - Network configuration Where a manual protocol address for a computing device has been stored, the manual protocol address is acquired. Stateless network configuration for the computing device is performance in accordance with a protocol. Stateful network configuration for the computing device is performed in accordance with a policy for the protocol and ... 09/27/07 - 20070223396 - Apparatus, system, and method for aurally indicating progress An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for aurally indicating progress. In one embodiment, a node count module determines a node threshold. A discovery module searches for a plurality of nodes over a communications channel wherein each node is autonomously connected to the communications channel. In addition, the discovery module ... 09/20/07 - 20070217345 - Ring type network system A node for configuring a ring type network system in such a mode that a plurality of physical links belonging to difference rings exists between nodes opposite to each other, has a storage unit stored with link associated information representing an associated relationship between ports of physical links and a ... 09/20/07 - 20070217344 - Computerized system and method for deployment of management tunnels The invention provides a framework for facilitating the deployment of management tunnels between management and managed devices. The tunnel may be initiated either from the management device or from the managed device. When the channel is first established, the credentials of the respective devices are verified. To this end, the ... 09/13/07 - 20070211650 - Node device cooperating with switch which implements zones in a fibre channel system In a system comprising a first fabric and a plurality of devices coupled to the fabric by Fibre Channel connections, the devices are logically grouped to form configurations and zones. A configuration includes at least one zone, and each zone includes at least one device as a member of the ... 09/13/07 - 20070211649 - Automatic establishment of a network connection for automated network element configuration The invention relates to a simplified way to configure a new network element in a 3G radio access network. According to the invention, a network element, which requires connectivity to another external network element, automatically performs probing a connection in order to establish a connection to a network management system ... 09/13/07 - 20070211648 - Dynamic data path component configuration apparatus and methods Dynamic data path component configuration apparatus and methods are disclosed. A configuration of a data path link that is operatively coupled to a communication equipment data path is determined. A determination as to whether a configurable data path component, which is configurable to exchange data with the data path link ... 09/13/07 - 20070211647 - Method and apparatus for payload-based flow estimation The invention includes a method and apparatus for generating a coincidence count table adapted for determining at least one flow statistic. The method includes receiving a plurality of packets comprising a respective plurality of payloads, comparing payloads associated with consecutive ones of the plurality of packets for identifying at least ... 09/06/07 - 20070206514 - Communication deivce and remote management system A communication device is provided in a network including a plurality of network segments to which customer devices are connected respectively, the communication device being connected through a cable or radio communication line to a central management device so that management information required for remote management of the customer devices ... 08/30/07 - 20070201385 - Apparatus, method, and computer product for topology-information collection A network managing apparatus detects a router capable of using Telnet from among nodes in a network and causes that router to send a broadcast ping to other nodes. Each node in the network returns a ping reply to the router. The ping and the ping reply pass through a ... 08/30/07 - 20070201384 - Network explorer A graphical user interface integrates into a single view multiple network devices discovered over a plurality of network protocols. The graphical user interface provides an intuitive user interface to indicate to a user the existence of all potential resources as defined by a network profile, the characteristics and properties of ... 08/30/07 - 20070201383 - Discovery of physically adjacent neighbor devices using a unidirectional in-band process coupled with an out-of-band follow-up process Equipment generates a discovery message containing its address/node identification (ID) and/or other information. Adjacent equipment (e.g., physically adjacent equipment) monitors control overhead bytes (section trace (J0) bytes, Data Communication Channel (DCC) control overhead, General Communication Channel (GCC) control overhead, etc.) for this message, but does not generate a corresponding response ... 08/30/07 - 20070201382 - Method and apparatus for omniscient root node selection in an ad hoc network Techniques are provided for selecting a root node in an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of nodes including a first node. According to one implementation of these techniques, a first node can receive a message from at least one of the other nodes. Each message includes a number of ... 08/30/07 - 20070201381 - Method and apparatus for root node selection in an ad hoc network Techniques are provided for selecting a root node in an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of nodes including a first node. According to one implementation of these techniques, a first node can receive a message from at least one of the other nodes. Each message includes a number of ... 08/30/07 - 20070201380 - Method and system for power-efficient adaptive link aggregation A method for power-efficient configuration of one or more physical ports at a network device in an EtherChannel is provided. Parameters for allocation of the physical ports to a logical port are negotiated with a link partner. Thereafter, bandwidth load at the logical port is compared with the parameter. The ... 08/23/07 - 20070195714 - Network data packet classification and demultiplexing The present invention provides methods and apparatus for classifying and demultiplexing packets in a network protocol stack. It provides extendibility for packet processing in the network protocol stack by defining a standard method for adding new functionality. It provides a method to obtain external information, from an application scheduled outside ... 08/23/07 - 20070195712 - Spatio-temporal and context-based indexing and representation of subterranean networks and means for doing the same Systems, methods and devices for indexing, archiving, analyzing and reporting pipe and other void network data. Specifically, multi-dimensional indexing and correlation of spatial, temporal, feature, environmental, uncertainty and/or context-based data is synchronized, indexed and analyzed across a wide variety of pipe networks at various times. The present invention preferably includes ... 08/23/07 - 20070195711 - Automated cable identification and verification system A method for configuring components in a networked computer system comprising providing a configuration map that includes installation locations and sequences for network components. The configuration map is used to indicate component installation locations and sequences through a series of indicators. The component installation locations and sequences are confirmed after ... 08/23/07 - 20070195710 - Mobile subscriber network and resource management method In allocating a resource circuit by circuit, a reference is made to a table signifying a one-versus-many correspondence between a subscriber and a circuit, thereby to reflect a state of the other circuit that an identical subscriber holds into the above resource allocation. As a rule, the table is dynamically ... 08/16/07 - 20070189191 - Communications meshes Methods are disclosed for forming a network (1) of nodes (A-H) from a plurality of nodes (A-H) and a plurality of potential transmission links (2) between respective nodes (A-H). Methods are also disclosed for adapting an initial mesh communications network configuration to a final mesh communications network communications configuration. Methods ... 08/16/07 - 20070189190 - Topology discovery of a private network The present invention relates to a method and system for determining devices connected to a private network through a gateway. A Network Management System (NMS) through the use of inquiries and Port Address Translation (PAT) commands is able to determine the topology of the network of devices within a private ... 08/16/07 - 20070189189 - Method and system for simplified network wide traffic and/or flow monitoring in a data network Method and system for providing dynamic network data traffic monitoring including monitoring a data network, detecting a change in the data network, initiating a span session based on the detected change in the data network, and dynamically modifying network configuration based on the detected change in the data network is ... 08/16/07 - 20070189188 - Method for candidate access router capability discovery A method of retrieving candidate access router discovery (CARD) information in a user terminal which is present in a many access systems. CARD information is exchanged on an IP control plane between access routers in the access systems, but the user terminal has no IP control plane. In accordance with ... 08/09/07 - 20070183346 - Arrangement for router attachments between roaming mobile routers in a clustered network A mobile router is configured for attaching to a selected router in a clustered network (e.g., a mobile ad hoc network) based on identifying a network topology model of the clustered network from received router advertisement messages that include tree information option fields specifying attributes of the network topology model. ... 08/09/07 - 20070183345 - Managing a home or a small office network A method and a system for managing a network are described. A plurality of agents is deployed in a plurality of devices in the network. A control device in the network controls the network through the plurality of agents. A remote manager, which is external to the network, controls the ... 08/09/07 - 20070183344 - System and method for detecting node mobility based on network topology changes in a wireless communication network Techniques are provided for determining mobility of a first node in an ad hoc network. A particular node generates a fixed neighbor node table comprising second nodes in the area of the particular node which are not mobile. The particular node can monitor changes between the first node and the ... 08/09/07 - 20070183343 - Method and system for facilitating command of a group A method and system for facilitating command of a group determines a present rank protocol associated with users of an ad hoc wireless communication network. The method includes identifying at a first wireless device a second wireless device in operative communication with the first wireless device (step 805). A physical ... 08/02/07 - 20070177526 - Customer premise equipment device-specific access-limiting for a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes, prior to receiving the configuration file for the cable modem, providing an equipment identification message containing a description of the customer premise equipment device connected to the cable modem. In the case where ... 08/02/07 - 20070177525 - Root node redundancy for multipoint-to-multipoint transport trees A mechanism is provided to configure a plurality of transport trees in a transport network, each of which correspond to a native tree (e.g., a bidirectional multicast tree). In embodiments of the present invention, each of the plurality of transport trees has a unique root node so that in the ... 07/26/07 - 20070171845 - Method and apparatus to elect abrs dynamically and intelligently The present invention elects an area border router from a plurality of potential area border routers by determining a full set of all areas attached to a router. A determination is made as to a full set of area pairs from the determined full set of areas. Routers are identified ... 07/26/07 - 20070171844 - Determining network paths In an embodiment of a method of tracing a path through a switch mesh from a first device connected to the switch mesh to a second device connected to the switch mesh, hardware addresses of the first and second devices are obtained. At least one switch that is a neighbor ... 07/26/07 - 20070171843 - Method and apparatus for operating a node in a beacon based ad hoc network During operation a node (500) that has associated with a network (100) will periodically broadcast a beacon (303) during a beacon interval as part of a superframe. The beacon will be periodically broadcast for a first period of time, based on a time it takes for nodes to associate with ... 07/26/07 - 20070171842 - Discovery of network nodes and routable addresses Systems and related methods for discovering network nodes and routable addresses include a scan server, local link segment, an agent coupled to the local link segment, and a router coupled to place the scan server in communication with the agent. The scan server commands the agent to discover a network ... 07/26/07 - 20070171841 - Method and node for selecting a codec type or configuration by extending the list comprising codecs for transcoder/tandem free operation by further codecs supported by the node The invention is related to a method for transmitting data in a telecommunications network and a device, e.g. a network node, utilising that method, where said data transfer requires the application of algorithms for coding and/or decoding (“codec”) on said data, where at least one of said network nodes provides ... 07/19/07 - 20070165546 - Packet-switched network topology tracking method and system The present invention permits a network operator to maintain a timely view of changes to an operational packet-switched network. ... 07/19/07 - 20070165545 - Control of low power wireless networks for power conservation A wireless mesh network routes messages between a host computer and a plurality of field devices. The mesh network is synchronized to a global regular active schedule that defines active periods when messages can be transmitted or received by nodes of the network, and inactive periods when messages cannot be ... 07/19/07 - 20070165541 - System and method for data maintenance and integration including interpolation A system and method of managing collection and maintenance of performance data for a wireless communications network including collecting configuration data for the network, encoding the collected configuration data and storing the data, collecting a transmitted signal, measuring a parameter of the collected signal, and encoding and storing the parameter. ... 07/19/07 - 20070165540 - Scalable management system for mpls based service providers A management system manages multiple multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) virtual private networks (VPNs), the VPNs having overlapping IP addresses. The system includes a storage storing a file that associates a host name with an IP address and a route distinguisher. The host name corresponds to a network element within one ... 07/19/07 - 20070165539 - System and method for the configuration of network devices A system and method is disclosed for configuring a network device. The system and method involves a network device that includes an external button for toggling the device between a managed mode and an unmanaged mode. When the device is toggled to a managed mode, an Internet Protocol (IP) address ... 07/19/07 - 20070165538 - Schedule-based connectivity management Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for schedule-based connectivity management which includes maintaining a connectivity schedule, selecting one of a plurality of predetermined connectivity configurations in dependence upon the connectivity schedule and current date and time information, and establishing connectivity according to the selected predetermined connectivity configuration. Selecting one of ... 07/19/07 - 20070165537 - System and method for radio resource management in a communication system The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for managing radio resources for providing wireless access to a communication system to a number of terminals. The communication system comprises a first access network (120) using a first access technology and at least one second access network (110) using at least ... 07/12/07 - 20070159986 - Method of refining node position information in wireless sensor network Provided is a method for refining node position information in a wireless sensor network having an ultra wideband communication network and a wireless personal area network where the initial positions of respective nodes are set, by utilizing nodes at a 2-hop distance, or more than a 2-hop distance when the ... 07/12/07 - 20070159985 - Method and an arrangement for avoiding unnecessary retransmissions A method and an arrangement for avoiding unnecessary retransmissions in a packet-based radio-communication network by exchanging transmission state information between retransmission functionality entities (12, 21) located at respective protocol layers in different network nodes (1, 2), and performing inter-layer coordination of retransmissions between the network nodes (1, 2) based on ... 07/12/07 - 20070159984 - Methods and apparatus for providing flexible timing-driven routing trees A method of producing a flexible timing-driven routing tree is provided. Two or more target nodes are sorted in accordance with data criticality. A source-sink grid is built from one or more source nodes and the two or more target nodes. An initial routing tree is built comprising the one ... 07/05/07 - 20070153710 - Method for monitoring and providing information over a peer to peer network A pseudonode for deployment on a peer to peer network. The pseudonode is programmed for monitoring the peer to peer network to receive search requests therefrom, optionally comparing each said received search with said list of data objects, and to respond to such requests. The response may include advertising; the ... 07/05/07 - 20070153708 - Topology comparison A solution for comparing topologies is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a set of differences between the nodes and/or connectors of two or more topologies is obtained. Each difference can comprise a missing node/connector and/or a difference in an item/relationship attribute. A user interface is generated that displays ... 07/05/07 - 20070153707 - Ad hoc network formation and management based on aggregation of ad hoc nodes according to an aggregation hierarchy Each mobile ad hoc node has an assigned hierarchy position within an identified tree-based aggregation group. Each ad hoc node is configured for selectively attaching to one of a plurality of available ad hoc nodes based on identifying a best match, for the assigned hierarchy position within the identified aggregation ... 07/05/07 - 20070153705 - System and method for synchronous wireless communication with a medical device Constituents of a network of medical devices communicate according to a synchronous communication protocol. A constituent of the network is established as a conductor. Time slots are assigned to each constituent of the network other than the conductor. Information is communicated between the constituents of the network in the assigned ... 06/28/07 - 20070147270 - Systems and methods for providing voice/data communication systems and voice/data communications Web/portal-based systems and methods for selling, configuring, installing, reconfiguring and servicing such integrated voice/data communications systems are disclosed. An Internet/web or personal digital assistant (“PDA”) or personal computer (“PC”) based portal is provided to enable a relatively high level of data to be more easily collected. The portal preferably is ... 06/28/07 - 20070147269 - Method, system and apparatus for communications circuit design A method of designing a network circuit for a telecommunications network is disclosed. The method includes storing first model data in a database representing a first model of the telecommunications network. Second model data is received representing a second model of the telecommunications network. The second model data defines node ... 06/28/07 - 20070147268 - Distributing overall control of mesh amr lan networks to wan interconnected collectors Collectors within a wireless metering network that control a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) of nodes. The collectors typically interact over a WAN with a head-end system, which has network management and control of all collector LANs. Control is distributed from the head-end system down to the data collectors by ... 06/21/07 - 20070140146 - Method for managing network device data and network management system Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for managing network device data and a network management system. The method including: storing identifiers respectively for different types of device data at the device side; the network management system storing the identifiers of the different types of device data into a ... 06/21/07 - 20070140145 - System, method and apparatus for authentication of nodes in an ad hoc network A method and apparatus are provided for authenticating a first node M 220M in an ad hoc network 200. Node I 220I can receive a request from node M 220M to join the ad hoc network 200. This request includes, among other things, a biometric input associated with a first ... 06/21/07 - 20070140143 - Communication device and method for managing a communication link in a network A communication device and a method for managing a communication link 108 are provided. The method includes establishing 402 the communication link between an originator communication device 102 and a target communication device 104. The method also includes suspending 408 at least a portion of the communication link when the ... 06/21/07 - 20070140142 - Computer method and apparatus for connection tree routing in visual modeling of software Computer method and apparatus for connection tree routing in visual modeling of software is disclosed. Tree routing style is represented as a property of a subject connection. A router object manages location of bendpoints of the subject connection in a connection tree. The subject connection maintains an end node as ... 