Processing Of Address Header For Routing, Per Se

Processing Of Address Header For Routing, Per Se 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.

11/15/07 - 20070263629 - Techniques to generate network protocol units
A first logic offloads some network protocol unit formation tasks to a second logic. The first logic may request that data be transmitted using a Direct Data Placement (DDP) compatible network protocol unit. The first logic may provide the data as well as other information relevant to forming the DDP ...

11/15/07 - 20070263628 - Method and system for efficient routing in ad hoc networks
The present invention relates to a method for efficient routing in a multiple hop wireless communication network. The invention is characterized in that data packets are routed over transmission paths using the following steps providing link status information by acquiring link status quality between nodes in the network, updating a ...

11/08/07 - 20070258457 - Vpn composing method, interwork router, packet communication method, data communication apparatus, and packet relaying apparatus
A method serves to compose a VPN (Virtual Private Network) over a plurality of networks, each of which is managed by a different Internet Service Provider (ISP). When a packet with a first capsule header used for composing a VPN in a first ISP network is transmitted to a second ...

11/08/07 - 20070258456 - Network-based call interface device for real-time packet protocol calls
Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for applying features to packets in an order specified by a selected feature order template. By providing multiple feature order templates, a network device manufacturer can provide the user of the network device the ability to select ...

11/01/07 - 20070253420 - Backplane interface adapter
A backplane interface adapter for a network switch. The backplane interface adapter includes at least one receiver that receives input cells carrying packets of data; at least one cell generator that generates encoded cells which include the packets of data from the input cells; and at least one transmitter that ...

11/01/07 - 20070253417 - Address translation in a communication system
A controller for a communications system comprises an input and an output for communicating with nodes connected to the communications system. The controller is provided with a processor for determining presence of an address translator entity between a first node and a second node. The controller is further configured for ...

10/25/07 - 20070248096 - System and program product for facilitating forwarding of data packets through a node of a data transfer network using multiple types of forwarding tables
Method, system and program product are provided for reducing size of memory required for a switching node's forwarding table by employing forwarding tables of different types to map received data packets addressed to downstream nodes and upstream nodes to appropriate output ports of the switching node. The method includes receiving ...

10/25/07 - 20070248092 - System and method for efficient traffic distribution in a network
A plurality of data messages is received. Each of the data messages has an associated source address and a destination address. A data link is selected to transfer each of the data messages based upon the source address and destination address of the data message. The data link is selected ...

10/25/07 - 20070248091 - Methods and apparatus for tunnel stitching in a network
An edge router (disposed between a packet-switched network and a label-switching network) is configured to receive an IKE message originating from a client on the Internet (e.g., packet-switched network) attempting to set up a tunnel. Upon receipt of the IKE message, the edge router utilizes a unique identifier in the ...

10/25/07 - 20070248090 - Virtual inline configuration for a network device
A performance enhancing proxy network device is configured to operate in a virtual inline mode, in which selected network traffic is redirected to and through the network device by a router using simple routing policies. In this way, the network device can be coupled to the router in series but ...

10/25/07 - 20070248089 - Systems and methods for incorporating information corresponding to an end-to-end transmission in determining access to a communication medium
Systems and methods for incorporating information corresponding to an end-to-end transmission in determining access to a communication medium include: receiving a first data packet, said first data packet comprising information corresponding to a destination node; determining an intermediate node for said first data packet; and transmitting, to said intermediate node, ...

10/18/07 - 20070242673 - Methods of allocating packets in a wireless communication system
In a wireless communication system, a multi-source data multiplexing system (e.g., a media access control (MAC)) accepts information packets from a plurality of signal sources, evaluates the relative efficiencies of data transmission, and transmits the information packets in provided grant regions for maximum efficiency. The multi-source data multiplexing system may ...

10/18/07 - 20070242672 - Unlicensed mobile access (uma) communications using decentralized security gateway
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate efficient routing of unlicensed mobile access (UMA) communications. In one implementation, a method of providing a communication link between a first mobile station and a second mobile station through a customer premises equipment (CPE) device includes intercepting a call setup request provided by ...

10/18/07 - 20070242671 - Method and apparatus for routing data packets between different internet communications stack instances
A computer system contains multiple Internet communications stack instances, which may or may not share a common hardware network adapter. Packets are routed between different Internet communications stack instances internally within the computer system using Internet Protocol (IP) addressing. A packet arriving in one stack and having a destination IP ...

10/11/07 - 20070237153 - Topology and routing model for a computer network
Various embodiments of a system and method related to a topology and routing model for a peer-to-peer network are disclosed. A plurality of nodes may be coupled to each other to form a peer-to-peer network. A routing table may be created on each node in the peer-to-peer network. Each node ...

10/11/07 - 20070237152 - Path searching system using multiple groups of cooperating agents and method thereof
A path searching system (10) based on ACO with a graph generator (12), a path-searching engine (14), a storage medium (16), and a path optimizer (18). Output (20) of the system (10) is an optimal path containing a list of nodes and node links from a start node to a ...

10/11/07 - 20070237151 - Reordering sequence based channels
System for reordering packet segments in a switching network. A system is provided for reordering packet segments in a packet switch network, wherein a plurality of source processors transmit the packet segments to a destination processor via one or more network fabrics. The system comprises encoder logic at each source ...

10/11/07 - 20070237149 - Mining data for services
Generally described, the present invention provides the ability to process digital voice conversations to identify data packets containing content of interest and to further process the identified data packets. More specifically, mining profiles may be developed identifying particular types of content that is to be mined and further identifying what ...

10/11/07 - 20070237148 - Method for ip routing when using dynamic vlans with web based authentication
A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing IP Routing when using dynamic virtual local area networks (VLANs) with web based authentication. A downstream VLAN is assigned to a first switch port of a first network device. A first upstream VLAN is also assigned to the first switch port ...

10/11/07 - 20070237147 - System and method for selectively applying a service to a network packet using a preexisting packet header
A system for selectively applying a service to a packet in a network. In a specific embodiment, the system includes a mechanism for encoding service information in a network-compatible packet header and providing encoded data in response thereto. In a more specific embodiment, the network-compatible header includes a Multi-Protocol Label ...

10/11/07 - 20070237146 - Methods and apparatus for modeling and synthesizing packet processing pipelines
Methods and apparatus are provided for modeling and synthesizing circuits for packet processing that transform one or more fields of a packet. A circuit for packet processing that transforms one or more fields of a packet is modeled by representing the transformation using a packet editing graph having at least ...

10/11/07 - 20070237145 - Comparison based authentication in rtp
A method of authenticating a communications between a sender and a receiver includes agreeing, by a sender and receiver, on a shared secret, computing a first sequence of numbers at the sender using the shared secret, and computing a second sequence of numbers at the receiver using the shared secret. ...

10/11/07 - 20070237144 - Transporting authentication information in rtp
A method of transporting authentication information in a media stream packet includes embedding the authentication information in one of a heading and a payload of the media stream packet. ...

10/11/07 - 20070237143 - System and method for demultiplexing different stream types in a programmable transport demultiplexer
In one embodiment, there is presented a method for processing data. The method comprises receiving a plurality of packets, wherein each packet comprises a payload, and wherein the plurality of packets carry video data encoded in accordance with an encoding standard from a plurality of encoding standards; identifying encoding standards ...

10/04/07 - 20070230474 - Local routing system and method
A communication network element determines a service provider's routing preference for routing communications and routes these communications from an originating connection address to a destination connection address over a network. The communication network element includes a receiver configured to receive a signal, which comprises the originating connection address and the ...

10/04/07 - 20070230472 - Method and apparatus for learning vrrp backup routers
A method and apparatus for learning the identity of VRRP backup router(s) for a VRRP master router enables the identity of VRRP backup routers to be determined quickly on demand, or enables a table of VRRP master and backup routers to be established over time. A VRRP query message type ...

10/04/07 - 20070230469 - Transmission apparatus
A disclosed searching unit searches learning tables corresponding to ports other than a first port that receives a first packet using a source address and a destination address of the first packet whose source address and destination address are not registered in a first learning table corresponding to the first ...

10/04/07 - 20070230468 - Method to support mobile devices in a peer-to-peer network
A method for managing communications between or among nodes of a P2P network includes establishing a node ID, an IP address and a node type for each respective node to be joined or linked to the P2P network, the node type including at least a fixed node type or a ...

10/04/07 - 20070230467 - Method and system for packet-based tandem free operation
A method and system are provided for enabling packet-based tandem free operation C(FO). In one example, the method includes monitoring packets sent between network elements to identify a TFO request message and a TFO acknowledgement message. A substitute TFO acknowledgement message is sent from an intermediate network element if no ...

09/27/07 - 20070223482 - Port packet queuing
A port queue includes a first memory portion having a first memory access time and a second memory portion having a second memory access time. The first memory portion includes a cache row. The cache row includes a plurality of queue entries. A packet pointer is enqueued in the port ...

09/27/07 - 20070223481 - Systems and methods of network monitoring
Systems and methods of network monitoring are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving a first packet, creating a filter instance if the first received packet matches a filter template, receiving a second packet, and storing the second received packet if the second received packet matches the created filter instance. The ...

09/27/07 - 20070223480 - Inter-domain router comprising a module for determining route aggregation
The invention relates to an inter-domain router (R), for an Internet Protocol (IP) communications network, comprising: (i) processing means (MT) for generating as a function of routing data outgoing messages intended for other routers which comprise information data representative of routes for routing IP datagrams and (ii) control means (MC) ...

09/27/07 - 20070223479 - Communication processing apparatus and totalizing system
A communication processing apparatus appends group information representing a group to received communication frames. Group information to be appended to the communication frames is changed on a predetermined cycle. The communication frames processed in each processing unit are counted separately for each of the group information appended, and the count ...

09/27/07 - 20070223478 - First-arrival learning method, repeater, and computer product
When a packet arrives, a packet processing unit judges whether coincident information is present in an identity information table. When no coincident information is present, the packet processing unit registers the entire packet, a hash value of the entire packet, a predetermined part of the packet, or a hash value ...

09/27/07 - 20070223477 - Packet recognizer with hardware/software tradeoff
Techniques that enable a design tradeoff between performing packet recognition in hardware and software. A packet recognizer according to the present teachings includes a hardware portion having a functionality that is selected in response to a tradeoff in a relative complexity of the hardware portion and a software portion of ...

09/27/07 - 20070223476 - Establishing directed communication based upon physical interaction between two devices
A method and system for establishing communication with a device is provided. Aspects of an exemplary embodiment include detecting, at a first device, a physical interaction between the first device and a second device; determining a network address usable for establishing communication between the first and second devices based on ...

09/20/07 - 20070217423 - Method and device for apping the payload data of multimedia connections in a packet network
In one aspect of the invention, audio and video user data are separated. The audio user data is conducted via a TDM loop, where it is tapped and the video user data is fed to the recipient via the packet network, the separated audio and video user data are then ...

09/20/07 - 20070217422 - Network communication monitoring system, network communication monitoring method, central apparatus, relay unit, and memory product for storing a computer program
The central apparatus obtains the destination information of a plurality of terminal devices, generates one request packet consolidating the obtained plural destination information, and transmits the generated one request packet. The relay unit receives one request packet, generates a plurality of request packets on the basis of the consolidated destination ...

09/20/07 - 20070217420 - Method and apparatus for distributing labels in a label distribution protocol multicast network
A method of distributing labels in a label distribution protocol multicast network having a root node and at least one leaf node comprises the steps, performed at a receiving node, of receiving a label and path vector from a distributing node, carrying out loop or convergence detection from the received ...

09/20/07 - 20070217419 - Technique for efficiently routing ip traffic on ce-ce paths across a provider network
A technique efficiently routes Internet Protocol (IP) traffic on paths between customer edge devices (CEs) across a provider network (“CE-CE paths”) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a path computation element (PCE), e.g., a provider edge device (PE), may learn dynamic link attribute information of remote links ...

09/20/07 - 20070217418 - Contact priority reordering
A method is disclosed that provides a way to manage the registrations of telecommunications endpoints, and to prioritize those registered endpoints, or “contacts,” that belong to a user, without some of the disadvantages in the prior art. The technique of the illustrative embodiment, which is referred to as “contact priority ...

09/13/07 - 20070211723 - Mobile network device multi-link optimizations
Methods and apparatus for performing optimizations for a mobile network device such as a Mobile Node or Mobile Router supporting multiple links to a Home Agent (or Correspondent Node in a Mobile IPv6 environment) are disclosed. During the registration process, link characteristics are transmitted in the registration request. From the ...

09/06/07 - 20070206599 - Priority content addressable memory (pcam)
A priority content addressable memory (PCAM) may store entries associated with a corresponding priority data. The PCAM may store a new entry in an available space in the memory without re-ordering the entries. Such an approach may enhance the system performance. Also, a network device may comprise multiple PCAMs for ...

09/06/07 - 20070206597 - Methods and apparatus for providing an enhanced dynamic multipoint virtual private network architecture
A system transmits, to a hub from a first spoke, first routing information associated with the first spoke. The system receives, at the first spoke, from the hub, second routing information associated with a plurality of spokes in communication with the hub. The plurality of spokes includes a second spoke. ...

08/30/07 - 20070201479 - Prefix and ip address management scheme for router and host in network system
In a network system formed by one or a plurality of hosts having a function for accessing Internet, and a router for connecting each host and the Internet through an accessing communication path of a provider, two types of IP address including first type IP addresses and second type IP ...

08/30/07 - 20070201478 - Mpoa system and its shortcut communication control method, and shortcut communication control program
An MPOA system for establishing communication by using layer 3 protocol on an ATM network, in which data about the layer 3 address of a source of data packets is added to an address resolution request packet which is transmitted in order to establish a shortcut VCC toward a destination ...

08/30/07 - 20070201476 - Single stage pointer and overhead processing
A method and system for providing single stage pointer and overhead processing is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, data including bytes of each of multiple types of overhead data is received at a logical element of a communications network. The logical element includes a labeler to ...

08/30/07 - 20070201471 - Fabric channel control apparatus and method
A method for receiving packet data at a communication channel and transmitting the packet data over serial links of the communication channel. The packet data is sliced into n-bit data portions which are concatenated with a header prior to transmitting an n-bit portion across one of the serial links of ...

08/30/07 - 20070201470 - Fast database migration
A system, method, and computer readable medium for fast database migration, that comprises, establishing a socket connection directly between intelligent processor unit nodes of the originating system and the terminating system, transferring home location register static data for the subscriber via the socket connection, wherein the home location register static ...

08/23/07 - 20070195780 - Dynamic building of vlan interfaces based on subscriber information strings
Techniques are described that allow a network device, such as a router, to dynamically build VLAN interfaces based on subscriber information strings included within packets. In particular, the network device comprises an interface controller and a forwarding controller, where the forwarding controller receives the packet over an Ethernet port and ...

08/23/07 - 20070195779 - Content-based policy compliance systems and methods
Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors to filter communications of users in accordance with content-based policy. ...

08/23/07 - 20070195778 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture
An architecture for a line card in a network routing device is provided. The line card architecture provides a bi-directional interface between the routing device and a network, both receiving packets from the network and transmitting the packets to the network through one or more connecting ports. In both the ...

08/23/07 - 20070195777 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture
An architecture for a line card in a network routing device is provided. The line card architecture provides a bi-directional interface between the routing device and a network, both receiving packets from the network and transmitting the packets to the network through one or more connecting ports. In both the ...

08/23/07 - 20070195776 - System and method for channeling network traffic
A method for channeling network traffic is described, which includes identifying, with an agent disposed within a client computer of the network, a portion of the network traffic associated with the client computer that has compliance related interest. The identified compliance interesting traffic portion is encapsulated with a header. Apart ...

08/23/07 - 20070195775 - Method and system for filtering packets within a tunnel
A system for filtering packets includes a first router, a second router, and a packet filter. The first router encapsulates a packet and transmits the encapsulated packet to the packet filter through a first tunnel. The packet filter receives the encapsulated packet through the first tunnel and de-encapsulates the encapsulated ...

08/23/07 - 20070195774 - Systems and methods for access port icmp analysis
Systems and methods perform analysis of ICMP packets received at a network device port to determine if the ICMP packet is valid and thus should be forwarded. One aspect of the systems and methods includes configuring a port to be a trusted port in which any type of ICMP message ...

08/23/07 - 20070195773 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture
An architecture for a line card in a network routing device is provided. The line card architecture provides a bi-directional interface between the routing device and a network, both receiving packets from the network and transmitting the packets to the network through one or more connecting ports. In both the ...

08/16/07 - 20070189295 - Relay information setting method and relay information setting device
The present invention improves the reliability and safety of communication in a communications system wherein communication is relayed. When an on-premise terminal 100 sets relay information, such as NAT information or the setting information of a packet filter, in a gateway 110, the relay information is set after confirming whether ...

08/16/07 - 20070189294 - Methods and apparatus for signaling between independent control networks
An apparatus which enables first and second signaling networks to communicate with one another via one or more proxies. Each respective proxy can edit a received message and translate an included address to an address associated with a receiving signaling network. ...

08/16/07 - 20070189293 - Qos guarantee system in multidomain network and qos server applied to the same
Disclosed is a QoS guaranteeing method on a network path across a plurality of domains, among QoS servers linking the domains included in each of a plurality of domains, the QoS server included in the domain defined as a QoS guaranteeing resource request source performing the steps of generating a ...

08/16/07 - 20070189292 - Bandwidth estimation of an underlying connection-oriented transport connection from higher layers
Estimating bandwidth of a transport connection from higher layers. In an embodiment, the bandwidth is estimated as a function of the window size, the time taken to transfer a transport payload of window size from the sender system to the receiver system, and a conclusion indicating whether the window size ...

