| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 370360000 | Switching control | 72 |
| 20080198843 | Method and apparatus for switching data in communication system - A method and apparatus for switching data in communication system which comprises of mainly a conversion circuit to receive source data possessing real coding dimension and covert it to converted data possessing tolerable coding dimension; judgment bit is set in the converted data to designate the data as source data or not. Later on, shift circuit is used to shift the converted data in certain amount so as to generate a shifted data; meanwhile, the lowest bit and highest bit of shifted data are used to start acquiring real coding dimension to be used respectively as a first data and a second data, or by changing the pattern of acquiring the first data, then the highest bit minus the real coding dimension bit as the starting bit of the first data, and acquiring the real coding dimension from the side of the lowest bit. Finally, a comparison and selection circuit is used to compare the corresponding judgment bit in the first and the second data and to output an output data, wherein output data is source data with the above-mentioned amount of shift. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080219247 | Network switch deployment - Network devices, systems and methods are described that may be used in network switch deployment. One method embodiment includes physically connecting a network switch to a network prior to booting the network switch, booting the network switch into a non-bridging mode, and providing the network switch with a configuration while the switch is in the non-bridging mode. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080225837 | System and Method for Multi-Layer Distributed Switching - A system and method for multi-layer distributed switching is disclosed. In one embodiment, the distributed switching system comprises an external network connection connected to a plurality of computing nodes such that data signals can be sent to and from the computing nodes. An incoming director module is associated with a first computing node and associates a data signal with a second computing node. There is a request distribution network for distributing data signals among the nodes, a response generator module, and an outgoing director module associated with the second computing node. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080240090 | PROGRAMMABLE HIGH SPEED CROSSBAR SWITCH - A method for switching digital signals is disclosed. From an external control connection, the method configures a plurality of digital signal paths with at least one crossbar switch and controls a plurality of input and output connections for the digital signals based on the crossbar switch configuration. The method further involves automatically revising the digital signal routing without manual intervention based on configuration commands from the external control connection. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080279180 | Managing a Node that Provides Access to Both Broadband and Narrowband Service - The present invention relates to a node, a line board arrangement and a management system in a telephony and data communication systems. The solution is to provide virtual combined ports in a Multi Service Access Node in a flexible way, by combining two standard physical line boards, one broadband line board and one narrowband line board to one virtual line board. The virtual combined port will be one physical access port, providing both narrowband services and DSL broadband services to a customer and subscriber. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080304477 | Carrier Class Resilience Solution For Switched Ethernet Local Area Networks (Lans) - A Carrier Class Ethernet switch is described herein that has a resilient switch control system (RSCS) which manages redundant switch matrixes that use redundant links to connect to one or more application blades (e.g., switches, end stations). The Ethernet switch has Carrier Class characteristics because a Rapid Link Supervision Protocol (RLSP) is used to detect a fault in anyone of the redundant links between the redundant switch matrixes and the application blades. And, a RLSP distribution policy is used to coordinate and control isolation measures between the redundant switch matrixes and the application blades. Also described herein is a method for providing resilient Ethernet connectivity in a network. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090041011 | Lawful Interception of Broadband Data Traffic - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for lawfully intercepting broadband data traffic. According to one aspect, a method for intercepting data traffic in a dedicated enterprise network comprising a range of contiguous Internet Protocol (IP) addresses is provided. According to the method, a plurality of provider edge (PE) routers and a plurality of provider (P) routers are deployed. Each of the PE routers is operatively coupled to each of the P routers in a multi-homed configuration, and each of the PE routers and P routers forms a communication link. The data traffic is intercepted across the communication links for the range of contiguous IP addresses. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090046708 | Methods And Systems For Transmitting A Data Attribute From An Authenticated System - A database operable to store at least one digital signature is provided. The database is communicatively coupled to a first system. A first digital signature associated with a data string is received from a second system at the first system. A determination is made regarding whether the first digital signature matches one of the at least one digital signatures. A data attribute associated with the data string is transmitted from the first system to the second system based on the determination. First system authentication data authenticating the first system as the source of the data attribute is provided. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090059909 | Method and system for loan application non-acceptance follow-up - An interface system ( | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090238178 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMPLEMENTING STREAM PROCESSING USING A RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL SWITCH - A method, system, and computer program product for implementing stream processing are provided. The system includes an application framework and applications containing dataflow graphs managed by the application framework running on a first network. The system also includes at least one circuit switch in the first network having a configuration that is controlled by the application framework, a plurality of processing nodes interconnected by the first network over one of wireline and wireless links, and a second network for providing at least one of control and additional data transfer over the first network. The application framework reconfigures circuit switches in response to monitoring aspects of the applications and the first network | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090245241 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD IN A HYBRID WIRED/WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - A method for communication is disclosed and includes performing by one or more processors in a first access point, receiving a first messaging protocol message from a first switch. The first messaging protocol message is also communicated from the first switch to at least a second switch. A second messaging protocol message may be communicated to the second switch and/or a second access point based on the receiving of the first messaging protocol message. Operation of the first switch, the second switch, the first access point, the second access point, and/or at least one of a plurality of access devices may be controlled utilizing the first messaging protocol message and/or at least the second messaging protocol message. The first messaging protocol message may be generated by the first switch. The first messaging protocol message and the second messaging protocol message may be an access point status message. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090262731 | CIRCULATING SWITCH - A circulating switch comprises switch modules of moderate capacities interconnected by a passive rotator. Data is sent from a one switch module to another switch module either directly, traversing the rotator once, or indirectly through at least one intermediate switch module where the rotator is traversed twice. A higher capacity extended circulating switch is constructed from higher-capacity switch modules, implemented as common memory switches and having multiple ports, interconnected through a multiplicity of rotators preferably arranged in complementary groups of rotators of opposite rotation directions. A polyphase circulating switch having a low switching delay is derived from a multi-rotator circulating switch by providing programmable rotators having adjustable relative rotator-cycle phases. A low delay high-capacity switch may also be constructed from prior-art medium-capacity rotator space switches with mutually phase-shifted rotation cycles. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100014513 | Reconfigurable Compute Engine Interconnect Fabric - A reconfigurable compute engine interconnect fabric includes a reconfigurable interconnect layer ( | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100040054 | Method for Provisioning Circuits on Multiple Parallel Links with a Single Setup Message - A method and system for provisioning circuits on multiple parallel links with a single setup message is disclosed. A setup message specifying links in a circuit path is transmitted to switches along the circuit path. If a switch determines that a link specified in the setup message has insufficient bandwidth for the circuit, the switch substitutes a parallel link having sufficient bandwidth for the specified link in the circuit path. The setup message can indicate whether substitution for a link is permitted. This can be used to prevent substitution for links when provisioning service routes for new circuits in order to maintain diversity requirements, while allowing substitution for links when provisioning restoration routes for failed circuits in order to reduce restoration time. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100103929 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DATA ALIGNER FOR MULTIPLE SERIAL RECEIVERS - A method, apparatus and system for employing an automatic data aligner for multiple serial receivers in serial link technologies is provided. In one embodiment, converting a transmission data path of a single bit into a parallel bit via a data aligner, wherein the data is being transmitted via one or more ports. Further, binding data transmission channels to reduce latency in transmission of the data, wherein the binding of the data transmission channels further includes inserting delay to match latency via the one or more ports. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110013624 | Technique for Interconnecting Functional Modules of an Apparatus - An apparatus such as a mobile telephone or a network card is described. In one implementation, the apparatus comprises a first functional module, a second functional module and a hub circuit. The hub circuit includes a first downstream port connectable to the first functional module, a second downstream port connectable to the second functional module and an upstream port adapted to be coupled to an external device. The hub circuit is configured to couple the upstream port with at least one of the first and second downstream port. Moreover, the hub circuit comprises a switching mechanism adapted to selectively couple the first downstream port internally within the hub circuit with the second downstream port to enable a data transfer between the first functional module and the second functional module. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110026519 | DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE ANALOG ROUTING CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR SYSTEM ON A CHIP - An integrated circuit device may include a reconfigurable analog signal switching fabric comprising a plurality of global buses that are selectively connected to external pins by pin connection circuits in response to changeable analog routing data, and a plurality of local buses that are selectively connected to analog blocks and/or global buses by routing connection circuits in response to the analog routing data; and at least one processor circuit that executes predetermined operations in response to instruction data. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110090905 | Switching Matrix and Method For Specifying a Switching Matrix - A method is proposed to specify a switching matrix (SM) for connecting selected ingress ports to selected egress ports of the a Benes network with a plurality of interconnected switching elements (SE) arranged in stages (S | 04-21-2011 |
| 20120069841 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING SWITCHING CONTROL COMMAND - The present invention provides a method for processing a switch control command for solving the problem that consistency of data of the network device and the network management is unable to be kept in the process of processing the switch control command in the prior art. This method includes: when a priority of obtained trigger information is higher than a priority of a switch control command, discarding the switch control command ( | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120106545 | MAIN/STANDBY SWITCHING INTERFACE MODULE, NETWORK ELEMENT SYSTEM, AND LINK INFORMATION SYNCHRONIZATION DETECTION METHOD - The present invention discloses an active and standby switching interface module, a network element system and a method for synchronizing and detecting link information. In the scheme of the present invention, the standby switching function interface module sends a synchronization detection request message to a synchronization module, and performs synchronization processing on the link information on the standby switching function interface module according to a synchronization detection reply message from the synchronization module, wherein the synchronization detection reply message encapsulates the link information on the active switching function interface module. The scheme provided by the present invention effectively performs the synchronization and consistent detection on the link information, thereby correctly switch the data on the active switching function interface module to the link of the standby switching function interface module when the active switching function interface module is required to perform the active and standby switching. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120189004 | Data Center Switch - A method of transferring data in a network is provided. Data is received at a sub-switch of a first bundled switch having a plurality of sub-switches, the sub-switch being configured to only couple to connections external to the first bundled switch. The method also includes transferring the data from the first bundled switch using a multi-lane cable coupled to a second bundled switch, a first end of the multi-lane cable coupled to a sub-switch in the first bundled switch and a second end of the multi-lane cable coupled to at least two sub-switches in the second bundled switch. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20130034094 | Virtual Switch Data Control In A Distributed Overlay Network - An approach is provided in which a hypervisor provisions switch resources on a network interface card, which includes a virtual switch and a physical port. The hypervisor invokes a switch control module on a virtual machine, which provides control information to one or more of the switch resources. In turn, one or more of the switch resources utilize the control information to direct data packets between a source virtual machine and a destination virtual machine over one or more virtual networks that are independent of physical topology constraints of a physical network. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130107878 | METHOD FOR NODE COMMUNICATION | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130142196 | DISTRIBUTING FUNCTIONS IN A DISTRIBUTED AND EMBEDDED ENVIRONMENT - The different switch modules making up a distributed virtual switch may route configuration commands for hardware resources to different modules within the distributed switch using a distribution and routing layer. At least one of the switch modules maintains a routing table that defines which switch modules are responsible for which hardware resources. The switch module uses the routing tables to forward the commands on the distribution and routing layer to the responsible switch module which then ensures that the relevant hardware resources are configured. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130195104 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICES - A method for managing power consumption by a network device is disclosed. The network device includes first and second ports, each of the first and second ports identified by a unique identifier and adapted to handle separate network traffic. The method includes verifying that the first and the second ports are connected to a common network end node; shutting off a link between the first port and the network end node; obtaining the unique identifier of the first port; creating, on the second port, a virtual port in response to the unique identifier of the first port; discovering the virtual port on the network device; and redirecting traffic formerly routed through the link through the virtual port. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130329725 | FACILITATING OPERATION OF ONE OR MORE VIRTUAL NETWORKS - Techniques for facilitating the operation of one or more virtual networks are described. In some examples, a system may include a first controller node device configured to control operation of a first set of elements in the one or more virtual networks, wherein the first set of elements includes a first server device. The system may also include a second controller node device configured to control operation of a second set of elements in the one or more virtual networks, wherein the second set of elements includes the second server device. The first controller node device and the second controller node device are peers according to a peering protocol by which the first controller node device and the second controller node device exchange information relating to the operation of the first set of elements and the second set of elements. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20140126572 | PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED NETWORK-ON-CHIP - Systems and methods for providing a Network-On-Chip (NoC) structure on an integrated circuit for high-speed data passing. In some aspects, the NoC structure includes multiple NoC stations with a hard-IP interface having a bidirectional connection to local components of the integrated circuit. In some aspects, the NoC stations have a soft-IP interface that supports the hard-IP interface of the NoC station. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140133483 | Distributed Switch Architecture Using Permutation Switching - A distributed switch architecture using permutation switching. In one embodiment, the distributed switch architecture facilitates connections between a plurality of ingress nodes and a plurality of egress nodes, wherein each of the plurality of ingress nodes and plurality of egress nodes are coupled to a plurality of ports (e.g., 40 gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 100 GbE, etc.). A plurality of crossbar switch modules are provided that are configured for coupling to a single output from each of the plurality of ingress nodes, and for coupling to a single input from each of the plurality of egress nodes. Permutations of connections for a crossbar switch module are defined by a permutation connection set that is stored in a permutation engine. Each permutation connection in the permutation connection can be designed to couple one of the outputs from the plurality of ingress nodes to one of the inputs from the plurality of ingress nodes, wherein the permutation connection set can ensures that each of the plurality of ingress nodes has an opportunity to connect with each of the plurality of egress nodes. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140321459 | ARCHITECTURE FOR AGENTLESS SERVICE INSERTION - An example method for service insertion in a network environment is provided in one example and includes configuring a service node by tagging one or more interface ports of a virtual switch function to which the service node is connected with one or more policy identifiers. When data traffic associated with a policy identifier is received on a virtual overlay path the virtual switch function may then terminate the virtual overlay path and direct raw data traffic to the interface port of the service node that is tagged to the policy identifier associated with the data traffic. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140348160 | POWER OVER ETHERNET MANAGEMENT DEVICES AND CONNECTION BETWEEN ETHERNET DEVICES - In one embodiment, a connection is maintained between a pair of ethernet ports that have circuitry connected in series with the ports and receiving power-over-ethernet (PoE) from one of the ports, by providing a controllable bypass circuit coupled to the pair of ethernet ports in parallel with the circuitry receiving power-over-ethernet, sensing a preselected condition, and opening and closing the bypass circuit in response to the presence or absence of the preselected condition. Power sourcing equipment (PSE) may supply the one of the ports with power over ethernet, and the circuitry may transports data between the pair of ethernet ports. The circuitry may also supply the switch with a control signal in response to the detection of the preselected condition. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140362852 | DISSIMILAR SWITCH STACKING SYSTEM - A switch IHS stacking system includes a plurality of switch IHSs. A least one first switch IHS includes a first processing system and at least one second switch IHS includes a second processing system that is different from the first processing system. A stacking engine is located on each of the plurality of switch IHSs. Following the coupling of the plurality of switch IHSs into a stack and in response to the startup of the plurality of switch IHSs, the each of the stacking engines may exchange capability information with each of the plurality of switch IHSs and determine a control plane processing system affinity and a data plane processing system affinity for each of the plurality of switch IHSs. The stacking engines may then determine a master switch IHS for the stack that has the highest control plane processing system affinity and data plane processing system affinity. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20150103821 | HIERARCHICAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR SWITCH ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS - Managing resources in a multi-level switch assembly system, includes a resource tree with the multiple hierarchical levels, wherein a first level device is associated with a first level, one or more second and third level devices are associated with lower, second and third levels respectively, and so on. Cost tokens are assigned to the various devices based on their corresponding resource requirements. Resources of the multi-level switch assembly system, such as, ports and/or bandwidth, are dynamically allocated to the first, second, third level devices, and so on, based on their corresponding cost tokens in a hierarchical manner. | 04-16-2015 |
| 370362000 | Bus switch | 9 |
| 20080317013 | Efficient Transmission of Packets within a Network Communication Device - Systems and methods for efficient transmission of packets within a network communication device are described herein. Some illustrative embodiments include a network communication device that includes a plurality of ports (each port configured to communicate with one or more network devices), and a bus coupling the plurality of ports to each other (the bus providing a shared path for one or more bus transfers originated by a first port of the plurality of ports, and the one or more bus transfers including information). The bus includes a plurality of port map bits, a port map bit of said plurality of port map bits corresponding to a second port of the plurality of ports. The second port is configured to forward the information to the one or more network devices if the port map bit is asserted. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090185559 | INTEGRATION MODULE FOR UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS - An integration module for universal serial bus installed on an electronic equipment includes an integration unit electrically coupled on at least one transmission interface of the electronic equipment to be driven by a host-to-host control unit to enter a host-to-host transmission mode or a host-to-device control unit to enter a host-to-device transmission mode. The integration unit has a switch mechanism to determine whether the transmission interface to become the host-to-host transmission mode or the host-to-device transmission mode. Through the switch mechanism of the integration unit, a single transmission interface can selectively transmit data between hosts or between a host and devices. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20130322434 | Network Mechanism, Network Arrangement And Method For Operating A Network Arrangement - A network mechanism for a communication network, e.g., Ethernet environment, includes a first control mechanism with an assigned first physical port and a second control mechanism with an assigned second physical port, the first and the second physical port being configured to receive and send data via a transmission medium. The network mechanism is configured such that transmitted data from the first control mechanism are coupled by an internal transmit connector of the first control mechanism via the first physical port into the transmission medium and received data at the second physical port are routed to an internal receive connector of the first control mechanism. Alternatively, received data can be routed crosswise to the other control mechanism, i.e., the control mechanism not assigned to the receiving physical port. The crosswise routing enables the formation of two independent ring-shaped communication paths of different transmit/receive directions within a single physical ring-shaped network. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20150092771 | VIDEO ROUTER - Video routers with integrated control layers. The video routers include line cards and fabric cards coupled to a controller communication network. The line cards and fabric cards include crosspoint switches and card controllers. Each card controller controls the operation of the corresponding crosspoint switches. Each crosspoint switch includes a plurality of switch input terminals and switch output terminals coupled to a backplane, providing signal communication paths between the line and fabric cards. The configuration of at least some of the crosspoint switches may be controlled by the controller on the same card and on other cards. The video router may include a switch configuration table to track the coupling of input and output terminals through each of the cross-point switches. Each of the controllers can access the configuration table. The configuration table may be recorded in a central location or may be distributed across multiple locations or both. Some of the locations may be in some of the controllers. The video routers include one or more supervisors which may provide routes to the controllers in response to routing requests to allow particular data streams to be routed from a particular input port to a particular output port. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150363290 | DATA ACQUISITION - A data acquisition system can include a central controller to provide a data acquisition signal. The data acquisition system can also include a cabinet to receive the data acquisition signal. The cabinet can have an array of modules installed therein. The cabinet can include a backplane connected to each module of the array of modules. The backplane can provide a status request signal to a given module in the array of modules if the given module is assigned a module address identified by the data acquisition signal. The given module can provide status data characterizing an operational status of the given module in response to the status request. | 12-17-2015 |
| 370363000 | Having details of control storage arrangement | 2 |
| 20080219248 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPIDLY CONFIGURING WIRELESS TRANSCEIVERS - A system and method for configuring a wireless transceiver are disclosed. As one example, a system for configuring a wireless transceiver is disclosed, which includes a first data storage unit coupled to a configuration bus disposed in the wireless transceiver, a second data storage unit coupled to the configuration bus, a change detection unit coupled to the second data storage unit, the change detection configured to detect a change to a value stored in the second data storage unit, and output a signal responsive to the change, and a third data storage unit coupled to the first data storage unit, the second data storage unit, and the change detection unit. The third data storage unit is configured to store a plurality of predefined configuration data sets, and convey a predefined configuration data set to the first data storage unit responsive to the signal. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20110013625 | STORAGE SUBSYSTEM - Deadlock is avoided in a grid storage system having superior scalability. Provided is a storage subsystem connected to a host computer for receiving a write or read access from the host computer. This storage subsystem includes a plurality of modules respectively having a storage resource, a switch for connecting the plurality of modules, a controller for controlling the transfer of a packet based on the write or read access from the host computer to a target module among the plurality of modules via the switch, and a memory storing a transfer rule of the packet. The controller controls the transfer of the packet based on the transfer rule. | 01-20-2011 |
