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7369504 Bandwidth management of resilient packet ring network  
Techniques for bandwidth management and flow control on a resilient packet ring (RPR) network is described. The RPR requires allocation and guarantee of a bandwidth for each channel between two...
7330908 System and method for processing packets using location and content addressable memories  
An apparatus and method for enhancing the infrastructure of a network such as the Internet is disclosed. A packet interceptor/processor apparatus is coupled with the network so as to be able to...
7324449 Method and apparatus for dynamic backhaul resource management in a wireless communication system  
Various embodiments are described to address the need to lower backhaul costs for EGPRS operators while maintaining the low and constant delay characteristics they require. 20 msec TRAU frames (...
7324446 Communication method, related buffering element and line termination element  
The present invention relates to a communication method, and related buffering and line termination elements to be used in a communication network. The communication network includes a buffering...
7304954 Identification of non-performing switches in the path of a connection  
A connection-trace standard is used to collect cell-drop information from switches in the path of a network connection in order to identify non-performing switches. Special codes may be inserted in...
7239647 Band control system for a digital subscriber network and band control method therefor  
A band control system for a digital subscriber line network in which a first apparatus and a second apparatus situated at a subscriber station and a center, respectively, are interconnected by a...
7203171 Ingress discard in output buffered switching devices  
Disclosed herein is a packet switching device coupled to receive inbound packets from a network, switch the packets through a switching fabric, and provide outbound packets to a network. Multiple...
7184705 Distributed MAC in an uncoordinated radio environment  
In a communication network having a plurality of units and a distributed MAC protocol, wherein data is exchanged between units during at least some of the time slots in a succession of time slots,...
7184439 Method and system for optimizing switch-transaction processing in a telecommunications network  
A method, system and article for optimizing the processing of switch transactions and updating multiple switches of a communications network based on a single transaction is provided. When a switch...
7145907 Method for removing ATM cells from an ATM communications device  
A method for removal of ATM cells (2, 6) from an ATM communications device wherein ATM cells (2, 3, 5, 6) are respectively allocated in pluralities to a common frame (8, 9), whereby all ATM cells...
7136360 Available-bit-rate service in an asynchronous transfer mode based spacecraft network  
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) data is transmitted in Available Bit Rate (ABR) service over a network path including a spacecraft. The spacecraft payload switches do not provide an indication of...
7110365 Apparatus for analyzing performance of traffic in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch and method thereof, and ATM switching system employing the same  
An apparatus and method for analyzing the performance of an ATM switch, and an ATM switching system employing the same. The apparatus includes a traffic detecting portion for detecting traffic of...
7110363 Virtual-channel merging  
A method for operating a router which combines virtual channels is disclosed, where both forward and reverse directed resource management cells are used to control transmission rate of a source...
7110362 Network management system  
A network management system is provided which is capable of reducing a load of processing to be performed by each of nodes when information about a path on a network in each of nodes is acquired. ...
7106704 Method for managing physical resources of a radio access network  
The present invention proposes a method for controlling transmission resources of a radio access network adapted to transmit data packets in real time traffic and in non-real traffic, the method...
7103050 Method and means for determining the used bandwidth on a connection  
The invention relates to a method for determining the used bandwidth (CCR) on a connection ( 18 ) on which information-carrying units are transported. The duration (ET) of an arrival period, during...
7088678 System and method for traffic shaping based on generalized congestion and flow control  
A system and methods are shown for traffic shaping and congestion avoidance in a computer network such as a data-over-cable network. A headend of the data-over-cable system includes a traffic...
7076258 Location registration method and paging method in mobile communication system, mobile communication system, base station, communication control method, mobile station, and communication control program  
A system controlling the traffic balance between the paging of incoming calls and a location registration and including a plurality of base and mobile stations and a management server for location...
7072302 Data cell traffic management  
A method for controlling data cell transmission in a network can be implemented at a network element through which data cells are transferred between source and destination nodes. The method...
7054317 Method for controlling transmission control protocol window size in asynchronous transfer mode network  
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a transmission control protocol window size in an asynchronous transfer mode which determines a TCP congestion window size by using an...
7047308 System and method for simultaneous media playout  
A system and method have been provided for achieving simultaneous media playout in a network including a server and a plurality of clients. The method comprises: from a server, supplying a media...
7006443 Multicast flow control  
An information cell transmission method includes receiving flow control cells at a switch from a collection of multicast virtual circuits and aggregating the flow control cells to form an aggregate...
6977898 Method for supporting high priority calls on a congested WAN link  
A network node is configured to negotiate for connections for high priority calls (e.g., voice calls) received at the node in the face of otherwise congested outbound communication links. The...
6967927 Method of transmitting data flows over an ATM network and device for implementing the method  
Data flows generated in accordance with a connected mode protocol and formatted in packets in accordance with a non-connected mode protocol are transmitted via an ATM network. A set of virtual...
6967923 Bandwidth allocation for ATM available bit rate service  
An ATM switch, and method for operating such a switch, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the switch detects ABR VCs that are likely bottlenecked elsewhere in their network path, allowing it to...
