Abstract: A foldable multi-purpose container filler includes a sheet of material that may be reversibly convertible between a compact form for storage or packaging and an expanded form to fill a container opening (e.g., bag, drinkware, vase, etc.). The container filler includes fold lines or creases that dictate the compact form and the expanded form and allow for reversible conversion between the forms. In addition, the container filler includes connectors for securing the container filler to a container, as well as a base to support the container filler upright on a surface absent a container.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting packet congestion in a network device that includes a switch, and a plurality of components operable to transmit and receive data packets from and to the switch. The method includes, in response to detecting packet congestion, transmitting an Ethernet pause frame to at least one of the plurality of components, the at least one component identified as a source of a data packet that caused the packet congestion, and transmitting a backward congestion notification (BCN) packet to the at least one component, the BCN packet including some data payload of the data packet that caused the packet congestion.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a flow control module aggregates indications of queuing resource utilization at devices attached to a switching fabric within a router and broadcasts that information out of band to all devices attached to the same switching fabric. When the flow control module identifies congestion at one of the attached devices according to the indications, the module may also cause a throttling of traffic sent to the congested device in addition to sending the out of band indication of the congestion to all the attached devices. Flow control modules for each of the attached devices provide local interrupts for reducing outbound traffic to a congested device according to the identification of that remote congestion.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a flow control module aggregates indications of queuing resource utilization at devices attached to a switching fabric within a router and broadcasts that information out of band to all devices attached to the same switching fabric. When the flow control module identifies congestion at one of the attached devices according to the indications, the module may also cause a throttling of traffic sent to the congested device in addition to sending the out of band indication of the congestion to all the attached devices. Flow control modules for each of the attached devices provide local interrupts for reducing outbound traffic to a congested device according to the identification of that remote congestion.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting packet congestion in a network device that includes a switch, and a plurality of components operable to transmit and receive data packets from and to the switch. The method includes, in response to detecting packet congestion, transmitting an Ethernet pause frame to at least one of the plurality of components, the at least one component identified as a source of a data packet that caused the packet congestion, and transmitting a backward congestion notification (BCN) packet to the at least one component, the BCN packet including some data payload of the data packet that caused the packet congestion.

Abstract: A simple chemical technique has been developed to grow large quantity of carbon nanostructures, including carbon nanotubes, hydrocarbon nanotubes and carbon nanoonions, in the organic solution at ambient (room) temperature and atmospheric pressure using silicon nanostructures (nanowires, nanodots, ribbons, and porous silicon) as starting materials. These CNT and CNO have the lattice d-spacing from 3.4 ? to 5 ?.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for queuing packets are disclosed. In one aspect, a method may comprise assigning each packet a first value; dynamically assigning each packet a second value; and queuing each packet for transmission using the first and second values.

Abstract: A simple chemical technique has been developed to grow large quantity of carbon nanostructures, including carbon nanotubes, hydrocarbon nanotubes and carbon nanoonions, in the organic solution at ambient (room) temperature and atmospheric pressure using silicon nanostructures (nanowires, nanodots, ribbons, and porous silicon) as starting materials. These CNT and CNO have the lattice d-spacing from 3.4 Å to 5 Å.