| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7403773 |
Location-based access control for wireless local area networks |
July 22, 2008 |
| A wireless local area network (LAN), and a method of operating the same, prevents unauthorized users from accessing the wireless LAN. A signal strength of a station attempting to access the wireless LAN is measured. If the signal strength is less than a predetermined threshold value, the |
| 7372856 |
Method for real-time transport protocol (RTP) packet authentication |
May 13, 2008 |
| A method for Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packet authentication on a packet data network. In particular, the invention relates to a method for preventing toll fraud, privacy compromise, voice quality degradation, or denial of service (DoS) on Voice over IP networks. The Real-time |
| 7286474 |
Method and apparatus for performing admission control in a communication network |
October 23, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus are disclosed for assessing the available resources in a network and using the assessment for admission control. A VoIP call can be established with a device only if the network has sufficient resources to accommodate the call or it is possible to make such res |
| 6871233 |
Method and apparatus for use in specifying and insuring service-level quality of service in comp |
March 22, 2005 |
| The "what" and "how" of policy-based management is integrated in a single framework that enables a system administrator to specify service-level quality of service (QoS) goals for automatic enforcement. Automatic enforcement of the specified "high-level" QoS goals is realized through |
| 6789114 |
Methods and apparatus for managing middleware service in a distributed system |
September 7, 2004 |
| A distributed computing system includes a number of computers, workstations or other computing machines interconnected by a network. One or more service managers are introduced that provide a management interface to corresponding middleware services. The service manager monitors the |
| 6732168 |
Method and apparatus for use in specifying and insuring policies for management of computer netw |
May 4, 2004 |
| A policy-based network management system is realized by enabling policy-based management programs to be defined via run-time loading of "policy packages" that are collections of reusable "policy components". Such reusable policy components may be written by the vendor of the policy-b |
| 6161193 |
Methods and apparatus for process replication/recovery in a distributed system |
December 12, 2000 |
| A distributed computing system includes a number of computers, workstations or other computing machines interconnected by a network. A non-interactive process arriving in a host machine of the system is migrated for execution to at least two remote machines. For example, first and second |