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7636304 System and method for performing distributed policing  
Various systems and methods that synchronize local copies of a variable used in a distributed algorithm, such as that used in distributed policing. For example, one system includes several...
7619973 Dynamic traffic bandwidth management system and method for a communication network  
An apparatus and a method for managing service traffic in a communications network capable of providing voice, data, and A/V services to a plurality of customers. In particular, the present...
7619972 Video system  
A network node apparatus is disclosed for the capture, storage and replay of video data at separate respective nodes of a communications network arranged to operably couple the node apparatus. The...
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...
7613457 System and method for supporting quality of service in vertical handovers between heterogeneous networks  
A method, system, and business model are disclosed for supporting handover between a mobile host and a corresponding node located in a heterogeneous network. Handover paths are established to...
7609634 Communication traffic policing apparatus and methods  
Communication traffic policing apparatus and methods are disclosed. Communication traffic restrictions for each communication link in a group of communication links are enforced by allowing...
7602721 Methods and systems for fine grain bandwidth allocation in a switched network element  
Methods and systems for fine grain bandwidth allocation are disclosed. According to one method, input is received from a user in a standard bandwidth denomination indicating bandwidth to be...
7599296 Method of transmitting data  
A method of transmitting data from customers (C 1 , C 2 , C 3 , C 4 , C 5 , C 6 , C 7 , C 8 , C 9 , C 10 ) over a computer network, in particular over the Internet, where the data to be sent is...
7580352 Hub apparatus  
A hub apparatus is disclosed that includes plural input ports; a policer unit that monitors the input bandwidth of the input ports and controls acquisition and discarding of input packet data input...
7577096 Timestamp metering and rollover protection in a network device  
A network device for processing data on a data network includes a plurality of ports, configured to receive data from a data network and to send processed data to the data network, a memory...
7539143 Network switching device ingress memory system  
A switching device includes an ingress memory system having a VOQ-based design to provide an infrastructure for enabling fine-grained QoS and SLAs.
7522522 Method and system for reducing latency and congestion in fibre channel switches  
A method and system for routing fiber channel frames using a fiber channel switch element is provided. The switch element includes, a port with a buffer having more than one memory slot for...
7489632 Simple admission control for IP based networks  
A simple admission control mechanism for IP based networks is provided. The decision on whether a new flow is accepted is based on the link load information on the paths from the source to...
7489636 System and method for prioritizing packetized data from distributed control environment for transmission through a high bandwidth link  
A priority scheme is provided for ports assigned to respective channel units in a channel bank. The priority scheme is based on an amount of preallocated bandwidth unused by channel unit ports. A...
7483378 Edge switch  
An edge switch comprises a token bucket control unit which varies the amount of tokens flowing into a token bucket per unit time in accordance with the congestion condition of an IP network, and...
7477605 Methods providing variable granularity for data flow control using a leaky bucket  
The method provides variable granularity to control data flow by using a scalar parameter to modify buffer capacity indicator. The scalar parameter allows for adjustment of the data flow control...
7474670 Method and system for allocating bandwidth  
The present invention is directed to methods and systems for allocating bandwidth (or other shared resource) among multiple masters. According to an aspect of the present invention, an arbiter...
7474668 Flexible multilevel output traffic control  
A two stage rate shaping and scheduling system and method is implemented to control the flow of traffic to at least one output interface. The system and method involves initially queuing incoming...
7467223 TCP-friendly markers and methods using token buckets  
Systems and methods are disclosed for marking a packet with a precedence value in a TCP-friendly way. One system and method marks packets with a precedence value based on a probability function....
7466983 Overload protection in packet communication networks  
Methods of handling messages at an interface in a communication system include the steps of receiving a message having an information element indicating the message's type, determining whether a...
7450514 Method and device for delivering multimedia data using IETF QoS protocols  
A method and device for delivering multimedia data using IETF QoS protocols. MPEG media data can be transmitted in packet units through a network using the IETF QoS protocol by mapping MPEG media...
7447155 Guaranteed service in a data network  
According to an embodiment of the invention, a data controller comprises a traffic pattern collector to observe a data traffic pattern, the data traffic being comprised of data packets; a traffic...
7430207 Preemptive weighted round robin scheduler  
The present invention is to disclose a scheduler which comprising a priority tagging module for receiving a plurality of information chucks, a plurality of output lines, and a WRR (weighted round...
7430173 Data traffic policer  
A data traffic policer includes a classifier for separating a packet stream in accordance with class, a first bucket for a first traffic class representing a first transmission rate and a first...
7426185 Backpressure mechanism for switching fabric  
Roughly described, a packet switching fabric contains a separate queue scheduler for each combination of an input module and a fabric output port. The schedulers may also be specific to a single...
7420917 Bandwidth policing method and packet transfer apparatus with bandwidth policing function  
In a bandwidth policing apparatus which accommodates a large number of user groups, bandwidth policing for each user group is performed at high speed. When there is any extra bandwidth in bandwidth...
