| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 709236000 | Computer-to-computer data framing | 81 |
| 20080235393 | Framework for corrrelating content on a local network with information on an external network - A correlation system and method implement a framework for correlating content available from a local network with information on an external network. The system identifies information related to content available on the local network of interest to the user and also identifies one or more external sources that contain such related information. Then the system extracts data related to the identified information from the external sources, and determines correlations between the identified information and the data extracted from the external network. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080244084 | Method for improved network performance using smart maximum segment size - A method, system, and computer program product for negotiating a smart maximum segment size of a network connection for a data transfer. A client request to initiate a network connection, which includes a first maximum segment size, is received at a server. The server calculates a second maximum segment size, wherein at least one of the first maximum segment size or the second maximum segment size is a cache line size aligned Ethernet frame size, or smart maximum segment size. The server determines the smaller of the first and second maximum segment sizes and sends the second maximum segment size to the client. The client then selects the smaller of the first and second maximum segment sizes, and sends an acknowledgement to the server to complete the connection. The smaller of the first and second maximum segment sizes is used for the network connection and subsequent data transfer. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080250157 | System for Financial Documentation Conversion - A method to prepare an Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) document in a web-hosted server includes authenticating a user, uploading financial information from a spreadsheet, storing the information, and processing the data into an XBRL compliant document for transmittal to a financial regulatory agency. The process takes an input from an Excel™ spreadsheet and produces a financial statement in XBRL format while providing a full audit trail for the document conversion and authorization including manual inputs to the final-form submission. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080313346 | SELECTIVELY ORDERED PROTOCOL FOR UNRELIABLE CHANNELS - A method for communicating in a distributed game system includes, at a server system, maintaining information associated with a plurality of entities in an environment; and maintaining communication sessions between the server system and a plurality of client systems for exchanging information associated with the entities between the server system and the plurality of client systems. Each such communication session uses a communication protocol that supports both reliable transmission of ordered messages, and transmission and selective discarding of ephemeral messages. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080320162 | Method and System for Minimum Frame Size Support for a Communication Protocol Encapsulated Over Ethernet - Certain aspects of a method and system for minimum frame size support for a communication protocol encapsulated over Ethernet may include an encapsulated protocol over Ethernet (EPoE) frame comprising a start of padding (SP) field. In the EPoE frame, a size of an encapsulated protocol frame that is less than a size of an Ethernet frame may be adjusted by insertion of one or more padding bits so that the size of the encapsulated protocol frame is equal to the size of the Ethernet frame. The SP field may indicate a starting location of the insertion of one or more padding bits within the EPoE frame. The SP field comprises an offset value that may be relative to a location of a word in which the SP field is located or is relative to a location of a word corresponding to a fixed offset from a start of the encapsulated protocol frame. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090006645 | Automatic Reverse Engineering of Message Formats From Network Traces - A system for automatic inference of message formats from network packets is described. Each network message from a set of network messages is split into one or more tokens based on the types of bytes in the network messages. The set of network messages can then be classified into clusters based on token patterns. The network messages in each cluster can then be further sub-clustered recursively based on the message formats. Further, the messages with a similar message format across the sub-clusters can be merged into a cluster. The set of formatted clusters thus obtained correspond to a set of message formats that can be used further for protocol reverse engineering. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006646 | System and Method of Auto Populating Forms on Websites With Data From Central Database - A system and method for automatically populating a form on one or more webpages with data originating from a central database. According to one embodiment, a user communication device receives the data from a first server via a network, accesses the form on the one or more webpages via the network, automatically populates one or more fields of the form with some or all of the data, and sends the populated form to a second server via the network. According to another embodiment, a framed browser containing the data is generated by the user communication device, which automatically populates the form with some or all of the data when the user visits the corresponding website. According to yet another embodiment, an auto populate program (e.g., a toolbar or widget program) is executed by the user communication device for automatically populating the form with some or all of the data when the user visits the corresponding website. The framed browser or program may report back to the first server with information related to the submission of the populated form. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090070484 | Framing Format Selection in a Communications Network with a User Plane - The invention relates to a technique for selecting a framing format to be used for communications on the user plane of a layered communications network. The selection technique includes the provision of a first user plane component (such as a media gateway, MGW) bridging transmission regimes and operable in accordance with two or more different framing formats. The first user plane component is controllable via control messages received from a control plane without being responsive to any framing format instructions possibly included in the control messages. The first user plane component or any other user plane equipment in communication with the first user plane component selects the framing format to be used for user plane communications. The selected framing format is then implemented by the first user plane component for communications with a second user plane component. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090070485 | Automated Media Delivery System - An automatic graphics delivery system that operates in parallel with an existing Web site infrastructure is provided. The system streamlines the post-production process by automating the production of media through content generation procedures controlled by proprietary tags placed by an author within URLs embedded within Web documents. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090106447 | Method And System For Transitioning Between Content In Web Pages - Methods and systems are described for presenting a transition between content in web pages. One method includes receiving content associated with a first web page that includes a presentable representation of the first web page, and a request for a second web page, rendering the second webpage to retrieve content associated with the second web page including a presentable representation of the second web page, and generating a transition video object stream including a first frame including content related to the content associated with the first web page, an intermediate frame that does not include the content associated with the first and second web pages, and a final frame including content related to the content associated with the second web page. The transition video object stream is sent to a browser for presentation in conjunction with the first and second web pages. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090144442 | ACCESS NETWORK SYSTEM WITH SEPARATED CONTROL AND BEARER AND METHOD THEREOF FOR ACHIEVING COMMUNICATIONS - An access network system with separated control and bearer includes an access network control plane and an access network data plane for achieving separation of control and bearer. The access network control plane receives the control information separated from the access network data plane, exchanges the control information with a core network, and control data transfer of the access network data plane. The access network data plane separates control information from data when dealing with flow from a user network, transfers the control information to the access network control plane, and forwards the data from the user network/core network according to the control information of the access network control plane. A method for implementing communications by an access network system with separated control and bearer is provided. Because the access network of the present invention implements separation of control and bearer, the network control method does not need to alter when the bearing technique changes, thereby improving network extensibility and reducing the network maintenance cost. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090157900 | Method For Ipv4 Application Transition Over Ipv6 Networks - A network system adopting a first IP protocol is provided. The network system includes an address allocating server and a communication terminal supporting both the first IP protocol and a second IP protocol, wherein the address allocating server dynamically allocates an address of the second IP protocol to the communication terminal. The communication terminal includes a dynamic address manager for acquiring the dynamically allocated address of the second IP protocol of the communication terminal from the address allocating server and a second IP protocol address of the destination of a second IP protocol packet from a second IP protocol application, and an address adapter for encapsulating the second IP protocol packet from the second IP protocol application into a first IP protocol packet, wherein the second IP protocol address of the communication terminal in the header of the second IP protocol packet and the second IP protocol address of the destination are encapsulated into the first IP protocol packet. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090164660 | Transferring A Logical Partition ('LPAR') Between Two Server Computing Devices Based On LPAR Customer Requirements - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for transferring a logical partition (‘LPAR’) between two of a plurality of server computing devices based on LPAR customer requirements, the plurality of server computing devices connected together through a data communications network, the LPAR installed on one of the plurality of server computing devices, each server computing device having server operating capabilities, each server computing device associated with LPAR hosting costs for supporting LPARs, that include: identifying LPAR customer requirements for the LPAR, the LPAR customer requirements specifying customer criteria for operating the LPAR; selecting, from among the plurality of server computing devices, a server computing device to which to migrate the LPAR in dependence upon the server operating capabilities and LPAR hosting costs for at least one of the server computing devices and the LPAR customer requirements for the LPAR; and migrating the LPAR to the selected server computing device. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090172185 | UNIFIED CONNECTOR ARCHITECTURE - A system, device, and method are disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a first host controller that utilizes a first protocol. The system also includes a second host controller that utilizes a second protocol. The system also includes a unified connector port. Finally, the system includes a router that is coupled to the first host controller, the second host controller, and the unified connector port. The router is functionally capable of encapsulating a physical layer packet from the first host controller into a first unified connector protocol frame and then transmits the new first frame to the unified connector port. The router is also capable of encapsulating a physical layer packet that it receives from the second host controller into a second unified connector protocol frame and then transmits the second frame to the unified connector port. The first and second protocols are not the same protocol. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090198831 | AUTOMATIC FILE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - For automatically transmitting an image file, a system transmits the file automatically through specifically specifying information for file transmission such as an address of a destination. The system includes a memory for storing a data file and an automatic transmission control file for briefly describing information of a file name of the file to be transmitted and a destination address, and a communication unit for transmitting the data file according to the automatic transmission control file. Therefore, the system can transmit the data file automatically only by having a memory storing the data file and automatic transmission control file connected to the communication unit. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090204722 | DATA PACKET ENCAPSULATION METHODS - A data encapsulation system and related methods. Implementations may include: forming at least one frame having a data payload, a data sequence, and one or more control bytes; evaluating data to be stored in the data payload and setting a value of the one or more control bytes, where the value of the one or more control bytes may be equal to: a first control byte value where one or more values of the data correspond with the first control byte value; a second control byte value indicating a size of the data; or a third control byte value where one or more values of the data continue beyond the frame. The value of each one of the one or more control bytes for each of the at least one frames may be equal to either the first, second, or third control byte values. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090240833 | Method and Apparatus for Realizing Positioning Play of Content Stream in Peer-to-Peer Network - A method of content transmission in peer-to-peer network includes the following steps: dividing contents to be transmitted into a plurality of stripes in time sequence ( | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090254676 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA FRAME END-TO-END USING VIRTUAL SYNCHRONIZATION ON LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND NETWORK DEVICES APPLYING THE SAME - A method for transferring data frame end-to-end in a local area network is provided. In the method, a virtual synch frame shaper is loaded on a frame transmission layer structure provided in end stations in transmitting and receiving sides, which transmits data frame passing through a plurality of Ethernet switches in the LAN. Then, slot counters, which are counted through the virtual synch frame shaper, are exchanged between the end stations, and the slot counters are synchronized. Afterward, the transmit time slot is allocated based on the synchronized slot counters for transmitting data frames between the end stations. Finally, data frames are transmitted based on the synchronized slot counters and the allocated transmit time slot. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090271526 | Data transfer method and proxy server, and storage subsystem - A proxy server | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090282164 | Method, Communication System, Multimedia Nodes, and Gateway for Transmitting Multimedia Data in MPEG Format - A method for transmitting multimedia data in MPEG format between multimedia nodes of a communication system via at least one communication link of the communication system. To configure the transmission of the multimedia data in the most efficient possible manner and to reduce the number of different communication systems in a vehicle, the MPEG multimedia data is transmitted via a FlexRay communication system according to the FlexRay protocol. For this purpose, the size of the payload segments of FlexRay data frames may be adjusted to the size of the MPEG data frames. The payload segment of a FlexRay data frame may be selected to be of the same size as the MPEG data frame, in particular 188 bytes long. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282165 | Communication System for a Control System Over Ethernet and IP Networks - A communication system is provided for communication within a control system. The communication system has a plurality of simple devices connected to an intra-level communications network, each simple device being adapted to directly exchange data with the other simple devices. The communications system also has at least one intelligent device connected to the intra-level communications network, each intelligent device being adapted to directly exchange data with each simple device on the intra-level communications network. The communication system can have a plurality of intra-level communications networks. The intra-level communications networks can be directly connected by an intra-level core connector or by an inter-level core connector through an inter-level network of the intelligent devices | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090287843 | PACKET RECEIVING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME - A packet receiving apparatus determines whether or not data to be stored in a buffer overlaps previously stored data based on information contained in a header portion of a received packet. If it is determined that the data overlaps, a checksum for the overlapping data is subtracted. If it is determined that the data does not overlap, a checksum for the data to be stored in the buffer is added. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287844 | Data Transfer Method, System and Protocol - A method for transmitting blocks of data in data packets from a first device on a network to a second device on the network comprising the steps of, providing a File Transmitter Application in communication with the first device, which File Transmitter Application is adapted to control the transmission of the blocks of data in data packets on the network, including the timing of the commencement of the transmission of the data blocks on the network, providing a File Receiver Application in communication with the second device and in communication with the File Transmitter Application, which File Receiver Application is adapted to transmit Acknowledgment data to the File Transmitter Application relating to the receipt of data blocks received at the second device, commencing the transmission of a first data block from the first device to the second device, by way of the network and commencing the transmission of the second data block from the first device to the second device, by way of the network. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090327515 | Medical Monitor With Network Connectivity - The present disclosure provides for the use of physiological monitors capable of communicating over a network. In one embodiment, the physiological monitors may utilize a network layer protocol having an address space for each packet that is greater than 32 bits in length. In one such embodiment, address exhaustion on a network may be addressed by using addresses greater than 32 bits in length at the network layer. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100036967 | Systems and methods for multimedia content sharing - The invention provides, in one aspect, a multimedia content sharing system that includes (i) a shared content server which stores items of content (such as still, moving images and audio) and (ii) a plurality of nodes, each of which is in communications with the shared content server via cellular telephone and/or other data networks. The shared content server transmits items of content to a first set of the nodes “automatically,” e.g., without requests by users of those nodes for the items. At least one node in that first set displays the content of received items (e.g., on an LCD screen) and accepts user feedback in regard to those items. That feedback—which may be, for example, a command to copy an item into an “album”, to rotate an item on the display, to block another node from displaying the items, and/or to block a sender (or creator) of the item from sending further items of content from presenting—is transmitted back to the shared content server for distribution to other nodes, which alter their own respective displays of the items accordingly. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100057932 | ONLOAD NETWORK PROTOCOL STACKS - A method for transmitting data by means of a data processing system, the system supporting an operating system and at least one application and having access to a memory and a network interface device capable of supporting a communication link over a network with another network interface device, the method comprising the steps of: forming by means of the application data to be transmitted; requesting by means of the application a user-mode operating system functionality of the data processing system to direct the data to be transmitted, the request including an indication of a protocol by which the data is to be transmitted; responsive to that request, the user-mode operating system functionality selecting a protocol processing entity in accordance with the indication of a protocol by which the data is to be transmitted; forming within the context of the application by means of the protocol processing entity the data into packets for transmission in accordance with the protocol by which the data is to be transmitted and writing by means of the protocol processing entity the packets to be transmitted to an area of the memory; initiating by means of communication between the protocol processing entity and the network interface device a transmission operation of at least some of the packets over the network. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100064056 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A communication system includes a computer terminal and a server. The computer terminal includes a command control module and a response detecting module. The server includes a response control module. The command control module is configured for sending a command to the server. The response control module is configured for receiving the command, calculating a command check reference value according to the received command using a first formula, and sending a response to the response detecting module. The response detecting module is configured for calculating a response check reference value according to the response using a second formula. If the response check reference value is not equal to the response checksum bits value, the command control module resends the command corresponding to the received command to the server. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100070649 | PROCESS FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A DEVICE RUNNING JAVA ME AND A SERVER OVER THE AIR, AS WELL AS RELATED SYSTEM - Process of communication via HTTP or HTTPS between a device running Java ME® and a server over the air, said server receiving and transmitting SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages from/to an operator on a host over a network and being capable of exchanging SOAP messages under Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) data form/with the device, characterized in that the SOAP messages are translated from/to binary messages according to a protocol in the server, said binary messages being exchanged with the device, the binary messages being binary request messages or binary response messages. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100115124 | Method for Improving Transmission Efficiency of Physical Layer Attributes in Wireless Communication System - A method for improving transmission efficiency of physical layer attributes in a wireless communication system is proposed, and the method comprises the following steps of: (a) defining one or more sets of physical layer channel basic attributes that must be supported, and each set being respectively represented by a value of a domain of attributes, that is, a value of Profile; (b) a transmitting apparatus sending a physical layer channel description information, wherein the value of Profile is used to represent the physical layer channel basic attributes supported by the apparatus; (c) after receiving the channel description information, based on the value of Profile within the information, a receiving apparatus judging whether a set of physical layer channel basic attributes corresponding to the value is supported. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115125 | Computer System with True Video Signals - A computer system where a computer sends out video signal signals in true video format directly to a standard monitor type display device (see DEFINITIONS section) through either a network (wired or wireless or both), or over a wireless connection. In network embodiments, the network may be a local area network (“LAN”) a wide area network (“WAN”) or a combination of these types. Preferably, the true video signal is in one of the following formats: conventional television type broadcast signal, VGA, xVGA, D-sub 15, RGBHV video signal with DDC2 digital clock and data. Preferably, the true signal sent from the computer to the standard monitor type display device is in analog form. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100138556 | Method and Device for Processing Data and Communication System Comprising Such Device - A method and a device for processing data are provided said data is preferably transmitted from a first network component to at least one second network component via at least two lines, wherein the method comprises the step: The data to be conveyed via the at least two lines is distributed within a at least one frame. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100146145 | ADAPTIVE PLAYBACK RATE WITH LOOK-AHEAD - The disclosure provides for a download agent executing on a computing device to dynamically select between media files when a portion of the media file that is currently being downloaded has a portion average playback rate that is greater than a throughput rate at which the computing device is receiving media files. During the portion where the portion average playback rate is greater than the throughput rate, the download agent may dynamically transition to a different media file where the portion average playback rate for the portion is less than or equal to the throughput rate. The download agent may then transition back to the original media file after downloading the portion form the different media file. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100180047 | Native Format Tunneling - Systems and techniques are disclosed for transmitting a message through an application integration system without having to convert the message from a format that native to both a sending application and a receiving application. A computer-implemented method for transmitting a message from a sending application through an application integration system can include determining a receiving application of the message, and determining a file format used by the receiving application. If the file format used by the receiving application is substantially identical to a file format used by the sending application, the method can include wrapping the message in a markup language file envelope according to a markup language used by the application integration system. The message can then be routed in the markup language file envelope to the receiving application. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100250775 | INTRODUCING CASCADED INTELLIGENT SERVICES IN A SAN ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are disclosed for redirecting fibre channel data transmitted between nodes in a fibre channel fabric. The redirection allows traffic sent from a host to a target in a storage area network (SAN) to flow through a cascade of applications provided by certain nodes of the fabric (or in some cases, by external appliances). That is, techniques are disclosed for application chaining in the SAN. Doing so allows the SAN to be used as a true network platform for providing a variety of intelligent services within the network (e.g., data migration, encryption, etc). | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100287304 | Internet Protocol Version 6 Network Connectivity in a Virtual Computer System - A method for sharing a network connection between a host system and a virtual machine is disclosed. The method includes sending an outgoing data frame from the virtual machine to a computer network. The host system is enabled to use the network connection using a first layer 2 address and a first layer 3 address. The first layer 2 and the first layer 3 addresses are associated with the network connection. The virtual machine is enabled to attempt to use the network connection using a second layer 2 address and a second layer 3 address. The first layer 3 and the second layer 3 addresses are compliant with IPv6. An occurrence of the second layer 2 address is replaced within the outgoing data frame with the first layer 2 address. If the outgoing data frame includes a network discover protocol (NDP) message of a selected type, the second layer 2 address in the NDP message is replaced by the first layer 2 address. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100306407 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING TRANSMISSION OF FRAGMENTED DATA PACKETS - A method of managing transmission of a fragmented datagram in a network having end devices and intermediate routing or switching devices in which fragmentation of the datagram takes place at an upstream intermediate device. The method includes receiving and temporarily storing a first datagram fragment at a downstream intermediate device, the fragment including data allowing classification of the fragments of the datagram; and receiving and temporarily storing subsequent fragments of the same datagram at the downstream device. Once all datagram fragments are received, all of the fragments are classified and transmitted on based on the classification data of the first fragment. However, if a predetermined time period has elapsed and at least one fragment is missing, an action other than transmission on to a subsequent device is initiated. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100332679 | FRAME RELAY DEVICE AND FRAME RELAY METHOD - A communication relay device includes a memory that stores a flooding destination address in advance separately from a learning table. When a source address received from a terminal is learned, the communication relay device determines whether the source address matches the stored destination address of the terminal, and when these addresses match each other, causes the matching source address to be learned more preferentially than other source addresses. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110004700 | PROVIDING ACCESS TO CLIENT OVERHEAD WHILE TRANSPARENTLY TRANSMITTING THE CLIENT SIGNAL - A method includes receiving client data; extracting overhead data from the client data; mapping the client data into one or more frames, where each of the one or more frames has a frame payload section and a frame overhead section, where the client data is mapped into the frame payload section of the one or more frames; inserting the overhead data into the frame overhead section of the one or more frames; transporting the one or more frames across a network; extracting the overhead data from the frame overhead section of the one or more frames; recovering the client data from the one or more frames; inserting the extracted overhead data into the recovered client data to create modified client data; and outputting the modified client data. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110029687 | DATA TRANSMISSION IN A RING-TYPE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Exemplary embodiments are directed to deterministic data transmission of real-time operational data in Highly available, Seamlessly Redundant (HSR) ring-type communication networks with at least a master node, a source node, and a destination node. Each node can include first and second communication ports connected to a respective first and second neighbouring node of the communication network, to receive a frame via the first communication port, and to forward the received frame via the second communication port. The master node sends a first and a second redundant frame or empty data packet to its first and second neighbouring node, respectively. Upon reception of the two redundant frames, the source node inserts process data into a predetermined and dedicated field of each frame. Each one of the two loaded redundant frames is instantaneously and individually forwarded to the first and the second neighbouring node of the source node, respectively. The destination node extracts the process data from the first arriving loaded redundant frame of the pair. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110035509 | System and Method for High Speed transfer of Files over a Network - The present invention is related to computer data handling, more particularly rapid transmission of large files across a network. It is more particularly related to downloading large files across a peer-to-peer network. By breaking up a large file into smaller data packets and storing in random but known locations, both the storage process and the retrieval process may be greatly speeded up, because the data packets are processed in parallel through different communications ports. Hash codes are used to eliminate redundant file storage and different servers can be used to store and transmit different data packets. A unique file identifier is associated with each data packet allowing for the individual data packets to be catalogued and also tracked at any location within the network. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110047288 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A service providing server transmits service information to a wireless communication terminal via a wireless base station. The service information includes AP identification information of AP software necessary to execute each of a plurality of wireless services, and a utilization priority level of the AP software. The wireless communication terminal receives the service information and displays the name of AP that has the highest priority level in the service information (S | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110055422 | TRIVIAL FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (TFTP) FILE SEGMENT AND FILE ADDRESS OPTIONS - A method of transferring data using a Trivial File Transport Protocol (TFTP) comprises sending a request packet from a client to a server, the request packet comprising a first TFTP option requesting that a segment of a grouping of data be transferred, and if an option acknowledgment packet comprising a second TFTP option corresponding to the first TFTP option is received at the client from the server, transferring the segment of the group of data as indicated in the second TFTP option using TFTP. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055423 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SELECTION OF RECEIVED DATA - A transmission device includes: a first interface unit to receive data of a plurality of first paths transmitted corresponding to a first data stream and outputting the data per path; a second interface unit to receive data of a plurality of second paths transmitted corresponding to the first data stream and outputting the data per path; a switch unit to input the data which has been output from the first and second interface unit and select and output the data from the first interface unit or the data from the second interface unit per path; a phase detection unit to detect and output a phase difference among the paths of the data which has been output from the switch unit per path; and a control unit to control the switch unit on the basis of the detected phase difference. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110093611 | NETWORK UNIT, A CENTRAL DISTRIBUTION CONTROL UNIT AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A network unit for use in a real-time communications network in which streams of data frames are transmitted to a plurality of receivers, said network unit being arranged to receive at least a first part of at least a first stream of data frames transmitted from at least a first content source is described, said unit being characterized in that it comprises At least one buffer arranged to store each data frame of a stream of data frames; A transmitting unit arranged to communicate with at least one other network unit to transmit at least one data frame to another network unit; A receiving unit arranged to receive from said other network unit at least one data frame belonging to the stream of data and store said data frame in the at least one buffer. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110106969 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING MEDIA PLAYBACK QUALITY FOR A WIRELESS HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICE - A method for optimizing media playback quality for a wireless handheld computing device is disclosed. The system includes a client request manager that may be responsible for controlling or instructing a web browser on what file segments should be downloaded next to the wireless handheld mobile computing device to insure optimal video playback quality for the computing device. The request manager may be dynamic in that it may continually monitor elements of an application subsystem as well as the modem subsystem. The request manager may select one or more file segments for download that optimizes media playback on the wireless handheld computing device based on the data received from at least one of the application subsystem and modem subsystem. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106970 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING E-BOOK CONTENT WITH VIDEO CONTENT AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method of synchronizing a first device capable of displaying video content and including the video content, and a second device capable of displaying E-book content associated with the video content and including the E-book content. The first device is connected to the second device according to a specific protocol. In response to a specific event for the video content or the E-book content occurring in one of the first and second devices, the device in which the specific event occurs generates event information about the specific event and transmits it to the other of the first and second devices, and performs the specific event according to the event information. Upon receiving the event information, the other of the first and second devices performs the specific event according to the received event information in synchronization with the device in which the specific event occurred, using synchronization information between the video content and the E-book content. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110179187 | STORAGE APPARATUS, SWITCH AND STORAGE APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - A storage apparatus connectable to a computer for transmitting a frame includes a plurality of switches connected by a cascade connection, and a plurality of storages connected to the plurality of switches, wherein at least one of the plurality of switches includes a memory for storing latency value corresponding to a destination address of the frame, the destination address indicating one of the plurality of storages and the computer of an destination of the frame, the latency value indicating an amount of delaying to begin a transmission of the frame, and a port for executing a process including receiving the frame, reading out the latency value corresponding to the destination address included in the received frame from the memory, and transmitting the frame after a time corresponding to the latency value elapsed. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110185081 | Process for communication between a device running Java ME.RTM. and a server over the air, as well as related system - Process of communication via HTTP or HTTPS between a device running Java ME® and a server over the air, said server receiving and transmitting SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages from/to an operator on a host over a network and being capable of exchanging SOAP messages under Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) data form/with the device, characterized in that the SOAP messages are translated from/to binary messages according to a protocol in the server, said binary messages being exchanged with the device, the binary messages being binary request messages or binary response messages. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110208874 | PACKET AGGREGATION - A system includes logic to store multiple descriptors, each of the multiple descriptors to be associated with a different set of multiple Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) packets received by the network controller, each of the multiple descriptors including a count of the number of packets in the set of multiple packets associated with a respective descriptor. For each of the respective receive packets, the system determines a one of the multiple descriptors based on the network source address, network destination address, source port, and destination port of the respective packet; includes the respective packet in the set of multiple packets associated with the determine one of the multiple descriptors; and updates the one of the multiple descriptors by incrementing the count of the number of packets in the set of multiple packets; and provides data from within the packets to the host. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110231570 | Method and Apparatus for Mirroring Frames to a Remote Diagnostic System - Apparatuses and methods to mirror frames received at an input port or provided by an output port to a port not connected to the device performing the mirroring operation. A frame being sent to a diagnostic system has a mirror header added to allow the frame to be routed through any intervening switches in the same fabric. The final switch or the diagnostic system removes the mirror header. If the diagnostic system is attached in a different fabric, encapsulation and inter-fabric routing headers are added as needed to the frame containing the mirror header. This allows the frame to traverse multiple fabrics to reach the diagnostic system. The encapsulation and inter-fabric routing headers are removed as done normally. This allows a diagnostic system to be connected to any switch in the network, either in the same or a different fabric. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231571 | SAS DOMAIN MANAGEMENT AND SSP DATA HANDLING OVER ETHERNET - A server application is executed on an active device within the SAS domain, the active device connected to a remote client via an Ethernet connection. At least one command is received from the remote client via the Ethernet connection. An Ethernet frame of the at least one command is converted to at least one SAS frame. The at least one SAS frame is routed via a SAS data path to a SAS target device connected to the active device, the SAS target device corresponding to a field of the command. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110258339 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE NON TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus for generating a plurality of images to be displayed on a display unit of a terminal device connected via a network and transmitting the plurality of images to the terminal device. The apparatus includes an image memory for storing the plurality of images; a first transmission unit for transmitting the plurality of images to the terminal device, an area determination unit for determining an area in which change between frames of the plurality of images exceeds a threshold value, a second transmission unit for compressing the determined area at a frame rate higher than that of the first transmission unit and transmitting the area to the terminal device, and a management unit for managing synchronization between an image transmitted by the first transmission unit and an image transmitted by the second transmission unit, generating drawing timing of each image. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110264823 | READ OPERATION DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK FRAME - A method begins by a processing module generating a payload section of a dispersed storage network (DSN) frame regarding a read request operation by generating one or more slice name fields of the payload section to include one or more slice names corresponding to one or more encoded data slices and generating a transaction number field of the payload section to include a transaction number corresponding to the read request operation. The method continues with the processing module generating a protocol header of the DSN frame by generating a payload length field of the protocol header to include a payload length that represents a length of the payload section and generating remaining fields of the protocol header. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110289233 | SERIAL ATTACHED SCSI AND SERIAL ATA WIDE PORT TUNNELLING THROUGH A FIBRE CHANNEL CONNECTION - Network traffic encoded in a first protocol is transmitted across a first communications link, wherein the first protocol allows a first plurality of simultaneous logical connections. The transmitted network traffic is received at a first interface between the first communications link and a second communications link. The received network traffic is encapsulated within frames at the first interface, wherein the frames are generated in accordance with a second protocol, and wherein the second protocol does not allow any plurality of simultaneous logical connections that are allowed by the first protocol. The frames are transmitted from the first interface to a second interface across the second communications link. The frames are received and then unencapsulated network traffic is generated from the frames at the second interface, wherein the second interface is between the second communications link and a third communications link. The unencapsulated network traffic is routed to a selected logical connection of a second plurality of simultaneous logical connections across the third communications link, wherein transmission across the third communications link is in the first protocol. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289234 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING TRANSMISSION OF TCP DATA SEGMENTS - A communication device is arranged to transmit data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. In response to receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic is arranged to determine a sequence number of a data segment to be transmitted and compare the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted with at least one pending sequence number of a previous data segment. Based on the comparison, the transmission management logic either discards the data segment to be transmitted if the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted matches the at least one pending sequence number of the previous data segment; or adds the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted to the at least one pending sequence number and transmits the data segment over the interface if the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted does not match the at least one pending sequence number. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110314176 | CONTAINER FORMAT FOR MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS - In a method for transmitting a multimedia presentation comprising a number of media objects: the media objects are organized in a multimedia container or container format; identifiers referring to the media objects are organized in the same container; and an identifiable file coordinating the media objects is also provided in the container. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120005369 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TCP TUNNELING - Tunneling is a mechanism used to aggregate payloads from a network protocol at or below the tunneling layer into a single packet. A user-space application establishes a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) tunnel and encapsulates an end-to-end TCP payload into a TCP segment for transmission over a TCP connection. This enhanced TCP tunnel eliminates TCP meltdown and can be used over any network which supports TCP. The calling application either identifies the parameters of an existing TCP socket or establishes a new TCP socket. A modified transport layer uses the identified TCP connection in forming the enhanced TCP tunnel. The enhanced TCP tunnel manages the data transmission on the TCP stack to eliminate TCP meltdown. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120011272 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An electronic device is connected to a communication network, to which a server and an external device are connected. The electronic device includes an interface which receives an instruction from a user; a processor which determines information to be transmitted and a destination of the transmission based on the user's instruction; and a communication module which transmits the information to the destination. In the case where a content file is selected via the interface, when the selected content file has not been uploaded on the server, the communication module transmits the content file to the server, and after the transmission, transmits location information indicating a location where the content file is stored in the communication network to the external device. When the selected content file has been uploaded on the server, the communication module transmits the location information indicating the location where the content file is stored to the external device. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120017007 | ROBUSTNESS IMPROVEMENT FOR BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method of communicating message data in a frame of data includes transmitting the frame of data across a communication channel. The frame of data includes the message data, a first 8-bit digital control word, and a second 8-bit digital control word. Each control word has a unique bit pattern and is associated with a different time interval that individually indicates where or when the message data begins or began in the frame of data relative to the time interval's associated control word. At least one of the control words and other data are received. At least some of the other data are identified as the message data based upon receipt of at least one of the control words. Only one of the control words needs to be received to identify the message data from the other data. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120030371 | RESOLVING A PROTOCOL ISSUE WITHIN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK - A method begins by a processing module detecting a potential dispersed storage network (DSN) protocol issue that effects access of dispersed storage error encoded data within a DSN. The method continues with the processing module identifying a DSN entity based on the DSN protocol issue and generating a DSN protocol inquiry frame. The method continues with the processing module transmitting the DSN protocol inquiry frame to the DSN entity. The method continues with the processing module receiving a DSN protocol response frame from the DSN entity and resolving the DSN protocol issue based on the DSN protocol response frame. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120059953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING PERSONALIZED MEDIA CONTENT - Systems and methods for generating and/or displaying personalized video content are provided. In some embodiments, a video asset made up of a set of frames, including a preliminary frame with an object region, is received at user equipment. A media element is identified and transmitted to a remote server, where it is processed to produce a modified version of the media element and then transmitted back to the user equipment. The video asset is displayed at the user equipment, except that a modified frame incorporating the modified version of the media element is displayed in place of the preliminary frame. The modified version of the media element is incorporated in an area of the modified frame corresponding to the object region of the preliminary frame. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120084458 | COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A HOST OPERATING SYSTEM AND A GUEST OPERATING SYSTEM - In an embodiment, a guest operating system receives first host network information that identifies a host virtual network adapter. The first host network information uniquely identifies the host virtual network adapter. The guest operating system sends a first frame that comprises the first host network information to a guest virtual network adapter. The guest virtual network adapter sends the first frame to the host virtual network adapter. The guest operating system receives second host network information that identifies the host virtual network adapter. The second host network information uniquely identifies the host virtual network adapter. The guest operating system sends a second frame that comprises the second host network information to the guest virtual network adapter. The guest virtual network adapter sends the second frame to the host virtual network adapter identified by the second host network information in the second frame. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120124234 | RELIABLE MESSAGE TRANSFER - Various embodiments of systems and methods for reliable message transfer are described herein. In a sender adapter, at least one message is divided into a plurality of message chunks based on a predetermined chunk size. A chunk key is assigned to each of the message chunk to correspond to each message. Further, a chunk sequence key is generated for each of the message chunks to identify a sequence of the message chunks. The plurality of message chunks including the corresponding chunk key and the chunk sequence key is transmitted to a receiver adapter. At the receiver adapter, the plurality of message chunks including the corresponding chunk key and the chunk sequence key are received. Further, the message chunks are grouped based on the corresponding chunk key and each message is reconstructed from the message chunks based on the corresponding chunk sequence key. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120137020 | Data Packet Encapsulation Methods - A data encapsulation system and related methods. Implementations may include: forming at least one frame having a data payload, a data sequence, and one or more control bytes; evaluating data to be stored in the data payload and setting a value of the one or more control bytes, where the value of the one or more control bytes may be equal to: a first control byte value where one or more values of the data correspond with the first control byte value; a second control byte value indicating a size of the data; or a third control byte value where one or more values of the data continue beyond the frame. The value of each one of the one or more control bytes for each of the at least one frames may be equal to either the first, second, or third control byte values. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120158990 | Transporting a CBR Data Stream Over a Packet Switched Network - In one embodiment a method includes receiving a constant bit rate data stream, segmenting the constant bit rate data stream into fixed size blocks of data, generating a time stamp indicative of a system reference clock, the time stamp being in reference to a clock rate of the constant bit rate data stream, encapsulating, in an electronic communication protocol frame, a predetermined number of fixed blocks of data along with (i) a control word indicative of, at least, a relative sequence of the predetermined number of fixed blocks of data in the constant bit rate stream and (ii) the time stamp, and transmitting the electronic communication protocol frame to a packet switched network. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120166671 | PROVIDING REGULATORY INFORMATION TO A GROUP OWNER FOR CHANNEL SELECTION IN A WIRELESS PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - In a wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) network or group, regulatory information may be provided from a P2P client device to a P2P group owner device for use in selection of an operating class and/or operating channel for the P2P group. The regulatory information may be obtained by the P2P client device, for example, by concurrently connecting to a wireless local area network (WLAN) infrastructure. The regulatory information may be formatted as a P2P action frame and may include regulatory domain information and/or supported channel information such as operating class and channel number. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120173756 | Communication Across Domains - Communication across domains is described. In at least one implementation, a determination is made that an amount of data to be communicated via an Iframe exceeds a threshold amount. The data is divided into a plurality of portions that do not exceed the threshold amount. A plurality of messages is formed to communicate the divided data across domains. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120198090 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device may comprise a sending buffer having a first storage capacity, and a receiving buffer having a second storage capacity which is different from the first storage capacity. The communication device may determine a sending maximum data size in accordance with the first storage capacity, and determine a receiving maximum data size in accordance with the second storage capacity. The sending maximum data size and the receiving maximum data size may have different values. The communication device may perform a sending process for a sending frame of a sending target by utilizing the sending maximum data size, and perform a receiving process for a receiving frame of a receiving target by utilizing the receiving maximum data size. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120254459 | MANAGING DATA FILE TRANSMISSION - In a method for managing transmission of data files to users, a first file is divided into a plurality of first segments and a second file is divided into a plurality of second segments. A first segment is sent to a first user and a different first segment is sent to a second user. A second segment is sent to the first user and a different second segment is sent to the second user. At least part of a segment sent to the first user is combined with at least part of a segment sent to the second user to produce a combined segment which is of smaller size than the total size of the at least parts of segments before combining. The combined segment is transmitted to the first user and to the second user for each user to recover a segment using the combined segment and at least part of a segment. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120278502 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING TRANSMISSION OF TCP DATA SEGMENTS - A communication device that transmits data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. After receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic determines a sequence number of a data segment to be transmitted and compares the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted with at least one pending sequence number of a previous data segment. Based on the comparison, the transmission management logic either discards the data segment to be transmitted if the sequence number of the data segment matches the at least one pending sequence number of the previous data segment; or adds the sequence number of the data segment to the at least one pending sequence number and transmits the data segment if the sequence number of the data segment does not match the at least one pending sequence number. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20130031267 | Process for communication between a device running a mobile device platform and a server over the air, as well as related system - Process of communication via HTTP or HTTPS between a device running Java ME® and a server over the air, said server receiving and transmitting SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages from/to an operator on a host over a network and being capable of exchanging SOAP messages under Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) data form/with the device, characterized in that the SOAP messages are translated from/to binary messages according to a protocol in the server, said binary messages being exchanged with the device, the binary messages being binary request messages or binary response messages. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130103852 | COMMUNICATION NODE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a network environment where end hosts communicate with each other through end nodes connected to a backbone network, when data is sent, each end host generates a packet including a header including host identifier information corresponding to a reception path and a destination path, and transfers the corresponding packet to the end node through an access network. The end node adds a new transport control protocol (TCP) header to the received packet and transfers it to the backbone network, thus controlling traffic, errors and the like in the backbone network. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130246650 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND FRAME TRANSFER BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZATION METHOD - A computer system and frame transfer bandwidth optimization method capable of data transfer bandwidth control on a logical unit basis and according to the relevant storage tier in a storage apparatus are suggested. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130275618 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING CONTENT REDUNDANCY IN CONTENT-CENTRIC NETWORKING - A method for reducing content redundancy in CCN includes distributing named media content or another type of content from sources to consumers through host devices and intermediate devices via a communication network using object messages that carry fingerprint names and data chunks. The named content is divisible into data chunks represented by fingerprint names such that a content fingerprint list for content identifies data chunks for the content using fingerprint names. The fingerprint names are based on content data in the data chunk such that data chunks with the same content data for the named content and for other content are represented by the same fingerprint name and data chunks with different content data are represented by different fingerprint names. A subsystem associated with the method includes consumer and source communication modules; a local storage device; message routing, fingerprint list processing, and object caching modules; and a message processing controller. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130290559 | DEADLOCK RESOLUTION IN END-TO-END CREDIT PROTOCOL - A method for deadlock resolution in end-to-end credit protocol includes receiving a data frame and determining a number of credits required to transmit the data frame. The method also includes requesting and receiving credits from an end controller and responsively incrementing a credit counter. The method further includes determining if a value of the credit counter is greater than the number of credits required to transmit the data frame. Based on determining that the value of the credit counter is at least the number of credits required, the method includes transmitting the data frame to the end controller and decreasing the value of the credit counter by the number of credits required to transmit the data frame. Based on determining that the value of the credit counter is less than the number of credits required, the method includes transmitting a credit shortage notification to the end controller. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130297822 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIMEDIA DATA IN A BROADCAST SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for transmitting multimedia data in a broadcast system are provided. A method for constructing a payload for a multimedia frame to be transmitted via a heterogeneous network, in a broadcast system that supports an Internet protocol-based multimedia service, includes dividing the data so as to transmit data of at least one media type and constructing a data region based on each datum of the divided data, constructing a header region including information on the state of the data contained in the data region and/or information on the data region, and combining the data region and the header region to construct a payload for the multimedia frame. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140006638 | METHOD AND A NETWORK NODE, FOR USE IN A DATA CENTER, FOR ROUTING AN IPV4 PACKET OVER AN IPV6 NETWORK | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140068099 | ON-BOARD NETWORK SYSTEM - There is provided a new on-board network system having a relay device that relays communication frames between on-board networks, and, between an on-board network and an external device, such as being capable of supporting communication between an on-board network and an external device without a storage area of a relay device being increased. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140250238 | NETWORK GATEWAY FOR TIME-CRITICAL AND MISSION-CRITICAL NETWORKS - A network gateway and method for processing frames in communication network are provided. The network gateway includes a decision unit configured to determine an association of incoming frames with at least one network service; a processing unit configured to process each frame determined to be associated with the at least one network service; a queue configured buffering frames determined to be associated with the at least one network service; and a traffic shaper configured to perform bandwidth management on frames stored in the queue. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140281024 | SAS Domain Management and SSP Data Handling Over Ethernet - A server application is executed on an active device within the SAS domain, the active device connected to a remote client via an Ethernet connection. At least one command is received from the remote client via the Ethernet connection. An Ethernet frame of the at least one command is converted to at least one SAS frame. The at least one SAS frame is routed via a SAS data path to a SAS target device connected to the active device, the SAS target device corresponding to a field of the command. | 09-18-2014 |
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