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7616567 Shaping apparatus, communication node and flow control method for controlling bandwidth of variable length frames  
A shaping apparatus comprising a plurality of buffer memories allocated for different flows, bandwidth control units associated with the buffer memories, and a read control unit, wherein each of...
7616564 Call admission control method and system  
A call admission control technique allowing flexible and reliable call admissions at an ATM switch in the case of an ATM network including both QoS-specified and QoS-unspecified virtual connections...
7613848 Dynamic stabilization for a stream processing system  
Disclosed are a method, upstream processing node, and computer readable medium for dynamically stabilizing a stream processing system. The method includes receiving at least one computing resource...
7613821 Arrangement for reducing application execution based on a determined lack of flow control credits for a network channel  
An InfiniBand™ network node includes a network interface, a system memory, a memory controller configured for controlling access to the system memory, and a processor. The network interface is...
7613153 Access points with selective communication rate and scheduling control and related methods for wireless local area networks (WLANs)  
The present invention is directed to methods and wireless communication devices that are configured to enhance communication capacity in a wireless network. In one aspect of the invention various...
7613112 Optimizing playback startup time of bursty real-time streams  
Provided are apparatuses and methods in a digital broadcast transmission system for optimizing the buffering time of data streams prior to data consumption of playback. The optimal buffering time...
7606165 What-if analysis for network diagnostics  
A network troubleshooting framework is described. In an implementation, a method includes generating a first estimation of network performance by a simulator based on network settings obtained from...
7606153 Storage system and information processing system  
Prior to alteration of the communication route connecting the enterprise servers 5 1 to 5 3 , ports a, b and c of the enterprise server 5 1 are each connected with port 1 of the storage...
7600035 Dynamic link distance configuration for extended fabric  
A method to dynamically allocate credits for a particular port to port link based on measured link distance during the initial interswitch link configuration process. An apparatus implementing such...
7596091 Unified congestion notification mechanism for reliable and unreliable protocols by augmenting ECN  
A unified congestion notification mechanism can detect congestion at a recipient device either directly, such as via an explicit indicator, or indirectly, such as via dropped packets. Such...
7596090 Capacity-efficient flow control mechanism  
Techniques to control data transmissions to efficiently utilize the available air-link resources. In accordance with a method for controlling a data transmission between a transmission source...
7590742 IP address management  
Managing addresses to be assigned to users of an IP network is described, in which it is detected that a packet has been addressed to a released address held in a queue for holding released...
7574204 Memory full pipeline  
A method of accommodating legacy devices in which application memory is not able to operate fast enough to reliably receive data from a relay or other external device is disclosed. An application...
7564782 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...
7562134 Network traffic analyzer  
A system for and method of analyzing the performance of a packet-switched network, the network automatically generating a traffic log each time a packet enters or exits the network and each traffic...
7558203 System and method for statistical control of power dissipation with host enforcement  
The power budgeter controls the rate of data flow in a transceiver. The power budgeter monitors transceiver activity (data flow) during a predefined period, and limits transceiver data transmit and...
7554913 Resource allocation in a circuit switched network  
Allocating resources in a circuit switched data network, comprising receiving a request for a resource from a device coupled to the circuit switched data network and granting the resource to the...
7545747 Method, system and program product for actively managing central queue buffer allocation using a backpressure mechanism  
Method, system and program product are provided for packet flow control for a switching node of a data transfer network. The method includes actively managing space allocations in a central queue...
7545746 Computer system for controlling routed data amount  
A computer system having a work computer, first storage systems, and second storage systems also has a network, a network routing device, and a management computer. Upon receipt of the update data...
7542766 Mobile communication system, compressed-mode controlling method for the same system, and base and mobile stations in the same system  
In a mobile communication system in which a compressed mode can be activated at the time of hand over, or when a base station which the mobile station is in communication with is switched to...
7542419 Method and apparatus for managing aggregate bandwidth at a server  
A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for managing traffic in a network data processing system. Traffic for a plurality of network paths is monitored. In response a packet for...
7535839 Method and apparatus for quality-of-service based admission control using prediction of scheduling gain  
In a wireless network or other communication system, admission of users to the system is based on predicted scheduling gain. A scheduler is configured to manage access to network resources for...
7523000 Vehicle pre-collision countermeasure system  
A vehicle pre-collision countermeasure system is provided has a communication component, a rear collision predicting component and an acceleration countermeasure component. The communication...
7519727 Bandwidth management algorithm  
A method of managing bandwidth including receiving packets on an input port, classifying the packets in a classification engine, processing the packets in a processing engine, queuing the packets...
7505413 Methods and systems to perform traffic engineering in a metric-routed network  
A system, to migrate a shortest-path-first (SPF) routed network from a first routing state to a second routing state, includes a changeover module to generate a sequence of intermediate network...
7505407 Adaptable traffic control for variable port speed connectivity device  
According to embodiments of the present invention, an adaptable traffic control system, method, article of manufacture, and apparatus receive a user-programmed value representing an amount of...