08/09/07 - 20070183426 - Method and system for optimizing performance and availability of a dynamic host configuration protocol (dhcp) service
A method and system for monitoring and optimizing performance and availability of a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service provided by one or a plurality of DHCP servers (602) in an Internet Protocol (IP) network comprising one or a plurality of IP subnetworks. The method comprises in a DHCP server ...

08/09/07 - 20070183425 - Logical separation and accessing of descriptor memories
A packet header processing engine includes a memory having a number of distinct portions for respectively storing different types of descriptor information for a header of a packet. A packet header processing unit includes a number of pointers corresponding to the number of distinct memory portions. The packet header processing ...

08/09/07 - 20070183424 - Lan access by ultra-wideband system and method
An ultra-wideband (UWB) system and method provide a local area network (LAN) and/or LAN access. LAN access versions of the UWB system includes an emulator layer and bridge that allow data to be transmitted between a LAN-UWB hybrid device and a LAN network switch, such as an IEEE 802 network ...

08/02/07 - 20070177600 - Traffic control method, apparatus, and system
Flow information of excessive traffic detected by a traffic monitor of a packet forwarding apparatus is entirely delivered to a manager server. By combining input/output port information of the flow and topology information, the manager server calculates from where the flow is inputted and to where the flow is outputted. ...

08/02/07 - 20070177598 - Communication conditions determination method, communication conditions determination system, and determination apparatus
A communication conditions determination method, a communication conditions determination system, and a determination apparatus are provided in which the conditions of communication which is performed through a plurality of communication networks are determined without setting up a special apparatus on all the communication networks and without increasing the existing traffic. ...

08/02/07 - 20070177597 - Ethernet connection-based forwarding process
The Ethernet connection-based forwarding process is a system and method of establishing a pre-determined transmission path before communicating frames of data over an Ethernet connection. The present invention supports reserving resources on each of the Ethernet switches which may be on a desired communications path while setting up the connection ...

08/02/07 - 20070177596 - System and method for generating route target attributes
A system for, and method of, generating a minimum quantity of route target attributes is described. According to a method embodiment, a minimal set of unique permutations of data flows between sites of one or more Virtual Private Network (VPNs) is computed by comparing permutations of data flows to and ...

08/02/07 - 20070177595 - Dtv decoding system and de-multiplexing method thereof
A header information parsing and extracting method for a DTV decoding system is provided. A transport stream comprising a plurality of PES packets is received. At least one field of PES headers or headers within ES is selectively extracted from the transport stream to a programmable table. The access units ...

07/26/07 - 20070171910 - Peer-to-peer communication in ad hoc wireless network
For a peer-to-peer call in an ad hoc wireless network, a wireless device performs discovery of a target wireless device, performs authentication of the target wireless device and generates a session key (e.g., using a pre-shared key or a certificate provisioned on the wireless device), forms an ad hoc wireless ...

07/26/07 - 20070171909 - Centralized wireless qos architecture
A QoS mechanism that evaluates congestion in one or more network nodes along the wireless delivery path to optimize the processing priority at the centralized wireless network controller. The QoS mechanism determines an idealized processing time for a given client packet, within a rich set of configurable QoS attributes, for ...

07/19/07 - 20070165639 - Method and apparatus for managing delivery of stream data
This invention is to cope with users requesting the delivery of stream data, flexibly. In this invention, a user terminal requesting the delivery of the stream data is used as a node in a delivery tree whose root is a delivery source device connected to a camera, and relays the ...

07/19/07 - 20070165638 - System and method for routing data over an internet protocol security network
A method of routing data over an Internet Protocol security (IPSec) network, the method comprising: receiving packets for transmission over the IPSec network, controlling the order of processing of the packets, determining whether each packet requires security features, feeding of the packets to a post-queue line interface module according to ...

07/19/07 - 20070165637 - Method and device for processing real-time data
A method and a device are disclosed for processing data packets which comprise real-time data packets. The data packets are classified first by a co-processor unit into at least one first data packet type comprising real-time data packets, and a second data packet type. The data packets of the first ...

07/12/07 - 20070160050 - Diagnostic mechanism for layer 2 and layer 3 networks
A diagnostic apparatus and method for a network includes a sender configuring a time to live (TTL) field in a packet to include an integer value greater than zero, configuring and extending an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) message to include a Media Access Control (MAC) address and an Internet ...

07/05/07 - 20070153798 - System and method for prioritization of traffic through internet access network
A method is provided for ensuring that specific traffic flows are adequately prioritized in a public packet communication network even when the network is heavily congested. Per-flow QoS capability is added to VPN tunnels. Connection requests are routed through a specific port in an access provider's network to designated VPN ...

07/05/07 - 20070153797 - Segmentation interleaving for data transmission requests
Some embodiments discussed herein may interleave one data transmission request with one or more segments of another data transmission request. In one embodiment, updated context information from a previous segment is used to transmit a next segment. ...

07/05/07 - 20070153796 - Packet processing utilizing cached metadata to support forwarding and non-forwarding operations on parallel paths
In some embodiments a network processor is described that includes cache to store metadata for individual packets. The cached metadata is utilized separately for forwarding and non-forwarding based functional units so that the forwarding and non-forwarding operations can be segregated. The cached metadata may be maintained after an associated individual ...

07/05/07 - 20070153795 - Dynamic wide area network packet routing
Methods, apparatuses, articles of manufacture, and systems for creating on a first router a first local route segment, notifying a second router of the first local route segment, receiving by the second router the notification, receiving by the second router a packet destined for a computing device coupled to the ...

06/28/07 - 20070147383 - Communication device
A communication device includes a receiving unit, a setting storage unit that stores information to represent a source address of a packet to be discarded, a discard determination unit that determines whether a packet received by the receiving unit should be discarded based on the information stored in the setting ...

06/28/07 - 20070147382 - Method of storing pattern matching policy and method of controlling alert message
A method of storing a pattern matching policy and a method of controlling an alert message are provided. The method includes (a) generating a content structure as a sub-structure of a header combination structure of a stored traffic pattern which is a policy to be newly applied to a pattern ...

06/28/07 - 20070147381 - Method and device for transfer of data over a data connection from a sender to a receiver by means of packets
In a method and device for transfer of data over a data connection from a transmitter to a receiver by means of packets, repetition packets with respect to predetermined packets are transmitted given free transfer capacity The packets and their corresponding repetition packets comprise an identifier by use of which ...

06/28/07 - 20070147380 - Systems and methods for implementing protocol-aware network firewall
A method may include receiving a first packet; determining, in a first processor, whether the first packet meets a criterion to be forwarded to a destination indicated in the first packet; receiving a second packet; determining whether the second packet is of a type for changing the criterion and sending ...

06/28/07 - 20070147379 - Network interface controlling lock operation in accordance with advanced extensible interface protocol, packet data communication on-chip interconnect system including the network interface, and method of operating the network interface
A packet data communication on-chip interconnect system is provided including a network interface efficiently controlling a transaction performed between at least one master intellectual property (IP) block and at least one slave IP block connected via a Network on a Chip (NoC). According to an aspect of the present invention, ...

06/28/07 - 20070147378 - Ip encapsulation with exposed classifiers
When a virtual private network (VPN) connection is made, an internet protocol (IP) packet is encrypted and encapsulated within an outer IP packet. Quality-of-service information is placed in the outer packet header that includes classifiers that refer to the encrypted packet. ...

06/28/07 - 20070147377 - Communications methods and apparatus using physical attachment point identifiers
Methods and apparatus for routing messages between an end node and an access node via another access node are described. Physical layer identification information is used when identifying a remote, e.g., adjacent, access node as a message destination. Thus, when a connection identifier based on one or more physical layer ...

06/28/07 - 20070147376 - Router-assisted ddos protection by tunneling replicas
A method for protecting a victim includes locating at least one router, providing a set of addresses associated with at least one replica and a victim to each of the at least one router, intercepting a request packet sent from a requesting source to the victim by one of the ...

06/21/07 - 20070140251 - Method for implementing a virtual private network
A method for implementing VPN, including: configuring a static label for a VPN corresponding to a CE connected with a first PE; configuring, in a second PE static routes for reaching a network entity connected with the CE, the destination address of the static route is the network entity address, ...

06/21/07 - 20070140250 - Shared application inter-working with virtual private networks
A method of providing a shared application infrastructure simultaneously to multiple independent virtual private networks with potentially overlapping IP addresses, involves connecting to an underlying layer 1, 2 or 3 virtual private network offering one or more virtual private networks, determining which virtual private network traffic is being received from ...

06/21/07 - 20070140249 - Processor comprising components
In processors (1) comprising components (11, 21) that comprise application parts (12, 22) and Internet Protocol processing parts (13, 23) for processing Internet Protocol information, the components (11, 21) are provided with Ethernet parts (14, 24) for processing Ethernet information and the processor (1) is provided with a bridge component ...

06/21/07 - 20070140248 - Method for transmitting message in a resilient packet ring network
A method for transmitting packets in an RPR includes: pre-setting an MAC table having an item which is a corresponding relationship between the node MAC address and the UE MAC address of each node; an RPR node receiving an insert packet, performing the MAC table lookup, deciding whether an item ...

06/21/07 - 20070140247 - Inter-fe mpls lsp mesh network for switching and resiliency in softrouter architecture
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Path (LSP) tunnels provide protection and a switching mechanism between forwarding elements (FEs) and a control element (CE) for control and data traffic in a SoftRouter network. ...

06/21/07 - 20070140246 - Dynamic quality of service (qos) provisioning in wireless networks
A method, apparatus and/or system for communicating in a wireless network may dynamically create and/or delete a medium access control (MAC) quality of service (QoS) connection in a wireless link between a base station and a mobile station. Each wireless base station in the network may have an integrated session ...

06/14/07 - 20070133550 - Associative memory having a mask function for use in a network router
When one or more storage data are coincident with single search data (12), an associative memory (1) carries out logical sum for all of storage data with a valid state for storage data as true. The result of logical sum is used as matched data logical-OR information. In a primary ...

06/14/07 - 20070133549 - Apparatus and method for managing traffic using vid in epon
An apparatus and method for managing traffic using a VID in EPON are provided. The apparatus includes a MAC lookup table, a service classification policy table, a service control policy table, a MAC lookup unit, a first and second classification module, a VID learning unit and a first and second ...

06/14/07 - 20070133548 - Transmission apparatus having a plurality of network interfaces and transmission method using the same
A transmission apparatus having a plurality of network interfaces and a transmission method using a plurality of the network interfaces are provided. The transmission apparatus includes: a session information extraction unit which extracts session information of an IP packet; a network interface determination unit which determines a network interface associated ...

06/14/07 - 20070133547 - Method for providing qos using flow label in providing multimedia service in ipv6 network and system applying the same
Provided is a QoS providing method using a flow label in providing multimedia service in an IPv6 network and a system applying the same. According to the method, a signal connection server extracts session information from a communication request response signal transmitted from a destination in response to a communication ...

06/14/07 - 20070133546 - Method for providing qos using address system and system resolution protocol
Provided is a method for providing quality of service (QoS) in a network including multiple nodes using an address system and an address resolution protocol (ARP). The method includes, at a current node, receiving a service request packet from a previous node using the address system and the ARP, checking ...

06/14/07 - 20070133545 - Bridging device and method and computer readable medium for controlling the same
A bridging device, and a method and computer readable medium for controlling the bridging device, wherein the bridging device stores router identifying information and network prefix information contained in a router advertisement (RA) that is regularly sent from a router. When the stored router identifying information and network prefix information ...

06/14/07 - 20070133544 - Communication apparatus, communication system including the same, and method for setting ip address of communication apparatus
An communication apparatus relays communication between a network device and an IP network, and assigns an IP address within a reserved range of IP address to the network device. The communication apparatus includes an address setter that sets an IP address of the communication apparatus; and the address conflict determiner ...

06/14/07 - 20070133543 - Communication terminal device
A communication terminal device that carries out broadcast communication with a plurality of other ends, includes an entry accepting unit, a searching unit, a fixing unit, and a destination information storage unit. The entry accepting unit accepts entry of destination information designated by a user. The searching unit searches a ...

06/14/07 - 20070133542 - Locally administered mac address based method for selectively and efficiently identifying enhanced version nodes of standards
Embodiments of the invention provide a method for selectively identifying nodes implemented enhanced version of a standard by creating a random locally administered MAC address and advertising said random locally administered MAC address as the address that implies a particular amendment of a standard. ...

06/14/07 - 20070133541 - Multiplexing and demultiplexing apparatus for delivering mpeg-2 ts packet error signal through cablecard interface and multiplexing and demultiplexing method using the same
Provided are a multiplexing and demultiplexing apparatus and method for delivering an MPEG-2 TS packet error signal through a CableCARD interface. In the multiplexing apparatus, a TS packet reception unit receives TS packets, and a pre-header generation unit generates pre-headers corresponding to the received TS packets. A pre-header insertion unit ...

06/14/07 - 20070133540 - Method for measuring performance of mpls lsp
Provided is a method for measuring performance of a multi-protocol label switching label switched path (MPLS LSP), using a fast failure detection (FFD) packet among MPLS operation and management (OAM) packets recommended by International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication standardization sector (ITU-T) Y.1711 to detect a packet error generated in the MPLS LSP ...

06/14/07 - 20070133539 - Routing apparatus for supporting ipv6 anycast service and method thereof
A routing apparatus for supporting an IPv6 anycast service and a method thereof are provided. The anycast routing apparatus includes: a receiving unit receiving a neighbor discovery protocol (NDP) message; a routing entry unit adding or deleting a host route for an IPv6 anycast address and a neighbor entry for ...

06/14/07 - 20070133538 - Method and apparatus for implementing ipsec engine in ixdp2851
Provided are an apparatus and method for implementing an IPSec engine in IXDP2851. The apparatus for implementing an IPSec engine in IXDP2851 which is an IXP2850 network processor development platform, includes: a packet classifier/forwarding microblock classifying packets into an inbound packet and an outbound packet, using received packet information; determining ...

06/14/07 - 20070133537 - Leveraging active firewalls for network intrusion detection and retardation of attack
A computer network firewall or network filter functions normally to pass data on open ports to a respective service or data source associated with an open port. In addition, traffic arriving on closed ports may be directed to a handler for analysis and response. The handler may analyze and catalog ...

06/14/07 - 20070133536 - Method and apparatus for striping message payload data over a network
A method, an apparatus and a recording medium are provided for communicating message payload data, especially noncontiguous message data, from a first node of a network to a second node of the network in response to a request to transmit a message. Such method includes dividing the length of a ...

06/07/07 - 20070127488 - Transmission format, communication control apparatus and method, recording medium, and program
JPEG-2000 data is formatted into RTP packets for transmission through the Internet. A priority field is provided in the format, and a value indicating the importance of a code stream included in a packet is stored therein. A type field indicates a payload type of a JPEG-2000 code stream. An ...

06/07/07 - 20070127487 - Method for managing service bandwidth by customer port and epon system using the same
A method for managing a service bandwidth by a customer port and an EPON system using the same are provided. In order to manage the service bandwidth by a customer, ONU and ONT allocate a service class according to a combination of information about a customer that receives a service, ...

06/07/07 - 20070127486 - Pci express packet filter including descrambler
A packet detecting device used in a receiver employing PCI Express protocol is disclosed. The packet detecting device includes: a physical layer packet detecting unit for detecting a physical layer packet from a PCI express packet received and parallelized to 16 bit data through a physical deserializer; a descrambling unit ...

06/07/07 - 20070127485 - Apparatus and method for transmitting packet ip offload
Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting a packet on Internet Protocol (IP) offload. The apparatus includes: an IP header creating unit for creating an IP header; an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request header creating unit for creating an ARP request header; an ARP response header creating unit for ...

06/07/07 - 20070127484 - Data transfer operations and buffer memories
A method where a datastream is received via one bus, and then is temporarily stored in a buffer memory. The datastream includes overhead data and payload data. The payload data is transmitted via a second bus. The overhead information includes information about the amount of subsequent payload data and may ...

06/07/07 - 20070127483 - Network node with modular multi-stage packet classification
A network node able to receive, process and forward data packets, has a first stage data plane packet classifier (111) supporting basic services initially deployed and a later insertable second stage data plane packet classifier (121) supporting more advanced services deployed afterwards. ...

06/07/07 - 20070127482 - General purpose set theoretic processor
A general purpose processor architecture (methods and apparatuses) that can discern all subsets of a serial data stream which fulfill an arbitrarily complex reference pattern. The invention comprises an ordered set of Detection Cells conditionally interconnected according to the reference pattern and operationally controlling one another's states through the network. ...

06/07/07 - 20070127481 - Streaming service providing method and apparatus for p2p based network
A method and apparatus for providing a peer-to-peer (P2P) based streaming service are provided. The method provides a streaming service in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network comprising a plurality of peers. That is, a receiving peer requests a plurality of transmitting peers having contents for a streaming service among peers in ...

06/07/07 - 20070127480 - Method for implementing packets en-queuing and de-queuing in a network switch
A method for implementing packet en-queuing and de-queuing processes in a network switch is provided. The method comprises the following steps. First, an en-queuing process and a de-queuing process are divided into a plurality of en-queuing and de-queuing stages. The en-queuing process of a plurality of en-queued packets is then ...

06/07/07 - 20070127479 - A method and arrangement for distributed pseudo-wire signaling
The signaling for establishing a Pseudo Wire (PW) that crosses a Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network is augmented to permit decoupling the PW processing and encapsulation from a Provider Edge (PE) or Customer Edge (CE) router. Configuration of a PW triggers the augmented PW signaling that traverses from the ...