06/21/07 - 20070140141 - Dynamic speed-dial list Methods are provided for managing communications over a communications routing network. A data store is maintained of records of communications links established over the communications routing network between a first endpoint of the communications routing network and multiple second endpoints of the communications routing network distinct from the first endpoint. ... 06/14/07 - 20070133434 - Network router failover mechanism A method, system, and logic for determining connectivity information for routers running on servers that are attached to a device. A router is resigned in favor of a corresponding router at another server when the corresponding router has better connectivity to the device, where partial connectivity is better than no ... 06/14/07 - 20070133433 - Apparatus and method of selecting label switched path in network management system Provided are an apparatus and method of selecting a label switched path (LSP) in a network management system. The apparatus comprises a status analyzing unit which analyzes and digitizes performance information, fault occurrence, and fault history of a link in order to convert the performance information, fault occurrence, and fault ... 06/07/07 - 20070127399 - Packet joining method, program, and apparatus There is provided a packet joining method, program, and apparatus with an increased wireless utilization efficiency and a reduced packet delay. The packet joining method includes a step of performing Neighbor Discovery within a range reachable in one hop to detect neighboring audio terminals which are connectable over short-range radio ... 06/07/07 - 20070127398 - System and method for measuring and configuring miss-confitured 2g neighbors in 3g networks A system and a method for measuring and configuring miss-configured 2G neighbors in a 3G network. The system comprises a user equipment, an operation and maintenance center, a radio network controller and a data register, wherein the operation and maintenance center further comprises a measurement information unit and a configuration ... 06/07/07 - 20070127397 - Interface system for an accessory and communication device A configurable interface system (100) couples an accessory (102) to a communication device (104). The interface system utilizes a memory device (120) embedded in the accessory (102) that stores physical configuration and event mapping descriptors (114, 122) pertaining to the accessory. The communication device (104) reads the physical configuration and ... 06/07/07 - 20070127396 - Preventing transient loops in broadcast/multicast trees during distribution of link state information According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to improve the link state routing protocol (LSRP) to prevent transient loops during topology changes. Broadcast and shared multicast traffic may be dropped on particular ports upon detecting link state change until neighboring nodes have computed routes using updated link ... 06/07/07 - 20070127395 - Preventing transient loops in broadcast/multicast trees during distribution of link state information According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to improve the link state routing protocol (LSRP) to prevent transient loops during topology changes. Broadcast and shared multicast traffic is dropped upon detecting link state change until neighboring nodes have computed routes using updated link state information. An acknowledgment ... 06/07/07 - 20070127394 - Method and system for optimization of data transfer between networked devices The invention relates to a method of arranging communication in a local area networking system comprising a first device, a second device and an intermediate node for arranging data transmission between the first device and the second device. The second device is arranged to multicast and/or broadcast messages to devices ... 06/07/07 - 20070127393 - Device and method for setting up ad hoc networks The invention concerns a network element (1) for setting up wireless networks (3), a corresponding network (4) and a method of setting up wireless networks and of wireless data exchange between network elements (1) and/or network users (2), wherein the network element (1) has a transmitting/receiving unit (12) for wirelessly ... 05/31/07 - 20070121528 - Communication apparatus A communication apparatus according to the present invention includes a presence information setting unit that sets presence information including a user display name and its apparatus state, and a presence information notification unit that that notifies an opposing apparatus of the presence information. The communication apparatus further include an action ... 05/31/07 - 20070121527 - System and method for remote dynamic network configuration A computer-executable system and method thereof are provided for remote dynamic network configuration in a remote network management environment of TCP/IP base. Through a sever management daughter card located on an agent terminal, a medium access control address of the agent terminal is used to request a corresponsive internet protocol ... 05/24/07 - 20070115859 - System and method for communications of cargo containers in a container security system using wireless ad-hoc networking techniques A system and method for communications between a plurality of shipping containers using a short range or local area wireless communication device is provided. The system also contains a cellular communications device, a satellite communications device, or both, which are used to transmit information to, and receive commands from remote ... 05/24/07 - 20070115858 - Communication apparatus and communication method To reduce the processing load and maintain higher security in the communications, a communication apparatus includes a network surveying unit configured to determine at least one of (1) an architecture of a network comprising the communication apparatus, and (2) the number of apparatuses on the network; and an alteration detecting ... 05/24/07 - 20070115857 - Mapping connectivity of discrete types of nodes in a network of nodes Tables of connectivity between nodes of two discrete types can be generated for edge nodes existing at the periphery of a network of nodes. Connectivity queries are initiated at one of an interior node type and then traverse in a first direction towards one edge node type and then in ... 05/24/07 - 20070115856 - Method for controlling forwarding quality in a data network Method and a computer program product for controlling the forwarding quality in a data network including a measurement manager elements for performing end-to-end measurements between nodes in the data network and a Network Resource Manager, NRM, including elements for obtaining information of the network topology. The method includes the steps ... 05/24/07 - 20070115855 - Route servicing device, method and system applying the device The present invention discloses a route service device and a method and a system for realizing call route by the device, in which, route service device and soft switch control device are networked in a layered way, the soft switch control device is the node of the lowest layer, when ... 05/17/07 - 20070109975 - Remote device management in a home automation data transfer system An automation network includes automation network devices connected to the network and a system layer interface that interfaces with a transport layer and an application layer of the home automation network. The system layer interface includes command libraries configured to upgrade a remote network device. The automation network queries the ... 05/17/07 - 20070109974 - Passive optical network unit management and control interface support for a digital subscriber line network An optical network unit for managing digital subscriber line (xDSL) connections to a passive optical network. According to one embodiment, the optical network unit comprises data structures in the form of managed entities that are issued by the optical network unit for managing each of the xDSL connections. Each managed ... 05/10/07 - 20070104119 - System and method for managing and provisioning virtual routers Site reachability information is determined for a service processing switch that is communicably coupled to one or more sites. In addition, global routing profiles, customer site profiles and OSPF profiles are defined. The profile data, in addition to or instead of the reachability information is used to generate routing configuration ... 05/10/07 - 20070104118 - Determining, transmitting, and receiving performance information with respect to an operation performed locally and at remote nodes Further provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining, transmitting, and receiving performance information with respect to an operation performed locally and at remote nodes. Performance information is determined with respect to performing an operation at a node and transmitted to remote nodes over a network. Performance ... 05/10/07 - 20070104117 - Packet switched data network (psdn) having local area network (lan) interface and overload control method thereof In a Packet Switched Data Network (PSDN) having a Local Area Network (LAN) interface, an auxiliary controller controls all protocols of the LAN interface through an interrupt routine and transmits a state-monitoring signal after processing the protocols. A main controller compares a transmitting period of the state-monitoring signal transmitted from ... 05/10/07 - 20070104116 - Method and apparatus for mapping 3gpp service primitives to media independent handover event services A Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) media independent handover (MIH) service access point (SAP) is configured to provide MIH event services, (e.g., IEEE 802.21 event services), by mapping service primitives to the MIH event services. The service primitives may be 3GPP service primitives which originate from at least one of ... 05/10/07 - 20070104115 - Overlay network infrastructure A method and apparatus for processing an overlay network infrastructure. In one embodiment, the method comprises a plurality of transparent access points (TAPs). Each TAP is communicably coupled between one or more clients and servers and a wide area network (WAN) to enable the one or more clients to communicate ... 05/03/07 - 20070097885 - Peer-to-peer communication pipes A system and method for establishing communications channels between and among peers in a peer-to-peer networking environment. Pipes may be used as communication channels for sending and receiving messages and other data between services or applications over input and output endpoints. Pipes may be asynchronous, unidirectional, stateless and unreliable. Bidirectional ... 05/03/07 - 20070097884 - Methods and systems of network management A network management system (NMS) automatically models a path for a customer's services from a terminating unit through elements typically on a link-by-link basis, across networks if appropriate, to a network service provider (NSP) or Internet service provider (ISP). The path may be a private virtual circuit or connection (PVC), ... 05/03/07 - 20070097883 - Generation of a network topology hierarchy A new network topology visualization is produced from an existing network topology using grouping algorithms that are selectively applied to selectable hierarchies of the existing network topological hierarchy. The new network topology is rendered for review. Interaction may be provided through a graphical user interface (GUI). The new network topology ... 05/03/07 - 20070097882 - Distribution of data in a network A method of distributing data across a network from a server computing node to one or more client computing nodes having file-sharing capability across a network, comprises the steps of: generating, from: (a) a topological map of computing nodes and communications links (‘network elements’) of the network; (b) data providing ... 05/03/07 - 20070097881 - System for configuring switches in a network A network is set forth that comprises a plurality of multiple port switches, a plurality of endpoint devices connected to the ports of the plurality of switches, and an enumerating endpoint device that is connected to at least one of the multiple port switches. The enumerating endpoint device configures the ... 05/03/07 - 20070097880 - Resource matched topology database synchronization in communications networks having topology state routing protocols A method for selecting a neighboring node to synchronize network topology database information with a network node from among a plurality of neighboring nodes coupled to the network node in a network, the method comprising: receiving from each of the neighboring nodes an identifier and an indication as to whether ... 05/03/07 - 20070097879 - Method and communication system for automatically discovering the multimedia service capability The present invention relates to a method, a system and a server for automatically discovering the common Multimedia Service Capability, and computer program. This solution avoid unnecessary use of the radio interface and is based on making use of the circuit switched network, e.g. the Intelligent network IN, as trigger ... 05/03/07 - 20070097878 - Management device that registers communication device to wireless network, communication device, intermediate device, and method, program, and integrated circuit for registration of communication device A common key is obtained from a management device 101 by operating a bidirectional infrared remote control 105 at a location 105a via an infrared communication, the management device 101 being connected to a wireless network. The common key is transmitted to an air-conditioner 104 from bidirectional infrared remote control ... 04/26/07 - 20070091823 - Communication node, server and system The originator is made to discover the communication node specified by the receiver as the destination following the movement of the receiver among the communication nodes. ... 04/26/07 - 20070091822 - Method of configuring and registering internet protocol address in a wireless mobile communication system having connection-oriented radio link A method of configuring and registering an Internet Protocol (IPv6) address in a wireless mobile communication system having a connection-oriented radio link is provided. In an IP configuration method without Duplicate Address Detection (DAD), a Mobile Station (MS) is allocated a unique Connection Identifier (CID) specific to the MS from ... 04/26/07 - 20070091821 - Address management and routing methods for wireless personal area network (wpan) An address management method and a routing method for a wireless personal area network (WPAN) is provided. The address management method includes setting an update route flag relating to a portable node and a previous network address which is an address of the node before the movement, if a node ... 04/26/07 - 20070091820 - Methods and apparatus for use in a packet data network A GGSN receives a request associated with a session creation for a mobile entity. The GGSN begins a process (a four-way handshake) for obtaining network access configuration parameters for the mobile entity and responds to the request prior to the completion of the four-way handshake. The GGSN then completes the ... 04/26/07 - 20070091819 - Declarative system configurations A declarative approach is used for system configuration. The declarative approach improves a system's integrity which makes the system more dependable. An overall system model is defined that describes the system as a whole. The models are hierarchical and can reference and incorporate any number of sub-models. The models within ... 04/19/07 - 20070086362 - Network management method and communications network system This invention provides an improved data transferring method performed in a communication network comprising a management system M1 and a plurality of nodes K1-K3. Since the management system M1 collectively manages the algorithm information that indicates algorithm possessed in each node, if the fist node does not have algorithm needed ... 04/19/07 - 20070086361 - Provider link state bridging Provider Link State Bridging (PLSB) expands static configuration of Ethernet MAC forwarding tables by the control plane and utilizes direct manipulation of Ethernet forwarding by a link state routing system. At least one media-access-control (MAC) address for unicast forwarding to the bridge and at least one MAC address for multicast ... 04/19/07 - 20070086360 - Method and system for communicating an information packet through multiple router devices According to one embodiment, a first computing device receives a first information packet from a second computing device. The second computing device receives the first information packet from a global computer network through a first router device. The first computing device outputs a second information packet to the global computer ... 04/19/07 - 20070086359 - Network discovery utilizing cellular broadcasts/multicasts This document describes, e.g., a system and method for minimizing superfluous signaling traffic and for minimizing data processing pressures on a network including a network information repository (NIR), comprising: having mobile stations that enter a network domain compare and detect inconsistencies in network information received through different sources and report ... 04/19/07 - 20070086358 - Directed acyclic graph computation by orienting shortest path links and alternate path links obtained from shortest path computation Each network node in a network is configured for calculating a directed acylic graph that provides at least one path from all the other network nodes toward the one network node. The network node performs a modified shortest path first calculation by identifying next-hop nodes adjacent to the network node, ... 04/19/07 - 20070086357 - Method of device service activation using a discovery mechanism An Internet service device includes data and instructions to generate a user interface to subscribe to an Internet service, and to automatically discover one or more service provider services. The internet service device may receive information indicative of a selected service provider from a user device, and may automatically discover ... 04/12/07 - 20070081474 - Wireless terminal and program A wireless terminal communicable in an ad hoc mode includes a wireless level detector that detects the wireless level for a neighbor node on a logical network, and a neighbor node number display controller that displays information indicative of the number of neighbor nodes communicable in the ad hoc mode ... 04/12/07 - 20070081473 - Reconfigurable communication for distributed embedded systems A distributed embedded system that allows for the reconfiguration of tasks and messages. The system includes a system configuration manager and a plurality of electronic control units (ECU) each having an ECU configuration manager. Each ECU configuration manager stores the current configuration data for task scheduling and bus/network accessing/retrieving for ... 04/12/07 - 20070081472 - System for evolvable network design A system is disclosed for deploying a network architecture. A first stage and a second stage of the network architecture are deployed. The second stage is deployed from the first stage. A total deployment across the first stage and the second stage of deployment is determined together before the first ... 04/05/07 - 20070076634 - Network management apparatus and network system A network management apparatus and a network management system are provided which are capable of reducing setting workloads required when an initial setting operation of a network communication apparatus is performed, and a network structure is changed. The network management apparatus acquires information as to respective network communication apparatus which ... 04/05/07 - 20070076633 - Method of implementing multicast routing system in mobile ad-hoc network environment Disclosed is a method of implementing a multicast routing system in a mobile ad-hoc network environment. The method includes causing control packets for data transmission to be transmitted from a source node to object nodes in accordance with a predetermined method when data to be transmitted from the source node ... 04/05/07 - 20070076632 - Network port for tracing a connection topology A network port and method for tracing a connection topology between at least two connected devices are described. The network port includes a logic circuit connected with a communication path for connecting with another network port. The logic circuit is arranged to generate and transmit a trace signal responsive to ... 04/05/07 - 20070076631 - Method and apparatus for managing a random access communication system There is provided a method and apparatus for managing a random access communication system. More specifically, there is provided calculating a first value representative of a transmission success rate between first and second wireless nodes, wherein the transmissions from the first node create interference at a third node, calculating a ... 04/05/07 - 20070076630 - Peer name resolution protocol simple application program interface An application program interface (API) for sending and receiving endpoint registration data and peer-to-peer network cloud data has a registration call for adding endpoint data to a peer-to-peer network. The API may receive explicit data regarding address information or may be instructed to select and maintain suitable address information as ... 04/05/07 - 20070076629 - Parallel constraint based path computation using path vector Methods of computing a path through a network between a source node and a destination node. At the source node, an explore message is launched into at least one link hosted by the source node. The explore message includes a path vector containing a node identifier of the source node. ... 04/05/07 - 20070076628 - Network modeling system and method of simulating network operation with configurable node models A node model of the present invention is employed by a network modeling and simulation system and includes a communication protocol stack with a plurality of protocol layers. Each protocol layer includes communication functions. The protocol layer functions are each represented by one or more distinct software implementations that are ... 03/29/07 - 20070070922 - Method and apparatus for coordinating adjacent channel transmissions on multiple radio nodes A method, apparatus and computer program product for coordinating adjacent channel transmissions on multiple-radio nodes is presented. A Maximum Channel Occupancy Duration (MCOD) limit for a length of an overall transmit period is defined. A set of timers (NNAV) for each neighbor node is maintained, each of said NNAV including ... 