Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Applied Materials, Inc.

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Apple Inc.

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Kirsteen Mgmt. Group LLC

Ming Li

Xuesong Dong

Katherine Zhao

Renwei Li

Yang Yu

Weiqian Dai

Huaimo Chen

Shulin Wang

Lee Luo

Aihua Chen

Ulrich Kroemer

Randall R Stewart

Bisong Tao

Hongtao Yin

Xi-Cheng Zhang

Xiaoyong Yi

Sheeba J Panayil

Zhiping Jiang

Christopher Sean Olsen

Duy P Le

Shujin Zhang

Sean M Seutter

Lin Han

Delei Yu

Jerry B Scott

Alex Van Truong

Kevin Laughton Cunningham

R Suryanarayanan Iyer

Sam K Aldrin

Guangcai Xing

Yonghui Wu

Sanjeev Chhabria

Jean-Paul Noel

Jun Liu

Jianwei Guo

Phillip Kraus

Matthew D Walker

Burak Metin

Robert Tao

Su Wei

Junjie Xu

Bhaskar Bhar

Jonathan C Pickering

Gyu Cheon Cho

Pinzhong Liu

Younghui Wu

Raymond Z L Ye

Monitoring an operational characteristic of a data communication device within a network includes sampling an operational characteristic of the data communication device at a fine-grain sample rate over a first sampling interval to produce fine-grain samples of the operational characteristic of the data communication device, training a machine learning algorithm using the fine-grain samples of the operational characteristic of the data communication device, the fine-grain sample rate, and a coarse-grain sample rate that is less than the fine-grain sample rate, sampling the operational characteristic of the data communication device at the coarse-grain sample rate over a second sampling interval to produce coarse-grain samples of the operational characteristic of the data communication device, and using the machine learning algorithm to process the coarse-grain samples of the operational characteristic of the data communication device to produce accuracy-enhanced samples of the operational characteristic of the data communication device.

Artificial intelligent enhanced data sampling

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system includes an active network element having circuitry for executing a primary application and a transmission control protocol (TCP) module, multiple standby network elements having circuitry for executing a secondary copy of the primary application and a secondary TCP module, and a network connection coupled to one or more of the active and standby network elements, wherein the active network element and standby network elements are coupled to transfer data and acknowledgments via their respective TCP modules, and wherein the standby network elements are reconfigurable to communicate via the network connection to a peer regardless of the failure of one or two of the network elements.

High availability using multiple network elements

A computer-implemented method of routing protection is provided comprising: receiving, by one or more processors of an active network element from a remote peer device, a plurality of data packets; sending, by the one or more processors of the active network element to a plurality of standby network elements, a multicast data packet comprising combined data of the plurality of data packets; receiving, by the one or more processors of the active network element from at least one of the standby network elements, an acknowledgment of receipt of the multicast data packet; and in response to the receipt of the acknowledgment, sending, by the one or more processors of the active network element to the remote peer device, an acknowledgment of receipt of the plurality of data packets.

Cloudified N-way routing protection at hyper scale

A method of batch processing implemented using a pre-classification mechanism of a network interface controller is provided. The method includes receiving, by the pre-classification mechanism of the network interface controller, rules for populating a first receive queue and a second receive queue, receiving, by the pre-classification mechanism, packets corresponding to a first protocol intermingled with packets corresponding to a second protocol, and populating, by the pre-classification mechanism of the network interface controller, the first receive queue exclusively with the packets corresponding to the first protocol and the second receive queue exclusively with the packets corresponding to the second protocol based on the rules such that a central processing unit is able to obtain a first batch of the packets from the first receive queue and process each of the packets from the first batch using a same node graph path.

Packet batch processing with graph-path based pre-classification

A deep black housing for a handheld electronic device is disclosed having one or more high resolution, bleached markings. The bleached markings are significantly lighter than the housing and exhibit a smooth appearance. Methods for preparing a housing having the finish and markings are also disclosed, including housings for use in mobile phones.

Laser bleach marking of an anodized surface

A method for network control, comprising receiving a request for a network view from an application at a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller, creating a network view from a network map, wherein the network map comprises a representation of a plurality of network devices and network paths in a SDN-based multiple layer network, and wherein the network view comprises at least a portion of the devices or paths in the network map, and sharing the network view with the application.