7500009 Rate computations of particular use in scheduling activities or items such as the sending of packets  
Rate computations are performed such as for use in scheduling activities, such as, but not limited to packets, processes, traffic flow, etc. One implementation identifies an approximated inverse...
7490158 Multicast transfer rate probe  
A system and method for probing a plurality of clients for a rate appropriate for multicasting is described. In one implementation, test data is sent by a server to a plurality of clients. A rate,...
7483372 Communication network  
A network has a plurality of nodes, wherein at least one of the plurality of nodes includes a switch arranged to carry out a Simple Transit Core Function and three or more of the plurality of nodes...
7463584 System and method for hub and spoke virtual private network  
A method and system for providing a virtual private communication network to transport customer data between a set of customer devices coupled to a provider network. A committed information rate is...
7460474 Packet transmission control apparatus and packet transmission control method  
A packet transmission control apparatus which performs transmission control of packets to a plurality of mobile stations includes an acquirer configured to acquire an average transmission rate of...
7453932 Test device and setting method  
A testing apparatus for testing a device under test is provided, wherein the testing apparatus includes: a comparator for receiving a signal output from the device under test and converting the...
7453805 Method and communication system for signaling information for optimizing rate control schemes in wireless networks  
A method of exchanging signalling information for optimising a rate control scheme in a mobile network, wherein data packets are transmitted over the network from a sender to a receiver employing...
7450509 Adaptive flow control method and apparatus  
The present invention provides a method of controlling data flow within a network device. The method includes the steps of snooping a data packet before the data packet is stored in a memory buffer...
7443882 Data sharing system, transmitting terminal apparatus, transmitting terminal apparatus controlling method, receiving terminal apparatus, receiving terminal apparatus controlling method, and recording medium  
A data sharing system is disclosed together with a transmitting terminal apparatus and a receiving terminal apparatus interconnected and controlled so as to effect efficient data transfers and...
7433947 System and method for determining real-time application verb response times  
A system, method and computer program product are provided for calculating application verb response times. Initially, packet data is received after which the packet data is aggregated into either...
7433369 Controlling network traffic  
In an ATM exchange, a cell transmission control section transmits an ATM cell to a transmission path of an ATM network. A traffic monitor monitors traffic of the cell transmissions. A statistical...
7430198 RF utilization calculation and reporting method for 802.11 wireless local area networks  
A radio frequency exchange utilization calculation method in wireless medium that comprises identifying a plurality of packet counters pertaining to each of a plurality of transmission speeds and...
7426221 Pitch invariant synchronization of audio playout rates  
A method for adjusting audio playback is disclosed. The method includes storing audio packets in a jitter buffer, and playing out the audio packets at a first rate. The method further includes...
7418494 Method and system for background replication of data objects  
In an embodiment, a system and method may manage network resources to provide a near zero-cost background replication of data. Such a system may be inhibited from causing interference with...
7391717 Streaming of variable bit rate multimedia content  
Systems and methods for improved streaming of variable bit rate multimedia content are described. The described systems and methods solve some streaming problems by streaming the variable bit rate...
7383349 Controlling the flow of packets within a network node utilizing random early detection  
A method and system for controlling the flow of packets within a network node is disclosed. The method comprises receiving packets that are intended for a queue, classifying each of packets into at...
7383338 Method for connection acceptance control and rapid determination of optimal multi-media content delivery over networks  
A system for allocating bandwidth between a server device and at least one client device. The system includes a call acceptance module operative to receive an incoming request for service; a flow...
7372812 Proxy FC port, FC network system, and FC transfer method used therefor  
Proxy FC ports in an FC network are connected between first and second FC (Fibre Channel) devices having reception buffers and first and second FC transfer apparatuses connected to each other...
7359984 Management of network quality of service  
In one embodiment, a router is deployed on a local area network (LAN) in addition to any routers deployed on a wide area network (WAN) coupled with the LAN having the router. A service management...
7359386 Soft preemption feedback  
Systems and methods for preemption of Traffic Engineering LSPs such that preemption decisions are made in a coordinated fashion along the path of a new LSP and computation of a new path for a...
7346698 Webcasting method and system for time-based synchronization of multiple, independent media streams  
A method for time-based synchronization of multiple media streams transmitted over a communications network, such as the Internet, by multiple, independent streaming media sources. First and second...
7304950 Two-wire interface having dynamically adjustable data fields depending on operation code  
A guaranteed two-wire interface in which upon determining that an operation is to be performed on a slave component, a master component transmits at least a portion of a corresponding frame to the...
7280473 Data streaming method and apparatus using adaptive transmission scheduling  
An adaptive scheduling method, systems and apparatus for streaming data service for either single-carrier channel or multi-carrier channel are provided. This adaptive scheduler assigns data...
7274667 Monitoring and allocating access across a shared communications medium  
A method of providing network access across a shared communications medium between competing users includes the steps of monitoring network access usage by each user for a past time interval and,...
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