03/29/07 - 20070070921 - Method of determining network addresses of senders of electronic mail messages In one embodiment, a method comprises computer-implemented steps of receiving a plurality of electronic mail messages containing sender address information that is non-trusted; for each particular one of the electronic mail messages: storing information about the particular message in a database record; creating one or more receiving node identifiers in ... 03/29/07 - 20070070920 - Transmission apparatus A transmission apparatus that automatically makes area division on the basis of a predetermined condition to lessen the labor of a maintainer. Transmission apparatus 1a, . . . , 1m, . . . make up one area. Each of the transmission apparatus 1a, . . . , 1m, . . ... 03/29/07 - 20070070919 - Device and method for network configuration and computer product In a network, a controller controls a physical-interconnection selection switch and middle switches so as to dynamically change a network topology according to the state of the network. A traffic analyzer detects how the traffic in the network changes. If there is a change in traffic, the controller controls the ... 03/29/07 - 20070070918 - Multiple-transceiver distributed dynamic channel selection in a communication network In certain embodiments, a first node among a plurality of distributed nodes capable of forming or reforming a communication network between the nodes, each of the nodes including one or more transceivers, includes a memory for storing values for variables for the first node and includes a plurality of transceivers. ... 03/29/07 - 20070070917 - Method for installing a backup power source in a service access interface A system and method are disclosed for installing a backup power source (200) in a service access interface, also known as a cross-connect interface (CCI) (110). A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method having the steps of searching (306) for topology information ... 03/22/07 - 20070064626 - Recommendation network A recommendation network is described. The recommendation network may include, but is not limited to, users or entities (“recommendation sources,”) that explicitly or implicitly recommend, rate or refer items and users or entities that receive recommendations or referrals (“recommendation receivers,”). Users who make recommendations can create multiple recommendation sources, using ... 03/22/07 - 20070064625 - Method of processing emergent data in wireless sensor network A method of processing emergent data in a wireless sensor network is provided in which the latest information is collected from each sensor node and stored, newly-received sensing data are determined as emergent data if an error is over a certain value compared to the latest information from each node, ... 03/22/07 - 20070064624 - System and method for floating port configuration A system and method automatically configures the interfaces of an intermediate network device. A discovery process operating at the device detects the identity or type of network entities actually coupled to the device's interfaces. Utilizing the identity or type of detected entities, a look-up is performed to obtain a configuration ... 03/22/07 - 20070064623 - Method to encapsulate snmp over serial attached scsi for network management operations to manage external storage subsystems According to various illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a method to encapsulate a simple network management protocol (SNMP) over a serial attached small computer system interface (SCSI) system (SAS) for network management operations to manage external storage subsystems includes encapsulating a simple network management protocol (SNMP) message having a ... 03/22/07 - 20070064622 - Interactive voice response based troubleshooting of customer premise equipment installation Troubleshooting of customer premise equipment installation includes sending information over a communications network to attempt to activate customer premise equipment. A request is received to activate an interactive voice response based troubleshooting component of the customer premise equipment. Information relating to the attempt to activate the customer premise equipment is ... 03/22/07 - 20070064621 - Method and system for testing network configurations A method for testing network configurations. Specifically, a plurality of source requirements is determined for a network configuration, wherein the plurality of source requirements describe physical and functional characteristics of the network configuration. Each of the plurality of source requirements is linked to at least one of a plurality of ... 03/15/07 - 20070058570 - Identifying and analyzing network configuration differences A contextual and semantic analysis of network entities facilitates a mapping and comparison of the entities between network models. The system includes a plurality of refine handler and match handler pairs that use rules that are specific to the type of network entities being analyzed. The refine handler analyzes the ... 03/15/07 - 20070058569 - Integrated presentation and management of communication services Methods of managing a suite of communication services include providing a central management function configured to manage the status of a plurality of communication services including at least one IP-based communication service and at least one non-IP based communication service, receiving a status of the at least one IP-based communication ... 03/15/07 - 20070058568 - Controlled distribution of inter-area routing information A technique controls distribution of reachability information for a tail-end node of a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) to a head-end node of the TE-LSP in a computer network. The TE-LSP preferably spans multiple domains of the network such that the tail-end node resides in a domain (“tail-end ... 03/15/07 - 20070058567 - Discovery and identification of upstream device characteristics for self-configuration of customer premises equipment In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a customer premises equipment (CPE) apparatus includes a first communications unit and a processing unit. The first communications unit is adapted to send and receive messages over an upstream network. The processing unit is adapted to control the sending and receiving ... 03/08/07 - 20070053308 - Apparatus and method for dynamically updating and communicating within flexible networks A software-based application dynamically updates user lists and enables communication between various network communication devices within a wireless network. The software-based application automatically builds and maintains a list of available users associated with the network communication devices in real-time, without reliance on a centralized server for authentication. Various types of ... 03/01/07 - 20070047468 - Packet communication device A packet communication device, which provides a modular node capable of setting up the operation of the node at a time without updating a program in the node body when a new functional module is installed, sends a process setting content, requested by a configuration file specified by a manager, ... 03/01/07 - 20070047467 - Optimal path selection system A router includes a label-mapping-message receiving unit, a passing-node managing unit, and a passing-node selecting unit. The label-mapping-message receiving unit receives a label-mapping message including label information and PV TLV information from all adjacent nodes. The passing-node managing unit registers received label information and PV TLV information to manage the ... 03/01/07 - 20070047466 - Network management system Disclosed is a network management system for performing automatic setting of agent addresses to thereby improve operability and maintainability of network management. An agent node has an access list for registering an address of a partner to be permitted to make access and performs communication by a network management protocol ... 03/01/07 - 20070047465 - Path setting method and communication device in network segmented into plurality of areas The communication device includes a transmission node connected to a transmission network, and a control node connected to a control network for controlling the transmission on the transmission network and setting the transmission of the transmission node, and the control node has a control link collecting unit collecting link information ... 03/01/07 - 20070047464 - Routing configuration validation apparatus and methods Apparatus, methods, and related data structures for validating a routing configuration in a communication system are disclosed. Routing information in a communication system is passively collected, illustratively from routing protocol advertisement messages. A routing configuration of the communication system is validated based on the collected routing information. Validation may involve ... 03/01/07 - 20070047463 - Method of constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network A method of constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network comprising a plurality of network components and supporting at least first and second topologies having one or more common network components is described. The forwarding database includes a plurality of entries providing forwarding information for data destined for ... 03/01/07 - 20070047462 - Method and apparatus for constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network A method of constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network comprising a plurality of network components and supporting at least first and second topologies having one or more common network components is described. The forwarding database includes at least first and second database structures having records including forwarding ... 02/22/07 - 20070041335 - Automatic estimation of node location based on trace information The locations of nodes in a network are determined relative to the location of monitoring devices that collect trace information on the network. By appropriate sorting, filtering, and characterizing the trace information, nodes are identified as being local to or remote from each monitoring device that detects traffic to or ... 02/22/07 - 20070041334 - Transmitting frames in wireless local area network (wlan) A method and apparatus for transmitting frames in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), each station in the WLAN determines whether there is another station in a hidden state. The station transmits a frame to an Access Point (AP) without performing an Request To Send/Clear To Send (RTS/CTS) mechanism when ... 02/15/07 - 20070036091 - Detecting a hidden node in a wireless local area network A method and system for detecting a hidden node in a wireless local area network having a first station, a second station, and an access point. The first station can send a message, where the message can be sent as a data frame. After receiving the message, the access point ... 02/15/07 - 20070036090 - Structured addressing method for wireless networks A method assigns addresses to nodes in a wireless network. An address space is defined as an n-dimensional grid, each grid intersection having coordinates of a corresponding possible node of a wireless network, a number of components of each coordinate being equal to a dimensionality of the grid, and the ... 02/15/07 - 20070036089 - Method and system for data transmission in a wireless network A method and system for data transmission by computational devices in a wireless network (100) are disclosed. A computational device (102) organizes the wireless network in a hierarchical topology having at least one root node and updates a list of interferers and a list of descendents. Then, the computational device ... 02/08/07 - 20070030817 - Constraining multicast traffic between a layer 2 network device and a router A method, system, computer program product and apparatus are presented to enable a L2 network device, such as a bridge or switch, to control the flow of a multicast data stream to a connected router in response to control messages received from the router by the L2 network device. By ... 02/01/07 - 20070025274 - Hybrid distance vector protocol for wireless mesh networks A method of hybrid route discovery in a mesh network is described. The method comprises the optional designation of a root node of the mesh network and formatting a route request message at an originating mesh point, where the route request messages include a hop limit parameter. If a root ... 02/01/07 - 20070025273 - Methods and systems for detecting video signals and sources A list of most recently utilized ports is maintained in memory. The video display system checks each port in the recently utilized ports list to determine if any video sources are connected to the recently utilized ports. If no sources are connected to the recently utilized ports, the video display ... 02/01/07 - 20070025272 - Reduced order model node location method for multi-hop networks A method for locating nodes in a multi-hop sensor network forms a rigid body (RB1, RB2, RB3) and, from the nodes, utilizes the rigid body to decide if a node is locatable. The method obtains a reduced order model (ROM) of the network by categorizing all of the nodes by ... 02/01/07 - 20070025271 - Data center with mobile data cabinets and method of mobilizing and connecting data processing devices in a data center using consolidated data communications and power connections Data processing devices in a data center are more easily relocated by consolidating the data and power connections to the data processing devices within a mobile data cabinet. The mobile data cabinet includes an access switch to consolidate communications and connections among computing devices in the mobile cabinet and to ... 02/01/07 - 20070025270 - Using reachability information to facilitate peer-to-peer communications The present invention allows originating endpoints to obtain reachability information from a directory service, which collects contact and related information from available users. When initiating a peer-to-peer communication session to an endpoint of a destination user, the originating endpoint will access the directory service to obtain reachability information for the ... 01/25/07 - 20070019569 - Methods for automatically selecting a cluster header in a wireless sensor network and for dynamically configuring secure wireless sensor network Provided are methods for automatically selecting a cluster header to dynamically configure a wireless sensor network, and encoding and sending a packet between nodes in a wireless sensor network to secure communication. The method includes: broadcasting, at each normal node, cluster header selecting information including capability information of the normal ... 01/25/07 - 20070019568 - Method of monitoring network elements supporting virtual private networks A method of monitoring network elements configured to support a number of customer virtual private networks (VPNs) provided for a number of customers. The method comprising associating network addresses and extended community numbers (ECNs) with the network elements; associating the ECNs with a number of the customer VPNs; generating a ... 01/18/07 - 20070014249 - Logical connection method in network and information processor A logical connection method in a network in which plural terminals are connected for intercommunication is provided. The method includes letting each of the terminals store a connection management table and plural connection tables, the connection management table indicating other end of a logical connection at present, and each of ... 01/18/07 - 20070014248 - Network monitoring device A network monitoring system monitors a data network and enables observation of the data network state in the present or any arbitrary previous time. The system maintains an object-oriented network model that mirrors the state of network devices. A network data repository stores and maintains the network model. The network ... 01/18/07 - 20070014247 - Method of augmenting deployed networks Method of augmenting a deployed network to include additional network elements. The method includes instructions for determining whether a deployed network is sufficient for supporting existing customer and future customer demands and generating an augmented network design if the deployed network is insufficient. The augmented network design includes new network ... 01/11/07 - 20070008906 - Apparatus for fast reactive handover in ipv6-based mobile system An apparatus for a fast reactive handover in an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) mobile system is provided, in which a message receiver receives a new connection notification message from a point of attachment when the point of attachment makes a new connection with a mobile unit, and a message ... 01/11/07 - 20070008905 - Device and method for clustering a plurality of users in a mobile network A method clusters a plurality of users in a mobile network, according to a specific profile. Data regarding the user is allocated to each user. Data is immediately exchanged between at least two users as soon as said users are located in a predefined communication range in order to spot ... 01/04/07 - 20070002766 - Cooperative relay transmission method for wireless communication system Disclosed is a method in a base station for providing a network access service to terminals. Where one of the terminals is selected as a source terminal and at least one of the other terminals is used as a relay node for relaying communication between the base station and the ... 01/04/07 - 20070002765 - Method and apparatus for quality-of-service based admission control using prediction of scheduling gain In a wireless network or other communication system, admission of users to the system is based on predicted scheduling gain. A scheduler is configured to manage access to network resources for users already admitted to the system. An admission control module is coupled to the scheduler, and determines a predicted ... 12/28/06 - 20060291404 - Directed acyclic graph discovery and network prefix information distribution relative to a clusterhead in an ad hoc mobile network Each mobile router in an ad hoc mobile network is configured for concurrently attaching to multiple parents advertising respective parent depths relative to a clusterhead of the ad hoc mobile network. The mobile router selects an advertised depth relative to the clusterhead based on adding a prescribed increment to a ... 12/21/06 - 20060285505 - Routing apparatus and method in a multi-hop relay cellular network Provided is a routing method in a multi-hop relay cellular network including a mobile station (MS), a base station (BS), and at least one relay station (RS). One of RSs neighboring the MS measures quality of a link to the BS, generates link quality information using the measured link quality, ... 12/21/06 - 20060285504 - User separation in space division multiple access for a multi-carrier communication system Apparatuses and methodologies are described that increase system capacity in a multi-access wireless communication system. Spatial dimensions may be utilized to distinguish between multiple signals utilizing the same channel and thereby increase system capacity. Signals may be separated by applying beamforming weights based upon the spatial signature of the user ... 12/21/06 - 20060285503 - Interference control in a wireless communication system For interference control, a sector m estimates interference observed from terminals in neighbor sectors and obtains an interference estimate. Sector m may generate an over-the-air (OTA) other-sector interference (OSI) report and/or an inter-sector (IS)OSI report based on the interference estimate. Sector m may send the IS OSI report to the ... 12/21/06 - 20060285502 - Method for establishing a paired connection between media devices A method for establishing a paired connection between first and second media devices across a network includes transmitting a first information message across the network including an identifier that includes a request to pair the first and second media devices. When a second information message is received from the second ... 12/14/06 - 20060280129 - Intelligent sensor network The present invention provides a method, system, and program product for the deployment and use of an intelligent sensor network. More particularly, the method, system, and program product of the present invention enable the deployment and use of fused sensors in an arbitrary area or volume. In a first aspect, ... 12/14/06 - 20060280128 - Scanning groups of profiles of wireless local area networks Two or more connection profiles stored in a wireless device are partitioned into two or more groups, each group having a scanning policy associated therewith. A scanning policy of a group determines how often scanning for wireless local area networks matching any profile in that group is conducted. One or ... 12/14/06 - 20060280127 - Domestic network setting method, home gateway device, home gateway program, and recording medium The setting of the connection of devices to a home gateway apparatus is simplified by providing the apparatus with a gateway function interconnecting a residential network and an external network; a database holding information setting the states of devices getting connected to the residential network and software for the setting, ... 12/07/06 - 20060274675 - Systems and methods for dynamic bridge linking Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to systems and methods for implementing telecommunications. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide methods for interconnecting real-time communication links. Such methods include receiving the status of at least two communication links. The communication links may be established between endpoints and ... 12/07/06 - 20060274674 - Packet transmitting apparatus for setting configuration Provided is a packet transmitting apparatus included in a network, for transferring a frame in the network, including: a configuration managing module for setting a frame transfer function and a filtering function based on a configuration; a configuration setting module for providing an interface that accepts an instruction regarding the ... 12/07/06 - 20060274673 - Method for determining connection topology of home network A method is provided in order to determine connection topology of a home network. The main idea of the present invention is to send out a topology determination message on each link of the network, wherein the topology determination message is constituted of two consecutive packets, first one being a ... 