05/31/07 - 20070121637 - Message ring in a switching network
A switching network for efficiently receiving and transmitting data packets having both frames and messages includes a crossbar switch with a plurality of surrounding ports for exclusively switching frames which normally consist of large data streams of 40 to 60 bytes. Then the ports are connected together in a message ...

05/31/07 - 20070121636 - Apparatus and method for downlink packet scheduling in base station of a portable internet system
In a base station of an IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN-based portable Internet system, a forward packet scheduling method and apparatus is provided. The portable Internet system portable Internet service includes a user terminal AT for providing a portable Internet service, a base station AP for supporting an inter-user terminal wireless ...

05/31/07 - 20070121635 - Method of implementing association in automatic switched optical network (ason)
A method of implementing association in an Automatic Switched Optical Network. When an initial node of the 1+1 protection service is outside the ASON, it associates the primary service and the slave service to realize 1+1 protection. This invention includes: a node of a first associated service acquiring path information ...

05/31/07 - 20070121634 - System and method for distributing addresses
An apparatus, data structures, and method are provided for prioritizing data transmissions within a network. As applied to a switching station in a network, the method prioritizes transmissions from the network to determine which packets should be transmitted from the switching station first when multiple packets are routed to the ...

05/31/07 - 20070121633 - Active-active fibre channel capability in sata and sas devices
Active-active fibre channel capability in SAS and SATA apparatus and method is disclosed. In one embodiment, a storage device includes a dongle having a conversion module to translate between a fibre channel frame and a SATA frame and/or a SAS frame, and a data processing system to communicate through a ...

05/31/07 - 20070121632 - Method and system for routing an ip packet
Method for generating and thereafter updating a data structure used for routing Internet protocol data packets. Routing a packet is performed by using a destination address of the packet and an updatable set of prefix rules. A prefix rule may be added to a first-level table if the terminating level ...

05/31/07 - 20070121631 - System having an energy efficient network infrastructure for communication between distributed processing nodes
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for a data processing system having an efficient network communication infrastructure. The data processing system has a plurality of data processing nodes distributed across a network. Each node comprises a processor and a memory having an application and ...

05/24/07 - 20070116001 - Communication apparatus, communication system, and communication method
A communication apparatus is connected to a transmission host that generates a header and a packet body data for generating a packet, and performs a packet communication with outside via a network. A receiving unit receives the header and the packet body data from the transmission host in a separate ...

05/24/07 - 20070116000 - Communication terminal device, method, program, recording medium, and integrated circuit for use in communication network system
A communication terminal device of the present invention includes: a packet classification section 103 for classifying the packets by stream types and destinations; a packet accumulation section 104-107 for accumulating the packets classified by the packet classification section, so as to be separately stored based on classification by the stream ...

05/24/07 - 20070115999 - Methods for standardizing medical image information and applications for using the same
The present invention discloses a method for standardizing medical digital image information based on a desired format. The method for standardizing digital medical image information based on the required format in accordance with the present invention comprises transmitting medical image information to a conversion module and (a) if the transmitted ...

05/24/07 - 20070115998 - Method and software product for identifying network devices having a common geographical locale
A method and software product for identifying network devices having a common geographical locale. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods to associate a geographical location with network data including network edge address data and corresponding pivot data comprising storing network data with corresponding known geographical locations, subsequent ...

05/24/07 - 20070115997 - Virtual gateway
A virtual gateway bridges voice and related signaling traffic between multiple endpoints behind the same or different Network Address Translation devices or firewalls or neither. The virtual gateway also serves as a mixer when used in a teleconferencing mode, which handles a number of endpoints that are behind the same ...

05/24/07 - 20070115996 - Notification method, connection apparatus, communication method, and program
A UPnP device proxy apparatus (103) recognizes a device connected to a network (120) and transmits information regarding the recognized device to UPnP device proxy apparatus (101) The UPnP device proxy apparatus (101) receives the information transmitted from the UPnP device proxy apparatus (103) and transmits, based on the received ...

05/24/07 - 20070115995 - Noc system employing axi protocol and interleaving method thereof
A Network-on-Chip (NoC) system employing an Advanced extensible Interface (AXI) protocol is provided. The NoC includes an NoC router which classifies data transmitted from a plurality of AXI Intellectual Properties (IPs) according to a destination AXI IP, and a network interface (NI) which processes data from the NoC router and ...

05/24/07 - 20070115994 - Communication system and method
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a communication arrangement for distinguishing between network entities having the same address by translating between the same addresses and surrogate addresses using an intermediary network entity. ...

05/24/07 - 20070115993 - Method and apparatus for network deception/emulation
A number of innovations in the field of networking are disclosed. These techniques use multiple address translation to achieve effective deceptions, emulations, extended private networks and related goals. A further embodiment using a deception network having a number of different actual computer systems each performing emulation where deceived datagrams are ...

05/24/07 - 20070115992 - Architecture to enable keyboard, video and mouse (kvm) access to a target from a remote client
A keyboard, video and mouse over an Internet Protocol (IP) switch in which the master and target interfaces share the same IP address and access to the target interfaces from the client is via a Transmission Control Protocol/IP network. The master is able to determine into which switch port the ...

05/24/07 - 20070115991 - Multi-modal auto complete function for a connection
An apparatus, method, and system are directed to managing a multi-modal communication over a network. In one embodiment, the method, apparatus, and system employ an instant messaging client to perform actions. The actions may include receiving contact information associated with a plurality of communication mediums. The contact information includes contact ...

05/24/07 - 20070115990 - Method of providing an encrypted multipoint vpn service
A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing an encrypted multipoint Virtual Private Network (VPN) service is presented. A first packet of a plurality of packets is received at an ingress provider edge (PE) the plurality of packets destined for a remote server in communication with said egress PE ...

05/24/07 - 20070115989 - Support of unidirectional link in is-is without ip encapsulation and in presence of unidirectional return path
The present invention supports the operation of IS-IS over UDLs without the need for encapsulation of IS-IS PDUs in IP and without the need for a large-scale upgrade of the protocol in the network. The present invention also supports adjacency establishment when the return path from a router at the ...

05/24/07 - 20070115988 - Method and system for processing incoming packets in a communication network
A method and electronic device (104) for processing incoming packets in a communication network (100) is disclosed. The method includes filtering (302) incoming packets in real time by using a recent offender list (212). The method also includes classifying (304) the incoming packets as offending packets and non-offending packets in ...

05/24/07 - 20070115987 - Translating network addresses for multiple network interfaces
The present invention provides a method for translating network addresses for multiple network interfaces. The method includes accessing information indicative of a plurality of first addresses associated with a plurality of first network interfaces and forming a second address associated with the plurality of first addresses. ...

05/24/07 - 20070115986 - Method to perform exact string match in the data plane of a network processor
Methods for performing exact search string matches in the data plane of a network processor. The methods employ a two-stage string search mechanism to identify the existence of a search string from a set S in a packet payload. A first pre-processing stage identifies a potential search string match and ...

05/24/07 - 20070115985 - Ring lsp topology for supporting vpns over mpls-based networks
A communications system for transmitting packets includes a network. The system includes a plurality of P, PE and CE devices in communication with the network. The system includes a controller which creates an LSP through the PE devices defining a path such that the LSP starts and ends at the ...

05/24/07 - 20070115984 - Circuitry for determining network operations in a network device
A network processor for determining one or more network operations to be performed on a packet of data in a network comprises processing circuitry and protocol indicator circuitry. The packet of data contains information populating a plurality of protocol header fields. Moreover, the protocol indicator circuitry comprises a plurality of ...

05/24/07 - 20070115983 - Methods and system to offload data processing tasks
Via use of a shared data bus, a processor system offloads processing tasks. For example, a processor system communicates over a respective data bus with a data communication controller. After notifying the data communication controller of a particular block of data to retrieve, the processor system relinquishes control of the ...

05/24/07 - 20070115982 - Hashing algorithm for network receive filtering
Roughly described, a network interface device is assigned a maximum extent-of-search. A hash function is applied to the header information of each incoming packet, to generate a hash code for the packet. The hash code designates a particular subset of the table within which the particular header information should be ...

05/24/07 - 20070115981 - System and method for filtering communications at a network interface controller
A system and method and method for filtering communications at a network interface controller is provided. The network interface controller is coupled to a baseboard management controller through a sideband communications channel. The network interface controller filters packets to the baseboard management controller on the basis of the address within ...

05/24/07 - 20070115980 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for operating an electronic mail or messaging system in which information associated with an attachment is sent to a destination for evaluation before sending the attachment
An electronic mail/messaging system is operated by compiling information associated with an attachment for an electronic mail at a source. The information includes initial information and descriptive information. The initial information is sent to a destination. A determination is made whether the destination has a file that matches the attachment ...

05/24/07 - 20070115979 - Method and apparatus for managing subscriber profiles
Methods and apparatus for managing subscriber profiles in a network environment are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a connection request from a subscriber, wherein the subscriber is associated with a first-level profile identifier, and wherein more than one subscriber can be associated with the first-level profile ...

05/24/07 - 20070115978 - Communication apparatus, method of controlling communication apparatus and control program for communication apparatus
The invention realizes, utilizing a call control process according to SIP, detection of the condition of in terms of capableness/incapableness of receiving of the destination station and notification of restoration to a condition capable of receiving thereby eliminating troublesome operations such as telephonic communication etc. ...

05/24/07 - 20070115977 - Overhead reduction and address and protection in communication stack
The invention reduces addressing overhead for communication using a layered communication protocol. An improvement of the invention maintains security for the addressing information. ...

05/17/07 - 20070110069 - Method of blocking network attacks using packet information and apparatus thereof
A method of blocking network attacks using information included in a packet, and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes: receiving a packet containing information on the packet including at least information on a source from which the packet is sent, and information on a destination to which the ...

05/17/07 - 20070110068 - Reply communication apparatus and arp reply communication apparatus
A reply communication apparatus conforms to a protocol to return a reply electronic document in reply to a request electronic document sent from a communication apparatus. The apparatus has a hardware to perform a reply process in the protocol, and is operable to rewrite contents of the request electronic document ...

05/17/07 - 20070110067 - Mac forwarding method for multi-hop routing in communication system between vehicles
Provided is a Media Access Control (MAC) forwarding method for multi-hop routing in a communication system between vehicles. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving a frame from all nodes and checking whether there are duplicate frames; b) partly updating forwarding cache table (FCT) information, or updating SNT information ...

05/17/07 - 20070110066 - System and method for searching target devices within the same subnet
A system and method for searching target devices within the same subnet for connecting target devices to a master control device in a network. A first query packet is broadcasted by the master control device after being activated via the network to query the IP addresses of all target devices ...

05/17/07 - 20070110065 - Method and apparatus for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary steam data
Presented herein are system(s) for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary stream data. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for processing data. The system comprises a first circuit and a memory. The first circuit receives transport packets carrying the data. The memory stores data and comprises ...

05/10/07 - 20070104202 - Location privacy through ip address space scrambling
In a network, a router uses some secret information combined with a cryptographic process in determination of a subnet's routing prefix. Several methods are disclosed, including using an IP suffix for prefix generation and for decryption, maintaining a pool of pseudo prefixes at the router, using public key encryption and ...

05/10/07 - 20070104201 - Systems and methods for facilitating communication between communication devices
Systems and methods for facilitating communication between communication devices are provided. An exemplary method includes: sending an indication signal by a second communication device to a first communication device, the indication signal corresponding to a request to receive buffered data from the first communication device; and sending a data frame ...

05/10/07 - 20070104200 - Network device with routing function and policy route setting method thereof
A network device with routing function (10) includes a receiving module (100) for receiving packets, a routing module (140), a parsing module (120), and a policy route setting module (130). Each of the packets has a source IP address therein. The routing module includes a route table including a plurality ...

05/10/07 - 20070104199 - Efficient broadcast in wireless mesh networks
A method, apparatus and system for communicating in a wireless mesh network may entail receiving a multi-receiver single body broadcast (MRSSB) medium access control (MAC) frame at a mesh node. The MAC frame may include a multiple receiver address field, a previously addressed neighbor field and a message sequence number ...

05/10/07 - 20070104198 - Apparatus and method for providing a high availability network mechanish
A high availability network mechanism (100) is provided having a primary node (105) and at least one secondary node (120) utilizing Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (“VRRP”) compatible redundancy systems. The primary and secondary nodes (105 and 120) are associated with access routers (110 and 130, respectively) that are associated with ...

05/10/07 - 20070104197 - Propagating black hole shunts to remote routers with split tunnel and ipsec direct encapsulation
Remote routers are configured to block the return path to malicious websites with the use of split tunneling while allowing paths to third party resource websites. The iBGP protocol runs on the agent's router, advertises routes and enables the head-end to set up a policy at each remote router. Enterprise ...

05/03/07 - 20070097979 - Method and apparatus for improving performance of networking applications
A method for improving performance of networking applications which receive network data from a computer network and which are executable on any one of a plurality of data processing means. The proposed method comprises the steps of establishing a data transfer connection between a first data processing means of the ...

05/03/07 - 20070097978 - Stream data processor
A stream data processor includes a PES buffer for storing PES data, a decoder for retrieving the PES data from the PES buffer and decoding the PES data, a boundary detector for detecting a packet boundary of a PES packet of the PES data, and a packet analyzer for analyzing ...

05/03/07 - 20070097977 - Virtual private network and tunnel gateway with multiple overlapping, remote subnets
Local gateway support for multiple overlapping remote networks. The local gateway includes a pool of unique, internally routable system-wide addresses, an address bind table, a filter rules table, and a collection of security association databases. A plurality of overlapping connections are received at the local gateway from remote networks, each ...

05/03/07 - 20070097976 - Suspect traffic redirection
A system receives suspect traffic information pertaining to possible network threats. A router detects and redirects suspect traffic from within a subnetwork to an interrogation module. The interrogation module receives the redirected suspect traffic and identifies the source device from within the subnetwork. The interrogation module can also identify the ...

05/03/07 - 20070097975 - Service to push author-spoken audio content with targeted audio advertising to users
An audio content item, submitted by and spoken in a voice of an author, is received and registered along with an insertion point and associated content information. An audio advertisement submitted by an advertiser is received and registered. At least one targeting criterion is associated with the audio advertisement. User ...

05/03/07 - 20070097974 - Distributed border gateway protocol (bgp) route reflector system
A packet data router comprises one or more first circuit boards comprising one or more first processors and first logic circuits programmed to perform packet data forwarding and packet data router control plane functions; and one or more second circuit boards comprising one or more second processors and second logic ...

05/03/07 - 20070097973 - Method and apparatus for prioritized processing of routing information
A method is disclosed for prioritized processing of routing information in a network element. A priority is assigned to routing information received at the network element. The priority and the routing information are stored in a Routing Information Base (RIB) of the network element. The routing information is transferred from ...

05/03/07 - 20070097972 - Automatic vlan id discovery for ethernet ports
A method, system and network protocol that enables each host within a virtual local area network (VLAN) environment to automatically discover to which VLANs the host belongs. When a host initially sets up a communication interface, the host generates a series of probing packets, each including a different one of ...

04/26/07 - 20070091893 - Packet forwarding apparatus with packet controlling functions
A packet forwarding apparatus which quickly selects a plurality of control information entries to be applied according to header information of an input packet and concurrently performs various the header processing functions. The packet forwarding apparatus comprises a flow retrieval unit which compares header information of the input packet with ...

04/26/07 - 20070091892 - Method, system and apparatus for controlling the establishment of a data connection from an originating data device
According to embodiments of the present invention a method, system and apparatus for controlling the establishment of a data connection from an originating data device is disclosed. A computing apparatus, such as a server, receives a request from an originating data device, such as a fax machine, to establish a ...

04/19/07 - 20070086464 - Multi-service data transport architecture
An improved architecture for transmitting data from a plurality of sources to a plurality of destinations, wherein pieces of data directed to each destination are aggregated and transmitted periodically. In one embodiment, a plurality of ingress edge units and a plurality of egress edge units which are each coupled to ...

04/19/07 - 20070086463 - Method and apparatus for managing information for universal plug and play device
A method and apparatus for managing information regarding a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device when an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the UPnP device is changed are provided. In the method, a second address of the UPnP device is obtained from a message indicating the end of a first ...

04/19/07 - 20070086462 - Dynamic tunnel construction method for securely accessing to a private lan and apparatus therefor
There have been provided in the present invention a method for establishing a dynamic tunnel of securely accessing to a private LAN and apparatus therefor. In the method of the present invention, a source tunnel server is disposed on a routing device through which a source host receives/transmits IP data ...

04/19/07 - 20070086461 - Method for recovery of a controlled failover of a border gateway protocol speaker
A method and apparatus for recovering from a controlled failover of a BGP speaker is provided. A user sends, to a network element, a request to switch a designation of an active Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) speaker of the network element from a first BGP speaker to a second BGP ...

04/12/07 - 20070081537 - Method and system for delivering video content using internet protocol over a coaxial cable
Multicast information contained in a request from an IP TV set top box for video content to an IGMP manager is passed to an SA processor to perform a lookup of an SA table. A result of the lookup is the frequency of the downstream legacy channel over which the ...

04/12/07 - 20070081536 - Bit-stream processing/transmitting and/or receiving/ processing method, medium, and apparatus
A method, medium, and apparatus hierarchically coding/decoding audio data, such as bit sliced arithmetic coding (BSAC), such that payloads of audio data and extension data can be grouped and interleaved according to priority so that some groups of the payloads are dropped, and the remainder of groups are transmitted Therefore, ...

