Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130121686 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISCOVERING NETWORK TOPOLOGY - A method for determining network topology of a provider network includes selecting a first network element, selecting a first port on the first network element, and iteratively performing connectivity validation tests using the first port, wherein each connectivity validation test is associated with a type of network element and yields a result that indicates whether a second port on a second network element of the associated type is connected to the first port. A system for discovering topology of a network, the system comprising a topology discovery engine in operable communication with a near network element and operable to identify a first port of a far network element that is connected to a second port of the near network element by remotely altering operation of the near network element to cause the second network element to respond in a manner that identifies the first port. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124908 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC REPLACEMENT AND REPAIR OF COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK DEVICES - Systems and methods for automatic repair, replacement, and/or configuration of various network devices within a communications network are disclosed. The system may receive indication of a failed network device and automatically perform diagnostic on the network device to determine any problems associated with the hardware and/or software components within the network device. Subsequently one or more repair, replacement, and/or configuration procedures may be automatically initiated in an attempt to resolve the problems and restore the failed network device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130159472 | CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A content delivery network (CDN) includes a control core; and a plurality of caches, each of said caches constructed and adapted to: upon joining the CDN, obtain global configuration data from the control core; and obtain data from other caches. Each of the caches is further constructed and adapted to, having joined the CDN, upon receipt of a request for a particular resource: obtain updated global configuration data, if needed; obtain a customer configuration script (CCS) associated with the particular resource; and serve the particular resource in accordance with the CCS. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159473 | CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A device is operable in a content delivery network (CDN). The device has a cache server mechanism constructed and adapted to: upon joining the CDN, obtain global configuration data from a control core of the CDN; and, having joined the CDN, obtain updated global configuration data, if needed; and obtain customer configuration information associated with at least one customer of the CDN. The device serves a particular resource associated with a particular customer of the CDN in accordance with (i) the global configuration data, and (ii) customer configuration information obtained in and associated with the particular customer. | 06-20-2013 |
20130162756 | IP-BASED CONFERENCING IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. In one embodiment, the conferencing system may utilize Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to conduct the routing of the collaboration conferences within the telecommunications network. The SIP-based routing provides for the exchanging of information from one device of the conferencing system to another that is not available in non-IP based conferencing systems. Thus, through the use of IP-based telecommunication devices, the network provides beneficial features for collaboration conferencing. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163409 | DISASTER RECOVERY WITH A CENTRAL CONFERENCING ROUTING SERVER - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. In one embodiment, the conferencing routing server is configured to respond to a failure in a conference bridge to allow for repair to the network and/or account for split conferences that may occur due to the bridge failure. In one embodiment, the CCRS may account for moving a conference bridge into an offline state by removing the conference bridge from consideration for hosting a collaboration conference. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163435 | LOAD BALANCING IN A CENTRAL CONFERENCING ROUTING SERVER - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. In one embodiment, the conferencing routing service may maintain a database of information or preferences associated with the conference requester and attempt to select a conference bridge based on the requester's information. Further, the conferencing routing service may receive performance information from a plurality of conference bridges that are able to conduct the collaboration conference and select a conference bridge in response to the performance information. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163481 | CENTRAL CONFERENCING ROUTING SERVER - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163587 | VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL REAL TIME PROTOCOL ROUTING - A method for call signaling and media flow in a network including receiving call signaling information from an originating Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) endpoint relaying the call signaling information to a destination VoIP endpoint, directing the originating VoIP endpoint to use a RTP media proxy and receiving a stream of media to the RTP media proxy from the originating VoIP endpoint. | 06-27-2013 |
20130170344 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ASYMMETRICAL AND DYNAMIC ROUTING - An asymmetrical and dynamic routing system (ADRS) is provided to enable the dynamic adjustment of the bandwidth capacity of two or more network devices exchanging data. The two or more network devices monitor their current bandwidth demand between themselves and others in a network and a first network device can transmit bandwidth request to a second network device when the first network device reaches transmission bandwidth capacity. Each network device is further configured with additional transmit and receive ports and can be selectively enabled in response to a bandwidth request from other network devices. Each network device is further configured to generate control signals that are sent to optical mirrors to re-direct data signals to or from the one or more enabled additional transmit and receive ports. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173706 | METHOD FOR ROUTING IN A CENTRAL CONFERENCING ROUTING SERVER - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. A collaboration conferencing routing server may provide configurability in routing a collaboration conference to a conference bridge based on any number of criteria and information about the requester and the communications network on which the conference occurs. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179224 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND CONVERTING SALES OPPORTUNITIES - Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method of displaying and reviewing prospective customers. The system and/or method may display a prospect map showing geographic areas, corresponding technical infrastructure, and prospects present in the areas. The prospect displayed may be adjusted based on user defined prospect attributes. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179225 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND CONVERTING SALES OPPORTUNITIES - Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method of sales prospect and customer service optimization. The system and/or method may include a computing device which operates a plurality of computing modules. These modules include a prospect module for displaying a geographic map along with technical infrastructure information and prospect information, a present module displaying a plurality of content associated with rich content, by providing an interface allowing a user to drag and drop content into a presentation flow; and a quote module for quickly creating a quote for presentation to a customer. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179790 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND CONVERTING SALES OPPORTUNITIES - Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method of creating a presentation. The system and/or method is configured to take basic user input about a customer and a subject and automatically generate a title slide and select appropriate assets for inclusion in a presentation in order to provide the user with an easy to use system for adding content to the presentation. The system automatically populates an asset board with presentation assets associated with the customer and the subject selected. A user may then select from the assets board, which presentation assets to include in the presentation and in which order. | 07-11-2013 |