12/07/06 - 20060274672 - System and method for reducing unnecessary traffic in a network Connectivity status information of a mobile network node (104) that may connect to the mobile router (106) is tracked and determined. When the connectivity status of the mobile network node (104) indicates that the mobile network node (104) is no longer reachable, packets destined to be sent to that mobile ... 12/07/06 - 20060274671 - Redundantly connected wireless sensor networking methods Methods and devices for operating a wireless network including redundant communication. Methods involving redundantly connected nodes are discussed including addressing methods and/or methods of creating groups for such redundant communication. The use of primary and secondary redundant connections is discussed. Also, devices for implementing such methods. ... 12/07/06 - 20060274670 - Mobile router device and home agent device In a home agent device, a message reception unit receives a request of deleting a registration of a mobile router device which has become in a non-connection state, a binding cache registration deletion reception unit judges that it is for deleting a mobile router device which is not a transmission ... 12/07/06 - 20060274669 - Discovering proximate apparatus and services in a wireless network A searching apparatus in a wireless network with at least three base stations is put in the position of identifying the available apparatuses and services which are in its proximity, in that the apparatuses Gi(i≠k) determine the signal strengths ss(i,j) at which they receive signals from the base stations Bi, ... 11/30/06 - 20060268746 - Beacon transmission for wireless networks Various embodiments are disclosed relating to beacon transmissions in wireless networks. In an example embodiment, a wireless node may receive a beacon from one or more wireless nodes. The receiving node may generate and transmit a beacon map to other wireless nodes in the network. The beacon map may provide ... 11/30/06 - 20060268745 - Clustering method of wireless sensor network for minimized energy consumption A clustering method of a wireless sensor network is provided to minimize energy consumption. The clustering method includes the operations of determining a number of initial nodes within radio range of ordinary node, the ordinary nodes existing within radio range of a cluster head, and setting an ordinary node having ... 11/30/06 - 20060268744 - Communication apparatus and communication method In a communication apparatus on a network where communication apparatuses perform direct communication with each other, a network management apparatus for managing the network based on message information transmitted and received on the network is determined. When the communication apparatus itself is determined as the network management apparatus, the apparatus ... 11/30/06 - 20060268743 - Information portable terminal apparatus and wireless communication system It is an object of the present invention to provide an information portable terminal apparatus, wireless communication system, setting method for a wireless LAN, and a program capable of setting a wireless LAN easily without imposing a complicated operation on a user. A beacon packet is wireless-transmitted from a wireless ... 11/30/06 - 20060268742 - Topology-centric resource management for large scale service clusters Topology-centric resource management for large scale service clusters is described herein. According to certain embodiments of the invention, techniques include 1) creating optimized topology with network switches to connect service modules based on application flows and bandwidth requirements, 2) providing centralized or decentralized monitoring schemes to maintain the topology view ... 11/30/06 - 20060268741 - System and method for providing automatic load balancing and redundancy in access port adoption A computer network as described herein includes multiple wireless switches cooperating with wireless access devices. The wireless access devices include intelligent processing that enables them to select a desired wireless switch for adoption. When in need of adoption, a wireless access device sends at least one SWITCH DISCOVER message over ... 11/30/06 - 20060268740 - Method for building virtual private networks using routers A method for forming a communications network using routers. The first step is analyzing a router location to determine if the router location is VPN resource constrained or interface-constrained. The VPN resource constrained router network comprises at least at least two groups of routers and the same number of customer ... 11/30/06 - 20060268739 - Tracking of traffic engineering topology in an autonomous system A network topology map and a system and method of annotating a network topology map of a packet network is described which monitors traffic engineering extensions in link state advertisement packets. Traffic engineering information contained in traffic engineering extensions is extracted and the traffic engineering information is used to annotate ... 11/30/06 - 20060268738 - Radio network assignment and access system A communications system (1800) is disclosed in which remote stations (119, 1808, 1803, 1809) are coupled to a central station (104) by a network. The system (1800) comprises the network, the central station (104) which comprises means for establishing a list of information about available network resources and means for ... 11/23/06 - 20060262737 - Qos management in wireless mesh networks A mesh network includes a plurality of mesh points (MPs), a central database (DB) and a central controller (CC). The MPs are configured to broadcast quality of service (QoS) information over a wireless medium. Each MP may request QoS information directly from at least one other one of the MPs. ... 11/23/06 - 20060262736 - System and method for associating ip services to mobile subscribers A system and method for subscriber tracking and creating subscriber records in a GPRS or UMTS network is disclosed. A local mapping record is created on a probe monitoring a Gi interface upon the detection of Access Start messages. Additional information is sent from a probe monitoring a Gn/Gp interface, ... 11/23/06 - 20060262735 - Hierarchical label distribution for inter-area summarization of edge-device addresses A system and method are provided for separately distributing edge-device labels and routing information across routing areas of a computer network. Because the edge-device labels are distributed separately from network routing information, the process of distributing the edge-device labels does not preclude conventional edge-device address summarizations. Illustratively, a novel “label ... 11/23/06 - 20060262734 - Transport protocol connection synchronization A system and method supporting synchronization of replicated transport layer connections in a redundant processor telecommunications network element. One method involves receiving, at a network element comprising an active transport protocol process coupled to a standby transport protocol process, information identifying a newly created transport layer connection maintained at the ... 11/23/06 - 20060262733 - Fast and automatic self-forming meshing topology to integrate with wired networks The present invention applies management frame defined in IEEE 802.11 standard to a wireless distribution system (WDS) mode by adding an information element (IE) into the management frame, which enables any access point (AP) in WDS to maintain IE based on its own setting and state, then send IE via ... 11/23/06 - 20060262732 - Method for informing changed communications capabilities The present invention relates to a method for informing changed link properties in a system in which a mobile node is communicating by IP (Internet Protocol) with a correspondent node and utilizing a first link layer configuration. A need to change link layer communication to use a second link layer ... 11/16/06 - 20060256737 - Method and system for allocating multiple channels in a mesh network A method and system for establishing multiple channels between nodes each having a single radio interface in a mesh network supporting multiple channels are provided. Each node in the mesh network initially generates a neighbor node table, taking into account at least one traffic channel temporarily established for data transmission ... 11/16/06 - 20060256736 - Dynamic hierarchical address resource management architecture, method and apparatus A Dynamic Hierarchical Address Resource Management Architecture (DHARMA) coordinates a logical hierarchy of address spaces with a virtual topology of network elements using a manageable database environment. Address spaces are apportioned into hierarchical levels in accordance with a network policy. Network elements may be represented as objects, coupled via the ... 11/16/06 - 20060256735 - Method and apparatus for centrally configuring network devices A method for configuring network devices in a network includes creating a domain having a management device and a plurality of select network devices. A configuration command is issued from the management device to a central network device in the domain to configure at least one of the network devices ... 11/16/06 - 20060256734 - Synchronizing information across telecommunications terminals for multiple users A method and apparatus are disclosed that enable the synchronization of user profile information for M users who are sharing K telecommunications terminals, wherein M and K are not necessarily equal to each other. The disclosed technique addresses the problem that occurs when multiple users share multiple terminals, in which ... 11/16/06 - 20060256733 - Methods and devices for discovering the topology of large multi-subnet lans The physical topology of large, heterogeneous Ethernet LANs that may include multiple subnets may be discovered utilizing Management Information Base (MIB) information. Topology discovery tools and network management systems are introduced to carry out the topological discovery methods, features and functions of the present invention. ... 11/09/06 - 20060250983 - Method of and arrangement for establishing network connections in an ethernet environment Method of and arrangement for establishing network connections in an Ethernet environment in which the connection topology for CAT5/5e/6 is changed from a star topology to a bus looping connection topology to ease the structured cabling setup and reduce cable cost. It also provides link redundancy by means of loopback ... 11/09/06 - 20060250982 - Methods and systems for discovering and configuring network devices Methods and systems for discovering a device connectable to a network. One method may include attempting to obtain a dynamic address for the device; creating a first default address for the device, if the dynamic address for the device cannot be obtained; assigning the dynamic address as a network address ... 11/09/06 - 20060250981 - Managing automated resource provisioning with a workload scheduler The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for managing automated resource provisioning management systems. In an embodiment, the method begins by receiving a plurality of provisioning operations from a resource provisioning management system. Each of these provisioning operations is linked to a specific job. A determination ... 11/09/06 - 20060250980 - Method and system for automated distributed pairing of wireless nodes of a communication network A system for pairing wireless nodes includes a plurality of device nodes, such as lamp nodes, a plurality of sensor nodes, such as light switch nodes, and a context manager node. Each of the device nodes, the sensor nodes and the context manager node includes a first communication channel having ... 11/09/06 - 20060250979 - Simple installation of devices on a network One embodiment of the invention employs techniques for the self-installation of network devices using fire-and-forget principles. These devices modify their own network configuration data, but do not modify the network configuration data of other devices. Utilizing fire-and-forget principles, the need for a central database and central authority on the network ... 11/02/06 - 20060245375 - Method for communication between processors The invention provides a method and system for communication between processors. Rather than provide an external network connection solely for providing a communication link between CPUs, the present invention utilizes the network devices to transfer information between CPUs. A transmitting network device marks a control packet, which is intended as ... 11/02/06 - 20060245374 - Method to scale hierarchical route reflectors using automated outbound route filtering-list mechanism A method, apparatus and computer program product for scaling hierarchical route reflectors (RRs) using automated Outbound Route Filtering (ORF) is presented. A first route reflector identifies other route reflectors configured as Route reflector clients within a route reflector hierarchy. The first route reflector then builds a common set of route ... 11/02/06 - 20060245373 - Method, system and apparatus for creating a mesh network of wireless switches to support layer 3 roaming in wireless local area networks (wlans) Techniques are provided for techniques are provided for creating a mesh network in wireless local area network comprising a plurality of wireless switches. An IP address of the registration server can be configured on each of the wireless switches and used to open an IP socket from each of the ... 11/02/06 - 20060245372 - Method and system for transmitting lsp fragments Methods, systems, and apparatuses for transmitting link state packet (LSP) through a network are provided. The method includes dividing the LSP into LSP fragments having respective fragment numbers, transmitting the LSP fragments repetitively through the network, identifying at least one LSP fragment that is updated while the LSP fragments are ... 10/26/06 - 20060239210 - Subsystem for cartographic analysis of analysis data with a view to optimizing a communications network A subsystem for use in a system (OO) for optimizing and/or managing and/or supervising a communications network including network elements (C1-C3) with known geographical positions through which passes traffic defined locally by analysis data is dedicated to analyzing analysis data (D). The system comprises, firstly, an interface (I) adapted to ... 10/26/06 - 20060239209 - System and method for achieving zero-configuration wireless computing and computing device incorporating same A system and method for enabling a zero configuration nomadic wireless and wired computing environment presenting a just works experience is presented. The system examines predefined user preference or profile settings to determine to which of a competing number of wireless networks available it should connect, and what type of ... 10/26/06 - 20060239208 - Wireless device discovery and configuration A wireless device that desires to be connected to a wireless network broadcasts itself and its capabilities to a network using an information element. The information element is provided with frames, such as management frames, in a channel that is not protected or encrypted. The information element is forwarded to ... 10/26/06 - 20060239207 - Combined load balancing for overlay and ad hoc networks The present invention relates to a method and system for balancing load in a network environment comprising at least one ad hoc network and at least one overlay network, wherein at least one wireless mobile node of the ad hoc network is selected as a head node for collecting transmission ... 10/26/06 - 20060239206 - Apparatus and method for network identification among multiple applications A method of identification used for communication within a network includes generating a network identity associated with a user, modifying the network identity according to a user preference to create a modified network identity, identifying the user with the modified network identity within a first network communication for a first ... 10/26/06 - 20060239205 - Method of call routing The invention is directed to methods and apparatus for call routing. The invention particularly relates to routing of calls, such as emergency calls, which are routed based on the location of a mobile subscriber in a cellular wireless network. The method comprises the steps of: at a first network node, ... 10/19/06 - 20060233117 - Method for providing a connection between two domains of contiguous hierarchy of a communication network, a dedicated peer, a program module and a communication network therefor The invention concerns a method for providing a connection between two domains (GSPR, LSPR) of contiguous hierarchy of a communication network comprising peers (SP1-SP13, NP1-NP4) by means of at least one dedicated peer (PP1, PP2) whereby said at least one dedicated peer (PP1, PP2) connects said two domains (GSPR, LSPR), ... 10/12/06 - 20060227727 - Versatile system for efficient version control messaging in a wireless radio access network An efficient, non-redundant messaging system is disclosed that communicates version information only when an appropriate network entity (e.g., a PDSN or a PCF) is reset. The methods and constructs of the present disclosure provide a version information message for transmission between first and second entities in a network. A first ... 10/12/06 - 20060227726 - Self-configurable wireless local area network node In a wireless local area network including an access controller (AC) and an access points (AP), the AC transmits a functionality inquiry to the AP. Upon receiving the inquiry, the AP transmits a query response including the functional capabilities of the AP. The AC then generates a map of the ... 10/12/06 - 20060227725 - Network availability status detection device and method According to an embodiment of the present invention, a device configured to send and receive messages over a first network and a second network includes a network status detector unit and a network disabling unit. The network status detector unit is configured to detect the availability of the first network ... 10/12/06 - 20060227724 - Arrangement for providing optimized connections between peer routers in a tree-based ad hoc mobile network Mobile routers in a tree-based network topology with a single clusterhead in an ad hoc network establish connectivity based on each attached mobile router sending a neighbor advertisement message to an attachment mobile router via a corresponding egress interface. Any neighbor advertisement message received by a mobile router is used ... 10/12/06 - 20060227723 - Dynamic shared risk node group (srng) membership discovery A technique is provided for dynamically discovering shared risk node group (SRNG) memberships of a plurality of interconnected edge devices in a computer network. According to the technique, each edge device “learns” the identities of its directly-attached peer devices situated in neighboring routing domains, e.g., by establishing an interior or ... 10/12/06 - 20060227722 - Method and system which apply heuristics to identify signals accessible to subscribers in hybrid fiber coaxial (hfc) interactive networks A system and method for identifying which signals provided by a head-end are accessible to CPE of a subscriber in an HFC network. The method includes obtaining a partial list of signals accessible to the CPE, and then applying heuristic rules on the partial list to generate a complete accessible ... 10/12/06 - 20060227721 - Content transmission device and content transmission method An object of the present invention is to provide a content transmission device which allows playback of content on a content receiving device, the viewing and/or listening of which was interrupted on the content receiving device. A content transmission device is provided which is connected with a content receiving device ... 10/05/06 - 20060221863 - Terminal device A terminal device, which is to be connected to the network together with other terminal devices and a host device to operate the terminal device, includes an output device that outputs perceptually recognized information, a self-pattern storing system that stores information on an expression pattern for the terminal device, a ... 10/05/06 - 20060221862 - Network device management apparatus, network device management program, and network device management method A network device management apparatus which generates distribution routes for transmitting distribution information via communication devices, in order to distribute information to plural communication devices connected to a network, and makes the distribution information be transmitted in accordance with the generated distribution routes. The apparatus comprises: a hierarchy structure creation ... 10/05/06 - 20060221861 - Multicast routing over unidirectional links Various systems and methods are disclosed for performing multicast routing over unidirectional links. For example, one method involves maintaining a multicast adjacency sate, which is associated with an interface that is coupled to receive messages from a network device via a unidirectional link. The multicast adjacency state identifies a network ... 10/05/06 - 20060221860 - Nodal pattern configuration Nodal pattern configuration is described, including generating successive values at a source node, processing the successive values using a plurality of intermediate nodes, sending the processed values from a node in the plurality of intermediate nodes to a destination node, and configuring the plurality of intermediate nodes such that each ... 10/05/06 - 20060221859 - Method and apparatus for managing a multicast tree The invention comprises a method and apparatus for managing a multicast tree. Specifically, the method comprises receiving at least one request for modifying the multicast tree where the at least one request is associated with at least one user device, determining at least one multicast tree change in response to ... 10/05/06 - 20060221858 - User experience for collaborative ad-hoc networks A system and method for creating an ad-hoc network is described. A user may navigate a number of options to create an ad-hoc network and/or join an ad-hoc network using the described system. ... 