7418505 IP address lookup using either a hashing table or multiple hash functions  
The present invention relates to an IP address lookup method and hardware architecture. There is provided an IP address lookup method using a hashing table, the hashing table being constructed with...
7406046 Scheduler for signaling a time out  
A buffer storage memory data scheduler includes a write unit writing data objects to the memory, which unit receives data packets from a data source at a variable transmission rate, calculates...
7382727 System and method for asymmetrical bandwidth management  
System and method for allocating and managing a shared Internet access channel on an Internet access device. The system and method prioritize data flow in a multi-user, limited bandwidth networking...
7369491 Regulating data-burst transfer  
The invention discloses methods and apparatus for regulating the transfer of data bursts across a data network comprising electronic edge nodes interconnected by fast-switching optical core nodes....
7355977 Method and system for a weighted allocation table  
A method and system for creating and maintaining an allocation table that associates allocation buckets with corresponding target identifiers. Each target identifier has a corresponding weighting...
7349406 Method and apparatus for virtual network connection merging  
A method and apparatus are provided for performing a virtual network connection merge. In one example, the method assembles at least one data unit from data traffic of at least one network...
7349338 Scheduler and method for scheduling transmissions in a communication network  
A scheduler and a method for scheduling transmissions to a plurality of users in a communication network assigns a higher target minimum throughput for receiving a next transmission to a user based...
7349444 SONET/SDH SPE/virtual container retiming with adaptive dual pointer leak rate computation  
Methods for retiming SONET signals include demultiplexing STS-1 signals from an STS-N signal, buffering each of the STS-1 signals in a FIFO, determining the FIFO depth over time, and determining a...
7349342 Traffic metering in data networks  
Methods and apparatus are provided for metering data packets having a plurality of different packet lengths in a data communications network. A token count T C is incremented at a token increment...
7333436 Network device with traffic shaping functions and bandwidth control method using leaky bucket algorithm  
A network device with bandwidth usage control functions using a leaky bucket algorithm to provide a traffic service conforming to given user parameters. A leaky bucket counter produces a new...
7327682 Methods and devices for flexible bandwidth allocation  
Method and devices are provided for allocating network resources in a flexible manner. In some implementations, a customer's unused resources for a particular type of service are assigned to...
7313093 Methods and apparatus for selectively discarding packets during overload conditions  
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for selectively discarding packets such as in, but not limited to a packet switching system, by reacting to packet traffic conditions to reduce or eliminate the...
7280560 Differentiated services with multiple tagging levels  
A method for handling traffic in a communication network includes setting an aggregate limit on a total rate of transmission of information by a group of flows to be transmitted over the network,...
7277391 Active queue management using proportional control and rate-based information  
Disclosed is an Active Queue Management method and apparatus which uses traffic rate information for congestion control. Using a nonlinear fluid-flow model of Traffic Control Protocol, a...
7257124 Method and apparatus for improving the fairness of new attaches to a weighted fair queue in a quality of service (QoS) scheduler  
In a first aspect, a network processor includes a scheduler in which a scheduling queue is maintained. A last frame is dispatched from a flow queue maintained in the network processor, thereby...
7236458 Method for monitoring traffic in packet switched network  
A method for monitoring traffic in a packet switched network. The packet switched network includes connections grouped in a single group; token buffers for respectively corresponding to the...
7184404 Programmable inter-packet gap generator with byte granularity  
A process of generating an inter-packet gap in a network device is disclosed. First, it is determined whether a next packet is available to forward from a packet buffer. The number of tokens...
7173908 Flexible policing technique for telecommunications traffic  
A policing technique for a telecommunications traffic of variable length packets is described. The technique uses a plurality of police engines, grouped in pairs. A selection module selects a...
7161945 Cable modem termination system  
A cable modem termination system including a media access controller, at least one physical layer transceiver in connection with the media access controller for receiving and transmitting data, a...
7123583 Dual use rate policer and re-marking logic  
A method for performing rate policing and re-marking in a packet switched communications network that can be used to enforce and/or monitor Class of Services (CoS) contracts including terms for...
7113479 Aggregated rate control method and system  
A network device, which includes a plurality of network ports, a switching unit, a data classification unit, and a rate control unit, is provided. The plurality of network ports is configured to...
7099943 Regulating usage of computer resources  
A method is described that can be used to regulate the usage of resources in a network system. A software tool can be used to regulate access to a system resource. The preferred method uses a...
7085236 Active queue management for differentiated services  
A method of regulating queuing delay in a network routing device independent of TCP loading is provided including receiving data packets, monitoring the data packets using token buckets and a...
7050447 Multi-level expedited forwarding per hop behavior  
A method and system utilizing a multi-level expedited forwarding per hop behavior (MLEF PHB) which manages buffer space to provide priority to calls based on a predefined priority scheme. The MLEF...
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