Hughes Network Systems, LLC

Venkat Ganesan

Robert James Torres

Tayyab Khan

Nagesh Javali

Krishna Samavedam

John Leonard Border

George Joseph Choquette

Ganeshan Ramachandran

Akshay Giridhar Ravichandran

Zili Qian

Michael Chin

Eddie Beal

Wenbin Zhen

Sajid Arastu

A system comprising an accelerator including a first physical port couplable to a first module and a second physical port configured to communicate with a wide-area network. The accelerator is programmed to receive outbound data from user devices via the first module, and route the outbound data to either the first physical port or the second physical port. The first module is a separate unit from the accelerator. The first module includes an indoor unit configured for satellite internet.

Hybrid satellite internet access

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining a terminal idle time. In some implementations, a server can obtain communication data from a plurality of devices in a communication network, wherein the communication data indicates levels of network traffic for the device over time. The server can generate an idle period forecasting model configured to predict occurrence of future communication idle periods in which communication activity is predicted to be below a threshold. The server can provide the idle period forecasting model to each of the plurality of devices such that the devices can respectively use the idle period forecasting model to locally predict future communication idle periods of the devices.

Efficient maintenance for communication devices

Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to a method, comprising: receiving a plurality of traffic flows transmitted by a plurality of user devices; determining, at a modem, a user device of the user devices that is associated with each of the traffic flows; classifying, at the modem, each of the traffic flows according to a class of service associated with a traffic class; and allocating, at the modem, bandwidth to each of the traffic flows based on the traffic flow's class of service and the user device associated with the traffic flow. A total available bandwidth may be allocated to the traffic flows as a function of traffic classes associated with the traffic flows, the classes of services associated with the traffic flows, and the user devices that transmitted the traffic flows.

Home network resource management

A server computer can receive, from a terminal via a satellite, a configuration request that includes a location of the terminal. The server computer can select, based on the location, configuration data including a specification of communications by the terminal, and then send the configuration data to the terminal via the satellite.

Dynamic operation of satellite terminal

A data buffering control system and method for a communication network comprises a buffer disposed at a destination site, and a controller. The buffer is configured to buffer data received at a data receiving rate by the destination site for delivery by the destination site to a user at a delivery flow rate. The controller is configured to increase or decrease a buffering rate according to which the data is buffered in the buffer based on an amount of buffered data in the buffer without stopping the buffering of the data in the buffer. The controller is configured to perform a transmission control protocol spoofing process at the destination site to effect a communication handshaking operation, without the destination site communicating with a source providing the data, to control the data receiving rate by the destination site, to thus modify the buffering rate.

Data buffering control system and method for a communication network

Methods and systems utilizing receiving, at a first proxy node, a first TCP SYN segment from a first endpoint to establish a TCP connection with a second endpoint, the first TCP SYN segment including a first TCP option having a first option-kind value; transmitting a first spoofed connection request message corresponding to the first TCP SYN segment from the first proxy node to a second proxy node associated with the second endpoint; including, in response to the first TCP option having the first option-kind value, an indication in the first spoofed connection request message that a TCP option having the first option-kind value was included in the first TCP SYN segment; receiving, at the first proxy node, a second TCP SYN segment from a third endpoint to establish a TCP connection with a fourth endpoint, the second TCP SYN segment including a second TCP option having a second option-kind value different from the first option-kind value; transmitting a second spoofed connection request message corresponding to the second TCP SYN segment from the first proxy node to a third proxy node associated with the fourth endpoint; and not including, in response to the second TCP option having the second option-kind value, an indication in the second spoofed connection request message that a TCP option having the second option-kind value was included in the second TCP SYN segment.

Methods and systems for enhanced support of TCP options in a TCP spoofed system

An approach is provided for reliable provision of targeted, status-based messaging to a client terminal in a computer network, such as a wide area resource-based network. A terminal node receives a message originating from a client terminal, wherein the terminal node serves as an entry point to, and services communications connections over, a wide area network for the client terminal. The terminal node determines that the message comprises an initiation request for establishing a communications connection over the wide area network between the client terminal and a remote server, and that an intercept state is in effect. The terminal node establishes the communications connection as a local connection between the client terminal and the terminal node, and services the communications connection via a local server function, wherein the servicing of the communications connection via the local server function comprises a provision of status-based messaging to the client terminal.

State-based intercept of interactive communications network connections for provision of targeted, status-based messaging

An approach for selective dynamic disabling of transport layer handshake spoofing is provided. A local proxy node of a communications network receives request message from a respective local host for establishing a network connection with a remote host. A destination address for the network connection is determined. It is determined whether the destination address is included in a handshake spoofing bypass list. If it is determined that the destination address is included in the spoofing bypass list, a corresponding un-spoofed connection request message is transmitted to a remote proxy node associated with the remote host, in accordance with a respective handshaking protocol for the connection establishment. If it is determined that the destination address is not included in the spoofing bypass list, a corresponding spoofed connection request message is transmitted to the remote proxy node, in accordance with a respective handshake spoofing protocol for the connection establishment.

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Germantown, MD, United States of America

Venkat Ganesan