10/05/06 - 20060221857 - Method and apparatus for providing enhanced features to multicast content services and multiplayer gaming services A method and apparatus for providing enhanced features to multicast users is provided. More particularly, this invention describes a mechanism by which the online content or gaming services can invoke full feature VoIP services offered by a third party VoIP telephony service provider and/or initiate related packet communication services such ... 10/05/06 - 20060221856 - System and method for managing master-slave relationships within a network A system and method for managing the relationship between master devices and slave devices within a network such as a Bluetooth network. Each time that a master device connects to a slave device, the network topology is updated. This update is transmitted to each slave device, sending the node's properties ... 09/28/06 - 20060215583 - Slot-based transmission synchronization mechanism in wireless mesh networks Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to synchronizing transmissions among parent and child routing nodes in a hierarchical wireless mesh network. In one implementation, the present invention employs a time slot scheduling algorithm to coordinate communications between wireless nodes of a hierarchical tree. In one implementation, the present invention provides a ... 09/28/06 - 20060215582 - Automatic route configuration in hierarchical wireless mesh networks Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to routing configuration in a hierarchical wireless mesh network. In one implementation, the present invention uses neighbor messages to allow routing nodes to discover one another and configure a hierarchical routing configuration. In one implementation, the present invention provides a neighbor and adjacency protocol that ... 09/28/06 - 20060215581 - Configuration of failure and acquire timeouts to facilitate recovery from failures in hierarchical mesh networks Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to providing an efficient failure recovery mechanism in hierarchical wireless mesh networks. In one implementation, the present invention mitigates the effect of synchronization loss between a parent and child node on the hierarchical wireless mesh network. In one implementation, the present invention employs a configuration ... 09/28/06 - 20060215580 - Method and apparatus for monitoring network device An apparatus, which provides status information on a status of a target device to a network management system, includes: a request unit that requests the target device to output the status information; and a converting unit that converts a format of the status information output from the target device to ... 09/28/06 - 20060215579 - Method and apparatus for the creation and maintenance of a self-adjusting repository of service level diagnostics test points for network based vpns A method and apparatus for producing and maintaining a repository of service level test points for network based VPNs is presented. A determination is made regarding whether there is more than one Autonomous System (AS) in a network for one or more VPNs. When there is not more than one ... 09/28/06 - 20060215578 - Method for optimal assignment of customer edge (ce) routers to virtual private network route forwarding (vrf) tables A method for optimal assignment of customer edge (CE) routers to virtual private network route forwarding (VRF) tables uses a “peer model”, in which the CE routers communicate their routes to a Service Provider's edge routers (PE routers). The routes of a particular VPN are then exchanged among the PE ... 09/28/06 - 20060215577 - System and methods for identifying network path performance A system and method for aggregating performance characteristics for core network paths allows computation of message traffic performance over each of the available candidate paths through the core for identifying an optimal core network path. Particular network traffic, or messages, include attributes indicative of performance, such as transport time, delay, ... 09/21/06 - 20060209723 - Network device and management technique of the same When a network device, such as an ADSL modem to be connected to a communication network through an ADSL line facility, is physically connected to a port of a line facility, it is checked whether or not this connection is the first connection (or access). If this connection is the ... 09/21/06 - 20060209722 - Data transferring system and electronic apparatus A data transferring system, in which processes to match settings between devices mutually communicating are simplified, software for the processes is also simplified, and the amount of data to be processed is reduced, is disclosed. In a data transferring system of the PCI Express standard, when settings between facing ports ... 09/21/06 - 20060209721 - Interference control in a wireless communication system For interference control, a sector m estimates interference observed from terminals in neighbor sectors and obtains an interference estimate. Sector m may generate an over-the-air (OTA) other-sector interference (OSI) report and/or an inter-sector (IS) OSI report based on the interference estimate. Sector m may broadcast the OTA OSI report to ... 09/21/06 - 20060209720 - System and method for collecting routing information in a mesh network A method includes receiving a request to identify any communication paths visible to a first router in a mesh network and broadcasting the request. The method also includes identifying one or more second routers that broadcast information received by the first router, where the one or more identified second routers ... 09/21/06 - 20060209719 - System and method for routing isis traffic through unidirectional links of a computer network A system and method routes data traffic over a unidirectional link of a computer network configured to implement a routing protocol, such as the ISIS routing protocol. To that end, the invention extends the ISIS routing protocol to allow dynamic discovery of neighboring routers (i.e., neighbors) that are connected via ... 09/21/06 - 20060209718 - Enhanced network system through the combination of network objects A system and method for reducing the cost of framing network packets in a virtual machine environment combines certain network objects to eliminate the cost of fully framing packets between the combined objects. In a virtual environment, for example, this allows a virtual NIC in one partition to send only ... 09/21/06 - 20060209717 - Distributed storing of network position information for nodes Network position information for a node in a network is determined. An infrastructure node in the network is identified for storing the network position information for the node based on a network distance to the infrastructure node. ... 09/21/06 - 20060209716 - Dynamic retrieval of routing information for inter-as te-lsps A technique dynamically triggers an exchange of reachability information between a tail-end (remote) domain target node (e.g., a tail-end node) of a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) and a local domain head-end node of the TE-LSP in a computer network. The inter-domain information retrieval technique is illustratively based ... 09/21/06 - 20060209715 - Apparatus, system and method capable of node adaptive sleep scheduling in wireless adhoc networks An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver capable of dynamic cluster-based node sleep/wake scheduling by integrating application information such as scheduled data transfers with the sleep/wake scheduling, wherein the nodes may sleep immediately after a scheduled data transmission. Further, the nodes may intelligently and automatically ... 09/21/06 - 20060209714 - Method for the automatic configuration of a communications device The invention relates to a method for the automatic configuration of a communications device using a reserved identification number, at least one network node device, which administers an associated subnetwork of a network, at least one virtual network, with which the communications device is associated, whereby data packets exchanged within ... 09/14/06 - 20060203747 - Network topology systems and methods A method for creating a logical network topology in a communication network having a plurality of network nodes. Within the communication network, one or more logical network paths are identified between nodes of the communication network. Each logical path is assigned one or more identification tags. A network device at ... 09/14/06 - 20060203746 - Method and apparatus for automatic configuration of wireless communication networks Method and apparatus for automatically reconfiguring a wireless communication network provides for receiving information from at least one node indicating a change in the network and automatically reconfiguring the network based on the received information. In another embodiment, a method for automatically reconfiguring a wireless communication network, including at least ... 09/14/06 - 20060203745 - Spanning tree generation for supporting performance-guaranteed services over circuit-switched network Techniques are disclosed for generation of spanning trees that support provision of performance-guaranteed services over a circuit-switched network such as, for example, an optical-based network. For example, a technique for generating a spanning tree for use in forwarding Ethernet-based data in a circuit-switched network comprises the following steps/operations. Input information ... 09/14/06 - 20060203744 - Withdrawing multiple advertised routes based on a query defined in a withdraw message which may be of particular use in border gateway protocol Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for withdrawing routes based on a query defined in a withdraw message. One or more route update messages identifying multiple routes with associated attributes and Type-Length-Value (TLV) values are received, and a routing database is updated to ... 09/14/06 - 20060203743 - Apparatus and methods for dynamically configurable wireless network An information handling system includes a plurality of access points, a radio network manager, and a database. The access points couple to form a wireless network. Each access point communicates with at least one mobile client. The radio network manager couples to the access points. The radio network manager is ... 09/07/06 - 20060198322 - Method and apparatus for bgp peer prefix limits exchange with multi-level control Method and apparatus for exchanging route prefix limit parameters and performing route processing based on multi-level, e.g., three levels of prefix limit parameters between BGP peers in a network running BGP protocol. Further, a route refresh BGP message and/or a soft-notify BGP message may be used to exchange prefix limit ... 09/07/06 - 20060198321 - System and methods for network reachability detection A mechanism for ASBRs to identify the originating node, or router, in an LSP conversant autonomous system (AS), such as an MPLS VPN environment, maintains the identity of the originating node and successive nodes in subsequent autonomous systems along the path to the node to be pinged. The identity of ... 09/07/06 - 20060198320 - Prime numbering address allocation method and unique numbering address allocation method using the same in wireless multi-hop network A prime numbering address allocation method in wireless multi-hop network, in which address 1 is assigned to a root host which is the first host joining the wireless multi-hop network, the root host allocates all prime numbers sequentially to new hosts attached to it, and a non-root host allocates addresses ... 08/31/06 - 20060193266 - Hardware abstraction layer Switching and routing functions may be provided in a data plane of a network switch by having all functions and algorithms needed to handle all related interface, logical and physical, under one interface manager to keep track of bindings between virtual interfaces and logical interfaces, as well as maintain the ... 08/31/06 - 20060193265 - Peer-to-peer name resolution protocol with lightweight traffic A system, method, and computer product for a host node to participate in a peer network through a proxy, wherein the peer network includes a plurality of nodes, each node having a peer identifier (ID) and a cache of peer IDs for one or more known nodes, is provided. The ... 08/24/06 - 20060187858 - Network discovery mechanisms In some of the preferred embodiments, a method for network discovery of a mobile device to use at least one of a plurality of access networks within an IP network includes: obtaining specified network information in the vicinity of a given location based on a set of criteria when a ... 08/24/06 - 20060187857 - System and method to provide device control service, and computer product A device control service providing system includes a service request receiving unit that receives, via a network, a device control service request for controlling a group of electronic devices, and a process execution requesting unit that requests respective device control servers to execute device control processes for controlling an operation ... 08/24/06 - 20060187856 - Techniques for using first sign of life at edge nodes for a virtual private network A method and apparatus for processing a signal on an intermediate network node at an edge of a provider packet-switched network to support a link-layer virtual private network includes receiving a signal on a particular interface. The particular interface is for a direct communication link to a customer network node ... 08/24/06 - 20060187855 - Techniques for customer self-provisioning of edge nodes for a virtual private network Techniques for configuring a particular network interface on a particular node at an edge of a provider network to support a particular virtual private network include receiving customer input data. The provider network is a packet-switched network and the particular virtual private network is a link layer virtual private network. ... 08/24/06 - 20060187854 - Techniques for zero touch provisioning of edge nodes for a virtual private network by pushing configuration from a server A method and apparatus for configuring a network interface to support a virtual private network includes storing configuration data at a server on a host computer on the provider network. It is determined without human intervention whether conditions are satisfied for sending the configuration data to a particular node at ... 08/24/06 - 20060187853 - Configuring virtual lans on layer 2 A method and apparatus are provided for configuring a VLAN on a node of a communication network. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided at a network management system, through which an operator selects a node and a physical port on the node. The operator identifies which virtual ports associated ... 08/17/06 - 20060182043 - Data transmission in a communication system A method of configuring a transmitter to transmit information comprises determining a piconet in which the transmitter operates, determining a transmission scheme according to the piconet, and transmitting data according to the transmission scheme. The transmission scheme includes frequency information. A transmission system comprises a transmitter configured to transmit data, ... 08/17/06 - 20060182042 - Managed device, management system, method for controlling a managed device and medium A managed device obtains an individual certificate with an ID of the managed device when the managed device is in a direct-managed state and determines that the certificate set as the certifying information for communicating with a managing device is a common certificate without an ID of the managed device. ... 08/17/06 - 20060182041 - Method and apparatus for automatic verification of a zone configuration of a plurality of network switches Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus for automatic verification of a zone configuration of a plurality of network switches. In one method embodiment, the present invention accesses an actual zone configuration comprising a plurality of network switching devices, the actual zone configuration for defining the switching ... 08/03/06 - 20060171334 - Storage network system, managing apparatus managing method and program A storage network system includes computers, storage systems, connection devices that control connection relations between the computers and the storage system, and a managing device that manages the computers, the storage system and the connection devices. The managing device includes a control section that specifies connection ports of the computers, ... 08/03/06 - 20060171333 - Network configuration management apparatus, network configuration management program and network configuration management method According to this invention, it is possible to display the overall configuration of a network and, at the same time, an important part of the network in detail according to the objective of monitoring so as to be able to grasp/monitor the important part of the network in detail, while ... 08/03/06 - 20060171332 - Device discovery and channel selection in a wireless networking environment A method and apparatus for device discovery and channel selection in a wireless networking environment are described. As part of an automatic network configuration process, a super node sequentially traverses the available channels, broadcasting discovery messages including the channel switching schedule. Wireless nodes that receive those broadcast messages switch channels ... 08/03/06 - 20060171331 - System and methods for network path detection Customer edge (CE) to CE device verification checks initiate routes from available CEs as a set of path verification messages, destined for remote CE routes serving a remote VPN. An extended community attribute, included among the attributes of the path verification message, stores the identity of the originating CE router. ... 08/03/06 - 20060171330 - Buffering registered state change notifications to reduce traffic during large fabric changes The buffering of RSCN frames is disclosed so that RSCN traffic can be reduced. At the start of a state change notification period, a timer is started. A state change manager buffers state changes in a register that holds a pending RSCN frame by storing the address of each changed ... 08/03/06 - 20060171329 - Control network with data and power distribution A control network comprises a plurality of network nodes arranged in a plurality of tiers, with first-tier nodes and lower tier nodes. A master control bus interconnects the first-tier nodes, which are also connected to a power source. Lower-tier buses interconnect groups of the lower tier nodes. The lower-tier buses ... 07/27/06 - 20060165015 - Method for routing data packets using an ip address based on geo position Method of routing data over a network in which contact is made with a home network to determine the reported geo-position, using this geo-position to transmit data to the device over a path through a node in which the node reads the geo-position, accesses a list of possible recipients and ... 07/27/06 - 20060165014 - Peer-to-peer content distribution system A system of the present invention includes a center network CE, a cache network CA, and a plurality of realm networks RL1 to RL3. Dynamic peers DP are distributed among the realm networks RL1 to RL3. The center network CE includes a main center server MC and a sub-center server ... 07/27/06 - 20060165013 - Method and apparatus for identifying an egress point to a network location A method of identifying an egress point to a network location in a data communications network comprising a plurality of nodes and links there between comprises the step, performed at the identifying node, of receiving a notification through the network advertising an adjacency to a network location. The method further ... 07/27/06 - 20060165012 - Method for organizing the topology of a network with a multiplicity of stations grouped in clusters A method for organizing the topology of a network with a multiplicity of stations grouped in clusters, with the following steps: provision of a system of rules that define the arrangement of stations in clusters; classification of the stations into one or more categories in accordance with the rules and ... 07/20/06 - 20060159034 - Method for providing loop free routing table in a router A router is described that includes a routing table containing route information and a module to evaluate a route and detect a loop path associated with the route using the routing table. A process is described to detect and eliminate routing loops associated with recursive routes in a routing table, ... 07/20/06 - 20060159033 - Controller apparatus, mobile terminal, and communication control method A controller apparatus of this invention includes a topology information managing unit configured to manage topology information showing a topology, a location information acquiring unit configured to acquire location information on a plurality of mobile terminals, a link information acquiring unit configured to acquire link information at the mobile terminals, ... 07/20/06 - 20060159032 - Discovery and configuration of devices across an ethernet interface The discovery and configuration of devices of interest connected to the Ethernet by an Ethernet port is disclosed. To perform discovery, Client software in a management interface transmits packets including the address of the management interface and a port identifier to a known broadcast address, requesting the MAC address for ... 07/13/06 - 20060153099 - Ad hoc communication system and method for routing speech packets therein A method for organizing a plurality of communication devices of an ad hoc communication system into a communication network. The devices are organized into one or more communication graphs where at least one of the graphs is a rooted tree. The invention also provides an ad hoc communication system wherein ... 07/13/06 - 20060153098 - Wireless communication system and transmission device The present invention relates to a wireless communication system to properly switch over a transmission method of radio signals corresponding to a configuration of a receiver. The wireless communication system according to the present invention includes a transmitting device having a plurality of antennas and capable of transmitting radio signals ... 07/13/06 - 20060153097 - System and methods for inline property editing in tree view based editors A system and method directed to inline property editing for tree view based editors is provided. A user selects a desired node within a tree view and then hover the mouse cursor over the node causing a smart tag anchor to appear. When the use clicks on the smart tag ... 