04/12/07 - 20070081535 - Method and system for implementing virtual router redundacy protocol on a resilient packet ring
A method for implementing Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) on a Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), including: setting an interface supporting a plurality of Medium Access Control (MAC) addresses for each RPR interface of network devices to constitute VRRP groups; classifying the RPR interfaces of network devices to constitute VRRP groups, ...

04/05/07 - 20070076721 - Method of processing traffic information and digital braodcast system
A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system and a method for processing data are disclosed. The method for processing data may enhance the receiving performance of the receiving system by performing additional coding and multiplexing processes on the traffic information data and transmitting the processed data. Thus, robustness is provided to the ...

04/05/07 - 20070076720 - Method for handling fault between an egress label switching router and a data device connected therewith
Disclosed is a method for handling fault between an Egress LSR and an Egress data device connected with it, including the following steps: an Egress Label Switching Router (LSR) transmitting fault information to an Ingress LSR after detecting a fault of an Egress Work link connected with it; the Ingress ...

04/05/07 - 20070076719 - Provider backbone bridging - provider backbone transport internetworking
An Ethernet virtual switched sub-network (VSS) is implemented as a virtual hub and spoke architecture overlaid on hub and spoke connectivity built of a combination of Provider Backbone Transport (spokes) and a provider backbone bridged sub-network (hub). Multiple VSS instances are multiplexed over top of the PBT/PBB infrastructure. A loop ...

04/05/07 - 20070076718 - Method and system for managing communication of router information
A method and apparatus for managing communication of router information in a network is disclosed. Consumers of the router information are determined on an interface in the network. The interface is set as a passive interface if no consumers are present on the interface. A passive interface is an interface ...

03/29/07 - 20070071007 - Decoupled header and packet processing in ipsec
An IPsec processor for performing IPsec processing of traffic packets is disclosed. The IPsec processor comprises a network processing module (500) and a hardware co-processing module (502) coupled to the network processing module (500) via an interface, the co-processing module (500) comprising a policy check processor (525), and a packet ...

03/29/07 - 20070071006 - Delivery of communications services in developing regions
A technique for delivering communications services to a large number of users employing relatively inexpensive, widely available handsets. More particularly, the technique utilizes a network apparatus that supports individual access to a community of users and supports access to a wireless communications system (e.g., any well-known Code Division Multiple Access ...

03/29/07 - 20070071005 - System and method for implementing asi over long distances
The present invention provides a system and method for utilizing the Advanced Switching network protocol to communicate over long distances, such as multiple kilometers. The present invention utilizes an existing status bit, referred to as the Perishable Bit, within the AS packet header, to reduce the number of packets which ...

03/22/07 - 20070064704 - Methods and systems for a distributed provider edge
Methods and Systems are provided for a distributed Provider Edge (PE). A single Virtual Routing and Forwarding device (VRF) is associated with a single customer site. The VRF includes a single routing table (RIB) and a single forwarding table (FIB). The VRF also includes a plurality of Virtual Private Network ...

03/22/07 - 20070064703 - Autonomous routing of network messages
Messages from a network are processed so that each received message is received in one of a plurality of message formats, the content of each message is determined, and a network destination to which the message will be directed is selected, based on the determined message content. The message can ...

03/22/07 - 20070064702 - Modifying operation of peer-to-peer networks based on integrating network routing information
A data processing method comprising establishing a first node in a peer-to-peer data communications network, wherein the node is configured as a supernode in conformance with a peer-to-peer communications protocol, wherein the first node is configured as an active listener to one or more network routing protocols executing at a ...

03/22/07 - 20070064701 - Wlan data reception method and device
A method and device receiving a WLAN signal in a receiver. The receiver comprises a receiving module and a controller module. The receiving module receives first data. The controller module coupled to the receiving module determines second data from the first data, and disables the receiving module if the second ...

03/22/07 - 20070064700 - Method and system for achieving spatial reuse over a resilient packet ring
A system, method and/or station that provides for spatial reuse over a resilient packet ring (RPR) network. A sublayer in a station on an RPR network tracks associations between MAC addresses of bridges on the RPR network and remote addresses in an association database. Frames addressed to a remote destination ...

03/22/07 - 20070064699 - Method and apparatus for arbitrating data packets in a network system
Techniques for routing data packets in a networked system. Specifically, a network system and methods of arbitrating data packets in a network system are provided. Switching devices are configured to receive one or more data packets, wherein each of the one or more data packets includes a respective source identification. ...

03/22/07 - 20070064698 - Method and apparatus for transferring bgp state information during asynchronous startup
A method of transferring application layer network information comprises the computer-implemented steps of electronically transferring, from a first electronic digital data processor to a second electronic digital data processor, one or more transport layer connections associated with one or more application layer sessions; creating and sending, to the second processor, ...

03/22/07 - 20070064697 - System, method and program for identifying source of malicious network messages
System, method and program for identifying a subset of a multiplicity of source networks. The subset including one or more source networks which have sent messages to one of a plurality of destination locations having a same IP address. For each of the multiplicity of source networks, a determination is ...

03/22/07 - 20070064696 - Method for automatically setting network
Disclosed is a method for automatically setting a network so that UPnP devices connected to a network composed of different IP segments can be communicated one another. The method comprises: receiving an event message transmitted from a device connected to a network; requesting a routing table to all devices connected ...

03/15/07 - 20070058634 - Interaction with wireless sensor devices
A client node is communicatively coupled to a gateway node via a TCP/IP network. One or more constrained devices that include a wireless receiver/transmitter circuit communicate with the gateway node via a wireless network. The gateway node includes a web server that provides a dynamic web page accessible by the ...

03/15/07 - 20070058633 - Configurable network connection address forming hardware
An apparatus and method are provided for extracting connection information from a traffic header in a communications network. The apparatus includes a first storage element containing a first look-up table for determining a first data packet header offset and data size for extracting a communications protocol type from the header ...

03/15/07 - 20070058632 - Packet flow bifurcation and analysis
Methods and apparatus for optimum matching of a traffic profile with an individual traffic flow using flow bifurcation and analysis. Bifurcation and duplication of packets that make up a flow received at an ingress element are forwarded to each of egress traffic and computation processor resources, such that egress traffic ...

03/15/07 - 20070058631 - Distributed network management
Hosts or end-systems residing at the edges of a network gather data about the traffic they transmit into and receive from the network. The network's routing protocol (typically a link-state protocol such as OSPF) is monitored and routing data or packets are used to recover the network's current status and ...

03/08/07 - 20070053361 - Method and an apparatus for resource admission control process
A method for resource admission control process, an Access-Resource and Admission Control Function entity and a Service-based Policy Decision Function entity, wherein the method includes: sending an Admission Request message, which carries the current media stream address information, to an Access-Resource and Admission Control Function entity (A-RACF) in an originating ...

03/08/07 - 20070053360 - Method of reducing power consumption of network connection apparatus and apparatus for same
There is provided a network connection apparatus including a plurality of line connection parts 201 connected to network lines 111 to transmit and receive packets, a transmission destination decision part 104 for deciding a transmission destination on the basis of header information of packet received by a first one of ...

03/08/07 - 20070053359 - Recovery from control plane failures in the ldp signally protocol
The invention provides a distributed back-up mechanism and a two-step method for facilitating fast control plane recovery in a switched network network. In a preferred embodiment, a Label Information Database (LID) maintained at a control node of a GMPLS network is mirrored to an upstream node using the Label Distribution ...

03/08/07 - 20070053358 - Multicast data transfer
An edge router (6) for multicast data transfer comprises a cache (10). In response to a request for a file from a host (3a), the router (6) retrieves the file from a content provider (2). The file, comprising data packets A-G, is stored in the cache (10) before transmission to ...

03/01/07 - 20070047550 - Communication apparatus, communication method and communication program
For carrying out communication with the use of an IP address, prefix information is extracted from a router advertisement, the prefix information is registered and managed; and a predetermined number of prefixes are selected from the prefix information registered and the IP address is generated therefrom. ...

03/01/07 - 20070047549 - Dual-stack network apparatus and broadcasting method thereof
A dual-stack network apparatus and a broadcasting method are provided. The broadcasting method is provided with transforming data created by an application into a packet and generating an IP packet using the IP address of a target network apparatus, looking up the Ethernet address of the target network apparatus in ...

03/01/07 - 20070047548 - Packet forwarding device with packet filter
To provide a packet forwarding device which minimizes degradation in packet forwarding performance at the time of execution of filtering there is provided a technique in which a destination decision processing unit of a destination decision and filtering unit decides whether to execute filtering on the basis of at least ...

03/01/07 - 20070047547 - Header elimination for real time internet applications
The disclosed techniques provide for eliminating real-time transport protocol, RTP, extension bit X, marker bit M, time stamp and sequence number information and/or user data protocol, UDP, checksum information from the header of a packet for transmission. ...

02/22/07 - 20070041381 - Information processing apparatus and grouping method
In an information processing apparatus for identifying a plurality of communication devices, grouping and managing the identified communication devices, communication devices that are in a state of communication among devices forbidden are grouped and managed. Then, it acts for obtaining data of another communication device when the data is obtained ...

02/22/07 - 20070041380 - Method of forwarding signaling information within a communication network
A method of forwarding signaling information within a communication network is described. The signaling information is based on a signaling protocol (e.g SIP). A message is generated by encapsulating the signaling information (e.g. I′) according to given definitions (e.g. D). Furthermore, non-signaling information (e.g. R) is added to the message. ...

02/22/07 - 20070041379 - Method and apparatus for advertising repair capability
A method of advertising repair capability in a network repair scheme using network repair addresses for repairing around a repairable network component in a data communications network having, as components, nodes and links therebetween, comprises establishing whether an alternate repair path is available around a repairable component. If such a ...

02/15/07 - 20070036162 - Source identifier for mac address learning
A header value or label, referred to herein as a source station identification (SSID), is added to an encapsulated packet header, such as by adding the SSID as a label to the bottom of a stack of MPLS labels. The SSID comprises a unique identifier that identifies the PE that ...

02/15/07 - 20070036161 - System and method of routing ethernet mac frames using layer-2 mac addresses
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for routing information in a communication network. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving frames, and routing the frames in a network using Layer-2. ...

02/15/07 - 20070036160 - Method and apparatus for securing a layer ii bridging switch/switch of subscriber aggregation
A method and apparatus for securing a layer II bridging switch for subscriber aggregation is described. The method includes receiving packets from a circuit on the layer II bridging switch and making a forwarding decision for the packet based on at least one of the addresses of the packet being ...

02/08/07 - 20070030852 - Method and apparatus for enabling routing of label switched data packets
A method of enabling routing of label switched data packets in a data communications network comprising a plurality of nodes and supporting multiple topologies, is performed at an enabling node and comprises constructing a per-topology label forwarding table. ...

02/08/07 - 20070030851 - Method and arrangement for routing pseudo-wire encapsulated packets
A destination router label is added to Pseudo Wire encapsulated data packets for crossing a Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. Data arrives at a PW function, which performs PW encapsulation, further adding a PWE control word and a PWE label. The PW function also adds a destination router label ...

02/08/07 - 20070030850 - Method and apparatus for defending against denial of service attacks in ip networks based on specified source/destination ip address pairs
A method and apparatus for defending against a Denial of Service attack wherein a target victim of an attack has recognized the existence of an attack and identified its source. The carrier network which provides service to the victim automatically receives one or more IP (Internet Protocol) source/destination IP address ...

02/01/07 - 20070025355 - Routing validation
A simulator simulates routing system protocols to build routing tables corresponding to a modeled network, and a comparator compares the routing tables in the actual network to these simulator-created routing tables. Because the modeled system represents a fault-free version of the actual system, and assuming that the modeled routing system ...

02/01/07 - 20070025354 - Method and apparatus for shared i/o in a load/store fabric
An apparatus and method is provided for allowing I/O devices to be shared and/or partitioned among a plurality of processing complexes within the load/store fabric of each of the processing complexes without requiring modification to the operating system or driver software of the processing complexes. The apparatus and method includes ...

02/01/07 - 20070025353 - Method and system for providing location-based addressing
A system for identifying an optimal route in a network is disclosed. The system includes a destination node having an associated node address, a source node having an associated node address, and a number of intermediate nodes each having an associated node address. The intermediate nodes include a number of ...

01/25/07 - 20070019649 - Data transfer apparatus and data transfer method therefor
A data transfer apparatus includes at least one data processing section and a header information judgment section. The data processing section includes a process execution section and a header information assignment section. The header information judgment section judges the header information assigned to the data transmitted from the data processing ...

01/25/07 - 20070019648 - Synthesis of global transaction tags
A method for facilitating tracking of packets through a plurality of localized transaction-tagging domains comprises determining a local tag applied within a first localized transaction-tagging domain to an output packet of the first localized transaction-tagging domain and assigning a system-generated global transaction tag to the output packet dependent upon the ...

01/25/07 - 20070019647 - Unsynchronized adjacencies in ospf
A method and apparatus for managing network communication that operate on the idea that if a new neighboring node is already reachable as represented in a shortest path data structure that the local node consults, there is no urgency in doing a full database synchronization between the local node and ...

01/18/07 - 20070014294 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for reducing signaling link congestion
Methods, systems, and computer program products for reducing the likelihood of signaling link congestion on a failing or recovering signaling linkset are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for reducing or eliminating congestion on a recovered link in a previously failed linkset due to the routing of post-global title ...

01/18/07 - 20070014293 - Automatic protection of an sp infrastructure against exterior traffic
A method and system for protecting valuable resources within an autonomous system network. Address prefixes within the system are designated as valuable and a flag bit is associated with the address within routing tables of routers of the network. Interfaces to border routers are identified and when packets are received ...

01/18/07 - 20070014292 - Protocol optimization for wireless networks
A system for improving the performance of on-demand mobile communications services includes a wireless network having a plurality of mobile devices and an application server. A relay node receives data from a first mobile device, the data having a destination address associated with the application server. The relay node is ...

01/11/07 - 20070008976 - Local protocol server
Communicating data packets between a client device and a host system generally includes using a protocol server module, located on the client device, that terminates a communication session that uses a first protocol and that is intended to enable communications between a source and a destination, in which the source ...

01/11/07 - 20070008975 - S-flow in a network device
A network device for providing statistical sampling of packet at a port. The network device includes an ingress module for randomly selecting a packet at one of a plurality of ports for statistical sampling and an egress module for randomly selecting a packet at one of a plurality of ports ...

01/11/07 - 20070008974 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for network services
Network services are routed responsive to receiving a datagram. The datagram requests a certain network-delivered service and includes a virtual address for the service. An apparatus selects a physical address for a certain server from among a number of a physical addresses of respective servers associated by the apparatus with ...

01/11/07 - 20070008973 - Thin client server
A thin client server 32 is adapted for communicating over a network with a thin client 31 configurable for operating with a terminal server 33. The thin client server comprises a database 321 for storing and retrieving thin client MAC addresses, user or group names and associated thin client configuration ...

01/11/07 - 20070008972 - Address-transparent device and method
An address-transparent device is disclosed that couples between two network interfaces in a semiconductor fab for communicating packets between a host coupled to a first network interface and a tool coupled to a second network interface. Alternatively, the address-transparent device couples between two networks in a semiconductor fab for communicating ...

01/11/07 - 20070008971 - Systems and methods for passing network traffic data
A method for processing network traffic data includes receiving network traffic data, and passing the network traffic data to one of a plurality of worker modules for processing the network traffic data, wherein the step of passing is performed based at least in part on a quantity of the worker ...

01/11/07 - 20070008970 - Packet data router apparatus and method
A packet data router (300) comprises a central node (200) that is configured and arranged to provide data packet forwarding services but not data packet routing services and a plurality of physically discrete application nodes (301, 302, and 303) that are each operably coupled to the central node wherein each ...

01/04/07 - 20070002862 - Generating and merging lookup results to apply multiple features
Methods, apparatus, and other mechanisms are disclosed for merging lookup results, such as from one or more associative memory banks and/or memory devices. In one exemplary implementation, multiple associative memories or associative memory banks are configured to substantially simultaneously generate a plurality of lookup results based on a lookup value. ...

01/04/07 - 20070002861 - Multi-rate shared memory architecture for frame storage and switching
Shared memory provides buffering and switching for all frames that flow through a fiber channel switch. Received frames are written to shared memory by the receiving port then read from shared memory by the transmitting port. Shared memory provides for data to be written to a buffer at one rate, ...

01/04/07 - 20070002860 - Method and system for a digital home network trace and debug tool
A method and system for a digital home network trace and debug tool is described. The system includes a network filter driver to capture packets from a network, a network sniffer manager to manage the network filter driver, a state engine to manage states of the received packets, a packet ...

12/28/06 - 20060291469 - Computer-readable recording medium storing worm detection program, worm detection method and worm detection device
A computer-readable recording medium recording a worm detection program which is preferably usable for a large-scale network and is capable of detecting worm communication with little information. A worm detection device which runs this program has a switching hub function, and comprises five physical ports that are network interfaces, a ...

12/28/06 - 20060291468 - Selective re-transmission of lost multi-media data packets
A method includes loading video data into packets and appending headers to the packets. Each of the headers includes a first field and a second field. The first field includes a data value to indicate an importance of a respective packet relative to other packets. The second field includes an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280181 - Systems and methods for operating and management of rfid network devices
Systems and methods for improving the performance of data collection networks. Such systems are provided for conditioning and aggregating data from data collection elements and provided for presenting this aggregated data through a common interface. Also included are means for data collection and retention in successive hierarchical proxy levels, providing ...

