| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7623458 |
System and method for providing integrated services across cryptographic boundaries in a network |
November 24, 2009 |
| A method for providing network integrated services based ReSerVation Protocol acorss a cryptographic network boundary includes assigning one or more DiffServ forwarding classifications to correspond to IntServ requests for QoS provisioning. A daemon in the QoS Service Provider module |
| 7589636 |
Methods and systems for automated safety device inspection using radio frequency identification |
September 15, 2009 |
| Methods and systems for an automated safety device inspection system for a vehicle are provided. The system includes an RFID reader including a transmit portion and a receive portion wherein the reader is physically translatable along a predetermined path, a directional antenna commu |
| 7564810 |
Method and system for managing power consumption of a network interface module in a wireless com |
July 21, 2009 |
| A power management scheme for use in a wireless device reduces the power consumption of the network interface module of the wireless device by selectively putting the network interface module into a low-power state for an idle time. The length of the idle time is calculated such that the |
| 7561521 |
Network centric quality of service using active network technology |
July 14, 2009 |
| Systems and methods for improving network centric quality of service using active network technology are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes controlling how a packet is passed over at least one of the interfaces using a differentiated services portion of a network managem |
| 7555663 |
Method and apparatus for managing power in network interface modules |
June 30, 2009 |
| A method and system for managing power consumption in a portable computing device having a network interface module is presented. A power management module receives inputs from other modules and determines when the network interface module is to be put in a doze state for a predetermined |
| 7539481 |
Method for connecting a wireless access point to a wired access point by chaining together wirel |
May 26, 2009 |
| An architecture and methods for extending the depth of a WLAN to a four-level hierarchal access point structure including wireless access points. The wireless access points in the WLAN can be networked by scanning for a network, collecting one or more packets that identify the networ |
| 7529957 |
Method and apparatus for managing power in network interface modules |
May 5, 2009 |
| A method and system for managing power consumption in a portable computing device having a network interface module is presented. A power management module receives inputs from other modules and determines when the network interface module is to be put in a doze state for a predetermined |
| 7529933 |
TLS tunneling |
May 5, 2009 |
| An authentication protocol can be used to establish a secure method of communication between two devices on a network. Once established, the secure communication can be used to authenticate a client through various authentication methods, providing security in environments where inte |
| 7512081 |
System and method for achieving zero-configuration wireless and wired computing and computing de |
March 31, 2009 |
| A system and method for enabling a zero configuration nomadic wireless and wired computing environment presenting a just works experience is presented. The system examines predefined user preference or profile settings to determine to which of a competing number of wireless networks |
| 7506188 |
Method and apparatus for managing power in network interface modules |
March 17, 2009 |
| A method and system for managing power consumption in a portable computing device having a network interface module is presented. A power management module receives inputs from other modules and determines when the network interface module is to be put in a doze state for a predetermined |
| 7464265 |
Methods for iteratively deriving security keys for communications sessions |
December 9, 2008 |
| Disclosed are methods for a client, having established one set of security keys, to establish a new set without having to communicate with an authentication server. When the client joins a group, master session security keys are derived and made known to the client and to the group's |
| 7460855 |
Selective pre-authentication to anticipated primary wireless access points |
December 2, 2008 |
| A wireless device that adaptively makes the determination of whether or not to pre-authenticate. If the wireless device is running an application that is sensitive to latency (also referred to herein as a low latency application), then pre-authentication is performed and latency is reduc |
| 7451331 |
Method and apparatus for managing power in network interface modules |
November 11, 2008 |
| A method and system for managing power consumption in a portable computing device having a network interface module is presented. A power management module receives inputs from other modules and determines when the network interface module is to be put in a doze state for a predetermined |
| 7447176 |
Making roaming decisions based on association qualities between wireless devices and wireless ac |