07/06/06 - 20060146732 - Method to configure a dsl connection in which a home ip plug controller is enabled to initialize a communication with a home ip plug A method is described to configure a connection between at least one Home Internet Protocol Plug, HIPP, located at a subscriber side and a Home Internet Protocol Plug Controller, HIPP-C, located in an access network, both connected via a Digital Subscriber Line, DSL, a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer, DSLAM, ... 07/06/06 - 20060146731 - Distributed network discovery The invention provides a method of sharing the searching burden for discovering available services in a wireless network. Terminals within the network carry out searches of part of the available spectrum and communicate information between each other to establish a database of collective information. ... 07/06/06 - 20060146730 - Multicast architecture for wireless mesh networks The proposed multicast architecture for multi-hop wireless mesh networks addresses a very important but never discussed and studied problem for wireless mesh networks to efficiently support multicast applications. The proposed multicast architecture for multi-hop wireless mesh networks enables the mesh networks to join the global multicast group seamlessly, and extend ... 06/29/06 - 20060140135 - Ad hoc cluster idle node coordination Nodes (103a-d, 105, 107, 109a-c, 111a-c) in an ad hoc communication network are coordinated. The network includes the node (111b) and one or more neighbor nodes (103a-d, 105, 107, 109a-c, 111a,c). The node (111b) can sleep in a low duty cycle. Further, the node (111b) can awaken, responsive to a ... 06/22/06 - 20060133300 - Centralized control of multi protocol label switching (mpls) network A centralized control apparatus and a method thereof manages an Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, in which the centralized control apparatus performs Label Switched Path (LSP) setting of the MPLS network and management for set LSP, to reduce a load of the MPLS network generated upon setting LSP and ... 06/22/06 - 20060133299 - Method for discovering topology in ethernet network Provided is a topology discovery method for an Ethernet network that can effectively discover a physical topology with respect to the Ethernet network of a mesh structure without developing and using a separate control protocol. The topology discovery method in an Ethernet network includes the steps of: acquiring an interface ... 06/22/06 - 20060133298 - Selectively sending link state messages in a network link state protocol based on interest of network nodes In a link state protocol such as an interior gateway protocol (IGP), link state advertisements or link state packets (LSA/LSPs) are sent only to network nodes that have expressed interest in them, rather than always flooding them. ... 06/22/06 - 20060133297 - Network topology mapper A method enables the topology of an acyclic fully propagated network to be discovered. A list of switches that comprise the network is formed and the MAC address cache for each one of the switches is determined. For each pair of switches, from the MAC address caches the remaining switches ... 06/15/06 - 20060126536 - Method and system for configuring wireless routers and networks A method and system for configuring a wireless router and a wireless communications network includes establishing connectivity between a wireless router and at least one wireline router. Connectivity between the wireless router and a plurality of neighboring wireless routers is established through the wireline router. The wireless router is configured ... 06/15/06 - 20060126535 - Mobile ad-hoc network providing expedited conglomerated broadcast message reply features and related methods A MANET may include a plurality of mobile nodes and wireless communications links therebetween. A given mobile node along a route in the MANET may be for receiving a broadcast message inviting replies from mobile nodes along the route, forwarding the broadcast message to at least one downstream mobile node ... 06/15/06 - 20060126534 - Method and mechanism for identifying an unmanaged switch in a network An exemplary method for managing a network includes accessing information associated with a managed switch in the network, querying an external data source, and identifying an unmanaged switch connected to the managed switch based on a reply to the query and the accessed information. ... 06/15/06 - 20060126533 - Apparatus and methods for two or more delivery traffic indication message (dtim) periods in wireless networks A single access point may manage two or more wireless networks, each having a network name. The access point may be configured to store delivery traffic indication message (DTIM) period values on a per network name basis. A processor of the access point may manage, on a per network name ... 06/15/06 - 20060126532 - Managing network resources for wireless communication Access to wireless communication is disclosed, wherein a network control unit identifies availability of different communication networks for a communication device. The communication device is notified of a recommendation of identified communication networks. In response to this notification, the communication device initiates access to the recommended communication network for establishing ... 06/08/06 - 20060120306 - User interface for network discovery operations Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products to capture discovery task information are described. More specifically, a graphical user interface is described that simplifies the task of defining what types of components (hardware and software), domains and methods are to be used during an IT infrastructure discovery operation. One benefit ... 06/08/06 - 20060120305 - Remote management method, a related auto configuration server, a related further auto configuration server, a related routing gateway and a related device The present invention relates to a Remote management method and related devices for use in a home network (HN) comprising a plurality of devices and a routing gateway. The Routing Gateway is coupled to each device of said plurality of devices. The Remote management method comprises the step of an ... 06/08/06 - 20060120304 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for operating a communication network by dividing the network into multiple zones and defining policies that specify allowable communications between the zones A communication network is operated by logically dividing the communication network into a plurality of zones. Policies are specified that define allowable communications between elements in different ones of the plurality of zones. Communications are blocked between elements in different ones of the plurality of zones that violate at least ... 06/08/06 - 20060120303 - Apparatus, system and method capable of low duty cycle hierarchical ad hoc networks An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver capable of dynamic cluster-based sleep/wake scheduling using hierarchical routing, cluster formation, and sleep-wake synchronization. The hierarchical routing may comprise a sink node capable of sending periodic route updates, which may propagate through a network to regular nodes and ... 06/08/06 - 20060120302 - Protocol for exchanging control data to mitigate interference problems in wireless networking Described is a protocol by which wireless network communication devices comprising peer nodes (such as a computer system and an access point) cooperatively exchange information about RF interference detected in the network. The protocol administers the exchange of formatted control data corresponding to the detected interference among computing nodes running ... 06/08/06 - 20060120301 - Dynamic network formation for wireless adhoc networks The invention relates to a network having at least one slave terminal and a master terminal that is connected thereto and that is provided for charging at least one slave terminal with requests to search for at least one other terminal to be incorporated in the network. After receiving a ... 06/01/06 - 20060114841 - Communication system with synchronization alliances In a communication system including nodes laid out in a grid, each node operates on a repetitive internal timing cycle, at certain phases in which the node transmits data and state variable signals. The state variable signals transmitted by a node indicate its internal phase and its position in the ... 06/01/06 - 20060114840 - Communication system with timing cycle simulation Each node in a communication system operates on a repetitive internal timing cycle, at certain phases in which the node transmits data and state variable signals. The state variable signals indicate the node's data transmission timing. Each node has a virtual node calculator that simulates the timing cycles of neighboring ... 06/01/06 - 20060114839 - Method for securely and automatically configuring access points The present invention is contemplates an automatic, secure AP configuration protocol. Public/private keys and public key (PK) methods are used to automatically establish a mutual trust relationship and a secure channel between an AP and at least one configuration server. An AP automatically forwards a location identifier to the configuration ... 06/01/06 - 20060114838 - Mpls vpn fault management using igp monitoring system In an exemplary embodiment, a method for managing a network includes monitoring a network using an interior gateway protocol to detect change in the network, and determining effects of the detected network change on Multi Protocol Label Switching paths in the network. For example, the MPLS paths can be the ... 05/25/06 - 20060109800 - Communication management network system and method for managing a communication network A mechanism usable in a communication management network system includes a network element and an operations system portion. After the network element is physically connected to the operations system portion, adaptation information is transmitted from the network element to the operations system. The operations system configures one or more applications ... 05/25/06 - 20060109799 - Methods and systems of dynamic channel allocation for access points in wireless networks A method for dynamic channel allocation for access points in wireless networks. Communication information of wireless devices is gathered. A network topology formed by the wireless devices is derived according to the communication information. Switch channel indexes for each wireless device are calculated according to the communication information and network ... 05/18/06 - 20060104220 - Method and apparatus for managing configuration information, and configuration information managing system using the apparatus A configuration information management server apparatus is provided with a unit collecting configuration information from the device connected to a network, a unit storing the configuration information collected from the device connected to the network, and a unit comparing already stored information with the collected information and reporting in case ... 05/18/06 - 20060104219 - Predictive mobile ad hoc networking including associated systems and methods The mobile ad hoc network (MANET) includes a plurality of wireless mobile nodes and a plurality of wireless communication links connecting the nodes together. A method for operating a MANET includes predicting future-needed network services, network resources and network configurations in the MANET. A network response is predicted, based upon ... 05/11/06 - 20060098587 - System and method for retrieving computed paths from a path computation element using encrypted objects A technique retrieves computed path segments across one or more domains of a computer network in accordance with a stateless Path Computation Element (PCE) model. The stateless PCE model includes one or more PCEs configured to compute one or more path segments through the domains in response to a path ... 05/11/06 - 20060098586 - Method and apparatus for application route discovery A method and system for determining a route of an application in a network. The network includes a number of interconnected nodes, between a source node and a destination node. A sequence of application packets, being transmitted over an application port, are configured to expire at each one of a ... 05/04/06 - 20060092859 - Method, apparatus, and medium for automatically configuring network address An apparatus, method, and medium of automatically configuring a network address are provided. The method of configuring an address of one of a plurality of nodes on a subnet, the method comprising the operations of: obtaining an ID of the subnet from a packet transmitted from a router on the ... 05/04/06 - 20060092858 - Method for transmitting data in a communication system Transmission of data in a communication system including a central participant and at least one further participant includes transmitting the data via telegrams from the at least one further participant to the center participant, transmitting the telegrams by the central participant to the at least one further participant before being ... 05/04/06 - 20060092857 - Softrouter dynamic binding protocol A dynamic binding protocol has three tasks that run in parallel: discovery, association, and operation. During discovery, control elements (CEs) and forwarding elements (FEs) learn about immediate neighbors and CEs in a SoftRouter network that has separate control and data planes. During association, FEs associate with CEs and are configured ... 05/04/06 - 20060092856 - Node device In node devices composing a ring network connected to another network with a redundant node device, a topology table includes redundancy information of the redundant node device, a transmitter transmits topology information and the redundancy information of the node devices themselves, a topology table preparing portion prepares a topology table ... 05/04/06 - 20060092855 - Wireless performance optimization based on network topology and peer responsiveness When a node (N) enters a new environment, and periodically thereafter, it initiates a network-learning protocol, wherein the node broadcasts a query at a particular power setting, and receives responses from each of the other nodes (A-F) that received the query. The node then adjusts its power setting, resends the ... 04/27/06 - 20060087985 - Discovering liveness information within a federation infrastructure The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing and maintaining membership within a federation infrastructure. A joining node submits a join message to an existing federation infrastructure. The federation infrastructure routes the join message to a processing node. The processing node facilitates identification of predecessor, ... 04/20/06 - 20060083181 - Method, an access point, a telecommunication device, a server and an information system for providing and for retrieving within a telecommunication network available network connection types And a method for providing within a telecommunication network available network connection types at a given location provided by access points by means of a telecommunication network device, where an access points provides its coverage (C1, . . . , C5) and its connection type in an information system for ... 04/13/06 - 20060077909 - Method for routing information over a network employing centralized control A method and apparatus for centralized control of a network is described. The network includes a number of nodes. The method includes creating a database and storing the database on a master node of the network. The database contains topology information regarding a topology of the network. Each of the ... 04/13/06 - 20060077908 - Method for generating and authenticating address automatically in ipv6-based internet and data structure thereof Provided are a method for automatically generating an address in the IPv6-based Internet when a sender having a pair of a public key and a private key establishes a network connection, and a data format thereof. The method includes generating a CGA address and a CGA option based on the ... 04/13/06 - 20060077907 - Simulated annealing for traffic matrix estimation The SATME method and system estimates source-to-destination traffic matrices using a simulated annealing algorithm, the traffic matrix estimation being represented as a probability distribution over the set of all possible matrices that satisfy a set of given constraints. The constraints explicitly encode information that the user knows about the network ... 04/13/06 - 20060077906 - Path setting method, and network, relay station and parent station employing the path setting method The present invention provides a path setting method for automatically setting network paths. The path setting method for generating paths in a network including a plurality of relay stations and a parent station which are connected with each other through a transmission line, comprises the steps of allowing each of ... 04/06/06 - 20060072482 - Service routing The invention discloses a system, a method and a device for service switching. According to the invention, the terminal device accesses multiple services via one service access point. A service switching entity is arranged to a common network element and has further access to service providers and other service access ... 04/06/06 - 20060072481 - Apparatus and method to facilitate mobility management Information regarding the present location of a dual-mode (or multi-mode) mobile station with respect to a plurality of communication systems is timely maintained by facilitating automated contact information modifications via, for example, a mobility management server (30). In a preferred approach, upon receiving a message (11) evidencing the supported presence ... 04/06/06 - 20060072480 - Method to provide high availability in network elements using distributed architectures A method to provide high availability in network elements using distributed architectures. The method employs multiple software components that are distributed across data/forwarding plane and control plane elements in a network element. The software components in the data/forwarding plane include active and standby components. Components in the control plane are ... 04/06/06 - 20060072479 - Method and system for managing a network slowdown A system and method are disclosed for managing a network slowdown. The method includes measuring a time for a packet to travel from a source node over a given path to a destination node in the network; comparing the time with a threshold for the path; and generating an event ... 04/06/06 - 20060072478 - Virtual exterior gateway protocol and related methods An aggregation of a plurality of networks. The aggregation includes a plurality of peer nodes of the networks, each node including a plurality of channels operating at a plurality of interior gateway protocol (IGP) routing levels configured to provide a mesh interface between at least two of the networks. This ... 04/06/06 - 20060072477 - Using configuration identifiers for communicating configuration descriptions The present invention relates to a method, for a first communication device, of maintaining an up-to-date configuration description of a second communication device, said first device comprises a storage medium and is adapted for storing on said storage medium configuration descriptions being uniquely identified by a configuration identifier, the method ... 03/30/06 - 20060067248 - Scalable methods and devices for computing routing paths within the internet Routing-related scalability problems associated with the growth of the Internet are solved by assigning topologically encoded Internet addresses to each node within a network. ... 03/30/06 - 20060067247 - Method for optimizing the frequency of network topology parameter updates Accuracy of network topology information and efficient usage of available bandwidth when broadcasting topology updates are optimized in accordance with the principles of the present invention by collecting and utilizing locally known network usage information to update the network topology information between regular updates. This information is then used in ... 03/23/06 - 20060062157 - Method, apparatus, processor arrangement, and computer-readable medium storing program for displaying network data In a method and an apparatus for displaying network data, nodes are segmented into multiple groups or layers based on their precalculated importance (i.e., static importance) values. A layered structure is constructed based on the importance values of the nodes. A data visualization is generated starting from the nodes on ... 03/16/06 - 20060056317 - Method and apparatus for managing proxy and non-proxy requests in telecommunications network A method is disclosed for determining a location of a client session in a telecommunications network by comparing attributes of the client session connection to location definition information stored in a configuration file. A method of handling requests from proxy and non-proxy client connections in a telecommunications network by redirecting ... 03/16/06 - 20060056316 - Method and apparatus for transferring smart antenna capability information A system for exchanging smart antenna capability information between a transmitting station (STA) and a receiving STA in a wireless communication system includes an antenna capability information element (IE) that includes information regarding the capability of the transmitting STA. The antenna capability IE is sent from the transmitting STA to ... 03/16/06 - 20060056315 - Remote configuration interface The invention relates to a configuration interface (fa) in an administrators master control device (MD) in a network for at least one of a data- and telecommunication utilizing a protocol for communication between the master control device and connected remote devices (RD) for configuration. It comprises providing the configuration interface ... 03/16/06 - 20060056314 - Discovery of virtual private networks A method is described of discovering at least one Virtual Private Network (VPN) automatically within a network comprising a plurality of network elements including the steps of: discovering the network elements which provide functionality for VPNs within the network; discovering the role of each network element, as identified in the ... 03/16/06 - 20060056313 - Method for automatic network integration of a network A method for automatically assigning an IP address when a new user is connected to a network. The new user monitors the network regarding at least one previously allocated valid IP address in a first phase while automatically creating an IP address that differs from the previously allocated IP address ... 