12/07/06 - 20060274755 - Switch assisted frame aliasing for storage virtualization
An apparatus and process for relabelling and redirecting at least some of the read transaction data frames and the write transaction write data and transfer ready frames in a network so as to bypass a storage manager and pass directly between the client and a storage device via a switch. ...

12/07/06 - 20060274754 - Residential ethernet node apparatus for maintaining starting point of superframe and method for processing same
Disclosed is a Residential Ethernet node apparatus for maintaining a starting point of a superframe, the Residential Ethernet node apparatus comprising a synchronous queue for receiving and temporarily storing synchronous data, in order to transmit the synchronous data by inserting the synchronous data into a transmission cycle, a parser for ...

12/07/06 - 20060274753 - Method and system for maintaining persistent unique identifiers for devices in a network
A method of maintaining persistent unique identifiers for devices interconnected in a network. Information is obtained from a device and a fingerprint generated from that information. It is then determined if the fingerprint is previously associated with an identifier in the network. If the fingerprint is not previously associated with ...

12/07/06 - 20060274752 - Method and apparatus for managing address resolution protocol data for interfaces connected to different switches
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions code for sending data to a destination. A set of address resolution protocol entries is searched for an entry matching an Internet Protocol address for the destination and a particular interface in response to selecting the particular interface from a set of interfaces in ...

11/30/06 - 20060268879 - Quality of service aware robust link state routing for mesh networks
A wireless device for routing data in a mesh network is provided. The wireless device includes a component operable to obtain metrics related to one or more directly adjacent links in the mesh network and metrics received from one or more other nodes in the mesh network. The component is ...

11/30/06 - 20060268878 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a multi-user packet in a mobile communication system
An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a multi-user packet in a mobile communication system are provided. The mobile communication system includes an Access Network Transceiver System (ANTS) for communicating with Access Terminals (ATs) and the ATs for performing packet data communication within an area of the ANTS. The ...

11/30/06 - 20060268877 - Method and apparatus for providing distributed communication routing
A method and apparatus that includes processing for providing distributed communication routing that, in one embodiment, begins by obtaining registration information from a plurality of forwarding engines, for identifying the plurality of forwarding engines based on the registration information, for generating at least one specific forwarding table for at least ...

11/30/06 - 20060268876 - Packet classification acceleration using spectral analysis
A method and packet filtering system that accelerates the packet classification problem is made. Using spectral analysis of rules and using real time spectral analysis of packets, it is possible to determine very quickly that a packet does not match any of the possible rules that have been defined. That ...

11/30/06 - 20060268875 - Method and apparatus for user identification in computer traffic
Techniques are provided for determining whether network traffic includes a user identifier of interest. Each byte of network traffic is classified as being either a valid character, an invalid character, or a delimiter character. An information stream can be generated based on the classification. Storage of valid characters in the ...

11/30/06 - 20060268874 - Administering requests for data communications connections in a wide area network that includes a plurality of networks
Methods, system, and products are disclosed for administering requests for data communications connections in a wide area network that include receiving, according to a data communications protocol, by a receiver from a sender, a request for a data communications connection, wherein the sender has a network address on a sender's ...

11/30/06 - 20060268873 - Group hopping and channel zapping during transmission of multicast applications
The invention relates to a method for performing a flexible multicast of multicast data to a multicast group within a telecommunication system wherein the multicast data is provided by a broadcast/multicast server and transferred to the users registered to the multicast group by means of channels. In the invention multi-channel ...

11/23/06 - 20060262798 - Port isolation for restricting traffic flow on layer 2 switches
This invention provides for an apparatus and method to isolate ports on layer 2 switches on the same VLAN to restrict traffic flow. The apparatus comprises a switch having said plurality of ports, each port configured as a protected port or a non-protected port. An address table memory stores an ...

11/23/06 - 20060262797 - Receive flow in a network acceleration architecture
A method for receiving data in a network acceleration architecture for use with TCP (transport control protocol), iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over TCP, including providing a hardware acceleration engine, called a streamer, adapted for communication with and processing data from a consumer ...

11/23/06 - 20060262796 - Network acceleration architecture
A network acceleration architecture for use with TCP, iSCSI and/or RDMA over TCP, including a hardware acceleration engine adapted for communication with and processing data from a consumer application in a system that supports TCP, iSCSI and RDMA over TCP, a software protocol processor adapted for carrying out TCP implementation, ...

11/16/06 - 20060256791 - Communications method, network, and information processing apparatus
Each PC is directly associated with at least another PC such that all the PCs in a network are directly or indirectly related with each other. When one of these PCs instructs all the other PCs to execute predetermined processing, the instruction source PC transmits instruction data to execute the ...

11/16/06 - 20060256790 - System for connecting information processing devices associated with ip telephones
An information processing apparatus for call control and management stores IP addresses of first and second IP telephones and first and second information processing devices associated with the respective IP telephones. When the information processing apparatus receives from the first IP telephone a message requesting to establish a session with ...

11/09/06 - 20060251078 - Message transmission method and device in mixture of private network and public network
A message transmission method and device are provided. The message transmission method, which is carried out by a node in a mixed network comprised of a private network including at least one node and a public network, includes: checking whether an address of a destination node to receive a message ...

11/09/06 - 20060251077 - Methods and apparatus for providing a packet classification protocol associated with a broadcast wireless access network
Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a packet classification protocol associated with a broadband wireless access network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ...

11/09/06 - 20060251076 - Real-time and reliable method for transporting data
A method for transporting data is provided. The method can manage the buffer and communicate between a sender and a receiver by protocol to improve the performance of data transportation and real-time data playing. Moreover, the size of the buffer in the sender equals to that of the pre-buffer in ...

11/09/06 - 20060251075 - Testing applications or devices in large networks
It is desired to test network management applications, for example, to show that they will work with large or very large networks, to determine the upper bounds of the applications capabilities, and to determine improvements which might, for example, increase the upper bounds. A method of testing a network application ...

11/09/06 - 20060251074 - Tunnel provisioning with link aggregation
A method for processing data packets in a communication network includes establishing a path for a flow of the data packets through the communication network. At a node along the path having a plurality of aggregated ports, a port is selected from among the plurality to serve as part of ...

11/09/06 - 20060251073 - Methods and apparatus for transferring data
In a first aspect, a method is provided for transferring data. The method includes the steps of (1) receiving information about a location and type of a data source and a location and type of a data destination associated with a first data transfer from the data source to the ...

11/09/06 - 20060251072 - Asymmetrical processing for networking functions and data path offload
A network system which provides asymmetrical processing for networking functions and data path offload. A network interface unit is operably connected to a plurality of processing entities and a plurality of memory units that define a shared memory space. The network interface unit further comprises a memory access module that ...

10/26/06 - 20060239267 - User equipment in an ims service network with a shortened ptt call setup time, ims service network, and ptt call setup method therein
A User Equipment (UE) in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) service network with a shortened Push-To-Talk (PTT) call setup time, an ISM service network, and a PTT call setup method therein are provided. In the UT, a transmitter requests from a Domain Name Server (DNS) an address of a ...

10/26/06 - 20060239266 - Method and apparatus for supporting wireless data services on a te2 device using an ip-based interface
A wireless network assigns a single IP address to the wireless device, which assigns this IP address over to a TE2 device coupled to the wireless device. The wireless device derives a private IP address for communication with the TE2 device. The wireless device forwards packets exchanged between the TE2 ...

10/19/06 - 20060233175 - Traffic balancing apparatus and method, and network forwarding apparatus and method using the same
The present invention reduces the burden of the network having heavier load, maintains the load balance among different networks, and improves the overall resource utilization efficiency and transmission qualities of the networks, by providing a network forwarding apparatus for selectively distributing the IP packets to be forwarded to the network ...

10/19/06 - 20060233174 - Method and apparatus for distributing switch/router capability across heterogeneous compute groups
A computer system includes a network interface capable of receiving packets. The computer system includes a platform switch operating independently of an operating system. The operating system handles packets received for a local destination and the platform switch determines via a routing table, a next hop of a packet received ...

10/19/06 - 20060233173 - Policy-based processing of packets
Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, and mechanisms, for policy-based processing of packets, including mechanisms for managing the policies. A user is authenticated and its user group identifier is identified. A packet is received and is associated with the user group identifier, and one or more ...

10/12/06 - 20060227786 - System and method for interconnecting multiple virtual private networks
A system and method for interconnecting multiple VPNs, each using multiple service providers, while offering a minimum standard of end-to-end connection quality and reliability are described. The system and method utilizes an overseer that resolves end-to-end issues across multiple interconnected virtual private networks. When connecting multiple virtual private networks multiple ...

10/12/06 - 20060227785 - Specific stream redirection of a multimedia telecommunication
It is proposed a method for establishing a IP-telecommunications between two participants with a specific control of data stream from that multimedia IP-telecommunications while maintaining the IP-telecommunications between the first and the second participant terminal originally targeted. This is achieved by setting up a connection for the transmission of packets ...

10/12/06 - 20060227784 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for selectively performing global title translation based on message type
Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for selectively performing global title translation based on message type at an SS7 network node. A message is received indicating route-on-global-title. A message type of the received message is determined. Global title translation is selectively performed based on the determined message type. ...

10/12/06 - 20060227783 - Method of dormant data session reactivation
A method for dormant data session reactivation may include a packet control function (118) in a radio access network (104) receiving a first data packet (150) having a source IP address (152), where the first data packet has a destination IP address (152) addressed to reactivate a dormant mobile station ...

10/12/06 - 20060227782 - Method and apparatus for improved voice over internet protocol (voip) transmission in a digital network
Voice services are provided in a network node of a digital networking system. A service signal is provided to at least one user device. One or more voice packets are received from the at least one user device. The one or more voice packets are processed, and transmitted to one ...

10/12/06 - 20060227781 - Processing communication terminal addresses by integration and/or extraction of communication interface characteristics in the address
A device (D) installed in a source communication terminal (T1) of a packet-switched communication network (N) using a connectionless protocol is dedicated to processing addresses of destination communication terminals (T2). This device (D) comprises processing means (MT) responsible, when their source terminal (T1) must transmit a data packet to a ...

10/05/06 - 20060221973 - Traffic distribution device, traffic distribution method and packet relay method
Disclosed is a traffic distribution device, which is used in a way that connects to a 0-th network, a first network including one or more servers and to a second network connected to the first network and including M-pieces of high-order layer processing devices associated with 0 through M-1, capable ...

10/05/06 - 20060221972 - Constant time signature methods for scalable and bandwidth-efficient multicast
A method, computer program product, system and apparatus are presented for reducing wasted bandwidth due to supercasting multicast cells through a router switch fabric. In one embodiment of the present invention, signatures of a switch fabric destination address are generated and compared. A signature is an information-rich representation of the ...

10/05/06 - 20060221971 - Method and apparatus for automatically managing network routes
A method is disclosed for providing automatic management of network routes, such as MPLS Layer 3 VPN routes. In one aspect, a method comprises creating and storing, in association with first information identifying a network element and second information identifying a customer entity that uses the network element, a maximum ...

10/05/06 - 20060221970 - Method of using a packet-switched network, a data processing system, a microphone system, and a speaker system
A method of using a packet-switched network can be used to deliver broadcast messages using a VoIP connection. Packets within the broadcast message can be intelligently routed to intended recipients based on one or more addresses for a logical segment of an organization (e.g., employees of a department), a physical ...

10/05/06 - 20060221969 - System and method for computing a blind checksum in a host ethernet adapter (hea)
A system and method for computing a blind checksum includes a host Ethernet adapter (HEA) with a system for receiving a packet. The system determines whether or not the packet is in Internet protocol version four (IPv4). If the packet is not in IPv4, the system computes the checksum of ...

10/05/06 - 20060221968 - System and method for distributing voip data packets in group communications among wireless telecommunication devices
In group wireless telecommunication, such as push-to-talk (PTT) calls, a voice communication is broadcast through Internet protocol data packets to other member devices of the PTT group. At least one communication server receives a single communication stream from a communicating wireless device, such as a PTT call, and creates a ...

10/05/06 - 20060221967 - Methods for performing packet classification
Methods for performing packet classification via partitioned bit vectors. Rules in an access control list (ACL) are partitioned into a plurality of partitions, wherein each partition is defined by a meta-rule comprising a set of filter dimension ranges and/or values covering the rules in that partition. Filter data structures comprising ...

10/05/06 - 20060221966 - Method and system for performing a packet header lookup
A method and system for performing a lookup for a packet in a computer network are disclosed. The packet includes a header. The method and system include providing a parser, providing a lookup engine coupled with the parser, and providing a processor coupled with the lookup engine. The parser is ...

10/05/06 - 20060221965 - Method of transferring data packets in a communications network
In a method of communication, a first type of data packet is received. The first type of data packet is at least a portion of a second type of data packet. Based on the received first type of data packet, a determination is made as to whether to expect receipt ...

09/28/06 - 20060215661 - Atm over mpls connection establishment mechanism
Methods and apparatus for establishing connections between network nodes across an MPLS domain. A data receive node transmits to a data transmit node the service label that the data receive node expects to receive embedded in packets originating from the data transmit node. Any packet that has this service label ...

09/28/06 - 20060215660 - Device and a method for generating routing messages for a gmpls control plane communications network
A device (D) is dedicated to generating routing messages for a GMPLS control plane communications network. The device (D) includes processing means (MT) adapted to generate routing messages containing an attribute including each item of traffic engineering (TE) information data representing non-homogeneous characteristics of segments of at least one connection ...

09/28/06 - 20060215659 - Out-of-band platform switch
A packet is received from a network at an out-of-band (OOB) network interface of an OOB platform switch of a computer system. A destination of the packet is identified. A next hop is determined along a path the packet may be routed to reach the destination. The packet is forwarded ...

09/21/06 - 20060209836 - Internet security system
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for processing a data packet in a packet forwarding device. A data packet is received. A virtual local area network destination is determined for the received data packet, and a set of rules associated with the virtual local area ...

09/21/06 - 20060209835 - Packet routing apparatus and method of efficiently routing packets among network equipment
A routing apparatus includes a plurality of routing units and function units. The routing unit receives a packet from each port, and uses header information contained in the packet to judge whether the packet should be transmitted to the function unit. In the case where the packet should be transmitted ...

09/21/06 - 20060209834 - Method for the routing of ip frames between the users of a variable graph network
Disclosed is a virtual router distributed on a carrier network, said carrier network comprising one or more components, each of the components comprising at least two nodes communicating with one another by means of an artery, a node comprising a FAx access function and server functions (LES/BUS, LECS, MPS). At ...

09/21/06 - 20060209833 - Communication apparatus and computer program product for communicating with other communication apparatus
A communication apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a data signal sent from a network repeater, the data signal including identification information for identifying a network; an identification information extracting unit that extracts identification information from the data signal; a connectivity deciding unit that decides whether a connection to ...

09/21/06 - 20060209832 - Method for exchanging packets of user data
In a method for exchanging packets of user data between a terminal (4a, 4b) of a first network (1) and a service provider (5a, 5b) of a second network (2), the first network (1) is connected to the second network (2) by a gateway (3) which has a unique connection ...

09/21/06 - 20060209831 - Vpn services using address translation over an ipv6 network
A method and system for translation of virtual private network (VPN) addresses over a provider network are disclosed. The method includes creating a multipoint tunnel extending between customer edge routers in a VPN network and over the provider network. The multipoint tunnel is identified with a multicast address and multicast ...

09/21/06 - 20060209830 - Packet processing system including control device and packet forwarding device
A packet processing system includes a plurality of control devices and a packet forwarding device that operate as a single packet forwarding device, each of the control devices executing at least one application. The packet processing system transmits, when a destination of a packet specified by an application is within ...

09/21/06 - 20060209829 - Source specific multicast layer 2 networking device and method
Bridge domain communication methods and devices are presented for efficiently communicating information in a bridge domain based upon group indications and source indications. Packets with a source and destination indication are received. A bridge domain communication process is performed at the bridge level wherein a packet is selected for forwarding ...

09/21/06 - 20060209828 - Interoperable communications architecture
A system for facilitating interoperability between a plurality of disjoint radio systems across a digital network includes one or more local gateways communicating with a network operations center. Each of the local gateways is associated with at least one radio system, and includes an interface to the digital network, a ...

09/21/06 - 20060209827 - Systems and methods for implementing counters in a network processor with cost effective memory
Systems and methods for implementing counters in a network processor with cost effective memory are disclosed. Embodiments include systems and methods for implementing counters in a network processor using less expensive memory such as DRAM. A network processor receives packets and implements accounting functions including counting packets in each of ...

09/14/06 - 20060203821 - Receive method and receiver
A receiver receives information necessary for receive processing of a data channel via a corresponding control channel and executes the receive processing of the data channel based on the information received via the control channel. In the receiver, whether the control channel of a receive frame F1 has an error ...

09/14/06 - 20060203820 - Method and system for communicating and isolating packetized data through a plurality of last-mile carriers to form a multi-node intranet
The invention provides a system and method for transporting packetized data between remote geographic locations in a multi facilities-based carrier and multi-last mile access environment to form a multi-node intranet. The purpose of the invention is to implement a secure, private data service using disparate facilities-based carriers for last-mile connectivity ...

09/07/06 - 20060198375 - Method and apparatus for pattern matching based on packet reassembly
A method and apparatus for pattern matching using packet reassembly are provided. The pattern matching method using packet reassembly includes: extracting serial information in relation to a current input packet; determining whether or not pattern matching result information in relation to one or more previous packets and/or subsequent packets on ...

09/07/06 - 20060198374 - Special format computer network address for use with a computer network
A computer network address for use in connection with a computer network is disclosed. The computer network address comprises an application name field, a private network address to identify a destination node within a remote network for which the application identified by the application name field is to be executed, ...