| 370364000 | Having plural buses | 2 |
| 20080273527 | Distributed system - A distributed system comprises a master node, at least one slave node, and two or more communication channels linking the master node to the at least one slave node. The master node is configured for transmitting the same message to the at least one slave node over each of the two or more communication channels, with a pre-determined delay between each channel transmission. In some embodiments, the system may also include a clock synchronization means configured such that the operation of each slave node is synchronized with the master node and/or a different slave node, irrespective of which channel transmission the slave node receives. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20140293998 | BACKPLANE APPARATUS AND SWITCHING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - In a switching system using an N+1 switch redundancy method, a backplane connects a plurality of switch cards that are mounted in a half-slot of an upper end portion and a lower end portion of the center of a chassis and a plurality of line cards that are mounted in the half-slot of the upper end portion and the lower end portion of the chassis at both sides of the plurality of switch cards. In this case, in each line card and each switch card, a line card and a switch card of the same position are connected in the upper end portion or the lower end portion of the chassis using some connector groups, and a line card and a switch card that are disposed at the upper end portion or the lower end portion of the chassis are crossed and connected using the remaining connector groups. | 10-02-2014 |
| 370366000 | Including serial-parallel or parallel-serial conversion for input or output | 2 |
| 20090252160 | Programmable Management IO Pads for an Integrated Circuit - A multi-port SERDES transceiver includes multiple parallel and serial ports, and the flexibility to connect any one of the parallel or serial ports to another parallel or serial port. The ports include programmable pads that are capable of supporting multiple different data protocols, timing protocols, electrical specifications, and input-output functions. A management data IO pad also enables the transceiver to support different electrical requirements and data protocols at the same time. The substrate layout of the transceiver is configured so that the parallel ports and the serial ports are on the outer perimeter. A logic core is at the center, where the logic core operates the serial and parallel data ports, and the bus that connects the data ports. The bus can be described as a “ring” structure (or donut “structure”) around the logic core, and is configured between the logic core and the data ports. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20140204936 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM,CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A data division unit of a serial transmission device divides transfer data to generate a plurality of divided data, a plurality of parallel-to-serial conversion units converts the divided data into serial data according to timing control provided by a transmission control unit to transmit the serial data to a plurality of data signal lines connected to the plurality of parallel-to-serial conversion units, a plurality of serial-to-parallel conversion units of a serial reception device receives the serial data from the data signal lines connected thereto to convert the serial data into parallel data, and a data restoration unit combines the parallel data, which are converted by the plurality of serial-to-parallel conversion units, to restore the transfer data in an order of completion of the conversion. | 07-24-2014 |
| 370369000 | Having time and space switches | 2 |
| 20140086239 | Large-Scale Packet Switch - A packet switch that scales gracefully from a capacity of a fraction of a terabit per second to thousands of terabits per second is disclosed. The packet switch comprises edge nodes interconnected by independent switch units. The switch units are arranged in a matrix having multiple rows and multiple columns and may comprise instantaneous or latent space switches. Each edge node has a channel to a switch unit in each column and a channel from each switch unit in a selected column. A simple path traversing only one of the switch units may be established from each edge node to each other edge node. Where needed, a compound path comprising at most two simple paths may be established for any edge-node pair. In a preferred configuration, the switch units connect at input to orthogonal sets of edge nodes. A distributed control system expedites connection-request processing. | 03-27-2014 |
| 370374000 | Having details of control storage arrangement | 1 |
| 20140192802 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CIRCULATING SWITCH - A one-dimensional circulating switch may be defined by connections between several switch modules and one or more temporal cyclic rotators. Where a switch module that is part of a first one-dimensional circulating switch is also connected one or more temporal cyclic rotators that define a second one-dimensional circulating switch, a two-dimensional circulating switch is formed. A two-dimensional circulating switch is flexible and may scale to capacities ranging from a few gigabits per second to multiple Petabits per second. | 07-10-2014 |
| 370375000 | Time switch, per se (e.g., T or T-T) | 7 |
| 20080225838 | Common Rate Matching Slot for Variable Bit Rate Services - In accordance with at least one embodiment, fixed TDM slot/frame structure and statistical multiplexing are combined. A TDM slot, which is fixed (in size and position) is reserved for a variable bit rate service such that the bit rate of the TDM slot/channel is below the average rate of the service. Such a reserved TDM slot may be referred to as a service specific slot. Since the service specific slot is reserved with a bit rate below the average rate of the service, additional capacity is reserved from a rate matching slot, which may be common for multiple services. In this rate matching slot, the capacity may be shared between services according to any suitable strategy for allotting services to portions of the rate matching slot, including, but not limited to, a statistical multiplexing algorithm. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090059910 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH INTERNAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK - An integrated circuit comprises a plurality of data processing circuits ( | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090279540 | CLUSTER COUPLER IN A TIME TRIGGERED NETWORK - The invention relates to a cluster coupler in a time triggered network for connecting clusters operating on the same protocol. Further, it relates to a network having a plurality of clusters, which are coupled via a cluster coupler. It also relates to a method for communicating between different clusters. To provide a cluster coupling means, a network and a method for communicating between clusters which are able to couple a plurality of clusters operating on the same time triggered protocol to achieve a selectively forwarding of data without message buffering or frame delay a cluster coupler in a network is proposed operating on a time triggered protocol using time slots, wherein the cluster coupler ( | 11-12-2009 |
