Oracle America, Inc.

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Oracle International Corporation

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Milan Merhar

Howard Hall

Ilia Sokolinski

Christopher Cochrane

Stephen Ferrari

William R Stronge

Stanley Luke

Malvin C Teich

Alexander Sergienko

Bahaa E A Saleh

Steven J Bielagus

Mitchell Condylis

A method for accelerating TCP/UDP packet switching. The method involves determining whether exception processing is necessary; if not, the packet is forwarded to a special stack for expedited processing. Packets requiring exception processing are forwarded to the conventional stack.

TCP/UDP acceleration

Disclosed are improved methods, devices and systems for storage management in digital networks.

Switching systems and methods for storage management in digital networks

Methods and systems consistent with certain aspects related to the present invention provide a digital network having a plurality of data storage elements, at least one client, and a switch element. The switch element may be operable to receive access requests from the client and provide access to data on the storage elements in response to one or more access requests.

Switching system

The invention relates to an entangled-photon apparatus capable of measuring particular characteristics of an optical element, device or channel. Specifically, the apparatus and a method of using said apparatus to measure polarization mode dispersion in an optical communications fiber is disclosed. The apparatus includes a source of entangled photons, which are injected into the device under test, and a quantum interference device for determining the state of entanglement of said photons after they pass through the device. The quantum interference device includes a variable, polarization-specific delay element that is incremented to null out polarization mode dispersion in the device under test, and a wavelength demultiplexer/array detector that permits simultaneous measurements across a wide wavelength band. A second preferred embodiment of the invention and method is suitable for characterizing PMD in-situ that is, PMD measurements can be made while an optical fiber is in use for optical communications.

Polarization mode dispersion characterization apparatus and method

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Brookline, MA, United States of America

Milan Merhar