| 39th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 62 |
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| 20150270963 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a communication device includes a first manager, and a second manager, a first communication unit, a determination unit, a controller, and a second communication unit. The first manager shares a first cryptographic key with a first external device connected via a link. The second manager shares a second cryptographic key to be provided to an application, with the first external device and with a second external device connected via links. The first communication unit transmits the second cryptographic key to the first external device. The determination unit determines whether a device with which the second cryptographic key is to be shared is the first external device. If it is affirmative, the controller controls the second manager to share, as the second cryptographic key, a cryptographic key obtained by converting the first cryptographic key. The second communication unit provides the application with the second cryptographic key. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270964 | ENCRYPTION DEVICE, ENCRYPTION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND ENCRYPTION SYSTEM - An encryption server receives encrypted data which is encrypted by using a public key of a first user and which is added with auxiliary information calculated using a combination of a secret key and the public key of the first user and data to be encrypted. Then, the encryption server generates re-encrypted data obtained by re-encrypting the encrypted data using the auxiliary information added to the encrypted data, a public key of a second user, and encrypted information related to the secret key of the first user which is encrypted with the public key of the second user. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270965 | METHOD OF USING A TOKEN IN CRYPTOGRAPHY - Disclosed herein are techniques related to predetermining a token for use in a cryptographic system. A method includes providing a memento, mapping the memento to a candidate token according to a rule that updates a parameter, predetermine the token to be the candidate token, if the candidate token meets a test condition according to the rule, identifying a parameter value of the parameter, and providing the memento and the parameter value for future use as an input to re-generate the token. Another method disclosed herein is to re-generate the predetermined token for use in a cryptographic system. The method includes providing a memento associated with the predetermined token, providing a parameter value associated with the predetermined token, and providing a precept for mapping the memento to a candidate token. Further disclosed is instruction code for performing the techniques disclosed herein. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270966 | AGGREGATOR-OBLIVIOUS ENCRYPTION OF TIME-SERIES DATA - A processor of a device of user i in an aggregator-oblivious encryption system with n users encrypts a message {right arrow over (x | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270967 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN ENCRYPTION OF AN AES TYPE, AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A polynomial representation (b | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270968 | SECURING ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNITS USING MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES - A method of securing electronic control units (ECUs) using message authentication codes includes receiving a message authentication code (MAC) at an ECU; determining that the length of the MAC is greater than or equal to a predefined bit value; authenticating the MAC when the length of the MAC has been determined to be equal to or greater than the predefined bit value; and rejecting the MAC when the length of the MAC has been determined to be less than the predefined bit value. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270969 | FACILITY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - An equipment manager manages the operating state of equipment. A user verification processor performs user verification according to a request from a monitoring terminal, and when user verification is successful, generates for each facility management device a verification code in which verification data, to which a digital signature has been added using a self-owned secret key, has been encoded using a public key of each facility management device, and transmits the verification codes to the monitoring terminal. After receiving the verification code, a verification code analyzer decodes the verification code using the self-owned secret key, and performs verification by verifying the digital signature using the public key of a representative facility management device. When verification is successful, a Web server is able to monitor and manipulate data that indicates the operating states of all of the equipment that is managed by the equipment manager. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270970 | AUDIO DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADDING WATERMARK DATA TO AUDIO SIGNALS - An audio device and method for adding a watermark data to digital signals which represent audio generates a digital signature by applying a hash calculation on the hardware address of the audio device. The audio device searches for an orthogonal code in a walsh matrix. The audio device decodes audio digital signals according to the orthogonal code to output decoded data. The audio device loads the orthogonal code into an identification information of the audio device to form the watermark data in accordance with a determination that the decoded value is not equal to one of a plurality of specific values, wherein the identification information includes the hardware address of the audio device. The audio device adds the watermark data into audio digital signals. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270971 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SOFT TOKEN, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SERVICE COMPUTER SYSTEM - The method relates to a method for generating a soft token, having the following: providing a secure element, wherein, in a protected storage area of the secure element, a secret key of a first asymmetric cryptographic key pair is stored, setting up a first cryptographically secured connection between an electronic device and a service computer system, transmitting a request for the generation of the soft token from the electronic device to the service computer system via the first connection, generating a one-time password on the basis of the reception of the request by the service computer system, registering the one-time password as an identifier of the first connection by the service computer system, transmitting the one-time password from the service computer system to the electronic device via the first connection, issuing the one-time password via a user interface of the electronic device, setting up a second cryptographically stored connection between a user computer system and the service computer system, entering the one-time password into the user computer system, transmitting the entered one-time password from the user computer system to the service computer system via the second connection, verifying, by means of the service computer system, whether the registered one-time password is in agreement with the one-time password received via the second connection, and only if this is the case, reading at least one attribute stored in an ID token, generating the soft token by signing the at least one attribute and the public key of the first cryptographic key pair, transmitting the soft token via the first connection to the electronic device and/or transmitting the soft token via the second connection to the user computer system. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270972 | AUTHORIZING REMOVABLE MEDIUM ACCESS - For authorizing removable medium access, a reassembly module retrieves a medium portion of an encryption key from a removable medium. The encryption key encrypts encrypted data stored on the removable medium and includes a plurality of portions. The reassembly module further retrieves the user portion of the encryption key assigned to a user requesting the removable medium. The reassembly module reassembles the encryption key using at least the medium portion and the user portion of the plurality of portions. The decryption module decrypts the encrypted data with the reassembled encryption key. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270973 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A CRYPTOGRAPHIC METHOD - A device for carrying out a cryptographic method includes: a cryptographic unit carrying out at least one step of the cryptographic method; and a functional unit carrying out a deterministic function as a function of input data supplied to the device and at least one secret key. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270974 | Method for Generating an HTML Document that Contains Encrypted Files and the Code Necessary for Decrypting Them When a Valid Passphrase is Provided - A computer implemented method for encrypting one or more files and wrapping them in an HTML document. The HTML document contains the encrypted files, the necessary code to decrypt the files, as well as user interface code to receive a passphrase input from a user. The HTML document can be opened using any modern web browser, to obtain the original files using the same passphrase with which the encryption was performed. This offers a convenient way of sharing encrypted files via email or cloud file sharing services using a platform independent file format (without having to install any additional software). | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270975 | METHOD FOR VALIDATING MESSAGES - There is provided a method for secure communications. The method includes a computing device receiving a notification comprising a message, a counter value, a signature signed by a signer and based on the message and the counter value, and an indication of the signer. The device obtains a current counter value based on an identity of the signer, checks the signature and compares the counter value with the current counter value; and, if the counter comparison and the signature checking is successful, accepting the message. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270976 | USING DIGITAL FINGERPRINTS TO ASSOCIATE DATA WITH A WORK - A computing device, during sampling or playback of a work, receives a command to associate data with the work at a particular point in the work. The computing device generates a digital fingerprint of a segment of the work, wherein the segment corresponds to the particular point in the work. The computing device then associates the data with the digital fingerprint. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270977 | ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE METHOD WITH EPHEMERAL SIGNATURE - The invention concerns a method for generating an electronic signature key and an associated public key certificate, implemented by a client unit and a server unit, the method comprising a step during which the client unit and/or the server unit generate(s) a signature key comprising a private key and a public key, and a public key certificate comprising said public key, the method being characterised in that the client unit acquires an item of biometric data of an individual, and in that the signature key and/or the public key certificate are generated from at least a portion of said biometric data, and in that the portion of biometric metric data from which the signature key and/or the public key certificate have been generated is ephemeral and is not memorised after the signature key and the public key certificate have been generated. The invention also concerns a method for transferring a message and a system designed to implement the method for generating a signature key. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270978 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA REPAIR IN A DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method, media service controller and computer program product for data repair in a data communication network. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270979 | INTERFACE FOR ACCESSING EVOLVED MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICES (eMBMS) MIDDLEWARE SERVICES - A device provides, to another device, a start request for an evolved multimedia broadcast multicast services (eMBMS) session, and receives eMBMS session traffic from the other device based on the start request. The device determines track information from the eMBMS session traffic, and decodes the eMBMS session traffic into a format understood by the device. The device determines quality information associated with the eMBMS session traffic, and presents, for display, the decoded eMBMS session traffic, the track information, and the quality information associated with the eMBMS session traffic. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270980 | DEVICE-BASED DATA SHARING - According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes joining a first device to a first group of one or more other devices. It is determined that a first set of filtering conditions is met by media contributed by the first device. A media control is applied, by a computer processor, to the contributed media to provide controlled media. The controlled media is a controlled version of the contributed media, and the media control application is performed automatically in response to the first set of filtering conditions for the contributed media being met. The controlled media is shared with the other devices in the first group, automatically in response to the first set of filtering conditions for the contributed media being met. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270981 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POST RESONANCE - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for creating resonance around posts to a collaboration session by important individuals. In an implementation, a method may include determining an importance level associated with a first user. The method may also include receiving content from the first user for publication to a collaboration session. The method may also include publishing the content from the first user to the collaboration session. The method may further include preventing publication of content from at least another user to the collaboration session for a resonance time period proximate publishing the content from the first user. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270982 | DUPLICATING DIGITAL STREAMS FOR DIGITAL CONFERENCING USING SWITCHING TECHNOLOGIES - Using switching technologies to duplicate packets of a digital stream (e.g., digital video stream) sent from one workstation to multiple recipient workstations, where the switching technologies enable the multiple streams sent from the switch to the recipient workstations to be generated from a single digital stream sent from the sending workstation to the switch. Data units, such as video data units, may be transmitted by using a switch to enable receipt of a stream of data units including a payload portion and an attribute portion from at least two conferencing participants. The switch is used to duplicate at least a subportion of the payload portion of a data unit within the stream of data units, and to enable access to the duplicated subportion of the data unit by two or more conferencing participants. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270983 | UTILIZING EYE TRACKING TO DETERMINE ATTENDEE ENGAGEMENT - Eye tracking for the purpose of detecting attendee disengagement with respect to a presentation including a visual display communicated over a network. The eye tracking method includes: during a play of the presentation, tracking eye positions of a set of control party(ies); during a play of the presentation, tracking eye positions of a set of non-control party(ies); determining a set of divergence value(s) corresponding to divergence between the eye position(s) of the control party(ies) and the non-control party(ies); and determining a disengagement value corresponding to relative disengagement of the non-control party(ies) based, at least in part on the set of divergence value(s). | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270984 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING REMOTE NETWORK DEVICES WITH A CONTROL DEVICE - A method and apparatus for registering a remote network device with a control device is disclosed. In one embodiment, a registration information message is received by a bridge device from an unregistered remote network device using a first communication protocol. Identification information within the registration information message is stored in a record in a memory. A second registration information message is transmitted to the control device using the second communication protocol, the second registration information message comprising at least some of the identification information. In response, an acknowledgement message is received from the control device, the acknowledgement message comprising an identification code. When subsequent messages are received from the remote network device, the bridge associates these messages with the identification code, then re-transmits the messages to the control device using the identification code. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270985 | WIRELINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING A MILITARY STANDARD 1553 BUS - A wireline communication system and method are provided that utilize a military standard 1553 bus to transmit both military standard 1553 communication signals and other communication signals, such as those transmitted in accordance with another communications protocol. A wireline communication system may include a military standard 1553 bus and a military standard 1553 node configured to communicate with military standard 1553 communication signals at a first predefined range of frequencies. The wireline communication system further includes a first interface node configured to communicate via the military standard 1553 bus with second communication signals having a second predefined range of frequencies, different than the first predefined range of frequencies. The second communication signals are transmitted along the military standard 1553 bus at less than a predetermined decibel level. The second predefined range of frequencies and the predetermined decibel level are selected to limit interference between the different signals. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270986 | CREDIT-BASED DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION FOR TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS COMMUNICATIONS - A master device coupled to multiple slave devices in a system performs a method of allocating bandwidth. In the method, credits are assigned to each device of a plurality of devices in the system. Bandwidth is allocated among the plurality of devices for high-priority traffic, regardless of the credits. After allocating bandwidth for high-priority traffic, bandwidth is allocated among the plurality of devices based on the credits. A transmission schedule is generated for the plurality of devices based on the allocated bandwidth. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270987 | DATA DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A data distribution device for stably distributing specific data such as video data is provided. Video distribution device as a data distribution device includes video distribution unit as a specific data distribution unit, video distribution determining unit as a specific data distribution determining unit, and routing setting unit. When video distribution determining unit determines that video distribution unit is distributing video data as the specific data, and when the default route information has been acquired from a second communication device connected to a second network, routing setting unit holds the default route information without changing the default route. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270988 | VIRTUAL CUSTOMER NETWORKS AND DECOMPOSITION AND VIRTUALIZATION OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION LAYER FUNCTIONALITY - Aggregate functionality associated with multiple network communication layers may be decomposed and respective functionality associated with different network communication layers may be implemented on different devices. One or more aspects of respective functionality associated with a particular network communication layer may be virtualized based on the decomposition of the aggregate functionality. Virtual customer networks may be established for providing network-based services to a subscriber of an access network. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270989 | PILOT ASSISTED CHANNEL ESTIMATION - Systems and methods are described for the implementation of a receiver that includes a channel estimation block that uses known pilots to estimate the value of channel gain and phase at data subcarrier indexes. Time interpolation as well as an auto regression filter can be to estimate the channel gain and phase at the “missing” pilot indexes as well as frequency interpolation to estimate the value of the channel at data subcarrier indexes. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270990 | TRANSMISSION LINE LOAD ANTENNA MODULE - The antenna module contains a transmission line, a resonant radiation area, and an antenna base. An end of the transmission line is installed in the resonant radiation area. The resonant radiation area contains a positive zone and a negative zone. A section of the positive zone and a section of the negative zone are arranged in parallel where an adjustable impedance zone is formed between. Apart of the positive zone that extends from an edge of the adjustable impedance zone to an end point of the positive zone, and a part of the negative zone configured with a conductor are for high-frequency signal. A part that extends from the end point of the positive zone to an end point of the negative zone, and a part from the end point of the negative zone to where the conductor is configured on the negative zone are for low-frequency signal. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270991 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUSES - The present invention provides a wireless transmission mobile communication apparatus comprising a power supply unit; a transmitter unit, comprising an antenna, which transmitter unit is powered by the power supply unit; a control unit configured to control the operation of the apparatus; and an RF isolating unit. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270992 | DIGITAL TRANSMITTER - An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270993 | Method and Apparatus of an Architecture to Switch Equalization Based on Signal Delay Spread - The 60 GHz channel between the transmitter and receiver can have AWGN characteristics allowing a Time Domain Equalizer (TDE) to be used at the receiver instead of a Frequency Domain Equalizer (FDE). The complexity of performing matrix inversion on a received signal is reduced when directional antennas are used in a 60 GHz system. Incorporating the TDE in place of the FDE saves almost an order of magnitude in power dissipation. For portable units, such a savings is beneficial since the battery life can be extended. The signal quality of wireless channel is based on the characteristics of the received signal to switch the equalization operation from a system performing FDE to TDE and vice versa. The receiver adapts to the received signal to reduce the power dissipation of the system. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270994 | EDGE-BASED COMMUNICATION - Methods, devices and systems are disclosed where to generate a pulse a data line is actively driven to a first voltage followed by actively driving the data line to a second voltage. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270995 | RECEIVER OF SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A receiver of a semiconductor apparatus includes a first buffer unit configured to buffer a first positive input signal and a first negative input signal having a phase opposite the phase of the first positive input signal and to output the buffered first positive input signal as a first positive transmission signal and to output the buffered first negative input signal as a first negative transmission signal in response to a first enable signal, a second buffer unit configured to buffer a second positive input signal and a second negative input signal having a phase opposite the phase of the second positive input signal and to output the buffered second positive input signal as a second positive transmission signal and to output the buffered second negative input signal as a second negative transmission signal in response to a second enable signal, is and an output unit configured to invert one of the first and second positive transmission signals and to output the inverted one of the first and second positive transmission signals as a positive output signal, and to invert one of the first and second negative transmission signals and to output the inverted one of the first and second negative transmission signals as a negative output signal. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270996 | Pilot Design for OFDM Systems with Four Transmit Antennas - Pilot, preamble and midamble patterns are provided that are particularly suited for four transmit antenna OFDM systems. Pilots are inserted in a scattered manner for each of the four antennas, either uncoded, space-time coded in pairs, space-time frequency coded in pairs, or space-time-frequency coded. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270997 | DEVICE FOR RECEIVING INTERLEAVED COMMUNICATION SIGNALS - A signal decoder in a communication system is for decoding signal elements in a communication signal having interleaved carrier frequencies. The decoder receives antenna signals in a frequency domain, and has a multiplier for multiplying the antenna signals by a complex-valued mathematical sequence such as the Zadoff-Chu sequence, to generate multiplied antenna signals. An inverse frequency to time converter converts the multiplied antenna signals to time domain signals. A signal quality detector detects a signal quality from the time domain signals based on a subset of the carrier frequencies. The complex-valued mathematical sequence is provided with zero values corresponding to carrier frequencies that are not included in the subset, and the inverse frequency to time converter has a transform size corresponding to the multiplied antenna signals including all carrier frequencies. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270998 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CONTROL SIGNALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting control signals in a wireless communication system includes multiplexing a first control signal with a second control signal in a slot, the slot comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in time domain, the plurality of OFDM symbols being divided into a plurality of data OFDM symbols and a plurality of reference signal (RS) OFDM symbols, wherein the first control signal is mapped to the plurality of data OFDM symbols after the first control signal is spread by a base sequence in the frequency domain, the RS is mapped to the plurality of RS OFDM symbols, the second control signal is mapped to at least one of the plurality of RS OFDM symbols, and transmitting the first control signal and the second control signal in the slot. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150270999 | FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION IN A RECEIVER USING A PREAMBLE HAVING A SPECIFIC STRUCTURE - A method is provided for synchronizing a receiver receiving a signal corresponding to successive samples arranged in a frame with the beginning of the frame being defined by a preamble having a repetition of a first sequence of L samples coming from a transmitter. A method of transmitting the signal is also provided. The preamble is made up of two portions, one portion constituted by the first repeated sequence and another portion constituted by a second repeated sequence. The second sequence corresponds to the symmetrical version of the first sequence limited to a number M of samples that is less than the number L of samples. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271000 | CONSTRUCTING VERY HIGH THROUGHPUT SIGNAL (VHT-SIG) FIELDS FOR REDUCED PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO (PAPR) - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for constructing a VHT-SIG field of a transmission preamble in a manner that may reduce peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the transmission. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271001 | METHOD FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF A MULTI-CARRIER SIGNAL, AND CORRESPONDING TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method is provided for transmission of an OFDM signal, wherein pre-transmission processing includes: mapping data representative of a source signal to complex symbols Xn, 0<=n| 2015-09-24 | |
