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7430175 Method and system for managing traffic in fibre channel systems  
Method and system for routing fiber channel frames using a fiber channel switch element is provided. The method includes, inserting a time stamp value in a fiber channel frame that is received at a...
7430176 Adaptive timing of update messages transmitted by routers employing the border gateway protocol  
A method for border nodes using the Border Gateway Protocol to advertise path updates to peer nodes in other domains involves calculating the update interval for each advertisement of an update of...
7430164 Path recovery on failure in load balancing switch protocols  
A method for managing multiple active paths among a plurality of network switches to identify and select an alternate path in response to failure of a path from a switch to a device. Load balancing...
7428213 Method and apparatus for determining network routing information based on shared risk link group information  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing a shortest path first network routing path determination in a data communications network based in part on information about links that are...
7428221 Arrangement for providing network prefix information from attached mobile routers to a clusterhead in a tree-based ad hoc mobile network  
Mobile routers establish a tree-based network topology in an ad hoc mobile network, the tree-based network topology having a single clusterhead and attached mobile routers. Each attached mobile...
7426186 Data path provisioning in a reconfigurable data network  
A method for data path provisioning in a reconfigurable data network is disclosed. A data path between a source IP router and a destination IP router is determined taking into account the...
7424017 Techniques for introducing in-band network management packets in multi-protocol label switching networks  
A system and method for introducing in-band network management packets (INMPs) in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. MPLS is an emerging technology, which integrates Internet Protocol...
7423973 Methods and apparatus for hybrid multicast and unicast transmissions in a data network  
Methods and apparatus for hybrid multicast and unicast transmissions in a data network. A method is provided for operating a server on a data network. The method includes computing a multicast cost...
7421203 Method for transmitting packet in wireless access network based on wavelength identification code scheme  
A method for transmitting a packet in a wireless access network based on a wavelength identification code scheme. The method comprises the steps of connecting n number of RNCs (Radio Network...
7420923 Optimizing software distribution in large communication networks  
The present invention is related to optimizing software distribution in large communication networks (e.g. UMTS). A distribution graph including the nodes involved in the distribution spanned out...
7417962 QoS capable mobile ad-hoc network device  
The ad-hoc router enables a decentralized IP routing network (mobile of fixed) amongst a set of network devices, and can offer quality of services for voice, video and data applications. The ad-hoc...
7417947 Routing protocol failover between control units within a network router  
A device includes a primary control unit and a standby control unit. The standby control unit records routing communications exchanged between the primary control unit and an external routing...
7414977 Power and delay sensitive ad-hoc communication networks  
An ad-hoc wireless communication network includes multiple nodes. Each node maintains a routing table. The routing table is constructed by broadcasting route request packets from a source node. The...
7414978 Minimum-cost routing with network coding  
A method and computer program product for performing minimum cost routing with network coding is presented. The method and system model a network as a directed graph. A cost per unit flow is...
7415019 Apparatus and method for collecting active route topology information in a mobile ad hoc network  
A first MANET node that collects route information associated with a first route from a source MANET node to a destination MANET node in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). The first MANET node...
7414979 Method and apparatus for per session load balancing with improved load sharing in a packet switched network  
Systems and methods for implementing per-session load balancing of packets that increase traffic sharing and reduce systematic unequal distribution of traffic are provided by virtue of one...
7411963 Method for dissemination of non-routing information using the IS-IS protocol  
A method and apparatus for the dissemination of non-routing information to nodes of a network is provided. A new type of IS-IS packet (called a NRI IS-IS packet) is described that exclusively...
7412557 Apparatus and method for preventing loops in a computer network  
A network device is configured in a manner to prevent connectivity loops such as one way connectivity loops. A user configures a port of the network device to have an associated state. The state...
7412245 Dynamic wireless meshing network for supporting load balance and flow control  
The present invention relates to a dynamic wireless meshing network system, which applies a management frame stipulated in IEEE 802.11 standard for regulating access point (AP) to a wireless...
7408897 Method for assigning home agent in mobile network  
A method, system and apparatus for selecting an optimal home agent in a mobile IP network, are provided. The method enables selection of a topologically optimal home agent for establishing an...
7408881 Differential delay constrained routing for virtually-concatenated data traffic  
Virtually-concatenated data traffic is routed in a network comprising a plurality of nodes. For a given traffic demand to be routed from a source node to a destination node in the network, an...
7408896 Method and system for providing mobile wireless access points  
A mobile access point is disclosed. The mobile access point includes a terminal module configured to provide one or more terminal functions for use by a user, the one or more terminal functions...
7406054 Routing method for wireless networks  
A routing method is used to establish a data transfer path between a source node and a destination node in wireless networks having a tree structure. If a relay node relaying a data transfer...
7406047 Method of computation of a short path in valued graphs  
A method of computing shortest paths in a weighted graph having vertices and an adjacency matrix with memory resources and a processor including (a) selecting integer weights; (b) carrying out a...