6963538 Controlling ATM layer transfer characteristics based on physical layer dynamic rate adaptation  
A system and method for managing data traffic through a path that includes a transmission link having a transport rate that is subject to change with time. In one embodiment the data traffic is...
6912199 Method to select transmission rate for network device  
A network node has multiple physical layer devices (PHYs), multiple media access controllers, and means for gathering and utilizing information regarding the capabilities of other nodes on the...
6882624 Congestion and overload control in a packet switched network  
The invention relates to a method for controlling overload in a packet switched network, especially in a network where Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is used as the transport layer protocol....
6865156 Bandwidth control method, cell receiving apparatus, and traffic control system  
In a communication network in which a group of connections has an assigned group bandwidth and each connection in the group has a minimum bandwidth, bandwidth usage is controlled by calculating the...
6865152 Method and apparatus for transmitting packets onto a network  
A network driver for transmitting packets. For a particular embodiment the driver receives an indication that a packet is available for transmission and monitors a packet pending transmission...
6785238 LAN relaying/switching apparatus  
In a LAN relaying/switching apparatus accommodating many LAN transmission lines, a controller performs a flow control which limits a data transmission for terminal portions which have inputted the...
6751195 Communication control device for providing an ABR service function, and ATM switching system including the same  
A communication control device includes an RM cell receiving unit which receives an incoming RM cell from a source terminal via a forward transmission line. A point-to-multipoint RM cell...
6744733 Network system  
A plurality of bridges accommodating LANs are connected through an ATM network in a network system of the present invention. When a specified bridge is newly connected to this ATM network, the...
6741565 System and method for estimating cell rate in an ATM network  
A method/system for estimating cell rate is provided. The cell rate to be reported to an ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) source may be estimated using a previously calculated cell rate parameter...
6724728 Method and system for distributed processing of traffic in a telecommunications node  
A method and system for distributed processing of traffic in a telecommunications node includes receiving a traffic stream at a line card of the telecommunications node. The traffic stream includes...
6711133 Method for controlling congestion in ATM switching system  
A method is provided for controlling congestion in an ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) switching system composed of a plurality of cell buffers incorporated in order to make its switching capacity...
6674723 Apparatus and method of monitoring a queue state in an asynchronous transfer mode switch  
Disclosed is an apparatus and method of monitoring the queue state of a switch in the subscriber board of an asynchronous transfer mode switching system. A difference value between the present time...
6671259 Method and system for wide area network load balancing  
A system and method of load balancing a network having a plurality of client systems and servers. The load balancing system and method distributes requests from the client systems to different...
6671257 Feedback control method and device in ATM switching system  
In an ATM switching system, an ABR service is implemented with a specific ABR control capability. A subscriber line processing device includes calculating a turnaround delay time of a cell, based...
6657964 Terminal with bandwidth control function  
A terminal with a shaper comprising an ABR bandwidth calculator for calculating a shaping bandwidth from congestion notification information in each received RM cell and a bandwidth allocator for...
6657961 System and method for enhanced end station to end station data flow control  
A system and method for controlling data flow in an available bit rate asynchronous transfer mode ATM network. In the ATM network, a transmitting end station transmits data to a receiving end...
6643264 ATM exchange  
The ATM exchange of the present invention comprises an input line interface and an output line interface. The input line interface comprises an FRM extractor for deciding whether each ATM cell sent...
6631122 Method and system for wireless QOS agent for all-IP network  
A wireless quality of service (QoS) agent for an all-Internet Protocol (IP) network. The QoS agent couples to an all-IP network. The coupling means includes communication means for transfer of...
6631116 Method of indicating mini cell size  
The invention relates to a method of changing the size of mini cells belonging to an individual connection during an ongoing connection. A control mini cell is used for this purpose. The control...
6597659 Method of and apparatus for conforming data cell transmission rate between source and destination terminals  
The present invention concerns a method of controlling the conformity of the transmission rate of data cells transmitted by a source terminal in communication with a destination terminal. It...
6587437 ER information acceleration in ABR traffic  
A method and network element for feedback control for adjusting a rate of message transmission over a connection in a network is provided. The connection comprises a source and destination linked...
6587436 Method and apparatus for allocation of available bandwidth  
A data transfer flow control system for a packet ATM communications system includes a plurality of nodes interconnected by transmission links. Available bandwidth allocation for data packets or...
6570854 System and method for performing explicit rate marking for flow control in ATM networks using a virtual bandwidth-based methodology  
An explicit rate marking system is disclosed for use in connection with a switching node to generate an explicit rate value for use in a resource management cell associated with a virtual circuit...
6556542 Transfer rate controlling device and method thereof  
A cell transmitted from a transmitting terminal is multicast to a plurality of receiving terminals. The plurality of receiving terminals respectively transmit B-RM cells to the transmitting...
6549518 Policing method and apparatus with small access amount to cell data table for policing determination  
In a policing apparatus, a cell receiving unit receives cells to temporarily store the received cells and performs a policing violation process to each of the received cells as a reception cell...
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