| 20150271002 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system. A method for transmitting data may comprise generating a physical layer (PHY) frame including a payload in which a plurality of Medium Access Control protocol data units (MPDUs) are multiplexed; and transmitting the PHY frame, wherein the PHY frame includes information on subcarriers occupied by each of the plurality of MPDUs in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of the payload. Therefore, data transmission efficiency in a WLAN system can be enhanced. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271003 | PRECODING FOR SINGLE TRANSMISSION STREAMS IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEMS - Precoding for multiple transmission streams in multiple antenna systems. Disclosed herein is a general method that transmits signal from multiple antennas using a one/two dimensional precoder. This precoder is fixed in a given resource block (RB) or slot, which is composed of P subcarriers and Q OFDM symbols (where the values for P and Q are greater than or equal to 1). The precoder in each resource block may take same or different values, which span the two dimensional time-frequency grid. The precoder is chosen as a function of either logical frequency index or physical frequency index of the RB. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271004 | NETWORK COMMUNICATION USING SELECTED RESOURCES - Methods and systems are described for transmitting data using various selected resources. For example, first one or more resources may be selected based at least in part on feedback from a first network node. A second network node may cause first data to be transmitted using the selected one or more resources. The second network node may also cause second data to be transmitted using second one or more resources. The resources may comprise, for example, tones, time slots, time-frequency channels, time resources, and/or frequency resources. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271005 | PHASE IMBALANCE CALIBRATION - A circuit for performing a residual side band calibration is described. The circuit generally includes a phase imbalance detection circuit. The phase imbalance detection circuit may include a limiter. The phase imbalance detection circuit may be independent of gain imbalance. The circuit may also include a phase imbalance correction circuit. The phase imbalance detection circuit may control coupling between an inphase path and a quadrature path. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271006 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR MODULATION AND CODING SCHEME SIGNALING FOR COMMON CONTROL CHANNEL - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, systems, and devices for modulation and coding scheme signaling for a common control channel. Various embodiments may include restricting transmit block size selection for downlink control information format 1A having a cyclic-redundancy check scrambled by a paging radio network temporary identifier, a system information radio network temporary identifier, or a random access radio network temporary identifier. Other embodiments may be described or claimed. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271007 | Message Exchange and Generic Communications Controller Structure for Redundant Avionics Communication Systems - The invention relates to a message exchange controller structure ( | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271008 | IDENTIFYING TROUBLESHOOTING OPTIONS FOR RESOLVING NETWORK FAILURES - Described herein are various technologies pertaining to providing assistance to an operator in a data center with respect to failures in the data center. An alarm is received, and a failing device is identified based upon content of the alarm. Failure conditions of the alarm are mapped to a failure symptom that may be exhibited by the failing device, and troubleshooting options previously employed to mitigate the failure symptom are retrieved from historical data. Labels are respectively assigned to the troubleshooting options, where a label is indicative of a probability that a troubleshooting option to which the label has been assigned will mitigate the failure symptom. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271009 | LATENCY VIRTUALIZATION DATA ACCELERATOR - A technique involves placing a data acceleration engine between an end user device and a host device. The host device provides data associated with a client application to the data acceleration engine, which provides the data to the end user device. If the data acceleration engine is on the host device, content from a datastore is served to the data acceleration engine as if the data acceleration engine were a client running the client application locally; therefore, latency normally associated with a network between the content datastore and the client device is eliminated. If the data acceleration engine is on the end user device and has received at least some data in advance of a relevant query, responses to the query also do not have latency associated with a network. The data acceleration engine can be implemented as a series of data acceleration engines between end user and host devices. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271010 | Systems And Methods For Automatic Access Layer Configuration - Systems and methods are provided that may be employed for automatic access layer configuration, for example, to achieve correct server profile provisioning so as to enable information handling system network connectivity from a server through one or more aggregator switches that is configured to fit a given workload and/or network connectivity architecture. The disclosed systems and methods may be implemented using intelligent platform enablement and exchange of information between information handling system compute resource/s and adjacent access layer switch/es. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271011 | DYNAMIC ROUTING FOR LOGICAL ROUTERS - Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller that manages a first logical router of a logical network that is implemented across several managed network elements. The method receives input data specifying a first route for a second logical router. Based on a connection between the first logical router and a second logical router in the logical network, the method dynamically generates a second route for the first logical router based on the first route. The method distributes data to implement the first logical router, including the second route, to a set of the managed network elements. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271012 | PROMULGATING INFORMATION ON WEBSITES USING SERVERS - A method uses web servers to promulgate information from one server to another, instead of promulgating the information by the user to each server individually. A first server receives a first request for promulgating web-information from a user, locally promulgates the web-information, and sends a second request to at least one second website server to instruct the second website server to locally promulgate the web-information. The selection of the second server is done according to a preset configuration file which includes a relationship mapping between the first website server and the second website server. The relationship mapping may provide the user information related to the second website server based on the user information related to the first website server. The present disclosure further discloses a communication apparatus and a communication system. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271013 | Ubiquitous Collaboration In Managed Applications - Methods and systems for an ubiquitous collaboration feature in a managed application environment are described herein. The collaboration service and/or server may store session information and one or more configuration files for use in rendering the collaboration features in combination with managed applications executing on a user's computing device. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271014 | AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF NEW COMPONENTS BY INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE - A method for managing a cluster of nodes in a networked system includes detecting the presence of a new node as it is added into the network. A hardware configuration of the new node is automatically determined. A role is assigned to the new node based on the determined new node's configuration and according to predefined node configuration criteria. The new node is selectively configured based on the assigned role. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURATION OF LINK AGGREGATION GROUPS - A system and method of configuration of link aggregation groups includes a control unit and a port coupled to the control unit and configured to couple the network switching device to a neighboring switch. The control unit is configured to transmit a probe message to the neighboring switch, receive a remote switch identifier and link aggregation group (LAG) identifier from the neighboring switch, determine whether the remote switch identifier matches a previously received remote switch identifier and the remote LAG identifier matches a previously received remote LAG identifier. When both match, determine a first LAG associated with the previously received remote switch identifier and the previously received remote LAG identifier and assign the port to the first LAG. When both do not match, to create a second LAG, assign the port to the second LAG, and associate the remote switch identifier and the remote LAG identifier with the second LAG. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271016 | CONFIGURATION OF NETWORKS WITH SERVER CLUSTER DEVICE - Implementations relate to configuration of networks with a server cluster device. In some implementations, a method includes receiving shortest path bridging (SPB) configuration information at one or more of two peer server devices provided in a server cluster having a communication link connecting the peer server devices, where the server cluster is connected to a network and is detectable as a single logical server by a network device on the network. The information is sent from each receiving peer server device to the other peer server device over the communication link, where the information is related to the received SPB configuration information. Network configurations are synchronized on the two peer server devices based on the information sent over the communication link. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271017 | CONFIGURATION OF NETWORKS USING SWITCH DEVICE ACCESS OF REMOTE SERVER - Implementations relate to configuration of networks using switch device access of a remote server. In some implementations, a method includes sending a request from an edge configuration device to an access control server, where the request requests shortest path bridging (SPB) configuration information for a detected end device connected to the edge configuration device, and where the edge configuration device is connected to an SPB network. The method receives at the edge configuration device the SPB configuration information for the end device from the access control server. The edge configuration device is configured to provide the end device access to the SPB network. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271018 | DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING NETWORK ADDRESSES - Disclosed are various embodiments for dynamically allocating network addresses to devices based on demand. A first network address allocation is initially assigned to a subdivision of a network including multiple computing devices. A router for the subdivision is configured to implement the first network address allocation. Data indicating a reconfiguration of the computing devices is obtained. A second network address allocation is subsequently assigned to the subdivision of the network based at least in part on the reconfiguration of the computing devices. The router for the subdivision is reconfigured to implement the second network address allocation. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271019 | STATIC RING NETWORK FOR VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS - A method for operating a ring network includes the steps of configuring the ring network with static configuration information and then deterministically exchanging operational data between a plurality of nodes on the ring network, while operating the ring network in accordance with the static configuration information. This system facilitates communications that meet the high reliability and performance requirements of vehicle communications, in particular in aircraft data networks (ADNs), while reducing the cost, weight and complexity of conventional implementations. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271020 | COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE IMPROVEMENT - An example computing device creates a resource module that acquires resource information relating to resources of the computing device and acquire quality of experience information corresponding to a quality of audio, and creates a roster module that displays a participant list including resource information relating to resources of a plurality of other computing devices connected to the teleconference and display quality of experience information corresponding to a quality of audio a user of each of the plurality of other computing devices experiences when connected to the teleconference. The device also creates a policy module configured to evaluate the resource information and quality of experience information acquired by the client resource module against rules of a teleconference policy and implement actions based on a determination that the computing device is non-compliant with one or more of the rules of the teleconference policy to control quality of audio during the teleconference. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271021 | System and Method for an Energy Efficient Network Adaptor with Security Provisions - In accordance with an embodiment, a network device includes a network controller and at least one network interface coupled to the network controller that includes at least one media access control (MAC) device configured to be coupled to at least one physical layer interface (PHY). The network controller may be configured to determine a network path comprising the at least one network interface that has a lowest power consumption and minimum security attributes of available media types coupled to the at least one PHY. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271022 | CONFIGURATION OF NETWORKS USING CLIENT DEVICE ACCESS OF REMOTE SERVER - Implementations relate to configuration of networks using client device access of a remote server. In some implementations, a method includes requesting a management server from an end device for shortest path bridging (SPB) configuration information for the end device to communicate on an SPB network, where the end device communicates with the management server over a non-SPB connection. The SPB configuration information is received from the management server, and the SPB configuration information is sent to an edge configuration device connected to the end device, where the SPB configuration information causes configuration of the edge configuration device to allow communication of the end device on the SPB network. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271023 | CLOUD ESTIMATOR TOOL - A cloud estimator tool can be configured to analyze a server configuration profile that characterizes hardware parameters for a node of a potential cloud computing environment and a load profile that characterizes computing load parameters for the potential cloud computing environment to generate a cloud computing configuration for the potential cloud computing environment. The cloud estimator tool determines a performance estimate and a cost estimate for the cloud computing configuration based on the hardware parameters and the computing load parameters characterized in the server configuration profile and the load profile. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271024 | METHOD OF AUTOMATIC NETWORK CONFIGURATION USING SENSING AND COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION - The invention provides a method of automatic network configuration using sensing and cooperative communication, which includes the following steps: detecting an environmental condition and/or user behavior information based on an operating status of a plurality of devices, transmitting and receiving a message of the environmental condition and/or the user behavior information between the plurality of devices, recording the received message by the plurality of devices, retrieving a device relationship according to the message, and performing automatic network configuration and connection according to device relationship. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271025 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FUNCTION COORDINATION CONTROL - Methods and apparatuses for SON and/or non-SON function coordination control have been provided. Specifically, embodiments have provided solutions for a second-party (e.g., operator), via an OAM interface like Itf-N or human interface, to control and manage a first-party (e.g., vendor) SCF, to ensure that the SCF makes coordination decisions on interacting SON functions according to the operator's requirements, even if the internal logic of the SCF is still not visible to the operator. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271026 | END USER PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS - A performance monitoring system collects profile data relative to an already-existing user, or a potential user. A predictive analysis is performed to predict whether the current performance, or predicted performance, meets an expected performance level. Key performance indicators are output and are indicative of the comparison. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271027 | Dynamic Session Transformation - In particular embodiments, a computing device establishes a remote desktop connection with a remote host, the remote desktop connection including one or more dynamic virtual channels. The computing device receives from one or more sensors an indication that the computing device has been rotated to a new orientation. The computing device sends to the remote host, via one of the dynamic virtual channels, information associated with the new orientation. The computing device receives from the remote host graphical data based at least in part on the information associated with the new orientation and provides for display the graphical data. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271028 | PROVIDING SHARED ACCOUNT SERVICE - A shared account service may be provided to consolidate account creation for one or more service providers. A unified UI is provided to receive a description information of one or more accounts of a tenant. A contract is configured with a service provider based on an analysis of the description information received through the unified UI and a capability information of the service provider. The contract is transmitted to the service provider to cause the service provider to create the account. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271029 | ACTIVATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ACTIVATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - An activation management system includes an activation management apparatus including a processor. The processor is configured to start, in response to a first request for accessing from a client device to a target server in a first state of being stopped, user authentication processing for authenticating a user of the client device and transmit a first instruction for bringing the target server into a second state of being operating. The processor is configured to transmit, if the first request is not permitted, a second instruction for bringing the target server in the second state into a third state of being temporarily stopped. The processor is configured to transmit, if a second request for accessing the target server is permitted, a third instruction for bringing the target server in the third state into the second state. The second request is generated after the transmission of the second instruction. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271030 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF DATA ANOMALIES - The disclosure presents computational methods and systems for detecting and correcting, or deleting, data anomalies in data generated by information technology business management (“ITBM”) systems. In one aspect, a method receives a record of data generated by an ITBM system. The record of data includes data types and associated numerical values recorded over a number of time periods. The method detects one or more data anomalies in the record of data based on the numerical values of the data types in the time periods and reports a set of the one or more data anomalies to a user. The method also enables a user to correct the data anomalies in the recorded data based on the user's decision to selectively correct or delete each of the data anomalies. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271031 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM TRAFFIC ROUTING - Systems and methods for improving Domain Name System (DNS) traffic routing, the systems and methods have a DNS resolver in digital communication with a microprocessor of an authoritative DNS server, wherein the authoritative DNS server is configured to make DNS traffic routing decisions, wherein a DNS query, associated with a requested DNS resource record, is transmitted to the authoritative DNS server. The systems and methods have at least one database in digital communication with, and accessible by, the authoritative DNS server, wherein the authoritative DNS server identifies the requested DNS resource record associated with the DNS query and extracts, from the at least one database, one or more configuration details associated with the requested DNS resource record, wherein the one or more configuration details associated comprise at least an input collection of potential answers to the DNS query and at least one assigned filter instruction. The microprocessor filters the input collection of potential answers by executing the at least one filter instruction to extract a final output from the input collection of potential answers, wherein the final output comprises at least one final answer to the DNS query. The at least one final answer is composed into a DNS response to the DNS query by the microprocessor, and the DNS response may be is returnable as output to the DNS resolver. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271032 | AUTOMATED SYNCHRONIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED DASHBOARDS - According to embodiments of the present invention, one or more computer processors publish a resource detail displayed and an associated first usage context, wherein the resource detail is displayed by a dashboard associated with a leader application. The one or more computer processors determine an appropriate graphical representation for a follower application, to display a first resource having a relationship to a second resource, wherein the second resource is displayed in the dashboard associated with the leader application. The one or more computer processors generate a dashboard universal resource locator for the follower application utilizing the resource detail. The one or more computer processors instruct the follower application to update an associated dashboard with information included in the generated dashboard universal resource locator. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271033 | SCALABLE FRAMEWORK FOR MONITORING MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M) DEVICES - A device receives information associated with machine-to-machine (M2M) devices connected to a host server device via a network. The information associated with the M2M devices include one or more of device information associated with components of the M2M devices, application information generated by the M2M devices, or network information associated with interactions of the M2M devices, with the network, when the M2M devices provide the application information to the host server device via the network. The device performs an analysis of the information associated with the M2M devices via one or more analytics techniques, and generates analysis information based on the analysis of the information associated with the M2M devices. The device provides the analysis information for display by the host server device. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271034 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCURATELY DISPLAYING COMMUNICATIONS TRAFFIC INFORMATION - A system and method uses path information to project traffic information from flow- or IPFix-type messages onto one or more paths that may have been taken by packets corresponding to such messages. Traffic information from a message is projected from the router interface from which the message was received, along the path or paths the packets corresponding to the message may have taken, but only to the next router interface that provides such messages. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271035 | TRANSACTIONAL INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT - Systems and methods are disclosed for effectively managing a network of computing devices by collecting and processing performance metric information from a plurality of devices in the network. In one embodiment, a computing device performance monitor may be configured to collect a plurality of performance metric information for one or more monitored computing devices and may assign integrity scores to the plurality of performance metrics. The performance monitor may be configured to determine performance values for the one or more monitored computing devices, and use the performance values to determine an appropriate response or corrective measure. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271036 | GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF THE STATUS OF A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM BASED ON EMPIRICAL OPERATIONS METRICS AND DERIVED SENTIMENT METRICS - A method includes performing operations as follows on a processor: communicating with a data processing system to collect empirical data associated with operations of the data processing system, communicating with a customer feedback system to collect user sentiment data associated with the data processing system, generating an operational status of the data processing system based on the empirical data, generating a sentimental status of the data processing system based on the user sentiment data, and generating a composite status of the data processing system based on the operational status and the sentimental status. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271037 | MULTI-WIRE ELECTRICAL PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS VIA TEST PATTERNS - A measurement task is selected, where the measurement task is associated with a transmission of an encoded signal transmitted via a plurality of data lines. The encoded signal is encoded using one or more of 3-Phase, N-Phase, or N-factorial low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) where N is at least three (3). A repeating waveform is generated corresponding to the measurement task. The repeating waveform corresponding to the measurement task is then transmitted via the plurality of data lines. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271038 | LINK-DEVICE SELECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A link-device selecting apparatus includes an evaluation value calculating unit and a selecting unit. The evaluation value calculating unit calculates evaluation values of a plurality of second devices using first information, second information, and importance levels. First information is information on the position and orientation of an operator of a first device. Second information is information on the positions and orientations of the plurality of second devices. The importance levels include an importance level of the position of a second device and an importance level of the orientation of the second device, both given in accordance with a function of the second device. The selecting unit selects a device to be linked to the first device from the plurality of second devices using the evaluation values. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271039 | Network Interface and Detection Module to Enable Network Communication within Information Handling Systems - A network interface module can include a housing including a first cavity configured to receive a first network plug having a first dimension. The housing also includes a second cavity within the first cavity, and configured to receive a second network plug having a second dimension that is less than the first dimension. The network interface module can also include a network detection circuit operatively connected to a first terminal within the housing. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271040 | NETWORK SWITCH LOAD BALANCE OPTIMIZATION - A network load balancing method in a blade grouping chassis can be provided. The method can include detecting system conditions among blades coupled to a single blade grouping chassis. The method also can include maintaining a rotation of selected ones of the blades among which individual blades are selected for use in network load balancing inbound workloads. Finally, the method can include removing an individual blade from the rotation responsive to detecting a system condition in the individual blade indicative of an inability of the individual blade to support high availability in network load balancing. As such, the method further can include re-adding the individual blade to the rotation responsive to detecting a system condition in the individual blade indicative of an ability of the individual blade to support high availability in network load balancing. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271041 | Methods and apparatus to determine network delay with location independence from retransmission delay and application response time - The techniques disclosed herein determine a location independent network delay, via a network monitoring device. Such techniques particularly include determining various delays caused by retransmission in instances of lost data segments and application response time. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271042 | BANDWIDTH MEASURING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A mobile terminal obtains a measurement value of a round-trip time in a communication channel used for communication with a server and a measurement value of a packet loss ratio in the communication channel (S | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271043 | BANDWIDTH ANALYTICS IN A SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK (SDN) CONTROLLED MULTI-LAYER NETWORK FOR DYNAMIC ESTIMATION OF POWER CONSUMPTION - A computer-implemented method, a controller, and a Software Defined Network (SDN) perform steps of correlating users based on unique identifiers to service addresses; receiving historical data from associated control area operator for the service addresses; correlating the users' bandwidth usage behavior to the users' power usage behavior; monitoring the users' bandwidth usage over time; characterizing bandwidth usage type for the users with abnormal bandwidth usage patterns; and notifying the control area operator of the users with the abnormal bandwidth usage patterns based on the characterized bandwidth usage type. Accordingly, electric power forecasting by the control area operator can include improved accuracy through correlating the users' bandwidth usage behavior and detecting abnormal conditions. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271044 | BROWSER RESPONSE OPTIMIZATION - An approach for browser response optimization is provided. A web server determines whether workload on the web server is below a threshold, in response to receiving a request from a client. The web server sends to the client an intermediate response which includes code for evaluating a capacity of the client, in response to determining that the workload is not below the threshold. The web server receives a result of executing the code by the client, wherein the result includes data of metrics of the client. The web server determines whether the client is capable of handling a partial response, by comparing the metrics to predetermined benchmarks. In response to determining that the client is capable of handling the partial response, the web server builds and sends to the client a partial response which is for the client to compile and render on the client. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271045 | Method, apparatus and system for detecting network element load imbalance - Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for detecting network element (NE) load imbalance, the method comprising the following steps: according to a preset detection policy, performing differentiation analysis for the NE performance index reported by every NE device, and storing the analysis results to the network index buffer pool; obtaining periodically the differentiation analysis results from the network index buffer pool, and determining whether there is a load imbalance anomaly among NE devices; when an anomaly is found, sending an alarm message. By using the techniques of load average value differentiation computing, load differentiation percent computing and threshold comparison, the present invention can detect in a timely manner load imbalance problems among NE devices in scenarios in which multiple NE devices are managed together, thereby enabling, by sending a1ann message at once, users to be notified to eliminate possible hidden safety risks, and thus improving the reliability, maintainability and stability of network communication devices. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271046 | System and Method to Publish Information from Servers to Remote Monitor Devices - To assist in monitoring the intelligent messaging network, a system and method for publishing logging and status information from the servers is provided. A list of available servers accessible for monitoring by persons, devices, and applications via a remote monitor device can be provided. The remote monitor device may forward selected servers from the list of available servers in which they are interested. Also, particular information about the selected servers can be requested. Access to certain servers and information may be restricted to those with authorization. Authorization can be verified by the use of digital certificates. The requested information can then be gathered and provided to authorized persons or devices. Typically, the information includes logging and status information from the servers. The information can be provided as an XML page and viewed using, for example, a standard web browser. Further, if the information is provided to the remote monitor device as an XML page, a standard XML parser may be used to extract particular information from the XML page. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271047 | Method for Determining Normal Sequences of Events - An information handling system monitors events of a first time period, forms sequences from the events (first sequences), and determines normal sequences of the events. In one embodiment, it may also form sequences based upon events of a second time period (second sequences), the second time period later than the first time period, match the first sequences against the second sequences, and remove events of the second sequences from the events of the second time period. The information handling systems may then search for anomalous events in the remaining events. In another embodiment, the normal sequences may represent purchases. The information handling systems may compare purchases of a customer to the normal sequences and determine products of possible interest to the customer based upon the comparison. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271048 | BASELINE WANDER COMPENSATING METHOD, BASELINE CALIBRATION MODULE AND ETHERNET TRANSCEIVER USING THE SAME - The present disclosure illustrates a baseline wander compensating method adapted for compensating baseline wander induced in an Ethernet transceiver. The baseline wander compensating method comprises following steps. Firstly, an output packet is detected. Next, a detection result of the output packet and a predetermined value are compared, and a control signal is generated correspondingly. Based on the control signal, a first calibration signal or a second calibration signal is selected, and a calibrating calculation is executed for the selected one of the first calibration signal and a second calibration signal. Next, an input signal is compensated according to a baseline calibration value generated from the calibrating calculation. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271049 | Optical Character Recognition for Video Automation - A video analysis system may utilize display screen snapshots captured from a device. The system may receive time information that indicates a time duration, position-related information that indicates a region, and reference information that indicates information expected to appear in the region during the time duration. The system may transmit an instruction to capture display screen snapshots during a time duration indicated by the time information. The system may receive a display screen snapshot and recognize information in the region indicated by the position-related information. The system may then determine whether the recognized information corresponds to the reference information and based on the result determine whether the video test automation has passed. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271050 | Method and device for determining topology of network - Provided is a method for determining topology of a network, including: all links of the network are divided into link sets L(V1), . . . , L(Vn) according to rate levels V1, . . . , Vn of links of the network, wherein n is a positive integer equal to or larger than 1; a link set L(Vx) is divided into link subsets L(Vx)1, . . . , L(Vx)k according to connectivities of the links, wherein 1≦x≦n and k is a positive integer equal to or larger than 1; and a network layer to which a link subset L(Vx)y is attributed is determined, wherein 1≦y≦k. The disclosure solves the problem that it is difficult to divide artificially all links (and then nodes of respective links) to various network layers of respective layered networks when the networks have relatively large scale, it enables automatic calculation of a network layer to which a node is attributed, then enables automatic calculation of a networking structure of each layer of network and a number of nodes therein, thereby providing basic data to subsequent topology optimization of the network. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271051 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MANAGE ROUTING IN NETWORKS - Example methods, apparatus and articles to manage routing in networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes identifying a first network element associated with a problematic network element; identifying a first maximum transmission unit of the first network element and a second maximum transmission unit of the problematic network element; determining whether the first and second maximum transmission units are different; and when the first and second maximum transmission units are different, identifying a value of a greater one of the first and second maximum transmission units and configuring the first network element and the problematic network element to each have the identified value. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271052 | Procedure to Add Alternate Paths for IS-IS Default Route - A method is implemented by a network device to determine loop free alternatives (LFA) for each next hop in a default route to border nodes of a level 1 intermediate system—intermediate system (IS-IS) area of the network device. The method selects a next next-hop for the default route and looks up a corresponding border node for the selected next-hop in a local routing information base (RIB). A next next-hop of the corresponding border node is selected. A check is made whether the selected next-hop of the corresponding border node is the same as selected next-hop of default route. Then an LFA of the selected next-hop of the corresponding border node is assigned as LFA of the selected next-hop of the default route. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271053 | ROUTE SELECTING METHOD AND NODE APPARATUS - A node apparatus calculates the arrival rate in a link, discretizes the calculated arrival rate according to thresholds that are set so that the intervals between thresholds in the range in which a large number of the arrival rates in the links with a high frequency of usage exist become narrower, and calculates the link cost according to the value after the discretization. The node apparatus then obtains, from adjacent node apparatuses, the route cost for each route to each final destination that may be reached, and integrates the obtained route cost by the calculated link cost to calculate the route cost to each final destination that can be reached from the local node apparatus via the adjacent node apparatus. The node apparatus then selects the adjacent node apparatus to be the transmission destination according to the route cost of the route to the final destination of a data frame. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271054 | ROUTE SELECTION METHOD, NODE DEVICE AND RELAY SYSTEM - Node device calculates reception rate of frames of particular frame type transmitted from adjacent node device, calculates arrival rate of unicast frames on the basis of calculated reception rate and frame length, and calculates inverse number of calculated arrival rate as link cost. Node device obtains from adjacent node device route cost for each route from adjacent node device to each node device that is reachable final destination, calculates route cost of route from node device itself to each node device that is final destination reachable via adjacent node device by integrating calculated link cost and obtained route cost. Node device selects adjacent node device that is transmission destination of data frame on the basis of route cost of route from node device itself to node device that is final destination of data frame when data frame is transmitted. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271055 | PATH COMPUTATION METHOD, PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENT, NODE DEVICE, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - The present invention provides a path computation method, a Path Computation Element (PCE), a node device, and a network system. The method includes: receiving a path computation request message (S | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271056 | OPTIMIZED APPROACH TO IS-IS lFA COMPUTATION WITH PARALLEL LINKS - A method is executed by a network device to a calculate loop free alternative (LFA) for each node in an intermediate system-intermediate system (IS-IS) area or IS-IS domain where the network device is connected with other nodes via multiple parallel links. The method includes a shortest path first (SPF) computation of the primary paths for the network device that tracks directly connected links from each node in the IS-IS area or IS-IS domain to the network device which is a source node for the SPF. These tracked links can then be utilized in subsequent LFA computations to avoid unnecessary calculations. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271057 | METHOD FOR RUNNING A COMPUTER NETWORK - The invention provides for a method for running a computer network and such a computer network. The computer network comprises a number of devices being arranged in a stable daisy-chained loop, wherein each device comprises a bridge having at least three ports, whereby during running the computer network each device can take different states to avoid a loop, and whereby in case of rebooting the ports of at least one of the devices keep their current port states. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271058 | COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - A given sensor node, upon determining that data processing requested by another sensor node cannot be completed by the given sensor node, selects a sensor node that based on hop count based information stored in a storage apparatus, is away from a receiver. The given sensor node transmits to the selected sensor node, request notification requesting execution of the data processing exclusive of an executable portion. The given sensor node executes the executable portion, upon receiving securement completion notification indicating that the execution of the data processing indicated in the transmitted request notification can be completed by at least one sensor node among plural sensor nodes. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271059 | BETTER ALTERNATE PATHS FOR MULTI HOMED IS-IS PREFIXES - A method is executed by a network device to determine a loop free alternate (LFA) for a multi-homed prefix in an IS-IS area or IS-IS domain. The method includes selecting a next node from the IS-IS area or the IS-IS domain and selecting a next prefix for the selected node. A check is made whether the selected prefix is a multi-homed prefix (MHP). A check is made whether a shortest path first (SPF) cost of the selected node and cost to the selected prefix is equal to an SPF cost of the selected prefix, whether a next hop of selected prefix is same as next hop of selected node, and whether a LFA next hop of the selected node is better protection than a current next hop protection of the selected prefix and the LFA next hop of the selected node is then inherited for the selected prefix. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271060 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF NETWORK INTERFACES, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus including a plurality of network interfaces capable of retransmitting data immediately after failure in data. It is determined whether there is a network interface having an IP address in the same subnet as a destination IP address in the network interfaces. Data transmission is performed using a default network interface if it is determined that there is no network interface having an IP address in the same subnet as the destination IP address in the network interfaces. If it is determined that there is no network interface having an IP address in the same subnet as the destination IP address in the network interfaces and where the data transmission using the default network interface has failed, the data transmission is performed again by changing the used network interface from the default network interface to another network interface. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271061 | MULTI-PATH COMMUNICATION DEVICE CAPABLE OF IMPROVING ENERGY USE EFFICIENCY AND TRAFFIC DISTRIBUTION METHOD FOR IMPROVING ENERGY USE EFFICIENCY THEREOF - The present invention relates to a multi-path communication device capable of improving energy use efficiency and a traffic distribution method for improving the energy use efficiency thereof, which can improve energy use efficiency of an entire network in multi-path communication by properly adjusting the number of paths for transmitting traffic according to traffic levels and distributing the traffic without distributing and transmitting the traffic to all possible paths. | 2015-09-24 |
| 20150271062 | Routing Frame Propagation in Power Line Networks - Determination of a transmission through a network having a plurality of nodes using carrier sense multiple access collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) may be performed by broadcasting a route request (RREQ) packet from a source node that is targeted towards a destination node within the network, such that the RREQ is received by a first set of nodes in proximity to the source node. After first receiving a RREQ, each of the plurality of nodes rebroadcasts the RREQ after waiting a randomized amount of wait time. During each randomized wait time, the node suppresses all but one RREQ received by the node during the wait time. | 2015-09-24 |
