| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 709243000 | Decentralized controlling | 16 |
| 20080235398 | Method For Coordination of Concurrent Processes or for Control of the Transport of Mobile Units Within a Network - A method for coordination of concurrent processes or for control of the transport of mobile units within a network, wherein a) the control of the network occurs in a decentralized and self-organizing manner in the controllers of node points or local defined sub-networks, whereby the control units of adjacent node points or sub-networks are connected to each other for data exchange of, b1) data from prediction models for local process sequences at each node and/or data from prediction models for the local process sequences of adjacent nodes and/or b2) data from data recording elements of each node or the boundaries associated therewith and/or data from data recording elements of adjacent nodes or the boundaries associated therewith, c) local simulation and optimization of switching the controller to establish the performance of the nodes or sub-networks with regard to the buffer capacity of the boundaries based on models for short-term predictions with fixed switch states for adjacent nodes, are applied. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080270627 | DOCKING PLATFORM FOR DEVELOPING PORTABLE PACKET PROCESSING APPLICATIONS IN A NETWORK PROCESSOR - An apparatus for developing portable packet processing applications on network processors includes a docking platform which provides a common interface for individual packet processing applications to be plugged into the network processing environment. Each application interacts with the docking platform through the common interfaces provided by the latter. The docking platform interacts with the other modules inside the system to accomplish the requests from the application. In this manner, the applications become “shielded” from the implementation details of the underlying hardware. The applications need not change when the network processor hardware features are changed. It therefore provides a universal packet processing programming environment in which applications can execute in a portable and flexible manner in various hardware architectures. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090164662 | INTELLIGENT INTERACTIVE MAIL OPENING TRACKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method for tracking the opening of physical mail includes preparing a mail piece for delivery to a mailpiece recipient, the mailpiece having identifying information thereon, and communicating the mailpiece identifying information to a mail opening tracking organization. The mailpiece is delivered to the mailpiece recipient. The mailpiece is mechanically opened and data related to the mailpiece opening event is captured and the data related to the mailpiece opening event is communicated to the tracking organization. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164663 | SECURITY MODES FOR A DISTRIBUTED ROUTING TABLE - A mesh is joined by a node, wherein the mesh includes a Distributed Routing Table (DRT) for determining addresses of nodes in the mesh. A DRT message is processed in accordance with a security mode of the DRT. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090172193 | Cable Redundancy with a Networked System - Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses, systems, and methods for supporting cable redundancy in a network connecting a network controller ( | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090204724 | SOAP ROUTING METHOD, ROUTING SYSTEM AND RELEVANT DEVICES - A SOAP routing method includes receiving a SIP request message from a service requester where the SIP request message carries application QoS information and service description information, selecting a SOAP intermediate node and a service provider according to the application QoS information and service description information, obtaining the SOAP routing information according to the SOAP intermediate node and service provider, and sending the SIP request message carrying the SOAP routing information to the corresponding service provider. In addition, a routing system and relevant devices are provided. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090276540 | PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME BASED ON REGION - A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system and a method of operating the P2P network system based on region are provided. If an edge peer storing a resource information list of a super peer migrates to a different super peer and is registered and connected with the different super peer, the edge peer transfers the resource information list to the different super peer to share the resource information list. Resources may be searched based on a region information list into which resource information lists of adjacent super peers are integrated. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100011124 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND PREVENTING FLOODING ATTACKS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for processing network traffic data includes receiving a packet, and determining whether the packet is a previously dropped packet that is being retransmitted. A method for processing network traffic content includes receiving a plurality of headers, the plurality of headers having respective first field values, and determining whether the first field values of the respective headers form a first prescribed pattern. A method for processing network traffic content includes receiving a plurality of packets, and determining an existence of a flooding attack without tracking each of the plurality of packets with a SYN bit. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20110119401 | Determining Role Assignment in a Hybrid Mesh Network - Embodiments of the present invention solve problems experienced by mesh networks concerning loop formation where two nodes are connected by both a wired and wireless link. The present invention prevents or ‘breaks’ a loop that that would otherwise result in continually repeating and delayed network data transmission. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110153865 | ENERGY-EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION METHOD IN GROUP INFORMATION-BASED SENSOR NETWORK AND SENSOR NETWORK SYSTEM USING THE METHOD - Provided are an energy-efficient communication method in a group information-based sensor network and a sensor network system using the method. A group exchanges group information and data with another group in order to provide an application service through inter-group cooperation in a sensor network. In this process, a target group is discovered, a communication path is established, and inter-group communication cycle information for energy-efficient communication is transmitted. On the basis of the group information and the communication cycle information, it is possible to minimize the network resource consumption and provide an energy-efficient inter-group communication method. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20130067114 | Apparatuses and Methods For Recommending a Path Through an Information Space - A recommendation apparatus for determining, for a user, a set of one or more recommended paths through an information space in response to receiving from the user a path request message. Advantageously, in some embodiments, the path recommender apparatus determines a recommended path by analyzing a set of paths, where each path in the set was traversed by a person who is in a “social graph” belonging to the user (e.g., each path in the set was traversed by one of the user's Facebook friends). In this way, paths can be recommended to the user based on paths that are popular with the user's friends. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20140207967 | Method and Apparatus for Provisioning a Transport Service in a Multi-Domain Multi-Layer Network - A method for provisioning a transport service in a multi-domain multi-layer network comprising at least one client layer network domain and at least one server layer network domain, comprising providing a virtual topology of each of said server layer network domain depending on connectivity requirements set by each of the served client layer network domains for a connectivity across said server layer network domains as at least one segment of said client layer network domain topology; determining an end-to-end path between two client nodes across one or more said server layer network domains based on an overlay topology comprising the virtual topologies provided by said server layer network domains, access links connecting client network nodes of said client layer network domains to said server layer network domains, and inter-domain links interconnecting said server layer network domains in the client layer; and provisioning a transport service via the determined end-to-end path. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140281029 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC ROUTING OF DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL (DHCP) TRAFFIC - At an intermediary dynamic host configuration protocol relay device, over a network, a dynamic host configuration protocol message is obtained from one of a plurality of remote dynamic host configuration protocol relay devices in communication with the intermediary dynamic host configuration protocol relay device over the network. The intermediary dynamic host configuration protocol relay device accesses data pertaining to a plurality of dynamic host configuration protocol back-end servers logically fronted by the intermediary dynamic host configuration protocol relay device. Based on information in the dynamic host configuration protocol message and the data pertaining to the plurality of dynamic host configuration protocol back-end servers, the dynamic host configuration protocol message is routed to an appropriate one of the plurality of back-end dynamic host configuration protocol servers. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140297888 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PERFORMING STATEFUL DIAMETER ROUTING WITH DIAMETER ROUTING AGENTS THAT USE DIFFERENT MECHANISMS TO ACHIEVE STATEFUL ROUTING - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for performing stateful Diameter routing with Diameter routing agents (DRAs) using different mechanisms to achieve stateful routing are disclosed. According to one aspect, a system for performing stateful Diameter routing with DRAs that use different mechanisms to achieve stateful routing includes a set of Diameter signaling routing nodes. Each node has access to at least one database for maintaining state information. The nodes are configured to be members of a first group, where each member of the first group is configured to use a first mechanism to achieve stateful routing with other members of the first group, and to use a second mechanism to achieve stateful routing with nodes that are not members of the first group. Members of the first group include signaling nodes provided by a same vendor, and members not in the group include signaling nodes provided by a different vendor. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20150089082 | PATH OPTIMIZATION IN DISTRIBUTED SERVICE CHAINS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - An example method for path optimization in distributed service chains in a network environment is provided and includes receiving information about inter-node latency of a distributed service chain in a network environment comprising a distributed virtual switch (DVS), where the inter-node latency is derived at least from packet headers of respective packets traversing a plurality of service nodes comprising the distributed service chain, and modifying locations of the service nodes in the DVS to reduce the inter-node latency. In specific embodiments, the method further includes storing and time-stamping a path history of each packet in a network service header portion of the respective packet header. A virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) of the DVS stores and time-stamps the path history and a last VEM in the distributed service chain calculates runtime traffic latencies from the path history and sends the calculated runtime traffic latencies to a virtual supervisor module. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20160094448 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CENTRALLY-ASSISTED DISTRIBUTED HASH TABLE - Methods and systems are described managing module for locating a target storage device among a plurality of storage devices connected via a network. A computer implemented method includes sending registration information to a central directory, wherein the registration information includes at least an address of one of the plurality of storage devices, and the central directory stores the registration information in a registry. The method also includes sending a request to the central directory for an address for another one of the plurality of storage devices, receiving the address from the central directory if the address is in the registry, and conducting a successive lookup of a closest known address until the address is located if the address is not in the registry. | 03-31-2016 |