08/31/06 - 20060193323 - Apparatus and method for providing session initiation protocol (sip) service in private network
An apparatus for providing a session initiation protocol (SIP) service comprises: a gateway installed in a boundary between a private network and a public network, the gateway detecting identifier information and address information of SIP terminals located in the private network using an SIP message transmitted between the private network ...

08/24/06 - 20060187931 - Communication system and method for providing information on interface connecting network components
A communication system for providing information on an interface connecting network components comprises: a plurality of user agents for collecting the interface information on the respective network components which form the communication system; a terminal for outputting the interface information on the respective network components in response to a user's ...

08/24/06 - 20060187930 - Dynamic table sharing of memory space within a network device
A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface configured to receive a data packet from a data network and to send a processed data packet to an egress port of the plurality of ports, a packet evaluation module configured to parse the received data ...

08/24/06 - 20060187929 - Channel information detector, a method of detecting channel information and a communications node incorporating the detector or method
A channel information detector, a method of detecting channel information and a communications node. In one embodiment, the channel information detector includes (1) an information retriever configured to extract data unit parameters from a plurality of data units progressing through a protocol stack and (2) an information analyzer, coupled to ...

08/17/06 - 20060182112 - Switch fabric with memory management unit for improved flow control
A method for controlling a flow of packet data in a memory management unit of a network switch fabric is disclosed. A first portion of a data packet is received at a port on an ingress bus ring of the network switch fabric. A class of service for the data ...

08/17/06 - 20060182111 - Method to establish a peer-to-peer connection between two user agents located behind symmetric nats
A method to establish an Internet connection between a first (1) and a second (2) user agent is described, wherein a NAT-table entry in a controllable NAT (7) located in the Internet (3) is generated, wherein said NAT-table entry comprises public IP-address:Port pairs that are communicated to the user agents ...

08/17/06 - 20060182110 - Apparatus, system, and method for fibre channel device addressing
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for fibre channel device addressing. The apparatus includes a mapping module, a receiving module, and an assigning module configured to execute the necessary steps of defining an address assignment map to associate a single logical address with a physical device, receive a request ...

08/10/06 - 20060176881 - Method and apparatus to support multi-user packets in a wireless communication system
Described is a method of constructing multi-user packets in a communication network utilizing packet-switching, wherein a plurality of user request service from the communication network. According to this method, priorities are allocated to each of the plurality of user. Of the plurality of user, those user are selected who indicate ...

08/10/06 - 20060176880 - Mesh mirroring with path tags
One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of mirroring select traffic in a switching mesh. A packet is received at an edge switch of the switching mesh, and a determination is made as to whether the packet is to be mirrored based on mirroring criteria. A path tag associated with ...

08/03/06 - 20060171393 - Using superimposed ask label in an all-optical label swapping system and method thereof
An all-optical label swapping system and method superimposes a low-speed ASK label on top of a high-speed DC-balanced-line-coded ASK payload. An old ASK label is erased by modulating the combined payload and label signal with the inverse of the received ASK label. This ASK labeling technique requires only low speed ...

08/03/06 - 20060171392 - System and method for extracting and routing audio-visual programs from transport stream packets
A system and method for extracting and routing audio-visual programs from transport stream packets includes a program identifier (PID) distributor capable of extracting program specific information (PSI) from the transport stream packets, a plurality of process paths each including an audio video stream encapsulate circuit (AVSEC) capable of encapsulating each ...

08/03/06 - 20060171391 - Revocation information transmission method, reception method, and device thereof
The invention provides a revocation information transmission method, revocation information reception method, revocation information transmitting apparatus, and revocation information receiving apparatus, wherein all the video output apparatuses such as STB may have a revocation list in common, and it is possible to exclude unjust display and to improve the security ...

07/27/06 - 20060165083 - Multimedia access system
A multimedia access system includes: a database including user equipment spec information; an application server for transcoding multimedia data to be transmitted in accordance with user equipment spec information of a receiver side in the database; and an addressing unit for addressing a transmission packet so that that the multimedia ...

07/27/06 - 20060165082 - System and method for facilitating communication between a cmts and an application server in a cable network
A system and method for facilitating communication between a CMTS and an application sever in a cable network. Customer premises equipment (CPE) generates packets that are sent through a cable modem (CM) to a cable modem termination system (CMTS). A packet is parsed by CMTS and the destination IP address ...

07/20/06 - 20060159097 - Control and recruitment of client peripherals from server-side software
A client-server arrangement permits recruitment and control of client peripherals to be effected from the server side is described. A client server system has a server device, a client device, and a peripheral device. The client device is in communication with the server device. The peripheral device is in communication ...

07/20/06 - 20060159096 - Message filtering and demultiplexing system
A publish/subscribe system includes a publisher and multiple subscribers. The published includes a packet generator to generate a packet with at least one of: a fixed length flow label labeling a message or a message bundle and a fixed length node label labeling at least one message bundle and indicating ...

07/20/06 - 20060159095 - Techniques for determining network nodes to represent, multiple subnetworks for a routing protocol
A method and apparatus are presented for determining network nodes for aggregating addresses in routing information used for routing data packets over a network. Link data and reachability data are received. Link data indicates direct links between each of multiple candidate routers of a network and a different router or ...

07/13/06 - 20060153194 - Mobile communication terminal and multimedia message processing method using the same
Example embodiments disclose a mobile communication terminal by which a user can recognize a reception-completed message among a plurality of transmission messages in a manner of searching a transmitted message by reading received transmission state data in the case of transmitting a plurality of multimedia messages sequentially from one terminal ...

07/13/06 - 20060153193 - Network routing control method and apparatus
A network routing control method includes: setting best and secondary route information while receiving/transmitting a routing protocol control message with adjacent routers; setting a table having best and secondary next hop entries using the best and secondary route information; extracting a destination IP address from the best and secondary route ...

07/13/06 - 20060153192 - Network host isolation tool
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for quickly and automatically blocking a plurality of computer systems in response to detection of a widespread vulnerability or software infection. The method comprises: providing a list of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses corresponding to a plurality of devices to ...

07/13/06 - 20060153191 - System and method for identifying pre-computed paths in a policy-based routing network
The invention provides a system and method for identifying a pre-computed path for an incoming connection at a node in a policy-based routing network. The method comprises: examining requirements of the incoming connection; examining policies associated with routes available from the node; identifying at least one policy of the policies ...

07/06/06 - 20060146829 - Network system, nodes connected thereto and data communication method using same
A plurality of nodes are connected to a network and share data among them to form a network system. Each node has a communication interface for transmission and reception of data by full duplex transmission through the network and a virtual memory for storing data to be transmitted. Multicast addresses ...

07/06/06 - 20060146828 - Method for selecting route in routing protocol
A method for selecting a route in a routing protocol includes the steps of: measuring a message reachable time between a plurality of route information managers which manage route information on a network; constructing a reachable time table for managing the massage reachable time; checking hop counts of different neighboring ...

07/06/06 - 20060146827 - Organic electroluminescent device and method of driving the same
The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device that can reduce power consumption and is appropriate for low gray scale images. The organic electroluminescent device includes a controller and a data driver. The controller compares first digital video data inputted from the outside with a reference value, and adds ...

07/06/06 - 20060146826 - Communication apparatus
A communication apparatus to be used between first and second communication groups, each including one or more communication terminals, that perform communications by different types of communication protocols capable of embedding address information, comprises a first storage unit storing a destination address, and tunnel identification information for the first communication ...

07/06/06 - 20060146825 - Network based quality of service
A quality of service routing method operates within a system including multiple parallel dissimilar wireless networks connecting a client device and a host device. The method includes selecting one of the networks based upon criteria, including priority, of a packet received from a source application. The method also includes routing ...

06/22/06 - 20060133377 - System and method for integrated header, state, rate and content anomaly prevention with policy enforcement
The present invention provides an integrated prevention of header, state, rate and content anomalies along with network policy enforcement. A hardware based apparatus classifies layers 2, 3, 4 and 7 network data and maintains rate-thresholds through continuous and adaptive learning. In the process of classifying the packets, the apparatus can ...

06/15/06 - 20060126631 - Method for transferring messages
The present invention relates to a method and a network server (4) for transferring a message (32, 33, 34) initiated by a message initiator (21) via a communication network (1) to at least one message receiver (24, 26, 28). The network server (4) comprises a sentence builder (43), a service ...

06/15/06 - 20060126630 - Inter-domain traffic engineering
Methods and router for receiving a request message addressed from a first router to setup an inter-domain QoS reservation toward a second router in a further domain, forwarding the request message to setup the inter-domain QoS reservation, receiving an acknowledgment message to confirm that the inter-domain QoS reservation is setup, ...

06/15/06 - 20060126629 - Internet protocol address management system and method
An Internet Protocol address manager creates data containers for managing Internet Protocol addresses. Each data container can store one or more address blocks of Internet Protocol addresses and includes a container policy for managing the address blocks. Additionally, the Internet Protocol address manager creates links between the data containers to ...

06/15/06 - 20060126628 - Flow assignment
In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes assigning a flow of network packets to a thread of a multi-threaded processor core in a set of multiple multi-threaded processor cores integrated on a single die. Based on the assigning, a packet in the flow is processed by the assigned processor ...

06/08/06 - 20060120375 - System and method for data transfer in a peer-to peer hybrid communication network
An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to transfer data directly to another endpoint. ...

06/08/06 - 20060120374 - Packet forwarding apparatus and communication network suitable for wide area ethernet service
L2TP packet forwarding apparatus to be connected to at least two LACs (L2TP Access Concentrators) via L2TP sessions to receive packets transmitted from a gateway, which accommodates user terminals, in the form of a L2TP packet encapsulated in Bridge over PPP, has a lookup table indicating the correspondence of tunnel ...

06/08/06 - 20060120373 - Content addressable memory organized to share entries between different entities such as ports of a network unit
A content addressable memory stores entries each comprising a rule and as part of the entry a mask identifying all the entities to which the rule is applicable. A search pattern of data and a bit mask identifying the actual entity (or entities) associated with the data is applied as ...

06/08/06 - 20060120372 - Method and apparatus to generate a data descriptor
Embodiments are generally direct to a method and apparatus to generate a data descriptor. In one embodiment, a data descriptor is generated for a block of data to be forwarded from a node to another node on a communication link. The data descriptor includes an indication to build a data ...

06/08/06 - 20060120371 - Coordinated convergecast for ad hoc wireless networks
A network routing method and system may include initializing the network by determining, for each node of the network, a number of hops to a root node and delaying forwarding to the root node, for each node, a packet received, wherein the delay in forwarding the packet received to the ...

06/08/06 - 20060120370 - System and method for expanding the range of a mesh network
A system and method of expanding the range of a mesh network by determining whether a route through a local Internet service provider is an optimal path between two nodes. If the route through a local Internet service provider is an optimal path, a routing table is updated to include ...

06/01/06 - 20060114908 - Policy based routing using a fast filter processor
A network device for processing packets. The network device includes applying specific fields from a packet to an associated memory device and comparing means for comparing input to the memory device with entries in the memory device. The network device also includes enabling means for enabling selection of bits, by ...

06/01/06 - 20060114907 - Cut-through switching in a network device
A network device for processing packets includes an ingress module for performing switching functions on an incoming packet, a memory management unit for storing packets and an egress module for transmitting the incoming packet to an egress port. The memory management unit is configured to store initial cells of the ...

06/01/06 - 20060114906 - System and method for maintaining a layer 2 modification buffer
A network device for processing packets. The network devices includes a ingress module for performing lookups for layer 2 switching and performing operations for maintaining a layer 2 table. When the ingress module updates the layer 2 table, the ingress module records the operation performed on the layer 2 table ...

06/01/06 - 20060114905 - Forced bubble insertion scheme
A network device for processing packets. The network device includes a memory management unit for storing packets and performing resource checks on each packet and an egress module for performing packet modification and transmitting the packet to a destination port. The memory management unit includes a timer for indicating that ...

05/18/06 - 20060104279 - Low-latency automatic repeat request packet recovery mechanism for media streams
An Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) error correction method optimized for protecting real-time audio-video streams for transmission over packet-switched networks. Embodiments of this invention provide bandwidth-efficient and low-latency ARQ for both variable and constant bit-rate audio and video streams. Embodiments of this invention use timing constraints to limit ARQ latency and ...

05/18/06 - 20060104278 - Apparatus and method for compressing headers in a broadband wireless communication system
A transmission apparatus and method for compressing headers in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. Upon receiving a packet to which a real-time transport protocol (RTP) header, a user datagram protocol (UDP) header, and an Internet protocol (IP) header are added, from an upper layer, a header compression protocol ...

05/18/06 - 20060104277 - Circuit and a method for forwarding data packets in a network
In a method for forwarding data packets in a network a circuit comprises a data storage and a control device. Each data packet has a destination address and the data storage comprises T data sub-storages for storing all network addresses which are coded by a particular coding method on the ...

05/18/06 - 20060104276 - Dynamic hover text for html table cells
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for displaying header information in a table. Responsive to a movement of a pointer over a table displayed in a window, a cell in the table over which the pointer is located is identified. A determination of whether a header associated with the cell ...

05/11/06 - 20060098658 - Device for use in a communication network router to select routing information
A routing information management device for a router of a communication network comprises a first routing information base fed with routing information contained in routing protocol messages, a second forwarding information base having a maximum number of entries, and management means that compare at selected times the number of entries ...

05/11/06 - 20060098657 - System and method for retrieving computed paths from a path computation element using a path key
A technique retrieves computed path segments across one or more domains of a computer network in accordance with a stateful (“semi-stateful”) path computation element (PCE) model. The stateful PCE model includes a data structure configured to store one or more path segments computed by a PCE in response to a ...

05/04/06 - 20060092942 - System and method for multi-layered network communications
A multi-layered network for transporting data comprises a first network layer that provides a first session topology, and a second network layer that provides a second session topology. The second network layer uses the first network layer to transport data. In one embodiment of the invention, the data sent by ...

05/04/06 - 20060092941 - Communication path monitoring system and communication network system
Information that is not dependent on how a GMPLS switch or an MPLS router is set up (information independent of the type of GMPLS switch or MPLS router) is used to obtain attribute values of communication paths and manage communication path configurations in a communication network. Provided is a communication ...

05/04/06 - 20060092940 - Softrouter protocol disaggregation
A SoftRouter architecture deconstructs routers by separating the control entities of a router from its forwarding components, enabling dynamic binding between them. In the SoftRouter architecture, control plane functions are aggregated and implemented on a few smart servers which control forwarding elements that are multiple network hops away. A dynamic ...

05/04/06 - 20060092939 - Apparatus and method for extending mobility in a mobile ad hoc network
Mobility in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) can be extended by using fixed network resources to support MANET-level communication between a traveling MANET node and the remainder of the MANET. The IPv6 protocol is used over the fixed network resources to support the MANET-level communication, and mobility-supporting features of ...

04/20/06 - 20060083243 - Mobile terminal, control device and mobile communication method
A mobile terminal includes; a first wireless interface configured to perform communication through a public mobile communication network; a second wireless interface configured to perform direct communication with another mobile terminal; an update information transmitter unit configured to transmit update information including identification information and communication state information of the ...

04/20/06 - 20060083242 - Address modification in application servers
The present invention relates to a method and system for modifying of address information in a message routed in a packet data network, wherein the address information is changeable along a routing path of the message. In case of a change of the address information, information specifying a reason for ...

04/20/06 - 20060083241 - Method and apparatus for implementing direct routing
A method and apparatus are provided for implementing direct routing. An Internet Protocol (IP) packet sent from a first mobile node to a second mobile node is received at a foreign agent for a foreign network, wherein both the first and second mobile nodes are visiting the foreign network. It ...

04/13/06 - 20060077978 - Methods and systems for communicating signaling system 7 (ss7) user part messages among ss7 signaling points (sps) and internet protocol (ip) nodes using signal transfer points (stps)
Methods and systems for transmitting user part messages between signaling system seven (SS7) signaling points over an internet protocol (IP) network include receiving, at a signal transfer point, a first SS7 user part message. The first SS7 user part message can be received from a first SS7 signaling point, such ...

04/13/06 - 20060077977 - System and method for separating addresses from the delivery scheme in a virtual private network
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention establish a virtual network on top of current IP network naming schemes. The virtual network uses a separate layer to create a modification to the IP packet format that is used to separate network behavior from addressing. As a result of the ...

04/13/06 - 20060077976 - Apparatus and method for printing data using a server message block protocol
An apparatus and a method are provided for printing data through a network communication between a printer network card and a client device having a server message block (SMB) protocol for sharing a file and a printer and a transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) protocol to establish the network communication. ...

04/06/06 - 20060072575 - Ip terminal apparatus
A CPU executes a process for obtaining, from an ENUM server, a NAPTR record of a destination IP terminal by controlling an IP network controller when placing a call to the destination IP terminal, a process for determining whether the destination IP terminal has at least one communication function corresponding ...

04/06/06 - 20060072574 - Method for high speed search tables switching and packet forwarding apparatus
The present invention provides a method for rapidly replacing an output destination port with a bypass port and replacing packet output header information with bypass header information when a port accommodated by a router within an IP or MPLS network becomes faulty. The present invention also provides a packet forwarding ...

04/06/06 - 20060072573 - System and method for service tagging for enhanced packet processing in a network environment
An apparatus for charging in a network environment is provided that includes an access gateway encapsulation/decapsulation element operable to establish one or more packet data protocol (PDP) links on behalf of an end user and to perform encapsulation and decapsulation operations for one or more of the links associated with ...

