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20130297757 | UNITED ROUTER FARM SETUP - One embodiment of the present invention provides a computing system. The computing system includes a processor, a memory, a discovery mechanism, a switch management mechanism, and a configuration management mechanism. The discovery mechanism discovers a remote switch. The switch management mechanism registers the remote switch and transmits a switch image to the remote switch, thereby allowing the remote switch to install the image. The configuration management mechanism configures the remote switch, thereby allowing the remote switch to be controlled by the computing system. | 11-07-2013 |
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20150124830 | LABEL SWITCHING PATH ESTABLISHMENT METHOD, DATA FORWARDING METHOD, AND DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a label switching path establishment method, a data forwarding method, and a device. The establishment method includes: determining, by a first service controller, each hop on an LSP from a preset ingress to a preset egress, allocating, from first label space information of each hop, a label to each hop, determining incoming and outgoing information of each hop according to topology information of each hop, generating forwarding data of each hop, and sending the forwarding data of each hop to a node device corresponding to each hop to complete establishment of the LSP. A technical solution of the present invention can alleviate burden of a node device in an MPLS network and increase the number of LSPs that the node device is capable of supporting. | 05-07-2015 |
20150146571 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK PATH - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a device, and a system for controlling a network path, where the method includes: the first control device generates path information for a first AP according to network topology information, and generates first forwarding information for the first AP according to acquired forwarding resource information of the first AP and the path information, and sends the first forwarding information to the first AP; the first control device determines that a second AP which is not managed by the first control device is included in the path information, sends the path information to a second control device for managing the second AP, so that the second control device generates second forwarding information for the second AP according to the path information and the acquired forwarding resource information of the second AP, and sends the second forwarding information to the second AP. | 05-28-2015 |
20150249599 | VIRTUAL CLUSTER ESTABLISHMENT METHOD AND NETWORK DEVICE - The present invention provides a virtual cluster establishment method and a network device. The method includes: a first network device establishes, a network-layer-based first communication connection with a second network device; the first network device sends a first registration request message to the second network device through the first communication connection, where the first registration request message is used to establish a virtual cluster with the second network device; after the first network device receives a registration response message, selecting the second network device as an active main control device in the virtual cluster system; establishes, a network-layer-based second communication connection with a third network device; sends, a second registration request message to the third network device; and selects the third network device as a standby main control device. In this invention, a structure of a cluster is simplified, and scalability of the cluster is improved. | 09-03-2015 |
20150349970 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING MULTICAST DATA CHANNEL IN NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION SYSTEM - The method of establishing a multicast data channel in a network virtualization system includes: creating, on a controller, a virtual remote logical interface for an external interface of a remote node; generating, a multicast tree tunnel that uses a core node as a root, and obtaining a multicast protocol packet sent by a device outside the network virtualization system; acquiring, a multicast source address and a multicast group address from the multicast protocol packet, and generating a multicast forwarding table; searching, the multicast forwarding table for an external interface of the core node, searching for an outbound interface of the multicast tree tunnel on the core node according to the multicast tree tunnel, and generating a P2MP PW forwarding table of the core node, and sending the P2MP PW forwarding table of the core node to the core node. The method implements a multicast service in a virtual cluster router. | 12-03-2015 |
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20160036625 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROTECTING SERVICE RELIABILITY AND NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method and a device for protecting service reliability, and the service reliability in the network virtualization system provided by the present disclosure may be ensured. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a master node having a control function obtains the current service type information and notifies a slave node of the current service type information, for enabling the slave node to determine a main virtual link and a backup virtual link according to the service type information and to perform the failure detection, and when detecting that the main virtual link has failure and the backup virtual link has no failure, a service data message is switched to be transmitted on the backup virtual link, to ensure non-interrupted transmission of a service data message in a brand-new system architecture provided by the present disclosure, so as to ensure the service reliability. | 02-04-2016 |
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20110075782 | STREAM CLOCK RECOVERY IN HIGH DEFINITION MULTIMEDIA DIGITAL SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides techniques for recovering source stream clock data at the sink in a high definition multimedia digital content transport system. The disclosure includes a fractional-N Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) based clock generator, a programmable Sigma-Delta Modulator (SDM), and a clock data calibrator to fully recover the original source stream clock data. The fractional-N PLL provides flexible source stream clock recovery. When there is a frequency deviation between the original clock and the regenerated clock, the clock data calibrator control circuit adjusts the clock data, preventing any stream data buffer overflow or underflow problems. The disclosed techniques are compatible with the sink devices based on the standards of DisplayPort and HDMI. | 03-31-2011 |
20110267116 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR DISPLAYPORT VIDEO CLOCK RECOVERY - A method and a circuit are described for recovery of video clocks for a DisplayPort receiver. The disclosure includes two clock dividers, a direct digital synthesis (DDS), a fixed multiplier Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) on a DisplayPort video system. A DisplayPort receiver link clock is divided to a lower frequency as the input of the DDS which can lower the performance requirement on a DDS circuit. The output from a time stamp value indirectly controls a direct digital synthesis device, which then drives a PLL to generate the recovery clock signal. The technique is suitable for implementation on an integrated circuit and Field Programmable Gate array system. | 11-03-2011 |
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20110310070 | IMAGE SPLITTING IN A MULTI-MONITOR SYSTEM - A multi-monitor display driver that splits a received video image into multiple images for display on separate monitors. The driver includes a line buffer where data from a received image is written. Monitor interfaces can receive data from a portion of the line buffer corresponding to the interface to split the image. | 12-22-2011 |