Methods of representing software defined networking-based multiple layer network topology views

A network component to partition an Internet Protocol (IP) Radio Access Network (RAN) network. The network component may be configured to find one or more rings and one or more chains. The rings and/or the chains may be used to find one or more ring clusters. The network component may be configured to divide one or more of the ring clusters if they exceed a network node threshold number of network nodes. The network node may form a plurality of interior gateway protocol (IGP) areas using the ring clusters. The plurality of IGP areas may be refined based on a network node threshold and an aggregate site gateway (ASG) node threshold.

Automatic division of internet protocol radio access networks to interior gateway protocol areas

An apparatus comprising a processor configured to migrate load from a source process running on the processor to a target process running on a peer processor in a dynamic manner by monitoring an amount of resources used by the source process, wherein the load is migrated when the amount of resources utilized by the source process exceeds a threshold. Also disclosed is a network component comprising a first processor configured to select a source process to migrate a load from the first processor based on available resources on the first processor and the source process; and a second processor configured upon receiving a migration request from the first processor to one of select and start a target process to which to migrate the load based on available resources for the second processor and the target process.

Method for dynamic migration of a process or services from one control plane processor to another

An apparatus comprising a processor configured to startup a new process on a peer processor to off-load a load of a local process on the processor in a dynamic manner based on monitoring an amount of resources used by the processor, wherein the startup of the new process on the peer processor is initiated when the amount of resources used by the local process reaches a threshold.

Method for dynamic on demand startup of a process or resource

An apparatus comprising a proxy configured to couple to a sender and a receiver and to receive data from the sender at a first rate and forward the data to the receiver at a second rate that is less than the first rate. A method comprising detecting a reception speed for each of a plurality of receivers in a multicast group, assigning the receivers to a first group and a second group based on the reception speed of each of the receivers, wherein the first group has a reception speed that is faster than a reception speed of the second group, and sending multicast data intended for all of the receivers to the receivers in the first group and to a proxy at a first rate, wherein the proxy buffers the multicast data and sends the multicast data to the receivers in the second group at a second rate.

Method for group-based multicast with non-uniform receivers

Deposition of thin film dielectrics, and in particular for chemical vapor deposition of nano-layer structures comprising multiple layers of dielectrics, such as, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, and/or other silicon compatible dielectrics includes post-deposition surface treatment of deposited layers with a metal or semiconductor source gas, e.g., a silicon source gas. Deposition of silicon containing dielectrics comprises silane-based chemistry for deposition of doped or undoped dielectric layers, and surface treatment of deposited dielectric layers with silane. Surface treatment provides dielectric layers with improved layer-to-layer uniformity and lateral continuity, and substantially atomically flat dielectric layers suitable for multilayer structures for electroluminescent light emitting structures, e.g., active layers containing rare earth containing luminescent centers. Doped or undoped dielectric thin films or nano-layer dielectric structures may also be provided for other semiconductor devices.

Deposition of thin film dielectrics and light emitting nano-layer structures

A method in a network device with a processor that runs multiple software threads for software that needs an update for updating the software while mitigating service disruption, the method comprising installing at least one new function, modifying at least one existing function to point to a synchronization code, wherein the synchronization code indicates whether the multiple software threads use the at least one new function or the at least one existing function, synchronizing software threads in the network device, based on the synchronization code indicating that the synchronization of the software threads is not complete, using, by the multiple software threads, the at least one existing function, and based on the synchronization code indicating that the synchronization of the software threads is complete, using, by the multiple software threads, the at least one new function, wherein the multiple software threads continually run on the network device during the synchronization.

In-service software patch

An apparatus comprising a network node coupled to an internal network comprising a plurality of internal nodes and configured to forward a packet designated to the internal network based on service reachability information that indicates at least one of the internal nodes for forwarding the packet to, wherein the service reachability information is sent and updated in a dynamic manner by the internal network. Also included is a network apparatus implemented method comprising receiving service reachability information from an internal network, maintaining the service reachability information in an interior Forwarding Information Base (iFIB), receiving a packet with a public destination address associated with the internal network; and forwarding the packet to appropriate locations in the internal network using the service reachability information in the iFIB.

Apparatus and system for packet routing and forwarding in an interior network

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Ming Li