| 20150295857 | SIMULTANEOUS TRANSFERS FROM A SINGLE INPUT LINK TO MULTIPLE OUTPUT LINKS WITH A TIMESLICED CROSSBAR - A method for scheduling a crossbar using distributed request-grant-accept arbitration between input group arbiters and output group arbiters in a switch unit is provided. The switch unit may be a hierarchical high radix switch with a timesliced crossbar that is configured to transfer packets between a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports, organized into groups, using wide words. The timesliced crossbar transfers data for a given packet once per supercycle, in a designated timeslice of that supercycle. Multiple buffered packets from one input port to multiple output ports are transferred by utilizing different timeslices of the supercycle. | 10-15-2015 |
| 370376000 | Time slot interchange, per se | 2 |
| 20090109966 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SYNCHRONOUS TIME DIVISION SWITCH, AND ETHERNET SWITCH - A method for performing a synchronous time division switch is provided, and the method includes: dividing, by using a time period for transmitting one byte as a unit, a time period for receiving and sending an Ethernet frame with a constant length by an Ethernet port into input time slots and output time slots, and orderly numbering the input time slots and orderly numbering the output time slots; circularly receiving data via the Ethernet port according to serial numbers of the input time slots; switching the data received at each input time slot to the output time slots corresponding to the input time slot; and circularly outputting the data at the output time slots via the Ethernet port according to serial numbers of the output time slots. An apparatus for performing a synchronous time division switch and an Ethernet switch are also provided. The method for performing a synchronous time division switch can be applied to the Ethernet and can reduce the costs of the synchronous time division switch. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20110292932 | EXTENSIBLE TIME SPACE SWITCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The present disclosure provides a structured, pipelined large time-space switch and method of operation resolving interconnect complexity. The time-space switch results in an interconnect complexity that does not grow as the spatial dimension is increased and results in a reduction of long high fan-out nets, a quicker layout, and improved clock speed. With respect to time-space switch fabric implementation, the present invention improves the maximum clock frequency of the switch fabric, and improves integrated circuit layout time by eliminating long high fan-out nets. Certain high-speed large switch fabrics may not be realizable without this implementation, and it significantly reduces implementation time (and cost). The present invention may include link encoding of switch frames by mapping 8B10B control characters into an 64B65B format (similar to Generic Framing Protocol-Transparent (GFP-T)), wrapping 32 65B encoded words with an 11-bit error correcting code, and scrambling the frame with a frame synchronous scrambler. | 12-01-2011 |
| 370377000 | Having supervisory signaling | 1 |
| 20150358702 | Multi-Layer Configurable Timing Switch Fabric For Distributing Timing Sources To Timing Consumers - Multi-layer configurable timing switch fabrics and related methods are disclosed for selectively distributing multiple timing sources to multiple timing consumers. Configurable timing switches are used at central and multiple local levels within the housing for a network-connected processing system to selectively distribute the timing sources to the timing consumers. As such, significant flexibility is provided with respect to what timing sources can be received within the system and how these timing sources are distributed to different timing consumers. Further, timing information can be generated within the network-connected processing system based upon network communications received from timing consumers, and this generated timing information can also be used as timing sources for the multi-layer configurable timing switch fabric. | 12-10-2015 |
| 370380000 | Space switch, per se (e.g., S or S-S) | 4 |
| 20080317014 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING SPATIAL MODULATION IN A WIRELESS LINK AND NETWORK ELEMENT THERETO - The selection of the spatial mode together with modulation and encoding schemes based on channel condition measurements requested from MS forms a basis for selecting a best transmission data rate in a wireless link in every channel conditions. A method and network element comprising multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capable antenna technology allows the use of a best transmission data rate in the channel if selection of transmission mode has been made correctly. The thresholds for transmission mode selections are pre-determined and compared to instantaneous channel quality information. The practical MIMO solution based on correct selection procedure provides also continuous sufficient channel condition for terminal users when the user moves from LOS situation to NLOS situation. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080317015 | LARGE-SCALE PACKET SWITCH - A packet switch that scales gracefully from a capacity of a fraction of a terabit per second to thousands of terabits per second is disclosed. The packet switch comprises edge nodes interconnected by independent switch units. The switch units are arranged in a matrix having multiple rows and multiple columns and may comprise instantaneous or latent space switches. Each edge node has a channel to a switch unit in each column and a channel from each switch unit in a selected column. A simple path traversing only one of the switch units may be established from each edge node to each other edge node. Where needed, a compound path comprising at most two simple paths may be established for any edge-node pair. In a preferred configuration, the switch units connect at input to orthogonal sets of edge nodes. A distributed control system expedites connection-request processing. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080317016 | LARGE-SCALE PACKET SWITCH - A switching node comprises edge nodes interconnected by independent switch units. The switch units are arranged in at least one switch plane and the switch units of each switch plane are arranged in a matrix having several rows and several columns. Each edge node has a channel to a switch unit in each column in each switch plane and a channel from each switch unit in a selected column in each switch plane. Simple paths, each traversing only one switch unit in a switch plane, may be established for any directed edge-node pair. Additionally, several non-intersecting compound paths, each comprising at most two simple paths, may be established for any edge-node pair. A significant proportion of traffic may be routed through simple paths. The switching node employs distributed control scheme and scales gracefully from a capacity of a fraction of a terabit per second to thousands of terabits per second. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20140293999 | USER EQUIPMENT USING HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST - A user equipment comprises a transmitter and an adaptive modulation and coding controller. The transmitter is configured to transmit data over an air interface in a single transmission time interval with a first specified modulation and coding scheme, where the single transmission time interval has a plurality of transport block sets. In response to receiving a repeat request for retransmission of at least one particular transport block set, the transmitter retransmits the at least one of the particular transport block sets. The adaptive modulation and coding controller is configured to change the specified modulation and coding scheme to a second specified modulation and coding scheme, enabling a combining of a particular transport block set transmitted at the first specified modulation and coding scheme with a retransmitted version of the particular transport block set transmitted at the second specified modulation and coding scheme. | 10-02-2014 |
| 370381000 | Having details of control storage arrangement | 5 |
| 20080310407 | INITIATING ROUTER FUNCTIONS - A method of initiating router functions includes providing a router device having an integrated user interface having a user control and an indicator. From the router device, a first data link to a wide area network is established. From the router device, a second data link to enable a local area network is established. Via the indicator, state information regarding the first and second data links is communicated. It is determined if the user control has been activated. Upon detecting that the user control has been activated one or both of the first and second data links are modified. Information indicating the modification is communicated via the indicator. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20150063349 | Programmable switching engine with storage, analytic and processing capabilities - An improvement to the prior-art extends an intelligent solution beyond simple IP packet switching. It intersects with computing, analytics, storage and performs delivery diversity in an efficient intelligent manner. A flexible programmable network is enabled that can store, time shift, deliver, process, analyze, map, optimize and switch flows at hardware speed. Multi-layer functions are enabled in the same node by scaling for diversified data delivery, scheduling, storing, and processing at much lower cost to enable multi-dimensional optimization options and time shift delivery, protocol optimization, traffic profiling, load balancing, and traffic classification and traffic engineering. An integrated high performance flexible switching fabric has integrated computing, memory storage, programmable control, integrated self-organizing flow control and switching. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20160105378 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA SET MIGRATION OVER A CIRCUIT SWITCHING NETWORK - A method for data set migration, implemented in a network device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request at a network device to migrate a data set, and sending a signaling packet from a first data center toward a first in a series of circuit switching devices to reach a second data center, where the signaling packet includes metadata containing transmission selection and characteristics of the data set, where the signaling packet is processed through the series, each of which configures its forwarding path based at least on the metadata of the signaling packet. The method continues with waiting for a period long enough to allow each of the series to configure its forwarding path, where that circuit switching device releases the configured forwarding path after the migration duration. The method continues with sending the data set following the transmission selection of the signaling packet after the period expires. | 04-14-2016 |
| 370382000 | Data memory addressing | 2 |
| 20090296698 | DATA SWITCHING METHOD AND CIRCUIT - For restricting a scale increase of a switch device using a shared buffer, segments are received at input ports with each phase being shifted and are each composed of a predetermined length data in which each data is connected in series by a predetermined number. The segments are written in shared buffers at the same address in sequence for each segment, where the shared buffers are provided in parallel by the predetermined number. The address for each output port set in each segment is stored each time the writing is performed and the stored address is referred to in the sequence for each output port thereby to read each predetermined length data based on the address referred to from each shared buffer. Each predetermined length data read is connected in series and outputted to each output port. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20150055649 | CELL FABRIC HARDWARE ACCELERATION - An aspect includes a method for providing direct communication between a server and a network switch in a cell-based fabric. A host channel adapter of a cell fabric hardware accelerator is configured to provide the server with direct access to memory within the network switch. A plurality of data packets having a fixed size is received at the host channel adapter from the server. The host channel adapter is coupled to a bus of the server. A direct transmission is performed from the cell fabric hardware accelerator to the memory within the network switch on an interconnect bus to write the data packets directly into the memory. | 02-26-2015 |
| 370384000 | Having a supervisory signaling feature | 11 |
| 20080273528 | PHASE SELECT CIRCUIT WITH REDUCED HYSTERESIS EFFECT - A phase signal select circuit includes a supporting path coupled to a tri-state inverter circuit. The supporting path reduces effects of hysteresis on signal transfer. An apparatus includes at least one input node responsive to a respective one of at least one input signal. The apparatus includes at least one circuit coupled to a respective one of the at least one input node and coupled to an output node. Individual ones of the at least one circuit are configured to provide a version of the respective input signal to the output node in response to a first state of a respective select signal. The apparatus includes at least one second circuit coupled to a respective one of the at least one circuit. The at least one second circuit is configured to toggle nodes of the at least one circuit in response to a second state of the respective select signal. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090059911 | Fast TV Channel Changing in IPTV Network - A router and method are described herein that provide a “fast leave behavior” by instantly aging out group and source records that are associated with the IGMPv3/MLDv2 protocols. In one embodiment, the router and method are part of a triple play service network including a bandwidth-limited Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network in which the instantly aging out of group and source records is desirable to implement a fast TV channel changing feature (or fast leave behavior). | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090147776 | Integrated switch and switching method for simultaneously processing voice and IP data in the same channel - Provided are an integrated switch and a switching method for simultaneously processing IP data and voice signals using silent periods during communication. The integrated switch provides a function of transmitting data packets using the silent periods during the communication of an existing switch subscriber, so that an existing frequency band and apparatus can be used without use of a separate frequency band and a separate apparatus for data transmission such as an existing asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL). In addition, efficiency of an existing switch can be increased without use of an apparatus for collecting and processing data provided in front of subscriber line cards. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090274148 | EFFICIENT PATH SETUP IN A PROVIDER BACKBONE BRIDGE NETWORK - In a provider backbone-traffic engineering network, a method and a bridge node are provided for setting up path between edge bridges connected to customer premises. A first edge bridge advertises towards peer edge bridges a tuple comprising a port identity and a layer two address. When it needs to set up a path towards the first edge bridge, one of the peer edge bridges uses information in the tuple to compute a path label. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100329246 | Fast TV Channel Changing In IPTV Network - A router and method are described herein that provide a “fast leave behavior” by instantly aging out group and source records that are associated with the IGMPv3/MLDv2 protocols. In one embodiment, the router and method are part of a triple play service network including a bandwidth-limited Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network in which the instantly aging out of group and source records is desirable to implement a fast TV channel changing feature (or fast leave behavior). | 12-30-2010 |
| 20130094499 | System and Method for High-Performance, Low-Power Data Center Interconnect Fabric - A system and method are provided that support a routing using a tree-like or graph topology that supports multiple links per node, where each link is designated as an Up, Down, or Lateral link, or both, within the topology. The system may use a segmented MAC architecture which may have a method of re-purposing MAC IP addresses for inside MACs and outside MACs, and leveraging what would normally be the physical signaling for the MAC to feed into the switch. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20140133484 | DATA TRANSMISSION SELECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD - A data transmission selection circuit and method select one of data transmission lines between a mother system and daughter systems and transmit data via the selected transmission line. The circuit includes an inputting module, an outputting module, a switching unit, and a processing unit. The inputting module receives and sends the data. to the switching unit and the outputting module. The processing unit receives a previous switching status data (indicating that one of the data transmission lines and one of the daughter systems are connected and) created by a previous data transmission selection circuit. After analyzing the previous switching status data with an algorithm, the processing unit determines a switching status data. different from the previous switching status data, such that the switching unit connects another one of the data transmission lines and another one of the daughter systems according to the switching status data. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140269687 | METHOD FOR MANAGING A SWITCH CHIP PORT, MAIN CONTROL BOARD, SWITCH BOARD, AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for managing a switch chip port. The method is applied in a distributed communications system and includes: detecting whether each of multiple service boards is in position; when it is detected that a service board is not in position, controlling disabling of a port corresponding to the detected not-in-position service board on a first switch chip of the main control board; and/or sending an in-position message including information about the not-in-position service board to the switch board, so that the switch board controls, according to the information about the not-in-position service board, disabling of a port corresponding to the not-in-position service board on a second switch chip of the switch board. Energy saving of a switch chip port can be efficiently implemented by adopting the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, thereby efficiently reducing power consumption of the system. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150341057 | INTERCONNECTION FABRIC WITH PROTOCOL AGNOSTIC SWITCH FOR FLEXIBLE RADIO AVIONICS - A radio system comprises a plurality of software defined radio units, and a plurality of digital data switches each in operative communication with at least one of the radio units, with the digital data switches operatively connected to each other. A plurality of antenna units are each in operative communication with at least one of the radio units through at least one of the digital data switches. A plurality of radio resources managers are each operatively coupled to one or more of the digital data switches, with each of the radio resources managers configured to control one or more of the digital data switches to route digital data between the radio units and the antenna units. | 11-26-2015 |
| 370385000 | Having a separate signaling network | 2 |
| 20130315233 | LARGE DISTRIBUTED FABRIC-BASED SWITCH USING VIRTUAL SWITCHES AND VIRTUAL CONTROLLERS - In one embodiment, a system includes at least one distributed line card (DLC) in electrical communication with at least one switch fabric coupler (SFC) and a meta-controller in electrical communication with the at least one DLC, the meta-controller including a processor for executing logic, logic configured for creating more than one virtual switch and a corresponding virtual control domain (VCD) associated with each virtual switch, wherein each virtual switch includes a plurality of physical ports of one or more of the at least one DLC, and logic configured for autonomously controlling the virtual switches, wherein the system appears to a device external of the system as a single cell switched domain. Other systems are described according to more embodiments. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130315234 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LARGE DISTRIBUTED FABRIC-BASED SWITCH USING VIRTUAL SWITCHES AND VIRTUAL CONTROLLERS - In one embodiment, a method includes splitting a plurality of physical ports distributed across multiple distributed line cards (DLCs) into a plurality of virtual switches, wherein each virtual switch comprises ports of one or more DLC, creating a virtual control domain (VCD) associated with each virtual switch, and autonomously controlling the virtual switches, wherein each DLC is in electrical communication with at least one switch fabric coupler (SFC), and wherein the plurality of physical ports appear to external devices as being part of a single cell switched domain. Other systems and methods are described according to more embodiments. | 11-28-2013 |