7406539 Method and apparatus for performance and cost optimization in an internetwork  
Systems and methods are described for supporting routing intelligence for evaluating routing paths based on performance measurements. The routing intelligence may include processes executed in a...
7406048 Tools and techniques for directing packets over disparate networks  
Methods, configured storage media, and systems are provided for communications using two or more disparate networks in parallel to provide load balancing across network connections, greater...
7403483 Optimum route calculation method and storage medium which stores optimum route calculation program  
In an optimum route calculation method of calculating an optimum route in a network which has a plurality of nodes and a plurality of transmission paths, and in which a cost is defined for each...
7403485 Optimum construction of a private network-to-network interface  
The number of nodes in a private network-to-network interface may be very large. These nodes can be organized in two or more hierarchical levels. Network performance parameters, for example, call...
7403482 Path provisioning for service level agreements in differentiated service networks  
A system and method for path provisioning in a network calculates an optimal path using a greedy algorithm with backtracking to execute service level agreements (SLAs). More specifically, a...
7403484 Switching fabrics and control protocols for them  
A network unit for use in a switching fabric stores for each network unit in the switching fabric a respective change identification number. In each unit this number is incremented on each change...
7398097 Dual-mesh network and communication system for emergency services personnel  
A communications system is provided for emergency services personnel that includes a plurality of portable devices and a base station. The portable devices are configured to be carried by emergency...
7397761 Routing restorable service-level-guaranteed connections using maximum 2-route flows  
A packet network employs restorable routing with service level guarantees. Restorable routing generates two disjoint paths through a network of nodes interconnected by links for a connection...
7397789 Providing routing paths for wireless devices  
A method and apparatus for generating connectivity is described. The method includes a server broadcasting a beacon including the server's address. The method further includes each client that...
7394763 Routing for networks with content filtering  
A network of nodes interconnected by links has content filtering specified at certain nodes, and routing of packet connections through the network is generated based on the specified...
7394766 Multi-link extensions and bundle skew management  
A method, apparatus, and system are provided for multi-link extensions and bundle skew management. According to one embodiment, multiple parallel links between a central processing unit (CPU) and a...
7394776 Network system for establishing path using redundancy degree and method thereof  
A method for establishing a path between nodes in a wireless network system. A source node broadcasts a route request (RREQ) packet for a destination node. A mobile node between the source node and...
7395351 Method for assigning link weights in a communications network  
The present invention includes a method and system for determining link weights that when utilized will optimize the performance of a network in the event of a link failure without the need to...
7394760 Method and system for correlating practical constraints in a network  
A system and method for identifying optimal mapping of logical links to the physical topology of a network is provided. Upon obtaining one or more mapping options for mapping multiple logical links...
7392373 Granularity on a per port basis of request-response communications over a networked computer system  
Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for improved granularity of a response-request communication on a networked computer system. One example embodiment includes receiving the request-response...
7391732 Scheme for randomized selection of equal cost links during restoration  
The present invention relates generally to restoration of services in a network. More particularly, the invention encompasses a scheme for randomized selection of equal cost links during...
7391731 Method for determining best path  
Multi-packet probes are forwarded from a source to a destination through different paths. The efficiencies of the different paths are then determined by comparing information collected from the...
7388841 Selecting multiple paths in overlay networks for streaming data  
A method selects multiple paths between a server and a client in an overlay network where nodes are connected by links. The nodes include the server and the client. Each path includes a set of...
7388842 Method and apparatus for efficient routing of variable traffic  
A method and apparatus for provide highly efficient traffic routing for a wide range of possible traffic matrices (TM) in an intra-domain network. That routing optimally balances the traffic loads...
7388840 Methods and apparatuses for route management on a networking control plane  
An open networking routing system includes at least one forwarding element, and a control element communicatively coupled to the forwarding element(s). In one embodiment, the control element is...
7379425 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...
7379424 Systems and methods for routing packets in multiprocessor computer systems  
A system and method of building a routing table for use in a multiprocessor computer system having a plurality of processing nodes and physical communication links interconnecting the processing...
7377835 Personal multimedia communication system and network for emergency services personnel  
A personal multimedia communication system and network for emergency services personnel includes a plurality of personal communication systems linked together and to a base station in a network....
7376087 Method and apparatus for monitoring and displaying routing metrics of a network  
The invention includes an apparatus and method for displaying path metrics associate with nodes and links within a network. The method includes determining path metric values associated with the...
7373103 Relay terminal, base station, charging server, communication system, charging method, program computer data signal, and storage medium  
In a relay terminal A for relaying packet communication between a destination terminal C located outside a service area of a base station Z, and the base station Z, a contribution to relaying is...
7372816 Method and apparatus for optimizing routing through network nodes  
A method for reducing the problem space associated with determining intra-network circuit provisioning paths within a large communications network by selecting only a sub-set of the total network...