November 4, 2008 |
| The principles of the present invention provides for making roaming decisions based on association qualities between a wireless device and one or more wireless access points. From time to time, the wireless device updates a current association quality for a current wireless access po |
| 7353381 |
Supplicant and authenticator intercommunication mechanism independent of underlying data link an |
April 1, 2008 |
| A supplicant on a first computing system authenticating the first computing system to an authenticator on a second computing system in a manner that is independent of the underlying data link and physical layer protocols. The first computing system establishes a data link layer conne |
| 7349422 |
Providing contention free quality of service to time constrained data |
March 25, 2008 |
| The principles of the present invention provide for providing contention free quality of service to wireless stations. A station indicates to an access point that higher priority data (e.g., time constrained data) is to be sent to the access point. The access point receives the indicatio |
| 7340615 |
Method and apparatus for managing power in network interface modules |
March 4, 2008 |
| A method and system for managing power consumption in a portable computing device having a network interface module is presented. A power management module receives inputs from other modules and determines when the network interface module is to be put in a doze state for a predetermined |
| 7269388 |
Bluetooth pan driver |
September 11, 2007 |
| A system and method for enabling and implementing personal area networking on a local machine having one or more local Bluetooth devices. A set of interoperating data structures are employed in an implementation of a PAN driver, including device control blocks and connection control bloc |
| 7263078 |
Method and apparatus for scanning in wireless computing devices |
August 28, 2007 |
| A method and system for scanning in a wireless device having a wireless network interface card (NIC) is presented. The system has a scanning history table for storing scanning results and a scanning engine that adjusts the scanning period based upon a history of scanning results and |
| 7257836 |
Security link management in dynamic networks |
August 14, 2007 |
| A method for setting up and managing secure data/audio/video links with secure key exchanges, authentication and authorization is described. An embodiment of the invention enables establishment of a secure link with limited privileges using the machine identifier of a trusted machine. |
| 7187925 |
Access point to access point range extension |
March 6, 2007 |
| An architecture and methods for extending the depth of a WLAN to a four-level hierarchal access point structure including wireless access points. The wireless access points in the WLAN can be networked by scanning for a network, collecting one or more packets that identify the networ |
| 7120129 |
System and method for achieving zero-configuration wireless computing and computing device incor |
October 10, 2006 |
| A system and method for enabling a zero configuration nomadic wireless and wired computing environment presenting a just works experience is presented. The system examines predefined user preference or profile settings to determine to which of a competing number of wireless networks |
| 7088687 |
Managing packet transmissions between a device in a limited connectivity network and a device re |
August 8, 2006 |
| The invention makes possible remote control of devices in a piconet by remote users communicating over the Internet and the like by providing a proxy-bridge device. The proxy-bridge device is a bridge for sending packets to and from between an external device and a device in the pico |
| 7079508 |
Quality of service over paths having a wireless-link |
July 18, 2006 |
| The invention provides Quality of Service assurances in a manner expected in other media to communications over paths that include one or more wireless links. The invention combines a subnet bandwidth manager ("SBM") at an access point ("AP") to track allocations of wireless bandwidth. T |
| 6862628 |
Enhancing application performance in dynamic networks |
March 1, 2005 |
| A method and device are disclosed that enable a user to experience continuity by alleviating blocking of an application by a slow or failure-prone connection. The method includes dissociating the user interface from an application-client managing communications with a server over the |
| 6782422 |
Systems and methods for resynchronization and notification in response to network media events |
August 24, 2004 |
| The invention detects and responds to events occurring on a computer network medium. When a network media event is detected, network parameters are adjusted, if possible, to adapt to the new circumstances brought about by the event, and traffic may be rerouted if that is appropriate. |
| 6018659 |
Airborne broadband communication network |
January 25, 2000 |
| A deployed group of airborne vehicles (AV) provide relay communication service among mobile and airborne customers by using a directed phased array antenna (PAA). The PAAs provide broadband communication with mobile customers. Each AV has a wireless link to one or more neighboring AVs |