03/09/06 - 20060050655 - Communication system and method using a relay node A communication node that relays signals between a source node and a destination node includes (a) a first unitary matrix calculation unit configured to calculate a first unitary matrix based on a first channel between the source node and the relay node, (b) a second unitary matrix calculation unit configured ... 03/09/06 - 20060050654 - Method for checking the completeness and consistency of an information library To simplify the creation and handling of an information library which is associated with a number of modules from which a device is put together in accordance with a prescribed configuration structure, a method for checking the completeness and consistency of the information library is provided. Accordingly, the information library ... 03/09/06 - 20060050653 - Routing protocol support for half duplex virtual routing and forwarding instance A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing dynamic routing support for Half-Duplex Virtual Routing and Forwarding (HDVRF) environments. The method, apparatus and computer program function to configure a forwarding Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) table for a router with information to forward incoming packets to a central location ... 03/09/06 - 20060050652 - Packet processing in switched fabric networks Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for retrieving a node configuration packet from a first queue. If the node configuration packet includes a read request, the techniques include determining if the node configuration packet is valid, and if so, processing the node configuration packet to retrieve data ... 03/09/06 - 20060050651 - Establishing a coordinate system and coordinates for nodes in a network A method of determining coordinates for nodes in a network. In response to a node being selected, the node broadcasts a request to other nodes for respective coordinate information of the other nodes. Based on the response to the request, the node takes one of the following steps. The node ... 03/02/06 - 20060045026 - Method for detecting a system condition A method is provided for detecting a system condition of a system having at least one agent by means of at least one manager coupled with the agent, whereby agents and manager communicate with one another by means of SNMP protocol. ... 03/02/06 - 20060045025 - Internet protocol for distributed averaging The scheme of the invention addresses practical concerns that arise in actual implementations on packet-switched communication networks such as the Internet. The system includes several implementable algorithms that are robust to asynchronism and dynamic topology changes. The algorithms are distributed and do not require any global coordination. In addition, they ... 03/02/06 - 20060045024 - Mechanism to improve concurrency in execution of routing computation and routing information dissemination A technique enables an intermediate network node to efficiently process link-state packets using a single running context (i.e., process or thread). The intermediate network node floods received link-state packets (LSP) before performing shortest path first (SPF) calculations and routing information base (RIB) updates. In addition, the node limits the number ... 02/23/06 - 20060039300 - Method and apparatus for location discovery in mobile ad-hoc networks A method and apparatus are provided for performing location discovery in mobile ad-hoc networks. In one embodiment, a method for estimating the location of a node in a network (comprising a plurality of nodes communicatively coupled by a plurality of links) includes receiving estimated distances for only a subset of ... 02/23/06 - 20060039299 - Packet transmission in a wireless communication system using multiple antennas A method of retransmitting packet data in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a link map information element from a transmitting station having three antennas to achieve space time transmit diversity, wherein first, second and third packet data are transmitted from first, second and third antenna of the transmitting station, ... 02/16/06 - 20060034192 - Apparatus and system for coupling and decoupling initiator devices to a network using an arbitrated loop without disrupting the network The present invention enables the coupling and decoupling of multiple processing devices to a network without disrupting the network. In an embodiment, the invention provides a switch having a network port and several initiator ports each configured for coupling to a processing device. The switch is configured to route data ... 02/16/06 - 20060034191 - Method, system, node, computer program product and communication packet for communicating information in an ad-hoc hierarchically addressed communication network A method of communicating information in a communication network with a plurality of hierarchically addressed nodes includes receiving communication packets identifying 1-hop neighbor node addresses, a number of on-tree neighbors of neighbor nodes transmitting the received packets, and forwarding node addresses of forwarding nodes from which information in the received ... 02/16/06 - 20060034190 - Receive load balancing on multiple network adapters Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with network load balancing are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a load balancing logic configured to cause different portions of network traffic to be transmitted from a transmitting node to different network adapters in a receiving node to cause the network traffic ... 02/16/06 - 20060034189 - Apparatus, system, and method for controlling link status changes An apparatus, system, and method are provided for controlling link status changes across multiple independent control modules. The apparatus includes a copy services module configured to control multiple link adapters, each configured to establish multiple communication links between a source and a target storage device. The adapter transmits a link ... 02/16/06 - 20060034188 - Method and apparatus for analyzing a media path in a packet switched network No-op media payload packets are used to analyze a media path in a packet switched network. In one embodiment, the no-op packets are Real Time Protocol (RTP) payload packets that contain no media content. A Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP) report is generated for the received RTP no-op packets. A ... 02/09/06 - 20060029002 - Zigbee network device for assigning addresses to child nodes after constructing cluster-tree structure, address assigning method and routing method An address assigning method in a ZigBee network environment formed of a plurality of devices (or nodes), includes: linking the plurality of nodes in a cluster-tree structure; requesting desirable address blocks from a lowest level to a second highest level of the tree ancestor nodes desirable address blocks, respectively; and ... 02/09/06 - 20060029001 - Multicast source discovery to elect one virtual broadcast domain (51) out of the plurality of virtual broadcast domains, over which one multicast router (41) out of the plurality of multicast routers has notified (81) support of that particular multicast group, to report the membership to that multicast router over that virtual broadcast domain, ... 02/09/06 - 20060029000 - Connection establishment in a proxy server environment A group of servers (GS) comprising a proxy server (PS) and one or more server computers (SCx). The group of servers (GS) is designed for supporting a mechanism for connection establishment which mechanism comprises an allocation of a predictable sequence number according to a given function shared between the group ... 02/02/06 - 20060023643 - Method for adaptively reassigning addresses of nodes according to changes in volume of wireless network A method of adaptively reassigning addresses of nodes according to changes in volume or a wireless network. The method includes receiving, at the node of the wireless network, information according to the changes in volume from a coordinator as a top level of the tree structure, calculating, at the node, ... 02/02/06 - 20060023642 - Data collection associated with components and services of a wireless communication network Systems and methods for defining and using a data collection profile in connection with a telecommunications network that includes multiple devices. Initially, a query is defined that concerns one or more aspects of the communications network. The query is then used as a basis for building a data collection profile. ... 02/02/06 - 20060023641 - Network designing device and program Linear networks are divided into a plurality of regeneration repeating sections which have nodes having regeneration repeaters arranged therein at both ends, devices such as linear repeaters or OADMs are arranged at the nodes positioned in the regeneration repeating sections, a plurality of assumed paths assumed as a result of ... 02/02/06 - 20060023640 - Remote control of a switching node in a stack of switching nodes A methods and apparatus for remote management of switching network nodes in a stack via in-band messaging are presented. Switching nodes in the stack default to reserved switching node identifiers and stacking ports default to a blocking state upon startup, restart, and reset. Each command frame received via a blocking ... 02/02/06 - 20060023639 - System and method for verifying a description of a network An apparatus and method are disclosed for verifying that a description of a network corresponds to communication paths of the network. The verification is accomplished by accessing data that represents of a plurality of logical links of the network. A determination is made whether each of the logical links correspond ... 01/19/06 - 20060013150 - Method and apparatus for identifying network device corresponding to internet protocol address, and method and apparatus for allocating internet protocol address Provided are a method and apparatus for identifying a network device corresponding to an Internet protocol address. The method comprises the steps of detecting network devices over a network using a detection message, extracting media access control addresses from Internet protocol addresses of network devices which respond to the detection ... 01/19/06 - 20060013149 - Suprvisory channel in an optical network system There is provided an optical network element for use in a node of an optical network including a plurality of nodes which are interconnected so as to be capable of carrying traffic between selected nodes, comprising a local network management system including means for building up a supervisory connection between ... 01/05/06 - 20060002312 - Method of routing in an ad hoc network A method for the routing of information in a network comprises several communication nodes that may be mobile, the routing being done by a route between a source node and a destination node through a set of wireless communication links between the nodes of the network, the entire set forming ... 01/05/06 - 20060002311 - Network device with vlan topology discovery functions A network device with integrated topology discovery functions adapted to virtual local area networks (VLANs). VLAN segments are mapped on a network system formed from multiple network devices. One network device creates and broadcasts a query packet for topology discovery in each VLAN, in response to a command from a ... 01/05/06 - 20060002310 - System and method for second order multi-layer traffic grooming for optical network optimization A method of automatically generating a computer based layout of an optical communication network is provided. First, communications traffic demand forecast data for an optical communication network is received. Network data corresponding to a deployed optical communication network is also received. Thereafter, a network plan can be automatically generated. The ... 01/05/06 - 20060002309 - Method and apparatus for self-configuring routing devices in a network A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for configuring routing devices in a network data processing system. A routing change is identified in the network data processing system. In response to the routing change being identified, a node topology is generated for a set of routing devices present in the network ... 12/29/05 - 20050286441 - Method for determining the relationship of a customer edge router with virtual private network This invention discloses a method for determining the relationship of a Customer Edge Router (CE) with a Virtual Private Networking (VPN), which comprises: assigning in advance for each CE device at least one Route Target (RT) value to form the RT table of the CE, creating CE Route Communities (CERC) ... 12/15/05 - 20050276233 - Wireless architecture and support for process control systems A wireless communication system for use in a process environment uses mesh and possibly a combination of mesh and point-to-point communications to produce a wireless communication network that can be easily set up, configured, changed and monitored, thereby making a wireless communication network that is less expensive, and more robust ... 12/15/05 - 20050276232 - Network management system, and network management method To collectively manage user networks connected to a virtual private network (VPN) without such time and effort necessary for an operation management server to be ready for an expansion MIB for each of vendors. Provided is a network management system, including: a first edge router, an operation management server and ... 12/15/05 - 20050276231 - Topology and quality of service management apparatus and methods for communication networks A method of structuring an ad hoc network is described. A node discovers and pairs with another node to form a network link. Each node maintains a network topology based on node/link states received from other nodes. One node communicates an outbound link state to other nodes which schedule transmission ... 12/08/05 - 20050270990 - Data processing network and method for operating such To reduce the administration complexity required for a data processing (DP) network, provided particularly for use in the medical or clinical sector, a method is proposed which specifies a DP network which is advantageous in this respect and also an associated method of operation. The DP network includes a configuration ... 12/08/05 - 20050270989 - Method and apparatus for automatically configuring wireless network device A method and apparatus for automatically configuring a wireless network device by receiving configuration information from a configuration information server that stores and provides the configuration information of the wireless network device are provided. The method includes: searching for service sets existing within range of the wireless network device and ... 12/08/05 - 20050270988 - Mechanism of dynamic upstream port selection in a pci express switch A PCI Express switch with ports defined to begin operation as upstream ports, and configured to perform a link training that determines when one port is connected to an upstream device and directs the other ports to operate as downstream ports. ... 12/01/05 - 20050265258 - Efficient and robust routing independent of traffic pattern variability A scheme for a carrier to route one or more packets of traffic to their destination after ensuring that they pass through a pre-determined intermediate node also in the carrier's domain permits the carrier to handle all permissible traffic patterns without knowledge of the traffic matrix, subject to edge-link capacity ... 12/01/05 - 20050265257 - Networking apparatus and method A method and apparatus for configuring network apparatus is disclosed. Preferably, the method and apparatus eliminate the need for a user to manually set the operation mode of various apparatus. In one embodiment, the network apparatus may be connected to a network and is capable of selecting a network connecting ... 12/01/05 - 20050265256 - Mobile temporary incident area network for local communications interoperability An ad hoc emergency interoperability communication network is established by providing universal temporary incident area network modules that communicate with each other on an open network, with the network being established when vehicles containing the temporary incident area network modules are within range of each other. The temporary incident area ... 11/24/05 - 20050259597 - Multiple instance spanning tree protocol A multiple instance spanning tree protocol (MI-STP) creates a plurality of active topologies (i.e., loop-free paths) within a computer network. These active topologies may be established through the exchange and processing of multiple instance spanning tree bridge protocol data unit messages (MI-STP BPDUs) by the intermediate network devices within the ... 11/24/05 - 20050259596 - Topology map displaying system In a topology map display, a plurality of devices are represented by a plurality of blocks 21 and physical connections between respective devices are represented by connection lines 25 that couples the plurality of blocks, and also the connection line corresponding to the route, the number of chain connections in ... 11/24/05 - 20050259595 - Process for generating and updating a hierarchical tree in a manet multicast routing protocol ad hoc network A MANET multicast proactive routing protocol ad hoc network is designed to implement a process dedicated to the generating and updating of a “child/parent” hierarchical tree. This process consists, if a “child” router (RR1) belonging to the network wishes to join a hierarchical tree associated with a source router (SR), ... 11/24/05 - 20050259594 - Distributed data model Method and systems for transferring data from a sending device to a receiving device. The method starts with the preparation of a description of the structure of the data which is provided to the sending device and the receiving device. A reference model of the data structure is created on ... 11/17/05 - 20050254438 - Method and apparatus for network configuration validation The accuracy of configuration data within routers of a network are critical in today's networks for security of the network, efficient operating of the network and to ensure corporate requirements, such as redundancy, are met. Since configuration data is typically entered and modified manually by technicians, considerable human errors occur. ... 11/17/05 - 20050254437 - Sdma system using mu-simo for the uplink and mu-miso for the downlink The present invention relates to multiple antenna wireless access points that multiplex signals by spatial division. In particular, it relates to grouping clients of the access point for spatial division multiplexing. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings. ... 11/10/05 - 20050249132 - Method of providing intra-company two way voice communications over a data network A method of providing an intra-company voice communication service has the general steps of providing a company with a plurality of remote geographic facilities linked by a data network, determining a call traffic pattern for each of the facilities by analyzing a call detail record for each facility, determining performance ... 11/10/05 - 20050249131 - Mobile host, paging agent, packet communication system, and movement detection method A mobile host 2 as an embodiment of the invention comprises a data link layer connection establishment notification unit 202 for notifying the network layer that a connection to a link layer in the data link has been established during a Dormant state; a router information requesting unit 203 for ... 11/10/05 - 20050249130 - Method for searching ordered entries in a service group map to facilitate auto channel discovery A system and method for minimizing timeouts when enhanced services are requested through a digital home communications terminal (DHCT) requiring discovery of a service group identification (SGID) assigned to the DHCT. A service group map (SGM) includes a plurality of entries. Each entry includes a frequency, a tabulated transport stream ... 11/03/05 - 20050243739 - Network topology discovery A method of assigning device identification in a switched network, and the resulting switched network, includes designing a network having a design topology made up of network devices, constructing a network from the designed network and discovering the actual topology of the constructed network. The discovered topology is compared with ... 11/03/05 - 20050243738 - System and method for sonet transport optimization (s-top) A method for designing a communication network is provided. First, network demand data is gathered. Network architecture data is also gathered. Based in part on the network demand data and the network architecture data, a network plan is automatically generated. ... 11/03/05 - 20050243737 - Protocol for communication between access ports and wireless switches A wireless local area network includes access ports which communicate over a wired network with wireless switches which control the access ports and bridge data between portals in the access ports and another network. Code for operating the access ports and for configuring the portals is separately downloaded from the ... 11/03/05 - 20050243736 - System, method, and service for finding an optimal collection of paths among a plurality of paths between two nodes in a complex network An optimal path selection system extracts a connection subgraph in real time from an undirected, edge-weighted graph such as a social network that best captures the connections between two nodes of the graph. The system models the undirected, edge-weighted graph as an electrical circuit and solves for a relationship between ... 11/03/05 - 20050243735 - Node selecting method A node selecting method in which a mobile node moving a plurality of nodes dispersedly arranged estimates a distance to a candidate node adjacent to the mobile node, and selects a node for next communication, is characterized in that the mobile node executes a first step of specifying, as the ... 10/27/05 - 20050237948 - Network topology configuring method and node A node includes a manager configured to manage the hash value of the node and the hash values of adjacent nodes, and a calculator configured to calculate an insertion position of a new entry node in a ring network, based on the hash value of the new entry node, the ... 10/27/05 - 20050237947 - Information management system and a method thereof In an information management system and a method thereof, for reducing data transmission of an enormous amount generated for analysis and observation thereof, and also an information management sub-system, wherein a manager 100 analyzes or observes data, which is collected by plural numbers of agents 300 connected therewith through a ... 