03/30/06 - 20060067321 - Subscriber line accommodation apparatus and packet filtering method
In a subscriber line accommodation apparatus, subscriber line termination units individually terminate a plurality of subscriber lines. An address information acquisition unit successively acquires, as address information, a dynamic address dynamically assigned to each of the communication terminals connected to the subscriber lines terminated by the subscriber line termination unit. ...

03/30/06 - 20060067320 - Method of transferring messages
The present invention concerns a server and a method for transferring a message originating in a telecommunication network to an addressed subscriber. A telecommunication terminal sends a message to a server. The server inserts an address allocated to a TV set of the address subscriber to the message or encrypts ...

03/30/06 - 20060067319 - Communication system and master apparatus
In a slave station, the reception terminal and the transmission terminal can be connected to the reception terminal and the transmission terminal of the extension connector of a master station. Two-byte data is transmitted and received between the master station and the slave station as one packet. The master station ...

03/30/06 - 20060067318 - Low latency communication via memory windows
A high performance computer system has compute nodes interconnected by an inter-node communication network. The compute nodes include local packetized interconnects. Shared memory between compute nodes is emulated by tunneling packetized interconnect packets between the compute nodes. A memory region on one of the compute nodes is used as a ...

03/23/06 - 20060062221 - Routing table automatic setting method
In the present invention, a method for automatically setting a routing table is provided with the following steps. (1) authenticating consistency of priority for each entry contained in the routing table in the event that there is a change in the table within the node; (2) updating entry(ies) where priority(ies) ...

03/23/06 - 20060062220 - Radio terminal and ad hoc communication method
A source terminal reflects user information of a communication destination terminal in setting information for ad hoc communication, and establishes an ad hoc network by notifying management information including the setting information to terminals surrounding its own terminal. The communication destination terminal monitors the user information of its own terminal ...

03/23/06 - 20060062219 - Information transmission method and host device
An information transmission method that transmits information from a first host device connected to a first network to a second host device connected to a second network, comprising the steps of writing information from the first host device to a shared storage region of a first storage device that is ...

03/16/06 - 20060056415 - Method and system for detailed accounting of packet data
A method and apparatus for detailed accounting of packet data are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, on receiving a duplicated HTTP request from a packet duplication apparatus, a billing apparatus extracts an access address to generate a first hash value. Then, on receiving a converted HTTP ...

03/16/06 - 20060056414 - System and method for securing an ethernet connectivity fault management (cfm) domain defined on a vlan
A system and method for securing an Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) domain defined on a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN). In one embodiment, the scheme includes, responsive to registering by an external port with the VLAN, whereby the VLAN is extended to include the external port, monitoring by a ...

03/16/06 - 20060056413 - Methods and systems for efficient queue propagation using a single protocol-based remote procedure call to stream a batch of messages
A computer-implemented method of streaming a plurality of messages from a source queue to at least one destination queue over a computer network. The method may include steps of generating a remote procedure call, the remote procedure being configured to encapsulate at least header data, message data for each of ...

03/16/06 - 20060056412 - Optimization of routing forwarding database in a network processor
A routing device and associated method for allocating the nodes of a multi-way trie of a forwarding routing table between two or more memory devices is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, the routing device comprises a routing table for storing a plurality of routes in a multiway trie in a ...

03/16/06 - 20060056411 - Method and apparatus for determining neighboring routing elements and rerouting traffic in a computer network
A method and apparatus for rerouting traffic in a computer network select a routing element, apply a subnet mask to an interface address of the routing element to generate subnet addresses, determine the address of neighboring elements from the subnet addresses, and obtain configuration information from the neighboring elements. Network ...

03/09/06 - 20060050706 - Method for address assignment in ad-hoc network
In general, an Internet gateway assigns an address to a node of an ad-hoc network on receipt of request for an address assignment. However, a load exerted to the Internet gateway increases. Accordingly, one (proxy node) of the nodes of an ad-hoc network can serve as a proxy node to ...

03/09/06 - 20060050705 - Distinguishing between protocol packets in a wireless communication system
The present invention is directed to distinguishing between protocol packets in a wireless communication system. A transmitting side receives an IP packet comprising a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header and a second header located after the UDP header. The second header is related to either an RTP packet or an ...

03/09/06 - 20060050704 - Correlating packets
A system/method searches a traffic stream for a sequence of “matching” packets that exhibit a high degree of correlation or similarity to a sequence of “reference” packets. The correlation between matching and reference packets is based on a degree of correspondence between individual packets, as well as the sequence-order of ...

03/09/06 - 20060050703 - Method for automatic traffic interception
A technique for connecting New Network Devices (NNDs) to an existing communication network. The NND caches the MAC address of an Original (or “Old”) Network Device, then gratuitously transmits Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) responses on behalf of the OND, but pointing to its own MAC address. This, in effect, allows ...

03/09/06 - 20060050702 - Packet communication method
When a lower layer address pair of a transferred lower layer frame is counted a predetermined number of times or more, a packet transfer apparatus (2) sends the lower layer address pair to a frame transfer apparatus (3). The frame transfer apparatus (3) counts the transfer frequency of the lower ...

03/02/06 - 20060045091 - Transmission device
A switching device provides a technique for detecting, in a switch equipped in a layer-2 network, frame forwarding loops in a network. The switching device comprises an interface part operable to input a frame, a switching part operable to switch in accordance with a destination address of the input frame, ...

03/02/06 - 20060045090 - Techniques to reduce latency in receive side processing
Techniques for accelerating network receive side processing of packets. Packets may be associated into flow groupings and stored in flow buffers. Packet headers that are available for TCP/IP processing may be provided for processing. If a payload associated with a header is not available for processing then a descriptor associated ...

03/02/06 - 20060045089 - Method and apparatus for providing network virtualization
A network virtualization layer for an information handling system in which a physical machine coupled to a network is divided into a plurality of logical partitions, each of which has a host system residing thereon. In response to receiving a set command from one of the host systems specifying a ...

03/02/06 - 20060045088 - Method of using patricia tree and longest prefix match for policy-based route look-up
A method for using Patricia tree and longest prefix match for policy-based route look-up is described. Five route classes are determined based on a source address, a source address length, a destination address, a destination address length, and an ingress interface. Route classes are prioritized based on their content. A ...

02/23/06 - 20060039378 - Vlan protocol
A generally full-wire throughput, switching Ethernet controller used within an Ethernet network of other switching Ethernet controllers connected together by a bus. The controller comprises a plurality of ports including at least one bus port associated with ports connected to other switching Ethernet controllers. A hash table stores MAC addresses ...

02/23/06 - 20060039377 - Address converter for gateways interconnecting networks of different address formats
In a gateway, a packet received from a first network contains first address data conforming to the first network in the packet header and second address data conforming to a second network in an auxiliary header. The first address data of the packet is then rewritten with the second address ...

02/23/06 - 20060039376 - Method and structure for enqueuing data packets for processing
A method and structure is provided for buffering data packets having a header and a remainder in a network processor system. The network processor system has a processor on a chip and at least one buffer on the chip. Each buffer on the chip is configured to buffer the header ...

02/16/06 - 20060034284 - Apparatus and system for coupling and decoupling initiator devices to a network 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 - 20060034283 - Method and system for providing direct data placement support
A system and method for reducing the overhead associated with direct data placement is provided. Processing time overhead is reduced by implementing packet-processing logic in hardware. Storage space overhead is reduced by combining results of hardware-based packet-processing logic with ULP software support; parameters relevant to direct data placement are extracted ...

02/16/06 - 20060034282 - Systems and methods for networking passive information devices
Passive information devices are networked by formulating a network address for the information devices by combining a network address of an associated network node with at least a portion of a unique code of the passive information device. ...

02/09/06 - 20060029076 - Method for optimally routing specific service in network, and server and routing node used in the network
Information (service information) about service contents provided by servers is registered or updated by each of routing nodes by exchanging said information through use of a routing protocol used in controlling a path among the routing nodes. The routing node selectively changes address information about a service access request on ...

02/09/06 - 20060029075 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for producing, transporting, and capturing network traffic data
Methods, systems, and computer program products producing, transporting, and capturing network traffic data are provided. The method includes associating a mirroring policy with a service profile assigned to a service subscriber, the service subscriber identified by a static Internet Protocol address. The method also includes associating a routing policy with ...

02/02/06 - 20060023719 - Memory organization in a switching device
A network device switches variable length data units from a source to a destination in a network. An input port receives the variable length data unit and a divider divides the variable length data unit into uniform length data units for temporary storage in the network device. A distributed memory ...

02/02/06 - 20060023718 - Network device architecture for centralized packet processing
A method and system for centralized packet processing is disclosed. The method includes transferring a packet received at a port interface of a network device to an uplink interface of the network device, and sending the packet to an uplink from the uplink interface. The transferring and the sending are ...

02/02/06 - 20060023717 - Wireless transmission with variable code rate
A wireless communication system uses an adaptive air interface in which burst parameters are variable on a burst-by-burst basis, based on the reception quality of previous bursts and/or properties of the receiver or receivers of the burst. The parameter values are selected as sets which represent only some of the ...

01/26/06 - 20060018321 - Datagram relaying apparatus with load distributing function
A datagram relaying apparatus includes a plurality of protocol terminating units, and a destination determining processor. The destination determining processor includes a path selecting section which determines a transfer destination route for a stream of packets received from any of the protocol terminating units. The path selecting section determines whether ...

01/26/06 - 20060018320 - Apparatus and method for establishing network
An apparatus and a method for establishing a network by preset IP information when a host is plugged in a network, are provided. The apparatus and the method for establishing a network comprise one or more first hosts with a MAC address and an IP address as established; a second ...

01/19/06 - 20060013227 - Method and appliance for distributing data packets sent by a computer to a cluster system
A method and an apparatus for distributing a data packet sent by a computer via a connection line to a cluster system. The data packet comprises a UDP packet and an identification of the computer the data packet was sent from. After the data packet is received by an at ...

01/19/06 - 20060013226 - Technique for transferring data over a packet switched network
A technique transfers data over a packet-switched network (PSN), comprising a plurality of intermediate nodes, in a manner that does not require that the intermediate nodes support a network layer infrastructure. A network controller coupled to the intermediate nodes acquires topology information associated with the PSN's topology. This information may ...

01/12/06 - 20060007933 - Control system and user interface for network of input devices
Apparatus, methods, and systems for centrally and uniformly controlling the operation of a variety of devices, such as communication, consumer electronic, audio-video, analog, digital, 1394, and the like, over a variety of protocols within a network system and, more particularly, a control system and uniform user interface for centrally controlling ...

01/12/06 - 20060007932 - System and method for command transmission utilizing an email return path
The system supports monitoring of receiver network status by providing an email return path for receiver status information. Remote locations provide access to an internet capable LAN, which the integrated receiver decoders use to send parameter information to the central server using the internet protocol. Unit status and parameter information ...

01/12/06 - 20060007931 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for pushing and/or popping multiple multiprotocol label switching (mpls) labels/shim headers at a single node
A multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) packet is processed by modifying the packet so as to push or pop a plurality of MPLS shim headers at a network node. An MPLS network is operated by pushing a plurality of MPLS shim headers onto a packet at network node. The packet is ...

01/05/06 - 20060002395 - Communication system, communication terminal device used in communication system and communication method used in communication system
A communication system includes a first communication terminal connected to an internal communication network, a second communication terminal connected to an external communication network arranged in an area and a connection device which connects the internal communication network and external communication network to each other, the second communication terminal includes ...

01/05/06 - 20060002394 - Route computing system
A route computing system is capable of computing routes at a high speed at a low cost without the need for replacing the hardware of a transmission device. The transmission device has a destination information receiving unit for receiving destination information indicative of the destination of a packet from a ...

01/05/06 - 20060002393 - Primary control marker data structure
A data structure represented by a single 32 bit word or “primary control marker” that is inserted ahead of a header of a packet at the front of a flow of packets that is being processed by a network processor in a network device. The primary control marker includes the ...

01/05/06 - 20060002392 - Wire-speed packet management in a multi-pipeline network processor
A flow-identification content addressable memory (FICAM) comprising a row of content addressable memory (CAM) cells operable to store a first flow-identification. The first flow-identification corresponds to a first packet dispatched for processing by a pipeline unit (PU) belonging to a network processor. A comparison unit compares a second flow-identification corresponding ...

12/22/05 - 20050281266 - Human readable and writable addressing method in a home network protocol
A human readable and writable addressing method in a home network is disclosed. A disclosed method comprises inputting a URL type, inputting the address of a gateway server, and inputting a device indicator. ...

12/01/05 - 20050265347 - Message transfer service
A message transfer service is provided. A transfer system is configured to provide a message transfer service in a mobile communication system and includes an origination terminal configured to create a message and send the message to a destination terminal. The transfer system also includes a server communicatively coupled to ...

12/01/05 - 20050265346 - Router and routing protocol redundancy
A router and routing protocol redundancy are disclosed to reduce service outage or degradation for a network device and thus to increase service availability on a network due to software and hardware failures of the network device. A network device such as router includes a redundancy platform having an active ...

12/01/05 - 20050265345 - Method and apparatus for content delivery to a mobile device
Methods and apparatus for content delivery to a mobile device. A method is provided for receiving content in a wireless data network. The method includes initiating a content download over a first connection that supports a first data rate, wherein the content has a selected quality level, and establishing a ...

12/01/05 - 20050265344 - Slave node and local interconnect network (lin network) having same
A slave node for use with a Local Interconnect Network (LIN network) receives incoming messages from the LIN network in a manner that reduces operating current, power consumption and/or operating temperature. The slave node generally includes an input circuit, an electronic processing device, associated components such as an Integrated Glass ...

12/01/05 - 20050265343 - Packet filtering apparatus, packet filtering method, and computer program product
A packet filtering apparatus includes a first network interface which receives a first packet from a communication device located in a first network, and a sender information acquiring unit which acquires sender information including at least one of security information about the communication device and authentication information about a user ...

11/24/05 - 20050259658 - Mail, package and message delivery using virtual addressing
A cross-referencing server connected to the Internet stores cross-references between different address designations for the same person, entity or location. The address designations stored in each cross-reference can include a unique shorthand string of characters used as a virtual address for a particular person, entity or location, and also the ...

11/24/05 - 20050259657 - Using address ranges to detect malicious activity
A method for detecting malicious programs within a network, includes monitoring at least one packet within the network to ascertain a source address and a destination address of the at least one packet, determining whether the source address and the destination address of the at least one packet match addresses ...

11/24/05 - 20050259656 - Clearinghouse for messages between disparate networks
A system and method are directed towards managing interoperability between disparate IM networks. A clearinghouse server is provided that receives IM messages from disparate IM networks. The clearinghouse server examines the IM message to determine it is in a compatible protocol for a destination IM network. If the IM message ...

11/24/05 - 20050259655 - Open service discovery and routing mechanism for configuring cross-domain telecommunication services
Apparatus and method are provided for distributing service domain reachability information across domain boundaries, thereby allowing domain management systems to determine routing for cross-domain services even when the domains have different technologies or administrators. A Service Domain Manager within each domain advertises to neighbouring domains which services it supports. A ...

11/24/05 - 20050259654 - Dynamic access control lists
A method controls access of a user to a network including a plurality of hosts coupled together through a network switch. The method includes storing in the network switch an enhanced access control list containing data related to at least one of user names, DNS names, domain names, and physical ...

11/17/05 - 20050254497 - Block forming method and apparatus of digital bit steam
Block forming method and apparatus of a digital bit stream, in which such an inconvenience that in spite of the fact that additional data regarding a partial packet to be located at the end of a main data portion exists in an additional data portion, the partial packet becomes a ...

11/17/05 - 20050254496 - Broadband telecommunications system
A communication method comprises: processing a first message from the user CPE to select a circuit switch from a plurality of circuit switches, and selecting an identifier and a DS0 to route user communications from the user CPE to the circuit switch; transferring a second message indicating the identifier and ...

11/10/05 - 20050249216 - System and method of serving data messages
A system and method of serving text-based data messages to a caller identification (caller ID) system in a telecommunications network environment may overwrite source-specific information in a selected data packet header field with text-based message data. A protocol translator may enable text data to be served to a caller ID ...

11/10/05 - 20050249215 - Directing packets in a mesh network
A wireless mesh network includes nodes of a first type and nodes of a second type. Packets are routed from nodes of the first type to nodes of the second type using a first routing protocol, and packet are routed from nodes of the second type to nodes of the ...

11/10/05 - 20050249214 - System and process for managing network traffic
A traffic management system for use in a communications network, including a detection module for determining the source addresses of received network packets, and for comparing the source addresses with stored source address data for network packets received in a previous time period. The system monitors increases in the number ...

11/03/05 - 20050243828 - Communicating method between ipv4 terminal and ipv6 terminal and ipv4-ipv6 converting apparatus
In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header conversion; a DNS substituting unit ...

11/03/05 - 20050243827 - Lookup engine
A look up engine 200 comprising a storage means 212a, 212b for storing a plurality of entries, each entry comprising a value and an associated key value, such that, in operation, a look up is carried out by outputing a value which is associated with the stored key value which ...

11/03/05 - 20050243826 - Intelligent adjunct network device
An adjunct network device includes several ports, an uplink interface, and an adjunct forwarding engine coupled to the ports and the uplink interface. A first port is configured to receive a packet, which includes a destination address. The adjunct forwarding engine is configured to send the packet to the uplink ...

10/27/05 - 20050238023 - Audio fsk encoded digital data packet embedded in the audio message portion of an eas protocol transmission, and related methods
The present invention provides an audio FSK encoded digital data packet embedded in the audio message portion of an EAS protocol transmission, and to methods for encoding and for recognizing and decoding the data packet. A digital audio FSK encoded digital data packet embedded in the audio message portion of ...