10/27/05 - 20050237946 - Suppression of router advertisement In an embodiment, an apparatus for detecting a router advertisement, includes: a network device configured to generate a response when a router advertisement is received in a port in the network device. In another embodiment, a method for detecting a router advertisement, includes: generating a response when a router advertisement ... 10/27/05 - 20050237945 - Network comprising search functions that are integrated into communication components The invention relates to a network, in which addresses are assigned to communication components, said addresses allowing the components to communicate with one another. Several communication components comprise integrated search functions for determining the addresses of resources that are installed in other communication components. To determine the addresses, each of ... 10/27/05 - 20050237944 - Automatic route configuration for quasi-associated m3ua connections The invention relates to a method used in a packet-based telecommunications network that is designed in particular for network nodes that act as signalling transfer points. Said method is used to distribute information concerning the network topology. The network nodes contain information concerning distances between the network nodes and potential ... 10/20/05 - 20050232163 - Framework for template-based retrieval of information from managed entities in a communication network A managed entity view framework and methods for obtaining configuration information, diagnostic information, and statistic information in support of operations management actions is presented. The method includes validating a managed entity viewing script template for execution on a target managed entity, retrieving target managed entity specific template parameter values, populating ... 10/13/05 - 20050226171 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus connected to a plurality of devices through a communication medium is provided. The apparatus includes a transmitting unit adapted to transmit a search request to one or more devices existing in a first area; a receiving unit adapted to receive a response to the search request ... 10/13/05 - 20050226170 - System, method, and apparatus for secure sharing of multimedia content across several electronic devices Disclosed herein is a secure, media exchange network and a method of securely exchanging media between electronic devices across the network. In an embodiment according to the present invention, media may be securely and simultaneously exchanged between friends, family members, business associates, government entities, military entities, law enforcement entities, and ... 10/13/05 - 20050226169 - Dynamic identification of nodes in a network A method for identifying nodes in a network includes selecting identification parameters for the nodes in the network. At some nodes in the network, identification information is maintained for a plurality of nodes based on messages received from neighboring nodes, and the identification information is monitored for a conflict between ... 10/13/05 - 20050226168 - Method of discovering and operating a payload node A method of discovering and operating a payload node (104) includes in a computer network (100) having a central node (102) coupled to a payload node slot (110), coupling the payload node to the payload node slot. The payload node executing a payload boot algorithm (120) located at the payload ... 10/13/05 - 20050226167 - System and method for analyzing a network and/or generating the topology of a network The invention relates to a system and method called autotopology of a network or advertising based network management which enables the analysis and automatic graphical and hierarchical representation of any hierarchical or flat network topology, especially a switched Ethernet (SE). The autotopology can be used for self-configured networks (for example ... 09/29/05 - 20050213516 - Access point having at least one or more configurable radios Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an access point may include one or more software defined radios that may be arranged to implement one or more radio transmission protocols or standards. New radio transmission protocol or standards may be downloaded into the access point so that the ... 09/29/05 - 20050213515 - Multiple-instance meshing One embodiment disclosed relates to a switching system. The switching system includes first, second, and third sets of switches. The first set of switches is configured with a first instance of meshing software such that the switches in the first set are members of a first mesh domain. The second ... 09/29/05 - 20050213514 - Estimating and managing network traffic Network traffic may be estimated using samples of network activities to identify traffic parameters. A model of the network may be generated using the traffic parameters, and the model can be used to simulate the network using a modified set of parameters. Network traffic may be managed using the results ... 09/29/05 - 20050213513 - Full mesh lsp and full mesh t-ldp provisioning between provider edge routers in support of layer-2 and layer-3 virtual private network services A network management system, and a method of, centrally provisioning a full transport LSP mesh and a full targeted LDP signaling session mesh in support of VPN services provisioning are provided. A network management system repository tracks Provider Edge nodes (PE) having label switch router functionality, transport LSP meshes and ... 09/22/05 - 20050207352 - Method for identifying a control element The invention concerns a method of identifying a control element (31 to 40) of a telecommunication system as well as a telecommunication system and a control element (31 to 40) for executing this method. The telecommunication system has a plurality of control elements, wherein the control element (31 to 40) ... 09/15/05 - 20050201302 - Internet route deaggregation and route selection preferencing A method and system for managing the routing of traffic within a network develops a topological address space map of the network to enable a “best route” selection process. The network is comprised of a backbone connected to a plurality of peering partners. Points on the network monitor traffic flows. ... 09/15/05 - 20050201301 - Self-associating wireless personal area network Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically and autonomously forming a wireless personal area network (WPAN) from an array of intercommunicating personal area network (PAN) devices. The devices comprise first communicators associated with primary functions of the devices and second communicators coupled to the first communicators for determining a subset ... 09/15/05 - 20050201300 - Self-configuring wireless personal area network Methods and apparatus are provided for forming a wireless personal area network (WPAN) from an array of intercommunicating personal area network (PAN) devices. The system comprises a location determinator configured to determine a location for each of the PAN devices, a comparator coupled to the determinator for comparing the location ... 09/15/05 - 20050201299 - Interworking network maps of network management and element management systems In a communication network, the network management system NMS keeps one or more element management system EMS in synchronization of network topology changes using requests that are automatically generated or manually requested and then sent from the NMS to the affected EMS(s) whenever a node topology change is made at ... 09/08/05 - 20050195753 - Method and system for detecting wireless access devices operably coupled to computer local area networks and related methods A system and method is provided for detecting wireless access devices coupled to local area network of computers. The method includes coupling a sniffer device to a local area network. The method includes transferring one or more packets to be directed to a selected device over the local area network. ... 09/08/05 - 20050195752 - Resolving partial media topologies Systems and methods for resolving a partial topology are disclosed. In one embodiment a media engine includes a topology loader module that receives a partial topology from another module associated with the media engine. The topology loader implements logic operations that convert a partial topology into a full topology, which ... 09/08/05 - 20050195751 - System and method for identifying devices using a point to point protocol A system and method are disclosed for indicating network connectivity and access to an information service offering. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include receiving at a router a request to establish a Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) session for a LAN-side device. The LAN-side ... 09/01/05 - 20050190705 - Systems and methods for uniquely and persistently identifying networks A service is disclosed that discovers information about the logical networks to which a computer is connected and provides that information to applications. The information is keyed to names constructed by the service. There is a mapping between the names and the logical networks. Applications may rely on the names ... 09/01/05 - 20050190704 - Method and apparatus for deriving optimal paths through a network subject to a subset sequence constraint A routing tree that spans a graph representing a network is constructed by iteratively expanding the tree to include a node of the graph that is not in the tree, the node being chosen because an allowable path extends from a root of the tree to the node that is ... 08/25/05 - 20050185599 - Generating topology information identifying devices in a network topology Provided is a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating topology information including information on local interfaces in a device and remote interfaces in at least one remote device that connect to the local interfaces identified in the topology information. For each connected remote interface, a determination is made ... 08/25/05 - 20050185598 - System and method for device discovery Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in device discovery operations. Various of the systems and methods provide, for example, for power savings at nodes. Moreover, various of the systems and methods provide, for example, for the exchange of information among nodes. ... 08/25/05 - 20050185597 - Method, system, and program for checking and repairing a network configuration Disclosed is a technique for performing configuration checking of a network. A network data store is scanned for at least one transaction. At least one event is generated for said transaction. At least one configuration policy is associated with said event. Said configuration policy is compared with configuration data associated ... 08/11/05 - 20050174950 - Distributed network organization and topology discovery in ad-hoc network A distributed network method for self-organizing a group of nodes into a bi-directional communication network where initially there is no central coordinator in the prospective network environment. The method involves engaging in the process of determining internodal communication capabilities en route to creating a network topology table, and then using ... 08/04/05 - 20050169195 - Method for adding devices to management system A method of device management relating to communication technology, wherein the method comprises the following steps of: the device initiatively sending a IP packet for management registration request to a management system according to address information of the management system, the request packet at least comprising the unique device identifier ... 08/04/05 - 20050169194 - System, device, and method for address reporting in a distributed communication environment An address reporting technique for reporting address information in a distributed communication environment retrieves locally owned address information from each of a number of distributed address databases, sorts the address information according to a predetermined sorting scheme, and reports the sorted address information. Each address database is maintained by one ... 08/04/05 - 20050169193 - System and method for network topology discovery A system and method for discovering network topology by various switch training and probing methods. Segments are discovered by having computers enter a promiscuous mode and determining from packets sent to a selected computer which computers see which other computers in the network. From the segments, various switch interconnections are ... 07/28/05 - 20050163060 - Topology discovery in broadband networks A method of operating a policy server connected to a network including a plurality of network termination devices and a plurality of CPEs (customer premises equipment) that are behind the plurality of network termination devices, the method including: polling the plurality of termination devices for data maintained by the termination ... 07/21/05 - 20050157662 - Systems and methods for detecting a compromised network Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring data transmissions on a network and detecting compromised networks. The systems and methods monitor communications involving network hosts and analyze the communications in view of the business function of the hosts. In certain embodiments the analysis is performed by associating a set of ... 07/21/05 - 20050157661 - Mobile ad hoc network system and operating method thereof A mobile ad-hoc network system includes: a plurality of mobile terminals; and a central control means for setting an optimal route among terminals, performing connection with an infrastructure network and connecting networks using different wireless access technologies. By including the central control means, the ad-hoc network system can overcome the ... 07/21/05 - 20050157660 - Model for enforcing different phases of the end-to-end negotiation protocol (e2enp) aiming qos support for multi-stream and multimedia applications The underlying invention generally relates to the field of mobile computing in a networking environment with distributed multimedia applications and technologies. More specifically, it is directed to the concept of the End-to-End Negotiation Protocol (E2ENP) phases, which enable a pre-negotiation (802, 804, 805), fast negotiation (806) and a fast, dynamic ... 07/21/05 - 20050157659 - Peer-to-peer cloud-split detection and repair methods A method for detecting and repairing cloud splits in a distributed system such as a peer-to-peer (P2P) system is presented. Nodes in a cloud maintain a multilevel cache of entries for a subset of nodes in the cloud. The multilevel cache is built on a circular number space, where each ... 07/14/05 - 20050152285 - Method, system and device for registering specific information to information unit having communications function, and information unit having communications function, and method and system for managing specific information Specific information is registered to only a sensor, which is arranged adjacently to a base unit, by way of a radio output from the base unit. The radio output is a faint radio wave for short-range communications by which the base unit can be communicable with only the sensor adjacently ... 07/14/05 - 20050152284 - Scalable abstraction of topology across domain boundaries Methods and systems are disclosed for scalable advertising of an abstracted form of an arbitrary network of nodes and links to external nodes or networks. One or more phantom hub nodes can be used that are connected to at least one node, forming one or more virtual network topology representing ... 07/14/05 - 20050152283 - Wireless device discovery Methods and apparatus for discovering wireless peripheral devices utilizing wireless broadcasts at multiple power levels. A first data packet containing identification information associated with the wireless device is broadcast by that wireless device. The identification information contains at least a location and a functionality of the wireless device. After broadcasting ... 06/30/05 - 20050141438 - Method and system for the automatic configuration of an appliance in a communications network A method for automatically establishing a configuration of a communication appliance functioning with a subscriber identification card in a communication network. The configuration of the appliance is established via the network, following the detection and communication of its identifier over the network by means of the card. The method includes ... 06/30/05 - 20050141437 - System and method for discovering wavelengths in network elements having an optical architecture A system and method of wavelength discovery in network elements having an optical architecture. In one embodiment, a first wavelength topology map is generated for wavelengths inserted in a first direction at each network element. A second wavelength topology map is generated for wavelengths inserted in a second direction at ... 06/23/05 - 20050135273 - Data management system and method for propagating product manufacturing information to disparate information systems A data management system is provided that is designed to automatically propagate changes in information related to a product being designed or manufactured. The product information may be stored in a central location such as a central data base. According to the invention, product information may be transferred to remote ... 06/23/05 - 20050135272 - Method for setting up a logical connection between non-adjacent initial and final nodes in a telecommunications network This invention relates to a Method for setting up a logical connection between non-adjacent initial node (Ni) and final node (Nf) in a telecommunications network (T), the method comprising determination of a spatial route (ROUTE1) comprising at least a so-called transit node (N1, N4, N6, N9) intermediate between the final ... 06/23/05 - 20050135271 - Network information setting method, network system and communication device Property information of a communication device is initialized in a second server when the communication device is connected to a control network to which a first server for storing key information and a second server for storing property information are connected. Key information necessary for security communication with respect to ... 06/23/05 - 20050135270 - Probing method for a multi-station network The invention relates to a method of operating a communication network, the network comprising a plurality of stations which are able to transmit data to and receive data from one another. The method comprises defining a first probing channel for the transmission of probe signals to other stations. Other stations ... 06/23/05 - 20050135269 - Automatic configuration of a virtual private network A system, an apparatus, and a method for automatically configuring a virtual private network. The system, apparatus, and method include providing virtual private network settings to the node in a common format for automatic exchange of information between networked devices. ... 06/23/05 - 20050135268 - Mesh networks with end device recognition An exemplary router performs actions including: receiving at least one certificate from an end device, the at least one certificate issued by another router; ascertaining if the other router is a member of a predetermined neighborhood; determining if the at least one certificate is valid; and if the other router ... 06/16/05 - 20050128960 - Method for determination of remote adapter and/or node liveness The determination of node and/or adapter liveness in a distributed network data processing system is carried out via one messaging protocol that can be assisted by a second messaging protocol which is significantly less susceptible to delay, especially memory blocking delays encountered by daemons running on other nodes. The switching ... 06/16/05 - 20050128959 - Communication terminal and program To enable a user of a communication terminal to note that the terminal has received data by data communication conducted in the background of a voice communication, easily and in the required time. After establishing a voice communication line between mobile phone 100-2, mobile phone 100-1 establishes a data communication ... 06/16/05 - 20050128958 - Protocol for wireless multi-hop ad-hoc networks The invention relates to the field of service provisioning in wireless peer-to-peer networks organized according to the store-and-forward messaging principle, in particular to a service discovery protocol for providing low-profile, low-overhead service discovery information needed for determining the availability of requested remote services in a wireless multi-hop ad-hoc network. ... 06/16/05 - 20050128957 - Communication apparatus, a communication control method, a communication control program and a recording medium storing the communication control program A communication apparatus can be easily adapted to perform communication according a new protocol. A communication management part determines whether or not the equipment is communicable according to a protocol supported by the communication apparatus. When the equipment is determined to be incapable of communicating with the communication apparatus according ... 06/02/05 - 20050117526 - Method for configuring and routing data within a wireless multihop network and a wireless network for implementing the same A method for configuring a wireless network comprised of a control node and a multiplicity of individual nodes includes the steps of logically organizing the network into a plurality of bands Bi, wherein each of the bands Bi includes a plurality of the individual nodes and is located a number ... 06/02/05 - 20050117525 - Peer discovery Upon initial connection of a peer to a peer-to-peer network, the peer notifies other peers of its connection to the network. The peer receives existence notifications from other peers and may use them to create a list of the peers on the network, which may be sorted by the unique ... 06/02/05 - 20050117524 - Method for performing handoff in wireless network priority A method for minimizing handoff latencies when a handoff is performed in a wireless network. An access point (AP) or base station associated to a current wireless station (STA) allows information required for a reassociation to the STA to be propagated to handoff-capable neighboring APs or base stations. When the ... ### FreshPatents.com Support - Terms & Conditions |