10/27/05 - 20050238022 - Stateful flow of network packets within a packet parsing processor
The present invention provides a packet processing device and method. A parsing processor provides instruction-driven content inspection of network packets at 10-Gbps and above with a parsing engine that executes parsing instructions. A flow state unit maintains statefulness of packet flows to allow content inspection across several related network packets. ...

10/27/05 - 20050238021 - Integral router device
The present invention is related to an integral router device, especially to the router with a bridge function comprises at least a ROM, a RAM, a processor, a LAN interface, a wireless card and an antenna device in order to have the most functions with the least number of devices ...

10/20/05 - 20050232274 - Method for load balancing in a network switch
A method for load balancing in a link aggregation environment, wherein the method includes the steps of determining if a packet flow in a network switch exceeds a predetermined threshold. Then the method includes the step of determining if the packet flow is a candidate for link switching from a ...

10/20/05 - 20050232273 - Communications system and a gateway device
A gateway device connecting an internal network to an external network includes a command analysis and translation section and a message processing section. The command analysis and translation section translates an internal address included in a command used on its corresponding internal network into an external address represented according to ...

10/13/05 - 20050226245 - Mpls device enabling service providers to control service levels in forwarding of multi-labeled packets
A MPLS device which receives configuration data identifying a group of multi-labeled packets and desired EXP (corresponding to the 3-bit experimental bit field specified by MPLS protocol) bits (even in the lower label entries of the label stack) for the group when forwarding the related packets. The MPLS device sets ...

10/13/05 - 20050226244 - System and method for communicating data
A system and method is provided for communicating data between a source application process and one or more destination application processes. This system and method performs conversion and routing functions which require only a single conversion of all inbound and outbound transmissions regardless of the variety of destinations/sources. The functions ...

10/06/05 - 20050220111 - Ingress processing optimization via traffic classification and grouping
An arrangement is provided for ingress processing optimization via traffic classification and grouping. A plurality of packets are classified according to a classification criterion. The classified packets are used to generate a packet bundle containing packets that are uniform with respect to the classification criterion. The packet bundle and its ...

10/06/05 - 20050220110 - Frame format and frame assembling/disassembling method for the frame format
A method of assembling a plurality of frames including cell/packet-formatted data according to a predetermined frame format for transmission in a communication signal in a wireless or satellite environment. The method begins by assembling a data payload for each frame having a first variable size, including at least one of ...

10/06/05 - 20050220109 - Routing table synchronization method, network apparatus, and routing table synchronization program
In a network arrangement implementing a virtual interface scheme to execute various types of application processes using plural control units, the routing tables of the control units may be synchronized without having to execute a complicated process sequence. In a network apparatus including a forwarding unit corresponding to a base ...

10/06/05 - 20050220108 - Frame based mac control in wlan communication devices
A WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) communication device and method are provided where a MAC (Medium Access Control) control unit controls access to a wireless medium. The MAC control unit is capable of selectively applying any one of at least two different control mechanisms to data to be transmitted. The ...

10/06/05 - 20050220107 - System and method for indicating classification of a communications flow
System and method for providing a layer 2 switch in the access network that switches based upon one or more carrier tags identifying customer traffic. Customer traffic conforming to any variety of different layer 1 or layer 2 protocols may be encapsulated and identified according to carrier tag values. The ...

10/06/05 - 20050220106 - Inter-wireless interactions using user discovery for ad-hoc environments
An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to provide inter wireless network communication. A local node in a first network includes a frame module, an information module, and a communication module. The frame module processes a frame containing information regarding the first network. The information includes discovery information ...

10/06/05 - 20050220105 - Individually programmable most significant bits of vlan id
A network switch that includes an address resolution table and a VLAN table. The address resolution table comprises a VLAN identifier (ARL VID) in less significant bits, a MAC address, and an action code, wherein each VLAN identifier in the address resolution table is unique. The VLAN table is used ...

09/22/05 - 20050207421 - Computer node, cluster system, cluster managing method, and cluster managing program
A cluster system 1 for providing a plurality of virtual computer nodes to a client 5 has real nodes 3a, 3b and 3c for executing an application, and a coordinator node 2 for assigning the real IP address that is the IP address of the real node with the IP ...

09/22/05 - 20050207420 - Parallel intrusion detection sensors with load balancing for high speed networks
Various embodiments of a method and system for detecting unauthorized signatures to or from a local network. Multiple sensors are connected at an internetworking device, which can be a router or a switch. The sensors operate in parallel and each receives a portion of traffic through the internetworking device, at ...

09/22/05 - 20050207419 - Packet forwarding device and packet priority setting method
A packet forwarding device with a shaping unit, which is provided with queues for storing high priority packets and queues for storing low priority packets. The shaping unit transmits a packet read out from the non priority queue by giving a high priority when no transmit-wait packet exist in the ...

09/22/05 - 20050207418 - Communication using abbreviated atm header, especially suitable for use in dsl scenario
A communication method is based on a communications standard such as, for example, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), that defines a cell format 110 with a standard header 5 of a standard length M (for ATM, five octets). The method involves forming an abbreviated header 2 of length m<M, and sending ...

09/15/05 - 20050201377 - Binary-tree multiplexing scheduling
A method for multiplexed scheduling of information blocks from multiple sources on a single communication channel divided into multiple address positions. The information block from each source has a repetition period and is divided into a number of segments. A bandwidth adequacy verification is performed for expected information blocks to ...

09/15/05 - 20050201376 - Onboard content providing apparatus
In an information providing service that utilizes a car navigation system or the like, ensuring safety while viewing content is a matter of great concern. A vehicle-mounted onboard content providing apparatus for providing content to an user of the vehicle, comprising a current location acquisition unit for acquiring information about ...

09/08/05 - 20050195821 - Method and apparatus for dynamically controlling traffic in wireless station
A method and apparatus dynamically control data traffic, such as multimedia streams, needing a guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) and normal data traffic, according to a variable communication environment. The method of dynamically controlling traffic in a wireless station includes reading header information of a packet received from an upper ...

09/08/05 - 20050195820 - Coding of routing protocol messages in markup language
An implicit routing protocol for content-based networks having a plurality of XML routers includes an XML Link State Protocol and an XML Subscription Management Protocol that routes customer data based on XML content. The XML Link State Protocol and the XML Subscription Management Protocol includes several messages that must be ...

09/08/05 - 20050195819 - Communication device
A communication device capable of restraining the packet transmission efficiency from lowering. An address storing unit extracts, from uplink packets, the addresses of terminals connected to sub-units and registers the addresses in an address management table. An address extracting unit extracts the address of a destination terminal included in a ...

08/25/05 - 20050185649 - Transmission method, transmission apparatus and transmission system
In order to satisfactorily transmit audio data of various formats through a transmission line, when data having a predetermined data length as a unit is transmitted by a predetermined format between devices connected to a predetermined transmission line, label data indicating a system of transmitted audio data is located at ...

08/25/05 - 20050185648 - Compression method for a byte stream in network protocols
A method is described for transmitting a byte stream (1) from a transmitter unit to a receiver unit in a network protocol, with the following steps: Removal of at least one data area (4a,4b) of the byte stream (1) from the byte stream, Transmission to the receiving unit of information ...

08/25/05 - 20050185647 - System, apparatus and method for establishing a secured communications link to form a virtual private network at a network protocol layer other than at which packets are filtered
A system, apparatus and a method for implementing a secured communications link at a layer other than that at which packets are filtered are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer system is configured to form a virtual private network (“VPN”) and comprises an address inspection driver to identify initial target ...

08/18/05 - 20050180423 - Device and method of network communication
A device and method of network communication can receive a control/data signal from a computer motherboard via a storage interface bus and output a storage/network data packet to a network via a network connection port, so that the computer can access the network and a storage device such as hard ...

08/11/05 - 20050175011 - Data driven type information processing apparatus and method of increasing transfer speed of data packet
A branching control unit includes a logic gate and a NAND circuit that can receive transfer permission for each branching designation. The branching control unit further includes a transfer request unit receiving respective outputs of the logic gate and NAND circuit. The transfer request unit sends a data transfer request ...

08/11/05 - 20050175010 - Filter based longest prefix match algorithm
Methods directed to longest prefix matching and systems directed to IP address lookups are presented. The methods and systems relate in particular to IPv6 and comprise finding the longest prefix match (LPM) for an IP address. The method of the invention results in the use of filters to perform LPM. ...

08/04/05 - 20050169276 - Adaptive router architecture enabling efficient internal communication
A router comprising a plurality of elements, each having an element identifier, subdivided into a plurality of groups of at least one element. Each group has a common identifier and each member within each group shares redundant capabilities. Each element is capable of communicating with another element by addressing information ...

08/04/05 - 20050169275 - Method for transmitting multi-protocol label switch protocol data units
A method for transmitting high-level PDUs (Protocol Data Units) over low-level protocol and method for transmitting MPLS (Multi-protocol Label Switch) PDUs so as to improve transmission efficiency, resource utilization, and network performance of MPLS network traffics. The method for transmitting MPLS PDUs includes the following steps: A. adding the pending ...

08/04/05 - 20050169274 - Message filtering method
A message filtering method makes use of a database in which domain names of a network, such as the Internet, are associated with IP addresses, or with geographic locations. Electronic messages are tested for authenticity by comparing domain names and IP addresses for a message being tested with information in ...

08/04/05 - 20050169273 - Parallel hardware arrangement for correlating an external transport address pair with a local endpoint association
An arrangement of data storage cells are accessed in parallel for correlating a transport address pair with a respective local association. In one embodiment, each cell may contain a transport address pair and a local association ID. In another embodiment, multiple stages of partitioned content addressable arrays may be employed, ...

08/04/05 - 20050169272 - Method for fragmenting an incoming packet into a first outgoing packet and a second outgoing packet
A method for fragmenting an incoming packet for transmission as a first outgoing packet and a second outgoing packet includes storing a payload of the incoming packet in a plurality of storage units beginning in a first storage unit, transmitting the first outgoing packet being formed according to a predetermined ...

08/04/05 - 20050169271 - Method and apparatus for route optimisation in nested mobile networks
A method of transmitting at least one data packet from a communication node in a data communication network. The method includes receiving (920) a request at a communication node, to transmit at least one data packet to a first destination address and searching (930) for the (first) destination address in ...

07/28/05 - 20050163123 - Method and apparatus for implementing a mac address pool for assignment to a virtual interface aggregate
A method to implement an address pool is described. The method collects at least one address, the at least one address originally assigned as a unique address to at least one physical interface of a computer. Each originally assigned address is modified to be a plurality of modified addresses. The ...

07/28/05 - 20050163122 - System and methods for packet filtering
A system for classifying data packets transmitted over a data communications network based upon a set of predetermined prefixes associated with destination addresses of the data packets is provided. The includes a data structure stored in an electronic memory. The data structure is a prefix-in-B-tree (PIBT) data structure and/or a ...

07/21/05 - 20050157725 - Fibre channel controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains within a load-store architecture
A Fibre Channel (FC) controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains (OSDs) within a load-store architecture is disclosed. The controller includes a plurality of control/status register (CSR) banks. A respective one of the CSR banks is used by each OSD to request the controller to perform I/O operations ...

07/21/05 - 20050157724 - Method and apparatus for encoding a plurality of pre-defined codes into a search key and for locating a longest matching pre-defined code
A method and apparatus for locating in a list of pre-defined codes, a longest code matching a given code. The method and apparatus involve producing a search mask encoding at least one portion of said given code and comparing the search mask to a search key having a Prefix Node ...

07/21/05 - 20050157723 - Controlling traffic congestion
An apparatus for controlling traffic congestion includes: a transmitting processor including a packet classifying unit adapted to classify packets to be processed in a receiving processor and packets to be forwarded via the transmitting processor, the transmitting processor and the receiving processor having different traffic processing speeds; a buffer adapted ...

07/21/05 - 20050157722 - Access user management system and access user management apparatus
A server having a function of authenticating a user, a function of confirming a connection state of the user by periodically transmitting a re-authentication request packet or a connection confirmation packet to the user and receiving a response, and a function of setting policy routing of an access server is ...

07/21/05 - 20050157721 - Ethernet differentiated services architecture
A network includes an edge node configured to define per hop behaviors using a set of bits in an Ethernet header of a frame and a core node configured to receive the frame and to forward the frame according to the per-hop-behaviors. The network can also include a defined set ...

07/14/05 - 20050152369 - Fast flexible filter processor based architecture for a network device
A method of filtering data packets in a network device is disclosed. An incoming packet is received from a port and the incoming packet is inspected and packet fields are extracted. The incoming packet is classified based on the extracted packet fields and action instructions are generated. The incoming packet ...

07/14/05 - 20050152368 - Method and apparatus for network address translation based on pure hardware architecture
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for network address translation (NAT) based on pure hardware architecture. The method includes that when receiving a packet, the first MAC circuit will translate the address of the packet directly and store the address-translated packet into the storage, and that the first ...

07/07/05 - 20050147097 - Link layer emulation
An embodiment includes a network of at least one router. The network includes a data packet address translator. The data packet address translator manipulates address information of data packets routed by the network, so that a network device connected to the network perceives the network to be a bridge. One ...

07/07/05 - 20050147096 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for using multiprotocol label switching (mpls) to allocate network resources according to traffic type
A multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network, is operated by defining a first label switched path (LSP) between a first label switched router (LSR) and a second label switched router (LSR) in the MPLS network. A second LSP is defined between the first LSR and the second LSR in the MPLS ...

06/30/05 - 20050141507 - Method and apparatus for automatically determining an appropriate transmission method in a network
A method for automatically sensing a transmission method in a network, includes transmitting at least one packets to a first host via a first transmission method, transmitting at least one packets to the first host via a second transmission method, and configuring for communication with the first host in accordance ...

06/30/05 - 20050141506 - Methods, systems and computer program products for cluster workload distribution
Methods, systems and computer program products provide communications with a plurality of application instances using a plurality of communication protocol stacks and a single Internet Protocol (IP) address. A stack is established as a routing stack associated with the single IP address. Other stacks which are associated with the single ...

06/30/05 - 20050141505 - System and method for transmitting a sequence of messages in an interconnection network
Method for transmitting a sequence of messages in a point-to-point interconnection network comprising message initiating agents, message destination agents and message transmission agents. During a transmission of an indivisible sequence of messages from an initiating agent to a destination agent, an output of a message transmission agent is locked onto ...

06/30/05 - 20050141504 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for encapsulating packet traffic associated with multiple layer two technologies
A multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network is operated by establishing a label switched path (LSP) that connects a first provider edge (PE) label switched router (LSR) a second PE LSR, and a customer edge (CE) LSR. The packet traffic that is associated with a plurality of different layer two technologies ...

06/30/05 - 20050141503 - Distriuted packet processing system with internal load distributed
A programmable packet processing system is disclosed wherein a lower speed processor is used to process higher speed data. The system comprises a plurality of packet processor “cores”, for serial connection one to another. Data packet arbitration is performed by each processor in sequence such that packets for processing by ...

06/23/05 - 20050135370 - Network printer and method of setting internet protocol address thereof
A network printer and a method of setting an internet protocol (IP) address of a network printer in which an IP address unused in other network devices is set using a ping test and a network port scan test when an IP address of the network printer is inputted. The ...

06/23/05 - 20050135369 - Border router for a communication network
A border router (7) for a communication network, comprises a routing table (31) and a reception module (30) intended to receive a routing table update message (10) in order to update said routing table (31), and an integrity detection module (33) intended to detect that the update message is suspicious ...

06/23/05 - 20050135368 - Stream data receiving apparatus
A stream data receiving apparatus includes: a data receiving unit that receives a plurality of packets; a first temporary storage unit that temporarily stores the plurality of packets; a time information detection unit that detects a first time information by extracting a first time information packet from the plurality of ...

06/23/05 - 20050135367 - Memory controller
In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a memory controller. The controller includes an interface to a first memory and an interface to a bus coupling the memory controller to at least one processor. The controller also includes circuitry, responsive to read and write commands received over the bus ...

06/16/05 - 20050129023 - Method and device for compressing data packets
A method for compressing a data packet is proposed, the data packet comprising at least a first data block and a second data block, the first data block referring to the second data block. In the method, the second data block is compressed and it is noted in the data ...

06/16/05 - 20050129022 - Method of device-to-device communications in hybrid distributed device control networks
The present invention comprises a method of source routing to implement device-to-device communications across a hybrid distributed device control network. The method is based in packet communications in which packets are structured so that they can be readily converted between communications protocols, and in which packets enclose routing information and ...

06/16/05 - 20050129021 - Packet header verification
According to some embodiments, information packet header portions are checked using pre-determined relationships and associated stored patterns. ...

06/16/05 - 20050129020 - Method and system for providing data communications over a multi-link channel
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for multi-link data communications using a multi-threaded and/or multi-processor system. An embodiment of the present invention includes a receive interface to couple to a multi-link communications channel. A processing system processes header portions of data fragments received from the multi-link ...

06/16/05 - 20050129019 - Tunneled security groups
A method for providing security groups based on the use of tunneling is disclosed. The method includes assigning a security group identifier (SGI) to a packet and classifying the packet based on the packet's SGI. ...

06/09/05 - 20050122976 - Method and apparatuses for using packet data to manage a data stream in a broadband communications system
A method (400) for managing a data stream (30) encoded according to a digital transmission protocol and configured for broadcasting to a consumer network device (14) within a broadband communications network (10). A message relating to the data stream is encapsulated (402) within a transport layer data packet (502). The ...

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